How data was recovered from a water-damaged iPhone
This is your logic board in my test screen.
So this is what your phone looks like inside
and oh man, this drove me crazy.
Wow.
So we have all your pictures.
Isn't that beautiful though, oh my god.
Yes, so it's all recovered
and there were thousands of them
and I just wanted to call you to you know to share the good news
because this one killed me.
This one, I thought we might not get it.
What did you do, like what kind of work do you do on it?
I'm an electrical engineer --
[Jessa] Okay.
And I'm wondering how you do it.
Like it's a very large [inaudible] design-type chips.
And you somehow pulled the data out, hey?
So, right.
So the the data you can't just read it off of the chip
because if you could then we might as well not have any security or pass codes.
If it were that easy I could just take anybody's phone and read the data off the chip.
So the the chip with the data on it must shake hands with a bunch of other chips on the board.
And on your board there were two completely independent problems.
One was extensive water damage
and I don't think you can see the logic board from this far away
but I'd be happy to send you a picture.
I don't think I'll be able to show you
but it was very severe corrosion.
However most of it were in non-essential areas or non unique areas.
So with a microscope hot air station and a soldering iron
I could desolder those chips and replace them with working chips for your main functions;
image, touch and getting it to connect to USB.
However I I and I did that you know fairly early on when it first got here
but it would just show me the Apple logo and bootloop and for a long time I
I was looking for an answer in the water damage why is it like this and then you
know and then I put it away and I'd come back to it put it away and come back to
it and then guess what the answer to that boot loop ended up being completely
independent it was charging chip damage now that
that comes from sitting on a charger you know a lot of times we use just whatever
charging cables that allow a noisy voltage to come through and damage that
USB permission chip yours was damaged in a way that the the device that we use to
detect that damage missed so it's just through experience and a hunch to say
that really looks like charger damaged so just to leave no stone unturned I
changed that chip and that's when I saw it you know come on yeah I we were we I
wanted to ask you some questions about this phone this phone you know this this
phone because it had the two different problems so I wanted to see if there was
anything that you had done with charging or something that maybe you could shed a
light on that if you remembered anything about you know leaving it on a specific
charger or anything like that yeah it really doesn't work yeah the rice you
know it's a it's it's a kind of about
yes it did have a it started out with a fairly classic full short-circuit on the
main power rail and we see that a lot with water damage that's fairly typical
so once we cleared that then we had to rebuild all of the necessary but not
unique chips and we were able to clean clean that up a lot use the only way to
get data from an iPhone is to get it to get it to boot up so that you can trust
and offload the data there's no other way to do that
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