Once I pulled all my data off my stricken phone in my hotel room using nothing but the veggie sausages I'd stashed in the mini fridge as a cold sink. Failed at

Once I pulled all my data off my stricken phone in my hotel room using nothing but the veggie sausages I'd stashed in the mini fridge as a cold sink. Failed at just the wrong moment the evening before an important event, of course. No time to find enough bandwidth to restore my backups...