Update interupted... Any way to get photos off?

Question

Hi everyone,
This is my first time posting here so if it's the wrong area, I appologize. I did the latest update this morning for my IPhone (I have an IPhone 3G) from the ITunes store.. I'm not sure of the exact number of the update.
I was doing the update before work and I ran out of time, so I brought my laptop with me while it was finishing the update.
As it was toward the end of the update (It had already backed up everything and I guess was putting the new software on), the IPhone came loose from the cord and now all it shows is the ITunes logo and to plug it in. When I do that, it says I have to do a restore to get into ITunes.
Is there ANY way to get the photos off before I restore to factory settings? I don't care about the contacts or anything but my photos. All my photos of my 1 year old are on there and the last time I backed it up was in September. I know I should have more often and I will do it every month from now on... But any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't care if I even have to go somewhere and pay someone to do it..

Answer 1

Hi Thank you for getting back to me. This will be a bit lengthy so I appologize to begin with.
I did not restore the phone before I got back home because I didn't want to take any chances of anything happening with it.
So I got home and I did the restore and back up at home last night (Clicking on Restore since the IPhone in the device menu didn't have the option to restore from back up).
After I restored it, it gave me the option to choose a back up to restore to, which I chose the one from yesterday morning.
It loaded and said on ITunes that the sync or back up was complete and it was safe to remove the IPhone. There was still a bar filling on the Iphone, supposedly loading, still going on the IPhone so I left it connected.
The bar finally filled, but stayed that way for around 15-20 min without going to the main screen, so I disconnected it. Then it wasn't going away so I shut it off.
I turned it back on and it started that load bar again with the apple logo above it. It took a long time and I had to go to bed so I let it go. I woke up this morning and it had gone dark so it seemed like it loaded fine. I clicked the circle button and my wall paper came up and everything, I was very happy! I even went to photos and it showed all of them there, very happy!
The only downfall I saw was all my apps were gone.. Not to worried about that, although if there is a way to get them back, I'd appreciate knowing that also..
But then I went to the camera and then it said rebuilding library (just so you know I have ALOT of photos on here, over 4500.. No music, just a ton of photos, which I am going to take off tonight hopefully.) So it took forever.. Then it turned off before it finished. I turned it back on and I went to photo's (instead of camera) and it said updating library and the load line is crawling.
So ever since I first looked at the pictures this morning, I haven't been able to view them again. I tried hooking it up to my laptop during break this morning to start transfering the photos, but it doesn't give me the option to import pictures like it used to (outside of ITunes, as if it were an external hard drive.).
So that's where I am at... Sorry for the lengthy response, but I figured it would help if you knew everything. At this point I just want to get the pictures off safely and then I don't care if I wipe them off after that.