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Why do screen replacements cost as much as a new phone!?

Broke my screen replacing the usb port on my Pixel 3a XL, no big deal right? 5 year old phone, very popular, lots of replacement parts!

It's 130 if I buy locally. I could upgrade to a pixel 4a XL for 160.

Even from Aliexpress it's 55! That's 1/3rd the value of the phone!

Why are there no after market parts? I don't need oled! I don't need HD! I'd take a 480 led screen if it was cheap

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bc the system is designed to frick you in the butt

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Yea it really is. They know I need that screen to backup my photos and shit, they have me by the balls.

And of course every phone I could buy for parts has a smashed screen.

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You don't need a screen :marseybsod: to do that. Just a USB c to hdmi adapter. With something :marseysmugface: like this you can plug in a mouse :marseynetgranny: and keyboard :marseytype: too https://i.rdrama.net/images/17235867242936893.webp

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I don't think Pixels support hdmi over usb. At least, my 6 doesn't


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That's what you get for buying Googleshit

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Probably not one of those pieces of shit. Those little grey Chinese ones half the time have something fricky, best just get a USB C to USB A cable, which may have just come with the phone connected to a charger anyway.

God I hate those pieces of shit little grey hubs.

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Neat. I'll buy one for encase this happens again, already ordered the replacement part

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>They know I need that screen to backup my photos and shit, they have me by the balls.

setting up backup procedure + debug access via scrcpy should happen very early in the setup phase when getting a new phone. You got a relatively cheap lesson here

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I don't know if it's because I changed the hardware, or some ubuntu bug, or a bug in ADB but after swapping the usb port for the new one the device is now unauthorized.

Can a mobile javacel shed some light?

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are you sure you also enabled the settings that adb certificates don't get periodically deleted (I think the normal lifetime is one week)

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I did not.

Once again I am screwed by google

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>by google

honestly, custom roms should disable all this security theater crap by default. Technical users don't need the guard rails, and we already get theft discouragement if the 99.9% of normies have locked down devices

User who install roms already implicitly voiced their opinion on the freedom vs security tradeoff

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A lot of roms don't even publish builds for the pixel 3 anymore because the firmware is EOL so it's "insecure"

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Its a Pixel phone. Did you turn off auto-backup? It should auto-backup to your google account everytime its plugged into a charger longer than 2 hours.

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I flashed a custom rom because google stopped updating it, I back everything weekly going to change that to daily when I get the new screen

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I don't trust automatic backups. Someday it'll bite me in the butt, I'm sure


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You have to pay for that now.

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cant you hook it up to an external display via the usbc and then connect a bluetooth mouse and keyboard then transfer yourfiles with wifi/bluetooth or cloud? Either way, good luck! :marseythumbsup:

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Only if you enabled that in developer settings while the screen was usable. Ever since I got fricked by this same scenario I do that first thing when I get a new phone :marseybigbrain:

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android doesnt require you to enable that in developer settings, curious :marseyshapiro:

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