Laptop eMMC Data Recovery on a Budget

Laptop eMMC Data Recovery on a Budget - Andy's Boring Job

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6 жыл бұрын

How to recover data from the eMMC chip on a Laptop/Tablet/Smartphone without desoldering it or spending hundreds of pounds on professional data recovery services. In fact the whole thing cost me less than a fiver.
The Boardview software can be found here - github.com/OpenBoardView/Open...
Big thanks to exploitee.rs who gave some great tips in this presentation - www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/w...
You'll notice that the SD card reader in the final shot is different to the cheap one I soldered on. This is because I couldn't get the cheap one to work at first, but this was because of the RST pin I mentioned earlier. The SD card reader I ended up using was this one, as recommended by exploitee.rs - www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-Mi...

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@RaveTracks 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent informative video that gets straight to the point. Didn't know this was possible so really helpful. and extra bonus points for the disco Duke outro!

@TheRasteri 6 жыл бұрын

cheers!

@andytipping70 3 жыл бұрын

absolutely fantastic - balls of steel attempt - i'm seriously impressed!

@tangerinq 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I had a similar case and i tried a few different card readers but none could detect the eMMC on board of the dead laptop motherboard. Eventually I figured it out - what's interfering is existing connection between the eMMC data / command / clock lines and the original host CPU. Once I removed the 0Ohm resistors providing this connection, the chip was recognized.

@hmmmhmmm7688 Жыл бұрын

@FelinoFacho could you translate?

@chung_myung. 5 ай бұрын

@@felinofachoHi felino, I am not much of an Electronics guy. Can you please tell what does this bridging mean here (connecting which pin to which). I only know oscillator will be connected to pins like xtal1, xtal2. THANK YOU

@itizme8072 9 ай бұрын

My HP stream burned out over 2 years ago and I put it in storage. Was throwing stuff out, saw it and figured hey Im home with plenty of time on my hands. Saw this video. Same exact PC. Im Gonna give it a shot.

@riccardoz2953 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely video full of info, thanks a lot. and a plus, the extra bonus video. amazing !!

@LukeLegendLee 3 жыл бұрын

You definitely deserve a thumbs up for this, glad to help you hit the 1k mark.

@Myst_Exodus 6 жыл бұрын

Super interesting and informative video as usual! I learnt a lot and love intelligent hacks like this. Thanks!

@themodshiah6972 6 жыл бұрын

This is incredible, thank you for the info!

@RoadRunnerMeep 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent work, enjoyed watching it as tips for my other repairs

@sdadeveloper5223 4 жыл бұрын

man u way of delivering information is so cool

@s-c-sltd1627 3 жыл бұрын

Very very impressive!! Something like out of the A-TEAM. Great Video....Awesome work!

@GREGELZZ 6 жыл бұрын

super interesting!@ thanks for documenting it

@Jokamutta 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see that it's possible to recover data from eMMC storage without spending a fortune! But I don't think I would have the skills to do this :D

@shaaa00 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving me the information I'm looking for.

@KLove89 2 ай бұрын

Straight forward and to the point 👍

@siosinv3851 4 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for the knowledge 🤟 keep it up great stuff 👍

@ketonokeif4465 6 жыл бұрын

Great job mate! Thank you!

@elgatovolador3226 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for this thorough video!

@blissbyrne 6 жыл бұрын

Sweet jesus excellent method, Subbed not just for the creative idea , because you got me up out of my chair dancing laughing my head off.

@ger808 3 жыл бұрын

Andy sir you are a little genuis I hope u don't mind me saying so...I love watching videos like yours however normal they are never as clear in instructions like this one so for that again a heap of kudos to you again sir ..I have now subscribed on the back of this video and hope you have more similar to watch fingers crossed ..anyways thanks again for the most helpful way of retriving lost data from emmc

@ChrisFredriksson 3 жыл бұрын

That's the best video I've seen on the topic after a few months of looking at various pages and such. I've just not been able to confirm completely what you've shown in this video until now. This should also make it possible to program an eMMC, maybe. There might of course be other factors that prevent this, but generally it should be possible. Great video!

@TheRasteri 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And yeah this could absolutely be used to write to the eMMC.

@ChrisFredriksson 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRasteri Awesome, thanks for that! :)

@alistercarmichael4990 Жыл бұрын

Hmm. I think a card reader only provides access to user space on the eMMC. You will be able to read and write that but to actually program a chip or device there is a lot more that needs done which I am presently looking for a budget way of achieving. They are made using an open standard. However this is not free to access. An excellent video though which fully achieved.

