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Docomo Mobile SD Card
Check the dumping hardware overview for a list of known preservation hardware.
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Introduction
In order to extract all data properly from an SD card with Docomo content, we need some keys located in a hidden partition of the card, detectable only by some specific SD card readers.
Methods
Verify Compatibility of SD Card Reader
- Open the “Device Manager”.
- The SD reader details can be found either under the “Memory Technology Devices” or “Universal Serial Bus controllers”.
- Select the device you want to investigate: if you’re looking under USB controllers then you should look for a “Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader”. If you are instead looking for the device under “Memory Technology Devices” you will have to look for a “Realtek PCIE CardReader”.
- Right click the device and select the “Properties” option like in the image on the right (Note: the devices in that picture are only examples, refer to the Realtek ones mentioned above).
- Select the “Details” option, then in the window with the arrow, select “Hardware IDs”
- If the values written in the window below are either one of these 3 then your device is compatible.
VID_0BDA&PID_0129 VID_0BDA&PID_0139 VID_0BDA&PID_0140
- Now that you know if your device is compatible, we can proceed with dumping the SD contents.
CPRMTool.exe
- Install this driver if not installed already, open the file and complete the installation.
- Install the CPRMTool.exe, available here.
- Insert the SD card in the driver
- Open your computer terminal AS ADMINISTRATOR
- Lookup the path to the SD card block device using the following command:
wmic diskdrive list brief
You need one corresponding to the SD card, starting with this line
\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE
- You need to get the DeviceID corresponding to the SD card, save this somewhere, as you will use it soon.
- Now change your current directory to the one where the CPRMTool.exe is located (if you just downloaded it you should probably just use the cd Downloads command.
- Now run these commands, but change the \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 part down below with the DeviceID you found before.
.\CPRMTool.exe -dumpmid -card \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 -mkbid 11 -out mid.bin .\CPRMTool.exe -dumpmkb -card \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 -mkbid 11 -out mkb11.bin .\CPRMTool.exe -dumppa -card \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 -mkbid 11 -out pa.bin -skout pa_sk.bin
NOTE: if the last command ends up with an error after reading a good bunch of sectors - that's normal.