Is it possible to wipe data from ADB without turning on USB debugging? I'm on manjaro Linux. A friend of mine broke the screen of his note 3, it's working, the screen stays black though.

He wants to get all his data from it and format it, wipe everything, he's not going to fix it.

The back up part is easy, I plug it into my computer and take everything. But is it possible to format it without turning on the USB debugging? I bet the USB debugging on his phone is turned off and I can't turn it on without being able to see anything on his phone. So as far as I know I can't use ABD, can I?
To my knowledge if you do not have USB debugging ADB is not running and any tools that rely on ADB will fail to work.