After taking my Android (Samsung Galaxy Nexus) phone for a swim in the ocean, I figured that I had a lost cause. Hard to do worse than submerging a phone in water, unless it's salt water. I called around, including the biggest data recovery companies, and was told not to even bother sending it in. Flash Fixers was the small shop in the mix I found. Sometimes the small shops are the ones that give you just that needed extra attention, and I hoped had the capability as well. Turns out I had gotten really lucky on both fronts. They didn't give up at just moving the phone's motherboard to a different chasis, but ultimately de-soldered the memory chip, read the contents serially (via JTAG), reconstructed the file system, and provided all of its contents to me via download. Amazing. No doubt this will not always work, but they bothered to try, had the experience and equipment to do it, and were successful in my case. The kicker is that the cost was incredibly reasonable (especially compared to the "big guys"), and certainly consumer friendly (most large data recovery places serve industry or law enforcement with larger budgets, I suspect). Communication was great,. The sense of honesty was easily detectable.
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