Retrieving Data From A Completely Dead Iphone 5S

[Alicat58]

My friend broke his iPhone 5c can't get it working so took it to get its screen fixed. They also tried a new battery and charging port but it stayed dead.
He has photos of his daughter from when she was a baby and videos of when she first crawled is there anyway we can retrieve this data?
It isn't registering when its plugged into the computer and no icloud or anything

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe a workshop has forensic methods, but presumably it wasn't backed up and is now sounding likely to be lost. Dead is dead. You'd be hoping that the flash drive (or whatever) is connectable and working. Doesn't sound cheap.

[Alicat58]

Thanks, I had an idea it might be goosed. I don't see the point of keeping years worth of stuff on their mobiles when they are so easily lost of broken. I will break the bad news to him.

[EDDIE51]

^^ Yes , I can't understand why people keep photos / videos on their phones with out backing them up to a computer. A phone is so easily lost, stolen or damaged.
I still have several film cameras that I use for family photos. People used to laugh at me and make comments like ' are you still living in the stone age?'
Now people see me with a wallet of 'proper photographs' that you can hand round and I get comments like '' Wow ! I had forgotten , how good real pictures are'' and where can I get a 'real camera?''

[hc4361]

Eddie, digital photos can be professionally printed, too.

[Alicat58]

@EDDIE5 1 There is something different about photos taken with film. These seem to have more warmth and depth. I have thousands of pictures taken on film and some professionally printed digital pictures but there is still something lacking.
On the up side, you can take thousands of digital photos and just delete what you don't like or hasn't worked. For me, with film it was always like holding my breath in case they did not come out right!

[Tuvok]

Has he tried an Apple Store rather than one of the High Steet shops?

[Fitzer]

5C or 5S, the difference is crucial, if it's a 5S and the home button was replaced by someone other than Apple and he's on IOS 9 then chances are it's bricked, Google for 'error 53 iPhone' to read the full horror :-( There's no problem having all your pictures etc. on the phone as long as you back them up.

[Alicat58]

Sorry, it is a 5s. We live 40 miles away from the nearest Apple store but they are accepting now that the phone is totally dead and gone.

[ll_billym]

You could request a quote from these guys:

http://www.krollontrack.co.uk/data-recovery/apple-recovery/

Looking at pricing for similar services in the USA you'd probably be be looking at between £250-£500 to recover the data.

[tamborine]

this is woth a try, by use of sim card into another phone

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importing-old-sim-card-contacts-photos-iphone-79078.html