Sunday, August 8, 2010

How to Retrieve and Recover your iPhone photos, contacts, SMS and other Files

Maybe you have experienced this, But how can we recover and retrieve all the files that have lost in our iphones? Photos, Contacts, Texts/SMS, Notes, call history, calendar and other Files. But don't worry too much because all of your data is stored in your itunes, we just need some third party applications to retrieve your iPhone files.

Your iphone backup is located here, just in case you want to know: (c:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup).

What are the third party applications that we need in order for us to recover your iphone files?


1. DiskAid for Mac or Windows (requires a jailbroken phone to access the Root Folder)
2. iPhone Backup Extractor for Mac (not sure if there is a Windows equivalent)

First thing, we are going to use the iPhone Backup Extractor

1. Load iPhone Backup Extractor
2. Click on Read Backups
3. Select from Device Name or Date where you want to retrieve your backup data and click Choose.
4. Select the Application where you want data be restored from or scroll down and select Other Files if you want to restore data from the built-in iPhone apps such as photos, address book, notes, SMS, etc.
5. Click Extract and select a folder where you want to extract the Notes data in your computer (remember this location).

Second thing, Use DiskAid To Copy Backup Data To iPhone

6. Plug in your iPhone to your Computer.
7. Open DiskAid for Mac or Windows
8. Click the pull-down at the bottom of the screen where it says Media Folder and select Root Folder (click Go Ahead when a warning window pops up).
9. Click User -> Library -> Notes.
10.Click the Copy to Device icon above.
11. Go to the folder where you extracted the Other Files backup files (in step 5) and select “notes.db“.
12. Click Open.
13. Click Replace.
14. Check your iPhone to verify the recovered data.
15. Do the same for the rest of your data that you want to recover.

Don't be so sad, we're finished. I hope that through following these steps, you have retrieved and recovered your cheezy photos in your iPhone! :)

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