Solved Iphone Nand Flash Lga 52 To Micro Sd Iphone 5

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I am curious… Is it possible to take the NAND Flash LGA-52 pinout and take that into a Micro SD card? LGA-52

• LGA-52 Description Part 1

• LGA-52 Description Part 2

Micro SD

• Pinout SD Bus Mode and Extra

• Pinout SPI Bus Mode and Extra

From there any system would not know the difference as it would look like a normal NAND Flash chip with data to read/write? I know it cant possibly be that simple but I have to wonder if it might be!? I don’t want to be optimistic but could it work fairly simply? Thank you in advance! Would love to know is this could even work.

• wiredbrother

The main difference between the NAND chip in you phone and a microSD card is that the microSD card is a monolithic design. That means that the controller and actual memory are all on the same semiconductor wafer. The microSD card is recognized by your computer because it goes through the Flash Translation Layer of the controller. Whereas the NAND chip on your phone is just that…a NAND chip. It is being written and read by the micro-controller, in this case the A6 processor. That means you can’t access the NAND without going through some kind of FTL. Here’s an interesting write-up on data recovery of monolithic memory cards.