Hey, I'm hoping someone on here knows a lot more about android than I do.

Short story, my mum dropped her S4 into freshwater... I've dried it out sufficiently and tried to get it to work but it's acting like it's been soft bricked. It will go into download mode (vol. down + power) but it hangs when going into recovery mode (vol. up + power) with the samsung splash and the tiny blue "booting into recovery" in the top right hand corner.
It's running standard everything, and all she really cares about is getting her photos off the internal memory.

Any ideas before I start the usual methods of re-flashing?
My computer (and ODIN) recognises it when it is plugged in in download mode only, but Kies doesn't... Maybe there is a backdoor to access what's on the phone when it's in download mode?

It's kind of an out there question, I know... so thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas
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