My company uses a OMA remote wipe. It appears that when the password is entered 6 times incorrectly that the device will wipe Contacts, Email etc. including the storage card.
I lost my Vario II when on holiday in Valencia. Thankfully someone found it and managed to return it to me. The only issue is that the person entered the pin incorrectly 6 times.
I have tried using Ontrack to restore the data but it finds nothing!
Is there a method of recovering data from a storage card when a remote wipe has been actioned?
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Aidan
Try using Recover My Files and do a sector by sector recovery.....if its a remote wipe then there r chances of encryption and u might just recover files that r unusable or maybe nothin, but no harm in tryin....
Hello guys,
Im annoyed with my sensation, it was shutting down itself in my pocket every 10minutes so I decided to do a factory reset.
But I forgot that my SD card was encrypted, and now it says "Damaged SD card" when I put the card into the phone.
Do someone have the same problem ? or any idea to mount the partition on linux or whatever ?
I've already tried to set the same pin as before to lock/unlock the phone, but I haven't any prompt for password, it wants to format the card ...
Thanks for your help
underbreak said:
Hello guys,
Im annoyed with my sensation, it was shutting down itself in my pocket every 10minutes so I decided to do a factory reset.
But I forgot that my SD card was encrypted, and now it says "Damaged SD card" when I put the card into the phone.
Do someone have the same problem ? or any idea to mount the partition on linux or whatever ?
I've already tried to set the same pin as before to lock/unlock the phone, but I haven't any prompt for password, it wants to format the card ...
Thanks for your help
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Hey, that's a really messed up problem.
I doubt you can make the phone read the contents of the SD Card.
However, what you could do is, format it via the computer & then use a recovery software (like Recover My Files) to get back all your important data.
kgs1992 said:
Hey, that's a really messed up problem.
I doubt you can make the phone read the contents of the SD Card.
However, what you could do is, format it via the computer & then use a recovery software (like Recover My Files) to get back all your important data.
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This BLOWS. I just had my phone repaired and they factory reset it.. now I get this error. Man that SUCKS. I have one app (Car Data Manager) that may not be backed up automatically and last backup may be missing some recent data.
Getting same problem...
Hey guys
I tried seeing if this issue was already posted but could not find anything conclusive.
I recently set up my phone on my work's Exchange system, this forced my phone (and SD card to encrypt). Last week Google Playstore crashed and repeatedly continued to load and crash every few minutes. I then proceeded to remove the Exchange account and decrypt the phone before doing the factory reset... needless to say, I forgot that the SD card had to be decrypted separately. My phone is once again working and all the files appear on the SD card but I am getting the following: Images - "unable to load photo", Contacts import (vcf file) - "failed to import vCard".... etc. How do I get my files back??
Hardware: Galaxy SIII (Sprint)
OS: 4.1.2
K2RRSpeed said:
Hey guys
I tried seeing if this issue was already posted but could not find anything conclusive.
I recently set up my phone on my work's Exchange system, this forced my phone (and SD card to encrypt). Last week Google Playstore crashed and repeatedly continued to load and crash every few minutes. I then proceeded to remove the Exchange account and decrypt the phone before doing the factory reset... needless to say, I forgot that the SD card had to be decrypted separately. My phone is once again working and all the files appear on the SD card but I am getting the following: Images - "unable to load photo", Contacts import (vcf file) - "failed to import vCard".... etc. How do I get my files back??
Hardware: Galaxy SIII (Sprint)
OS: 4.1.2
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Anyone?? I cannot be the only person with this issue...
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Hi,
Unfortunately I think I am going to give you some bad news. When you decrypted your phone, the key used for the encryption/decryption of the files got removed, so I don't think you'll ever manage to decrypt those files. Did you have any CWM/nandroid backup of the phone when it was still encrypted? I believe only that may save you.
So, here's the problem - I was just using my phone normally, when it froze - no big deal, recently it has been getting slower and I was just planning on factory resetting it after I back up everything. But, when it booted and went on the start screen, it says "Scanning USB storage for problems" or something like that and it says then "Damaged USB Storage -You may have to reformat it" and unmounts my SD card, so, I have no storage altogether. When I click on the notification it asks if I want to format USB storage. I just want to know if there's a way of retrieving some files, because in my phone FIle Manager there's nothing, and when I connect it to the PC (Windows XP), it doesn't dettect any stotage, if I do it through "USB Utilities" on my phone it shows two Removable Disks on my computer, which are empty, when I click on them it just says "insert disk into drive", and if I click "Turn on USB Storage" on my phone it just keeps on trying to connect, but can't.
I tried restarting it, taking the battery out, booting without an SD card, booting into safe mode, using adb to pull some files, searched the internet for a few hours but to no avail, found this "Tenoshare Android Data Recovery" but it needs root, which I'm not, so I tried rooting it with SuperOneClick - doesn't work, tried installing super user from the recovery menu from SD card, but it can't install it - I'm wondering if it's wortht it. So, now I don't know what to do - do I root my phone using the methods here (with odin and etc) and use that utility, do I just factory reset it (maybe try recovering files after I've reset it?), or is there any other available option to somehow recover the files? I'm on Android 4.0.4 unrooted with Baseband version I9103XXLQ3 - I had installed it a few years ago (my phone came with 2.3.6 and I just followed the instructions here on updating my firmware).
I'll be very grateful with any help, I just had a few more important files and the last time I backed up was in December, so any help is appreciated
How I unbricked "Decryption unsuccessful" The password is correct but... (Apps2SD)
Hello, I don't usually post in tech forums, I usually the guy that only reads,
but this is the time when i could not find the straight answer to my problem and had to google the solution out of similar posts, so I decided to glue everything together and write my solution to this particular situation,
so I might save a lot of time to someone who got in exact or similar situation.
