SIM Card Photo Recovery?

[Velvis]

Some one called me about recovering some photos from a damaged SIM card. Is that even a thing?

Isnt the SIM card just the carrier info and contacts info?

Its an Android phone

 

[Markverhyden]

Yeah, if it's really the SIM card there is no data stored on it, just the info needed to get the device connected to the carrier network. But maybe they have it confused with an SD card which many phones accept and you can point photo storage to that. But physical damage is probably SOL.

 

[cam w]

The photo's will be on the phones SD card

 

[lcoughey]

My guess is that they mean SD card or internal storage.

 

[GTP]

Recuvva from Piriform does a good job for free.
if the cards physically damaged you need to send it to a specialist like @lcoughey @DataMedics or @labtech

You could also try @Alexey Gubin's Klennet Carver if the files are damaged.

 

[labtech]

Indeed, some clarification would help. I also foresee they may have confused SIM with SD Card.
As far as being physically broken, it really depends on the physical location and extent of damage. Rarely they are recoverable in such conditions.

 

[Alexey]

I also foresee they may have confused SIM with SD Card.

Yes. I'm not 100% sure they will not bring the SIM though. Confused yes, but which way the confusion goes, I'm not sure.

 

[DataMedics]

Some one called me about recovering some photos from a damaged SIM card. Is that even a thing?

Isnt the SIM card just the carrier info and contacts info?

Its an Android phone

Let me guess, is this customer's name Diane Le....(I won't type the full name here)?

If so, she's already been here and is a really difficult customer you don't want to deal with. She's got an old cheap chinese phone with a very uncommon BGA-107 NAND chip. I carefully removed the chip from the phone, but when I saw the pin configuration I had to tell her it's one that I don't have the equipment to handle and is not worth the $1000 investment I'd need to make to buy a custom adapter for this one case.

I told her where she could get the recovery done (as I do know one company that has this adapter already), but she doesn't seem to listen and has been going from place to place in the area thinking she's going to get a different answer.

 

[Velvis]

Let me guess, is this customer's name Diane Le....(I won't type the full name here)?

If so, she's already been here and is a really difficult customer you don't want to deal with. She's got an old cheap chinese phone with a very uncommon BGA-107 NAND chip. I carefully removed the chip from the phone, but when I saw the pin configuration I had to tell her it's one that I don't have the equipment to handle and is not worth the $1000 investment I'd need to make to buy a custom adapter for this one case.

I told her where she could get the recovery done (as I do know one company that has this adapter already), but she doesn't seem to listen and has been going from place to place in the area thinking she's going to get a different answer.

No, this is one of my regular customers. I still haven't been on site, but I'm pretty sure I am going to find a microsd card.


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