0

I have a broken phone which doesn't even switch on. I would like to get all the data from the phone, is there a way to remove flash memory from motherboard and read all the data?

My phone was an Asus ZenFone Max M1 Pro, no root privileges, Android 8.0 I think.

Improve this question
8
  • 2
    As alecxs already pointed out phones that are shipped with Android 5+ are by default encrypted. On modern devices the encryption key is in a special compartment of the CPU, hence desoldering the flash memory is useless as the contained user data is encrypted and can't be read without the original CPU chip it has been encrypted with.
    – Robert
    Commented Nov 29, 2020 at 11:06
  • in case you can get device back to life, find prog_ufs_firehose_sdm636_ddr file and test point location for your device, there is a small chance to inject (AVB signed) modified boot/recovery with adb enabled (expert only). in case it reaches at least a boot state where data is successfully decrypted you can adb pull your files
    – alecxs
    Commented Nov 29, 2020 at 11:14
  • @alecxs in case i can get my device back to life I should also get my data back, am I wrong? Don't need necessarily to flash modified recovery in order to acces the storage. I'm now gonna try to find out the problem in the hardware (if it is there). Trying to connect the phone to a computer, it doesn't give any signs of life
    – Mattia Monari
    Commented Nov 29, 2020 at 12:47
  • 1
    @IrfanLatif thanks, this looks interesting. I'm gonna give a look to this ad well
    – Mattia Monari
    Commented Nov 29, 2020 at 12:47
  • forum.gsmdevelopers.com/romdevelopers/…
    – alecxs
    Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 22:42

0

Reset to default

Browse other questions tagged .