lose your iPhone? Or are you looking for a way to move all the files from an iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4? Well now you can easily recover data from your lost iPhone or transfer files if you have taken an iTunes backup earlier. After syncing an iPhone, iTunes splits the iPhone’s backup data (including messages, contacts, images from the iPhone camera, and lots of other stuff) into several files. Access these files into readable formats is an easy task. Check out the 5 utilities listed below to convert iTunes backups into readable format like text, pdf, XML, and V-card.

1: iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor

This tool converts the iPhone or iPod Touch backups that are created by iTunes into Mac OS X files. It helped in Decoding files that are stored on the iPhone or iPod Touch, such as Call History, Messages, Notes, and SMS.

The current version of this software works with iTunes 10.0.1 and iOS 4.1 or lower. Make sure you are running this application on “Leopard” Mac OS X 10.5 and upwards, Snow Leopard is supported as well.

The current version works with iTunes 10.0.1 and iOS 4.1 or lower. Make sure you are running this application on “Leopard” Mac OS X 10.5 upwards. Snow Leopard is supported as well. Click here to download “iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor” application.

2: Phoneview

PhoneView allows you to access iPhone and iPad file storage, voicemail, call log, notes, contacts, bookmarks, music, photos, and SMS all on your Mac.

• PhoneView automatically backs up your SMS and MMS messages, which can then be exported as PDF files, text or XML file format.
• PhoneView provides full access to your iPhone’s voicemail messages and allow you to take the backup.
• View, search and export your iPhone’s recent calls
• It displays your contact list organized by contact group. Just drag contacts to the Desktop to save V-card files or send contacts directly to your Mac OS X Address Book.
• All data displayed or archived by PhoneView is automatically searchable. Quickly find old text messages, voicemail messages and more
• Allow you to download camera photos and movies in just a few clicks. You can even use PhoneView to export the iPhone’s synced Photo Library if you’ve lost the originals.

This iPhone backup utility supports iOS 4.x as well, but currently, the following features are not available for iOS 4.x devices: Notes add/edit/delete, Call Log delete, Message delete and Camera Roll. Download PhoneView by clicking here.

3: JuicePhone

JuicePhone helps you extract those backups so that you can browse through your iPhone’s data on your computer. You can then save your notes and text messages, songs, and other application files. JuicePhone is compatible with all devices running iOS 4.x firmware. Here are some of the features that JuicePhone boasts:

• Extract your iPhone / iPod touch / iPad backups and browse through your device’s files.
• Copy data from any specific application installed on your device.
• Find out information about your backed up devices, including their serial number and identifier.

4: iPhone Backup Extractor

The iPhone Backup Extractor allows you to extract contacts, calendar events, text messages, notes, photos, videos, call histories and more from your computer’s backup of your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Here are some of the features of the iPhone Backup Extractor:

• If you’ve unintentionally deleted files or contacts have been erased during synchronization. Restoring the entire phone through this tool is darn easy.
• Allow you to recover your data back in case you lose or break your iPhone. iTunes does not allow you extract specific files, or restore without a iPhone.
• You may find the upgrade process from iPhone 2.2 to 3.0 can delete all of your data. iTunes will not restore 2.2 data to a 3.0 phone.
• If you recently upgraded your iPhone or iPod Touch, and want to move the files from your old iPhone to new iPhone. On the other hand, iTunes does not provide this functionality.
• If you need to pull out application specific data: voice notes from AppStore voice applications, game hi-scores, etc. iTunes will not do this and there is no other way without jail-breaking the phone.

This tool is free to download and will automatically find your iPhone backup for you then show you what it contains. You can download iPhone Backup Extractor by clicking here.

5: iPhone backup SMS Extractor

This last one is an online utility that allows you to export SMS texts or address book contacts from an iPhone onto a computer. Just upload your iPhone backup file containing your message or contacts (while syncing with iTunes). You can then download your SMS and contacts in plain text, PDF, CSV, or XML for further processing, archiving, recovery, etc. Download the iPhone backup SMS Extractor by clicking here.

If you end up trying out any of these utilities, let us know what you think by dropping us a comment below! As usual, you can follow us on Twitter and/or subscribe to our RSS feed to keep yourself on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad tools

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