I’ve seen data recovery pay thousands especially on high data amounts and old hardware, tools like this can pay for itself in a few months in a busy location or a specialized company. Tech repair is a beautiful area, unlike cars you don’t always have to have your hands on one project all the time.
@@speedracer8996 he's talking about the 15k tool and the fbi is like a group of elite agent types who research into serious cases and act to solve them.
When I worked as a printing press operator, we were told our fancy Heidelberg brand densitometer was worth $15,000. I was too afraid to even touch it, and I told my pressman I wouldn't be the guy who breaks the fancy color-reader
I am in data recovery, and I only have one message. Buy a 4 tb Hard Drive and do regular backups to it, and be sure to replace that drive every 4 years. If you have any issues with that drive or randomly get "bad blocks" immediately get an RMA and demand a refund. Hard Drives both internal and external are no more than $100 at most. Data recovery for your stuff costs $10,000+, think of backups like an insurance plan.
I just have everything in the cloud. Designs, code, files, photos, etc. When I switch computers I have no files or data to synchronize so I just do a fresh install every time, including on my phone.
Yeah I'm working on getting a robust backup plan in place. Currently I have some things saved in Google drive with a 100gb plan. Plus I have a 2tb Samsung T5 SSD as my main drive and a 5tb WD Hard drive that's my steam drive as well as going to be keeping a backup of the T5. Eventual plan is setting my house and my friends up with NAS systems so we can all be each other's off-site backups.
I mean, I used the cloud and have my memories before the old man kicked the bucket last year, but others don't prepare. Very worth the cost for certain clientele
I would argue pictures and videos of your life are one thing that can be priceless. So one worldly possession that isn't materialistic. You don't know how much you forget until you find an old picture, ya know? One day someone will remember you for the last time. With pictures? Who knows... Maybe an archeologist will find it millennial from now, and somehow some data is still there. They will marvel at that amount of black cocks you can handle at once, and wonder if it was a popular activity in your area.
Printed copies of the important photos, backed up to two different redundant 3TB hard drives that are stored in fire resistant safes, one in the house and one in the car. I take my memories seriously 😂. About all I got left.
I almost cried when I watched this video. I have a few old phones that I either forgot the password or got locked out of but I lost hundreds of photos from my deployments over seas, military friends and family that I’ve lost, and even photos of myself that I never posted. I’m gonna follow your website and see how I can recover any of them
older android phones, userdata partition still readable, data intact easily to recover. but the newer one is fully encrypted, part of android security policy. this video example using galaxy s2, no encryption at all. use ufi box instead of those medusa and no need more pricey tool .
Does an empty cd drive ripped from an old laptop count as someone you love because I accidentally put it in a furnace help I really wanted that cd drive
@@johnwentz9103 Data recovery is one of the most expensive jobs you can do. Its time consuming, not garantied and cost arm an a leg. This why people need to learn to backup their data. Compuers , NAS , external HDD/SSDs ,clould,ext. You cant just keep your entire life on a phone you can drop and loose.
@@mowtow90you are absolutely right.... ! Recently my 9 year old hard disk drive ... Stopped detecting by the cpu system.... ! It had all my memories my school, my college , my late family members..... Alllll for few days i just couldn't sleep .. since thats the only memory i had .... With no backups ..... That was the only backup i had....! I gave it to a nearby data recovery company..... I learned so many things about this .... ! They charged me Rs 8,000 (about 100 USD) they said they'll take about a week to recover the data ...! But i am finally relaxed...! The thing i learned here is that data backup is soooo important..... No matter what happens my 1st priority will be data backup. I brought a new hdd and will buy another external hdd for backup total 3 devices for backing up same data. May be my device was just dead (they'll open it and fix) a guy was charged around 600 USD, but he had some serious issues wid his drive . Anyways thanks for the comment!
That's not just that. That tool is highly engineered data reader. It can't just read data by a software. It can also monitored the transistors if there's a defect or problem. Just like they show in this video.
@@user-ms9db8hv9dthat’s not reading functional status from transistors. That knows how many bits there is and is communicating to the chip using a usb peripheral that is hooked up to the memory pinout to read the data from the transistors. He’s connecting to it with a variety of settings and sees that when reading x and y bits the chip disconnects, so he modifies his configuration and retries.
The PC-3000 is very annoyingly the only tool with such advanced recovery capabilities. There's no cheap alternatives or even clones. It's not $15k though, more like $2k to $10k depending on options.
I was a net engineer and the data recovery company i used for my clients pulled the data off a few drives from a space shuttle that burnt up in our atmosphere. You should see what those drives looked like. And they DID pull the data.
Just backup the data you don't want to lose, SD cards use basically the same technology as the memory chip of the phone and can get damaged at the same way
the average human will save the photos to their phone internal memory and to this day; most phones require you to manually change the saving folder to the Memory card and NOT the internal memory of the phone.
@@hekofabeardhb3478 yeah, and? It takes 10 seconds to set the default file path to the memory card, I do it once when I buy a new phone and never have to do it again until my next phone
Bro you're for real insane the fact that you know how to fix and recover every single thing in every single scenario you're literally top professional in this
Except that wasn’t hardware skills. He placed a usb into a device then read all the software. That’s like saying you have hardware skills because the computers you use are hardware
"hardware skills" he used a bga test and recovery machine for the job of software, you as an "engineer" (kinda doubt it) should realize software can do exactly this but faster.
are you actually disabled? he uses this bga system to reach for the data on the chip, he also could have left the chip on the device, and then use SOFTWARE, because SOFTWARE is what actually saves the data, this device is for absolutely broken pcbs to yield atleast the data chip. im neither english nor are you able to count reading comprehension and critical thinking to your assets.@@syriansayf
I want to sell my phone but I'm scared that someone going to steal my personal data, is there a way that I can get rid of the data permanently that no one can recover them?
@@Steamrick I worked with a guy who got fired because he was saving photos off of women's PCs that were getting repaired. The police showed up and everything.
