IPhone 4S suddenly enters Recovery Mode by itself?

Hi,
I need help recovering data from my wife's iPhone. It's an iPhone 4S, running iOS 5.0, un-jailbroken. She clicked on the app 'Dragon Story' and her phone went into recovery mode. Thing is, she has never backed up the iPhone since purchasing it in Oct 2011 even after numerous reminders from me. I know, I should have just done it for her. What saddens me is that we have lost all photos of our now 3 month old baby (2000+ photos).
It has never been jailbroken before, but I tried using Redsn0w, iRecovery, Recboot to kick it out of recovery mode but nothing works. Doing a hard reset just boots it back into recovery mode. Can someone please help me interpret the iRecovery log below and see what's wrong with it?
iRecovery - Recovery Utility
by westbaer
Thanks to pod2g, tom3q, planetbeing and geohot.
[NAND] h2fmiPrintConfig:421 Chip ID 50 50 4E 01 00 06 on FMI0:CE0
[NAND] h2fmiPrintConfig:421 Chip ID 50 50 4E 01 00 06 on FMI1:CE8
[NAND] h2fmiPpnGetControllerInfo:715 PPN Manufacturer ID: AD 82 01 22 01 44
[NAND] h2fmiPpnGetControllerInfo:725 PPN Controller Version:          020084P
=======================================
:: iBoot for n94ap, Copyright 2011, Apple Inc.
::    BUILD_TAG: iBoot-1219.43.32
::    BUILD_STYLE: RELEASE
::    USB_SERIAL_NUMBER: CPID:8940 CPRV:21 CPFM03 SCEP:11 BDID:08 ECID:000003A1200C2D2D IBFL:03 SRNM:[C39GH8SADTDT]
=======================================
[NAND] WMR_Start:147 Apple PPN NAND Driver, Read-Only
[NAND] h2fmiPrintConfig:421 Chip ID 50 50 4E 01 00 06 on FMI0:CE0
[NAND] h2fmiPrintConfig:421 Chip ID 50 50 4E 01 00 06 on FMI1:CE8
[NAND] h2fmiPpnGetControllerInfo:715 PPN Manufacturer ID: AD 82 01 22 01 44
[NAND] h2fmiPpnGetControllerInfo:725 PPN Controller Version:          020084P
[NAND] WMR_Start:170 FIL_Init  [OK]
[NAN] WMR_Open:367 VFL_Open    [OK]
[NAND] WMR_Open:410 FTL_Open    [OK]
Boot Failure Count: 0    Panic Fail Count: 1
Entering recovery mode, starting command prompt
Can we recover the photos without doing a restore, and if we HAD to do a restore, can we recover the photos afterwards using third party software? Any suggestions and advice is most welcome. I think my wife has learnt her lesson, she was bawling her eyes out last night for losing all of our baby's pictures. Please help!
p.s. From what I've gathered, I can't kick it out of recovery mode because a bootrom exploit has not been found for the 4S. Should I wait unti one is released, or do you reckon it will never happen?
Thanks in advance guys.
Ben

Nevermind I was able to get out of recovery thanks to tinyumbrella

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