How do I recover a photo from a hard bricked Lumia 1020?

[Windows Central Question]

How to recovery photo from hard bricked lumia 1020

My 1020 had been hard bricked today

but I didnt upgrade it win10 preview

How can I recovery my photos before recover 1020??

Thanks!

 

[Ed Boland]

Re: How to recovery photo from hard bricked lumia 1020

Have you tried plugging it into your PC with the USB cable? Of course you'll need to charge the phone. Is it not turning on at all? Anything showing on the screen? (like a sad smiley face, or an exclamation point?)

 

[RumoredNow]

Re: How to recovery photo from hard bricked lumia 1020

hard bricked

That would mean you exhausted all avenues to recover. Have you tried the Windows Device Recovery Tool? FAQ - How can I recover/reset/restore my phone software? - Microsoft - USA


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[Quddus Okele]

My lumia 1020 is showing Blue screen with a message BITLOCKER. plugin the usb drive that has the bitlocker key. i dont have any bitlocker stored in usb drive.
please i need help. device is running w 10 mobile build 581

 

[A54D]

Well it seems you had bitlocker enabled in the settings.

When recovering my Surface Pro 3 from Windows 10 Technical Preview back to Windows 8.1 it asked me the same thing but instead of USB it said check your emails, I did and there was a code I just typed it and it unlocked instantly. So you could try checking your emails.

 

[Quddus Okele]

I cant remember ever enabling Bitlocker. i have tried severally using windows device recovery tool to no avail