ua-cam.com/video/G9_KgecwzJI/v-deo.html Yes, Chris is coming to Texas. He is coming up on his four year anniversary, and I can't stress enough how much he has grown since he started here. I can happily retire away my soldering iron & desk knowing he is chief technician, a better technician than I ever could've dreamed of being. He lives, eats, and breathes this work and it shows in his passion and more importantly, his results. He can fix the MacBook boards that the rest of us give up on, he can recover data from clicking hard drives, dying ssds, MicroSD cards that somebody physically destroyed, or a liquid damaged iphone. It is so incredibly rare to sign somebody who is so highly skilled across so many different sub disciplines in this industry. Chris is a unicorn. Above all, Chris is known for seeing a $600 DPA 4066 microphone on the desk and.... recording audio with a cup & a string anyway. What a legend.
As a technican: the sound is good enough, and messing with expensive stuff is a liabiltiy and unneeded complexity! Especially when something simpler is good enough!
Cup & a string... Reminds me of when my microphone broke, so I took a set of headphones, plugged into the mic jack with a slight offset, & put right up to my face. I turned on mic boost, maxed out all mic volume settings, and talked loudly into it. Worked well enough.. but the fidelity of a cup and string would likely have been better!
The talent you people have doesn't cease to amaze me. Even more so the fact that you show how it's all done. For free!! I know that flamboyant language is overused in these times, but what ya'll do is truly an incredible service to all of humanity. Words don't do ya peeps enough honor.
So I had this wedding once and for some reason both my SD cards went tits up. The preview on the camera would let me "look" at the pictures and the camera would read the card but when I removed the cards and tried to copy the files to Lightroom nothing.... needless to say telling a bride after the ceremony the pictures went poof wasn't a good look. Besides the fact that you can get sued it's a gnarly situation. An outfit out of North Carolina was able to retrieve every picture on those SD cards. They saved my ass and saved the Brides big day. Cudos to the folks who can do this sorta stuff!!
No way to plug the camera into a computer via USB? If the camera could read all the images, you'd think it could transmit all that data via cable to another device without removing the card. Much slower transfer, but if it works when nothing else does, it's worth the wait.
@Richard Cranium There are professional cameras that do exactly this to avoid disasters like the one OP had. Most wedding photographers couldn't live without them, it'd severely damage their reputation if they lost wedding photos. Some photographers even go as far as having backup cameras with them and not shooting everything on one memory card to mitigate how much data would be lost if a card died.
The D3 had 2 memory slots. Being 2 years into a side gig you learn as you go. I've learned to have back ups on top of back ups. I used an SD reader that went to a lap top. After the ceremony I usually back up my pictures. Somehow from the camera to the SD reader the card went tits up. I wasn't smart enough then to utilize the 2nd slot. Needless to say it all worked out in the end but I lost my ass. Stupid is stupid does lol
@@danceswithpaperhands6221 Possibly one of the FATs got messed up. There's a free tool that's very good if you only want to recover pictures, it's called Zero Assumption Recovery (no affiliation).
I honestly have no reason to watch this other than to marvel at the intracate work that you guys do and also just at how amazing technology is. I'm blown away by SD cards and I feel like most people haven't ever really sat down and thought about what's happening. It's just so crazy to me that we can assemble matter in such a way as to store _massive_ amounts of data in a little chip the size of a fingernail
And keep them protected! I have an old 128Gb low price SanDisk micro SD card from 2013 that is scratched, maybe with sand or keys in my bag. The more expensive ones seems to be better protected thought. I'm not yet ready to try to recover the data, but I'm thinking about it.
@@ultort Process is very accessible, however complete set of tools(both hardware and software) costs at least $5000 for basic tools and up to $20000 for somewhat comprehensive suite, based on cursory search. Paying a fraction of that to be handled by somebody with experience seems worth it.
@@aoolmay6853 It only contains an encrypted Android partition with worthless app data and pictures and videos that are on Google Photos, so I'm not going to pay for that, it's just a personal challenge, I already got the encryption key from the phone. I checked the card, it's a Samsung EVO Plus 128GB. The tracks are insanely small compared to the one in the video and there is 2 places where it's damaged.
