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On Mar 20, 2012 4:23 PM, "Neil Winchurst" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Probably off topic but ...
>
> My daughter managed to drop her mobile phone the other day. The screen
> is no longer working properly but otherwise it seems OK. It is an old
> phone, Nokia, about six years old now.
>
> The problem is that all her data are stored in the phone and not on the
> SIM card. And, of course, it is information that she does not have
> anywhere else, plus photos.
>
> We will get a new phone for her, but meanwhile she is agitating about
> all the data because, surprise, surprise, there is no back up.[1] The
> photos cannot be repeated, and the other stuff such as phone numbers are
> not held elsewhere.
>
> Can anyone on the list suggest any way to recover all this please? The
> data are not encrypted, and not corrupted in any way as far as we know.
> Possibly the fall did some damage, but we have no way of knowing.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Neil
>
> [1] Actually I did save a lot of the photos onto a DVD a while ago, but
> she has taken a lot more since.
The crucial question is "what phone is it?"
Grant
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