Data recovery after water damage

Is it possible to recover data from an iPhone after water damage, regardless of whether the phone is salvagable?

Yes, depending on the amount of damage.

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  • Photo recovery after water damage?

    So, I am on vacation. My phone was in the otterbox armor, which worked great until it didn't. The whole thing filled up with water. My phone has been sunbathing in a bowl of rice for 24 hrs. It will not power up, I really have some special pictures on there from our trip. Is there any way to at least recover those?

    Yes, depending on the amount of damage.

  • N8 Mass memory recovery after water damage

    It seems my n8 has died after getting wet in my pocket while i was on my motorbike. :-/
    So i was thinkin whether there's anyway to recover the pictures and other media from the internal mass memory of the n8?
    Thanks in advance.

     You're probably out of luck on that one as the mass memory can't be accessed with the phone switched off. 
     However, you could leave it submerged in a bowl of fresh rice for a few days to absorb as much moisture as possible. Then you can see if it will switch on to be able to retrieve your pictures.
    Ray. 

  • How do i delete everything off my iphone 6 before i send it off to get repaired after water damage and can't use it

    how do i delete everything off my iphone 6 before i send it off to get repaired after water damage and can't use it

    If it does not respond when plugged to a computer running the latest version of iTunes, then it is indeed dead and no content will be recoverable.

  • Putting cat litter in a bag of cat litter after water damage- will it help

    If you put your iphone 5 in a bag of cat litter will it help more than rice after water damage? if so, what kind????

    http://discussions.apple.com/message/22464453#22464453
    It doesn't matter as you didn't  let your phone sit in the bag of rice long enough.
    You just may need to pony up and go to the Apple store and buy an out of warranty iphone 5.

  • MacBook Unibody A1342 no power after water damage to logic board

    MacBook Unibody A1342 no power after water damage to logic board
    Ive sustained damage to my logic board after water damage. Can anyone tell me if it can be repaired or what the parts which have fallen off do(looks like 2 tiny capacitors?) . Magsafe has green light and battery charges but machine shows no other life signs. any help would be most appreciated thanks

    @CoccoBorg:
    I need your help, please. I spilled wine on my mid 2009 unibody macbook pro, now when  I power up I see Hard drive light On, I hear fan noise, but don't hear any startup Apple chime and nothing on display, I cleaned the logic board with 91% alcohol, but that didn't change anything. Before cleaning the logicboard, their were no signs of wine on the logicboard, but there was a lot of wine on the keyboard black sheet.
    My guess is:
    1. The keyboard might be causing this behaiour, I wan't to bypass the keyboard, can you please confirm if these are the right power pads on logicboard?
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    2. You mentioned something about fuses, where will I find them on logic board?
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  • Black screen with white circle every 5 seconds, after water damage

    my ipod touch (3gen.32gb) had water damage 3 days ago. now as it dried, i connected it to itunes and restored, but it keeps showing black screen with white circle every 3-5 seconds. could this be a software problem or is it all because of water?  i put it in recovery mode, and restored again, but it did not help, is there anything i could do to stop it ? thanks

    Try:
    - iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
    - Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
    How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
    - If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
    - Try on another computer
    - If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
    Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar       
    I there is water damage
    Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for this price. They do not fix yours.
      Apple - iPod Repair price

  • Recovering data from a water damaged MacBook Pro

    A week ago I managed to rather carelessly spill a glass of water over my Late 2013 rMBP (no pun intended). I took the laptop to the Genius bar where they told me the motherboard was fried and the laptop was dead. Considering the extent of the damage and the uncertainty of the feasibility of repair I decided to replace my old rMBP with the 2015 one.
    My old rMBP contained some fairly important data that I would certainly want to recover but more importantly I would like to import the system itself into the replacement laptop as it contains my Windows 8 bootcamp partition which I think is far too much of a hassle to re-install. I am quite confident the SSD itself is not water damaged, although I have heard that the storage devices between these two iterations of the rMBP are incompatible - which may or may not be true - I don't know. Anyhow, I would like to know how I can either browse the content of the SSD or import it into my replacement laptop.
    Is this even possible? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

    Razorlance wrote:
    Is it possible to just put the old SSD in the new laptop then?
    Maybe, I just cannot say with authority.  Even if they were physically the same, the question is what OSX is on the older SSD.  If it is older than the one the new MBP came with, it will not work.
    Ciao.

  • Data recovery after hard drive crash.

