WARNING: this tutorial is now old and out of date it was written for OS 3x This will NOT work on any iOS 4x device as the raw volume is encrypted please see the new thread for iOS4x devices I charge my customers $$$$ for this service. Now you can do it yourself for free this is not forensic data recovery. That is much more complicated and way beyond the scope of this tutorial. I have tested this and it works. I am not responsible for any damages that may be caused by using this tutorial!
This will help anyone who just restore their iPhone and want to get back their data. Or accidentally deleted data and don't have any backup. To make this work you will need:- a Mac with enough free space for the capacity of your iPhone a jailbroken iPhone SSH installed on the iPhone a Data Recovery Software so now you have everything you need we first need to pull a disk image from the iPhone. Open a terminal window on your Mac:- navigate to the directory you would like the disk image stored in. Enter the command. Code: ssh root@ dd if=/dev/disk0 dd of=iPhone-RAW.imgReplace with the address of your iPhone. For example 192.168.1.8 would be.
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Ssh [email protected] dd if=. Enter the root password (default is 'alpine') go and make some coffee.
It will take a long time! When this is finished you will see in terminal something like this:- 31719424+0 records in 31719424+0 records out 8 bytes ( 16 GB ) copied, 14157.6 s, 3.9 hours, 1.1 MB/s 31719424+0 records in 31719424+0 records out 8 bytes transferred in 45 secs (1146449 bytes/sec) you will not be able to mount the disk image if you try you will get an error no mountable file systems. But if you open in Disk Utility the img file will be added to the list of disk images on the left hand side. Select the img file in disk utility and you will see an 'open' icon in the tool bar. Or you can select 'open disk image' from the file menu. You will see 2 partitions appear in grey now you have the volumes mounted use a data recovery soft to scan for your lost data.
I use 'Data Rescue II'. And check the box to show virtual.DMG disk. You will need to do a thorough scan of the second (larger) partition.
Your recovered data can be found in CBR data after the scan is complete. NOTE1: you can do this over USB instead of WiFi using a custom build of iPhonetunnel utility to connect to SSH: Changes made for this custom build: 1. Launch iPhonetunnel, forward remote port 22 as local port 2022 (or 22 on Windows):-./iPhonetunnel 2. Connect using SSH: ssh root@localhost -p 2022 so your command over USB will be:- ssh root@localhost -p 2022 dd if=/dev/disk0 dd of=iPhone-RAW.img NOTE2: you can use img or dmg for the image file extension. Disk dump is empty after a 4.0 restore. Maybe try /dev/rdisk.
'rdisc' vs 'disc') MacBook:Evan steve$ ssh root@evan dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2s1 bs=4096 dd of=evan.img The authenticity of host 'evan (192.168.1.8)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is xxx. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Yes Warning: Permanently added 'evan' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. Welp, no luck - it left me with a 17GB EDIT: The 32GB phone actually reset on me mid way through.
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Wtf? file that I couldn't load up in disk utility and couldn't mount via many attempts of different parameters with mount utility the blocksize issue was intriguing so i dug further - wikipedia says the default blocksize for hfs is 16k, but i found a forum post where someone wrote a script/program to get the iphone to tell its blocksizes and they were 8k for mounts on / and /var/private i understand disk0, disk0s1, disk0s2, disk0s2s1 are block devices, and rdisk. are character/raw. With that said, it wouldn't make sense to me to specify a blocksize for the rdisks trying again on rdisk0 with 8k blocksize b/c it seems to actually work so i'll see what happens.
Any other ideas if it doesn't work? Unfortunately, I only see one partition: 'Data' when I mount the image through disk utility. Regardless, I started up and performed a deep scan (I believe it was one). As it was scanning, it started popping up the words 'MP3' a lot which I thought was cool - but perhaps this was just a visualization as there are no MP3's in the files I'm seeing: it appears to only have the root partition because there's roughly 125MB to recover. It was at about 20% after 13 minutes and started to slow down-when I went for a shower it said 2 hrs remaining but when I came back it was done folder structure looks like: Data - -.HFS+ Private Directory Data/ -.journal -.journalinfoblock - @@@@HFS+ Private Data/ (contains a bunch of inode stuff) - audit/ - backups/ - cache/ - db/. (no /private or /var) - tmp/ - vm/ - wireless/ Orphans Folder -Folder 00001 - - sock P.S. Right when it finished with 4096K i started reading again with 8192K before even starting trying to recover files from the image I'll be sure to keep updating.
Hi multipazz and stw200, I am new here. Thanks for your posts here.
It really helps me to get my image back to my windows pc. I am using 3GS. When I dump the image, I used BS=4096KB (seems that it the only parameter that worked). I then use photorec to recover but unfortunately, I couldn't find any files.
I was wondering if the block size would have affected the parameter to be used for recovery software but stw200 has done extensive research and it seems that the block size should not affect it. SO, any idea on what I should try next? Thanks in advance. I am not sure if any one could throw some light in this. I have been helping friends to recover lost photo previous from iphone 3G, 3GS and now the latest 4GS. By using bs=4096KB and the normal dd stuff, I am 100% successful in getting back the lost data for 3G. I normally take the image of data partition /dev/rdisk0s2s1 to data rescue and do a deep scan.
Next thing I notice is whenever I do this for 3GS or 4GS phone, I end up with zero lost data no matter how I scan the captured image. The process to capture is exactly the same as I do for 3G.
I could see the directory and file name of all existing data but none of them could be opened as valid file. No lost data could be found at all. I tried with my working phone, phone reload with new OS, all gives the same result. I then try to do image capture via netcat and I end up with same result. I then do a cat /dev/rdisk0s2s1 and pipe across to my local computer, same result.
If I cat any existing data file and pipe across, the data file is intact. That eliminates the problem of networking.
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I have been looking every where and could not find any such problem reported. When I read the post of cop001, I have feel that he is encountering the same issue.
I just wonder who has ever successfully recover the lost data from 3GS and 4Gs so far? I am quite sure 3G is working. Hi Multipazz, Glad to learn that you have success in 3GS. I had so far tried many 3GS but none of them yield good data. I could see the folders and names of existing data but all appeared corrupted after scanning. I use jailbreakme. Com online for jailbreak.
However, I doubt that will create any difference at all. One peculiarity is if I tried to capture the disk image if=/dev/rdisk0, it will bomb out near to end of first partition (about 780 M. Do you have such experience? I am interested to get to the bottom of this. I wonder if by any chance you could send me a copy of DD command under /bin directory of your iphone because I am beginning to suspect I may have a different copy of that.
I do not really know how else to explain this!! Thanks for the great tutorial btw. I searched all over the internet for this. I am dumping data off my iphone4 as we speak, and it worked when i used 'bs=1m' 4096 didn't work for me and 4096kb came up as invalid command or something. I use a PC so some of the stuff has been quite tricky.had to download cygwin as the terminal. Got two questions, How do I mount the image on a PC???
Is it as simple as using daemon tools or other programmes that mount cd images? (supporting.img). Also, where can I find a programme that will recover files for free? (for PC) I wish there was a guide written for PC users.