[XDA Assist] edward.snowden:
My apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section

I'm in the middle of a big project that involves

LP getting some photos from a friend's phone the phone is an LG KP 202 clamshell it hasn't been turned on for about 7 years but it has the only pictures in existence of her first born child.

I managed to get into service mode by pressing a key combination and sure enough the photos are on there and everything seems ok but because it is a uart type interface it isn't as easy as plugging it in to a PC and dragging the files off

And to compound the problem someone has tried to network unlock it but I entered the wrong code too many times so there is no chance of a straight nck code unlock I have even been in contact with Vodafone Australia who will unlock those phones for free usually and I've tried the nck code but nothing happens

I tried various things with different USB cables and rs232 dongles and anything I could find but none of it worked so in the end of brought a z3x box

I have managed to make a backup of the phone now with the box and end up with a 32 megabyte dot bin file. I jump straight on to Kali Linux and tried pretty much everything. Autopsy binwalk etc etc With the best results seem to come from digital forensic framework and carvergui. Indeed I am carving out the photos I'm looking for but unfortunately they all seem to be corrupted. Some of the pictures may only contain about the first centimetre of quality data and then the rest is just multicolour pixelated garbage eventually grey blank. Some are almost complete and have the bottom centimetre of the photo with garbage data

I don't have any training or qualifications at all I'm just a bit of a hack in my spare time I know a little bit about the way things work but I'm not sure why this is happening because you can see that the data on the phone is in good condition because the photos display perfectly on the screen. I have been thinking that it may be due to the fact that the LG phone is based on a Linux system and I'm transferring it onto a Windows system and then back on to Linux and it may have something to do with the dos Linux file conversion but being binary data I'm not so sure.

I have tried ripping the data from the phone at low and high speeds but it seems to make no difference and I'm not even sure which part of her phone I'm actually downloading whether or not the user data partition (let's call it) is part of what im extracting or whether these images are just remnants of background caching processes etc

There seems to be (let's call them) 2 partitions and they are like this. The first one is "code data" and the second one called alchemy data I'm assuming that the code data contains the system files and the alchemy contains user data + other sorts of files it's very hard for me to tell because I think the positions are roughly equal size and dff reports them as part of a raid array so i doubt it's reporting correctly. And besided that, in the specifications it says it's only got a whopping 4 megabytes of user memory.

I do have the z3x box so I am able to unlock the phone but I'm not sure how much of the data I'm going to overwrite and if anyone could give me a clue or help me out in any way I'd really appreciate it if there's anything else you want to know just get back to me I'm pretty much at the end of skill set on this one but really need to get at those photos thanks guys cheers

I don't think my failure is in my approach but more in the execution and probably a few minor settings tweaks might see me to the finish line but I'm just not sure what they are

Just a side note isn't it amazing how far we've come in just seven years and with that in mind seeing that the dump is only 32 megabytes I could probably put it on send space if anyone's interested thanks again