Cracked microSD card data recovery COMPLETE how to guide, start to finish no editing out work

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  • @rossmanngroup
    @rossmanngroup  2 роки тому +644

    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.

    • @Derfboy
      @Derfboy 2 роки тому +29

      What a legend! Who knew a cup and string could be so useful...

    • @MediocreTCG
      @MediocreTCG 2 роки тому +28

      Hahahahaha.
      The sound is so bad.
      But the information is still there, so fuggit.

    • @erlendse
      @erlendse 2 роки тому +21

      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!

    • @jonathanwieringa8808
      @jonathanwieringa8808 2 роки тому +1

      And his desktop is a mess and has 11 of them open

    • @Unsensitive
      @Unsensitive 2 роки тому +6

      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!

  • @robbenfelix
    @robbenfelix 2 роки тому +337

    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.

    • @rossmanngroup
      @rossmanngroup  2 роки тому +45

      Thank you!

    • @informationwarlord
      @informationwarlord 2 роки тому +15

      Glad you seized the opportunity comment, never cease to do so. 😁

    • @DingleFlop
      @DingleFlop 2 роки тому +9

      @@informationwarlord what a constructive way to point out that mistake! Lol

    • @robbenfelix
      @robbenfelix 2 роки тому +1

      @@rossmanngroup Thank you, brother.

    • @robbenfelix
      @robbenfelix 2 роки тому +2

      @@informationwarlord Haha, nice one. Thanks.

  • @mikecurry6847
    @mikecurry6847 2 роки тому +130

    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

    • @dh2032
      @dh2032 2 роки тому +2

      smaller than a fingernail, maybe as 100x smaller than the smallest fingernail

    • @mikecurry6847
      @mikecurry6847 2 роки тому +9

      @@dh2032 I meant the entire sd card. They're about the size of my pinky nail, maybe the ring finger

    • @clickallnight
      @clickallnight 2 роки тому

      Absolutely, you know they have a CPU, firmware, memory and everything right?

    • @mikecurry6847
      @mikecurry6847 2 роки тому

      @@clickallnight I honestly did not know that

    • @keithpoley3432
      @keithpoley3432 2 роки тому +2

      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

  • @danceswithpaperhands6221
    @danceswithpaperhands6221 2 роки тому +44

    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!!

    • @devvielife2968
      @devvielife2968 2 роки тому +2

      @Richard Cranium Some do

    • @c182SkylaneRG
      @c182SkylaneRG 2 роки тому +5

      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.

    • @RossMitchellsProfile
      @RossMitchellsProfile 2 роки тому +5

      @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.

    • @danceswithpaperhands6221
      @danceswithpaperhands6221 2 роки тому +7

      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

    • @chaos.corner
      @chaos.corner 2 роки тому +4

      @@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).

  • @BuceGar
    @BuceGar 2 роки тому +25

    The fact that this is even possible is amazing. You guys provide real value.

  • @rpk2012
    @rpk2012 2 роки тому +19

    Don't worry about commentary issues, you will get better over time. Thanks for taking time to show us the details!

  • @KekusMagnus
    @KekusMagnus 2 роки тому +70

    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

    • @revengenerd1
      @revengenerd1 2 роки тому

      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
      @scottrobinson4611 2 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @KekusMagnus
      @KekusMagnus 2 роки тому +3

      @@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.

    • @phyotyla
      @phyotyla 2 роки тому +8

      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.

    • @scoreunder
      @scoreunder 2 роки тому +2

      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?

  • @tobi1751
    @tobi1751 2 роки тому +20

    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 😅😀

  • @c182SkylaneRG
    @c182SkylaneRG 2 роки тому +148

    Lesson learned: Don't use pliers to remove a MicroSD card! (Or probably any SD card, for that matter)

    • @ultort
      @ultort 2 роки тому +5

      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.

    • @aoolmay6853
      @aoolmay6853 2 роки тому +11

      @@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.

    • @ultort
      @ultort 2 роки тому +10

      @@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.

    • @annihilator247x
      @annihilator247x 2 роки тому +4

      Learned that one the hard way too. Killed a perfectly okay SD card stuck in a raspberry pi.

    • @DrFunFong
      @DrFunFong 2 роки тому

      Looked like the SD traces were crushed by a hemostat....

  • @heroslippy6666
    @heroslippy6666 2 роки тому +20

    Wow, I never through anyone would go to the trouble of recovering a microSD carrd. Impressive work.

    • @deViant14
      @deViant14 2 роки тому +5

      People have done really dumb things with Bitcoin wallet keys.

