[Asus ROG Phone 6 / 6 Pro] Rottytops:
I have an ROG Phone 6.

It's 512GB base global model

It has a non functional Vol- button (Which I expect will prevent me from entering EDL mode)

It's unmodded, no root.

And I have drained the battery to 0% which didn't help

I had Developer options enabled for a few weeks, but I don't think I had USB debugging enabled.

The problem: I rebooted my phone. When it came back on, it spends several minutes on the boot logo. During these minutes, I have no control. I can't even hold the power button to force a shut down, even after 2-3 minutes held down. After about 7 or more minutes, the phone will boot into a recovery-like menu.

This screen says: "Can't load Android System. Your data may be corrupt. If you continue to get this message, you may need to perform a factory data reset and erase all user data stored on this device"

Gives me the option to perform said reset or "try again"

Trying again yields same results.

From here, I can "try again", hold up during a reboot to get into the bootloader menu.

My options are Boot into system, which all the above repeats itself, Restart, which does the same, power off which is self explanatory, and boot into recovery.

Booting into recovery gives me these options:

Reboot

Reboot to bootloader

Enter Fastboot

Wipe Data/factory reset (with no option to only wipe cache, it's either nuke it all or nothing)

Run graphics test

Power off

This is an unmodded device so there's nothing I could have done myself that would cause this. Last thing I was doing before I restarted my phone was casting a show to my screen while playing a game until my wifi bugged out so I did a restart, when this all happened.Im not sure if a factory reset fixes the phone since I googled the issue only to find comments from people saying it fixed nothing, but the priority is that I have to save my data/personal files. I got tax documents, work pictures, screenshots, photos, etc... Things I can't get back. I have a partial backup from May 2023 on a SD card, but this only contains my music collection up to that point. It doesn't contain important stuff I need.

Is there anything that can be done Using the above info of my options? Is there like an adb command in Fastboot I could use to mount my storage in my phone so I could copy my data over or something? I had no secure password or pin numbers, just a simple 4-point swipe patter for locking.

Or is there a command to wipe just cache and retry a reboot? Is there a more advanced forum for me to post this info where people could help me that don't have/need info on the specific device (rog 6)?

All I have is amateur rooting and rom flashing knowledge I've used on other older devices pre-2020. So I understand some basic terms like what even adb is, and the differences between various boot modes like recovery, Fastboot, EDL, etc...

I also learned from googling my issue is that some people managed to flash an OTA update manually through sideload, but recovery boot has no sideload option, nor do I know where to begin even getting the files needed for my specific device or where to begin. This is also the 1st I've seen/experienced Android corrupting itself, especially on an unmodded device, which is why I never thought to pre-enable USB debug

My goal is to browse internal storage and find someway to copy to a flashdrive or windows.

Or just simply get the phone booting into system properly again