I've soldered ultra-thin wires under a microscope many times and it's always a nerve-racking experience to get even one soldered correctly. I truly admire your patience for going through this entire mess and successfully pulling it off. The takeaway should be to never store important data on an SD card or a Flash drive without a backup. They can die at a moment's notice and are a nightmare to pull data from
in 2010 I had a fake Memory Card Duo in a Sony camera, it basically snapped, probably would of been "fixable as it was just the plastic but as I had no way to put it in card reader I just chucked it, it had some sentimental photos on.
@@scottrobinson4611 I solder wires 5-10 microns in diameter for custom probes so my experience might be out of the usual, but there is no combination of heat or flux that makes it easy. The wire simply refuses to enter the solder bubbles even if you press down on it.
I'll expand your takeaway: Never store your data anywhere without a backup. I had a HDD stop working a few years ago. I was a bit behind in my backups so I lost some data. Don't trust any storage.
I backup on blu-rays because it's ever so marginally cheaper than HDDs per TB (and more resistant to shock, like when transported). Tapes sound cool but the initial investment in hardware is prohibitive for a home-lab hobbyist. What does everyone here use?
Yes, data recovery content 🤓. I have been waiting so long to see this on your channel and when I saw the announcement this morning I couldn't wait to see this 😅😀
Why not use the Vcc and ground on the main card connector? easier to solder , can use thicker wire for better signal integrity and less chance of making a chip-destroying error connecting power to the wrong pin.
If it had photos you couldn't get back like your honeymoon, your kids 1st birthday or photos of you and your mom the last time you ever got to see her you would pay big bucks to get it back, seen jessa from ipad rehab recover photos from a verry wet distroyed iPhone that was found on the body of there dad who died hiking not found for months, they recoved everything that kind of recovery is worth $1000s to people, this video is amazing never thought it would be recoverable
A small correction: This is scratched, not cracked. When a MicroSD is cracked, recovery is still possible in some cases, but a little more involved than this. I'd have to get the card x-rayed to see where the controller and NAND were, and see if the crack avoided the NAND. The crack could also lead to short circuits of all sorts, which need to be remedied, often by strategically cutting traces based on the x-ray images.
@@anshadedavana I'm actually not sure about the x-ray machine specifics. The company I worked for had two offices, one in the UK (where I worked) and one in the US). The US office had the x-ray machine, so we'd send out cards that needed x-rays, they'd scan them and send them back. When we needed a really quick turnaround, we did ask the local university to let us use their machine. I think it was the medical physics department, but I'm not sure of the machine itself. For the NAND pins, we had all the pinouts shown in this video, which show where all the important traces (Data 0-7, ALE/CLE/WE/RE/CE/RB) are on the surface. We'd then trace all of those back to the NAND banks themselves, and see if any of them were broken by the crack in the card. We got most of our pinouts in this video from Rusolut's Visual NAND Reconstructor, which has a database of them. (It's very similar to PC-3000) We could also use the x-ray principle in reverse to guess pinouts. Banks of NAND have (mostly) standard layouts, so we can follow the traces in reverse from the NAND and map which surface traces lead to which connection at the NAND itself. This is how we reverse-engineered some pinouts, along with the help of a logic analyser. The startup costs are big, which really sucks. Our yearly license for VNR was like $2000. Our licence for a more basic recovery solution called "Flash Extractor" was still like $1000, and had a lot less functionality than VNR or PC-3000 did.
Can someone help me problem is I was deleting photos from sd and suddenly sd card stopped working after I taken out the card it was hot and now none of device are able to read my sd card what the problem if some one know reply asap
Wow, this is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on this channel. No offense, Louis 😆 I had never seen anyone recover data from a messed up MicroSD card before.
In the next video series we learn to build a time machine to travel back to a time before the card was broken. Seriously, thank you for the fantastic info even if it is tedious as hell to try to do.
Chris! You're doing great with the videos. There's always room for improvement but this is by no means an amateur-hour production. Camera work is good, explanation of the process is good, you absolutely ROCKED that cup-and-string audio!!! Seriously, keep it up. Obviously the technical work is good...lol.
I'm wondering, how much it would cost to recover data from something like a microSD card? Btw this is the quality service that no branded service repairs could ever dreamed of. Awesome!
