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Water Damage: Is there a way to get around a non-functioning digi?

I have a customer who brought her water damaged iPhone 6 in for cleaning. The phone is completely dry after setting on pads over night. I have connected a battery and new screen however, the digitizer is not functioning. The main goal is to recover her data since she has photos of her father that passed away. I have tried to think of alternatives to recover her data. My biggest problem is that the phone is locked with a pass code. I have a program to back up and transfer data outside of iTunes but like most I have to unlock the phone.

She may or may not have icloud back up on. It would be wonderful if Apple had iCloud set up to where you can removed the pass code through iCloud.com

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No, you will need to enter the code, because the user content is encrypted using keys derived from the passcode. No passcode, no files, that's it.

For water-damaged phones, usually it is not the touch panel that are damaged, but the touch controller chips and touch panel connectors. The controller chip and connectors contain relatively high voltage to drive the touch panel capacitive sensors, which is why they tend to corrode spectacularly when water is present.

You need to disconnect all power to the board and clean it immediately to prevent further damage, otherwise it is going to very difficult to repair the board to extract the data.

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Thank you! I have cleaned the board and there isn't any corrosion left on the board that I can see. At the shop I am at we have never worked on iPhone main boards. So as far as replacing chips and other parts of the board I don't think we have the tools for it. We do have a soldering station for game systems and reflows.

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Check the connectors very carefully. Also the touch chips are on the back side of the board, under a shielding sticker, usually the corrosion there is massive because water is trapped underneath.

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