This package contains a special 'forensic' software, along with a USB SIM reader. This reader accepts small-sized SIM cards, making it very convenient for use with most mobile phone SIM cards. If there are messages in the SIM that can be forensically recovered, this software is guaranteed to retrieve them.
As well as providing all of the benefits of a standard SIM manager software, this easy-to-use package can display SMS text messages that have been stored on the SIM but marked as 'deleted' by a mobile phone. It also provides a permanent 'wipe' function for SMS text messages, ensuring that they cannot be recovered in this manner at a later date.
To use the product you take the SIM card out of the phone it is being used in, insert it in the USB device supplied, plug that into the PC or laptop you have loaded the software supplied onto (its easy to load) and then it takes about two minutes to 'read' the SIM card. Readings can then be saved to the PC/laptop or printed.
SIM cards will usually hold 10 to 40 texts. The texts displayed are the last texts saved to the SIM, whether deleted or not. Success varies depending on the phone type that the SIM was used in and the way in which the phone user manages their texts. Best results are obtained from SIMs where texts are regularly deleted and where the phone has been set up to save texts to the SIM. This is because the SIM fills with texts first, and any further texts are stored in the phone.
This complete solution runs Windows (not Mac) and the software supplied also doubles as a powerful SIM management tool. Works with GSM SIM cards from almost any network. Will not work with '3' network SIMs.
Due to the extensive range of mobile phone handsets and the way they manage SMS text messages, we can not guarantee that this will recover data from every SIM card - success depends on the phone the SIM is being used in saving texts to the SIM. If the phone has not been saving texts to the SIM card then there will be nothing to recover. If a SIM has been locked with a SIM PIN, you will have to know the PIN Code in order for this to work. In Addition, some newer phones perform a permanent delete on the SMS text messages and these will NOT be recoverable. There is no way of knowing this in advance and so this is something that you take a risk with when you purchase this product.
If you would like to be sure that this product will work with your phone before purchase, send a text to that phone whilst you have a spare SIM in it, delete the text, and send us the spare SIM along with your name and address so we can advise you (it will be returned to you promptly).
This tool is still your best and only chance of recovering anything from a SIM card, and we are not aware of anything that will enable you to recover items from a mobile phone's memory (as opposed to a SIM card's memory).