100 jobs at 200 would more than give sufficent profit, and cover the cost. It would also give the common man a chance to access the service, meaning more customers and profit. But many play the greed game, ever wonder the cost of machine used to change your tires or other equipment that service people use but charge a regular price for the common man.
@@xxDRLCxx dude these machines cost millions of dollars, and they cost money in power to run. Do you know how much time it takes to change settings on a drive to make it work again? You're out of your element, Donny. 100 jobs at $200 per doesn't even keep the machines running long enough to complete the jobs, let alone pay your workforce or pay for the machines.
15k is on the guy who bought the machine. It still shouldn't cost thousands of dollars just because the machine was expensive. Otherwise everything literally in history that does anything should mean everything costs thousands of dollars all the time. You know that 50c ice creame cone... yeah, 50k machine did that.
@@bythegraceofadoni except you can make waffle cones by hand for pennies with a press... With your logic, an automobile should be cheaper. It's not because your logic is grossly incorrect. You're out of your element. Lockpicks can be found very cheap online. Do you know what it costs for a locksmith to come out and open your door for you? Usually between 50 and 100 bucks. Why, then, are the tools so cheap but the work so expensive? Experience. It takes a lot of experience to run one of these. I'd actually like to see you try to use one without training. I know how these machines work, and I know one wrong click and it's bye bye data for good. It's a mix of expensive parts and expert service. Just because your idea works in one field (food service) does not mean the same logic applies to another field (technology) Please stop being an idiot on my post.
@@bythegraceofadoni i pray all you do in terms of technology is end user support, because with your line of thinking, you don't have what it takes to be an engineer or anything more than the person who tells old people "click here, then click here to get your email"
Where we take our scrap metal from the machine shop is a metal recycler with a 20k gun for testing metal. At a recycler. We also use a 20k tool to measure surface finish on some fasteners. Our minimum charge is like $150. It's OK to not charge an arm and leg.
@@nickit22 The difference is how long does it take to do the job and how long is the tool being used for to do the job. They probably use that metal tester several times a day and it likely does not take long to determine the metal type.
@@phillhuddleston9445 No, the difference is the amount of greed involved. There's a data recovery center here in the middle of nowhere which only charges, *at most* $200 for data recovery using a machine almost identical to the one in this video. As Nickit said, *it's okay to not charge an arm and a leg.*
Lots of popular “tech repair” channels are pretty amateur, but dude, having BGA tools+soldering skills+$15k gadgets to recover data… you explained it like a layman but the work behind it is amazing. Great stuff
15,000 USAD for a device that can read working and missing vectors on storage devices is crazy. I literally downloaded a program that can do that on my PC for free even attempt to repair it if it can.
Glossing over the absolute most brutally difficult part of this: soldering the chip. You have to carefully ball every single one of those 100+ pads and then pray to god none of them merge while hidden under the chip as you heat it up and try not to damage anything.
ion know man. I seen louis rossman do it. SMD soldering looks like just putting some solder and flux down on a hotplate or using a heatgun, and then it just seems to "magically" do that shit itself. This dude prolly an expert at SMD soldering anyways since he has a repair company. he prolly dont give af lol
I remember fixing broken screens for people in my high school for cash back in the day but this is just on a whole nother level. That's impressive, perfect example of finding something you're good at and running with it. Specially when it's a service people need.
That $15k data tool is expensive for a typical tech enthusiast, but for professional data recovery companies it's just pocket change. Although it's been years since I last checked such info, the last time I heard about data restore it was some insane sum - it doesn't seem huge at first because most often it's priced per gigabyte, but then you do the math and realize there may be up to terabytes of data to recover per month (although you'll need multiple such gadgets for that amount), maybe tens of terabytes if the client is a busyness, and it all stacks. So that tool may cost a figurative arm and a leg for a hobbyist, it pays for itself pretty fast. It's similar with professional GPU market in that aspect: Quadro for gaming is just nuts, and not in a positive connotation, but for a graphics designer it's a tool to earn money with.
@@toptiertech7291Dude, you should really think about offloading that to a computer and/or hard drive. That's an insane amount of data to be carrying around in your pocket.
@@toptiertech7291 'Zero danger'. Except everything you care about is in a phone that's easily damaged, lost, or stolen... and the cloud that you can't access without the internet and what could be shutdown overnight.
It is a lot cheaper to have two forms of backup and then to use a service like this. Don't misunderstand me, these professionals are great to have. But you will be charged accordingly for their services
I think the only reason that thing is that expensive is because it is portable. You should be able to do the same with a decent pc and a program on that pc.
I don't now some people are kinda crazy I work in a phone repair shop and some people say how important there info is be it notes, pictures or whatever but then if you say it's £200 or £150 to repair the screen they think it's crazy but it's like how important is that information really.
@@satibel now I'm wondering if you could use the password on just a portion of the data? I assume it needs the entire board to verify that its reading its own memory and no just trying to decrypt random chips removed from boards.
@@davep5698 if i understand what your saying it wouldnt work like that unless you had the pws for those other chips. Nice thought though. The actual data is encrypted not some access to the chip
@@davep5698 afaik android uses AES 256 XTS OR CBC and is encrypted by blocks, so if it uses a 128 bit block, you can at least decrypt uncorrupted 128 bit blocks, but depending on the implementation you may be able to partially recover a corrupted block. The vast majority of phones have a single flash memory chip, so no worries about finding scattered data. If the file index is partially corrupted it may be harder to recover data, but you can still recover unfragmented files by reading the header. (E.g. a jpeg has the size of the picture so you can just search for jpeg headers, read the size and grab the content.)
in the coming years data recovery on flash chips is going to get really expensive and a lot of articles seem to be extremely ignorant of this, this is why I keep telling people you should have large hard drives to store data on as a backup. at least the success rate of recovering data from spinning rust is a lot higher than flash chips cause once the flash chip dies that's it at least there's a chance to recover the data from The platters on a mechanical hard drive.
