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Dear All,
I have a question and need help. I encrypted my important data on SD card in my HTC Touch and then did a hard reset to my phone but forgot to decrypt the data before this. Now I am not able to read my data from SD card. Can you please let me know if there is a tool or any other way to get my data back.
thanks in advance.
not as far as I know.
however, maybe if you know the exact algorithm that was used to compress (and you still know the password) you could try with truecrypt on the PC.
depends really what encryption algo. the software can use.
sorry..
PROBLEM:
Now, the problem all started when try to format the micro SDHC on the phone or on the PC with card reader.
Tried with differ format program also low level not worked.
DONT USE THESE!!! Waste of time!!!
SOLUTION:
So after doing some thinking about the situation, I figured that there was a problem with the card inserted and find the file EncFiltLog on it.
It is the WM 6.1 encription file. You can't delete, move files from or in to the SDHC.
The best way to solve this issue, as the hard-reset DOES NOTHING to fix this issue, would be to have windows hopefully find the connected device and format it. Here are the EASY steps which DO NOT involve using a dozen computers and has provided the same result EVERY time; which is a working on my 8gig memory in my HTC HD.
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select DISK DRIVE as the option on the on-screen popup on your phone. Don’t select ACTIVE SYNC. If you miss it, then go into your phone and press START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok.
2. On your computer, (USING A WINDOWS XP MACHINE), go into your "My computer"
3. A window for will open with two columns.(If not, change the view to "Group") We are looking at the RIGHT side right now. In there is has three categories, and we are only focusing on ONE of them. LOOK for STORAGE which should be the center category.
4. Click with right to the desired "Storage device; A: ; D: E;", it will take a minute or two depending on your computer speed and environment to populate your hard drive and connected memory devices.
5. You will eventually see your PHONE internal storage listed. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BECAUSE YOUR PHONE INTERNAL STORAGE IS CORRUPTED!
***BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IN FACT YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SOMETHING ELSE LIKE YOUR MAIN HARD DRIVE OR SOME OTHER STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPORTANT FILES ON THERE***
****I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU FORMAT THE WRONG DEVICE***
6. Choose format and let it format the drive. This should also take a few minutes. Select FAT32 and name is whatever you want! Let this finish COMPLETLY!
**Your almost done**
7. Now you can copy, anything you want on it, but if you put again in to the PDA then the
EncFiltLog will come on again. But at least you not have to throw away the card,
you can use it again.
8. Finally my last comment:
If you want to speed up the card (.cab installation, copy, move ...etc.....)
the best way after all this work listed above, you should made a BACKUP from all your PERSONALITIES and
make a HARD RESET.
After it should speed up all the programs and processions with the card.
If you done then one IMPORTANT THING!:
YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER TAP ON THE CARD ENCRIPTION IN THE SETTINGS,
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
Hope this helps you all out!!
BTW: I want to say thanks to XDA-FORUM (all people) to make my life easier
and to found the right gadgets to use, to play and enjoy it....
Wow - not bad at all for a first post!
Welcome to the forum!
Thanks for providing a solution!
krnkris said:
PROBLEM:
Now, the problem all started when try to format the micro SDHC on the phone or on the PC with card reader.
Tried with differ format program also low level not worked.
DONT USE THESE!!! Waste of time!!!
SOLUTION:
So after doing some thinking about the situation, I figured that there was a problem with the card inserted and find the file EncFiltLog on it.
It is the WM 6.1 encription file. You can't delete, move files from or in to the SDHC.
The best way to solve this issue, as the hard-reset DOES NOTHING to fix this issue, would be to have windows hopefully find the connected device and format it. Here are the EASY steps which DO NOT involve using a dozen computers and has provided the same result EVERY time; which is a working on my 8gig memory in my HTC HD.
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select DISK DRIVE as the option on the on-screen popup on your phone. Don’t select ACTIVE SYNC. If you miss it, then go into your phone and press START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok.
2. On your computer, (USING A WINDOWS XP MACHINE), go into your "My computer"
3. A window for will open with two columns.(If not, change the view to "Group") We are looking at the RIGHT side right now. In there is has three categories, and we are only focusing on ONE of them. LOOK for STORAGE which should be the center category.
4. Click with right to the desired "Storage device; A: ; D: E;", it will take a minute or two depending on your computer speed and environment to populate your hard drive and connected memory devices.
5. You will eventually see your PHONE internal storage listed. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BECAUSE YOUR PHONE INTERNAL STORAGE IS CORRUPTED!
***BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IN FACT YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SOMETHING ELSE LIKE YOUR MAIN HARD DRIVE OR SOME OTHER STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPORTANT FILES ON THERE***
****I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU FORMAT THE WRONG DEVICE***
6. Choose format and let it format the drive. This should also take a few minutes. Select FAT32 and name is whatever you want! Let this finish COMPLETLY!
**Your almost done**
7. Now you can copy, anything you want on it, but if you put again in to the PDA then the
EncFiltLog will come on again. But at least you not have to throw away the card,
you can use it again.
8. Finally my last comment:
If you want to speed up the card (.cab installation, copy, move ...etc.....)
the best way after all this work listed above, you should made a BACKUP from all your PERSONALITIES and
make a HARD RESET.
After it should speed up all the programs and processions with the card.
If you done then one IMPORTANT THING!:
YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER TAP ON THE CARD ENCRIPTION IN THE SETTINGS,
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
Hope this helps you all out!!
BTW: I want to say thanks to XDA-FORUM (all people) to make my life easier
and to found the right gadgets to use, to play and enjoy it....
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Yesterday it happens for the second time that my SD-Card gets corrupt again, the first time it happens with a 8 Gb SDHC Sandisk and now with a 16 Gb.! After a hard-reset.Didn't know before I read this post that this could happen ever!??
And indeed I couldn't write or read on the card or format it again, even with a cardreader!
Both cards are useless about €120,- thrown away, gone
Didn't know before I read this post, that this is an WM 6.1 encription issue. Never used or even tap it.
Now I format another 8Gb like the way you describe here, i hope that when i need to do another hard-reset i can use the card again!
BTW, its a little bit strange to me that there are so little reaction from other users here about EncFiltLog problem?
I hope that there will come a solution in WM 6.1 to prevent that b!llsh!t.
Thanks for the great support, i hope it realy works!
Nice post
I have one more question:
What may happen when I delete this encryption file? Is it possible?
P.S. Sorry for my english :/
Hi Everyone!
The best way, if you purchase a new card, to FORMAT at first.
Then you put in to your phone and try not to teke it out any more.
If you want to use it as USB reader the as I write in my first post
START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok .
In this case you can use the phone as a card reader.
It is speed up the file transfer vs. ACTIVESYNC.
If the card is not recognised ether way then,
because of the too much taking out - - put it back; went to faulty.
You can go back to the store for guarantee replacement.
The EncFiltLog is a problem only if you encrypted the card.
The solution to delete it and use as new card described in my first post.
If you put a new card in to the Phone then this file seem to be created by the OP system.
You can delete with format, but it will come back again and again.
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You can delete with format, but it will come back again and again.
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Your right, the file is still there again!
But I have also a question about a next( hope not) hardreset on my device!
Is it better to format the SD-card (with USB on the device) before or after the hard-reset to save the further use of the card?
Because in my experience you have to start installing everything over again, because the data on the card was anyway corrupt and useless.
It is NOT recommended to use the MS Windows Format command to re-format any SDHC card - it will format them, of course, but with the wrong cluster size, slowing access speed down and possibly causing other problems.
I would suggest to always use a tool like Panasonic's SD Formatter when formating any kind of SD card. You can get it here: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
-Valynor
Valynor said:
It is NOT recommended to use the MS Windows Format command to re-format any SDHC card - it will format them, of course, but with the wrong cluster size, slowing access speed down and possibly causing other problems.
I would suggest to always use a tool like Panasonic's SD Formatter when formating any kind of SD card. You can get it here: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
-Valynor
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Also good to know, but does it also prevent or solve that EncFiltLog problem?
Is there no registry tweak to turn off or delete that W 6.1 encryption option anyway?
luckyuser said:
Also good to know, but does it also prevent or solve that EncFiltLog problem?
Is there no registry tweak to turn off or delete that W 6.1 encryption option anyway?
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No as far as I know.
Will creating a read-only, hidden folder called "EncFltLog.menc" on the card prevent this problem?
Phil_123 said:
Will creating a read-only, hidden folder called "EncFltLog.menc" on the card prevent this problem?
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What do you mean?How do you do?
HI folks, glad to find some peeps who are suffering from the same problem...
The solution here seems not to work for me, as I hard-reset my TouchHD before I found out about that encryption ****up...
Is there any solution that allows you to reformat the card?
Not to mention that I NEVER touched that damn encryption option as I really never trust M$ that far with my data... seems it got me Pwned anyways...