Sorry for my crappy English, but here we go.
What this post trying to solve:
You stuck at boot loop: "Decryption unsuccessful" The password that you entered is correct but unfortunately your data is corrupt.
and how to make it work Apps2SD with Huawei P9 SD card with enabled password protection.
Basically my Huawei P9 (EVA L-19) with Android 7.0 Nougat got running out of internal space, and i am really a heavy user on apps. Kirin 955 handles just fine as long as it has at least 10Gb of internal free space.
I have SD card 64Gb, but huawei stopped support, native move apps to SD, long time ago. My device is rooted, so I was searching for a solution. There is few apps that can transfer your internal memory apps to SD by using root, but the one that actually worked for me is Apps2SD. The thing is, my SD card is password protected (Huawei native function) I want to keep this function in case of device getting stolen.
Problem is, many third party apps that move your apps to SD, does not know anything about Huaweis SD card password feature. In fact (as far as i tested) only Huawei phone allows you to enter password and show contents of SD card, no PC, or for example Samsung phone will recognize this SD card.
So i was messing with Apps2SD, partitioned my SD card in to 2 primary partitions, 1- exfat, 2- Ext3. It works kinda fine, but after reboot, there is delay, Huawei unlocks SD card after main boot part, and Apps2SD does not understand this and show that it failed to mount second partition.
In this case, Apps2SD starts giving you solutions, one of them is this ADVANCED mounting option. It does not tells u about any dangers, nothing really.
I chose that option to see if it will be able to see second partition contents faster, rebooted - boom bricked.
You see the message: "Decryption unsuccessful" and asks you for decryption password. It might be SD card password, not sure, it does not matter, because you can type ANYTHING and it always say:
"The password that you entered is correct but unfortunately your data is corrupt". And gives you only option: fully data factory reset. Now hold your horses, dont press that. I just knew that this is bull**** and no way
my personal data is corrupted, its just some hadshake issue. (I was right i fully recovered everything up n running)
Assuming you got in this mess, your device must be rooted and you probably have TWRP recovery, cause Apps2SD work only with rooted devices.
To recover from "Decryption unsuccessful" boot message and restore all data and settings:
Got to TWRP recovery by holding power button and volume UP (after phone vibrates, hold both buttons 2sec more and then release power button, and then after 2sec more release volume up, cause if
you do this too fast, u will end up in wifi recovery by Huawei, and it wont work anyway cause your device rooted).
Then go to advanced and file manager, locate sdcard folder (this will be internal memory, not external), you should be able to see all of your personal files! Copy them to flash drive by connecting with OTG.
What we gonna do now is: do a full nandroid backup: TWRP, backup, check: BOOT, SYSTEM, DATA. and do a backup to flash drive connected with OTG or hard drive if it works for u.
After backup is done, go to WIPE, select format data, select DATA partition and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system.
DATA partition somehow lost its encryption handshake key and this caused the problem, reformatting fixes it.
Now do a full wipe as if you would install new rom, wipe: system, data, storage, cache, dalvic cache.
Restore your previous nandroid backup, reboot to system,now your phone should boot with all the apps and settings just as you left.
You might be missing some pictures and other media in main storage, just connect your P9 with usb cable to pc, and restore previously backed up media from flash drive manually in pc interface (copy paste, replace all),
some small minority files might wont copy, don't worry about it, Im not sure but they are mostly indexing files, all ur media will be back in place.
Now, how to make Apps2SD work with this configuration?
Don't use that advanced method to find SD cards second partition, use any of first 3, the 3rd one worked for me just fine, cause its SU library based one.
Don't move your apps fully to SD, or they will "disappear", move everything except APK, ODEX, DEX (Lib is optional, you usually can move this one just fine). SO basically app core will stay in main storage but cache and app data will be on second SD card. This way, after you reboot your phone, you will have to wait like 3mins and App2SD will link your files to apps itself just fine. It might will show some errors right after reboot, but after Huawei unlocks its card, files will be linked, and apps wont be "gone" cause app core still stays in main storage.
This way i managed to save a lot of space and move most of app storage to SD card, P9 became very responsive, even in 2018 this is a really fast smartphone.
Sorry for a messy post, I'm not a writer, but I hope this helps to someone!
Thanks a lot, you saved my phone-config! ) This step "...and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system." was unclear to me, as TWRP didn't give me the option to choose a file system, but in the end it worked out fine without just as well.
dalektehgreat said:
Thanks a lot, you saved my phone-config! ) This step "...and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system." was unclear to me, as TWRP didn't give me the option to choose a file system, but in the end it worked out fine without just as well.
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So glad this helped someone
dalektehgreat said:
Thanks a lot, you saved my phone-config! ) This step "...and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system." was unclear to me, as TWRP didn't give me the option to choose a file system, but in the end it worked out fine without just as well.
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How did you run into this issue?
If it was due to updating Magisk to v19.x (on Huawei with Nougat / EMUI 5)?
In that case, there is an easier solution, just flash back Boot img with Magisk v18 1 and everything will continue to work as it did (without any need to reformat, factory reset, etc), see
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ap...v1-universal-systemless-t3432382/post79493919
zgfg said:
How did you run into this issue?
If it was due to updating Magisk to v19.x (on Huawei with Nougat / EMUI 5)?
In that case, there is an easier solution, just flash back Boot img with Magisk v18 1 and everything will continue to work as it did (without any need to reformat, factory reset, etc), see
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ap...v1-universal-systemless-t3432382/post79493919
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I'm not entirely sure what caused it, but I suspect Apps2SD just like in the original post (I installed/tried to use it shortly before the problem occured).