@@swampmulletugh gate keepers are the worst. Yea let me just not tell you how to preform brain surgery. Ill keep that knowledge to myself. This is why we cant innovate.
@@Com-bc6jl with tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools comes equally as much if not more training. It would take a documentary length video to go over all the different settings he’d have tried before getting a successful output. Whatever settings he shares will only work reliably with the type of chip and data featured in this video. With every data recovery case you use different settings based on manufacturer, model, type of storage, the interface it uses, finding where the data’s actually at on it, and in the cases of corrupted media, what the malfunction is and how to work around it. It’s a lot to explain, and there’s a lot of liability both from doing it yourself and sharing information with inexperienced techs since they could easily destroy the chip or card if they’re not careful. Not unlike the liabilities, constantly expanding knowledge, and the expensive tools/environment required to perform brain surgery. It being a trade secret was a joke though, there’s tons of forums online dedicated to data recovery from all different types of media, as well as some training courses on the hardware they use on UA-cam.
Unless you have the 15,000$ equipment knowing what settings he changed wouldnt do crap. And if you do have that equipment you should already be knowledgeable about it
People sometimes get too busy with life and backing up things on your phone isn't the highest priority. Sometimes people end up losing pictures of loved ones young or old that have passed. Backup today.
@@j.rohmann3199 but tech has this thing called the cloud you see. If my phone with 10,000 pictures and videos on it fell into a fire and melted to shreds right now, I could buy a new iPhone, sign into my iCloud and everyone of those photos is back on my phone in 5 minutes
It's called running a business dude wtf is wrong with this comment section. You can't open a business without having spent money. I swear half of you think you pay to open the shop and all thi stuff is just given to you. In literally every line of work, You have to source your own equipment lmfao. Why is this such an alien thought to people in this comment section. "hurr Durr he paid 15k for something that can make him millions hurrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
I do not think that there is fancy processing. It is simply reading over and over again, "hopping"/"assuming" that one of the block reads is successful eventually.
For anyone wondering hes doing a partition check, they are free, the deviced he used to connect it isnt necessary as long as you have the correct drivers installed, you can fix them as he did but it isnt recommend to continue using it as its already been damaged and not technically repaired yet, just bad sectors getting nulled, perfect for doing stuff like this though, had to do this to a laptop drive
If the flash module was so error prone he was having to do multiple passes and have the unit compare the sector reads to determine a 'good' read, plus reconnect and retry on each disconnect, this isn't unreasonable. I've spent a week or more recovering data from failed disks in the past.
@@bland9876 yeah, and that's what that was, just a raw filesystem recovery. Didn't even attempt to mount the filesystem because the disk was so poorly.
Believe it or not the most it ever cost one of our client was $8000 for data recovery and they paid it. A back up only takes a few mins if regularly backed up. Recovery will set you back 100s if not 1000s
Damn, i wish i knew or at least the repair shop told me something like this, 3 years ago my phone got water damaged and fried it's motherboard but the most frustrating thing is that's the only device that had the first (in freaking long while) and last video of my late father dancing with my mom.... they were so happy in it, and i lost it. Also i threw away the phone a while back already so it truly is gone now. And for those who'll be saying "why u didn't go to repair shop?", they said they couldn't repair it or at least back-up the memory (either that was BS or true, it's gone anyways).
Some device memory is beyond repair. Just because it worked for this person doesn’t mean it would work for you. Would you have spent $800-1000 for that?
This is why I still prefer mechanical drives for data storage. With flash storage it's easy to lose the data forever. But with a mechanical drive as long as you don't have a head crash you can recover the data. Even if you have to do a platter transplant to a known good drive. But in the end the best way to not lose data is to have multiple copies and ideally in multiple locations.
You got it mixed up bruh. Mechanical systems means theres infinitely more points of failure than a solid state systems. These solid state drives can survive litteral hell and back and are infinitely more cheaper to recover data from compared to mechanical drives
Everything can be recycled when humans focus on it enough. This tech needs to be made more available, or at least the industry needs to be beefed up and the services made more affordable to clients and services. You deserve a decent financial kickback, but on principle, this needs to be huge. Thanks for giving things new lives.
And it wouldn't surprise me if the manufacturers of those types of devices started forcing the customer to pay them for every hour that the device is in use.
I have noticed that sometimes doing data recovery on some chips/usb sticks/sd cards works better if the device being read is VERY cold. In the freezer but also can be put in other liquid gasses. There is something about extreme cold that sometimes makes these bad actors behave long enough to get your data off of them. Your thoughts?
it's amazing how people can recover files from only a chip. i wish i live in the same city as you, because i have countless of dead device i wish i could recover the data from it
I see so many people saying "cloud storage" as a solution. Cloud storage is just someone elses computer and they do scan/view your files. Those files won't be in your possession either if the provider decides so.
@@micobugija6284 Nope. The average user does not care in the slightest about security. Many that I have spoken to are annoyed that they have to set a password when making accounts.
A week of holding up that $15,000 tool has got to be expensive
Well it's not cocaine you don't need to use it everyday
@@takethebaitmate1920 I think he meant that having a repair hold up 7 days worth of time from a 15k machine prolly costs the costumer lots
@@Joel-cj2cz Dpends on what is your data worth or better why doesnt he backed up things he cant lose in the first place
@@xythiera7255 oh for sure, just clarifying what the other guy said
I’ve seen data recovery pay thousands especially on high data amounts and old hardware, tools like this can pay for itself in a few months in a busy location or a specialized company. Tech repair is a beautiful area, unlike cars you don’t always have to have your hands on one project all the time.
Man casually has an FBI unit at home
what is an FBI unit ?
@@speedracer8996 he's talking about the 15k tool and the fbi is like a group of elite agent types who research into serious cases and act to solve them.
@@speedracer8996 what your seeing in this video scares half of the viewers 😅
Umm It's a repair business not his home?
