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It’s dead. The Apple store says it’s the ‘Logic Module". As I understand it, all my photos/videos are stored on an internal flash drive which backs up to the cloud during charging. Is there any way to bust into this thing and access the memory where the photos were stored and get them out? This thing died when I plugged it in to charge and back-up, just after the delivery of my 2nd grand baby! No backup to the cloud!
Hi, your problem just like another problem on ifixit, but the guy is using iPhone. You need to get your iPad repaired first. If the iPad cannot be turned on, no apps can help you to recover your data like your photos, videos, etc. Just have a look on this question, it may help you, good luck. Photos disappeared when battery replaced. Can they be retrieved?
it’s stored on flash memory, not a flash drive (same technology, different interface), and if apple is correct about the logic module (which to me means Motherboard), the is little hope. It could be something else though, apple has been wrong before. You can try looking at the charger if you’re desperate, or maybe water damage, (I don’t know specifics of how it failed, so I’m shooting the wind). But if it isn’t one of those I’d be surprised if you can get anything off
If you have iCloud backup enabled or you back up using iTunes regularly, there is no worry, your data is safely backed up. If you don’t have these backup, your only option is trying to repair the original logic board as it is IMPOSSIBLE to extract data from a dead logic board or swap the memory chip to another board and try to extract data.
This may be a silly answer but have you tried using a different charger? Perhaps it was the charger that failed (as mine have done so many times) and your iPad is just out of juice. Good luck!
Hi, am working on a procedure to do just that. If the Secure Enclave is intact, its possible on some early devices to read it back using a procedure I invented based on https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new… to guess the key based on inference and use of an SDR without directly accessing it using a directional antenna. This reduces the complexity to a level that a graphics card array can brute force in about 2 days of processing time. Note that this is technically feasible but complicated. Ideally you’d want to get a bitwise copy of the Flash chip as though encrypted it may be recoverable without this procedure depending on how computer technology advances which is why the earlier phones were obsoleted in the first place. Its also useful if the board is intact as other components (notably the fingerprint scanner) can be used as these have a direct line to the CPU so theoretically dummy data corresponding to the user’s fingerprint can be fed in and used to TEMPEST attack the SE. Bad battery can be worked around as I discovered.