Anyone ever tried to Write M$, tell them what a bunch of wacky Ho's they are and demand a new miniSD Card from them?
sorry for my language but atm I mad as hell as I just lost a 8GB and a 16GB sanDisk...
I experienced a lot of bc during all the yaers messing with M$ stuff but this ****up ins unbelievable...
I had the same problem with my 8gb sandisk.
I would like to add that I was able to retrieve most of my files from the memory card using EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional. You need to do the data recovery before attempting to reformat the card.
Hi guys sorry for messing around in your forum but this post is the closest solution to my problem. I cannot format or save anything to my 16gb sandisk card because of that bloody encryption file. Now the problem is that I'm a Kaiser user and I do not have disk mode in my phone, so has anyone successfully formatted their card without using disk mode?
one very quik question. Does this fix the problem for good? you can use the sdhc card with the phone or will it always end up with menc file?
card unreadable in one night
Yesterday, my sdhc 8gb card was working properly but in just one night something happened to it. In the morning, I came to know that it is not more being recognized by htc hd2. Every time I soft reset or hard reset the phone a message come up saying "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? this will permanently delete any files on the card." when I click no nothing happens and phone keeps on working and if I click yes then the card is formatted in just 1 second. I tried formatting the card myself from phone format tool (there is format card tool in tools section of the phone) but it is showing only 30.61 mb instead of 8gb.
After reading this thread, I think the problem is with EncFiltLog. Actually I backup my phone and card yesterday with sprite backup. I also backup EncFiltLog on my pc. Now after hard resetting the phone I delete the newly created EncFiltLog file by the fresh WM 6.5 installation after hard reset. I deleted that file from my pc by using the phone card storage as disk drive instead of activesync and simply shift+delete the file from removable storage in My computer. After that I copied all the phone card backup (including EncFiltLog - old one) on the freshly hard reset phone. Now all of sudden in just one night phone sdhc card is not able to recognized by phone.
Moral of the story: Never backup EncFiltLog. Keep the newly created EncFiltLog file by wm 6.5 after hard reset and copy your all files and folder from card backup to phone card (excluding EncFiltLog) after a hard reset. Don't ever overwrite the newly created EncFiltLog.menc file with old one from backup.
Reason: I think WM 6.5 pairs the newly created EncFiltLog with its some key on phone internal storage. Remember how encryption works? I am talking about public key and private key pairing. I think WM6.5 pairs one key stored in EncFiltLog with another key stored inside the phone interal storage which is itself freshly created after the hard reset but when we copy the old EncFiltLog from storage card backup to freshly hard reset phone storage card, those key pairs won't match anymore and windows mobile 6.5 simply locks up the card.
it is my own opinion.
One more clue
Ok guys, I've got one more clue after googling and reading other threads on this forum. May be HTC is supplying fake 8gb sdhc card with hd2.
I've came on that conclusion because yesterday there was more than 5 gb space left on my phone storage card. In the night RSS Hub software has updated all the feeds and stored those feeds on storage card (I've set feeds to be stored on storage card). I think something has been gone wrong there. May be the actual capacity of this fake storage cards in far less than what is written/claimed on the card (i.e. 8gb). In the night as soon as the RSS Hub stored feed on the card, it somehow corrupted the card FAT writting its data on sectors of the card where it should not be.
Hence the card is corrupted now just showing 30.61 mb instead of 8gb. There exists no solution for this situtation till now. I've sent mail to HTC regarding this on their customer support page. Let's see what would happen now. I suspect either HTC or my dealer would say that the storage card don't come under warranty. Let's see now. I will update the thread soon.
My problem is the same.....
after HSPL I faced "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable?..." and after that I lost my mSD.
Format Storage Card didn't worked. it shows 30.61MB , Cluster Size: 0KB
also Clear Storage didn't worked...
System > Memory > Storage Card > Total storage card memory: Not installed
Is there any other way to fix this problem? because of my country, it is difficult to use HTC Service...
I accustomed to storing their audio or video file like photos into a mini memory stick. However, how can we recover them once lost? What can I do ? Any software like Power Data Recovery?? 3Q for your advice.
Wait, what does this have to do with Win8? I'm confused (or maybe you are)...
Assuming "memory stick" (whatever the <REDACTED> that is) exposes itself as a standard block-storage device, you can probably use whatever recovery tools you're used to... no guarantee they'll work, though.
I've had a positive experience using MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
It worked wonders on a flash disk that apparently lost its data, but with this software I could recover most of them, although with very ugly file names.
