HowTo: Restoring your iPhone Notes from a Mac

If anyone knows how the Notes function works on the iPhone in comparison to Notes on an iPod where you can load the Notes directory (& Calendar too) up with a set of files (if the iPod is accessible in disk mode) in a hierarchical structure so they can be navigated offline & meaningful content (in my case travel destination info) can be used by folks - (in Calendar - events at a destination can be searched as well), I'd appreciate being pointed to reference material that might help me better use the iPhone platform for my applications & preload notes into the iPhone notes.db file.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Marvin

Nice work, thanks!

Do Apple Dev Tools = xcode? (1gb of code, yikes!) http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/

Or what exactly needs to be installed? I need to try this, so will someone please provide a link to the specific app(s)?

@Mark, from memory there's a "DCIM" folder in the root directory, just like any digital camera would have.

But just plug the iPhone in and launch iPhoto to offload the photos.

Any idea where photos taken on the iPhone but not transferred to iPhoto are stored as they don't seem to be backed up in iTunes and do get wiped out with restores.

My notes are all good, ZuD doesn't mess with things he doesn't comprehend. Apple will give us what we need when they have it ready.

I found a really good way to make sure that a restore doesn't blow away your backed up stuff.

1) go into iTunes Preferences and DELETE your current iPhone backup.
2) Re-sync the iPhone to create a NEW iPhone backup.
3) (this is the most important part) When you want to update your phone, DO NOT CLICK UPDATE. Instead, click RESTORE. This way, the apple software won't have the unknown error and fritz up. Just do the restore because if you're hacked your phone, you'll have to do that anyway.

Following these instructions, I restored all my texts, notes, settings, etc with no problems, where-as with the 1.0.1 update, I didn't follow these and I lost everything.

Hope that helps.

I don't know why, but for some reason I retained a lot of stuff when I restored for the 1.0.2 upgrade as opposed to the 1.0.1 upgrade. Of course the restore was expected in advance due to hacking, but this time I had kept everything organized for re-hacking. I was up and running as before with all my hacks and apps in about 30 minutes.

David's comment above is awesome. I've added it to my list. In fact, since iTunes doesn't back this stuff up, I'm adding it to my weekly maintenance/backup routine for my Mac.

Don't hack your phone and you won't lose them.

You've already got SSH into the phone, why go to this trouble. Before restoring, ssh, grab /var/root/Library/Notes/notes.db restore/update phone, then put the file back. It's a whole lot easier. In fact, I did that for everything from notes, browser bookmarks, stocks, etc. Worked great.