recover data Samsung Galaxy directly from phone memory

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HDD Recovery Services
666 Kirkwood Ave, Suite B101
Ottawa, ON
K1Z 5X9
Canada

[Tietelik]

We need more guys like you! Save the world

[leoshell]

Oh goodness, I need to start backing up my phone data.., like weekly, because this is like a different language to me. This is another example of technology outrunning the human's ability to absorb new information..

[divadbate]

Really interesting stuff! could you make perhaps a video telling us more about your equipment and the software you use? I would love to know where I can get nand chip adapters like the ones you use. nice videos. subbed

[jurajhezel]

Nice! Hats down very good work.

I'm just curious. Aren't data on the phone encrypted? I think the memory chip should not be readable like that. Does not make sense unless... The user was not using any encryption... Than it makes perfect sense.

Again. Great work! Ten more people like you so you could do more of your work! Love it.

[DRSDavidSoft]

Wow, all of the Android partitions seems to be well preserved on the eMMC!
If I was doing the recovery procedure for my own phone, I'd image all partitions, and restore them directly on my new phone.
That would restore the same firmware, apps, data, and internal files.

Two things I'd like to mention:
1) Seems like Samsung has introduced a software-encryption on new phones produced like the S7E I bought. I wonder if the software you are using can decrypt the encryption or not (so far, I have no news of any successful decryption)

2) The data partition may not always be the largest one, but anyone can identify it from its name, since all user data on Android is written to /data. That's the only writable partition if the user's phone is not rooted, and that's the partition which get's deleted if the phone is factory reset.

Great tutorials by the way, you have great desoldering and resoldering skills, and I really enjoy watching your videos!

Can I ask two questions?
a) I'm really curious as where you've learned which software to use, or which pinout to use for data extraction. Is there a general reference that you use?

b) What adapter do you use to mount SD card and eMMC chips on computers?

Thanks!

[chintsbrokar]

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[samirgunic]

For the sake of education and posterity, can you please tell us what Samsung Galaxy model this was? Because these so called "smart phones" that die just after a few years of use is very much an ongoing issue that many people are facing, myself included. By researching the issue, many arrive on this type of video. Let's not give them false hope that they can recover the data if it's not possible.

I figure the phone in the video must have been a Galaxy S5 or older if it's using an eMMC chip for storage. Because, starting with Galaxy S6, Samsung started using eUFS chips, and you can't read those with the Rusolut toolkit. In addition, starting with Galaxy S7, all new Galaxy phones are encrypted from the factory. So even if you could read the chip with Rusolut or another reader that actually supports eUFS and MPHY protocol, you would still need to decrypt your data dump, otherwise you only have garbage data without any kind of structure you can use to recover user data. In addition, starting with Galaxy S9, FDE (Full Disk Encryption) was replaced with FBE (File-Based Encryption) where every file is individually encrypted with its own unique key.

So without decryption keys, it's outright impossible to recover user data by removing the chip and reading it in an external chip reader/programmer like Rusolut (off-the-board procedure). You would have to find a method for extracting the keys first or find another way to break the encryption. Note that the storage is encrypted regardless if you use a user defined PIN or not. Pre-defined passwords are used, and each is unique for each device. On top of that, on some models, you can optionally add your own password or PIN to the key derivation chain for added security, making it even more difficult to recover data.

So if it's a newer phone, what most of these "microelectronics" / "microsoldering" / "logicboard repair" shops will do is a straight up transplant of the eUFS and CPU to a known good donor board, power on, and hope for the best. Many shops will not even try if it's a newer phone, even if solder re-work could be the solution. If the prospect of a large profit for data recovery is slim, they will simply tell you that the chip is dead – or give you a more technical explanation like "controller is dead" – and move on to the next client in line. They don't really know what's wrong with the "dead" chip. It's not in their interest to know, they have enough new clients coming in. I have yet to come by an explanation of what the actual cause is, why so many are declared "dead". It's not just Samsung phones. I have seen some of these repair shops do their magic on YouTube, and I have seen other brands and models with the same type of issue, and all of them are Android phones. Also, they never show you when they fail! They only show you their successes. Something to keep in mind! Sure, a chip can fail. It can get a short circuit, or it can die from overheating. But most commonly, it's down to basic electronics, like bad contact with the solder pads. My impression is that too many of these jobs are rejected for having a "dead chip". Without evidence.

Re-work or transplant is the solution for newer phones that implement hardware based encryption. Once repaired so you can access your data, you should copy out your data and ditch that phone as it's no longer reliable. If it has failed once, it will fail again. I have seen this happen first hand. For older phones, you can do the same, or use an external reader like Rusolut or Easy JTAG and others. Older phones didn't have encryption enabled by default, and if it's very old then it didn't have support for storage encryption at all. So the data on all Samsung Galaxy phones from the first Galaxy to Galaxy S5 can be recovered using Rusolut like shown in this video. For Galaxy S6 you will have to use Easy JTAG or DediProg NuProg-E2.

[GalaxyCatz]

Also a cool video would be to grab hdd platers from a hdd that only has one platter and do the same with another one so now you have 2 platers from 2 packages and then put them into a multiplater hdd package and see what happens maybe even swapping the orientation so the plater would go in backwards.

[TheOzzybob]

Great Video Mate!! Watch a few of your videos now and have just subscribed!!

[marcinl]

Next excellent video. Good to see you again after a few weeks break.

[QUANTUM_energy_WORLD_]

I tell you this planet should be filled with people like you only.

[mariuszzawierucha]

Hi Erkin! Some time ago we have spoken about similar tool for HTC.. Anyway great job! I'm really happy you've made that video! Thank you my frined! Regards

[gimmyno]

Love your channel mate! continue the great work!

[GalaxyCatz]

I Like the video and the channel. I have a question for you! Will you swap out a chip on let's say my iPad (the nand chip) and replace it with another one by a different company with different properties such as more memory and still hold the same contents as the old one did? If so (as in you would like to do that) then their is a big market for that (that is expanding built in memory on mobile devices such as idevices) I'm not looking for this service right now but I have been on the lookout for one

[doorsnjbod]

You got skills bro ... an your a stand up dude for showing us how to do it with out getting paid for that service but id like to actually pay you for your services. I have most of the notes made an about 7-10 phone thats where cracked and maybe a component broke but id like to try an at least retrieve all data from all phones buts if possible get them back in working condition.. respond an ill know you are taking calls.

I appreciate you there's alot of old pics an my last note 10 fell in pool so yea blew screen... hard drive fine... please respond

Nick

[hddrecoveryservices]

sorry for the repost of the same video, but we had some issues with the last upload
thanks Sinn

[Isaibongese]

I love you bro we really need you man sure you the type of person who knows best! go get her!

[aytanmammadli]

How much does it cost to get data recovered from samsung galaxy S6? I don’t care about the phone but i need my photos and videos. Thank you

[jerrsona.]

Hello HDD Recovery, I just want to ask if it's possible to recover data from mobile phone by replacing its internal storage or emmc to another same working motherboard?

[GetITFixed]

hi can u help me to buy one adapter which works with nand memory chip for s3 s4 s5 s6 s7 if posible. to use in recovering data from motherboards which cannot be repair anymore? please