There are 4 options which can be confusing but I've mostly used Digital Media Recovery and Undelete Recovery.
For non media files, the result wasn't so great but I recovered some files from an almost defective SD card.
cha91 said:
I've had a positive experience using MiniTool Power Data Recovery
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Well, what can i say but thank you so much!
Had the same problem and all the pictures of my holiday were gone. :victory:
With kind regards, Basti
pHaZic said:
Well, what can i say but thank you so much!
Had the same problem and all the pictures of my holiday were gone. :victory:
With kind regards, Basti
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You're welcome! I'm glad it helped.
I had the same problem a while ago so now I recommend this software
mining said:
I accustomed to storing their audio or video file like photos into a mini memory stick. However, how can we recover them once lost? What can I do ? Any software like Power Data Recovery?? 3Q for your advice.
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yup, any recovery software will do, just defrag first before recovering for best result
Physiotherapist said:
yup, any recovery software will do, just defrag first before recovering for best result
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Worst result dont you mean... Recovery software relies on the fact that when deleting a file it is simply removed from the file table but the data itself is still present. Defragging will move files around and will now believe where your file previously existed is now unallocated space and will happily over-write it. For recovery software to work at its best you need to ensure as few changes are made to the file system as physically possible.
SixSixSevenSeven is correct. Leaving aside the fact that defragging a flash storage device (like a memory stick, SD card, SSD, CompactFlash, etc.) is a terrible idea in general*, it will drastically reduce your chances of being able to recover any data at all. If you have already done a defrag, the odds are very good that your data is now unrecoverable.
* Win7 and up know not to actually defrag Flash-based storage, but what they do instead - called TRIM, and intended to optimize the storage - is almost as bad for purposes of data recovery. TRIM tells the "disk" that the physical memory cells which were storing the data of deleted files are no longer needed, which typically has the effect of zeroing the data.
So recently my device stopped recognizing the SanDisk 64gb micro-SDXC I had formatted as internal storage. As far as I am aware when you format a SD this way the phone turns it into an encrypted volume and stores the key on internal storage, presumably somewhere the user cannot normally access it. The card itself is not dead, plugging it into my computer verifies this, but I cannot access it. I think some write operation failed and made it invisible to the phone. the phone did the same thing to a 128gb PNY card, but I reformatted it on PC, then reformatted it again on the phone and now the PNY is working fine. my question is, is there any way to extract the encryption key for my 64gb card(Root based tool or otherwise) from the card profile on my phone and decrypt it on a PC so I can reclaim my data? The phone still has a profile for the card, so presumably the key is still in internal storage somewhere. I had about 40gb of media on that card that I had not backed up (photos, videos, music and such). My ohone is not currently rooted but i wouldnt mind rooting it if someone has a root only solution.
I would wipe cache, then data then try another ROM.
sciencetor2 said:
So recently my device stopped recognizing the SanDisk 64gb micro-SDXC I had formatted as internal storage.
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It is possible, though I have not done it before, I avoid adoptable storage for this reason. Do NOT wipe your ROM, or you will permanently lose your encryption key to your data that you have on the card.
If you put the SD card into a Linux PC that can recognize the partitions (Windows will not show it), you will see two partitions, android_meta and android_expand. To decrypt the big one, android_expand, you will need to recover your key from the phone.
To recover the encryption key, you will need either root access or a custom recovery like TWRP, to access '/data/misc/vold' to retrieve the encryption key (aes-cbc-essiv:sha256). Save the .key file to somewhere safe.
Then something like
dmsetup create crypt1 --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/sdb2` crypt \
aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 00010203040506070809010a0b0c0d0e0f 0 /dev/sdb2 0"
mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/crypt1 /mnt/1/
More info here - http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2015/06/decrypting-android-m-adopted-storage.html
Once you have recovered your data, reformat the card and use it as portable storage
SenK9 said:
More info here -nelenkovDOTblogspotDOTcom/2015/06/decrypting-android-m-adopted-storageDOThtml
Once you have recovered your data, reformat the card and use it as portable storage
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Thank you! this is exactly what I was looking for, but i couldn't find anything on google about anyone figuring out all the details (encryption key location, encryption method, usable tool for decryption)
now is there any way i can root, extract the key, then unroot so that i can RMA the phone? It seems to now render any sd i put into it unreadable by itself within about 5 minutes of formatting, regardless whether i format as internal or portable. not sure if this is hardware (reader malfunction) or some software is writing to the card incorrectly, but it is now doing it consistently.
