Getting Photos off an iPad 4

Diagro · 20 Jun 2013 at 18:17

Hey

I have an ipad 4 here that's destroyed, I can get it to work on the pc with the motherboard out and connected up to get the data back.

I managed to get the photos stored in the DCIM Folder but the other 907 that are hidden away i cant get too, Itunes is the most useless POS ever!

Anyway its urgent i get these photo's the woman who owned it unfortunately died and the husband wants them.

I do Plan to rebuild it from scratch, just waiting for the parts but i would like to send him the images to nite or tomorrow.

Does anyone here have any idea? I can get a hold of a mac air if only mac software will do it.

I cant use the ipad as all i have is the Power button flex, dock connector, Motherboard and the battery connected up to be able to access the data.

thanks

Jonod2977 · 20 Jun 2013 at 19:49

Hey,

When you connect it to the PC does it recognise it as an iPad or just an external drive? if you can get hold of the Mac, plug it in and open image capture and hopefully it is mounts as an iPad it should display all of the photos on the iPad and then you can import them to the Mac.

Thanks

Jono

f00b4r · 20 Jun 2013 at 23:02

There are a ton of programs that will mount an iPhone and allow you to either directly backup stuff or you can use ITunes to create a backup and extract from that, e.g.:

http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/

Blackhawk47 · 21 Jun 2013 at 05:13

Is it possible that the 907 photos are from iPhoto or something, which is sync'd onto the iPad through iTunes?

These don't show up on image capture/windows explorer from what I remember.

Jonod2977 · 24 Jun 2013 at 19:36

Hey Diagro,

Did you manage to get the photos off?