This just blows my mind, humanity has almost 0.000000001% of chance having this knowledge. I feel like we need challenge contest in these fields where 10 contestants try to repair a hand damage microsd card for a $10 giftcard :D
I have one that split into 2 I would pay any price for data recovery it has pictures of the time spent with my child that no longer is in my life 😭🥺. I saved this micro SD card till one day technology could advance so I can recover my precious memories.
I did work just like this for 2 years. I should be able to tell you whether recovery is possible or not. Is there a way you can send me some pictures of the cracked card?
Because there is a controller chip in between the pins and the NAND memory. That chip takes care of the wear levelling and skips bad memory cells and so on. Chris soldered wires directly to the NAND pads and bypassed the controller chip.
Damn that software looks quite organized & pro. The database it has is also pretty impressive, the dev team mustve took apart microsd card models and uploaded traces to their software.
Very interesting, this NAND recovery software is very impressive, though it still needs a human who knows how to use it properly. Micro soldering skills is one thing, but browsing through the raw NAND memory and putting this puzzle back together to a working filesystem is another thing.
i have an SD card in my phone from 2008 when i got my first phone. its travelled with me and swapped phones 4 or 5 times. these videos of repairs are great by the way.
im waiting for a video here in which someone says "hey guys how you doing, so today we are gonna be working on a cpu die, yes you heard it right we are going nano scale"
Wow impressive work - I'd never seen the traces on an uSD before but somehow kind of wondered how it was even possible - looking at the 'PCB' it looks like someone was tasked with hand drawing it :D
Exactly I can say that your job is worthy so much, you're perfect at it. Just I want to know does this wires do not make shorts while they're touching each other ?
I managed to crack one putting it in my back pocket for ten minutes. Fortunately, the last thing I had done with it was back it up. I was able to get by borrowing the one from my phone (another reason to like phones which support external memory).
Most of the mircoSD cards I've had have failed because they've cracked and split, including one that saw virtually no handling and lived inside a phone (and its successor) for virtually all of its existence. Needless to say, if it's data I want to keep, it's going to be backed up to multiple locations...
Bro I'd charge 10 grand for that if I were ever able to do it. This requires brain surgeon precision. I truly am amazed at the skill you guys have! Props!
I came to this video by accident and thought: "Oh, wow, someone even more crazy than Louis Rossman, posted a great explanatory video!" Then I scrolled down to the commentary and read the channel name...Louis' channel ^^. I was aware that these micro SD cards break easily, but I would not have thought that they have no serious protective cover over the pcb. Thank you for the fundamental insights! Great video!
I stopped using Sandisk cards a few years ago. I started having lots of issues with them in random devices. The cards were getting "locked". It happened in one of my GoPros and my 2 dashcams. Now I use Samsung or Transcend. I only started having issues with Sandisk within the past 4 years.
The most crazy recovery video I ever saw, was a macbook motherboard being repaired by a robot in Japan, the board was partially burned, so they cut away the burned part and reconstructed those bits and glued it back together, the part that was burned did not appear to be complex but the machinery doing all this at such high speed, Goddamn. If I remember it was more of a tech demo rather than an actual repair being committed for a customer.
Hey Louis, this video is fantastic! I just found out two of my micro sd cards that contain few months of traveling videos got cracked. I was looking for solutions to this situation and I just watched your video! I think this is the only video available to solve such issue. I personally do not have much talent to fix it by myself, and I wonder if your company prodvide a service to fix the micro sd cards by chance.
The coating is so thin that a fiberglass pen can polish it away? No wonder it gets damaged easily. Fragility of microSD cards aside, impressive super-fine repair-work! Wow, where do you get that multi-recovery board? That's an awesome recovery tool! Nevermind, found the site.
Very interesting video. Perhaps you could do a follow on some time with non private data so you can show the final steps. Just a thought, great video anyway.
I'm curious, how does the soldering material stays perfectly (round) inside the boundaries of where it's applied? Is it attracted to only metallic surfaces?
Wow. I'm impressed that this is even a possibility. What's interesting to me is that, while it is certainly possible for this procedure to be automated by a robot, the demand for this data recovery can't be nearly high enough for such an automated process. So the only way you can recover data from an SD card is like we see in this video. By pure skill/knowledge
I have a 32 gb memory card. It was working fine. but I formate the memory. After complete the formate I try to open the card. it's showing insert the memory card. so I remove the card reader and try it again. That's time it was showing only 112mb total space. Few times I was formated and also I formated using cmd and few apps but still 112mb why any idea?
