Phone Data Recovery in Montreal

Your photos and contacts are stuck in a phone that won’t turn on? Before you lose them, come to Sub Tech Repairs at 757 Rue Beaubien Est. We recover data from damaged devices in Montreal, including complex board-level cases. Free diagnosis, a clear quote before any work.

Common situations

Phone dropped in water, dead screen but data intact, device won’t boot, reboot loop, or motherboard damage after a fall.

Our approach

We diagnose free, explain the chances of success, and give a clear quote before starting. Often a microsoldering repair can bring the device back or extract your data.

Devices

iPhone, Samsung, Android and tablets. See also microsoldering in Montreal.

The first hour matters more than anything else

Data recovery is one of the few repairs where what you do in the first hour changes the outcome more than anything we do afterwards. Two habits do most of the damage:

• Repeatedly trying to power on a liquid-damaged device. Every attempt pushes current through a wet board and turns a recoverable fault into a corroded one. Power it off and leave it off.
• Plugging it in to “see if it charges.” Same problem, with more current behind it.

Rice does nothing useful, and the delay it costs you is the real harm — corrosion advances the whole time the device sits in a bag on the counter. If the contents matter to you, the right move is to stop touching it and get it looked at while the board is still clean.

What is usually recoverable — and what usually isn’t

Being straight about this saves everyone time, so here is the honest split.

Good odds: a device that won’t power on but was dry and undamaged internally; a phone with a smashed screen where the board is untouched; a device stuck in a boot loop; a charging fault that never let you back in; liquid damage brought in quickly, before corrosion spread.

Long odds: liquid damage left for weeks; a device that has been through several failed repair attempts; physical damage severe enough to fracture the memory itself. Storage chips are unforgiving — if the memory is physically destroyed, no technique brings the contents back, and any shop that promises otherwise is guessing.

Not a data problem at all: a forgotten passcode or an account lock. Those are ownership and security barriers, not technical faults, and we won’t bypass them — that protects you as much as anyone.

Recovering data is a different job from fixing the phone

It’s worth separating the two, because the right approach depends on which one you actually want. A repair aims to return a working device. A recovery aims to get the contents off it — and sometimes the fastest route to your photos leaves the phone itself in pieces.

When a device won’t boot, reaching the contents often means board-level micro-soldering first: restoring just enough of the power or charging circuit for the storage to be read. That is why the two services sit side by side here — most shops offer neither, so a dead phone simply gets handed back.

Tell us at drop-off which outcome matters more to you. It genuinely changes how we approach the board.

Your data stays yours

People hand us devices holding photos of their kids, business records and years of messages, so the rules are simple. We access only what the recovery requires. We don’t browse, copy or keep anything beyond the transfer you asked for. And you decide where the recovered data goes — your new device, your own drive, your own cloud account.

If your device still powers on and you’re reading this before anything has failed: back it up today. The cheapest data recovery is the one you never need. Once it’s running again, automatic backups mean the next accident costs you a screen instead of a decade of photos.

The assessment is free and carries no obligation, whatever the outcome. We’re at 757 Rue Beaubien E, one minute from Beaubien metro, open Monday to Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. — bring the device in as it is, and don’t try to power it on first.

Dead screen but the data is fine? A MacBook whose display no longer lights up often still boots perfectly: check MacBook screen repair in Montreal before considering data recovery.