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 2 роки тому +11

      It's a matter of how much the data's worth, and how much the customer is willing to pay. ;)

    • @simonupton-millard
      @simonupton-millard 2 роки тому +4

      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

  • @odeode4338
    @odeode4338 2 роки тому +15

    “Sorry, I’m not a good UA-camr” neither was Louis when he started! Good work, impressive

    • @rossmanngroup
      @rossmanngroup  2 роки тому +6

      Neither is Louis now, is what I keep telling him!

    • @odeode4338
      @odeode4338 2 роки тому +3

      @@rossmanngroup true, but I did not want to go there 😅

  • @bradhaines3142
    @bradhaines3142 2 роки тому +59

    i didnt realize this was a thing

    • @jackmiller8851
      @jackmiller8851 2 роки тому +11

      it's chris brah. apparently chris could fix a 2006 macbook fished out of a volcano

    • @Pika-Chu64
      @Pika-Chu64 2 роки тому +2

      Same

    • @ceescorner
      @ceescorner 2 роки тому

      Only if the data on the card is worth/important enough, then the cost to recover

  • @it-sd
    @it-sd 2 роки тому +3

    I also have a business doing data recovery. I appreciate you taking the time to share. Thank you, Chris!

    • @RyanKetton
      @RyanKetton Рік тому

      Do you think you could help me recover my micro sd card?

  • @scottrobinson4611
    @scottrobinson4611 2 роки тому +61

    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.

    • @scottrobinson4611
      @scottrobinson4611 2 роки тому +16

      @@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.

    • @dincerekin
      @dincerekin 2 роки тому +3

      @@anshadedavana yes X-rays are commonly used for pcbs but i didn't know about this particular application

    • @dincerekin
      @dincerekin 2 роки тому +3

      @@anshadedavana most common use of xrays for electronics is to inspect bga component soldering on a pcb to ensure proper connections

    • @frep420
      @frep420 2 роки тому +1

      @@anshadedavana micro CT (computerized tomography) or XRAY

    • @pavankumars847
      @pavankumars847 2 роки тому

      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

  • @Vladimir-hq1ne
    @Vladimir-hq1ne 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you, Chris!
    GL with the new workplace in TX!

  • @Derfboy
    @Derfboy 2 роки тому +19

    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.

  • @iLife64
    @iLife64 2 роки тому +1

    Very committed to the art for using old fashioned solder method instead of using a modern solderless SD recovery tool. Great work

  • @Byronze
    @Byronze 2 роки тому +5

    This is going to help a lot of people! Thank you so much!

  • @JoeDoe103
    @JoeDoe103 2 роки тому

    Lous, the talent you find and bring up is absolutely astounding.

  • @2.Panzerdivision
    @2.Panzerdivision 2 роки тому +2

    The skill level needed for this task makes my head spin.

  • @chumpchimp1976
    @chumpchimp1976 2 роки тому +1

    I think this is such an incredible resource for people so I'm here to boost that number up

  • @edgar9651
    @edgar9651 2 роки тому

    Wow, after maybe thousand others here we have an electronic repair video again. Back to the good old days. Wonderful!

  • @pacadet
    @pacadet 2 роки тому +7

    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.

  • @JJFX-
    @JJFX- 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @Tinker_Balambao
    @Tinker_Balambao 2 роки тому +11

    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. 🍻

  • @MaD_fX
    @MaD_fX 2 роки тому +5

    Fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing this. Louis, get the man a better microphone!!!

  • @thegsmsolution1
    @thegsmsolution1 2 роки тому

    Amazing Louis you are the lamp of the Repair platform.

  • @samwiserando
    @samwiserando 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @El.Duder-ino
    @El.Duder-ino 10 днів тому

    Fascinating and inspiring👍Something what seriously requires talent and deserves it's own channel and reward!👏Thank u for sharing this vid!

  • @ZX3000GT1
    @ZX3000GT1 2 роки тому +15

    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!

    • @rossmanngroup
      @rossmanngroup  2 роки тому +28

      A lot of money 💰

    • @MrCarGuy
      @MrCarGuy 2 роки тому +7

      Must've been crypto on it

    • @ZX3000GT1
      @ZX3000GT1 2 роки тому +5

      @@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?

    • @KL-zt6jx
      @KL-zt6jx Рік тому

      @@MrCarGuy
      It's my card and it had some dank memes on it. Totally worth the money.

  • @mikeselectricstuff
    @mikeselectricstuff 2 роки тому +8

    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.

