Howdy. I've got a TMo S10e that suffered water intrusion through the SIM slot (failed seal). The phone initially reported that the sd card was removed unsafely, and then mobile data went. I hadn't realized it was water intrusion at that time, as the phone's been really solid all these years. I attempted to reboot to resolve the issues and the phone entered safe mode. Following the on screen instructions I restarted to get out of safe mode. That's when the boot looping started. The phone will start, full screen is visible, safe mode label is visible in the lower left of the screen. After approx 5 seconds the phone will reboot and enter safe mode again, only to repeat the process until the battery is drained. When the battery was initially drained I removed the SIM tray and found the intrusion. Into a bag of rice it went.
After 24 hours in a bag of rice visible condensation (camera lenses, etc) is gone. I attempted to give it a minimal charge to start the phone and on powering up the same boot loop is present. In the 5 seconds before the forced reboot I'm able to swipe up to unlock and enter one digit. I'm guessing that this is moisture in a button or a button contact has been eroded. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not memory corruption. Google backup and SMS Backup had both been failing for months silently, and there is some misc data I'd like to recover that wasn't saved to the removable sd card.
Holding volume down and power should have booted me into recovery I though, but I'm presented with a screen that endlessly prints "SD Card selected by key input" to the screen.
I've done a lot of custom OS installs in years past and while it's been a minute, I've dabbled with adb. I'm hoping that it'll eventually dry out and allow me access, but I'm not holding my breath. Are there any methods that are available to extract data from this phone in this condition?
After 24 hours in a bag of rice visible condensation (camera lenses, etc) is gone. I attempted to give it a minimal charge to start the phone and on powering up the same boot loop is present. In the 5 seconds before the forced reboot I'm able to swipe up to unlock and enter one digit. I'm guessing that this is moisture in a button or a button contact has been eroded. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not memory corruption. Google backup and SMS Backup had both been failing for months silently, and there is some misc data I'd like to recover that wasn't saved to the removable sd card.
Holding volume down and power should have booted me into recovery I though, but I'm presented with a screen that endlessly prints "SD Card selected by key input" to the screen.
I've done a lot of custom OS installs in years past and while it's been a minute, I've dabbled with adb. I'm hoping that it'll eventually dry out and allow me access, but I'm not holding my breath. Are there any methods that are available to extract data from this phone in this condition?