Lmao 😂
I love how every industry has their own kickass Batman tools. One of my scan tools cost about $12,000
When I worked as a printing press operator, we were told our fancy Heidelberg brand densitometer was worth $15,000. I was too afraid to even touch it, and I told my pressman I wouldn't be the guy who breaks the fancy color-reader
I love it how you call it kickass batman tools 🤣🤣 it’s true
Snap On? 😂
@@intraterrestrial69 Yes sir. With all the scope goodies.
My industry has a gun that shoots x-rays and tells me the elements of what ever it’s shooting.
"PC 3000 portable" sounds like a final boss 😂
psp 3000 FOR REALS.. hahahaha
Portable means mini Boss😂
I am in data recovery, and I only have one message.
Buy a 4 tb Hard Drive and do regular backups to it, and be sure to replace that drive every 4 years. If you have any issues with that drive or randomly get "bad blocks" immediately get an RMA and demand a refund. Hard Drives both internal and external are no more than $100 at most. Data recovery for your stuff costs $10,000+, think of backups like an insurance plan.
Nah ill use my 4 arrayed 2 Tb drives instead 😂
@@NotTheHeroStudios i have 24 TB 😆 🤣 😂
Repair shops hate that info
I just have everything in the cloud. Designs, code, files, photos, etc. When I switch computers I have no files or data to synchronize so I just do a fresh install every time, including on my phone.
Yeah I'm working on getting a robust backup plan in place. Currently I have some things saved in Google drive with a 100gb plan. Plus I have a 2tb Samsung T5 SSD as my main drive and a 5tb WD Hard drive that's my steam drive as well as going to be keeping a backup of the T5.
Eventual plan is setting my house and my friends up with NAS systems so we can all be each other's off-site backups.
7 gigs of hotdog pictures
Or maybe your father in the last year of his life. There's a reason people are actually willing to pay for personal data forensic level recovery
I mean, I used the cloud and have my memories before the old man kicked the bucket last year, but others don't prepare. Very worth the cost for certain clientele
@@j.ballsdeep420 I just commented this for jokes, what do you mean?
@@j.ballsdeep420 let's switch bodies. i like your Innocence
@@delvy2063 ignore him bro. He's on a whole nother level of cosmic acceptance.
This is why you need either a robust backup strategy, or a lack of attachment to worldly possessions.
I would argue pictures and videos of your life are one thing that can be priceless. So one worldly possession that isn't materialistic.
You don't know how much you forget until you find an old picture, ya know?
One day someone will remember you for the last time. With pictures? Who knows... Maybe an archeologist will find it millennial from now, and somehow some data is still there.
They will marvel at that amount of black cocks you can handle at once, and wonder if it was a popular activity in your area.
Printed copies of the important photos, backed up to two different redundant 3TB hard drives that are stored in fire resistant safes, one in the house and one in the car. I take my memories seriously 😂. About all I got left.
@@kugelblitz1557interesting
@@kugelblitz1557ever heard of the cloud? Lmao buddy
@@dimitrijekrstic7567 2TB of Google cloud storage is $120/year. My drives were $80 each. It's more cost effective in the long term.
I almost cried when I watched this video. I have a few old phones that I either forgot the password or got locked out of but I lost hundreds of photos from my deployments over seas, military friends and family that I’ve lost, and even photos of myself that I never posted. I’m gonna follow your website and see how I can recover any of them
You’re looking at about $500-700 per device
older android phones, userdata partition still readable, data intact easily to recover. but the newer one is fully encrypted, part of android security policy. this video example using galaxy s2, no encryption at all. use ufi box instead of those medusa and no need more pricey tool .
@@toptiertech7291naaaa, Theres plenty of smart dudes that do it for fun. 😂
cry more online coward
Who needs photos when you got PTSD
No amount of money will ever be to much to see someone you love who isn't here with us anymore...
True ,but still data recovery agents should now rip us off. It's Un ethical
They're probably just pictures of food, though.
@@jasonashifrin HA facts
backup all your important files, cloud, external hard drive, whatever
Does an empty cd drive ripped from an old laptop count as someone you love because I accidentally put it in a furnace help I really wanted that cd drive
We charge 1500 for data recovery, so yes, it’s expensive.
@@johnwentz9103 in Maldives or some shit like that
@@johnwentz9103 Data recovery is one of the most expensive jobs you can do. Its time consuming, not garantied and cost arm an a leg. This why people need to learn to backup their data. Compuers , NAS , external HDD/SSDs ,clould,ext. You cant just keep your entire life on a phone you can drop and loose.
@@mowtow90you are absolutely right.... ! Recently my 9 year old hard disk drive ... Stopped detecting by the cpu system.... !
It had all my memories my school, my college , my late family members..... Alllll
for few days i just couldn't sleep .. since thats the only memory i had .... With no backups ..... That was the only backup i had....!
I gave it to a nearby data recovery company..... I learned so many things about this .... !
They charged me Rs 8,000 (about 100 USD) they said they'll take about a week to recover the data ...!
But i am finally relaxed...!
The thing i learned here is that data backup is soooo important..... No matter what happens my 1st priority will be data backup. I brought a new hdd and will buy another external hdd for backup total 3 devices for backing up same data.
May be my device was just dead (they'll open it and fix) a guy was charged around 600 USD, but he had some serious issues wid his drive .
Anyways thanks for the comment!
@@mowtow90 i am getting a 10 TB raided NAS storage to finally rest in peace knowing i won't loose 3 TB of data from my phone, tablet and PC combined.
@@thatonefoxxy let me destroy ur peace real quick
even regular raid can't protect against bit rot
*Sees 80 000 files of CP*
Laughed out loud at this
Idk man that sounds kinda unhealthy..... I mean 80,000 Cheese pizzas, geez
CP that too self shot 😂😂. Instant regret
Anon 😂
see no problem here. 80k cp files worth $15k
This is an actual forensic method.
Yes, indeed. 10 years ago, I saw some group x ray a chip to see the binary code.