    I've been using Palm Desktop Software 4.1.4 basically as a great Index Card app.  My hard drive died but I recovered my DAT files from backups.  On a new computer (Windows 7 x64) I reinstalled PDF 4.1.4 and added my .DAT files, but the software doesn't recognize them--nor will it allow me to use the User Names from the original installation.  I tried re-installation x3 with no success--I repeated the process with the 6xx version of PDF, again with no success.
    Is there any way I can retrieve my data and avoid having to re-type all of them?
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    1.
    If you can boot, try using a linux liveCD  like systemrescue.  Use a flash drive to copy everything to the flash drive.
    2.
    If you can't boot, then you can try connecting the drive from another computer - not sure how that works, but it has
    been done before.
    Here's some links from my website,
    http://shengchieh.50webs.com/tuxslinks.html
    http://www.sysresccd.org/ (non-commercial; SystemRescueCd)
    http://www.mondorescue.org/ (non-commercial; Mondo)
    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (non-commercial; TestDisk)
    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (non-commercial; PhotoRec)
    https://grc.com/ (commercial; SpinRite)
    These links are for linux systems, but some may be applicable for your machine.
    http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.html (ReiserFS)
    http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/08/recovering-deleted-files-by-inode.html (Recovering Deleted Files By Inode Number In Linux And Unix)
    http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/397719-repair-a-linux-file-system-and-reclaim-deleted-files (Reclaim Deleted Files and Repair Filesystems on Linux; 1/25/11)
    If you need more, do a search for "data recovery".
    Regardless, look at system rescue link first.  And ask questions in their forum if you still have questions after reading
    their docs, et.al.
    Sheng-Chieh

  • Hard Drive Data Recovery after Format

    If, after using Disk Utility to re-format a hard drive, which software might be the best for recovering the data that was on the drive prior to formatting? Nothing has been written to the drive following the format.

    i came across this his Web site
    http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software/fil esalvage-review.html
    which compares four data recovery applications. It gives Data Rescue a 100% rating but only 60% for FileSalvage. There doesn’t appear to be a trial version of FileSalvage and the price is $89.95 so I don’t think I’ll be trying that one. If Data Rescue couldn’t restore the files I wouldn’t have a lot of hope with FileSalvage.
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  • Data recovery after factory reset

    I have seen people write that data recovery was possible after factory reset below the jelly bean OS versions on android but iphone is impossible.
    So I wonder what is security technology for data protection on iphone.
    Let me know security technology. (data encryption, data fromat algorithm, whatever about data protection)

    Follou-up..... reading other questions/answers on this forum seem to indicate I'll have to "cherry pick" specific saved data items from the desktop "Shortcut to System Recovery Files" --- a long process.   Is there a quicker way???

  • Data recovery after poorly aimed dd

    Hello Archers!
    First, I want to say that I booted up into Arch a few months back, and on my first post here, I thought I should mention how much I am enjoying this wonderful distro (and community)!
    But, to business...
    A few days ago I wanted to show a friend Chakra (though I do use pure Arch myself), and after a long day of working (IT, no less), I managed to dd the iso onto my main "backup" drive! Of course, "backup" here means my collected files of the past, oh, ten years, which aren't really a backup, more like storage. What makes it worse is that I've been putting off getting Dropbox for a while, but I recognized my data was insecure and had plans to open one this week.
    Normally, I ALWAYS check fdisk -l to see what is mounted before a dd. This time, I forgot I had mounted my storage/backup drive instead of my usual distro-running usb stick, and of course, didn't check. As it turns out, it's ALWAYS the one time you don't check, because "you've done it tons of times before and it's never gone wrong then, right?" Riiiiight. Well, turns out that was because you checked. Exact thought process, I do not jest.
    So 707MB of horrible panic and regret later, I've found myself reading about and using the wonderful TestDisk and PhotoRec programs to recover my files. Things are going well, and I'm recovering my photos (and other data) using PhotoRec with the help of jhead and the recommended sorting scripts. While my vacation photos are the most important things on that drive, there are some documents and programming projects I'd really like to recover too, which brings me to my main question:
    Is there any way to recover the directory structure or filenames by using TestDisk to make a "dummy" NTFS filesystem (which is the format it was previously)? The way I understand it, dd should have overwritten roughly the first 707MB on the drive, byte by byte, which would eliminate all partition data soundly, but not the further up inodes and structures. Running TestDisk [analyze] doesn't yield any immediate results, but I have not done the deeper scan. The whole 160GB drive was a single NTFS partition, most of which was being used, so it would seem with part (most of) of the disk structure intact, remaking the superblock to recover the data shouldn't be terribly out of reach. I'm not sure exactly what 707MB were destroyed, but recovering the file structure and names would make my current situation much, much better!
    Most instructions on using TestDisk are focused on a simple partition-delete or dying drive; I was wondering if anyone had experience or advice on doing what I have described above; restoring the superblock(s) so I could access my old file structure. My plan of action is to remove all recoverable files using PhotoRec, then try to use the TestDisk deep scan to try and recover the whole NTFS partition. I've decided to ask this of Arch users as you seem to all have good input on issues; I'll try a post to the Ubuntu Forums as well (though that often seems to degenerate into chaos). I'm actually open to using any OS, including Windows if people have suggestions there.
    Thanks for reading this, and possibly helping. On my end, consider the Lesson Learned. Backup, for real, and always always check before doing something irreversible.
    Last edited by ninesharp (2010-01-27 05:42:12)