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Thank you! this is exactly what I was looking for, but i couldn't find anything on google about anyone figuring out all the details (encryption key location, encryption method, usable tool for decryption)
now is there any way i can root, extract the key, then unroot so that i can RMA the phone? It seems to now render any sd i put into it unreadable by itself within about 5 minutes of formatting, regardless whether i format as internal or portable. not sure if this is hardware (reader malfunction) or some software is writing to the card incorrectly, but it is now doing it consistently.
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I do not believe it's possible to root or change the recovery without unlocking the bootloader, unless there's some other method I'm not aware of. Even MM systemless root method - http://forum.xda-developers.com/mot...t-moto-x-style-xt1572-br-marshmallow-t3259380, requires unlocking the bootloader, which of course then technically voids the warranty.
However, in this case, it might be worth contacting Moto to inform them of what's happened, it's definitely some kind of bug in the software which has caused this, and thus you are stuck in this catch-22 situation. They might make an exception or have some other solution. Let us know how you go.
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... requires unlocking the bootloader, which of course then technically voids the warranty. ...and thus you are stuck in this catch-22 situation.
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Even more of a catch 22 situation, because if i read that correctly, the process for unlocking the bootloader also requires wiping the phone (and thus, the encryption keys) (i miss geohot with his 1 click soft roots). I will wait a little while and see if I or anyone else reading this thread can find a way around that, but it seems ill have to contact Moto support either way, since my 16gb model is barely usable without an SD card.
This is another example of why taking control of your phone before something goes wrong is so important.
Did you try wiping cache yet?
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This is another example of why taking control of your phone before something goes wrong is so important.
Did you try wiping cache yet?
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I checked the recovery menu but there didn't seem to be an option for wiping cache on this device (recovery menu was a little different than I am used to, only had option for factory reset) Also, while wiping cache might conceivably prevent it from screwing up future cards, I don't know if it will fix this one, and i'm not sure if i wanna risk wiping anything without getting my hands on the encryption keys first. if it becomes apparent that i'm just not getting root without wiping, then I'll try playing around with recovery options to at least get back SD slot usage.
You can erase cache in fastboot. If you are locked there is no way to root without wiping data.
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You can erase cache in fastboot. If you are locked there is no way to root without wiping data.
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Isn't that what the setting "OEM Unlocking" under "Developer Options" is for? I thought I read that, if you enable this option before you unlock the bootloader, it allows you to unlock without the wipe/factory reset?
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Isn't that what the setting "OEM Unlocking" under "Developer Options" is for? I thought I read that, if you enable this option before you unlock the bootloader, it allows you to unlock without the wipe/factory reset?
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I hadn't heard that... Got a source?
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Isn't that what the setting "OEM Unlocking" under "Developer Options" is for? I thought I read that, if you enable this option before you unlock the bootloader, it allows you to unlock without the wipe/factory reset?
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No all that does is allow you to unlock (providing you have a key of course).
well it looks like nobody has found a non wiping solution to root my phone, so I'm going to have to give up on the data and see if I can get back SD functionality, or just RMA the phone. I think i will also publish a script that allows you to plug in your phone and the SD at the same time and allow you to decrypt an internal formatted card by pulling the keys and using them to mount the drive to help people who are in similar situations, but have root. Thanks anyway for the help.
Hi Everyone, I'm stuck in the same catch 22 situation. Device is not rooted or bootloader unlocked, so can't access the key, and trying to root/unlock bootloader will wipe the keys. Any updates, @sciencetor2??
Have you written to Motorola/google about this?
I'm still not ready to give up on the data... hundreds of vacation pictures, that couldn't get backed up.
I'm in the same boat any good news on this?
As long as the phone can see the card, you can change it to portable storage. However, if something goes wrong and phone can not see the card anymore, it's nearly impossible to access the volume without the retrieving the key from the phone, and you must root the phone in order to get the key, as I understand.
I have another similar problem, SD card becomes locked writing and disappears from phone, even I used it as portable storage. And the card can't be formatted at all. So I believe the phone somehow does something and change the state of SD card!
Did anyone find a solution yet. Stuck with same problem. Will loose very important data.
Same here.
I adopted my sdcard as internal storage in CM13.
It was constantly in bootloop, so I formatted the internal memory of the phone to install a new rom ...
But now I can not recover the data within the sd because I can not access it nor with the new rom (I can not even mount it from TWRP) nor from a linux PC (the filesystem is unknown).