I absolutely do not need that $15,000 tool
I absolutely do not need that $15,000 tool
This $15,000 tool is basically a mini windows pc 😂
Who knows.. buy it in case you need it in the future.
Just in case.
It’s actually cheaper, made by acelab, pc-3000 portable costs around $2,500, pc-3000 portable with RAID and SSD support costs around $4,500
@@luidgiskovoroda ah, that's much more reasonable, its a low volume speciality tool, but 15k is a bit much for what this is made of
I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!
This is what my mom thinks I do when I restore recycle bin
Underrated comment 😂👌🏽
That'll be 1500$ 🤭
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thank you for doing what you do. you help people and the environment at the same time ❤
Bro bought tool for 15k $ to download 1 gig per day from USB
Maybe using a nvme could make 20x times faster
That's not just that. That tool is highly engineered data reader. It can't just read data by a software. It can also monitored the transistors if there's a defect or problem. Just like they show in this video.
@@user-ms9db8hv9dthat’s not reading functional status from transistors. That knows how many bits there is and is communicating to the chip using a usb peripheral that is hooked up to the memory pinout to read the data from the transistors.
He’s connecting to it with a variety of settings and sees that when reading x and y bits the chip disconnects, so he modifies his configuration and retries.
The PC-3000 is very annoyingly the only tool with such advanced recovery capabilities. There's no cheap alternatives or even clones.
It's not $15k though, more like $2k to $10k depending on options.
That's why it's important to make regular backups.
Nextcloud makes backups easy onto stoarage rhat you have
Backup and disaster recovery plans are something people only make once they’ve lost everything.
@@idcrafter-cgi better Syncthing with 3 different devices to backup.
Yes , it least once a year or twice
where? where do i put them dude?
don't say the cloud or i am gonna obliterate annihilate decimate you
That's amazing! Did not know that was possible!
it's possible and there's shops that specialized in those
money makes it possible
that's an old story... In the past , 10 and even more years back in the dayz we were doin' that like everyday normal job :D
I was a net engineer and the data recovery company i used for my clients pulled the data off a few drives from a space shuttle that burnt up in our atmosphere. You should see what those drives looked like. And they DID pull the data.
Doesn't matter how much money you spend. The things that you are able to do are priceless
You should rename this video to "why phones should have SD card slots, and why people should use them"
I only buy phones with microSD card slots.
Just backup the data you don't want to lose, SD cards use basically the same technology as the memory chip of the phone and can get damaged at the same way
the average human will save the photos to their phone internal memory and to this day; most phones require you to manually change the saving folder to the Memory card and NOT the internal memory of the phone.
@@hekofabeardhb3478 yeah, and?
It takes 10 seconds to set the default file path to the memory card, I do it once when I buy a new phone and never have to do it again until my next phone
Galaxy S2 has SD
Bro you're for real insane the fact that you know how to fix and recover every single thing in every single scenario you're literally top professional in this
E D U C A T I O N
S E L F L E A R N I N G
@@realt0nse exactly
Every single thing? R u sure???
@@kevinfernandez9999 have you watch his videos
@@kevinfernandez9999 it's hyperbole. He's just saying it's impressive how far his knowledge spans.
"There we can see all the porn he downloaded over the years"
Damn bro I don't remember asking
Only 7 gig? Amateur.
@@thfreakinacage LOL
A good video no longer available is worth it.
Pov: it's 7tb of cp 🌚
Man as a software engineer, I am always so amazed by people with hardware skills. So nice. I'm jealous.
Except that wasn’t hardware skills. He placed a usb into a device then read all the software. That’s like saying you have hardware skills because the computers you use are hardware
"hardware skills" he used a bga test and recovery machine for the job of software, you as an "engineer" (kinda doubt it) should realize software can do exactly this but faster.
@@tarkitarker0815software can do what hardware can, but faster? Are you sure about that 😂 you seem like you maybe an eng, but def not a bright one
are you actually disabled? he uses this bga system to reach for the data on the chip, he also could have left the chip on the device, and then use SOFTWARE, because SOFTWARE is what actually saves the data, this device is for absolutely broken pcbs to yield atleast the data chip. im neither english nor are you able to count reading comprehension and critical thinking to your assets.@@syriansayf
I want to sell my phone but I'm scared that someone going to steal my personal data, is there a way that I can get rid of the data permanently that no one can recover them?
Wonderful, thank you for your service.
"Lets see if we can read his files"
*customer sweating intensifies
Eh, the data recovery guy will have seen a lot of shit already. He doesn't care if there's porn on there or not.
@@Steamrick he knows everybody's secrets like the film developer guys used to
@@Steamrick till it’s CP
@@Steamrick I worked with a guy who got fired because he was saving photos off of women's PCs that were getting repaired. The police showed up and everything.
Imagine recovering 7GB of memes and screenshots ahahah
My phone's pictures: 40% travel pictures, 20% concert footage, 10% pet pictures, 30% MEMES.
Ahhhhh, I didn't hear ANYTHING after the $15K chip reader came 2 play!! 😳
Every short of yours shows such professionalism and deep understanding of your field. I'm impressed every time.
"This chip hold all of my customer's pictures and video."
"Too bad he is never going to get them back..."
**Crunch crunch crunch**
Tasty chip 😋
lmao gud1
bad ending
Dreamworks villain backstory
@@OmarHyari2009 lololol!
I used to do data recovery and pc3000 is pretty much tech magic. It was PCI interface so u have a unit far more modern. They have come so far.
Mine would be x4 times that with half of the images being screenshots and the rest being memes. He'd be so pissed.
Backup rule of thumb:
'Backup the backup' as one should NEVER keep all the Eggs in one Basket....FACTS!!
People wonder why data recovery is so expensive.
This. THIS. LITERALLY THIS. The equipment and expertise.
100 jobs at 200 would more than give sufficent profit, and cover the cost. It would also give the common man a chance to access the service, meaning more customers and profit. But many play the greed game, ever wonder the cost of machine used to change your tires or other equipment that service people use but charge a regular price for the common man.
