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Question

Can I get media files from really old phones

by Jan 21, 2014 8:12AM PST

I have these two identical old flip-phones which I keep charged daily because I use them as alarm clocks and they both have various media files (videos/photos) of my best friend and I as young children and places we visited. I may go off to college (depends if I get accepted to the school that is far away) in the Fall which is also her 18th birthday and the start of her senior year. I'd love to make a movie on a flash drive or CD with a bunch of our childhood memories and videos. These phones no longer are a part of the Verizon network meaning you cannot call/text these devices. Is there any way I can get my photos and videos from these phones (without harming the phones) being that they are really old?

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It would help to know make and model numbers.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 21, 2014 8:18AM PST

Nod to BitPim for starters but as I have no model numbers I may guess badly.
Bob

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Yes, find a cellular dealer with a cellebrite
by Jan 21, 2014 11:09AM PST

This can copy data from nearly every commercially produced cellular handset, AFAIK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite

Are you certain these older phones <make model="?"> didn't have microSD cards inside you could use for copying over photos, etc.?</make>

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