Help Needed - Recover Data from a broken screen phone

[GRCosta]

Hello Guys

My wife's Galaxy S3 jumped out of her GPS stand on her bike and it was ran over by a car ( :'( ), resulting in a badly broken screen, with no touch response. The phone still turns on, we can see some screen with a lot of weird colors, and when we plug on Kies it gets connected. However since she uses a pattern password, we cannot unlock the phone, and Kies goes nowhere.

My question is: is there any way to recover the data on this phone plugging it to the Kies, keeping in mind we cannot use the touch screen? Or is there any other way at all?
We had apps, personal information on bank apps, contacts outside GMail (not sync'ed) and some other stuff inside. We got a new Galaxy S3 (AT&T Model this time), so we are looking to transfer Galaxy to Galaxy. Back when I had a Blackberry, we could access files using a bootloader trick, but I only have this Galaxy for a few months.

Just FYI, I'm running Kies on a Windows 7... Not sure if it matters.

Thanks in advance!

Gil

 

[Svensson]

Hey. I had the same problem with my S3 (broken screen, locked phone, Kies doesn't let me access it, etc).

Solution: Get another working S3 from a friend, take off the backs of both phones, take off some screws, take the motherboard out, put your motherboard in the phone, turn it on, back up, done).
Your data is saved on the motherboard, so you can just put it in another phone and back up from there.

Just go to youtube and type "Galaxy S3 board swap". It's easy and works.

Cheers.