@@xxDRLCxx dude these machines cost millions of dollars, and they cost money in power to run.
Do you know how much time it takes to change settings on a drive to make it work again?
You're out of your element, Donny.
100 jobs at $200 per doesn't even keep the machines running long enough to complete the jobs, let alone pay your workforce or pay for the machines.
15k is on the guy who bought the machine. It still shouldn't cost thousands of dollars just because the machine was expensive. Otherwise everything literally in history that does anything should mean everything costs thousands of dollars all the time. You know that 50c ice creame cone... yeah, 50k machine did that.
@@bythegraceofadoni except you can make waffle cones by hand for pennies with a press...
With your logic, an automobile should be cheaper. It's not because your logic is grossly incorrect.
You're out of your element.
Lockpicks can be found very cheap online. Do you know what it costs for a locksmith to come out and open your door for you? Usually between 50 and 100 bucks. Why, then, are the tools so cheap but the work so expensive?
Experience. It takes a lot of experience to run one of these. I'd actually like to see you try to use one without training. I know how these machines work, and I know one wrong click and it's bye bye data for good.
It's a mix of expensive parts and expert service. Just because your idea works in one field (food service) does not mean the same logic applies to another field (technology)
Please stop being an idiot on my post.
@@bythegraceofadoni i pray all you do in terms of technology is end user support, because with your line of thinking, you don't have what it takes to be an engineer or anything more than the person who tells old people "click here, then click here to get your email"
And then a customer wants you to recover his data for $3.50.
Edit: I see that many of you have seen that South Park episode. 😁
Where we take our scrap metal from the machine shop is a metal recycler with a 20k gun for testing metal. At a recycler. We also use a 20k tool to measure surface finish on some fasteners. Our minimum charge is like $150. It's OK to not charge an arm and leg.
And that’s how you know you’re talkin to the got dang Loch Ness monsta
@@snoozbuster, Alex Van Liew, what on earth is that creature?
@@nickit22 The difference is how long does it take to do the job and how long is the tool being used for to do the job. They probably use that metal tester several times a day and it likely does not take long to determine the metal type.
@@phillhuddleston9445 No, the difference is the amount of greed involved. There's a data recovery center here in the middle of nowhere which only charges, *at most* $200 for data recovery using a machine almost identical to the one in this video.
As Nickit said, *it's okay to not charge an arm and a leg.*
Lots of popular “tech repair” channels are pretty amateur, but dude, having BGA tools+soldering skills+$15k gadgets to recover data… you explained it like a layman but the work behind it is amazing. Great stuff
15,000 USAD for a device that can read working and missing vectors on storage devices is crazy. I literally downloaded a program that can do that on my PC for free even attempt to repair it if it can.
Nice what is the name of the program?
Glossing over the absolute most brutally difficult part of this: soldering the chip.
You have to carefully ball every single one of those 100+ pads and then pray to god none of them merge while hidden under the chip as you heat it up and try not to damage anything.
ion know man.
I seen louis rossman do it.
SMD soldering looks like just putting some solder and flux down on a hotplate or using a heatgun, and then it just seems to "magically" do that shit itself.
This dude prolly an expert at SMD soldering anyways since he has a repair company. he prolly dont give af lol
this is why you use flux to make sure the solder goes exactly where it's suppose to go.
How so ... Is there technique with the solder. Please let me know as well what the first machine you unboxed is and the price of that.
you got be careful not to burn the chip itself 👀
Yup like GPU 😰
This is a real repairman, went out of his way to help.
they better, considering the recovery cost that ur paying for
it’s his job wdym went out of his way?
@@1sweck most would give up
@@fletzyproductions1190 because they don’t have a $15k tool they can rely on!
Help is when some one helps for no gain ..u think this guy has a 15k data tool for free work , nope u bet he charges through the nose for this
I was smiling throughout the video. There's always something sexy when you know your onions. Expertise is just refreshing to watch.
Promise me you don't open my pictures 😂
I remember fixing broken screens for people in my high school for cash back in the day but this is just on a whole nother level. That's impressive, perfect example of finding something you're good at and running with it. Specially when it's a service people need.
That $15k data tool is expensive for a typical tech enthusiast, but for professional data recovery companies it's just pocket change. Although it's been years since I last checked such info, the last time I heard about data restore it was some insane sum - it doesn't seem huge at first because most often it's priced per gigabyte, but then you do the math and realize there may be up to terabytes of data to recover per month (although you'll need multiple such gadgets for that amount), maybe tens of terabytes if the client is a busyness, and it all stacks.
So that tool may cost a figurative arm and a leg for a hobbyist, it pays for itself pretty fast. It's similar with professional GPU market in that aspect: Quadro for gaming is just nuts, and not in a positive connotation, but for a graphics designer it's a tool to earn money with.
Wow this tool is great. Everything looks like its still sorted, with original titles and every details
Me with 40 GB of photos and videos on my phone 💀💀💀
Only 40? I’m up to 185GB. I have a 1 year old and I frequent concerts. I bought a 256GB phone last year. I’ll need a 512 this year
🚔🚔🚔
@@toptiertech7291Dude, you should really think about offloading that to a computer and/or hard drive. That's an insane amount of data to be carrying around in your pocket.
@@FlyboyHelosim why? It’s backed up to the cloud on top of being locally stored on my phone. Zero danger. What do I get from offloading?
@@toptiertech7291 'Zero danger'. Except everything you care about is in a phone that's easily damaged, lost, or stolen... and the cloud that you can't access without the internet and what could be shutdown overnight.
It is a lot cheaper to have two forms of backup and then to use a service like this. Don't misunderstand me, these professionals are great to have. But you will be charged accordingly for their services
Tying up a $15,000 dollar piece of equipment for a week, gonna be a hell of a bill.
about $1500 according to other comments, i'm assuming the high cost is only when this method of recovery is the only way to retrieve the data.
How much to rent a 15K car for a week?
