Retrieving photos from a windows phone

[Cellarite]

I’ll say it first - served me right for buying one.

I’ve got a Nokia Lumia phone that I used up until about 3 years ago. I’ve gone to get a photo off it recently but there was no life.

I’ve left it on charge for hours but it doesn’t get past the windows logo. There are precious memories on it.

Is there a way to get the hard-drive out and put into a different handset?

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I don't own one of these phones but i'm answering from a place of knowing the frustration of losing precious photos - is there any way to sync the phone to a laptop with a cable?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I’ll say it first - served me right for buying one.

I’ve got a Nokia Lumia phone that I used up until about 3 years ago. I’ve gone to get a photo off it recently but there was no life.

I’ve left it on charge for hours but it doesn’t get past the windows logo. There are precious memories on it.

Is there a way to get the hard-drive out and put into a different handset?

Did you store the images on the phone's memory or the SD card?

If it's the latter, you just need a micro SD to SD card adaptor. If not, try a soft-reset:

Hold in the power and volume-down buttons at the same time for roughly 10 seconds. The phone should then vibrate. Let go of the buttons, and the phone SHOULD start as normal.

 

[Cellarite]

Did you store the images on the phone's memory or the SD card?

If it's the latter, you just need a micro SD to SD card adaptor. If not, try a soft-reset:

Hold in the power and volume-down buttons at the same time for roughly 10 seconds. The phone should then vibrate. Let go of the buttons, and the phone SHOULD start as normal.

Ta. I tried that today at work. I’ve left it there on charge overnight otherwise I’d have launched the bastard. I was wondering if a phone specialist could possibly move something into a new handset.

I started saving photos to the memory card when I had it but reckon there’s only 10% of them on there.

Two bloody family holidays to Catalonia, a tour of City just off the top of my head.

 

[Cellarite]

I don't own one of these phones but i'm answering from a place of knowing the frustration of losing precious photos - is there any way to sync the phone to a laptop with a cable?

Possibly but from memory, you need to unlock the phone to allow the laptop to access the photos.

 

[Indaparkside]

Ta. I tried that today at work. I’ve left it there on charge overnight otherwise I’d have launched the bastard. I was wondering if a phone specialist could possibly move something into a new handset.

I started saving photos to the memory card when I had it but reckon there’s only 10% of them on there.

Two bloody family holidays to Catalonia, a tour of City just off the top of my head.

No mistress pictures

 

[Cellarite]

No mistress pictures

Well...

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Ta. I tried that today at work. I’ve left it there on charge overnight otherwise I’d have launched the bastard. I was wondering if a phone specialist could possibly move something into a new handset.

I started saving photos to the memory card when I had it but reckon there’s only 10% of them on there.

Two bloody family holidays to Catalonia, a tour of City just off the top of my head.

Try taking the battery out and leaving it out for 30 minutes or so. Then put the battery back in and put it on charge and charge it for an hour or so (that should be more than enough juice to start it), then with it still plugged in to the charger try a soft reset.

If that doesn't work, you may have to take it to a specialist.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Are you using the charger that came with the phone? Using one not designed for that phone can slow up charging dramatically.

 

[Cellarite]

Try taking the battery out and leaving it out for 30 minutes or so. Then put the battery back in and put it on charge and charge it for an hour or so (that should be more than enough juice to start it), then with it still plugged in to the charger try a soft reset.

If that doesn't work, you may have to take it to a specialist.

Cheers. I’ll try that tomorrow and let you know. It’s taught me a bit of a lesson about backing up photos.