mobile phones

[snugglecuddle]

Does anybody know if you send a picture to someone elses phone via multimedia message can the police somehow retrieve that picture if the person who received the picture says they have deleted it from their phone xx

[Buenchico]

'Deleting' an image from a mobile phone doesn't actually erase it. It simply deletes the file from the phone's indexing system. Until such time as another image (or other data) over-writes the original image it is fairly simple for anyone, using easily available software, to recover the picture.

Chris

[snugglecuddle]

thanx for that buenchico that is even better than i had hoped because if it is easy to retreive pics with software then its possible i can retreive the pics of my phone i took of my daughters injurys he did to her face x do u know wot software i need or who can help oh my god that would so help my daughters case against if i could get back the pics he deleted off my mobile hope you can help xx

[Buenchico]

This is a commercial site, with the software costing £27.21. However it has the advantage of letting you use the software (free of charge) to see if the pictures are still there before committing yourself to any payment to actually recover them
http://www.cardrecove...photos_from_phone.asp

Chris

[jake-the-peg]

A slight proviso to that.

When a file is deleted in this way from a computer or phone the memory that stored it is freed up for re-use.

If that memory is then reused by the phone for other pictures or things of that type the image will be overwritten.

In theory it still might be recoverable but you're talking big money and very special kit then