1 Anyone successfully recovered data from an iPhone that can't power on?
To make a long story short, my child spilled coffee on my iPhone 6s. The ear speaker and silent mode switch seemed to have been affected. I took it in for a cleaning and the shop broke the phone. I took it to Apple who said that they believed the person working on the phone wasn't properly grounded, and the phone received and electro-static discharge. Now the phone won't power on, not even an icon that it's plugged in. To add insult to injury, somehow my iTunes backup is corrupted, and I have seemingly lost everything. Has anyone been able to recover data from an iphone in this condition? Apple mentioned that the issue may be with the logic board. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Yes, have personally done many data recovery jobs from dead liquid damaged iPhones. Personally I wouldn't listen to the Apple store. They have no motherboard training or liquid damage training and are incorrect most of the time.
In a nutshell this is how liquid damage kills devices. Unless its 100% pure distilled water all water has impurities in it such as salt, dust, etc. Many of these impurities are conductive. When water enters your device it introduces these impurities to the circuit board. When the liquid dries these impurities are left behind on the board itself.
Since many of these impurities are conductive they create new "pathways" that aren't intended to be there. These pathways connect parts of the board to "ground" which shouldn't be connected. This is called shorting components or power rails to ground preventing the device from booting up.
What needs to happen is you'll need to have someone go in and find any shorts in the board, remove them and replace any other components necessary.
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