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Hi Community, Was just having a think this afternoon, a year or so ago, i bought an incomplete iPhone 5 logic board to test my skills in trying to get a phone working again after a full transplant. Safe to say, a year has passed and I have not touched it yet lol For those who don’t know what an incomplete board is, its basically a logic board with all components on it besides ICs (23 of them i believe) I have a customers iPhone 7 that has failed due to the board having internal damage from it being bent beyond its capability. It got me thinking, could data recovery be done on phones like this using these incomplete boards?? If it is possible, what components would have to be removed and put on the incomplete board or would CPU and NAND suffice to just recover this data? (forget the other missing IC’s, I plan to add the ones that are needed only.)
That’s a great question Jacob. I’ve thought of something similar but from the reverse perspective…when you don’t know what the failure point is, what can you safely remove? I have checked the videos online and I have never come across anything definitive. Jessa started down that path IIRC but it wasn’t an exhaustive test and you would likely need several working logic boards to figure it out completely. You would certainly need CPU/NAND and probably Baseband/EEPROM/BBPMU . You would also need PMIC/TRISTAR/TIGRIS as well. If you need to unlock the phone, you would need CHESTNUT/BACKLIGHT and CUMULUS/MESON. Of course, depending on the model of phone, some of these IC’s could be different.
This is basically what you re asking, this is what is involved to achieve what you want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-7cg9c…
Lets turn this around what is not needed? Power?Display?Input?Output? Sadly, I think you need to put all of the chips on.
