In Recovery Mode, What Can I do?

[aerodoc]

Had some problems with internet tethering and called AT&T. They did something on their end and told me to restart the phone. When I did, it went straight to recovery mode (thanks a lot AT&T!).

The problem is that I have pictures that I would like to get off the phone and if I go through the recovery mode in iTunes, I fear I will lose them.

Is there a way to get the pictures off first and then do the recovery? I have other things as well (recent contacts), but if I can at least the pictures I will be happy.

 

[celticpride678]

Download iFuntastic and just exit recovery mode.

 

[Intell]

Download TinyUmbrella (Google it), install it, then plug in your iPhone and click the "Kick out of Recovery Mode" button. Your iPhone should reboot as normal.

 

[aerodoc]

Thanks guys, let me try that. I am kind of freaking out a little bit right now, fingers crossed.

P.S. the phone is not JB or anything like that, just a regular old phone. (3GS)

 

[mikelegacy]

I wouldn't worry too much. It's almost (if not) impossible to ruin a phone because of a jailbreak. There's always a way to restore it. Yeah, you can lose data, but that's a hell of a lot better than having to get a new phone.

 

[aerodoc]

Just to be clear, its not JB or anything.

This appeared to happen because of AT&T messing with it and sending some signal to reboot (or something like that).

 

[aerodoc]

Used tinyumbrella to exit recovery. Took a while to reboot, but it worked!

Thanks so much guys. Otherwise I would have lost some data and would have been a very bad start to the week. Dodged a bullet there.

I suppose after I have the data, I should go ahead and restore it?

 

[Intell]

Back it up with iTunes.