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Vacationer loses smartphone in the Baltic Sea – memories saved successfully!
A smartphone that was believed to be lost was recovered from the Baltic Sea in Lübeck. Experts successfully reconstruct personal data.
Vacationer loses smartphone in the Baltic Sea – memories saved successfully!
Imagine being on vacation and suddenly your smartphone falls into the water while on a boat trip. That's exactly what happened to a tourist in the Bay of Lübeck. His device was recovered after the dive, but the relief didn't last long: the smartphone was badly corroded and could no longer be switched on. But as it turned out, this was just the beginning of an exciting data recovery story presstext.com reported.
The salt water damage affected the electronics of the device. So the owner turned to the specialists at RecoveryLab Data Recovery Lübeck. In an unprecedented process, engineers managed to restore all personal data from the smartphone. To do this, the device first had to be completely dismantled and subjected to chemical cleaning. The NAND memory chip remained intact, but the power management IC and the flash controller were defective. What followed was a complex chip-off process in which the NAND chip was unsoldered and read out in raw data mode.
The complex reconstruction process
The engineers found themselves faced with a tricky challenge: They had to manually recreate the correct order and assignment of data blocks in order to reconstruct the stored memories. After several days of analysis and with the help of mapping reconstruction, all photos, videos and even chat histories were finally restored in full quality. The results were also validated through hash verification, which confirmed the integrity of the data.
Particularly notable is the performance of NAND flash memory, which is used in smartphones and many other devices. This technology is non-volatile, meaning it does not require electricity to store data, and has the great advantage of being extremely robust mechanically. These features are particularly popular with notebook and smartphone users easeus.de explained.
The lessons from the incident
But what do we learn from this incident? It clearly shows how sensitive mobile devices are to moisture. The importance of a professional initial response after water damage cannot be emphasized enough. Attempts at self-repair could only make the damage worse datareverse-datenrettung.de warns.
To prevent such situations in the future, it is advisable to regularly create backup copies and, if necessary, use cloud storage. By the way, the costs for professional data recovery services start at €299.00, but they increase the chances of a successful recovery enormously. Here there is a success rate of 95% when processed professionally.
In conclusion, it remains to be said that the story of the smartphone from the Bay of Lübeck represents not only a technical challenge, but also a successful rescue operation that shows what is possible with the right know-how!