Pretty much ... I did not know that the sdcard adopted were encrypted!
Any solution? :\
Hello everybody!
Is there any way to recover the deleted ".key" file?
so i havent gotten back on this thread in a while but i think i at least figured out the "why" on why the card was no longer being recognized. it seems to come down to read/write speed. my 64GB and 128GB cards that i was having the issue with were both U1 cards, which means their read/write is only sitting around 10Mbps, and both of those had issues being detected by the phone after a little bit of time in use. I replaced the card in the same phone a few months back with a high throughput U3 card, and it has been running smoothly ever since. this leads me to the hypothesis that if the card is not fast enough for the phone's taste, it will just ignore it (or timeout on reads, not sure which is actually happening) which is leading to the issues we are experiencing. unfortunately this doesnt lead us to a solution for recovering from the existing cards, but hopefully it will help avoid making the mistake of using a slow card in the future.
Month ago, I dropped my phone in the sea. Tried the rice trick and the alcohol baptism - neither of which worked.
Only thing that happens to it now, is when I press power, it vibrates once, blue light indicator also comes up, and after few seconds it goes off again. Looks like salt, really did its magic somewhere inside the circuit.
My problem is that I need to recover some photos (which I haven't had the chance to backup...) from the ext SD card that I was using with the phone. Card was encrypted using Android's (6.0.1) own build-in option. Which means it can only being read/de-crypted on that particular phone. So, my only chance, if any, is to resurrect the S5. Screen is probably gone, especially after the alcohol dip, the cable connecting the screen with the remaining circuit, detached itself. I can afford to spend little money (i.e. for a non-genuine screen), but I m not sure what else is damaged. Home button doesn't look like it's functioning either...
I am not sure if there are any backdoors to that encryption. I just always thought its stupid to have hardware-based encryption. It should be password-based!
All I need is the data on that SD card. How can I proceed?
(only thing left that I have in my mind, is to try another battery, in case mine is also damaged from the water)
I did searched here, but found nothing relevant, except something about using ADB (which I m not sure it ll help) Any ideas?
It's protected by the ROM. Not even the phone itself. So no it won't work. But on PC there's apps like EaseUs that can copy the data off.
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It's protected by the ROM. Not even the phone itself. So no it won't work. But on PC there's apps like EaseUs that can copy the data off.
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Copy? Yes, I ve read about that.
But how to decrypt? Encrypted data is of little use...
Got a backup of your phone by chance?
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Got a backup of your phone by chance?
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You mean the contents of the SD Card? Yes!
I used a microSD adapter and copied all the contents of the ext sd card to my PC. But obviously, data is encrypted, so I can't actually view my pictures
btw - there's no point in using any 3rd party tools (i.e. easeus, recuva etc) as they won't decrypt the files anyway...all you can do it just copy them over - which I did. Now what?
So - back to your question - there's nothing else I need from that phone. Except from my pictures (which I already backed up, in their encrypted form...)
In the meantime, I found this: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/How_To_Decrypt_Android_Full_Disk_Encryption
but I m not in a position to follow that, as the screen doesn't seem to work and the phone won't boot. Upon powering up, blue light comes up for few secs, and then it turns off again.
I think I ll need to fix the hardware issue(s) first and then properly boot and decrypt the card :/
But I can't afford to format the phone (as I won't be able to decrypt the sd card afterwards - correct?)
Depends. What was it running for a ROM?
godkingofcanada said:
Depends. What was it running for a ROM?
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Stock 6.0.1 (G901FXXS1CQB4)
jstoner said:
Stock 6.0.1 (G901FXXS1CQB4)
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Try using android SDK emulator on Linux. There's a tool that comes with a package including the Android SDK. Emulate your exact stock ROM and try the SD card in a card reader via pc
godkingofcanada said:
Try using android SDK emulator on Linux. There's a tool that comes with a package including the Android SDK. Emulate your exact stock ROM and try the SD card in a card reader via pc
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If I m not mistaken, the encryption used is based on hardware (not the actual ROM). Or a combination or both. Otherwise it would defeat it's purpose i.e. anyone with the same phone model + same ROM build would decrypt an ext sd card....
jstoner said:
If I m not mistaken, the encryption used is based on hardware (not the actual ROM). Or a combination or both. Otherwise it would defeat it's purpose i.e. anyone with the same phone model + same ROM build would decrypt an ext sd card....
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It can't be. People upgrade their ROM and lose access to the SD. Did you backup your phone? Use that to emulate the ROM. I usually back up everything including system and modem