@Maeddn11 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I need right now. Having an emmc from a Samsung s4 mini for data recovery. Let's see how to figure out the needed pins on the sd reader ( I already have the pins from the emmc).

@RetroBerner 2 жыл бұрын

Whoah, that's dope, nice job!

@preciousjames 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant and humorous too! Cheers!

@nobody-vw9ci 3 жыл бұрын

this is such an informative video thanks!!!

@joaquindayrit5746 3 ай бұрын

I never thought this was possible as I just saw an EMMC pinout having 8 pins instead of 4 for DAT and thought it just wouldn't work. To be fair I didn't look too much into it HAHA Great work and very informative !

@1079248 2 жыл бұрын

just stumbled on this video excellent work

@bogdanbenett1229 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, amazing, astonishing

@marko176schneider5 4 жыл бұрын

Super Video.Danke!

@danko5866 Жыл бұрын

Masterpiece of a video. Though I will likely use the direct solder with emmc because i couldn't find leaks of schematic diagram of my HP Slate 7 Voice Tab.

@charliebrownau 6 жыл бұрын

Very cool Thanks for sharing

@ante646 8 ай бұрын

man of the people 🙌🙌

@dersepp4064 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video mate. Can you tell me why you had 2 cables soldered to Vdd? Did you connect Vcc and VccQ separatly (atleast that are the names of Vcc on my Sandisk emmc).

@marcosrocha2312 Ай бұрын

Fantastic !!!

@user-mx8mk8vp2f 4 жыл бұрын

man, this is awesome

@RikuKawai Жыл бұрын

This is actually the same method used to hardmod a Nintendo 3DS, but Nintendo handily has test points for all the eMMC lines so it's a lot easier.

@kutsaraaaikotawa2689 Жыл бұрын

You're amazing!

@kbhasi 6 жыл бұрын

Neat! I'm imagining that you would end up backing up the original flash storage, and restore the backup, when she gets another laptop as a replacement.

@TheRasteri 6 жыл бұрын

I ended up just restoring the backup to a VM and then copying the files she wanted manually to a USB stick.

@tiporari 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. People would tell you this approach won't work, is stupid, risky. And there it is. The world's sketchiest jump drive. Only needs to work once.

@aftbit Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. The hard/lucky part seems to be finding board schematics for the laptop and/or eMMC. I've recently run into those BGA sockets costing $1000+. Insanity. I'm tempted to try 3d printing my own.

@h.a.6790 10 ай бұрын

It most certainly doesn't cost that much. All depends what number of sockets you need. UFI programmer roughly $300 and it comes with eMMC 2 sockets. There's also cheap DIY that people sell.

@BrockHenry 6 ай бұрын

@@h.a.6790 Can you point me to the cheap DIY versions?

@smoky5833 2 жыл бұрын

I am not nearly as smart as I think I am, but knew enough to know I could get by with out purchasing an all socket chip reader for 150 bucks, and the accompanying software to access it. Well I will investigate a little further and see if I can find a PC Card schematic. Thanks!

@GeorgeGeorge-xj2bc 4 жыл бұрын

For such a tinys connections i use thin copper enameled wire like this of the coils winding.From a salvaged relay coil for example.

@I_sprinkle_life_in_dead_hdds 4 ай бұрын

excellent job :)

@AkbarNurPribadi 2 жыл бұрын

No b.s. I'm subbing!

@wimwiddershins 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Though that (@4:36) is the biggest & ugliest USB stick Ive seen?

@rpsproject5349 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video, manufacturers really should not use the eMMC SSD memory it's just too small in size and a pain to work with.

@jesseerven4859 7 ай бұрын

thank you I'm doing this very thing

@ttthomasss77 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I need to recover data from my ezbook 3 pro. Do you know where can I get the motherboard schematic ?

@user-yd5bl6dq8s 3 жыл бұрын

Все по делу, благодарю.

@NotRealNamesAgain 6 жыл бұрын

That's damn neat. Plus, now you have a contender for ugliest flash drive 2018. :D

@gadgetmadlad6691 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video, makes me wonder if you could replace the emmc memory module with an actual sd card reader that way it would make the memory upgradeable and save all the 32gb emmc laptops and netbooks that can't upgrade due to limited space.

