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Vendor: Apple
Models: iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5C, 5S, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
Status: Routinely repaired

Repair your damaged iPhone video recordings

Until iPhone 3GS was presented in 2009, video recording was not possible.

At least not through the officially available system. Access to the iPhone camera for video recording was only possible using a jailbreaked phone, and installing applications like Cycorder.

Repairability

All iPhone damaged files are repaired without major problem.
We can find different file formats depending on the application that was used.

Video recording

Camera app ships by default since iPhone 3GS and uses its 3 megapixels lens camera.
Since the 4/4S and 5 models, iPhone have also a 1.2 megapixel front camera and its back camera has been updated up to 8 megapixel.

It creates MOV files containing H264 video and AAC audio.

Voice Memos

This iPhone application ships by default with iPhone OS 3.0 and beyond. It records audio in a M4A file. Audio is encoded with Apple ALAC Lossless codec.

Third party applications

Cycorder, the popular video recording app for iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G, can be installed only on jailbreaked iPhones. Usual reported failure mode is a sudden shutdown due an incoming call. Recording profile is JPEG 352x288 video and audio PCM mono 44100Hz.

Qik, video recording app for iPad 2G and iPhone 3G/3GS and iPhone 4. Failure mode is similar to Cycorder, including lock up of the phone during the recording.