Lets admit it, many of us have faced this issue time and again. We delete an important text message by mistake and curse ourselves for not being able to recover deleted SMS. However that is about to change for iPhone owners, who can now retrieve their deleted text messages using UndeleteSMS.
UndeleteSMS is a new jailbreak tweak that went live in Cydia a couple of hours ago. So obviously, you need to have a jailbroken iPhone in order to recover deleted texts. We have got you covered. Follow our easy step by step guides to preserve baseband and jailbreak iPhone on iOS 4.3.2, 4.3.3 using sn0wbreeze and on iOS 4.3 - 4.3.3 using JailbreakMe 3.0. Factory or officially unlocked iPhone users can use redsn0w to jailbreak iOS 5 beta and iOS 4.3.x.
Basically, UndeleteSMS scrapes your SMS database as well as the Spotlight history for deleted records and it recovers them when these records are located. The recovered iPhone text messages are displayed to you in plain text format, allowing you to copy the texts that you need too, paste them in a note, email them so on and so forth.
On the other hand, it is imperative that you do keep in mind that UndeleteSMS happens to be forensic recovery tool and can obviously not guarantee that all of your deleted text messages will be recovered. One must understand that when you delete data, it is stored on the device itself until more recently deleted data takes its place. When that happens, the old data is forever lost in oblivion, hence it is unrecoverable. You can try as much as you like. Though that doesn't mean UndeleteSMS won't work at all.
UndeleteSMS only analyzes the remnant deleted data which hasn't been overwritten by new data. An actively used iPhone running UndeleteSMS to recover text messages may return more fruitful results than a freshly restored iPhone without a backup. So its better to look at UndeleteSMS as a utility that can let you get deleted iPhone texts back, not as something that will definitely bring your texts back for sure. Its not a guarantee.
UndeleteSMS is now available for purchase in the Cydia store for $6.99, under the BigBoss repository.