Root [AT&T] How do I get my data off this thing?

[Ilya]

Guys, I have a problem with my HTC One M7. Phone is an AT&T phone however it's off contract (on AIO/Cricket) and has been S-OFF'ed, flashed to 4.4.4 with TWRP, etc.

I was commuting home from work on my motorcycle yesterday and got caught in rain/hail. Long story short, I was drenched by the time I got home and my phone got wet.

It's been in a bag of rice since I got home at 6:30PM.

From about 6:30-7:30PM the phones screen was black, but I heard the severe weather warning going off a few times. Then, from 7:30PM till about 1AM, it was in a reboot loop. I tried getting into recovery, etc. with no luck (as soon as I VOL DOWN to go to Recovery from Fastboot, it reboots) At that point, I went to bed so I don't know what it did all night.

Needless to say, this is my last HTC device unless they started making phones with removable batteries again. Regardless of what happens with this phone, I'm going to buy an LG G3 from T-Mobile today off contract.

I don't care what happens with this phone, but my issue or help request is: how do I get it to stay on so I can get my data off? That's the ONLY thing I am concerned with at this point.

 

[lunatic59]

I was going to suggest you open it up and remove the battery that way, but Holy Moly does that look like a pain to open. what was HTC thinking?

I guess the best thing to to is to give it a couple more days in the rice and hope the bootloops haven't fried anything. Eventually the battery will go dead, anyway. If after that you still can't get it to boot, if you can get it into download mode, you might be able to use adb to pull files off the device.

 

[Ilya]

I was going to suggest you open it up and remove the battery that way, but Holy Moly does that look like a pain to open. what was HTC thinking?

I guess the best thing to to is to give it a couple more days in the rice and hope the bootloops haven't fried anything. Eventually the battery will go dead, anyway. If after that you still can't get it to boot, if you can get it into download mode, you might be able to use adb to pull files off the device.

Yeah, I might have to give it a few days. But I really hope that I can get my pictures off the phone. I'll be so mad if I can't.

 

[lunatic59]

If it gets to that point, and you can at least get it into whatever HTC calls download mode, you could try

adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/camera/*.jpg

(let me test that first, just to be sure ... I'll get back to you on that.)

 

[Ilya]

Just gave it a few more hours and still in a reboot loop. When I get into the bootloader, as soon as I do anything (VOL DWN) it reboots again.

I'm too impatient to give it a bunch of days.

I'm losing a GOLD MINE of snapchat stuff, lol. I'm going to be PISSED.

 

[DirtyDee]

Just gave it a few more hours and still in a reboot loop. When I get into the bootloader, as soon as I do anything (VOL DWN) it reboots again.

I'm too impatient to give it a bunch of days.

I'm losing a GOLD MINE of snapchat stuff, lol. I'm going to be PISSED.

Most of my sony and motorola devices come with a button command that works like a battery pull is there on for your M7? My motos and sonys are like push and hold power and volume up for a set smount of time till it vibrates a few times aand when you let go it will power off

 

[Ilya]

Most of my sony and motorola devices come with a button command that works like a battery pull is there on for your M7? My motos and sonys are like push and hold power and volume up for a set smount of time till it vibrates a few times aand when you let go it will power off

Yeah, I usually do that too (go into boot-loader and Power Off), but I can't do that because as soon as I get into boot-loader it reboots again as soon as I hit the volume down button to select the option.

Also, I just realized this thread is in the All Things Root sub-forum...I don't recall doing that. Was it moved? If not, and was in fact my mistake, can someone put it in the troubleshooting one? lol.

 

[DirtyDee]

Yeah, I usually do that too (go into boot-loader and Power Off), but I can't do that because as soon as I get into boot-loader it reboots again as soon as I hit the volume down button to select the option.

Also, I just realized this thread is in the All Things Root sub-forum...I don't recall doing that. Was it moved? If not, and was in fact my mistake, can someone put it in the troubleshooting one? lol.

I am not talking about going into recovery I am talkine a hard reboot key combo
http://htconeblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/hard-restart-reboot-for-htc-one-m7-non-removable-battery.html

 

[Ilya]

I know what you're talking about. Doing this key combination will make the buttons (home, back, etc.) blink and then phone will restart. Then, you continue to hold VOL DOWN and it'll go into the boot loader, at which point I would go down to POWER OFF.

I've done this particular combination like a million times already, hahah. I'll get the LG G3 tonight like I planned, set it up, and then hopefully in a few days the HTC One is back in working order (at least so I can get the pictures off). Man I'm going to miss those images if I can't get them back...

 

[clsA]

I know what you're talking about. Doing this key combination will make the buttons (home, back, etc.) blink and then phone will restart. Then, you continue to hold VOL DOWN and it'll go into the boot loader, at which point I would go down to POWER OFF.

I've done this particular combination like a million times already, hahah. I'll get the LG G3 tonight like I planned, set it up, and then hopefully in a few days the HTC One is back in working order (at least so I can get the pictures off). Man I'm going to miss those images if I can't get them back...

HTC offered a 25 gig Dropbox account to new One owners all you had to do was setup dropbox and Photo backup and all your pictures would be available.

holding power + vol down for about 20 seconds is the same as a battery pull. when the lights quit flashing and the phone goes back to the bootloader continuing holding the buttons till it goes off again then let go and the phone will stay off.

 

[Ilya]

HTC offered a 25 gig Dropbox account to new One owners all you had to do was setup dropbox and Photo backup and all your pictures would be available.

holding power + vol down for about 20 seconds is the same as a battery pull. when the lights quit flashing and the phone goes back to the bootloader continuing holding the buttons till it goes off again then let go and the phone will stay off.

I use Google Drive for virtually everything. However, I have a program called "Vaulty" which I save NSFW stuff in (don't want that in the cloud). That's what I'm going to be losing, and that's what sucks.

I have all my other stuff backed up, not worried about much else. lol.

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know if you did it twice it turns off and stays off.