If these are Secure Digital memory cards then these are encrypted using DES if the card is old but might be encrypted using AES if it is a recently made chip.
If you type in silicone mat in Amazon or anywhere you’ll find them. Just try even a little bit and you can figure things out for yourself sometimes champ
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Yes, Chris is coming to Texas. He is coming up on his four year anniversary, and I can't stress enough how much he has grown since he started here. I can happily retire away my soldering iron & desk knowing he is chief technician, a better technician than I ever could've dreamed of being. He lives, eats, and breathes this work and it shows in his passion and more importantly, his results.
He can fix the MacBook boards that the rest of us give up on, he can recover data from clicking hard drives, dying ssds, MicroSD cards that somebody physically destroyed, or a liquid damaged iphone. It is so incredibly rare to sign somebody who is so highly skilled across so many different sub disciplines in this industry. Chris is a unicorn.
Above all, Chris is known for seeing a $600 DPA 4066 microphone on the desk and.... recording audio with a cup & a string anyway. What a legend.
What a legend! Who knew a cup and string could be so useful...
Hahahahaha.
The sound is so bad.
But the information is still there, so fuggit.
As a technican: the sound is good enough, and messing with expensive stuff is a liabiltiy and unneeded complexity! Especially when something simpler is good enough!
And his desktop is a mess and has 11 of them open
Cup & a string...
Reminds me of when my microphone broke, so I took a set of headphones, plugged into the mic jack with a slight offset, & put right up to my face. I turned on mic boost, maxed out all mic volume settings, and talked loudly into it.
Worked well enough.. but the fidelity of a cup and string would likely have been better!
The talent you people have doesn't cease to amaze me. Even more so the fact that you show how it's all done. For free!! I know that flamboyant language is overused in these times, but what ya'll do is truly an incredible service to all of humanity. Words don't do ya peeps enough honor.
Thank you!
Glad you seized the opportunity comment, never cease to do so. 😁
@@informationwarlord what a constructive way to point out that mistake! Lol
@@rossmanngroup Thank you, brother.
@@informationwarlord Haha, nice one. Thanks.
So I had this wedding once and for some reason both my SD cards went tits up. The preview on the camera would let me "look" at the pictures and the camera would read the card but when I removed the cards and tried to copy the files to Lightroom nothing.... needless to say telling a bride after the ceremony the pictures went poof wasn't a good look. Besides the fact that you can get sued it's a gnarly situation. An outfit out of North Carolina was able to retrieve every picture on those SD cards. They saved my ass and saved the Brides big day. Cudos to the folks who can do this sorta stuff!!
@Richard Cranium Some do
No way to plug the camera into a computer via USB? If the camera could read all the images, you'd think it could transmit all that data via cable to another device without removing the card. Much slower transfer, but if it works when nothing else does, it's worth the wait.
@Richard Cranium There are professional cameras that do exactly this to avoid disasters like the one OP had. Most wedding photographers couldn't live without them, it'd severely damage their reputation if they lost wedding photos. Some photographers even go as far as having backup cameras with them and not shooting everything on one memory card to mitigate how much data would be lost if a card died.
The D3 had 2 memory slots. Being 2 years into a side gig you learn as you go. I've learned to have back ups on top of back ups. I used an SD reader that went to a lap top. After the ceremony I usually back up my pictures. Somehow from the camera to the SD reader the card went tits up.
I wasn't smart enough then to utilize the 2nd slot. Needless to say it all worked out in the end but I lost my ass. Stupid is stupid does lol
@@danceswithpaperhands6221 Possibly one of the FATs got messed up. There's a free tool that's very good if you only want to recover pictures, it's called Zero Assumption Recovery (no affiliation).
The fact that this is even possible is amazing. You guys provide real value.
Agreed
I honestly have no reason to watch this other than to marvel at the intracate work that you guys do and also just at how amazing technology is. I'm blown away by SD cards and I feel like most people haven't ever really sat down and thought about what's happening. It's just so crazy to me that we can assemble matter in such a way as to store _massive_ amounts of data in a little chip the size of a fingernail
smaller than a fingernail, maybe as 100x smaller than the smallest fingernail
@@dh2032 I meant the entire sd card. They're about the size of my pinky nail, maybe the ring finger
Absolutely, you know they have a CPU, firmware, memory and everything right?
