Hello there..
Previously i already rooted my phone HTC Desire. But after i change a few ROM's, have some error on progress. but i'm not sure what the actual problems. After that my phone can use BUT i cannot access my SD Card,i cannot use my camera/video,Bluetooth even when i plug my USB Cable,it NOT show DISK DRIVE for me to select. My question is, without access to SD Card and USB Cable, how to change my existing ROM's to another?..
*Hopefully the expert person can help me.
Please be advise.
Regards & Thank you Guys...
-faizal from Malaysia-
The simplest suggestion would be to remove the SD card from the phone and use a card reader to place a new ROM on it.
If this doesn't work for some reason, you can connect to your computer via Wifi and use ADB to push a new ROM onto the SD card. However, if your phone won't mount the SD card when you plug in the USB cable there is probably something wrong with the way it is communicating with the SD card.
An external card reader is your best bet.
Just to double check - can you access your SD card when you boot the phone in recovery mode?
AaronLMC said:
The simplest suggestion would be to remove the SD card from the phone and use a card reader to place a new ROM on it.
If this doesn't work for some reason, you can connect to your computer via Wifi and use ADB to push a new ROM onto the SD card. However, if your phone won't mount the SD card when you plug in the USB cable there is probably something wrong with the way it is communicating with the SD card.
An external card reader is your best bet.
Just to double check - can you access your SD card when you boot the phone in recovery mode?
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The problem is, i can't access my SD card from my phone and recovery mode. and also when i plug in USB cable to PC,it just show can charge only. As i know, we ONLY can flash new ROM just from SD Card. is that have another way to do it?
If I have my phone plugged into my computer and then unplug it, I'm not able to access my SD card from the phone without rebooting it first. So, for example, Titanium Backup only shows the Overview page.
Is there something I can do so that it automatically reconnects? If not, is there any way that I can manually reconnect the SD card to my phone without rebooting it?
BTW, this happens even when the phone is connected as "Charge Only" or if I "eject" my phone from my computer and wait till it says safe to remove.
Did you try it using another card? By the way, since the days of win xp there is no need really anymore to eject your device since windows uses write cache to copy the data.
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Unfortunately, I only have the one card. Needing to reboot each time to have access the SD card again isn't working as designed is it?
Hello all,
I have Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V.
So I upgraded the phone to ICS 4.0.3 and it seems I cannot find an option to encrypt phone under settings > security.
What I have found is this:
If i connect to pc through usb I need to enter my screen password in order to be able to read the SD Card.
BUT, when I remove the sd card and enter it to an external card reader ALL data are available.
Is there no option to fully encrypt the SD Card in ICS?
What the heck?
in fact, even the google stock ics doesn't support external Sd card encrryption too.
the reason why you must input the screenlock password to make Sd card visible when you connect your phone to pc is that you are using MTP connection mode, the mode will hide the storage units unless you unlock the screen. that's to say, if you change the connectivity mode(Settings->Xperia->Connectivity) to MSC, Sd card will be visible even you don't unlock the screen.
P.S.
#in MSC mode, only Sd card can be found, since internal storage doesn't support the MSC mode.
#you must unplug the usb cable or you can't change connectivity mode
Thank you for your answer!
So far you were the only one who gave me an insight on what's happening.
And thank you for letting me know that the sd is not encrypted but "invisible".
I have a micro sd card 32gb Transcend which I use as android internal memory and was working for one year.
Yesterday suddenly stopped working and my Motorola moto g(3rd) device not recognizing it anymore.
When i insert this card and starting my device it shows that it "checking" it for 2 minutes and then it shows "no card".
I would like to get my data from this card(photos and videos) is there a way?
I have a second moto g device to which when i insert this card it shows "cannot read card" and asks format "as internal" or "as storage"?
If i choose "as storage" i will lose my data?
Please move this post to the appropriate thread.
thanks for helping
The card was formatted as internal before it was stopped being recognized. So the card is tied to that phone and is encrypted. No matter which of the options (adoptable or portable) you choose, the second Moto G (or any other marshmallow phone) will format it first deleting all the data. I am not sure if you can recover your personal data though, sorry.
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Welcome to the joys of adopted storage... It puts incredible amounts of read/write cycles on the card, causing "early" failure. Really this is not early failure, sd cards have limited writing capabilities and using adopted storage does this causing failure.
