spirit jailbreak How To Recover Deleted Photos After Spirit Jailbreak

The first release of Spirit had a bug that accidently could delete all of your photos from the device that was jailbroken. If you have a backup which you made before jailbreaking your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, here is a quick guide how to recover deleted photos.

1. Open Cydia and search for “OpenSSH” and then install it. Reboot your device.

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2. Download and then install iPhone Backup Extractor.

3. Run iPhone BackUp Extractor. Select your last backup (that was made before jailbreak)

4. Navigate to Media/Media and select DCIM folder. Click “Next” and program will save the files locally.

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5. Download and then istall WinSCP for Windows or Cyberduck for Mac . Open it and enter the following data to login to your device.

WinSCP for Windows

  • Hostname: The IP address of your device. (Settings –> WiFi –> <Your Network Name>)
  • Protocol: SCP
  • User name: root
  • Password: alpine

WinSCP

Cyberduck for Mac OS X

  • Server: The IP address of your device. (Settings –> WiFi –> <Your Network Name>)
  • Protocol: SFTP
  • Username: root
  • Password: alpine

CyberDuck

6. Go to /User/Media directory and then copy over the DCIM folder.

7. Reboot your device.

After that you’ll have all your backuped photos back.


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