@@clickallnight I honestly did not know that
I agree. I think about this all the time. How incredible technology is and most nobody cares to understand it or marvel at it but take it for granted
Don't worry about commentary issues, you will get better over time. Thanks for taking time to show us the details!
Lesson learned: Don't use pliers to remove a MicroSD card! (Or probably any SD card, for that matter)
And keep them protected! I have an old 128Gb low price SanDisk micro SD card from 2013 that is scratched, maybe with sand or keys in my bag. The more expensive ones seems to be better protected thought. I'm not yet ready to try to recover the data, but I'm thinking about it.
@@ultort Process is very accessible, however complete set of tools(both hardware and software) costs at least $5000 for basic tools and up to $20000 for somewhat comprehensive suite, based on cursory search. Paying a fraction of that to be handled by somebody with experience seems worth it.
@@aoolmay6853 It only contains an encrypted Android partition with worthless app data and pictures and videos that are on Google Photos, so I'm not going to pay for that, it's just a personal challenge, I already got the encryption key from the phone. I checked the card, it's a Samsung EVO Plus 128GB. The tracks are insanely small compared to the one in the video and there is 2 places where it's damaged.
Learned that one the hard way too. Killed a perfectly okay SD card stuck in a raspberry pi.
Looked like the SD traces were crushed by a hemostat....
“Sorry, I’m not a good UA-camr” neither was Louis when he started! Good work, impressive
Neither is Louis now, is what I keep telling him!
@@rossmanngroup true, but I did not want to go there 😅
I've soldered ultra-thin wires under a microscope many times and it's always a nerve-racking experience to get even one soldered correctly. I truly admire your patience for going through this entire mess and successfully pulling it off.
The takeaway should be to never store important data on an SD card or a Flash drive without a backup. They can die at a moment's notice and are a nightmare to pull data from
in 2010 I had a fake Memory Card Duo in a Sony camera, it basically snapped, probably would of been "fixable as it was just the plastic but as I had no way to put it in card reader I just chucked it, it had some sentimental photos on.
It doesn't take too long to get the hang of microsoldering. Plenty of flux, sufficient heat and a good solder tip are the main things you need.
@@scottrobinson4611 I solder wires 5-10 microns in diameter for custom probes so my experience might be out of the usual, but there is no combination of heat or flux that makes it easy. The wire simply refuses to enter the solder bubbles even if you press down on it.
I'll expand your takeaway: Never store your data anywhere without a backup. I had a HDD stop working a few years ago. I was a bit behind in my backups so I lost some data. Don't trust any storage.
I backup on blu-rays because it's ever so marginally cheaper than HDDs per TB (and more resistant to shock, like when transported). Tapes sound cool but the initial investment in hardware is prohibitive for a home-lab hobbyist. What does everyone here use?
Yes, data recovery content 🤓.
I have been waiting so long to see this on your channel and when I saw the announcement this morning I couldn't wait to see this 😅😀
Why not use the Vcc and ground on the main card connector? easier to solder , can use thicker wire for better signal integrity and less chance of making a chip-destroying error connecting power to the wrong pin.
I will ask Chris when he is back from his vacation in Poland
It may be the connection there is not connetected, so connected straight the holes seem better
i didnt realize this was a thing
it's chris brah. apparently chris could fix a 2006 macbook fished out of a volcano
Same
Only if the data on the card is worth/important enough, then the cost to recover
Wow, I never through anyone would go to the trouble of recovering a microSD carrd. Impressive work.
People have done really dumb things with Bitcoin wallet keys.
It's a matter of how much the data's worth, and how much the customer is willing to pay. ;)
If it had photos you couldn't get back like your honeymoon, your kids 1st birthday or photos of you and your mom the last time you ever got to see her you would pay big bucks to get it back, seen jessa from ipad rehab recover photos from a verry wet distroyed iPhone that was found on the body of there dad who died hiking not found for months, they recoved everything that kind of recovery is worth $1000s to people, this video is amazing never thought it would be recoverable
I also have a business doing data recovery. I appreciate you taking the time to share. Thank you, Chris!
