First of all, I know there are already tens of similar questions, but none seem to be my exact scenario. And every solution gets me stuck because something does not line up with my case.
I have a Samsung A70 phone that I'm trying to recover data from after the screen stopped responding to touches. Eveything else works.
I want to be able to project the phone to my laptop and control it using some app or scrpy. However, USB debugging or developer mode was never enabled from settings and now I can't access the settings to enable it.
I managed to boot the device into recovery. It was never flashed with any custom OS or custom recovery. I saw some posts suggesting I can use adb commands to enable USB debugging. However, when I connect the device via a USB cable to my laptop, the device shows up in Device Manager, but adb devices does show it. When I go into recovery mode, the device no longer shows up in Device Manager and adb devices still doesn't work. The only way that seems to make adb devices show it is when I put the device into sideload mode. But I don't think that is helpful, cause I don't want to flash any custom ROM as my ultimate target is to recover the data from the phone.
Also, if relevant, the phone is not blocked, it does not have a password or PIN.
I'm stuck. What can I do?