Samsung Galaxy S2 Phone

[labtech]

Have a damaged phone. Dead motherboard according to Samsung techs.
Have not opened the phone, yet, so not sure what is inside.
Does anybody know if a NAND swap for data recovery is feasible with concern to encryption and other factors?

Thanks

[lcoughey]

You may have to try with two known good phones, just to be sure that the method works. I've never had a client willing to invest the cost of a couple phones for us to attempt their recovery...so, if yours is willing, let me know how you make out.

[labtech]

They never do..

[labtech]

This one is difficult and I do not think I can see it through successfully.

[craig6928]

Dead motherboard according to Samsung techs.

and that the person you can trust

it could be anything from a short on your board but it can also be fixed

we come across items that no other company can fix
but we have succesful fixed the items or reverse enginner it


you could rebuild the phone no problem but its the time and cost.

[labtech]

Dead motherboard according to Samsung techs.
and that the person you can trust

There were other factors involved that I omitted telling.
For me, it was a difficult project, not worth the cost and headache with complaints with how long the project would have taken with no guaranteed results.
So, I did the right thing in it letting somebody else handle it who has more expertise and is willing to take on these circumstances.

If they send it to you, then good luck with the short testing, ~$300 per part, the time to reverse-engineer it to only find it out it might not work, and with a complaint of why it is taking so long. All of this, of course, for no fee should it not work out...

[craig6928]

yep true its a lot of headache for sure and complaints as always normal.
that the best way to go letting somebody else handle it
as it can be a pain in the arses.

[Haltec]

Do you have any JTAG expirience?

What is EXACT model of this S2?

1. Find someone with ORT, Riff, Medusa or some other JTAG box, and read full dump from one and write it to another one.

You will have issues with connectivity, imei corruption, security data corruption, but in most cases you will be able to extract data from it.

Secondly there is QUALCOMM/Exynos eMMC EFI/PIT/MBR/EBR Partitioning plugin for RIFF JTAG but that could be a bit tricky.

Do not try to transplant Flash IC since is glued BGA. Go with JTAG first.


Haltec

[labtech]

Thanks for your input.

Will consider applying on my next project as that is long gone ago.