Do you think you could help me recover my micro sd card?
A small correction: This is scratched, not cracked.
When a MicroSD is cracked, recovery is still possible in some cases, but a little more involved than this.
I'd have to get the card x-rayed to see where the controller and NAND were, and see if the crack avoided the NAND.
The crack could also lead to short circuits of all sorts, which need to be remedied, often by strategically cutting traces based on the x-ray images.
@@anshadedavana I'm actually not sure about the x-ray machine specifics.
The company I worked for had two offices, one in the UK (where I worked) and one in the US). The US office had the x-ray machine, so we'd send out cards that needed x-rays, they'd scan them and send them back.
When we needed a really quick turnaround, we did ask the local university to let us use their machine. I think it was the medical physics department, but I'm not sure of the machine itself.
For the NAND pins, we had all the pinouts shown in this video, which show where all the important traces (Data 0-7, ALE/CLE/WE/RE/CE/RB) are on the surface. We'd then trace all of those back to the NAND banks themselves, and see if any of them were broken by the crack in the card.
We got most of our pinouts in this video from Rusolut's Visual NAND Reconstructor, which has a database of them. (It's very similar to PC-3000)
We could also use the x-ray principle in reverse to guess pinouts.
Banks of NAND have (mostly) standard layouts, so we can follow the traces in reverse from the NAND and map which surface traces lead to which connection at the NAND itself.
This is how we reverse-engineered some pinouts, along with the help of a logic analyser.
The startup costs are big, which really sucks.
Our yearly license for VNR was like $2000.
Our licence for a more basic recovery solution called "Flash Extractor" was still like $1000, and had a lot less functionality than VNR or PC-3000 did.
@@anshadedavana yes X-rays are commonly used for pcbs but i didn't know about this particular application
@@anshadedavana most common use of xrays for electronics is to inspect bga component soldering on a pcb to ensure proper connections
@@anshadedavana micro CT (computerized tomography) or XRAY
Can someone help me problem is I was deleting photos from sd and suddenly sd card stopped working after I taken out the card it was hot and now none of device are able to read my sd card what the problem if some one know reply asap
Very committed to the art for using old fashioned solder method instead of using a modern solderless SD recovery tool. Great work
Wow, after maybe thousand others here we have an electronic repair video again. Back to the good old days. Wonderful!
The skill level needed for this task makes my head spin.
Wow, this is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on this channel. No offense, Louis 😆
I had never seen anyone recover data from a messed up MicroSD card before.
knock the being a "UA-camr" out of your head. Just be the tech you are and treat the microphone and camera like a trainee.
You are doin fine. 🍻
Thank you, Chris!
GL with the new workplace in TX!
Lous, the talent you find and bring up is absolutely astounding.
This was the most relaxing video I have ever watched that almost gave me a panic attack.
In the next video series we learn to build a time machine to travel back to a time before the card was broken.
Seriously, thank you for the fantastic info even if it is tedious as hell to try to do.
Chris! You're doing great with the videos. There's always room for improvement but this is by no means an amateur-hour production. Camera work is good, explanation of the process is good, you absolutely ROCKED that cup-and-string audio!!! Seriously, keep it up. Obviously the technical work is good...lol.
This is going to help a lot of people! Thank you so much!
I think this is such an incredible resource for people so I'm here to boost that number up
I'm wondering, how much it would cost to recover data from something like a microSD card?
Btw this is the quality service that no branded service repairs could ever dreamed of. Awesome!
A lot of money 💰
Must've been crypto on it
@@MrCarGuy Who in the right mind would store any kind of blockchain data in a damn microSD instead of something like a self-encrypting SSDs?
@@MrCarGuy
It's my card and it had some dank memes on it. Totally worth the money.
Fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing this. Louis, get the man a better microphone!!!
That soldering work was insane! so fast and accurate too, I thought it was sped up at first
Honestly the skill shown in this video, thankyou for making and publishing it Louis + Team, we all appreciate you and what you do for right to repair
This just blows my mind, humanity has almost 0.000000001% of chance having this knowledge.
I feel like we need challenge contest in these fields where 10 contestants try to repair a hand damage microsd card for a $10 giftcard :D
I have one that split into 2 I would pay any price for data recovery it has pictures of the time spent with my child that no longer is in my life 😭🥺.