@TheRasteri 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but it would be much slower as there are only 4 data lanes on an SD card (versus 8 on an eMMC). Probably easier to just replace the eMMC with a larger one

@pratikbhagat9028 5 жыл бұрын

Also can we format the emmc and rewrite it again? if yes one can develop his/her own code for emmc flashing

@ruggierocapuano5575 2 жыл бұрын

LMAO 4:51 to the end of the video, hahahahaha. Big up man, this video was very interesting and also funny :):):)

@tracylf5409 3 жыл бұрын

You could give Louis Rossmann a run for his money! Excellent video, great job, and hope the meal was fit for a king! xx

@Nunya58294 2 жыл бұрын

Oh absolutely!

@RuiRex 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, what happened to the first USB reader? The one you show connected to the computer is different. Didn't work?

@DDBAA24 3 жыл бұрын

If you accessed the eMMC over the bus would it not work with just type A to type A USB? I've never owned anything with onboard flash actually curious, it just sees it as another block device ?

@gamersinghking4167 Жыл бұрын

This video is really helpful! But, will this method work on a Samsung Chromebook?

@christopherstaples6758 5 жыл бұрын

think this would be the same for galaxy note 4 ? I have 3x phones that need access to emmc i was trying to find the resistor to short to enable it to boot from sdcard do i could make a dump but not having much luck their either

@putraadriansyah8082 5 жыл бұрын

I have an Asus Zenfone Selfie (ZD550KL) that I need to recover file from ext4 partition. The file is in /data/ folder (which is a mount point for /dev/block/mmcblk0p42) . can I do the same trick in this video with my phone?

@eddyboh2723 5 жыл бұрын

Can you use the USB and SD adapter to JTAG a bricked phone?

@caracompass9131 3 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to recover eMMC data but don't feel able to do it myself. By any chance do you allow people to pay you to recover their data?

@user-ye3nl1dh8f 5 жыл бұрын

Where to connect vcc and vccq in sd card adapter i didn't get it please help.

@ArsenioDev 6 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite recommendations I've gotten so far. Now can we get hints to those back channel bulgarian sites?

@TheRasteri 6 жыл бұрын

Haha better not, don't want to get them/me into trouble. Google various combinations of "schematic", " boardview" and the name of your laptop. Often the laptop will have a different product name from it's production codename - which might be written on the motherboard somewhere, or just obtainable via google.

@jacksmythe2146 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I have a friend's HP laptop with dead motherboard, problem is no one has the schematic. I have watched another youtuber from Germany who has found the pin configuration for the chip he is recovering data from - so he is doing the same as you except taking feeds off an EMMC socket - I am completely new to this kind of date retrieval so dont know if chip families have same configuration or how I would find the same info he has got for the laptop I have. Goes without saying very important photos etc on laptop so want to do this right.

@grumps5940 2 жыл бұрын

I think manufacturers should put some pads on the motherboard which go directly to the emmc, would make data recovery easier to do..

@hmmmhmmm7688 Жыл бұрын

so in this case the basic power to the memory came from the usb connection from the laptop? sweet design

@dm-dl6dg 27 күн бұрын

Have a similar issue but chip is on a handset is it possible to remove the chip and do it if so were can I get the pin out details for the chip would be appreciated. And would I need to power the chip with 1.8 from say bench supply?

@ASHOKKUMAR-xd5gu 5 жыл бұрын

Please tell me what is that yellow tape

@joseaugustodossantossilva5495 3 жыл бұрын

for emmc 5.1 (the one from lenovo zuk z2 ), that's is possible? i would pay a service for recoverying all my data... there so much photos and i didn't any backup i'm so frustated aff

@sharik_rahat 10 ай бұрын

will this method work with emmcs used in windows phones too?

@THE1B1 3 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to do the same thing on phone (Huawei mate10 lite)? Can I use Clonezilla also? Thank you!

@litoaranda1810 3 жыл бұрын

Which is the clone software you recommend ???

@pizletwizzler198 2 жыл бұрын

Think you could expand an onboard eMMC with a removable SD-card slot, using this method? My desire is to add removable storage to a device with a fixed eMMC chip via "piggybacking" off the appropriate solder-pads (D1, D2, D3, GND, VCC, etc) and have everything running off the device's power source.

@TheRasteri 2 жыл бұрын

That's a fascinating idea :) Not all the emmc signals are present on an SD card, so it will be slower and may not work at all, but it's worth a try. You could modify one of those SD card extenders - www.amazon.co.uk/LANMU-Extension-Adapter-Extender-Converter/dp/B01C84YKVA

@mikeyzs 6 жыл бұрын

How did you get the 1.8v for logic in the end?

