just to add a lil more info:
looks like the zipped up sdk-tools.zip download contains an unzipped folder inside.
youll simply download(heres a link to the thread:
our forums' mini-sdk) if windows does not automatically open the folder for you,you can right click,then extract if youre using windows 7. other versions may require you to use a utility such as 7 zip to extract the file.
if windows opens the folder for you,and presents you the unzipped file,then simply drag and drop it onto your c drive,not inside any folders.
open a cmd window by clicking the start bubble,then type "cmd" or "command" in the search box. that should open a small back window. you will navigate to the sdk-tools folder by typing(or copy/paste) in the command window:
cd c:\sdk-tools
and that will change your prompt to
c:\sdk-tools>
in your window,it will look something like this,if it works(red are your inputs):
Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Scott>[COLOR="Red"]cd c:\sdk-tools[/COLOR]
c:\sdk-tools>[COLOR="red"]adb devices[/COLOR]
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
HTxxxxxxxxxx device
c:\sdk-tools>
unfortunately, the option (usb debugging),as scary mentioned,is not on by default,and its unlikely as a non-rooted phone user that you would have enabled it. when usb debugging is on,there actually should be an icon in the status bar,telling you so.
failing using adb to pull your images...
. and if that fails then ill take it to a repair shop and have them fix it? you think they can? its possible?
i dont see why they could not do this. i believe what is bad,is the digitizer,wich is directly under the glass in the display. a friend of mine recently cracked his digitizer,after dropping his phone,took it apart and fixed it,and it did not affect anything.
if you can find a shop in your area that does such repairs, they should be able to verify what is wrong,and the potential it would have for erasing the internal memory or internal sd during the repair.
ill keep wrapping my head around it,but im sorry we havent come up with any quicker or cheaper options. while i dont have any kids,i can certainly relate to you(and rachel)... if i had a device with pics and videos of my dog when she was a 4 week old squirmy puppy,id do whatever it took to get them off!
) and go ahead and back up everything important to the PC
it said i had to set it to upload, however on my son's phone his is atuomatically set to that.
ill be a guinea pig for the testing 
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