Hello,
I unexpectedly had to do a factory reset on my S7 while the SD card was encrypted, as result the SD was not obviously readable afterward.
I saved part of the encrypted content of the SD card (basically the pictures) before formatting it and starting using it again, however I'm not able to recover this content.
I tried with the procedure I found on internet:
- saving the encrypted data
- format the SD card
- encrypt of it
- copy of the saved content back to the SD
- decrypt
However, at the decrypt state the phone don't move from an 'Analyzing SD card' phase.
Any idea? I'm afraid I should have saved all the content of the SD card...
Thank you
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Dear Tech Support Team,
After the installation of the new version of Android (4.0.3) everything worked fine. On the Storage Device Information I found that the system does not use the SD card for write purposes but only for read. The system demands the SD card to be encrypted. When I tried to encrypt the SD card, the android asked for a "pin" and after that the SD card got encrypted. But all the data of the SD card disappeared. On the system info I see 7.40GB free space on SD card from 7.40GB maximum!!!
Please can you help me to recover my data or to unencrypt the SD card??? Do you know what went wrong with the encryption? The user guide describes that the SD card data must exist after the encryption.
I Have the HTC Sensation Z710e, HTC Sense 3.6, Software number 3.32.401.5, kernel 3.0.16-gda3fdfc, baseband version 11.69.3504.00U_11.22.3504.07_M)
Thank you for your help ))
Try reboot and factory reset. I used this feature once (maybe a month ago) but the process did not produce this error.
Sorry but I don't understand. If I reboot the phone and then a "factory reset" then I will loose all my phone data not only the data in the sd card.
Is this correct ???
As far as I know the encrypted function a the tools to make only the devices can read the data. Before the encrytion process does you mean "
the system does not use the SD card for write purposes but only for read"
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are you can store any file on the card. If so either the card has special function or your MicroSD card has been broken or need to be reformatted. Try reformat the card with pc an see if it work again.
Hi,
Running NOTE 2 GT-N7100. Stock ROM not rooted. Enabled full device encryption and SD encryption a couple of month back. Today decided I wanna decrypt the device (process went successful) and then proceeded to decrypt SD card. SD Card decryption process was interrupted by a random device restart. Now my phone sees the SD card as full decrypted but no data can be loaded. I see folder structure, file names, but unable to open any of the files on SD card.
Any ideas?
Hi Guys, yesterday i decided to reset my xperia z5 to factory defaults because i wanted to have it with the apps i use the most and remove all of the others that i didn't use that much. So instead of uninstalling the ones i didn't use, as i said before, i did a factory reset. Before doing this i decided that it would be nice to take out my sd card to copy some pictures, without remembering that i had my sd card encrypted with my fingerprint, so i did the factory reset (with the sd card out of my phone) and after that i noticed that there was a marshmallow update for my phone, i accepted the update (with the sd card off my phone) therefore when i moved all the sd files to my NAS and i put the sd card back in i saw that all the files that i had moved to my NAS where still there. after that i decided to format the sd card with my surprise of seeing a Windows error message of "windows cannot complete format", i did a low level format, formatted my sd card with disk part, etc. None of the things i did worked, Do you guys know what i could do to my sd card to delete all the files in it?
Thanks a lot
Hi all
Samsung S7, standard rom, encrypted SD card (Samsung 128 EVO)
My 128GB SD card held a huge amount of photos amongst other things. One day, the card stopped mounting (and I therefore couldn't decrypt the files). Taking the card out and putting it in a card reader connected to the phone, it would mount but didn't give me the option to decrypt the files. I copied all the encrypted files to my laptop, and formatted the card. A different volume name was generated. I copied all of the files back to the card, but the data couldn't be read. I imagine a new key was generated when I re-formatted the card.
Data recovery tools can see the files, but they remain encrypted.
Renaming the volume label to the original name and trying again didn't work either.
I have not changed my pattern code, not done a factory reset, and have not updated the OS since.
How do I go about recovering the encrypted data. I have all the files, but no way to decrypt them using the phone. Is there any way to restore the files?
You can try this
I am very hesitant to overwrite back all the encrypted files to the SD card so as not to write over the old files (which I can see in a data recovery tool, although they are encrypted)
So, I will try the following.:
1. I will connect an old SSD and format it as external storage and encrypt it using the method you linked.
2. I will copy the 80GB of encrypted data backed up on my PC onto the SSD (probably using wifi)
3. I will then try decrypting the external SSD drive using my phone and see whether I can read the files
4. I will report back
Ideally, I would like the volume to have the same volume name as the original SD card volume. I wonder if this plays a part in the encryption/decryption process
If any other suggestions are forthcoming, I'll take them too!
Hello,
a friend of mine factory resetted the phone (Samsung J6) then he found his SD Card is encrypted and he lost all his data.
Is there a way to recover that data?
I read that he could:
- Backup SD data on pc
- Format the SD card using the phone
- Encrypt the sd card using same password
- Copy encrypted data from pc to SD Card
- Decrypt the sd card
Is this a working solution?
And... is it safer to use a new SD Card instead of formatting the encrypted SD Card?