[Kelamir]

That's a surprisingly great idea. A mobile phone can be used as a server, and for their capabilities, they are cheaper than Raspberry Pi when with some issues especially. Out of curiosity I just found an offer for a used Pixel 6 Pro for 70 EUR, supposedly only broken screen and the rest is working, where it has 12GB RAM with CPU Octa-core (copypasting: 2x2.80 GHz Cortex-X1 & 2x2.25 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A55), that's a fairly good offer.

[throwaway2056]

how can you enable ADB/dev settings on the phone with a smashed screen?

[AceLewis]

Good question I did this once by plugging in a keyboard and mouse and using a combination of them to unlock the phone and enable onscreen dictation (meant for blind people, you move your mouse over the thing and it tells you what is under).

Mostly blind luck, clicking the windows button then typing out the unlock PIN code and enabling the voice detection via Ok Google I think although many things were tried.

Once the onscreen dictation was enabled we were able to navigate the phone by voice to do what we wanted (take all photos off it).

Edit: also some phones support video output via USB-C and then it is much easier. Unfortunately the one I was working on did not support that.

[mahathu]

I'm also wondering this. I tried connecting a USB keyboard and a TV via HDMI but couldn't get the phone to unlock let alone the screen to show up on the TV.

[abdusco]

Digitizer was still functional perhaps

[tiku]

Simple, just connect your mouse with an usb converter..