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Hi, In order to recover data stored on the NAND chip of an iPhone 6 motherboard is it enough to desolder the NAND chip and solder it onto a donor board. I am wondering if some additional chip like the CPU, might also need to be swapped. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Any opinions for what to watch out for would be appreciated. We are very skilled at the physical desolder / solder process. Thanks, Curt
Not possible unless you take the A8 CPU to the new board as well. The date inside the NAND is encrypted with AES256 by the A8, each A8 has a unique key for that. If you take off the NAND chip and put it in a programmer, you can dump the whole image easily but you’ll need Tony Stark to help you decrypt it.
With every new phone, the parts of an iphone that are “married” with one another have increased. What i can say is,that it is at least linked to the CPU and the Basebandchip. I’m almost sure that this list is not complete. But this only is imporant if you want to transfer those chips on a another logig board. The activation will fail if one of thos parts are missing. But no idea if some kind of machine JTAG or whatever exists, that can read those parts without the phone.
If the iPhone is dead, people specialized in data recovery from iPhones can try to “wake up” the iPhone just enough to pull a back-up (Android phones such as Samsung or Nexus or Sony, etc. require a different approach). We do this often and many times were able to get pictures and contacts from iPhones thought to be dead. Sometimes the phones were sent back in working order. But if the data has been erased and/or replaced by new or older data, you cannot get it back. As for the original question, it is not possible to just pull the NAND from the iPhone and read it. It has to be paired with other components (depending on the iPhone model, those components vary). If you are skilled enough, you may then transfer all the critical components together to a working board. But that’s not guaranteed to succeed since the components may be damaged before or during the transfer process. And the level of skill required to succeed is very hard to attain.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/03/iphone-fla… if they can transfer the data from a 16gb memory to 128gb, it is possible to do what you want to retain your photos . Good luck on finding help in this . It can be done though.
It’s been a little over a year, any luck figuring out the answer? I have an iphone 6s, lost everything when connecting it to my computer and it synced to itunes – my new born baby’s pictures and videos are what I am worried about. A previous version of iOS (from a few months ago) is on my phone now, and online data recovery software programs are no help. Any suggestions?
Can bedone. Option 01 https://youtu.be/2jRzm_RFWXE But never did tried it personally.
just possible to Recovering data by icloud or before iphone The NAND flash memory in each iPhone is uniquely encrypted by its CPU using AES256. Encryption keys are generated from secure keys hidden inside the CPU, random numbers generated on each iOS copy and user passcode.
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