Plug-in for mobile phones in iSync

Plug-in for mobile phones in iSync, how to use

All plug-ins can be downloaded for free.

Instructions for use
To install one of these plugins download, unzip and place the folder "PhonePlugins" in the "Library" folder (create the folder if it does not exist).

"Library" can refer either to the "Library" folder in the root of the disc (for all users), or to a specific user. In the first case the plug-in will be seen for all users in the latter only for the user for which it is installed.

The plug-in for iSync 10.5.x only work for OS X 10.5 or later.


Plug-in iSync for Motorola
ISync plug-in for Nokia phones (For Mac OS X 10.5)
ISync plug-in for Nokia For Mac OS X 10.5 or later
ISync plug-in for Sony Ericsson mobile Mac OS X 10.5

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Mobile Phone Chip Off

Mobile Phone Chip Off

If you have produced or know of a mobile phone chip off video showing methods and techniques for removing ICs/memory from various makes/models of mobile handsets then email (trewmte@gmail.com) your youtube link and then it can be added to the thread 'Mobile Phone Chip Off'.



UPDATED:

Thank you Paul for this N70 video


Nathan, thanks for the SonyEricsson W850 video


Another SE W850 video


Nokia UEM removal

One-Size-Fits-All Power Charger

One-Size-Fits-All Power Charger

Manufacturers have agreed to create a single one-size-fits-all power charger, thus the expectation of a standard PSU interface will be used. The approach is being applied to data-enabled mobile phones for models to be distributed in 2011 according to the EU, as reported by Business Week:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H9F7H00.htm?

Business Week identify the manufacturers as Apple, Emblaze Mobile, Huawei Technologies, LGE, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM), Samsung, SonyEricsson, TCT Mobile, Texas Instruments.

The news of a single charger has been around for a while but is a useful reminder as apparently the 2011 handsets wont be supplied with charger according to the Business Week article.

Handsets with the new charger design could prove helpful when we are examining mobile phones where there is no charger supplied with the 'exhibit' or the customer's DFE.

SonyEricsson Hidden Evidence

SonyEricsson Hidden Evidence

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I have discovered that it is possible when manually examining some SonyEricssons (such as "K" range etc) that after a user has deleted the Last Number Dialled (LND) from the call register that it is possible to recover the last ten numbers dialled on the handset using the 'menu keys'.

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Here is the routine**:

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- Select Menu

- Select Messages

- Select Write New

- Select Text Message: this displays the screen to commence entering text but no need to enter any text leave screen blank

- Select Continue

- Select Addr. book look-up (can also state Contacts look-up): the screen now displays phonebook contacts

- Select More

- Select "Unsaved numbers": displays dialled numbers for LND that had been deleted

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There are some noteworthy points to consider:

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a) the recovered numbers cannot have already been saved into either the Phonebook of the handset or *SIM;

b) there are no dates and times when numbers were dialled;

c) the unsaved recovered numbers appear in a random order.

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*Checks were also made to ensure the recovered deleted numbers were not stored in 7F10 6F44 (EFLND) in SIM.

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In recovering this information I found when conducting tests using handset readers *none* detected what may amount to important evidence. Most importantly, if produced in evidence (by one party against another) that failure to detect such evidence may suggest a systemic failure of practises/practices and/or procedures regarding the examination of this make and its various models.

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I do not think that the above analogy could be suggested as fair as an overall statement of affairs because:

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d) the latest "w" range of SonyEricsson does not appear to have this functionality as far as I can tell, but further research is needed;

e) The English user manual for the K600i and K800i makes no mention of such a function, which I am describing as 'recovery of data that may have evidential value arising from an undocumented functionality of a particular handset'. Thus, this matter needs to be considered on a case by case (model by model) approach.

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Ultimately this finding underpins the principle that examiners cannot solely rely and transfer their responsibility onto so called 'forensic devices' to produce reliable findings, that human intervention is paramount when dealing with mobile telephone examination and evidence. My observations therefore do not rule out using forensic devices or software device readers that are used to recover data that are commonly served in evidence. The objective of raising this matter is one of awareness and that the skillsets required for manual examination must be retained.

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**Note: I have been informed that the above routine doesn't work on the SonyEricsson K850.