When you use adopted storage, the data is encrypted to that device and there is a decryption token generated that is stored on the device, for whatever reason that encryption token is no longer valid (likely due to a failure of the card) and the data is lost.
Your card can no longer be trusted, I would suggest replacing it.
This is another reason why regular backups of data, both manually and automatic, are essential in devices. I suggest implementing a backup plan in the future.
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Welcome to the joys of adopted storage... It puts incredible amounts of read/write cycles on the card, causing "early" failure. Really this is not early failure, sd cards have limited writing capabilities and using adopted storage does this causing failure.
When you use adopted storage, the data is encrypted to that device and there is a decryption token generated that is stored on the device, for whatever reason that encryption token is no longer valid (likely due to a failure of the card) and the data is lost.
Your card can no longer be trusted, I would suggest replacing it.
This is another reason why regular backups of data, both manually and automatic, are essential in devices. I suggest implementing a backup plan in the future.
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Is there any application that can get this "decryption token" from device and read the sd card?
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Is there any application that can get this "decryption token" from device and read the sd card?
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Nope. The purpose of encryption token is to prevent the use of card in other systems. It will take a great deal of hacking to get the token and put it into another phone, that too if it's possible at all. The token is randomly generated AFAIK and is not supposed to be used between different devices.
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Is there any application that can get this "decryption token" from device and read the sd card?
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Not really... IF (and that is a big if) the data is intact AND you are rooted already, the token can be retrieved via an ADB superuser shell, then you need to have a modern Linux installation that has a microSD card reader and you need a fair understanding of using the command line and mounting an encrypted file system manually. The big if here is if the file system is not corrupted, but if it wasn't corrupted then the phone would be able to use it. Also, if you are not already rooted (actually, your bootloader unlocked) then the process will wipe the device including the decryption token.
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2015/06/decrypting-android-m-adopted-storage.html
If I unistall from my device applications that used to be in sd card, is there any chance for sd card to work again?
Thanks for your replies
makis_g3 said:
If I unistall from my device applications that used to be in sd card, is there any chance for sd card to work again?
Thanks for your replies
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No... If it can't read the card it can't use it. The fact it's checking for so long says it can do something with the card, but that operation if failing. If you are already rooted there maybe some options of manually doing an fsck but other than that the best you can hope for is to reformat the card in another device and salvage the media for non-critical usage as standard storage, but the data is lost
You could try rebooting several times, you might get lucky and it will mount by chance, but don't much hope in it.
My GF has a Moto G3 2015 (1GB RAM, 8GB storage) which I had configured with a 32GB SD-card as adoptable storage. After this month's OTA, the SD-card is no longer recognized and there seems no way to recover any of the data. It also checks a couple of minutes for the SD-card and then says 'no card'. If I put the card in an adapter and a Windows pc, it says the card is healthy in disk management but it does not show the card in Explorer, I guess due to the formatting and encryption.
This is the second time her phone has issues with adoptable storage. First time the internal storage was full while there was still plenty of room on the SD-card, but this was apparently because I had only configured the SD-card as adoptable storage after 6 months of use, which caused the internal storage to have filled first. I expected adoptable storage to treat the internal storage and SD-card as one, but this is not true. I gave the phone a factory reset and immediately set the SD-card to adoptable storage before installing any apps, this took care of the problem until now.
I would not recommend using this option on any phone. Just buy a phone with enough storage and use the SD-card as external storage which is what I do on my Honor 7. I had told her to wait for the 2GB/16GB version which was going to be released a couple of months later but you know women, once they have their mind on something, they can't wait .
Hello guys,
My partner changed her SD card without realising the exisiting one was "adopted" as internal storage. All of her photos of our kids are on there. She clicked "forget sd card" at the prompt without realising this makes the SD card essentially useless to recover the data.
Is there any way to recover this data? Obviously the PC does not recognise the SD card as its encrypted, so we cannot pull the photos off that way. The phone asks to format the device so I cannot pull the photos off with a usb cable either.
From what I've read, the phone generates a key for the encryption using the screen unlock pattern. We know what this is, so have a chance of unlocking the SD card as we know what the master key is. The phone is not rooted- as far as I know this changes the encryption on that end, so any attempt to root the phone to get access will not work as the keys will not match anymore. Are there tools to brute force the encryption on the SD card? I would hate to lose the data on this.
Thanks