Recovering deleted texts

[Shinigami345]

Some texts were recently deleted from my Verizon Cosmo Touch phone (it's a phone of medium intelligence not a nokia brick but not a super genius android or iOS) as far as I know there's no SIM card and all that the Google oracle can tell me is to subpena Verizon for the texts or I need a SIM card. I haven't sent hardly any messages to overwrite the deleted texts so I'm fairly confident they're still in my phone's memory.

[Kulverstukas]

You cannot recover objects from phone like that. Call logs, messages etc. are stored on internal flash (or nand?) memory of the phone which only the phone can read - you can think of it as a separate partition which you cannot access, not without proper tool (software and/or hardware). If it's a dumbphone like you say, then I don't think there is anything you can do. Nothing you could do even if was a smartphone

I might be wrong, but I know I'm fairly correct on this one.

[iTpHo3NiX]

Good luck its gone

[techb]

This might help. And some background on Fash memory.


It will be up to your phone though. You will need to locate the ic and look up a data sheet, then hope it's not encrypted on some proprietary algorithm that the company itself developed. They can also lock down the chip with hardware by setting fuse bits. While there is some ways to get past this, it doesn't always work and if it fails you usually brick the ic.

[p_2001]

apart from going to some forensic lab there is you can do.

I don't think you are going to find a recovery sems.....

[Whism]

Awhile ago a friend of mine managed to get deleted messages (up to 24 hours gone, or until memory constraints) off a similair phone, or so he claimed, using only in-phone settings. I'm actually quite interested in this too, so I'll call him up and try to find out. Seems a little unlikely however.