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Phone won't boot and no backup!

I desperately need someone's help!! My brother installed DarkyROM on my phone and lately my phone has become incredibly unstable and constantly force stopping apps, including Launcher. I had turned my phone off earlier this evening and when I turned it back on, it will not load past the DarkyROM loading page. The bar on the page still moves, but the phone won't boot.

I'm assuming I will need to do a factory reset but my problem is in the fact that I have no backup of my phone. I'm mostly concerned about my pictures and videos. I need these, but don't know how to be able to get them off my phone safely.

Someone please help!!!
 
Welcome to the forums, Tinkerbelle.
Sorry to hear of your troubles. I assume you have a custom recovery installed like Clockwork Mod or TWRP? If so you can go into it and perform a factory reset there. It won't erase your photos or videos. If that doesn't work, we can start finding stock firmware you can push to your phone.
 
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Welcome to the forums, Tinkerbelle.
Sorry to hear of your troubles. I assume you have a custom recovery installed like Clockwork Mod or TWRP? If so you can go into it and perform a factory reset there. It won't erase your photos or videos. If that doesn't work, we can start finding stock firmware you can push to your phone.

I'm not sure if I have anything like that. I know when I am in the recovery mode, it says Semaphore CWN Revocery v5.5.0.4, not sure if that helps
 
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