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iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this (tested on my iPhone 4, with iOS 4.0.1 using the www.jailbreakme.com jailbreaker). You don’t need OpenSSH installed, but I prefer it. If you install OpenSSH, connect using root@iphoneipaddress, password ‘alpine’ – I suggest changing this using the `passwd` command while you’re at it. MobileTerminal currently doesn’t work on iOS 4.0.1, atleast on the iPhone 4

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Pull image off iPhone using the following commands.

grook-mac:~ aknowles$ nc -l 30001 | dd of=iphone.img

iPhone:~ root# dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2s1 bs=1M | nc 192.168.1.1 30001

The `nc` command, aka netcat, opens a port up and listens using the -l switch. You run this on your destination computer, and pipe the output to the disk image file, iphone.img (filename unimportant).

On the iPhone itself, you point `nc` to the destination computer after it has been setup to listen. Pipe the output of `dd` reading the iPhone disk to the `nc` command and it will transfer. Note: I found the iPhone would not read the disk without the bs=1M switch.

The process can take a while. It’s taken about 20 minutes for 2.5gb to transfer over the wireless link I’ve setup between my laptop and my iPhone… For a 32gb iPhone, this will obviously take a while!!!

Once complete, analyse iphone.img with Scalpel or whichever forensics software you prefer.

Reference Links:

www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=22588

log.ijulien.com/post/182804914/iphone-3gs-data-recovery

modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/237321-how-iphone-data-recovery.html

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