Recent content by Aviator81

Sadly, no... A word of advice... if you care about something on your phone, never send it to Samsung, because they don't. I spent 3 weeks trying to find a way to get data recovery done on the phone in its current state, but the price was prohibitively expensive ($2000 was the lowest bid), and...

I thought about that, but because the phone is essentially a brick, I have no indication that its actually using the battery, so it could be weeks before the battery had completely discharged. I've given it to a local phone repair shop now, with the direction that one of the first things they...

Unfortunately, I get absolutely nothing from the phone... I can't power it up or down, can't soft reset, hard reset, or enter recovery mode, and when I plug it into a charger or computer, nothing happens at all...

To begin with, this wouldn't be an issue at all, except that there are photos on the phone of my cat of 19 years which I had to euthanize last week, and that I never had the chance to back up before this event. As a result, I'm willing to do almost anything to get them out, up to and including...