    Thanks for the responses!
    A quick update: I was able to get all of my data (that I was concerned about) off the drive using PhotoRec, which is a wonderful, wonderful program. Though, that doesn't really solve the filesystem restore issue, so I'm going to keep updating this with my results in trying to accomplish that.
    I don't think mkfs would work, that will likely overwrite any fs data that might still be around; I don't think mkfs.ntfs checks for a currently residing fs (it also forcibly zero's out information by default).
    I will try chkdsk. I have been reading about where the backup MFT is stored on NTFS, depending on what OS you formatted it under. It is possible that the backup remains somewhere out of where "Data Destroyer" touched. 
    First I think I'm going to do a deep TestDisk scan and see what it finds. I hear chkdsk can sometime be destructive, so I'll use that if TestDisk finds nothing (which means it's likely chkdsk won't succeed either).
    I'm very pleased to have recovered my data, thanks to PhotoRec! I highly recommend it (and/or TestDisk) to anyone attempting data recovery.
    Last edited by ninesharp (2010-01-28 19:11:18)

  • Is there a way to retrieve data from a water damaged ipod?

    my ipod got water on the inside, and it wont charge. when i plug it in, the image shows it as charging but its not. im guessing that there is a short circuit, do to he water. is there a way to retrieve data from my ipod?

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  • Data Recovery After Hard Drive Failure!

    Ok, basically, I've got a 2 1/2 year old iBook G4 with a bombed hard drive, and unfortunately, the last time I backed up was around 3 months ago. Here's what happened right before the crash: some applications like Widgets and Safari were acting fluky, and it wouldn't let me open Word documents, so I restarted, because I thought it might have something to do with the fact that i had downloaded the new version of itunes not that long ago and hadn't restarted since. well, when i restarted, the gray screen with the wheel and the apple symbol went on for a really long time, and then the blue screen came up with the cursor, but nothing else happened, and the blue screen just stayed there. as far as i know, the hard drive wasn't making any unusual noises, just the usual occasional soft sounds that my hard drive has always made (there are usual sounds, right?) a piece of information that might be useful is that the hard drive was almost full (it only had about 5 GB left, which i understand is how much you should leave) could this have caused the failure maybe? anyway, i tried using the hard drive as a target and tried getting another computer to recognize it and pull the files off, but that didn't work. so, i brought it into the apple store, and they got it to boot up but using some external hard drive, i think. they tried disk utility, but that didn't see my hard drive. then the tried disk warrior, and that saw it and repaired it or something, but then it couldn't get the drive to mount. so, i'm assuming that because disk warrior didn't work and couldn't get it to mount, then other software like data rescue, etc... won't either. like all computer users, i've got some REALLY REALLY important data on there, and all the data recovery places i've gotten quotes from are pretty pricey. if the drive doesn't require physical data recovery, only non-physical, as i hope, the cheapest is still $350. even so, the person on the phone there didn't seem to know nearly as much as the people at the more pricier places. so, are there any other options besides expensive data recovery? i read something about using dd - a unix thing, but i don't know the first thing about it (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382) so i'm not sure i want to risk messing it up even more. and, if worse comes to worst, then i'll use a data recovery place... but can anyone tell me if they've used any of the data recovery companies below, and which ones are good?
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    MacintoshDataRecovery.com
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    $1100-1600 physical
    Heroic Efforts
    http://www.heroicdata.com/data_recovery
    $350 non physical
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    ACS Data Recovery
    http://www.acsdata.com/index.htm
    $600-700 non physical
    DriveSavers.com
    (recommended by Apple, probably the best, but the most steep, too)
    could cost anywhere from $500-$2700 and $200 evaluation fee even if data is unrecoverable
    Since this is our fourth hard drive failure in four different iBooks in 2 1/2 years, i am starting to become seriously disillusioned about the quality of the hardware Apple uses...not that i would ever get a dell or anything, but still....
    THANK YOU in advance for any tips you might be able to offer, and also for reading this extremely long post!
    katie
    iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  
    iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

    I have read good reports concerning Data Rescue although I have not used it myself.
    Once you get your data back, focus on a regular (even daily) backup routine, because as you know only so well, the question is not if a drive will fail, it's when.
    My condolences, by the way.

  • Battery doesn't work in MacBook Air after water damage

    Hi all,
    Loooong story related to problems I've had with access to certain pages using my home internet connection (turns out that's the ISP and they just didn't want to admit it).
    ANYWAY, my water bottle top popped off, and poured water all over my MacBook Air 11" mid 2012. I've had it sitting for about a week - did the whole rice thing etc. I've not connected it to a power socket (scared something might happen), but I have connected it to my hyperjuice external battery. It turns on with this and works completely fine it appears, except for a little sluggishness on some keys and the trackpad. I'm hoping this will lessen as it dries out. However, as soon as I disconnect the external battery it dies. It will not turn on on its own even though the battery has 97% power.
    Can I replace the battery? Do you think that will suffice? And does anyone know about how much it would cost to do this?
    What's my best plan of action here? I'm a student, and I can't really afford a new laptop (& the 17" is too big and heavy to take to uni). So, in failing to fix this one, I'm not exactly sure what I'll do.
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    Your best bet is to suck it up and take it to Apple. It'll be costly but water damage is, unfortunately, the gift that keeps on giving. It really needs to be professionally repaired. Check with your renters (or your parents) home/renters insurance to see if the computer is covered.

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