Hi
let's say a mistake happened, caused to brick the tablet which resulted in the need to flash the stock rom.
Is there a way to recover data from this device that was previously encrypted?
I can still see the files (at least on the SD-card) but I'm unable to open them after this event.
The data on the memory from the tablet itself is 'gone'.
I suppose that recovery was an option if it was NOT encrypted, yet impossible now?
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So, my previous post was a bit too optimistic. I've managed to get TWRP onto my phone, but when I went to actually load a custom ROM into it, I found that it couldn't read anything from my sdcard.
I'm having what appears to be a common problem: when I boot into Recovery, TWRP asks for a password. When I cannot provide it (because I have no idea what it is), TWRP is unable to access the data partition. Apparently, the partition is encrypted and I have no way to de-crypt it.
I've found dozens of other posts by users having this problem and the solution everyone is giving is to fully wipe the data partition and start over. But I *can't* wipe the data partition, because TWRP can't access it and fails almost immediately. I have tried a multitude of options, including:
* Installing old versions of TWRP - same behavior; asks for a password, fails to wipe/format the data partition.
* Installing ClockWork's recovery - same thing; fails to format/wipe the data partition
* Flashing back to stock recovery, using that to format my data partition; this worked fine but as soon as I put TWRP back, the problem came back.
On my last attempt, I used the stock recovery to completely wipe the data partition, and made absolutely sure that it never booted into anything but Download or Recovery modes after that. I was hoping that would prevent the stock software from ever re-encrypting the data, but somehow, when I booted TWRP, it still can't read my partitions. Note that my phone itself is not "encrypted" as far as the Settings application is concerned, but apparently Android is doing something behind the scenes anyway. There doesn't seem to be any option in the stock settings to turn off this encryption.
Is there any hope for getting a custom ROM onto this phone?
Thanks for the help!
Any solution? I'm running into the same issue where TWRP is asking for a password.
Hi folks,
I have following problem:
My phone's micro-usb port is broken. It is only able to charge the phone, but does not recognize USB data connections anymore.
I have activated full device encryption.
Factory resetting fails with unable to mount data messages (due to encryption?)
Factory reset from within the system fails too because it seems to need stock recovery?
Flashing of stock recovery through TWRP fails too with unable to mount data messages.
Any ideas how i can do a successful factory reset and/or flash stock recovery?
Thanks,
Clemens
Sorry for the wrong section...did read the sticky too late.
You have to use SPFlash Tool to reflash everything. From what I know TWRP v2.8.6.x doesn't fully support encryption.
Cheers,
bemolx
Recovery of J700T from "Device storage corrupt you must factory reset" error
Time to talk to the XDA brain trust before I make matters worse. I had rooted my J700T and all was well, also using link2sd. Unfortunately, I made a fatal error by attempting to use FolderMount (rather than creating the links myself), ending up in the Samsung "/data corrupt you must factory reset" error. Also unfortunately, when I earlier flashed TWRP (and then flashed SuperSU via TWRP) I did not choose to wipe the phone at that point to give /data & /system access, so I can't access them through TWRP's adb access. The "reset phone" option on the "you must factory reset" page fails of course, since it tries to boot into recovery which is TWRP not stock. I tried to do a typical TWRP wipe (I can still boot into TWRP of course, and into the download screen), but the result is that when the phone is started normally it continuously loops with the Galaxy J7 splash screen on and off at about seven second intervals (only stopped by pulling the battery).
So the question is, what's the best way to proceed? I saw another page here with the four ODIN files to flash back to stock, but the dropbox account is suspended due to overuse. Ideally, something I could do through TWRP would be even better, and this time I'd like to do the full reset and turn off the crypto so that in the future TWRP has full access to the internal phone data, not just the SD card.
Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Can I Restore the Samsung 700t1 withowithout pc
Jersto said:
Can I Restore the Samsung 700t1 withowithout pc
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If you mean completely back to stock (day one out of box), no.
sent from this device on this app....
So you had twrp as your recovery, you decided to mess with your system partition, you don't have free access to a PC yet it seems you neglected to do the one thing that would have got you out of this mess in a pinch?
That is spending literally 2 minutes to make a nandroid backup?
The main reason really for having a custom recovery. ?
Your only option now is to flash the stock firmware and FORMAT DATA.
Okay guys. Now we got that out of our systems, let's work on some solutions.
All good?
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Thread cleaned up. Please stay on topic.
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Vatsal,
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I am selling my Moto X Play and want to make sure all my personal files were permanently removed from the device.
I did a Factory Reset from within the OS twice and noticed that my photos would still appear after the reset was completed.
So then I booted into TWRP recovery mode and went to wipe and wiped the internal SD and Data on the device, booted back into the system and the pictures were all gone. I then flashed a completely different rom and pictures are still gone now.
I just want to confirm that at this point that my files are completely erased and could never be recovered.
yes think now thet gone
So I want to recover files I mistakenly deleted recently on my currently unrooted phone. I've tried using DiskDigger, but it can only scan photos, and can only recover so much. Rooting can help, but I've learned to root my phone it has to factory reset (which wipes my phone upon unlocking). My question is, is it still worth it to root the phone to recover my files? I'm just afraid it would overwrite the recently deleted files when I reset the phone.
My phone is a Pocophone F1. Thanks a lot for your answers!
To root that phone, you need to unlock the bootloader. But this triggers a wipe, and the decryption key will be discarded, making any data recovery impossible.
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To root that phone, you need to unlock the bootloader. But this triggers a wipe, and the decryption key will be discarded, making any data recovery impossible.
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So the data is basically unrecoverable? That's pretty sad
even with root access its hard to recovery deleted files from encrypted storage