CompactFlash, SD, MMC, USB flash storage. Anything that does not have moving parts inside.
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Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

May 26th, 2012, 23:36

same case come again. please skype me :)

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

June 5th, 2012, 3:22

I'm still needing a matching board if anyone has a working board, contact me.

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

September 13th, 2012, 5:20

I'm still needing the working PCB, if anyone has it, i'll pay for it.
Thanks.

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

September 18th, 2012, 19:46

Depending on the quality of NAND chips use Freeze Spray (or put NR in Ziplock and freeze in water)
Every sector will still be in error, but results will be correctable.

hddguy wrote:NAND chip K9BCG08U1A operates not at 3.3V, which NAND reader will read it at. I believe it reads at 1.8/1.9V which is why you get many errors.
What is wrong with original PCB, do you have opportunity to repair it? Post a photo of it here


This is true for some Toshiba NAND chips, I haven't seen this work for Samsung NAND.

I have 8GB donor (Samsung TLGA NAND on one side, other side is empty) but can't part with it, only one :(

I also have Sony Microvault 8GB w/ SM 3257EN-Q AA, uses TSOP48 NAND, but PCB is the same as yours.
I ordered it from Sony Australia's Website, perhaps you can source PCB there.

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

September 19th, 2012, 4:15

Thanks Jeremy appreciated the info, i will check if i can find the same pcb in Australia.

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

February 28th, 2013, 0:34

Hi Izualim,
According to my records I have 7 Sony MicroVaults in my research/donor collection. The database I have here is old and not got all the chip/pcb infos filled in yet so let me know if you still need this and I can check when I am back with my proper database or the drives themselves.
Cheers
Brian

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

January 20th, 2014, 8:38

hi Brian, yes i do still need a matching PCB donor, if you find one just let me know.

Thanks

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

March 18th, 2014, 5:15

I'm glad now, i was able to retrieve more than 50% of the pictures through data reconstruction and some temperature tricks, the bank in the broken Nand was severed damaged but still with some temperature tricks i was able to recover most of it.
Thanks for everyone who offered help !

Re: NEED A DONOR FLASH USB PCB SONY MICROVAULT 16GB

March 18th, 2014, 5:45

Well Done, Persistence is a great tool for flash :)
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