I saved this micro SD card till one day technology could advance so I can recover my precious memories.
You know that that SD will eventually break down, right?
@@christiand2426 I saved it in an air tight vacuum container. So I did think of that.
Please get it done asap, bitrot is real
@@jamesm8935 I'm using it as a blanket term here, both magnetic and solid state media has a chance to deteriorate with time
I did work just like this for 2 years. I should be able to tell you whether recovery is possible or not.
Is there a way you can send me some pictures of the cracked card?
Just curious why such irregular trace layout on the SD card, shouldn't it be just connecting the connector pins to the chip inside?
Because there is a controller chip in between the pins and the NAND memory. That chip takes care of the wear levelling and skips bad memory cells and so on. Chris soldered wires directly to the NAND pads and bypassed the controller chip.
This is an extremely valuable service. Guy is a wizard.
Thanks for sharing what you do, it's impressive!
Damn that software looks quite organized & pro. The database it has is also pretty impressive, the dev team mustve took apart microsd card models and uploaded traces to their software.
Repair Master Class. Highest Respect to this fix.
Man that was on a different level , great video , actually I’ll call it video of the year ..thanx
This is amazing. I didn't realize this was possible. I have a cracked MicroSD card and might be contacting you about once you move to Texas!
Jesus. A modern day master of his craft.
Amazing Louis you are the lamp of the Repair platform.
Such a cool looking PCB! Reminds me of retro tech
i understand nothing of this, im just here to pay respect for your skills! keep it goin!
Incredible skills Chris. Amazing.
The talent, skill, and knowledge, amazing!
Thank you Chris and the rest of Rossmann Repair Group! 😁
Wow, that's mind blowing🤯! I thought it was impossible to recover data from these tiny fragile chips!
Aww shit. Now Rossman is doing SD Card recovery.
SD Card Recovery can be a very costly thing. Very beneficial for the R-Group.
he put the soldering thing perfectly like it was nothing on this tiny thing.
This guy has really steady hands.
Can you see the difference between higher and lower storage capacities in the micro sd cards?
Very interesting, this NAND recovery software is very impressive, though it still needs a human who knows how to use it properly. Micro soldering skills is one thing, but browsing through the raw NAND memory and putting this puzzle back together to a working filesystem is another thing.
Fascinating and inspiring👍Something what seriously requires talent and deserves it's own channel and reward!👏Thank u for sharing this vid!
I gotta start watching these videos, they're good asmr to go to sleep. Just need to fix the mix a bit and it would be perfect lol xd
Repairing a frickin' MicroSD card
Mad props
i have an SD card in my phone from 2008 when i got my first phone. its travelled with me and swapped phones 4 or 5 times.
these videos of repairs are great by the way.
Aw yeah, this is the content I'm here for.
Amazing work! Please continue publishing videos lke this. We all benefit.
the inside of the micro sd looks pretty 😍
Interesting to watch. Thad microSD resembles my hand drawn circuit boards, a long time ago. Different scale but still.
a new kind a surgeon, very nice work.
Fantastic demonstration of sd card repair and data recovery
im waiting for a video here in which someone says "hey guys how you doing, so today we are gonna be working on a cpu die, yes you heard it right we are going nano scale"
I needed a video like this 9 months ago
i have serious respect for this person, wow.
That micro SD reminds me of old hand drawn circuit board designs. Use to seeing the perfect laneways with slight angles for deviation
Wow impressive work - I'd never seen the traces on an uSD before but somehow kind of wondered how it was even possible - looking at the 'PCB' it looks like someone was tasked with hand drawing it :D
Exactly I can say that your job is worthy so much, you're perfect at it. Just I want to know does this wires do not make shorts while they're touching each other ?
Wow, that is impessive work. Well done.👍
Great work. Long video which was let down by very poor audio.
WOW! Steady hands. Really, really impressive work. tx
Wow that is a difficult recovery. You arr very talented.
Wow, I've never seen this type of recovery, amazing work
I was in NYC for business on Monday and was going to visit your store, but I did not have enough time before my flight home. Maybe next time.
Awesome video! Loved this and learned a few things.
❤️❤️ Addicted to technical videos like this.