@TheRasteri 6 жыл бұрын

I didn't, I just ran it at 3.3v

@devicemodder 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if this technique can be used in reverse to replace a small emmc with a larger capacity SD card...

@ZILOGz80VIDEOS 4 жыл бұрын

Most SD cards aren't really rated for that kind of use

@tarunkamli 4 жыл бұрын

What i want to see to get amazed

@NateWithMe1 2 жыл бұрын

Would this work with MicroSD with corrupted controller?

@brotech2960 4 жыл бұрын

I purchased the same sd reader, where did you connect the RST pin?

@TheRasteri 4 жыл бұрын

to VCC/3.3v

@smartfelix007 4 жыл бұрын

Hello sir it was really Helpful for me... can you help me modify a usb pendrive with emmc into a emmc programmer for programming mobile phones like oppo , vivvo, qulacomm, iphone etc. i dont want to buy the jtag or ufi box they are very costly Thank You...

@TheRealFobican 2 жыл бұрын

How about making your own emmc socket as a project?

@scotthanna8980 2 жыл бұрын

I have a hp that a friend asked me to look at and the emmc is on its own board with a ribbon connecting it to motherboard, do you think it would be straight forward to do?

@TheRasteri 2 жыл бұрын

Probably be doable (maybe even easier than in my video), but the hard part might be figuring out the ribbon pinout

@ebx Жыл бұрын

Is this procedure reversible? Im scared i will kill the emmc haha Great vid tho, im gonna try with a phone

@Davpana 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to this little freak, but it's so damn fast to speak that the translator subtitles is difficult to read.. My attempt with 2 USB2 readers failed, but i've soldered only one data line..

@cokomi61 6 жыл бұрын

Excelent Job. Cool Wid. Not A Single Gram Of Fat On It...

@h.a.6790 10 ай бұрын

Cheap doesn't always means efficient. If time doesn't mean anything to you that is.

@rebel4jesus180 3 жыл бұрын

I respect your abilities but why couldn’t you repair the whole board, likely just a fuse and if you know where the fuses are... I fixed a handful of boards back in the day when they used the f7821 :)

@ejonesss 6 жыл бұрын

what is that song you are singing to at the end?

@TheRasteri 6 жыл бұрын

Darude - sandstorm

@ejonesss 6 жыл бұрын

no that is not the song as it is just instrumental the song i am talking about is the one at the end of the video where you sing along to while you are working on the laptop board

@TheRasteri 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry. It's this : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abtkppuLzZ-bZo0.html

@jothain 3 жыл бұрын

That's some hacking there 👍👍

@jimbarrofficial 4 жыл бұрын

Or, you could get people to save their important files in OneDrive/DropBox/Box/Google Drive and such and be done with it. Fun vid though, thanks.

@TheRasteri 4 жыл бұрын

fun fact, I later found out that all her files were in the OneDrive folder anyway. She didn't realise that meant they were backed up in the cloud. Pointless exercise in the end but I thought it was worth making a video about!

@vanepico 4 жыл бұрын

Can anyone send me in the direction of a pinout for a 32gb Samsung S7 KLUBG4G1CE memory chip/datasheet? I would be eternally grateful!

@ashwanipatel1090 Жыл бұрын

Can we recover frm eMMC 5.1

@thelunamage5772 2 жыл бұрын

bruh what an appsolute chad...

@Ranstone Жыл бұрын

I've already spent 300$ just trying to read this stupid chip by myself, and I keep running into walls. XD

@jeffr102 2 жыл бұрын

Would you be able to help me out in an emmc data recovery from my chip? I've gone to everybody in my area I would have no idea how to do it. Would you be able to help me out? Could I ship it to you

@johneygd 4 жыл бұрын

Sure it’s cheap but it’s not for the general consummer without soldering skills🙁

@pabloascencio7397 4 жыл бұрын

Even then you need some luck to find the proper motherboard schematics.

@pratikbhagat9028 5 жыл бұрын

please confirm whether dat0 is enough for reading emmc please comment sir

@TheRasteri 5 жыл бұрын

I had to solder dat1/2/3 as well.

@pratikbhagat9028 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheRasteri sir today I was successful in interfacing standalone un soldered emmc. But when I try to interface on board emmc it failed . Card reader donot read and just flashes led on off. I want to know when you interface the emmc onbarod with sd card wat supply voltage did you give to vccq pin