I have a Sprint Galaxy S3 with the stock Jellybean 4.1 firmware. I have not tried rooting or installing any custom recovery on this phone. But suddenly my phone started boot looping when it gets to the Galaxy S3 screen. I am unable to get into recovery mode, but I could get into download mode. From what I could see, I should hopefully be able to recover my phone by re-flashing the stock firmware using either Odin or Kies Emergency Firmware Recovery, but from my research both methods would delete all of the files on my phone, which I would like to recover (text messages, app logs (ie chat apps), etc.) since I haven't done a Kies backup in a long time. I do see some mentions of being able to recover the files using ADB, but I am getting confused as they seem to all have the identically poorly explained instructions, in which some say that you need root access or require zip files to push to my phone, but does not tell you where to get the zip files.
I thank you in advance for any advice on how to recover the files on my phone.
I thank you in advance for any advice on how to recover the files on my phone.