Goodness, this Dude is a real Master 🤯✌
I managed to crack one putting it in my back pocket for ten minutes. Fortunately, the last thing I had done with it was back it up. I was able to get by borrowing the one from my phone (another reason to like phones which support external memory).
Most of the mircoSD cards I've had have failed because they've cracked and split, including one that saw virtually no handling and lived inside a phone (and its successor) for virtually all of its existence. Needless to say, if it's data I want to keep, it's going to be backed up to multiple locations...
That was one of the most awesome videos I've watched! And big hats off to ruSolut as well!
I had no idea that they looked like that underneath everything. I always assumed that they looked like a mini circuit board.
sounds like someone talking quietly because he might wake up the parents in the other room
Bro I'd charge 10 grand for that if I were ever able to do it. This requires brain surgeon precision. I truly am amazed at the skill you guys have! Props!
Had no idea you folks did this stuff. Well done!
I came to this video by accident and thought: "Oh, wow, someone even more crazy than Louis Rossman, posted a great explanatory video!" Then I scrolled down to the commentary and read the channel name...Louis' channel ^^.
I was aware that these micro SD cards break easily, but I would not have thought that they have no serious protective cover over the pcb. Thank you for the fundamental insights! Great video!
I stopped using Sandisk cards a few years ago. I started having lots of issues with them in random devices. The cards were getting "locked". It happened in one of my GoPros and my 2 dashcams. Now I use Samsung or Transcend. I only started having issues with Sandisk within the past 4 years.
The most crazy recovery video I ever saw, was a macbook motherboard being repaired by a robot in Japan, the board was partially burned, so they cut away the burned part and reconstructed those bits and glued it back together, the part that was burned did not appear to be complex but the machinery doing all this at such high speed, Goddamn. If I remember it was more of a tech demo rather than an actual repair being committed for a customer.
Hey Louis, this video is fantastic! I just found out two of my micro sd cards that contain few months of traveling videos got cracked. I was looking for solutions to this situation and I just watched your video! I think this is the only video available to solve such issue. I personally do not have much talent to fix it by myself, and I wonder if your company prodvide a service to fix the micro sd cards by chance.
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Amazing work there
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The coating is so thin that a fiberglass pen can polish it away? No wonder it gets damaged easily.
Fragility of microSD cards aside, impressive super-fine repair-work!
Wow, where do you get that multi-recovery board? That's an awesome recovery tool! Nevermind, found the site.
fascinating stuff ! just curious about the initial part @1:52 , did he use some chemical to dissolve the plastic of the sd card ?
This is amazing!
What did you use for taking the protective mask off?
Was it some chemical solution or just really fine wet sanding?
Fiberglass pen probably
Very interesting video. Perhaps you could do a follow on some time with non private data so you can show the final steps. Just a thought, great video anyway.
I'm curious, how does the soldering material stays perfectly (round) inside the boundaries of where it's applied? Is it attracted to only metallic surfaces?
It's round due to its surface tension. And it sticks because it forms an alloy on the surface of copper. Flux also helps greatly
@@anandswaroop1324 thanks
Wow!!! My Pixar large SD card has lost its toggle and remains protected. Bypass switch ..... . How to do it? Thank you very much.
Interesting video. 😃 That card has been through some things. 😆
Sweet. More Rossmann, more....that desk it mighty clean though lol
This is insane! Well done.
Wow. I'm impressed that this is even a possibility. What's interesting to me is that, while it is certainly possible for this procedure to be automated by a robot, the demand for this data recovery can't be nearly high enough for such an automated process. So the only way you can recover data from an SD card is like we see in this video. By pure skill/knowledge
I have a 32 gb memory card. It was working fine. but I formate the memory. After complete the formate I try to open the card. it's showing insert the memory card. so I remove the card reader and try it again. That's time it was showing only 112mb total space. Few times I was formated and also I formated using cmd and few apps but still 112mb why any idea?
If these are Secure Digital memory cards then these are encrypted using DES if the card is old but might be encrypted using AES if it is a recently made chip.
What is that nifty parts tray/mat that you have on the desk? That looks really useful!!
If you type in silicone mat in Amazon or anywhere you’ll find them. Just try even a little bit and you can figure things out for yourself sometimes champ