u/Upstairs-Gur-6692

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Anyone have experience with EasyJTAG/Medusa/Octoplus Boxes?

Hi everyone,

I've got a bunch of old phones (pre and early android era) and want to do "physical" dumps of their memory to recover and scrape for photos and videos.

I would like to use a tool to help me but I've not found definitive claims that any of the jtag tools will support my phones and will be able to do physical data dumps. Some claim to do firmware repairs but they don't focus on data recovery.

One other option I'm thinking of going down is chip off and custom tools to read the data. Find pinouts datasheets and schematics, which i have done, and create custom PCBs and software but this will take a lot of time and effort i want to avoid.

I tried downloading the respective software for EsayJTAG and Medusa but they seem to not run without the hardware and I don't want to spend £200 to £500 and end up with a device that doesn't do what I want and that I can't probably resell because of activation crap.

Here are my phones for reference

Name Storage size Storage type OS
Samsung GT-S5230 50MB raw NAND Pre-android
Samsung C3300K 30MB probably raw NOR Pre-android
Sony Xperia C1505 4gb eMMC ealry android
Sony Ericsson Z770i 32MB ? Pre-android
Nokia Lumia 550 8GB eMMC Windows

Edit: I just found a cheap RIFF box so soon I'll have that to play around with. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome

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u/Upstairs-Gur-6692 — 3 days ago