HOW TO: iPhone Data Recovery

**antnida** · 09-02-2009, 02:35 PM

I got through this part just fine, I can't moved on to the next though. Keep getting the timed out error.

Originally Posted by scroll1

antnida, you need to use [email protected] to get into your iphone ( assuming your iphone's ip address is 192.168.1.102). Then use the password for root mentioned earlier

Got stuck right here. Keep getting the timed out error. I did checked my router and allow port 22 to open as well as having WinCSP running.

Originally Posted by lmarr28

Next, you'll want to make sure that you can SSH into your computer from the iPhone. To do that, open Terminal on the iPhone and enter:

Code:

ssh <username>@<computer-ip>

Where:
<username> = Your user name on the computer.
<computer-ip> = Your computer's IP address on the LAN.

If that worked, you should be prompted to enter a password for <username>. If the connection times out, then you need to make sure that you have the SSH server running on your computer and make sure that port 22 (the default SSH port) isn't being blocked by your router's firewall.

**0mie** · 09-28-2009, 11:18 PM

I need to recover ~600 baby pictures from my jailbroken 3.1 iPhone, but I seem to be missing BSD Subsystem and can't add any new sources. Is there anyway to get this to work? I'm probably missing something simple, but I REALLY need to get the pictures after iTunes said backup complete twice and I went to restore after my jailbreak and non of my data was there anymore

Any help? TIA

**spoonsslick** · 10-13-2009, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by 0mie

I need to recover ~600 baby pictures from my jailbroken 3.1 iPhone, but I seem to be missing BSD Subsystem and can't add any new sources. Is there anyway to get this to work? I'm probably missing something simple, but I REALLY need to get the pictures after iTunes said backup complete twice and I went to restore after my jailbreak and non of my data was there anymore

Any help? TIA

lets see if this helps you or anyone out there.

on iphone, restore firmware, download openssh and mobile terminal.

to setup ssh server:
download ubuntu, burn iso, boot it, select the one with no changes.

http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linu...sktop-i386.iso

open terminal, install sshd by typing:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

then change password:
sudo passwd

find your ip address, look at inet addr:
ifconfig

now your done with the ssh server.

go to your iphone, type this in terminal:
dd if=/dev/disk0 | ssh root@ipaddress 'dd of=/dump.img'

now go back to ssh server, find dump.img, move/copy it to your hard drive.

now reboot pc, download magicdisc:
Mount ISO Files - Freeware MagicDisc Download

and download photorec:
TestDisk Download - CGSecurity

mount the img file, and follow these directions to run photorec.
PhotoRec Step By Step - CGSecurity

sorry if directions are messy, i've been working on this all day, i'm tired, n ready to sleep!

Thanks and credit goes out to Imarr28 and teeks and google search, with some yahoo answers. thanks, i'm tired, good nite!

**nuttin2do** · 10-14-2009, 11:16 PM

can you show more details how to use ubuntu??? and wats ip we should use? I tried my computer's IP and it came up with "connection refused".Then I used my Iphone's IP and it showed "permission denied" after typing the password. Can you help me to solve it? thanks

**latinodancer15** · 10-26-2009, 06:38 PM

@ spoonsslick:

Is this being done on Windows, or Mac?

**SAVAGE5** · 10-27-2009, 10:19 AM

So does this backup your iPhone? I recently restored my iPhone and no backups were recovered from some reason. Will this get my old contacts possibly?

**808casher** · 10-28-2009, 01:03 PM

I followed the tutorial step by step, but every time i get the following error (just like PaulCelie). I tried numerous times to no success and need this to recover my daughter's baby pictures!!!!!!!!!

dd: reading /dev/disk0': invalid argument
0+0 records in
0_0 records out

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

**latinodancer15** · 10-30-2009, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by 808casher

I followed the tutorial step by step, but every time i get the following error (just like PaulCelie). I tried numerous times to no success and need this to recover my daughter's baby pictures!!!!!!!!!

dd: reading /dev/disk0': invalid argument
0+0 records in
0_0 records out

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Yeah, same here.

**dinoignacio** · 11-06-2009, 02:39 AM

same issue here:
dd: reading /dev/disk0': invalid argument
0+0 records in
0_0 records out

please help.

**Moe_** · 11-08-2009, 11:39 AM

can someone help me?
I followed the guide and after i typed my password in I get this error message:

Could not chdir to home directory /home/Moe: No such file or directory
0+0 records in
0+0 records out

I´ve got Windows 7 with OpenSSH and dd.exe.

