I unfortunately broke my Xperia 10 II. (It got wet. First, it would not recognize swiping any more. Then display problems increased. Currently, when I try to switch it on, it shortly vibrates, the white led goes on, but the screen stays off. So, I do not know whether only the display is broken, or more. When I switch it off, the red led goes on.)
Is there anything I can try to rescue the data? I have a backup, but it is not very recent. I would also be great to be able to backup Threema.
I am not an expert. My experience is limited to following the instructions to install Sailfish. Therefore, I might not easily understand answers that require a deeper knowledge of the technology.
If the phone got wet inside, I strongly recommend to open the phone, disconnect the battery and let it dry while open for a few days in a warm and dry place. After this, you can reconnect the battery and look what the phone now does.
If it still works, you had luck and you can save your data and still use the phone in future.
If itāll be necessary to open the phone and let it dry inside, then here
is a video that shows how to do this.
The usage of a guitar plektrum is a very good idea when removing the display and unplugging PCB connectors, with my tiny screw driver I always feared to make some short circuit.
Just for interest: Display change using a professional machine:
What I donāt understand: Is there no flat cable to the touchscreen at the X 10 II ? At the X 10 there is one.
I donāt know how complete the recovery image is, so maybe you can only copy the db files to an SD-card*, and use sqlite on a computer to access the data.
*) you need an SD-card to actually get data from your phone, when in recovery mode, but this is documented in the how-to linked by @nephros.
Thank seven.of.nine for the links.
I think, I first make sure the phone is really dry by opening it, before I try something like recovery mode.
Thanks, Mohjive for your suggestion. I tried to click on āUSB driveā, but it would not find anything. It asks for a medium to be entered.
What I am most interested in, are my notes. And Threema (but I guess this is difficult without the app running). Luckily, I had just copied my pictures. Phonebook would be nice.
Currently I donāt have access to a Sailfish device (I crashed it ), so canāt verify the paths, but this is what I know/can find (much from here: How can I issue system backup over SSH? - #5 by omichalek but itās from an earlier release, where user was ānemoā instead of ādefaultuserā).
They are in the ā/home/defaultuser/.local/share/jolla-notes/ā directory. Canāt recall format, but iirc itās sqlite3 db.
Contacts are stored in an sqlite3 db in ā/home/defaultuser/.local/share/system/privileged/Contacts/qtcontacts-sqlite/contacts.dbā. You should be able to copy it and open (and export the data) with SQLite program in any computer.
SMS are stored in ā/home/defaultuser/.local/share/commhistory/commhistory.dbā
Yesterday, someone helped me, who is more knowledgeable in things like command line inputs than I am. Recovery mode and ssh worked and we could copy the files to sd card. The path to contacts was as noted down by remote.
Hello, can someone please help me? Unfortunately, the same thing happened to me yesterday. The display on my Xperia 10ii is damaged and the screen is black. Luckily, I can unlock it with my fingerprint and it has been connected to the charging cable ever since. I was able to save everything visible in /home/defaultuser overnight via USB. But now I also want to copy the invisible folders like /home/defaultuser/.local etc. because they contain some app data (shellEx) that I donāt have anywhere. Can I use SSH to copy these folders to the PC or to an inserted SD card? Iāve tried using cmd and the command ssh defaultuser@192.168.2.13 to establish a connection via USB and also via WLAN using a browser, but it times out. I would be grateful for any ideas.
Now I have a solution:
Because the SSH is in the Phone its easier to copy .local to Backplocal under default user. This new folder I can copy via USB becaus it is visible in Windows.
I used: `cp -r /home/defaultuser/.local /home/defaultuser/Backuplocal
After some minutes the folder wascopyed.
Maybe anybody can sharethe right line to copy directly from phone to the PC but I think for this we need the IP from the pc and the Username?
I will save also .cache and .config and maybe some other, but ssh had surly no root right to /usr or /etc ord /var but I will test it. I had luck because I saved the patchmanagerfolder from /usr to /home.
), so canāt verify the paths, but this is what I know/can find (much from here: 
