HOW TO: iPhone Data Recovery

[pwkelley7]

same here, does anyone know how to pull the image off? I can't umount or dd?
who knows how to do this?

I'm trying to recover deleted photos but I cant umount or dd. i get not a directory or special device when I umount. and if i try to dd without umount and mount -o ro i get zero copied......... How did you get an image, I'm on Iphone 4 with IOS 5.0.1

[Harjus]

Hi, I have finally been able to do a dump of my iPhone 3gs 16 gb 5.01 cfw with the command rdisk0 bs=8192 but this is as far as I get, When I try to use Photorec it stops after about 30 seconds and all I get out from that are about 200 .png files that are all black and in diffrent shapes in the thumbnail and som .plist files.
Any idea what to do?

[ma777]

Anyone have success with getting files of a 3gs on 5.0.1?

[Buritotaco]

dd: opening `/dev/disk0`: Permission denied cant pass this error (also if i dont shsh to my mac the error is dd: reading /dev/disk0': invalid argument) IOS 5.1

[Auesing]

Dear all, I am actually seeking the reverse.
Hi, recently I saw this post of regarding Data Recovery. I am not vert tech savvy and would like to seek your help. I am trying to sell my iphone 4 and want whatever data and photo/video to be deleted permanently. I know it is still possible with the current technology, but is there a way to minimised the recovery?
Thanks.

[hardikp]

First of all, thanks for posting this guide. I got through all the steps and photorec has been able to recover all the images, videos and mp3 files that I wanted. However, it did not recover any voice memos from the iphone image. From searching around online, the voice memos are stored in .m4a format. I also created a new voice memo on the iphone (after copying the image) and used iphoneFolders to verify that it is indeed saved as a .m4a.

I had recorded several voice memos during my recent vacation and would REALLY like to recover those. Does anyone know if photorec has a limitation in recovering .m4a files? Is there any other software I can use to analyze/recover from the image file?

Thanks!