Can data from internal storage of S5 (Verizon) be recovered if phone was encrypted and accidentally reset?
I am wondering if we can recover data from internal storage if phone was encrypted AND somehow accidentally factory reset in S5? (assuming the user still has its own PIN to unlock the screen - related to encryption, in this case how to find the factory reset/wiped cryptor footer and decrypt the phone?)
I also found out that the S5 from Verizon cannot be seen by ADB in recovery mode, regardless the phone was rooted or not. Any advice on this as well? This is necessary to decrypt the phone using user screen lock PIN.
Thanks for your help in advance.
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It's my goal to wipe a second hand android device I received.
You used to be able to do this via the encryption option.
Though now that I am on Lollipop when I enable encryption the phone (2014 Moto x) restarts and doesn't do the full wipe like android used to. Though does come up with encryption enabled.
I assume this has to do with Lolipop having encryption enabled by default.
Before I get all answers telling me to do a factory reset. No a factory reset doesn't wipe a system it just repartitions it and gives new encryption keys.
Tried in safemode too. Nothing
Just getting a new encreyption key via a factory reset doesn't do what I want. That key could be recovered and the data still exists. That's why tools like truecrypt ot luks if you have experience take so long to encrypt.
So I plan just to wipe my phone data that's stuck in bootloop. I had it rooted before but I removed it. I plan to use recovery software to retrieve the data. Will it still recover data when I've rooted my phone after the reset or will it only recover data when it was rooted before it got reset?
Hi all,
I have a Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935V and the other day I put my case on and put the phone in my pocket not realizing I had put the case on upside down. With the case on the wrong way, the power and volume buttons were pressed and the phone rebooted several times. I thought I was just getting notifications when my phone was vibrating in my pocket, but in reality it was vibrating because it was rebooting. It must have booted to recovery and/or download mode and then because the buttons were still pressed, rebooted again and again. When I checked my phone after a few minutes of it unknowingly rebooting, it was in recovery mode so I attempted to boot normally. It didn't fully boot, but I got a message "Phone storage corrupt. The data partition has been corrupted. You need to reset your phone to factory default settings. This will erase all your data."
Now, I'm an IT professional so I know how storage disks work. I know that the partition table is probably corrupt but the data itself is probably intact. I would like to recover the data on the partition such as photos, videos, texts etc, but since the phone doesn't fully boot, I can't get to the storage from a PC, and when I connect via ADB I get the message "error:closed" when I try to do anything.
My questions/thoughts:
In the same way you would slave a damaged hard drive to recover the data, is there a way to access the partition without booting to it?
Is there a way to do a full ADB backup of the partition and try to extract the data from the backup?
Is it possible to install a custom recovery and do an image backup of the partition and try to extract the data from that?
What is the likelihood of recovering the data after a reset to factory settings? I have access to professional data recovery software and I'm willing to spend some money on specific software for Android recovery.
Is there any other way that anyone can think of to retrieve data from an Android device that can't boot? Or to repair the corrupt partition?
i have a phone that i need to backup all photos before we factory reset but the lockscreen password has been forgotten
ive had this phone for 3 months now and ive been unable to remove lock screen
i also tried to install twrp so i can access folders via usb to backup but after rebooting the phone just displays the standard recovery instead of twrp recovery
any ideas how i can backup this phone ?
thanks
65c102 said:
i have a phone that i need to backup all photos before we factory reset but the lockscreen password has been forgotten
ive had this phone for 3 months now and ive been unable to remove lock screen
i also tried to install twrp so i can access folders via usb to backup but after rebooting the phone just displays the standard recovery instead of twrp recovery
any ideas how i can backup this phone ?
thanks
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Alright, I ran the restore factory settings from the phones' official settings, it rebooted in TWRP asking me if I want to keep the system modifiable to what I checked yes and rebooted the phone. Then the phone booted and there was a message saying that the phone cannot be set up due to the data being encrypted (something along those lines), then I checked to keep the system read-only cause TWRP prompted me again but the same message popped up. Then the same "data encrypted window appeared" and I, who knows why, decided to wipe internal storage in TWRP and the phone is now stuck on the blue "Honor" splash forever and boots again if I shut it down manually. I can shut it down via TWRP.
Don't really know what to say other than I really don't know what I'm doing and I was just hoping to format my internal storage quickly so that I can swap my phone with a family member. I'm really disgusted with how I approached this whole scenario and I need help to fix my phone if possible. I can access the internal storage thanks to TWRP and the only folder there is TWRP.
Facts:
1. Did factory reset over official settings.
2. Did very stupid things, then wiped internal storage for the finale.
3. Phone is stuck forever blue splash screen and keeps restarting if I turn it off.
4. I have accesss to TWRP and can mount internal storage.
5. I should have no business owning a rooted phone.
6. The firmware on was(is?) BLN-L21.
Please help.
I was able to unbrick it. Please delete/lock this thread.