    • @rossmanngroup
      @rossmanngroup  2 роки тому +10

      I will ask Chris when he is back from his vacation in Poland

    • @mechamicro
      @mechamicro 2 роки тому

      It may be the connection there is not connetected, so connected straight the holes seem better

  • @PsRohrbaugh
    @PsRohrbaugh 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @sethreign8103
    @sethreign8103 2 роки тому

    Thank you Chris and the rest of Rossmann Repair Group! 😁

  • @oceanbytez847
    @oceanbytez847 Рік тому

    The talent, skill, and knowledge, amazing!

  • @olie304
    @olie304 2 роки тому +2

    Such a cool looking PCB! Reminds me of retro tech

  • @danialphaomega
    @danialphaomega 2 роки тому +18

    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.

    • @christiand2426
      @christiand2426 2 роки тому +2

      You know that that SD will eventually break down, right?

    • @danialphaomega
      @danialphaomega 2 роки тому +2

      @@christiand2426 I saved it in an air tight vacuum container. So I did think of that.

    • @curtisss
      @curtisss 2 роки тому +3

      Please get it done asap, bitrot is real

    • @curtisss
      @curtisss 2 роки тому +3

      @@jamesm8935 I'm using it as a blanket term here, both magnetic and solid state media has a chance to deteriorate with time

    • @scottrobinson4611
      @scottrobinson4611 2 роки тому +9

      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?

  • @brd5548
    @brd5548 2 роки тому

    Wow, that's mind blowing🤯! I thought it was impossible to recover data from these tiny fragile chips!

  • @duplicitousdemocracy2246
    @duplicitousdemocracy2246 2 роки тому +4

    Incredible skills Chris. Amazing.

  • @adrock0801
    @adrock0801 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @kopazwashere
    @kopazwashere 2 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @greatdrd
    @greatdrd 2 роки тому +1

    Man that was on a different level , great video , actually I’ll call it video of the year ..thanx

  • @curtisss
    @curtisss 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @chrishayes5755
    @chrishayes5755 2 роки тому

    This is an extremely valuable service. Guy is a wizard.
    Thanks for sharing what you do, it's impressive!

  • @CarlosPerezChavez
    @CarlosPerezChavez 2 роки тому

    Amazing work! Please continue publishing videos lke this. We all benefit.

  • @superhacker35
    @superhacker35 2 роки тому +2

    That soldering work was insane! so fast and accurate too, I thought it was sped up at first

  • @magnuslindgren9460
    @magnuslindgren9460 2 роки тому +1

    Interesting to watch. Thad microSD resembles my hand drawn circuit boards, a long time ago. Different scale but still.

  • @nevezeraa
    @nevezeraa 2 роки тому

    i understand nothing of this, im just here to pay respect for your skills! keep it goin!

  • @Warrorar
    @Warrorar 2 роки тому

    Repair Master Class. Highest Respect to this fix.

  • @N0N0111
    @N0N0111 Рік тому +1

    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

  • @beaniiman
    @beaniiman 2 роки тому

    a new kind a surgeon, very nice work.

  • @nathani5741
    @nathani5741 2 роки тому +9

    This was the most relaxing video I have ever watched that almost gave me a panic attack.

  • @bytesysed
    @bytesysed 2 роки тому

    i have serious respect for this person, wow.

  • @wryafarrokhikurd8036
    @wryafarrokhikurd8036 Рік тому

    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 ?

  • @carlubambi5541
    @carlubambi5541 2 роки тому

    Fantastic demonstration of sd card repair and data recovery

  • @Keefterdam
    @Keefterdam 2 роки тому +1

    WOW! Steady hands. Really, really impressive work. tx

  • @sirreoser5668
    @sirreoser5668 2 роки тому

    That micro SD reminds me of old hand drawn circuit board designs. Use to seeing the perfect laneways with slight angles for deviation

  • @hyeonsikyun6084
    @hyeonsikyun6084 Рік тому

    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.

  • @HighVoltageMadness
    @HighVoltageMadness 2 роки тому

    Wow that is a difficult recovery. You arr very talented.

  • @axk1
    @axk1 2 роки тому +12

    Just curious why such irregular trace layout on the SD card, shouldn't it be just connecting the connector pins to the chip inside?

    • @madmodders
      @madmodders 2 роки тому +15

      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.

  • @barlypop
    @barlypop 2 роки тому +2

    Wow, that is impessive work. Well done.👍

  • @FireSwordl
    @FireSwordl 2 роки тому

    That was one of the most awesome videos I've watched! And big hats off to ruSolut as well!

