Question My phone, Samsung S10e, is stuck in "Phone is starting" loop

thelostwanderer

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The reason why my phone was stuck on the starting loop was that I was trying to move my freshly installed CODM to my SD card. I noticed that my first try, my phone restarted even though the battery was 45%. I ignored the sign and tried again to move the app, and the second time was when my phone became stuck on "Phone is starting."

Since I could use the Setting, I uninstalled the CODM as well as the Roblox since they were the apps I recently installed, then I cleaned the cache of some apps (last updated) and uninstalled apps (mostly social media). Yet nothing works, and now, it is inevitable to see that resetting my phone can solve my problems. However, I don't want to lose my photos and files on my phone.

And so now, I'm trying to transfer my files from my phone by doing the ADB Pull as well as the ADB Shell to look at and transfer files from my phone storage.
The following are the results, and I don't know what to do anymore.

Doing the ADB Pull, I always get:
(saw this on a YouTube video -
)
adb.exe: unknown command pull/sdcard/DCIM

Doing the ADB Shell, the results were:
(1) saw this on a YouTube video -
mydevicename:/ $ sd card
/system/bin/sh: sd: inaccessible or not found

Or
(2) saw this on a YouTube video -
mydevicename:/ $ cd sd card
/system/bin/sh: cd: bad institution

Or
(3) saw this on a Reddit post:
mydevicename:/ $ storage/emulated/0
/system/bin/sh: storage/emulated/0: can't execute: Is a directory

Please, guys. I don't know what to do anymore. I need help huhu
 
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