Retrieve lost data

[cablefreejunkie]

Hello peeps
I just updated the missus iphone 3gs from 4.0.1 to 4.2.1
Problem is i stupidly forgot to back up first !!!!
She now wants to murder me
All pics etc have gone along with everything else
Is there any way of retrieving it back ?

[johnboy1974]

have you connected to itunes and done a restore it may have saved the data previously.

[cablefreejunkie]

have you connected to itunes and done a restore it may have saved the data previously.

its jailbroken and hasnt been backed up for a long time
ie: plugged into laptop/itunes
think im ~~~~ed

[cablefreejunkie]

if i restore this phone back to un jailbroken state would there be any way to retrieve all the lost data ? im getting grief from my missus and need help here asap

[PSXman_uk]

I dont think youll like the answer but when you update the firmware it definatley wipes the device before it tranfers the new os to it

[blackdragon125]

You can try restoring it from a previus backup and then you might be able to recover some of the data. See if you have a backup from another date and maybe it will have most of the data. If it works always remember to at least back it up every once and a while. Hope this will help I did the same thing once and from a old back up I got some of the data back but my missis still tried to kill me.

[tacochuck]

Try this.........

Recently, I bricked my iPhone and had to restore it in iTunes. In the process, I lost a bunch of photos from my Camera Roll that hadn't been saved to my computer yet. After an endless amount of Google searching, I finally found a way to recover, or "undelete" data from the iPhone. This guide will focus on recovering photos, since that's what I had to do, but the same process could be used to recover other lost data.

What you'll need:
- Jailbroken iPhone
- BSD Subsystem and OpenSSH installed on your iPhone
- Terminal (or MobileTerminal) installed on your iPhone
- An SSH server installed on your computer (mine is running Ubuntu 7.10 with OpenSSH)
- The 'DD' utility installed on your computer (this should be pre-installed on most Linux systems)
- Your iPhone's IP address
- Your computer's IP address

First, make sure that your iPhone and computer are on the same LAN. You can try to ping your computer from your iPhone (using Terminal) and vice versa, just to make sure they can see each other on your LAN. For example:

ping 192.168.1.215

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.

Once you know that your iPhone and the computer are talking to each other, open Terminal on the iPhone and run the following command to begin transferring the iPhone's "disk" image to your computer (be sure to run this as root using 'su'):
NOTE: Make certain that your iPhone's screen lock is disabled first. If the screen lock comes on, it will kill the SSH connection. Also, you'll want to connect your iPhone to its charger. This transfer can take a while.

dd if=/dev/disk0 | ssh <username>@<computer-ip> 'dd of=iphone-dump.img'

The above command will create a "disk" image of your iPhone (named "iphone-dump.img") on your computer. Feel free to use a different name or a different destination directory. For example: 'dd of=/home/username/iphone-dump.img'.

Also, be sure that you don't mix up the "if" (input-file) and "of" (output-file) in the command above. Doing so could wipe-out your iPhone.

After the process has completed and the iPhone's image file has been saved to your computer, you can use a program like PhotoRec to recover your photos.

I hope this helps!

More help here...........

http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/696196-guide-recover-lost-deleted-photos-files-iphone-3g-s-jailbroken-mac.html

[Snowy79]

It would probably be easier to ditch the other half ;-)

[cablefreejunkie]

[QUOTE=tacochuck;1052395]Try this.........



More help here...........

http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/696196-guide-recover-lost-deleted-photos-files-iphone-3g-s-jailbroken-mac.html

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i seen this guide on the net,but its way above my skills to try it,thanks anyway

[johnboy1974]

its jailbroken and hasnt been backed up for a long time
ie: plugged into laptop/itunes
think im ~~~~ed

cable you can still back up a jailbroken iphone to itunes- if anything goes wrong you lose the jailbreak but at least you get your shit back.

[cablefreejunkie]

cable you can still back up a jailbroken iphone to itunes- if anything goes wrong you lose the jailbreak but at least you get your shit back.

oh yeah i know that johnboy,trouble is my missus aint backed it up probably for a year or so,and in that time i have reset my lappy back to factory settings due to another issue,,i should of backed it up before i jb it,,

[JanetJ]

If you were using a memory card only then you can recover your data because in updation the old data is ever overwritten and you can't recover any over written data.

If you had the memory card then can directly recover that by connecting it to your pc via card reader and if there is any problem in that then you can use "Kernel for FAT and NTFS" memory card recovery software for the same, just plug your memory card to the system on which the software is installed and then scan the card in which the software will preview you the deleted or corrupted videos, then select and save according to your choice.