Data Recovery on water damaged HTC M8

We received this phone last week for water damage data recovery. First, the repair was attempted, the phone was disassembled and carefully examined under the microscope. There were few bad spots but it looked like it can be repaired.

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Is your phone really that secure? Password bypass.

The password you use on your Samsung Galaxy may not really stop Law Enforcement or forensic investigators from getting into your phone.

We have been doing this for a very long time using UFED and XRY.

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Backblaze hard drive reliability for Q2 2016

Backblaze released their latest drive reliability stats for Q2 of 2016.

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Recovery from 64GB Transcend Compact Flash

Back in August, we received a 64GB Transcend Compact Flash card. Under first assessment, the card was found to have a dead controller. There was no other solution but to remove the chips and use VNR to recover the data.

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Water Damaged iPhone 6

Salt water damaged iPhone 6

Extremely corroded, especially when viewed under the microscope. Phone required: ultrasonic cleaning, board level repair to relieve any shorts and replacing few components, screen connector, and various other parts needed replacement as well.

The iPhone came back o life and data was recovered.

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