When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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      I hope so, my only alternative to get my old data off this phone is desoldering the NAND chip lol

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          Proprietary Samshit BS, the charging wall wart appears to have a different pin out from the USB data transfer cable

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            Not sure why I’m being downvoted. If your only other option is desolder the NAND chips, you can build a cable for probably $10 in parts. Ask me how I know. That shit is easy. Get you a breakout board and find the connector or a close enough one that you can solder or crimp and get to it.

            Way easier and less work than messing with the board level components, FFS people.

            There are also people who will build you one as a service if it is beyond you.

            Downvotes for adding to the discussion giving a real alternative to a stated problem is asinine.

            Edit: also, if you’re willing to desolder the fucking NAND chips, just solder directly on the connector header on the PCB. Fucking duh!

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              Dunno on the downvotes lol, but it’s something like a 24 pin connector that I have been able to dig up 0 documentation for. This would be a full blown RE’ing project, so desoldering the NAND would be easier than that because I already have a (one step above low end admittedly) hot air station and lots and lots of dead RAM sticks to remp up practice on

              Desoldering is the hardest part, then I can just slap it into one of those NAND/BGA adapters and dump it, no REing required

              But

              There are also people who will build you one as a service

              If that exists, could edge out my desoldering solution, do you have any recommendations of said people?

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                According to the manual, you can do PC connection using Bluetooth, so give that a try. I found a teardown video and at least the top side of the PCB connector doesn’t have too many connection points. Some high quality pictures of both sides could help identify the likely pinout, and a breakout board would confirm. I would give Bluetooth a shot first.