Recover files from iPhone 4 that was damaged because of water accident.

My iPhone 4 got some water using the lifeproof case. The screen is not working but when I plug the phone to my computer iTunes shows that my photos, videos and music are still there. I can't recover my photos with iPhoto nor Image Capture. Any recommendation?

You could try restoring your phone from the backup on your computer. Launch iTunes on your computer and disable automatic syncing by going to iTunes preferences>Devices and checking Prevent iPods, iPhones...from automatically syncing. Now connect your iPhone to your computer. When it appears in iTunes on the left sidebar under Devices, right click on it and select Restore from Backup, choose the backup to restore from and proceed. When done you can go back and re-enable automatic syncing in iTunes preferences. In the future, never sync you phone to someone else's computer or bad things will happen.

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Disabled
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