[miscreanity]

Poseidon79 - While I can appreciate the suggestion, what would that accomplish? My data is still largely in place on the phone, but still unaccessible. I was under the impression that iTunes had properly made a backup in the first place. Every time I do a backup using iTunes, I now double check that the file dates are fresh, but that doesn't change the fact that my original data is still irretrievable. What would I research? Apple's ineptitude and utter disregard for a sizable segment of its clientele? How would I correct the problem? Should I whine about how iTunes failed until Apple doesn't think different? I do what makes sense and is in my power - that is recover a bit-for-bit dump of the file system.

guisquil - LOL! The full commands are below. There's no easy way that I've found to get a progress indicator with dd. Depending on the speed of your wireless network, it could take from 6-10 hours for the entire drive.

cyclonefr - Great, it works! Alright, the first string you provided using /dev/disk0 didn't work, but /dev/rdisk0 did. I had used the block size parameter with disk0 as per wickedpsyched.com and it still had issues. However, I never tried using the bs option with rdisk. Good call on discovering that! This has saved a lot of time and aggravation, so thank you immensely!

The whole shebang:
ssh user@iphone-ip dd if=/dev/rdisk0 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-dump.img

Just the system partition:
ssh user@iphone-ip dd if=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-root.img

Just the user data partition:
ssh user@iphone-ip dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2s1 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-user.img

[cyclonefr]

it took me around 3.5 hours to back up my 16GB iphone (I created an adhoc network between my Mac and my iPhone so it was faster)... To get an idea about the progress, just look at the size of the image on your HDD... It should grow step by step till ~ 16GB

[shogunR]

Hi, all
I never success to recovery my iphone 3GS photo.
Could u teach me step by step, so i can recovery it?

thanks

[TheRealHoudini]

Hi!

I've tried to dump my iPhone without SSH and without jailbreak.

I think it's possible, but I need some help.

The software I used is (iFuse for Linux.)

Then I've mounted the media partition of the iphone to /mnt/iphone.

But when I now tried to use dd for making dump of it, only one message appeard: "it's a directory". Yes, that's right

Is it possible to make a binary dump of it in otherways? Or is it possible to mount the iphone e.g. to "/dev/hda" so that some recovery tools could use it as a normal drive/device?

[sebek73]

@miscreanity
Hi,
I'm from Italy.
Thanks for your message.
I'm trying your method on an iPhone 3GS 32GB fw 3.1.2 JB and I would like some clarification.
I should run the command directly from the "Mobile Terminal" of the iPhone?
So it seems to work OK, but starts to save the file "iphone-dump.img" directly on the iPhone. Even if space was sufficient (it is now virtually empty), it is risky and the data have already been lost may never be more readable?
This means that I must first create the file on the iPhone and then transfer it on PC?
In various tests I tried to save the file directly to my PC (Windows XP Pro), is created, but still remains at 0 bytes, even after some time, is it normal?
Pray if you can help me.
How can I contact for more details? Skype, MSN or whatever.
Thank you!

[antnida]

Hi,

I tried to created an image for a long time now but never got through, please help point out what I need to do next to dump a successful image.

1) JB my 3GS
2) Installed open terminal on my 3GS
3) Installed WinCSP and Cygwin on my winXP laptop (only computer I have)
4) using open terminal on my 3GS and typed ssh user@pc-ip and type in the PC password. Works greats.
5) open Cygwin and type ping iphone-ip and got replies so I know that both the phone and the computer is talking to each other.
6) Type dd --version on my 3GS and Cygwin and both showed that dd is installed.
7) Tried the dd command. dd if=/dev/disk0 | ssh username@Computer’sIPaddress ‘dd of=iphone-dump.img’ and got bash: dd: command not found

I tried to replace disk0 with rdisk0 s=1M and no luck. Tried on the PC end with dd command and still no luck. Got the same message that dd not found. Any tips to help me get through this stage?

Thanks

[bingbang]

Originally Posted by miscreanity

The whole shebang:
ssh user@iphone-ip dd if=/dev/rdisk0 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-dump.img

Just the system partition:
ssh user@iphone-ip dd if=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-root.img

Just the user data partition:
ssh user@iphone-ip dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2s1 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-user.img

Are these commands run from the iphone end or the computer?

I too have been having difficulty getting the DD to start. have Iphone3GS freshly restored and Jail broken and PowerBook(10.4.11) and another laptop running Ubuntu.

[seseberg]

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?