I think the only reason that thing is that expensive is because it is portable. You should be able to do the same with a decent pc and a program on that pc.
Paid in 10 jobys? 😳
@@itze_ £200?
I don't now some people are kinda crazy I work in a phone repair shop and some people say how important there info is be it notes, pictures or whatever but then if you say it's £200 or £150 to repair the screen they think it's crazy but it's like how important is that information really.
I'm stunned... The skills and tech are amazing.
Lucky it wasn't modern Android with encrypted data partition
You can usually decrypt it if you have the password
@@satibel now I'm wondering if you could use the password on just a portion of the data? I assume it needs the entire board to verify that its reading its own memory and no just trying to decrypt random chips removed from boards.
@@davep5698 if i understand what your saying it wouldnt work like that unless you had the pws for those other chips. Nice thought though. The actual data is encrypted not some access to the chip
@@sfurtado3 Cool thanks, interesting too.
@@davep5698 afaik android uses AES 256 XTS OR CBC and is encrypted by blocks, so if it uses a 128 bit block, you can at least decrypt uncorrupted 128 bit blocks, but depending on the implementation you may be able to partially recover a corrupted block.
The vast majority of phones have a single flash memory chip, so no worries about finding scattered data.
If the file index is partially corrupted it may be harder to recover data, but you can still recover unfragmented files by reading the header. (E.g. a jpeg has the size of the picture so you can just search for jpeg headers, read the size and grab the content.)
Lol $15000 tool that came from a backyard factory in China? 🤣🤣🤣
Ace labs in russia
This was the coolest thing I personally seen just today
This is what I like to see seeing things work on a fundamental scale when it comes to every connection in every detail.
Your videos are incredible. I’d enjoy watching a time lapse or uncut video of the whole process.
Guessing the EMMC parallel interface was borked on one line, so you switched to the SPI serial interface instead.
Slow, but works 🤩
Is SPI really that slow?
@@cheesofile666 its literally just a fancy serial connection lol, its gonna be pretty slow
@@memes_gbc674 There are faster SPI interfaces, using more IO, but once you got something working, first is doing a backup :P
So there's no way to make yourself a DIY SPI board for one grand? 😳
When you find that old thumb drive labeled "Hot girlfriends from college".
well worth the price and time spent to recover the unrecoverable. I have mad respect for those in data recovery.
in the coming years data recovery on flash chips is going to get really expensive and a lot of articles seem to be extremely ignorant of this, this is why I keep telling people you should have large hard drives to store data on as a backup. at least the success rate of recovering data from spinning rust is a lot higher than flash chips cause once the flash chip dies that's it at least there's a chance to recover the data from The platters on a mechanical hard drive.
Thank you for the advice
I hoard my data on hard disk 📀💿💿
@@akun10years10 i know
"So I changed some settings" Yo, what settings? I fucking hate YT shorts.
Thinks it wouldve take another short just to explain the settings he messed with!
Trade secrets 😉
@@swampmulletugh gate keepers are the worst. Yea let me just not tell you how to preform brain surgery. Ill keep that knowledge to myself. This is why we cant innovate.
@@Com-bc6jl with tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools comes equally as much if not more training. It would take a documentary length video to go over all the different settings he’d have tried before getting a successful output. Whatever settings he shares will only work reliably with the type of chip and data featured in this video. With every data recovery case you use different settings based on manufacturer, model, type of storage, the interface it uses, finding where the data’s actually at on it, and in the cases of corrupted media, what the malfunction is and how to work around it. It’s a lot to explain, and there’s a lot of liability both from doing it yourself and sharing information with inexperienced techs since they could easily destroy the chip or card if they’re not careful. Not unlike the liabilities, constantly expanding knowledge, and the expensive tools/environment required to perform brain surgery.
It being a trade secret was a joke though, there’s tons of forums online dedicated to data recovery from all different types of media, as well as some training courses on the hardware they use on UA-cam.
Unless you have the 15,000$ equipment knowing what settings he changed wouldnt do crap. And if you do have that equipment you should already be knowledgeable about it
This is insane! Great work!!
This is why i do automated offshore backups.
People sometimes get too busy with life and backing up things on your phone isn't the highest priority. Sometimes people end up losing pictures of loved ones young or old that have passed. Backup today.
Yup Personal: ☁️
Screenshots: drive
Or use actual physical family Album for having pictures of loved ones... that way you dont need to worry about losing anything :D
@@j.rohmann3199 what if the albums get destroyed? Do you know how many people have lost hundreds of family pictures because of a house fire?
@@toptiertech7291 well shit happens but hey... tech will also most likely be destroyed after a house fire
@@j.rohmann3199 but tech has this thing called the cloud you see. If my phone with 10,000 pictures and videos on it fell into a fire and melted to shreds right now, I could buy a new iPhone, sign into my iCloud and everyone of those photos is back on my phone in 5 minutes
Don’t be too short sighted people, $15k is investment, his business is probably worth $250k per year minimum.
It’s a small price to pay
It's called running a business dude wtf is wrong with this comment section.
You can't open a business without having spent money. I swear half of you think you pay to open the shop and all thi stuff is just given to you. In literally every line of work, You have to source your own equipment lmfao. Why is this such an alien thought to people in this comment section. "hurr Durr he paid 15k for something that can make him millions hurrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Unfortunately I am short sighted, that's why I wear glasses :)
Are you calling me short ?! I may be stupid and yes I do have sight, but I’m not short!
I think he’s paid off that unit tenfold with the demand for data recovery
@@b3ans4eva not to mention his price tag of 1.5Gs.. ten of these jobs would have paid for that tool
thats what i needed to retrieve the photos of my beloved parents and bro who already passed away i got nothing left of their images 😢
OH MY GOSH! ... A socketed BGA! You just blew the mind of every person that commented on the "socketed VRAM for a GPU" thread!
a week? damn that's some serious data recovering processing right there
I do not think that there is fancy processing. It is simply reading over and over again, "hopping"/"assuming" that one of the block reads is successful eventually.
