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Can I recover data from my own encrypted s5 Verizon phone (not rooted) w/password?

Can I recover data from my own encrypted s5 Verizon phone (not rooted) w/password?
My s5 Verizon phone could not boot well recently so today I intended to clear system cache. I hold power + volume up+home buttons, maybe somehow it entered into download mode, so it warned me that install a custom os is risky and asked me to volume up to continue, or down to cancel(restart). I volumed down and now it rebooted, but all of sudden, my data is gone! It did not ask me for screen pin/password either as previously my phone was encrypted. (Or did I held power+volumn down to factory reset the phone? But I did not get a warning for that.
This factory reset was a surprise to me as I was not warned or told that they will wipe out the data.
Anyhow, my data is gone. Now I wanted to get it back.
Can I recover data from my own encrypted s5 Verizon phone (not rooted) w/password?
I know It's not difficult if it was not encrypted, as many third party tools can recover most of the data if the phone was not used much after reset.
I am wondering if anyone has any experience recovering data for an *encrypted* phone (with right encryption password though). Which tool can do that by prompting you the password for the encrypted data?
Here is the link regarding recovering data from factory reset: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143188 However, I did not find a solution: what if the phone was encrypted and you do have the correct encryption password (if not I know it's almost impossible)?
Thank you in advance for your help!
J

Any thoughts, suggestions?

My phone was encrypted but not rooted. I have the encryption password. Any chance to get the data back from the phone?
I powered down my phone now and will see how to proceed after I get experts opinion on this...
My question basically is, can I recover data from an encrypted phone after factory reset if I have the encryption password? Anyone can help?
Thank you guys in advance.

Anyone？

I understand this is difficult, but I wanted to try before I give up.
I need experts here to shed some lights: is it still possible to recover the data from my encrypted phone after accidental factory reset, as I still have the screen PIN?
I know how to recover the data if the phone was not encrypted/not factory reset. I also somehow know how to decrypt the data inside the encrypted phone, but no way so far do I know if we can recover the deleted data from the encrypted phone if the files were deleted or the phone was factory reset, provided I still have the screen lock pin.
What I have done so far:
I rooted my sm-n900v
I also created a raw image in my pc using dd command
Next questions are,
where can I find the crypt footer (which partition), and how can I decrypt the deleted data after the factory reset?
Can I recover the deleted data from the encrypted phone first, but it looks like no tools can do that. All data recover tools like Recuva can only recover unencrrypted data.
Or should I first find the cryptor footer, figure out encryption key, but where should I find the deleted files first to decrypt from the encrypted phone?
I just came to realize what I was got into... This is the most difficult scenario to decrpt the deleted files from an encrypted phone. I do want to recover some very important files from the phone's internal/encrypted storage, regardless how stupid I look not backing up those very important data.
But if experts here say I am doing almost impossible thing... I will stop.
Thank you all for your attention.
J

BTW, my s5 ran Android 4.4 before, later upgraded to Android 5.0, a while ago before I recently accidentally factory reset. I just rooted it days ago after accidental factory reset.
...... If the above info will make a difference in solving my issues below.
Thank you.
J
ljxd01 said:
I understand this is difficult, but I wanted to try before I give up.
I need experts here to shed some lights: is it still possible to recover the data from my encrypted phone after accidental factory reset, as I still have the screen PIN?
I know how to recover the data if the phone was not encrypted/not factory reset. I also somehow know how to decrypt the data inside the encrypted phone, but no way so far do I know if we can recover the deleted data from the encrypted phone if the files were deleted or the phone was factory reset, provided I still have the screen lock pin.
What I have done so far:
I rooted my sm-n900v
I also created a raw image in my pc using dd command
Next questions are,
where can I find the crypt footer (which partition), and how can I decrypt the deleted data after the factory reset?
Can I recover the deleted data from the encrypted phone first, but it looks like no tools can do that. All data recover tools like Recuva can only recover unencrrypted data.
Or should I first find the cryptor footer, figure out encryption key, but where should I find the deleted files first to decrypt from the encrypted phone?
I just came to realize what I was got into... This is the most difficult scenario to decrpt the deleted files from an encrypted phone. I do want to recover some very important files from the phone's internal/encrypted storage, regardless how stupid I look not backing up those very important data.
But if experts here say I am doing almost impossible thing... I will stop.
Thank you all for your attention.
J
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Any help from this forum appreciated...

