HTC One Mini broken power button

[afireinside337]

I have had my phone now for only about 6 months and i dropped it one day, a piece of the outer shell came off along with the power button. The tab underneath still worked fine so i had just been pressing that. A few days ago it stopped working completely and then of course the phone ran out of charge so I am unable to turn it on. Tried taking it to vodafone and they quoted me £195 to fix it which seems like a crapload of money for a button. Does anyone know a way I can power the phone on or at least get all my files and things from my phone? it used to say something like "backing up data" so i assume theres somewhere all my pictures etc went?
thanks

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! If the power button is broken, you won't have any way of powering on your phone unless you fix it. You can't access data on a phone that's powered off.

Did you have HTC Sync installed before? Or some other backup app, like Verizon's own Backup Assistant Plus or Verizon Cloud?