Puppy, this is really directed at you since I know you have good recommendations for intel gathering resources. I was wondering if you could recommend a good sim card reader for recovering text messages. I have seen several on the web but the way the prices range it's hard to tell what's good and what's a ripoff.
I know that texts are a problem for a lot of people. Anyone have experience with trying to recover deleted texts? Just trying to discuss. Talk amongst yourselves...
Well if their phone is a blackberry or other java-based operating system, then deleted texts are GONE. Believe you me I have tried and tried and tried.
Some carriers with Blackberry will have options within the OS to "save texts to SIM card". Verizon does NOT have this option.
So basically, if your carrier supports this option, the OS will copy the SMS to the SIM card, which can then be read very easily.
There are PROFESSIONAL services out there than MIGHT be able to do it. There is also another way to do it by doing a full dump of the phone OS and memory space. Then, you need software to be able to parse and read the binary and hex codes. I am a computer expert, and I still have trouble with this.
Now I have recovered PICTURES taken by the BB camera. Since the mediacard can be read by Windows, then recovery software can find the JPEGS no problem.
See, the way most OS work when the "delete" a file is to just remove the index location of the file so the OS no longer sees it and thinks its gone. Then over time, the space where it is written is eventually overwritten with new data.
BUT UNTIL THAT TIME, the file can be recovered. I have recovered pictures more than 6 months old in the same session that I recovered the naughty pictures my wife sent another man.
Me - 32 Her -30 Married - 7 Years Together - 9 Years No Kids 05/21 - Bomb 6/8 - Exposed 7/9 - Re-Exposed 06/11 - She Filed
I recently installed eblaster upon recommendations here. It is good. I am learning all kinds of things I did not know. We are in a financial bind and I did not really have the $100 to spare, but upon the FIRST report I decided it was worth every penny. I do not regret it, but be forewarned, you may find out things that make you cringe and wonder if you REALLY want to know, and can really get you down at times.
