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 tearing the phone apart to manually access the memory somehow.
Last night while at dinner I was checking my emails when the food came. I used the power button to shut off the screen and set the phone aside while eating. After eating, I went to pick up where I left off, only to find that my phone is absolutely unresponsive.
I've since tried both hard and soft resets, as well as attempting to enter recovery mode using the various button combinations. I've tried all of these with the phone connected to different chargers (including the one that came with the phone) as well as connected to my computer with several different USB cables and ports. All to no avail as the phone appears so far gone that it won't even give me an indicator light showing that its charging.
With the easy at-home actions exhausted, I took it to a Verizon store today, at which they tried several of the options I had done at home before telling me that there wasn't anything they could do beyond replacing the phone. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the situation, that just isn't a possibility as I'd rather have the photos than the phone.
All of this brings me here to see if there are any options I've yet to try on my own, and if not, what repair or data recovery options can I expect to find out there?
Last night while at dinner I was checking my emails when the food came. I used the power button to shut off the screen and set the phone aside while eating. After eating, I went to pick up where I left off, only to find that my phone is absolutely unresponsive.
I've since tried both hard and soft resets, as well as attempting to enter recovery mode using the various button combinations. I've tried all of these with the phone connected to different chargers (including the one that came with the phone) as well as connected to my computer with several different USB cables and ports. All to no avail as the phone appears so far gone that it won't even give me an indicator light showing that its charging.
With the easy at-home actions exhausted, I took it to a Verizon store today, at which they tried several of the options I had done at home before telling me that there wasn't anything they could do beyond replacing the phone. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the situation, that just isn't a possibility as I'd rather have the photos than the phone.
All of this brings me here to see if there are any options I've yet to try on my own, and if not, what repair or data recovery options can I expect to find out there?