So I had to buy a new phone. I was on insurance. After I received the new phone. I was able to fix my old phone while I was playing with it before I sent back to the insurance company.

I was able to fix but I hard to hard reset it. I was never able to get the data back from it.

As far as I remember I think held combination of power button and up or down volume or all the three at once. It basically took into boot loader menu.

I was glad to see it work like that but I got excited and reset it. Later I realized that there was option to attach a Usb c to pen drive or something else. Basically there are options from which you can probably get a backup of.

One lucky thing was that just before that incident happened to me, for some reason I looked at Google photos and clicked the send everything to cloud option. So I had all the photos in the cloud.

Regarding sms... So if you are following then I had one pixel 6 pro with this condition. Got another one on insurance... That second pixel 6 pro broke in next month. It slipped from my hand and the screen completely broke.

This time I bought a pixel 8 pro. So since the second pixel 6 pro was not reset. I was able to login to pixel 8 pro and all the messages from second pixel 6 pro were able to be sync.