Chip-off Recovery for SD Card, MicroSD, eMMC, CF, Cfast, other Monolith NAND chips, Microsoft Surface, and some phones (like Galaxy S3, S4, S5, and some other Android models).
This video details our chip-off data recovery process and rates:
If your SD card, MicroSD, CF/CFast card, or phone/tablet with eMMC chip has failed, often the only remaining option is a “chip-off” recovery.
Sometimes, we can access the bad device using special reading modes or interfaces to recover your data without removing the chip(s). This is much easier and often produces much better results, so we always try this first.
But, if special reading methods and interfaces fail, the only remaining option is a “chip-off” recovery.
eMMC/UFS chips (Microsoft Surface and various phones) chips contain 1 flash memory/data chip.
Monolith Data Recovery Rates
A “monolith” device is a single chip that contains the NAND (data) and controller (operating system). We charge $300 for all Monolith devices (the same as for all MicroSDs) if we recover 99% or more data. If less than 99% was recovered, and you don’t want the data we recovered, there is a $100 labor fee. If the recovery is not successful, there is no charge.
On the left, you can see an eMMC chip recovery from a Lenovo Ideapad 130S. In this case, the computer was damaged due to a drop. We had to use a BGA rework station to remove the tiny eMMC chip which stored all the customer’s data. Then we used a tool called “Z3X EasyJtag” to read the chip and additional software to extract the customer’s data.
Microsoft Surface EMMC Chip-Off Recovery
Newer Microsoft Surface devices save their data on an EMMC chip soldered to the motherboard. When the device fails, the only option is a “chip-off” recovery. We offer the most affordable pricing for “chip-off” recoveries: $300 per chip (+$100 if the device is encrypted) + $75 up-front/non-refundable to remove the EMMC chip.
Whether you have a Microsoft Surface with an EMMC chip (Surface 5 Pro, Surface 6 Pro, Surface 7 Pro, or Surface Laptop 2) or a Microsoft Surface with an SSD (Surface Laptop 1 or Surface Pro 4), we can help recover your data for an affordable price!
See the steps we take to recover from Microsoft Surface devices with EMMC chips…
We charge $75 up-front/non-refundable to open the Surface and remove the chip.
Cleaning thermal paste from the EMMC chip.
Cleaning thermal paste from the EMMC chip.
The motherboard/EMMC chip needs to be heated using an IR station to safely remove the EMMC chip.
Microsoft Surface eMMC chip-off recovery
Cleaning solder from the bottom of the EMMC chip to ensure error-free reading.
Cleaning flux from the bottom of the EMMC chip to ensure error-free reading.
This is a Surface EMMC adapter + PCIe->USB adapter + Deepspar Disk Imager.
EMMC chip identified and being read using UFS Explorer + Deepspar USB Stabilizer.
This includes Ace Laboratory’s PC3000-Flash, Rusolut’s VNR, Z3X EasyJtag, and Flash Extractor. We also have many Multi-com adapters for MicroSD cards which enable us to recover data quicker than other companies who manually solder in leads to interface with MicroSD cards.
Microsoft Surface chip off recovery
This is a Surface EMMC adapter + PCIe->USB adapter + Deepspar Disk Imager.
BGA rework station
PC3000-Flash adapters
VNR Adapters
Multicom Adapters
We can perform chip-off recovery for devices with the following problems (and more):
Bricked drive
Dead drive
Liquid Damage
Firmware corruption
Partition corruption
Logical failure
Failed or corrupt controller
Drive has wrong model number or capacity in BIOS
Broken phone screen
Broken phone keyboard
Phone stuck in boot loop
Broken USB interface/port
Not sure if we can recover your drive? Submit our Chances Form to find out or email us directly.
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