Fixing Water Damage and Recovering 200GB of Data: My Secrets to iPhone 13 Pro Max Logic Board Repair

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Here’s how to recover data on an iPhone 13 Pro Max that is water damaged. This phone was in really bad shape, with rust everywhere.

So I walk through the full process on how I go about recovering the data.

First step is always removing all the unnecessary parts, like the screen, housing, battery and just completely removing the board out of the original housing.

Then we focus on just the motherboard.

Since this is a sandwich model, we use the X360 V2 board heater to split the sandwich, as we only need the top board to recover data from this model.

With just the top board, we inspect where all the corrosion is and clean it with Isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush.

We then test the boarb with the DT880 (DC Power Supply) to check for shorts before & after prompt to boot. Surprisingly, this didn’t have any.

I tried to boot with a screen connected & found there was no image, as the display FPC connector was corroded and in really bad condition. So I replaced the connector & then found we had a short before prompt to boot.

Using the Seek Thermal Camera, we were able to inject voltage & find the short.

After clearing the short, we were finally able to get the data off the phone using 3u tools to back it up, then Jihosoft iTunes Backup Extractor to extract the data.

I hope you enjoy the video!

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