my phone’s screen broke.

red bars on the sides and random ghost taps everywhere.

i could still kinda use it. if i pressed a certain spot on the corner, it would behave for a short while.

obviously, i couldn’t really use it like this. and clearly the best solution was to fix the screen figure out a way to mirror the screen on my laptop.

the challenge: usb debugging

when you normally connect your phone to your laptop via a usb cable, your phone usually just charges or allows you to transfer files.

that wouldn’t be enough.

there is a way to control an android phone from any laptop using just the usb cable (and by control, i mean root/modify/do whatever you want, really) called usb debugging.

it’s turned off by default for obvious security reasons, so i would have to go to settings and turn it on manually…

…which wouldn’t have been a problem if my goddamn screen was working.

although, after that was done, it was smooth sailing. install scrcpy, run a command, and boom, you’re done.

this is probably how i’m gonna keep my phone, at least for the rest of this semester.