Hi,
I encrypted my phone to allow it to sync to my work email exchange. However, I didn't realise that I would lose access to the SD card for flashing new ROMs. Now I have deleted the email account which required encrypting as mandatory.
Cannot seem to find an easy way to reverse the encryption permanently.
Is a factory reset the only option to get back to the original state?
Thanks in advance
Hello !!
I have Samsung Galaxy S3 Korean SHL-E210L. I encrypted my internal storage memory unintentionally without knowing what encryption actually means. When the process started, i restarted my phone in order to stop the process. But the same window appeared again and I was forced to complete the process. When the phone again started, all my data was lost and the phone was like brand new. No password was set up on the mobile ( as the encryption always needs a password to start) and I could start it without a password but still I was not able to view any of my files. I received no error of wiping of data or failure of encryption. Kindly guide me how to open or view the encrypted data? Have I lost it? How can I confirm that the data was actually encrypted or not?
Hello guys, I have a S8+ 955U version tmobile. I was on oreo beta and wanted to revert back to 7.0 latest which is G955USQS2BRB1. I odin the files but it caused me to format my internal memory. i lost all my photos of my newborn.
How can I get them back?
I've tried a few programs but I have to be rooted which I'm not.
I found a thread SAMPWNED to root device but I can't downfrade that far back.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. no i did not have an sd card in the phone, all files were saved on internal.
It's really difficult to recover photos from a formatted internal SD card. Best option, I think, would be try some other recovery apps, so see if they have access to your phone, though I don't think they will have that type of low-level access.
Another possibility might be to use ADB and if you can, pre-system/security startup, enable ADB within the phone, and then you might be able to do a recovery scan of the phone partitions.
There are a few (vague?) how to's on using ADB to enter the phone pre-system/security. Search 'sonnettie', the author of one method, and you will likely find other author off-shoots of the same type of method. If I don't stay current with a thing, I forget most of the details, but that was his original(?) method, which as I was told, came to be used by others to get into the phone pre-system startup/security. It might have been obviated by the Oreo update with a bug fix.
Did you have Samsung backup configured? If so it should have uploaded the photos and you would be able to restore them. If you don't make a backup your photos are already lost, you never know when your phone might die, be stolen or in this case get formatted. Google photos is a good alternative to keep your photos backing up.
Some people have incorrectly stated that it is possible to recover the photos after formatting internal storage. The data partition is encrypted by default and unless you are able to recover both, encryption key (it was most likely overwritten during first boot after factory reset) and the part of the partition containing the photos, you cannot get your photos back. Also, I have not seen any commercial data recovery software, which is capable of finding encryption keys and deciphering corrupted data partition.
Exactly, the phone is encrypted, not remotely possible to recover the photos scanning the memory
sergioslk said:
Exactly, the phone is encrypted, not remotely possible to recover the photos scanning the memory
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good to know.
Thanks everyone for your input. After spending countless hours trying to root phone so I could get a data recovery program on it, I gave up. Turns out I had google photos and Samsung cloud turned on and it synced all my media. I got all my media back on my phone.
Thanks guys
@OP
i want to remind you that if you are doing like updating, flashing, modifying, always make a back up thank god samsung cloud is doing that for you., but i always make a hard copy to my sd card always you newer know right. i am happy for you that you got your data back
Hi
Is it possible to recover deleted images & video from an android phone: OP 5T, LineageOS, rooted, TWRP, encrypted. (I can boot into recovery where TWRP asks for a password which works).
I've looked at various methods and tried adb pull /data partition to save as file.img, but it's encrypted. Photorec can't work on that.
When I asked on a reddit thread, it was indicated that when a file is deleted, its encryption key is deleted too, so impossible to retrieve.
Any ideas, or is this a lost cause due to the phone's encryption?
Thanks
Forget it, don't waste more time with this ...
Your only option is to hope that you have not re-written over the old data and a data recovery specialist can attempt to recover lost or deleted files. But it is expensive and time-consuming.
Hi there, even if i have this issue on a specific phone (Redmi note 7 on PE), I think this issue can be encoutered in any phone, so I ask here.
(excuse my english, it's not my native langage).
Suddenly my phone freezes and turns off. I try to reboot but it stays stuck on the G logo. I've waited for an hour, it doesn't boot. I try to save as many data as I can, beggining with my sd card. But I have some data stored on my internal storage (pictures, recording and my podcast log) that is encrypted.
My plan was to back up all I could, reset the phone and restore what I've saved. but each time i try to back up (Orange recovery fox project), it crashes at the data back up. On the log it says that it is a file stored on data/misc that causes the issue. Thinking its a corrupt one, i delete and try again. But it crashes again, because of another file on the same data/misc file. I've tried two times to delete those files whitout any success.
I'm kind of desperate here, what can i do to save those precious files?
Any help appreciated, have a nice day