Recently I have received a request to check data recovery possibilities from a damaged Sony Xperia Z5 Premium smartphone. The phone was dropped and it stopped working. No screen, no charging, no communication on any interfaces, no sign of life, it was nothing more than a brick. Well, a brick, with tons of useful data on it without any cloud synchronisation or offline backup. Needless to say how important was for the owner to get his priceless information back from the device.

Some damage identification and recovery probes were already conducted by other professional parties, even a new screen was ordered and tried, but none of the activities provided any promising result. After the failed attempts the owner almost gave up the hope, but fortunately, we had a common acquaintance and this is how I came to the picture.  Due to the previous investigations the phone arrived to me partially dismantled, without a battery and with some metal shields already removed.

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