iPhone Backup Extractor 2.5.6.0 | 5.6 MbThe i
Phone Backup Extractor is an easy-to-use program to extract files from an i
Phone, iPod Touch, i
Phone 3G or i
Phone 3G s iTunes
backup. It is useful for restoring AppStore applications, SMS histories, contact lists, call histories, photographs and other data that might otherwise be inaccessible. The registered version can automatically convert the extracted Apple databases into CSV format, so they can be easily imported into Excel, Outlook, or Webmail.
How can I put extracted files back on my iPhone?It depends what the files are and on your level of technical ability. We can't vouch for any of these applications or methods working. If you know any neat tricks, let us know. In order of likely easiest:
- Load it into Outlook, iTunes, MobileMe etc. and sync with your i
Phone- Install a third-party piece of sync software like Sy
phone (Mac only)
- Install a Wifi "shared drive" app (AirShare, DataCase, etc.) on the i
Phone and try to replace the files directly
- Jailbreak the i
Phone and manually replace the files with SCP
- Jailbreak the i
Phone, SSH in and manually update the databases with SQLite once in
- Save your old iTunes
backup somewhere, get iTunes to take a new
backup of your upgraded
phone, then patch the new
backup with files from the old
backup and restore the new
backup onto the
phone (you'd need to hack the checksums manifest file to make this work which is fiddly but theoretically possible)