In this chapter, we are going to learn about data recovery techniques that enable us to view data that has been deleted from a device. Deleted data could contain highly sensitive information and thus data recovery is a crucial aspect of mobile forensics.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Data recovery overview
• Recovering data deleted from an SD card
• Recovering data from SQLite databases
• Recovering data deleted from a phone's internal storage
• Recovering deleted data using file carving