I don't actually use Android 6, but I'm about to get the update soon. (Sony Xperia Z3) I've heard about the Android Adoptable Storage and I would like to use that to install apps on the external sd card. But this also encrypts the sd card. What about if my device gets damaged and I want to recover the data from the sd card? Is it possible to extract the storage encryption key and import this key on a new device? (My phone is rooted)
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In the past I have manage to use SD cards as internal memory on "older versions" of Android, and now that I have just got a new Android 5.1 terminal, I want to do the same for storing apps on a 16GB SD card.
The existing internal storage is only 2GB and I would like to expand it to 6 or 8 GN and use the rest as SD card for storage of photos, videos, music etc.
Is this possible with Android 5.1 and if it is, how do I go about it?
In the past I have used "MiniTool" for partitioning and formatting the SD card.
Hope someone can help and give me detailed instructions.
Good evening,
My mom's Moto G2 got only 8gb internal memory, so I put a SD card to expand it. I installed the SD card as internal memory using new one new feature on Marshmallow. Things got wrong after some usage and I needed to format the phone using hardreset. Now I discovered that the SD were encrypt.
So there is a way to break the encrypt of the SD OR recovery the phone data to get the key of encrypt data? (Or other way that I didn't think about)
Got some pics on SD that don't want to lose (backuped only internal memory).
Thank's anyway.
Hi everyone,
I've lenovo c2 power running android 6.0 with sd card formatted as internal storage "Adaptive Storage"
I had a problem with some apps like whatsapp which can't download media unless I have to eject and remount the sd card from settings
Now, I done the same thing today but all the data from sd card are deleted after mounting,
I didn't format or anything
Tried some apps to recover data but all require root, and there is no way to root this phone till now
Any help??
sherif011 said:
Hi everyone,
I've lenovo c2 power running android 6.0 with sd card formatted as internal storage "Adaptive Storage"
I had a problem with some apps like whatsapp which can't download media unless I have to eject and remount the sd card from settings
Now, I done the same thing today but all the data from sd card are deleted after mounting,
I didn't format or anything
Tried some apps to recover data but all require root, and there is no way to root this phone till now
Any help??
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I have the same problem. Data on sd memory (the partition) seems to be almost delete, but system reconize is empty.
the sd is mounted as internal storage so i can't read on pc.
Any idea for recover data or make a image mirror of the memory to intend recovery?
Perhaps in linux is possible?
please help!!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9005) and use LineageOS 16.0.
Yesterday my phone stopped reading the Micro SD card, which is a bummer because I enabled Adopted Storage. I suspect this to be a hardware issue (most likely the reader).
Can I somehow make a backup of the storage (internal + sd) ? I was thinking maybe attach the phone via adb and insert the sd card to the computer and then somehow put the two back together?
Also is there someway I can put that back up on the phone but not using adopted storage?
Any help is much appreciated
After an OTA update to Android 11 I'm unable to access any of the files on the sd card. The sdcard had been added as phone storage by running "sm partition disk:179,32 private" on the previous version of android. The files show in a file manager, but cannot be opened. The phone was not wiped during the upgrade so strange that the sdcard is messed up now.
The encryption key used by Android for the Adoptable Storage is stored - this will surprise no one - in Android's default internal storage.
When you upgraded Android this internal storage memory got overriden, so also the encryption key.
IMO there is no chance to decrypt the SD-card, make the files in question readable again.
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The encryption key used by Android for the Adoptable Storage is stored - this will surprise no one - in Android's default internal storage.
When you upgraded Android this internal storage memory got overriden, so also the encryption key.
IMO there is no chance to decrypt the SD-card, make the files in question readable again.
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It was an ota though, so not a factory reset. Other otas have been fine in the past as well. All the apps that were on internal storage are still there too so don't think internal storage was wiped?