Is there any way to get photos/video from dead I-Pad?

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Even though there isn't a little flash drive buried in your mini that you could take off to grab those precious pictures, a motherboard itself is just a bunch of little Legos that all do a job. There is no theoretical reason that the logic board can't be repaired--it's just not a DIY thing, and sometimes the time to troubleshoot makes the repair not feasible even when it may be possible.

From my experience, I have two comments

1.) Apple Genae have a limited script for troubleshooting problems--they consider ""motherboard problem"" a big black box that they don't touch. You've come to the right place to get much more thoughtful advice.

2.) I would bet this iPad could be saved. In the absence of water or a drop, these devices just don't suddenly fail. Have you tried a hard reset--hold down the top power and bottom home button simultaneously fit 10seconds. If no, then I bet your battery is either not charging or not talking to the vbatt line--a technician could open your device and see what happens if the device is hooked directly to a DC power supply.

There are definitely things that can be tried. Feel free to contact me via my profile if you have any questions."

Hi, your problem just like another problem on ifixit, but the guy is using iPhone. You need to get your iPad repaired first. If the iPad cannot be turned on, no apps can help you to recover your data like your photos, videos, etc. Just have a look on this question, it may help you, good luck. Photos disappeared when battery replaced. Can they be retrieved?

it's stored on flash memory, not a flash drive (same technology, different interface), and if apple is correct about the logic module (which to me means Motherboard), the is little hope. It could be something else though, apple has been wrong before. You can try looking at the charger if you're desperate, or maybe water damage, (I don't know specifics of how it failed, so I'm shooting the wind). But if it isn't one of those I'd be surprised if you can get anything off

If you have iCloud backup enabled or you back up using iTunes regularly, there is no worry, your data is safely backed up. If you don't have these backup, your only option is trying to repair the original logic board as it is IMPOSSIBLE to extract data from a dead logic board or swap the memory chip to another board and try to extract data.

This may be a silly answer but have you tried using a different charger? Perhaps it was the charger that failed (as mine have done so many times) and your iPad is just out of juice. Good luck!

"Hi, am working on a procedure to do just that.

If the Secure Enclave is intact, its possible on some early devices to read it back using a procedure I invented based on https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new... to guess the key based on inference and use of an SDR without directly accessing it using a directional antenna.

This reduces the complexity to a level that a graphics card array can brute force in about 2 days of processing time.

Note that this is technically feasible but complicated.

Ideally you’d want to get a bitwise copy of the Flash chip as though encrypted it may be recoverable without this procedure depending on how computer technology advances which is why the earlier phones were obsoleted in the first place.

Its also useful if the board is intact as other components (notably the fingerprint scanner) can be used as these have a direct line to the CPU so theoretically dummy data corresponding to the user’s fingerprint can be fed in and used to TEMPEST attack the SE.

Bad battery can be worked around as I discovered."