Things might be on a bit of a hiatus for the next little while. My trusty Sony Xperia Z5 Compact literally went up in flames a few hours ago, and I need to find a replacement very soon, as well as recover any data that wasn’t saved to my SD card. Thankfully, apart from a sore throat and burning eyes from battery smoke, I am doing fine (as well as my house).
My Sony Xperia Z5 Compact… after the lithium-ion battery fire.
Once things settle down, I’ll hopefully have a juicy story about lithium-ion battery fires and (failed) eMMC data recovery.
UPDATE (May 18, 2018): I upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S9 a couple days ago. The eMMC chip I desoldered from the Z5 Compact is effectively bricked, as it only identifies itself but no data can be read – I suspect that the intense heat must have “baked” the NAND flash and result in too many uncorrectable bit errors that the firmware couldn’t recover from. There goes my progress in Angry Birds 2 (among other data)…
Rip It Apart - Jason's electronics blog-thingy 
Ugly thing… It was the original cell inside of the phone?
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No, this was a replacement battery that was in service for about a year. I had just taken the back cover off while trying to diagnose a camera issue immediately before the battery shorted out.
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You can sync/backup all your files with bittorrent privately.
phone pc nas
https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
You’re welcome!
P.S. I’m syncing terabytes of data with half a decade of versioning. Yes I have unlimited data for gigabit fiber & mobile plans for my family also s9+ haha.
P.P.S. Loved your kentli battery dissection that’s why I even bothered typing this. Email me if you like my method, I’ve been perfecting my backup system for over a decade lol.
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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely have to check it out.
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