iphone4 recovery

James Wade

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Jul 27, 2015, 2:16:42 PM7/27/15

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Anyone have any bright ideas on how to recover data from a damaged iphone4?

No USB detection. No signs of life.

Thinking a transplant might be the only way...

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Ian Knight

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Jul 27, 2015, 2:35:15 PM7/27/15

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Wow, looks bad to me! As you say I think transplant the mother/main board into working chassis and screen and hope.

Do you know what killed it, was it water damage?

I am planning on come into PHS tomorrow so bring it in and ill take a look.. Sorry iam am not optimistic.

Ian

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James Wade

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Jul 27, 2015, 4:17:55 PM7/27/15

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No, it's someone else's. I think it got crushed. It's the builders who's been doing some work for us.

I'm not optimistic either, I can't even get it open to take a look inside yet.

There's teeny tiny star screws on the bottom. Nothing I have is small enough.

See you tomorrow. Though my focus will be the bot! ;)

Paul Dovey

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Jul 27, 2015, 4:49:26 PM7/27/15

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OK James I will go for the bigger one. Have you heard of Genesis we could do with the aluminum casing

Ian Knight

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Jul 27, 2015, 5:24:09 PM7/27/15

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Does it have stuff stored in its SIM card as that still maybe ok, so you could pull it and pop it into a SIM free fone

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Subject: [Potteries Hackspace] iphone4 recovery

Anyone have any bright ideas on how to recover data from a damaged iphone4?

No USB detection. No signs of life.

Thinking a transplant might be the only way...

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James Wade

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Jul 28, 2015, 3:10:14 AM7/28/15

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Hi Ian,

The SIM only contains text messages, phone contacts with the related information like names and numbers, and history of calls including dates and times.

It doesn't contain the photos of the work done on my property which is what I'm hoping to recover.

It's not critical, but it would be useful.

Ian Knight

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Jul 28, 2015, 4:41:36 AM7/28/15

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Hi james, yes I understand what it stores and where and will take a look at it tonight.

My point of contacts stored in SIM comes from experience of broken phones eg. My friend Richard the plumber knocked on my door some weeks ago and said ian can you have a quick look at my phone as he bust it in similar way and I need to call the people I am going to next and boiler supplier to order part for job I am currently on. I took the SIM from his phone popped it in my one and said there’s your contacts call them and bring the phone back when you have got a replacement for this broken one.

Couple of days later he pops round “you’re a mate ian got me out of a real hole”. This is the real world that people live in and need a solution now and it is there not lost somewhere in an inaccessible cloud. And I as you know have been in IT long enough to see clouds come and go, 1^st was the S.I.T.A cloud in the 70’ties then HP cloud, then the IBM cloud and now another and another ET AL. Clouds come and go but your contacts where you need them when you need them is crucial to people with small business and it is clears the like of MS do not understand this.

See you tonight ian.

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Hi Ian,

James Wade

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Jul 28, 2015, 5:03:01 AM7/28/15

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Hi Ian,

I know you may know, but onlookers to this discussion may not. ;)

It's funny because in this case, if they do have Apple iCloud setup, the photos should be there and I don't need to recover the phone.

A line of enquiry I need to investigate.

Ian Knight

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Jul 28, 2015, 6:41:38 AM7/28/15

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Ya James, I know you know and sorry about the rant.

Just going to have to build my own smart phone that does what I want it to and you can drive over it!

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341370451

Anyone up for a coding weekend?

Ian

James Wade

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Jul 28, 2015, 6:46:46 AM7/28/15

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Heh.

I was actually speaking to Ben about this. I used to be pretty privacy conscious, as was the nature of the Internet when I was young and so was the Internet.

Everything changed when Facebook required you to use your real name and people began to get suspicious of you when you _didn't_ have any public visibility.