ljxd01 said:
Any help from this forum appreciated...
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Hi I am in the same position as you - have you had any luck at all?

danielleb21 said:
Hi I am in the same position as you - have you had any luck at all?
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Any help from this forum appreciated...
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From what I have read, the device encryption key is tied to the device Serial Number or Burned-In-ROM-Key. Meaning when you encrypt your device data, it encrypts the password in much the same way the device encrypts its "Verity Hash".
So from what I've gathered it is possible to do a factory data reset, encrypt your empty device using the same password as before, decrypt the empty device, and during that encryption/decryption phase:
Pull out the common denominator between the encrypted data you want to recover and the encrypted empty device, thus enabling you to derive the decryption key used for the data you'd like to recover.

Need help unlocking my phone, it's really urgent for me

Hello.
I have a serious problem.
tl;dr:
I forgot my pattern lock combination and I need my messages so I don't want to factory reset. Is there any other way?
Long story:
So I've forgotten my pattern lock combination and I have a job interview tomorrow at the address I received in a message.
I can't unlock my phone. I didn't write down the address anywhere else. And if I try to factory reset my phone it will get rid of all my messages.
So far I've tried:
dr.phonw - but for some reason it doesn't work on p9 lite
I've read online you can delete the password file for the pattern lock and it will unlock, I've tried using usb cable to access my files but I can't access the phone while it's locked.
I've tried installing a file manager from a sd card in recovery mode, but p9 lite doesn't have that function.
Do you have any other ideas I could try.
It might seem like a strange question, but I'm really panicking right now, the job interview is tomorrow and it's really important to me.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Any possibility to break lock pattern?

Hello, my friend gave my a Samsung Galaxy J510fn, because she forgot her lock pattern. Phone is not stole or something, as you might think first I got a login and password for google account registered on this phone if that would help. Phone has been using by woman so there is no things like custom recovery, root or usb debbuging turned on and it has stock firmware. Normally I will factory reset this phone but she said that she don't want to lose anything, specially photos, videos etc. I tried to unlock this pattern by programs like dr.fone or backup data by Kies but none of these are seeing this phone :crying:
So is there any possibility for cracking this phone without losing any data?

Freezu said:
Hello, my friend gave my a Samsung Galaxy J510fn, because she forgot her lock pattern. Phone is not stole or something, as you might think first I got a login and password for google account registered on this phone if that would help. Phone has been using by woman so there is no things like custom recovery, root or usb debbuging turned on and it has stock firmware. Normally I will factory reset this phone but she said that she don't want to lose anything, specially photos, videos etc. I tried to unlock this pattern by programs like dr.fone or backup data by Kies but none of these are seeing this phone :crying:
So is there any possibility for cracking this phone without losing any data?
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Back in the day you were able to remove pattern if you knew the samsung account details. Not sure if thats a thing anymore...

Wizardlysense said:
Back in the day you were able to remove pattern if you knew the samsung account details. Not sure if thats a thing anymore...
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But when we boot phone for the first time it's force us to create samsung account or we can skip that step? Because she said that she didn't mention of creating samsung account. Even tried to search her ID through email but can't find anything.

