There are two methods of doing it. One of them is to sync your iPhone with iTunes and restore it after the iPhone has been restored successfully. Alternatively, you can backup your iPhone data by SSH into your iPhone and make a copy of all the necessary data to your computer, such as contacts, SMSes, notes and calendars. What about my applications, games, videos, photos and songs? You can sync them with iTunes on the iPhone panel. The second method requires you need to jailbreak your iPhone.
Contacts backup:
contacts backup
Path: /private/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook
Note: Copy AddressBook.sqlitedb and AddressBookImages.sqlitedb to your computer
SMS backup:
sms backup
Path: /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS
Note: Copy Draft and Parts foloder, sms.db and sms-legacy.db to your computer
Notes backup:
notes backup
Path: /private/var/mobile/Library/Notes
Note: Copy notes.db and notes.idx to your computer
Calendar backup:
calendar backup
Path: /private/var/mobile/Library/Calendar
Note: Copy Calendar.sqlitedb to your computer
P/S: You may also want to backup your Appstore saved games while you’re copying the files from your iPhone.
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Great post!
For SMS backup, what is sms-legacy.db???
One more thing I noticed when restoring these backups, Draft and Parts folder, sms.db and sms-legacy.db I cannot send MMS anymore? The picture seems to just disappear or it just stays at sending… Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi Dusty,
When restoring the backup, please logon as username “mobile” instead of “root” and the password is “alpine” also.
@Alvin
Yo!
Ya I figured it out lol I actually used Putty and did the command code to change the ”root” to ”mobile” Working now!
Thanks for the reply and will keep that tip in mind.
Wow!!! Maybe you can share with me how you change it here.
Thanks…
when i downgraded my 3g from 4.0 to 3.1.2 i saved all my db files manually using win-scp thinking that i could overwrite the blank .db files once it was wiped clean to get my old data back. i have been trying for days and thought the mobile login was the answer i was looking for. alas, no joy. what happens when i replace the db files for calendar, address book, notes, etc. I reboot the phone and open the app, i get an apple screen with the logo and a progress line under it that goes about 1/3 of the way before the screen disappears and the .db file gets completely wiped and a blank file is generated.
anybody out there know how i can successfully restore my old files?
thanks for any tips
Dave
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