VS980 User, Soon to be Switching, Willing to Donate Device to Dev

I have a mostly good vs980, I can't really sell it for much or give it to family b/c the headphone jack is finicky af (touch the headphones SLIGHTLY and it'll pause music/blare browser stuff out of the speaker) and there's some slight wear and tear, so I figured I'd give it to a developer in need. I was planning on donating it to Mike from PA but given PA just shut down and the thread was locked a couple weeks back, I figured I'd just make this thread to see who wants it. Send the word out to any devs you know who'd want it. New phone (nexus 6p) won't be coming in till mid November, so they'd be getting the phone like late November early December most likely.

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.