ACELab PC-3000 Mobile

A Versatile Approach to Data Recovery from Mobile Devices

Product Code: AP-ACE-PC3000-MOBILE
Today, we cannot imagine our lives without portable devices. New models pop up every day: we use them to communicate, to study, to work. But so do the criminals! The complexity of modern mobile devices may bring you an unaccounted number of challenges during evidence recovery. That is why it is so important to have at your disposal every forensic data recovery tool that can help you with the investigations!

How many tools do you need to recover data from smartphones and other types of mobile devices?

Those who deal with mobile phone recovery know that they lack an all-embracing tool that can cover all stages of getting data from these devices.

If a smartphone is not locked, works properly and is accessible through the standard interface, you can use the available commercial and free software products to get data from it.
But how often do you deal with such cases in practice?
In real life, a mobile device is often damaged, locked or totally non-functional. That’s why today data recovery engineers have to spend a lot of money on various specific purpose-built adapters and programmers if they want to recover different mobile devices. But what they get are uncoordinated solutions which are very limited in their functionality.

Until now the market hasn’t offered any single solution with the capability to:

• Unify the whole range of hardware methods to access data both on healthy devices and on damaged/locked devices.
• Analyze and recover data from various file systems within its own efficient platform.
• Possess broad analytical functionality.
• Recover data from the widest range of smartphones and other mobile devices for digital forensics and other purposes.

ACE Labs has developed the world’s only universal solution to deal with all these tasks in one tool!

PC-3000 MOBILE hardware platform is based on three main methods of getting access to data from mobile devices:

1. Ability to operate via the standard interface of a mobile device belonging to any mobile platform. The controller of PС-3000 MOBILE has 3 built-in USB 3.0 ports featuring independent power control and error control. At the moment Android OS devices are supported by PC-3000 MOBILE through a special driver (x86, x64) created by ACE Lab. If a smartphone is not physically damaged, a common cable connection through a standard phone interface allows getting access to user data on a smartphone. Right now ACE Lab developers are conducting research on supporting Windows 10, Windows Mobile and Apple iOS-based devices.
2. For partially damaged devices: ability to operate via the factory contacts of a mobile device’s PCB using the JTAG/eMMC/FBUS/UART protocols as individual or combined access methods.
3. Widely functional chip-off method for physically damaged mobile devices, when it is impossible to get access to data content through the standard interface or JTAG. This method includes the following features:
• Direct reading mode for eMMC/eMCP chips implemented through 2 internal independent SD/MMC COMBO ports supporting the SD 3.0/MMC4.41 protocols (up to 150 Mb/s). A specialized kernel and proprietary design of the SD/MMC interface allow to reach high data transfer rates for “healthy” chips and ensure reading in a factory mode for damaged ones;
• Ability to operate via the NAND interface using the factory contacts of eMMC/eMCP chips, if the chips are unable to function through the standard interface or respond too slowly;
• Wide support of the eMMC 153/169, eMCP 162/186, eMCP 221, and eMCP 529 chips manufactured in 9х11, 10х11, 11.5х13, 12х16, 12х18 or 14х18 packages. To support such a broad range of form factors, PC-3000 MOBILE kit includes 2 universal adapters with a set of inserts.