Can I recover data from a phone that is unable to charge?

My Sony Xperia phone's battery has had an issue where it is unable to charge, and before I send it back for repairs I was wondering if there's a way to transfer the data from the phone to my PC now that the battery is flat? The USB port works since I was still able to transfer files before the battery ran out, it's just unable to charge.

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