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How to use phone without power button or screen input? (Moto 5g UW Edge Plus 2022)

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Hi, I have run into a slight issue where my phone doesn't have a lot of working components left. The power button is completely pressed into the body of the phone (almost flush), the volume up key is sticky, (I need to press volume down for it to stop inputting volume up), and the screen has almost no places left that accept input. Additionally, it occasionally detects input when nothing is touching the screen. Yesterday, I plugged in a USB mouse (Logitech G305) (with a USB A to C adapter), and it recognized it as a physical keyboard, but the cursor showed up anyways. I could use that to navigate my phone yesterday, but today, the phone won't do anything with USB devices. I checked the mouse on another device, which worked, I checked the USB port on my phone with a charger, and it worked, and I tried a different USB mouse as well as a keyboard, and those didn't work on my phone either. I would like to at least try to save some of the files that are on there, which I could maybe do by plugging it into my computer, but idk how I would get it to work without inputting what I want to do with the USB connection on my phone, since I can't click or interact with hardly anything. I don't want to repair or salvage this phone, I just want to figure out how to get all my files, as well as save some data from certain apps onto the cloud. I should also clarify, I can see the screen, but it just won't accept any touch input. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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u/cheesy53 avatar

Wasn't entirely sure what to put for the flair, but USB devices would probably be easiest, and that's a setting. Unless for some reason the fact that it thinks there's input when there's not is messing it up?

u/Lawsonator85 avatar