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Hm you’re local Asian computer/phone dude. Mobile phones are deliberately built to NOT be servicable but in china and hong kong there are tons of people who have the tools and whatnots for opening phones, upgrading parts etc even of course cloning data. Its a privacy nightmare to me the thought of it but having a mobile phone your’re privacy is pretty much gone anyway. I guess the real thing to sort out is what do you mean “dead” did it catch fire? Fall in the toilet? Get stepped on? Is it just not charging? Depending on the problem you can probably get it fixed, maybe have it cloned to a “new” same model device, I dont know if the contents can be read like a thumbdrive, phones do tend to have a different way of doing things and encrypted too. Only thing you can do is find one of those seedy looking phone repair store run by asians, Official brand name storea wont help because repairs and recovery are not exactly typical and possible illegal so no teltrsa, optus or apple etc wont help, they have small lists of what they can do. Its how everything is set up, even our government expects every person to have a smart phone and replace it ever year or two. But people are not meant to be able to do anything beyond normal operation of a smartphone buthe the tools to tinker and jailbreak or clone phone operating system is fairly cheap and readily available from china, none of it is something you can use without knowing how already. They are the sort of tools meant for phone hacker types who understand phone fundamentally and are tricky tools to use even then, But its a niche job market thats big in asia and nobody is interested in manufacturers interests they just want to do X & Y with their phone. Like the days of modding your playstation to allow you to burn and play game copies It could be tricky to find people willing to sell you the modchips or fit them (which in some cases involved irreversible changes to the motherboard. So depending on what Dead means for your phone, I’m sure you can find help. Is there a chinatown area near you? Go look for a phone repair store there or a computer repair store and ask them. Unless your phone is burnt to a crisp I’m willing to bet there is a way to recover your stuff, There are forensic recovery labs to but like all data recovery services you’ll likely take one look at its likely to cost you several grand and decide the photos arent worth it. People always seem to be desparate to get their data back until its going to cost more than $5, Its why I dont set up myself to do hdd recovery as people are the biggest problem with the process, so I dont care in the least.
You have al least tried to usb plug it into your computer to see if mounts as a usb storage where some files get put. But best is to take it to the dodgy asian and get them to try what they can and give you a thumbdrive of anything they find, pay them and be thankful for anything and know some of your data is valuable on the black market (like your banking details, passwords, etc) and that stuff will likely end up on the black market joined with other data salvaged from others devices etc.
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