Visual NAND Reconstructor 2.0 update

Dear Friends!

We are getting more and more requests from our users to develop technology or tool for data recovery and forensics of broken smartphones. And this is obvious trend: nowadays people around the world store more and more vital data on the portable gadgets such a smartphones, tables, etc.  As our company keeps up with the times, now our users get ability to use VISUAL NAND RECONSTRUCTOR for data retrieval from any broken device based on Android. In a couple with smartphone adapter kit this is unique solution on the market.
Here are new features:

Android Data Extractor is an advanced Forensic and Data Recovery platform and part of VNR that helps to retrieve information from memory chips of broken Android smartphones.
Here’s what you can extract with current version of Android Data Extractor:

– Contacts

– Messages: all sms and mms with their attachments

Dynamic interface of data representation with it’s flexible functionality gives you ability to find required information very fast.
Use our sorting, smart filtering and multilevel grouping options to create your own view of the retrieved information.
And finally use our embeded reporting system to export all recovered data to .xlsx files. It will transition all your settings such as sorting, filtering and grouping conditions that you applied in VNR.
Just download sample report of contacts and messages to estimate its flexibility.

Quick video guide for Android Data Extractor

Extract all contacts from Android mobile device very easy and fast.
In the current version you can extract all contacts from Phonebook.

Work with contacts in two modes – short and detailed.
– For every contact in short view you can see the most important information such as name, phones, e-mails, last contacted
time, number of calls, account and source which contact belongs to and also flags of was this contact favorite or deleted.
Very compact and informative data displaying allows you to notice most interesting contacts in a moment.
– To get a very detailed information you need to press toggle button “Show/Hide detailed information”.
There’s a huge amount of information available – photo, addresses, organization data, events, notes, group, website, nickname, relations etc.

Get all sms and mms from Android mobile device in a few seconds.
At first sight you can see the maximum of information:
– type of message
– folder it belongs to
– timestamp, parties, body and source of the message
– flags (whether the message deleted or read)
Every mms has attachments which you can see in detailed view by pressing toggle button “Show/Hide attachments”.
Instant access to the most interesting messages with use of filters and grouping.

This is a long expected and very efficient addition to the VNR Smartphone kit. It helps to extract data from working and unstable eMMC chips. It was very inconvenient to use hex viewers and other utilities for eMMC physical image extraction because they don’t have a simple way to select and clone the data partition only. There are situation when you begin to extract physical image out of eMMC chip and it fails at one point so you have to reconnect device and extract image again from scratch. Moreover, user’s data partition is normally shifted from beginning by system partitions (sometimes 20-40% of dump).
We solved this problem too with two new elements of VNR which must be connected together – eMMC extraction module and Shadow copy element.

Quick video guide for eMMC and Shadow Copy elements

eMMC element allows to use externally connected adapter with memory chip (or any other external device) as an image source.
In case if chip is unstable and fails to read data just reconnect adapter and it’ll be automatically connected again. Moreover we save information about read/unread/bad sectors to the map if you use Shadow Copy element. It helps to continue physical image extraction from the point where it failed. The sector that was extracted will never be read again (until you clear the map).
It’s fastest, efficient and safiest possible way to extract physical image out of eMMC memory chips.

Shadow copy element is a real-time buffer for the data that you read out of eMMC chip and an image file container.
You can observe the file system and files through Shadow Copy element without having to image chip first. All sectors you get access to will be READ ONCE and stored im image with mark in map.
When you open file system viewer on Shadow copy element it takes a while to image metadata automatically and show you partition layout and file systems afterwards.
You can selectively image any file, folder or partition you need. Allocated (actual files) or Unallocated space (deleted data) extraction. Extract allocated or anallocated space only on the selected partition. The fragments of extracted data will be shown on the map of Shadow Copy element so you can analyze physical data allocation.
This mode is supported for FAT, NTFS, Ext file systems in the current version. A new unique option to separately extract and compress (remove gaps between fragments) chunks of unallocated space is supported for mentioned file systems.