Thanks a lot

**mcmcghee** · 11-09-2009, 11:53 AM

Just FYI to everyone, I experienced many of the issues reported in this thread. I was using Windows 7. After installing Ubuntu and going that route, I was finally able to get the image to start downloading to the computer.

**shazzmere** · 11-09-2009, 05:51 PM

It was taking forever for the disk image to load onto my mac, so I did a little looking around and found that you can ssh over the usb by enabling tethering which was quite easy to do. Now my disk image is downloading at about 1gb/20 min rather than per hour or more.

for tethering:

step 1

iClarified - iPhone - How to Enable Tethering on Your 3.1.2 iPhone 3G, 3GS

step 2 (for ssh once tethered)

http://ex.perimental.net/

UPDATE:

So I got the disk image, ran photorec on the whole thing and it got a bunch of stuff, but none of my photos. I got the disk image right after doing a firmware restore, and I hadnt restored to a backup or taken any pictures or anything, so it would seem that my photos wouldnt have been written over yet.

just wondering if there could be anything Im overlooking... options in photorec for example that anyone had to tweak to make it work... any ideas would be appreciated!

**mcmcghee** · 11-09-2009, 10:32 PM

Same problem, photorec found absolutely nothing from before the restore

**Moe_** · 11-10-2009, 06:45 AM

I'm a little bit confused: should i start the dd syntax on my computer with the ssh connection to my iphone?

**eunsei** · 11-17-2009, 03:34 AM

I just installed DD.exe to the BIN. folder and then I proceeded with the transfer method and it seems to go through but I get this little ordeal...

[email protected]'s password:
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.3.
Written by John Newbigin <[email protected]>
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
dd [bs=SIZE] [count=BLOCKS] [if=FILE] [of=FILE] [seek=BLOCKS] [skip=BLOCKS] [--l
ist] [--progress]
SIZE may have one of the following suffix:
k = 1024
M = 1048576
G = 1073741824
iPhone:~ root# dd if=/dev/disk0 | ssh [email protected] 'dd of=iphone.img'--
localwrt
[email protected]'s password:
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin <[email protected]>
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details

What is going on? Do i need to enter something else??

**strifej** · 11-20-2009, 04:01 PM

Hi

I'm trying to recover some cycorder videos from an iphone. I've gotten the image off the phone using DD, but wanted to know what the correct settings for photorec are.

I believe it is "Apple" partition type and HFS+ file system. I got a lot of .mov files out, but most are corrupted. One file did work.. so maybe those settings are correct?

Anyone know of software to recover parts of a bad .mov file?

Thanks!

**seseberg** · 11-21-2009, 01:56 AM

guys, pardon the interruption, but I think that the best way of doing this would be directly through the USB cable, am I right? because wi-fi seems to just take FOREVER....
I have been able to ssh into my iphone from my laptop running ubuntu 9.10 over the usb cable, but I haven't been able to do it the other way around. Do any of you guys have any ideas on this?

**Origin_Unknown** · 11-25-2009, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by shazzmere

UPDATE:

So I got the disk image, ran photorec on the whole thing and it got a bunch of stuff, but none of my photos. I got the disk image right after doing a firmware restore, and I hadnt restored to a backup or taken any pictures or anything, so it would seem that my photos wouldnt have been written over yet.

just wondering if there could be anything Im overlooking... options in photorec for example that anyone had to tweak to make it work... any ideas would be appreciated!

i get the exact same thing- copied the image to my pc and tried to use photorec to get my pictures back but none of my photos are there anymore, there is however heaps of corrupt .png files.
only thing i did differently to shazzmere is attempt a restore from what i thought was a good backup within itunes.
anyone have any ideas?

thanks for the guide though lmarr28

[edit] i have also noticed that i cannot mount the image file in magic iso or poweriso [/edit]

**thewitt** · 11-26-2009, 06:17 PM

I'm in the same position as others here - I have an image on my computer's drive, but it's zero (0) kb in size and contains nothing to recover.

0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000011 secs (0 bytes/sec)

I don't see a reply to the others here. Any ideas?

Thanks - I'm almost there.

**colouny** · 11-27-2009, 02:51 PM

Hey, anyone done it on windows? I am running win 7, have done everything excet i cant mount the image...? Any sdgestions? Thanks...

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