  • @microwaveoven2
    @microwaveoven2 2 роки тому +1

    Repairing a frickin' MicroSD card
    Mad props

  • @MrOverfloater
    @MrOverfloater 2 роки тому

    the inside of the micro sd looks pretty 😍

  • @johntoal4647
    @johntoal4647 2 роки тому

    Wow, I've never seen this type of recovery, amazing work

  • @Revolvercon
    @Revolvercon Рік тому +1

    Can you see the difference between higher and lower storage capacities in the micro sd cards?

  • @derekromero2331
    @derekromero2331 2 роки тому +2

    Jesus. A modern day master of his craft.

  • @bespokearms
    @bespokearms 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @TransformX
    @TransformX 2 роки тому +1

    he put the soldering thing perfectly like it was nothing on this tiny thing.
    This guy has really steady hands.

  • @trilexfix
    @trilexfix Рік тому

    I needed a video like this 9 months ago

  • @genius1a
    @genius1a 2 роки тому

    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!

  • @Gandalf22476
    @Gandalf22476 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome video! Loved this and learned a few things.

  • @tehArgento
    @tehArgento 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @QualityDoggo
    @QualityDoggo 2 роки тому

    Had no idea you folks did this stuff. Well done!

  • @KL-zt6jx
    @KL-zt6jx Рік тому

    Amazing job Chris!

  • @zoomer2965
    @zoomer2965 2 роки тому +1

    Aw yeah, this is the content I'm here for.

  • @antongromek4180
    @antongromek4180 2 роки тому

    Goodness, this Dude is a real Master 🤯✌

  • @SF-gu5os
    @SF-gu5os 2 роки тому

    It was so fascinating watching this

  • @Bassotronics
    @Bassotronics 2 роки тому

    Aww shit. Now Rossman is doing SD Card recovery.
    SD Card Recovery can be a very costly thing. Very beneficial for the R-Group.

  • @SharkFishSF
    @SharkFishSF 2 роки тому

    ❤️❤️ Addicted to technical videos like this.

  • @Cybertruck1000
    @Cybertruck1000 2 роки тому +1

    Great work. Long video which was let down by very poor audio.

  • @SawShotShared
    @SawShotShared 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @Umski
    @Umski 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @MCgranat999
    @MCgranat999 2 роки тому +4

    This is amazing!
    What did you use for taking the protective mask off?
    Was it some chemical solution or just really fine wet sanding?

    • @unimor2781
      @unimor2781 2 роки тому +4

      Fiberglass pen probably

  • @DJ_Cthulhu
    @DJ_Cthulhu 2 роки тому +2

    Wonder if you could make a jig using pogo pins to save on the soldering 🤔 Nah, dumb idea, micro sd cards are tiny. Fascinating video 👍

  • @peterferguson2344
    @peterferguson2344 2 роки тому +1

    😮
    Amazing work there
    👍

  • @liquidalloy
    @liquidalloy Рік тому

    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.

  • @SGdata
    @SGdata 2 роки тому

    Nice work with markers table.

  • @SauvikRoy
    @SauvikRoy 2 роки тому

    Very talented guy!

  • @exterable
    @exterable 2 роки тому

    Doing gods work. Only wish I knew where that broken micro SD went. I had music you can't listen to anymore. My fault for not having a backup tho.

  • @TheFurriestOne
    @TheFurriestOne 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @Daniel_cheems
    @Daniel_cheems 2 роки тому +1

    This man is gold!

  • @johndaniel1996
    @johndaniel1996 2 роки тому +1

    Wow He Is Very Skilled

  • @chaos.corner
    @chaos.corner 2 роки тому +2

    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).

    • @fetchstixRHD
      @fetchstixRHD 2 роки тому +1

      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...

  • @crayzmarc
    @crayzmarc 2 роки тому +1

    This is insane! Well done.

  • @DAVIDGREGORYKERR
    @DAVIDGREGORYKERR 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @igormikuska4369
    @igormikuska4369 2 роки тому +1

    Massive appreciation!

  • @KunjaBihariKrishna
    @KunjaBihariKrishna 2 роки тому

    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

  • @Rx7man
    @Rx7man 2 роки тому

    Holy smokes that's fine work!

  • @ZainHK99
    @ZainHK99 2 роки тому +3

    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"

  • @johhnyr82
    @johhnyr82 Рік тому

    Hi there!
    I have a broken Micro SD card... is it possible to send you some photos to check if there any possibility of recovery the data out of it?
    Thanks