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Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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Re: Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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Other notable features: * Works in tandem with upstream android adb, so after usb(or wireless) debugging is enabled on the target device, there are no apps daemons or hacks needed and it just works. * Install apks that are "unavailable for your device" in the official google play store (on things like chromecasts) * Full Screen or screen section + audio recording * Stream device screen when it's physically off on tar…

Can you share more about using scrcpy to install APKs that are unavailable for the device via Play?

it's called 'sideloading'

Re: Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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I have tried a number of times to connect a phone with broken/dead screen. Touch and audio works. I have probably managed to enter pin and login but clicking 'Allow usb debugging' checkbox when I run scrcpy is apparently impossible or may be I am missing from some other critical step. Has someone done anything like that using this tool? It seems like a perfect use case.

You can use mouse with usb otg.

still have to hit an invisible button

Re: Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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If anyone's looking for an android project, please make one that forwards all hotspot traffic over whatever VPN is enabled. I guess the phone will need rooting.

I think my Wireguard VPN already does this, sans root? I enable my VPN and my hotspot connected laptop is now routing its traffic via my house.

Or am I missing what you're looking for?

Re: Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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If anyone's looking for an android project, please make one that forwards all hotspot traffic over whatever VPN is enabled. I guess the phone will need rooting.

I think my Wireguard VPN already does this, sans root? I enable my VPN and my hotspot connected laptop is now routing its traffic via my house. Or am I missing what you're looking for?

Are you running lineage or some other custom build? Stock android doesn’t do this afaik.

Re: Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can just drag and drop APK files onto the scrcpy window to initiate an install (it just does 'adb install' basically).

Does this mean i can install signal on my tablet?

As long as you can somehow receive the registration sms code on a different device, you should be able to. Mind it would deregister Signal from your phone though.

Re: Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

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Stupidly useful when I broke my phone in Antarctica and had to wait months for a replacement to arrive (it did, mere days before station close). Also a shout out to gnirehtet which is I think by the same devs? Reverse tether your phone for times when wifi and cell are both unavailable.

Many years ago, my Samsung S3's wifi chip broke. I had to resort to mobile data for everything. Luckily I was able to use gnirehtet to download apps/updates for some time until I was able to buy a new phone :)
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