Recover photos from bootlooping G2 (VS980)? Can access download mode

Hey everyone, I've had my old G2 kicking around for awhile and let one of my friends borrow it awhile ago while his phone was out of commission. I returned it to stock before letting him, so it's stock rom, recovery, etc. While he was using it, apparently he lost service while an update was applying and now it just bootloops. I have the phone back, and he doesn't need it, but if possible he'd like to get back some photos (and maybe contacts) that were on it.

It boots to the Verizon logo, but then just hangs there. I can get into download mode, but I don't know if there is a way to use adb or something to pull photos and stuff off of it from there? If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great!

Thanks.

mtk 6572 device bootlooping

recently i got a mtk 6572 based device and decided to change the bootanimation. i had successfully done so before with the phone but somehow the one i tried to install caused the phone to bootloop. i tried wiping the cache and doing a factory reset but it was still stuck in the bootloop after i changed the animation. so i decided the only way to get it to work was to flash a custom rom. but when i tried that the file was loaded and transferred but i got an "installation Aborted" on my phone please help.....