In the current era, a mobile device such as a smartphone has become a necessity in our daily life. We will use it in our business, keep in touch with family and store our precious moments. It brings convenience to our life and it holds most of our personal information. Due to the concern regards to data privacy, encryption is used by most of the company to protect user data. Because of that, the complexity of recovery has been increased over the year. So, when we talk about mobile device recovery, where does the data store? And how does it increase the complexity of data recovery?

Embedded Multi-Media Card (eMMC)

Is a NAND flash memory chip or what we call flash memory. It is small and attached to the circuit board. A large amount of data can be stored in this eMMC. It was designed to use as internal or main storage in portable devices such as mobile phones, tablets, USB drives, medical devices, robotics, and others.

Universal Flash Storage (UFS)

Nowadays, people are performance-oriented. UFS was introduced to the market with performance improvement, security features, write booster, and power efficiency. UFS wins over eMMC because of its performance.

Encryption

Data privacy and protection became one of the hottest topics around the world. To protect data from leakage, software and inline encryption are used to secure data. Encryption is the process of locking your data from unauthorized users. With this protection, users can get a piece of mind without worrying about their data and information leaking if their phone is stolen or disposed of. Unfortunately, there are unexpected things happened that caused data inaccessible.

Data Recovery Challenges

As a Singapore data recovery centre, we received cases such as water damage, phone crash, and motherboard failure which were unable to repair. If the crucial chips are not affected, there are still chances to get the data back. But, the specialist needs to verify the type of encryption and how to access the valid information. Without the proper method, we are not able to access the data as the chips will lock us out from it.
Although recovery of data from encrypted chips is the biggest challenge faced by our recovery specialist, it might take months to recover the data. Through various research that has been done over the years, our recovery specialists managed to recover the data from these encrypted chips. The research will never stop as technology keeps advancing. We will never stop if you do not give up on your data.

EHDR, We Leave No Data Behind!