[Q] TMobile Samsung Galaxy S3 topic

Is it possible to recover internal data from a TMobile S3 SGH-T999L? The phone is stock...never been rooted. But it has no SD card and doesnt have USB debug mode enabled. The password has been long forgotten and I dont want to lose the videos and photos with a hard reset. Everything I read says hard reset...I cant believe thats the only option. TMobile wont help. Samsung wont help. Im fairly technical, have modded a few consoles but I dont want to screw this up.