Need Help

[Atreyu]

Hey guys, I knew I could come to this site to find the answer to my question. I was wondering if  there was a way to retrieve old text messages. I have a verizon phone and the messages were sent to my current number. Its just really important I get those messages.

[proxx]

Well basically no.
And yes it would be possible to retrieve them from the storage chip in the phone but that would require quite some skill.
One would have to take the chip from the phone , defeat any encryption (if any) and try to recover partially overwritten data.
Thats pretty hardcore.

[Z3R0]

Atreyu, here are some factors we need to know in order to help you out:
-Model of your phone
-Did you opt-in to encrypt its contents/sdcard?

As far as I am aware, encrypting the contents of your phone is an opt-in procedure on almost every device. So, if you didn't do that previously, you will need the following:
-Micro SD adapter
-Very small screw driver
-(optional) phone disassembly tool-kit

From there, take apart your phone, locate the internal sdcard, put it into the adapter, and plug it into your computer with either supported hardware or a card reader. After that you should be able to browse the contents of your phone. This is where proxx was saying it will take some skill to find what you're looking for...if the messages were previously deleted, the easiest thing you can do would find specialized software for your model of phone to view caches with hidden/deleted files. If you know how to use linux, you can do the same thing without software and use some "ls -la" wizardry. Good luck!

Sidenote: -_- I feel like I just repeated what proxx said, but with more words...

[hppd]

How many messages did you delete after the ones you need to retrieve? I once got arrested and if I remember correctly. The police had a device that they could read some of my deleted messages straight from my SIM card. It must be something like this:

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http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-6593-recover-deleted-text-messages


[akshil]

you can use dr wondershare it will recover your deleted txt.

[a323109]

Atreyu, here are some factors we need to know in order to help you out:
-Model of your phone
-Did you opt-in to encrypt its contents/sdcard?

As far as I am aware, encrypting the contents of your phone is an opt-in procedure on almost every device. So, if you didn't do that previously, you will need the following:
-Micro SD adapter
-Very small screw driver
-(optional) phone disassembly tool-kit

From there, take apart your phone, locate the internal sdcard, put it into the adapter, and plug it into your computer with either supported hardware or a card reader. After that you should be able to browse the contents of your phone. This is where proxx was saying it will take some skill to find what you're looking for...if the messages were previously deleted, the easiest thing you can do would find specialized software for your model of phone to view caches with hidden/deleted files. If you know how to use linux, you can do the same thing without software and use some "ls -la" wizardry. Good luck!

Sidenote: -_- I feel like I just repeated what proxx said, but with more words...

That's the hard way.

Before disassemble anything, i suggest to connect the phone to a computer running Linux, mount it and start open files (or use the search option, to show hidden files put a "." before keyword. Example: to search PDF search .PDF). In this way i recovered a voice recorded conversation apparently deleted from the phone but still present.