Freezu said:
But when we boot phone for the first time it's force us to create samsung account or we can skip that step? Because she said that she didn't mention of creating samsung account. Even tried to search her ID through email but can't find anything.
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then wiping everything is the only choice i guess

You can backup files from recovery mode (should be able to do it in stock recovery) I think (maybe copy to PC). Then make a factory reset.
Recovery Mode - Vol+, Home and Power buttons
Download Mode - Vol- , Home and Power buttons
And 2nd option. If you can, go to Download Mode and flash her TWRP! Make Nandroid backup there and then make factory reset. Flash TWRP via Odin of course.
But you must read how to enable USB Debugging if it is needed, I forgot how to

Freezu said:
So is there any possibility for cracking this phone without losing any data?
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HEY HEY HEY.
Chill, boyes. Leave reset alone.
You can go to Google Find My Device and change something from there.

My Phone was HACKED!!!! Please help me

So here’s what happened, I had a person’s email logged into my gmail and I forgot to remove it from my device. I was watching YouTube yesterday night and suddenly they turned on ‘Lost my device’ and my phone started to format on its own. But since my phone was rooted the data didn’t get formatted. But now my phone is stuck in boot loop mode and now not even getting switched on for some reason. I have an option to go to service Center and fix it but then probably they will format all my data which I couldn’t backup. Is there anyway to fix this problem without losing data? The person who did this is blackmailing me now for money. He said if you want me to unlock your phone pay this amount blah blah. Please help me
Points to be noted-
I have more than 5 emails of my own linked with my device and the main email which is used as phone’s backup email is fully safe but I didn’t know that any newly signed email can also be used to turn on find my device and reset or lock it. I thought only the primary email which is linked can do this.

U can try to flash a custom recovery and view ur file manager and backup ur files and then format your device and flash your rom and put the data in it

If you have another phone you can use that one to try to disable find my device on the 8 Pro or see which device that person is using and remove and block it from find my device. Not sure if this would work but the suggestion from above is your best chance. And if you use custom recovery you can backup everything on the phone from there flash the version of the rom your phone is on after resetting, boot it set everything up and go back into the custom recovery and restore all the data. Just don't use the same email

Onesplus8piro said:
The person who did this is blackmailing me now for money. He said if you want me to unlock your phone pay this amount blah blah. Please help me
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At least in my home country, I'd file a charge at the police.

I try this:
- remove SIM from phone,
- data + wifi OFF.
Then Format Data in ADB. This Wipes ALL in youre phone ! So copy on a PC or flash drive anything you want.

Yes, possibly factory reset might assist. Back up everything before!

Check what's backed up already, Google contacts, photos etc, then MSM.
How on earth did anyone log into your phone? Did you lend it to them?
Learning curve there I think.
If you let them log in then contact the police.
As it's not booting it could just be as simple as the boot image that's borked.
Try booting the correct image or even safe mode.
Personally I'd just MSM and put it down to experience.

My kid changed lockscreen pin

Hello there, I'm using OnePlus 6t on OOS 10, somehow my kid changed the lockscreen pin and now forgot.
I've read multiple threads and asked a lot of people, but there seems no method to bypass the lockscreen pin.
I'd some important files which I couldn't backup/ not until my last backup.
Is there any way possible to recover my files after a hard reset as that's the only alternate i can think of without bypassing lockscreen without root.
FYI: Bootloader locked, currently locked, haven't hard reset yet, usb debugging off.

Nope, if you hard reset you lose everything. User storage is encrypted with a per-session key that is wiped when a reset occurs meaning everything on the phone becomes useless garbage the moment that key is lost. If you have adb enabled and have authorized your computer once before you might be able to pull files off using that but otherwise you might be screwed
The lock screen is designed to keep people out, wouldn't be much use if it let people exfiltrate data whenever they wanted

Don't even think you'll be able to get the pin off the phone. When you reset Google asks for the old pin used in the device.
If USB debugging is off, I don't even think you can flash stock firmware onto the device either.
You're pretty much screwed.

The best way to do is MSM tool. If you don't know the password your can't even get in to recovery mode( required password). By doing that all data will be gone.