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If you have a usb OTG cable/adapter and the phone supports it, you can plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use it like that. I've also used an adapter that outputted to hdmi
How do a mouse and keyboard help if the screen doesn't work? Are you supposed to just guess where the cursor is?
A broken touchscreen doesn't mean you can't see what's on the screen. OP said its "unusable", but we don't know if that just means just the touch is unusable or if the actual LCD/LED is damaged as well.
Most people have no idea you can use a mouse or keyboard on the phone at all, so they'd consider the touch not working to mean the entire phone is unusable since they can't interact with it the one way they've ever used.
We just don't really have all the information, we don't need to be making assumptions that could easily be wrong as well and ignore possible easy solutions for their problem.
You are right, thank you. The screen shows 3-4 verticle lines of working pixels (about 1/3 of screen length), everything else is black. The lines comes when phone is turned on with power button and off when phone is turned off, so, phone still works somewhat.
Does that give you any ideas??