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How To Recover Your iPhone Files, Photos, Contacts, Notes, SMS, Call History, Etc.

Started by menoob · 7 months ago

If for some reason or another, you lost that important information on your iPhone, whether from 3rd party applications, your photos, contacts, notes, SMS, call history, calendar, etc., and doing a restore from iTunes is futile, don’t give up yet! As long as you ha ... Continue reading »

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  • Wendy

    7 months ago

    Hi, is there a windows based tutorial? I am running windows vista and need to locate my old iphone restore data from about 3 days ago...
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  • Don

    7 months ago

    my 2.0 2G iphone has just crashed bcoz i installed the wrong version of mobile installaion
    after that i upgraded it to 2.2
    but in my contacts rite now only names that appear, each name lost its phone number.
    any advice?
    im using windows xp home
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  • mb

    6 months ago

    how do i download it?!
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  • menoob

    6 months ago

    Click on the links (those in blue).
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  • Laura

    6 months ago

    When I try to use DiskAid the "Roots Folder" option is grayed and won't let me choose it. Any idea on how I can fix that?
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  • iPhonebreaker

    1 month ago

    You have to have a jailbroken iphone to view or edit the root partion, it is quite simple to jailbreak by simply using the quick pwn application that you can down load from the iphone dev team blog website, google it.
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  • Simon

    6 months ago

    Any guidance on how to recover older backed up iPhone files? (Do the older backup files even exist in an usable format?)
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  • John Schneider

    6 months ago

    Just tried this, but it won't work. The reason you can't get to the Root folder is that you have to have a jailbroken iPhone. No mention of that in this article.
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  • menoob

    6 months ago

    You're right John, thanks.

    I just did a quick check on the DiskAid's developer site and it does mention:

    "To access to the entire filesystem of you device, you need a jailbroken device. If not, only "DiskAid Folder" and "Media Folder" are available."

    You do need a jailbroken phone to access the Root Folder with DiskAid.
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  • Wiest

    6 months ago

    my itunes says there is a backup form dec 27th, which has all my contacts, but with this app to extract it shows a dec 31st one, one i fucked up and lost lal my contact on.
    is there another wya to select another backup?
    PLEASE email me
    kingofthedeltablues@hotmail.com
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  • dumas

    6 months ago

    I can't Get the Iphone backup Extractor to open. It just opens, then closes.
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  • lindsey

    5 months ago

    i can't get it open either... I need to get photos from my old iphone to my new one and I don't have my old computer where these are saved. help please!
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  • Rob

    5 months ago

    Worked great, thanks!
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  • Linda Magid

    5 months ago

    It all worked but now I can't read the notes. Am I supposed to be able to open them on my computer? The only file in the Notes folder is coded .db. I don't know what that is.

    Thanks for the support.
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  • kwekuananse

    3 months ago

    after step 2 I only find "iPhone OS Files" in the list. I am looking to restore my 3,500 contacts that got lost when I synced with iTunes to get my contacts from my phone to my Mac Air.
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  • kevin

    2 months ago

    So there is no other way to recover Text messages WITHOUT a backup from your computer?
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  • Syed Bilal Javaid

    2 months ago

    Perfect software to recover you iphone. I owe you guyz.
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  • mike

    2 months ago

    Is there any way to recover a "deleted by accident" note still on the iphone that hasn't yet been sync'd? New note would not be there as it was created after last sync.
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  • Tirupati

    2 months ago

    I Need a Windows based equivalent for iPhone Backup Extractor

    Anyone HELP please

    devilddn@yahoo.com
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  • vlad

    2 months ago

    i ve downloaded iphone back up extractor but won't open. ive tried but i cannot opened this application . i use tiger on macbook pro 2.4 ghz. what can i do ? thx
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  • red

    2 months ago

    hi. im red my pc content was wiped out including all my pc info. now i have song, movie, and pic files on my iphone how do i retrieve it back? im using vista pro?
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  • ZAVOSH

    1 month ago

    hi, I lost all my contacts in my iphone after downloading 2 applications. it was the first time i connected the iphone to the computer and therefore didnt have backups but i'm sure everything is in the phone. I had 1000s if conatcts and need to get them back. Any help or advise is badly needed. PLEASE
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  • Ana

    1 month ago

    HI, this post is extremely useful. I dont think I have ever come across such a clear, suitable for girls explanation of how to handle all the technological hiccups!

    I'm trying to recover the contacts i lost when restoring my iphone by accident. In your post you do a very clear step-by-step description of how to recover notes. Could you send me the instructions on how to recover contacts? (starting from step 8 or 9, i guess). I would REALLY appreciate if you could let me know what to do next to save my contacts. Thank you very much in advance!!
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  • Ana

    1 month ago

    Adding to yesterday: the determination to recover the contacts is so great that i'm actually spending hours trying to figure this thing out. but cannot find where the contacts are stored in the root file. PLEASE HELP?!?!?!!!!!!!
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  • BrianK

    1 month ago

    Worked like a champ. Thanks!
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