@@sarowie source: trust me bro
@@TheNpcNoob What else would it be than? Tiny nude virgins searching for lost electrons?
@@mzflighter6905 yes
@@TheNpcNoob buy some brain stupid
This is why backing up your files to multiple storage units is important. Backup for your backup.
Back up to a mirrored NAS device.
Pity life is not like that,would have defenitely have backed up mine.
@@SuzukiKid400 don’t even need All that. Regular people just need to make sure they have enough cloud storage for backups
For anyone wondering hes doing a partition check, they are free, the deviced he used to connect it isnt necessary as long as you have the correct drivers installed, you can fix them as he did but it isnt recommend to continue using it as its already been damaged and not technically repaired yet, just bad sectors getting nulled, perfect for doing stuff like this though, had to do this to a laptop drive
I had a electronics teacher, he was specialized in this but with raw data entry, yeah, he was a wizard
7 days to read seven gigs? That's probably the slowest transfer speed I've ever seen.
Yea. I’m not buying that
If the flash module was so error prone he was having to do multiple passes and have the unit compare the sector reads to determine a 'good' read, plus reconnect and retry on each disconnect, this isn't unreasonable. I've spent a week or more recovering data from failed disks in the past.
@@ChristopherWoods yep that's the moment when you just do one giant dad's dump and then sift through the data on a much faster device.
@@bland9876 yeah, and that's what that was, just a raw filesystem recovery. Didn't even attempt to mount the filesystem because the disk was so poorly.
Wooo! mind blowing!
Wish I had this option earlier when I lost many of my old clicked photos.
Love when the 32 dollar electronic is worth 15k because of "proprietary software"
Why not make as much profit margin as the perfume industry on hardware?
If it really is only 32$ wrapped up with 15k in proprietary software... why not just make your own and undercut them?
@@JohnnyManu40 proprietary software is copyrighted or under patent so good luck releasing it without losing your house
Then make your own and sell it for 14K
@@kaptein1247 and then get sued for a over a million
Believe it or not the most it ever cost one of our client was $8000 for data recovery and they paid it. A back up only takes a few mins if regularly backed up. Recovery will set you back 100s if not 1000s
This is why you should do cloud backups or store your files to a local storage system with redundancy
Damn, i wish i knew or at least the repair shop told me something like this, 3 years ago my phone got water damaged and fried it's motherboard but the most frustrating thing is that's the only device that had the first (in freaking long while) and last video of my late father dancing with my mom.... they were so happy in it, and i lost it. Also i threw away the phone a while back already so it truly is gone now. And for those who'll be saying "why u didn't go to repair shop?", they said they couldn't repair it or at least back-up the memory (either that was BS or true, it's gone anyways).
Some device memory is beyond repair. Just because it worked for this person doesn’t mean it would work for you. Would you have spent $800-1000 for that?
I love your channel. ❤
Gd a week for 7 gig, makes you wonder what he ended up paying per pic to get them back
Way too much probably. These data recovery services are way too expensive. Much more than they should be.
Wow that's pretty awesome , helps me understand how cops and law get your info no matter what but they never show this type of stuff
If it can't be replaced, back it up in three places ✅✅✅
Man you must dream matrix code
This is why I still prefer mechanical drives for data storage. With flash storage it's easy to lose the data forever. But with a mechanical drive as long as you don't have a head crash you can recover the data. Even if you have to do a platter transplant to a known good drive. But in the end the best way to not lose data is to have multiple copies and ideally in multiple locations.
You got it mixed up bruh.
Mechanical systems means theres infinitely more points of failure than a solid state systems.
These solid state drives can survive litteral hell and back and are infinitely more cheaper to recover data from compared to mechanical drives
Everything can be recycled when humans focus on it enough. This tech needs to be made more available, or at least the industry needs to be beefed up and the services made more affordable to clients and services. You deserve a decent financial kickback, but on principle, this needs to be huge. Thanks for giving things new lives.
The intrusive thoughts of wanting to snap that in half was intense
I love to the box with your chip reading gear
Memories are priceless.
$15k for such a device is what makes data recovery so expensive at times
And it wouldn't surprise me if the manufacturers of those types of devices started forcing the customer to pay them for every hour that the device is in use.
This blows me away
A Galaxy S2? Lol geeze that's an old phone.
I have noticed that sometimes doing data recovery on some chips/usb sticks/sd cards works better if the device being read is VERY cold. In the freezer but also can be put in other liquid gasses. There is something about extreme cold that sometimes makes these bad actors behave long enough to get your data off of them. Your thoughts?
I’m giving you a big salute 👏🏻🙌🏻
It's definitely not more fun then a fancy car...
But what when the data is encrypted? You just copy it over to a good chip and give them their smartphone back?
Imagine you recover the files and they're all just Rick Astley pics😂
"i changed some settings and now it reads" has very "draw the rest of the fucking owl" energy.
For 15k that plastic case looked kinda cheap lol
it's amazing how people can recover files from only a chip. i wish i live in the same city as you, because i have countless of dead device i wish i could recover the data from it
Data recovery businesses usually accept mail in of devices.
@@sarowie i know, but it feels awkward to let other people see my data, i want to see in person how they works, and choose which data to recover.
The fun part checking people’s private data 😂
Definitely goes beyond the A+ cert knowledge range 😂😂😂
I see so many people saying "cloud storage" as a solution.
Cloud storage is just someone elses computer and they do scan/view your files. Those files won't be in your possession either if the provider decides so.
Which is why all they get is an encrypted archive that's overwritten every week.
@@user2C47 you think the average user would go that far though? 😁
@@micobugija6284 Nope. The average user does not care in the slightest about security. Many that I have spoken to are annoyed that they have to set a password when making accounts.
@@user2C47 that. That there exactly and then its *surprised pikachu face* when their noodle photos leak lol
That's a lot of porn files in there
Imagine he said "and all the pictures are in my bio"
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