Is it possible to recover all the text messages after restoring factory settings on a Nokia N73 phone Is there any software available to do that?
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There are couple of software that do backup and recovery of PIM (mainly for PDA phone in Window Mobile) such as Sprite and SPB Backup. They are two popular software and do take a look at the link that compare each. There are granular setting to state the backup settings. It will be great to have such as you can restore in other devices with the file (in storage card or similar)
<http://www.spritesoftware.
For free tool on Window Mobile devices, check out <http://www.dotfred.net/> which also cover similar area and are not far from the commercial software.
There isn't really full clone for the PDA phones but the recovery does allow provide portability to other PDA phone. For phone specific, manufacturer do supplied with their software to backup details including the contacts, application and etc. Nokia and Sony Ericcson has their own application. I will say do a backup of the SIM based on SIM copier and manufacturer software (or come with CD during phone purchase).
There are also instance where it can be an online backup services for the PDA phones (connected by gprs or better services, as long as you can serve web). Of course note that even if it is encrypted, it is still based on password (subjected to brute force) and privacy issue need to be considered
<http://www.palmarysoft.com
Also to share even deleted SIM, it is possible for recovery, check out this software <http://www.simrecovery.org
Hope it helps ....
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by: breadtanPosted on 2008-12-31 at 02:52:38ID: 23269086
You should take a quick look at this link that would answer your question (even though it did not mentioned on that model but in general it apply to all cell phones)
<http://csrc.nist.gov/publ
Do check out the tools highlighted and there are open source but not of much use except maybe TULP 2G. Hence do focus on the commercial too such as PDA Seizure and etc
See useful extracts:
For Nokia phones, there is no mention of your model but do note that some of the Nokia 6610 models tested do not support Hard reset hence the testing is not applicable. But for Nokia 7610, no internal phone memory data is recovered was found. However, data populated onto the MMC card was found and reported.
[So do note the other possible 'leakages' as well. Hence unless it goes through the formal testing, it is not possible to recover directly upon hard reset (unless we can validate the claims).]
Other test findings iinclude:
On Blackberry, the following data was found after clearing the device through the desktop manager: PIM data (i.e., Address Book, Calendar), dialed/received phone calls and Internet Messaging data (i.e., subject/filename).
On Sony Ericsson A Hard Reset was performed by selecting, Master Reset in the settings menu. SMS messages and quicknotes were found in the memory dump file.
[Overall, it will not be conclusive as leakages are possible but challenges is also at the point of the recovery. For example the recovery chances are slim if the handset is reused and not sent to immediate acquisition as the memory will be tampered even further by the handset OS.]
Hope it helps..