{"id":3132,"date":"2011-01-09T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2011-01-09T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T06:17:49","slug":"salty-microsd-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/salty-microsd-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Salty microSD Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/salty_microsd_card\/IMG_5822.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96024-2\/IMG_5822.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Top of the microSD card, a 4GB Class 4 card, with a visible crack. Hopefully it still works.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On Friday while out at lunch I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MicroSD\">microSD<\/a> reader and card in the parking lot of a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biggby.com\/\">Biggby Coffee<\/a>. While it had been run over, was caked in salt, and appeared to have a cracked microSD card, I decided that I should try and see if it&#8217;ll work anyway. Unfortunately, after washing it in water and alcohol and drying it I found that the crack damaged the chip inside. Thus, when placed in a microSD reader, the card wasn&#8217;t detected and no data could be read.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the image above to <a href=\"http:\/\/bunniestudios.com\/blog\/images\/microsd_lineup.jpg\">this one<\/a> (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/\">Bunnie Huang<\/a>&#8216;s excellent article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=918\">On MicroSD Problems<\/a>) shows that the crack ran through the area where silicon lies. <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/salty_microsd_card\/IMG_5831.jpg.html\">This photo, where I finished breaking open the card after failing to read it<\/a> shows a thin silver line which I believe to be the chip itself.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see more photos of the microSD card that I found and my attempt at recovering data from it, check them out here: <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/salty_microsd_card\/\">Salty microSD Card<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday while out at lunch I found a microSD reader and card in the parking lot of a local Biggby Coffee. While it had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/salty-microsd-card\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salty microSD Card<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-found-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}