My son messed with my password entry, and the phone defaulted after too many "failed attempts".
I had about 2 weeks of pictures and videos on the phone that I would like to attempt to recover. They were stored on internal storage, not an SD card. The last time I attempted recovering anything was on a previous phone. Just mounted it, ran Recuva, and grabbed the available files.
With this G930V on Oreo, I can't mount it as a drive any longer, I can't seem to scan for files meaningfully from any app or from a computer without root access, and I can't find a meaningful way to get root access (I've rooted a few phones before, but I can't find a working way to do this one).
Is there any meaningful way to recover files after such a factory default, or should I just accept the loss at this point?
Thank you.
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I accidentally deleted all of the photos off my GS4's SD card. I have unmounted and removed the SD card to prevent overwriting and now I'm in a panic basically to figure out how to get everything back. I have done endless searches on the Internet and have downloaded software that it's working for me.
I have a Mac, so I need Mac-compatible software. I have tired EaseUS and Wondershare, but neither of them will pick up my phone. I don't know why. Debugging is turned on, but it only show's my Mac's hard drive and never my phone. I need a software for Mac that will allow me to just connect my phone and search for the deleted files. I have tried looking for an Android app that would work, but they all require root and I'm not rooted.
I know there are threads on this on a million sites, but I haven't found anything to help me. But it's also 2 am and I'm a girl that doesn't know much about tech stuff. If anyone has any advice on how I can retrieve all of my pictures or at least some of them, your help is greatly appreciated.
Hello everone,
i'm facing a really heavy problem with my Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. Since i wanted to change the internal with the external storage, i found out that there is the option to replace the original "vold.fstab". At this time i had root access of course. Everything worked fine at this moment, until i decided to do a factory reset, including delete USB storage (which was the fake internal storage now, because it switched). To make things even more difficult, i deinstalled the root access. The phone still works fine, but i completely lost access to my 32GB sd card and can't download anything anymore. My phone keeps saying "Couldn't download...".
I'm not the biggest smartphone genius, but i already tried a few things.
1. I've tried to use Odin, to flash the original firmware. But i was unable to get a connection in download mode.
2. I tried to replace the modded "vold.fstab" with the original one. But it's not possible withouth root access.
3. I tried Kango Root. Not working.
I appreciate any help i can get. Thanks in advance!
I have been searching high and low for hours and cannot find anything related to my situation.
I am replacing my V20. The SD card is encrypted. I attempted to decrypt it on the V20 but it would hang at 1%. Sat there for several hours. I read one post that said I needed to disable screen lock and reboot the phone. I disabled screen lock, did NOT reboot, tried to decrypt gain, sat over night, didn't go past 1%. Rebooted phone, now I no longer have the option to decrypt the SD Card. I reenabled lock screen with same password and still no option to decrypt. I tried using Cryptonite to decrypt it, I get to a point it asks for a password, but then gives me an error stating there was a problem with file permissions or the password. The V20 is not rooted. Hesitant to root it and risk losing all of the encryption keys. Closest thing to a solution I have been able to find is to copy the files to a PC, format the sd card, encrypt it, copy the files back, then decrypt. This seems quite hoakie to me.
PLEASE HELP!!!!
The long way of transferring data to and from computer seems to be the only option
Still_living714 said:
The long way of transferring data to and from computer seems to be the only option
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The problem is, the data is still encrypted and unreadable to the phone or computer. If I copy the encrypted files to the PC, format the SD card, encrypt it, then copy the files back, won't the phone double encrypt the files? Or will the phone recognize they are already encrypted and "unlock" them?
If I go this route as a test, will DD in Linux make a sufficient enough bit for bit copy of the SD card to restore it as if nothing happened? Is there a Windows alternative that would work just as well?
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The problem is, the data is still encrypted and unreadable to the phone or computer. If I copy the encrypted files to the PC, format the SD card, encrypt it, then copy the files back, won't the phone double encrypt the files? Or will the phone recognize they are already encrypted and "unlock" them?
If I go this route as a test, will DD in Linux make a sufficient enough bit for bit copy of the SD card to restore it as if nothing happened? Is there a Windows alternative that would work just as well?
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I think what Still_living714 meant was that you have to use the V20 to access the SD card and copy the data to a computer using USB or a network connection through it.
bbf said:
I think what Still_living714 meant was that you have to use the V20 to access the SD card and copy the data to a computer using USB or a network connection through it.
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I understand that. But the V20 isn't even able to read the files even though they were encrypted on that device. Most of the files are not readable. So copying an unreadable, encrypted file, from the device via USB, to a PC, will still result in an unreadable encrypted file on the PC. I then format the SD Card on the V20 and reencrypt it. I then copy the still unreadable and encrypted file back to the SD Card which is in the same V20. Now the V20 is going to encrypt that file again making it double encrypted, correct? Or will the V20 recognize that it is already encrypted and give me access to the file since the lock screen password was reset back to what it was before this fiasco started?
Maybe I'm just not explaining the situation correctly.
kb0olf said:
I understand that. But the V20 isn't even able to read the files even though they were encrypted on that device. Most of the files are not readable. So copying an unreadable, encrypted file, from the device via USB, to a PC, will still result in an unreadable encrypted file on the PC. I then format the SD Card on the V20 and reencrypt it. I then copy the still unreadable and encrypted file back to the SD Card which is in the same V20. Now the V20 is going to encrypt that file again making it double encrypted, correct? Or will the V20 recognize that it is already encrypted and give me access to the file since the lock screen password was reset back to what it was before this fiasco started?
Maybe I'm just not explaining the situation correctly.
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Umm, that's not how the encryption on an external SD card works on android.
If the OS fails to decrypt the card, the whole thing is inaccessible. Android encryption is not a "per file" encryption.
Forget all of the double encryption nonsense. No file is ever double encrypted you simply copied encrypted files from the SD Card to new device/pc, and copied them back to a formatted and re-encrypted SD Card in hopes you can decrypt them. Thus, is there a way to decrypt it (period)? That's the real question!!!!
So, can someone answer the real question. Especially, I'm having the same problem after upgrading to a S10+ from a S8+ that I traded in. So, now I can't read nor access 14.3 GBs out of 16 GB SD Card; which is unacceptable.
Hi All,
I have an S5 SM-G900P w/6.0.1
I keep my photos on my SDCard. Recently after taking some lengthy vids, I ran out of space and it shifted over to local storage.
I backed up both external and internal DCIM/camera folders to my local machine. Then copied that backup to another backup drive.
I normally parse through the pics to make sure everything is ok before I delete the stuff from my phone, but this last batch was too big to do that, so I only skimmed through.
After thinking the copies were successful, I went ahead and deleted the pictures from my phone. I deleted via Windows 10 while looking at the folders via usb connection.
Shortly after I discovered that any of the files that were on internal storage (and some on the SD Card) were corrupted during the transfer. Their file size was inflated to approx 5.2GB each (normally around 1500KB).
I was able to quickly recover any of the corrupted files on the SD card using Piriform's Recuva. (maker of cCleaner). I mounted the SDcard directly to the PC and didn't use the phone.
However, Recuva won't browse the phones internal storage when connected via USB. Their FAQ says it can only browse and recover from physically attached drives. (no mapped drives, which I tried by using a webserv)
I tried several recovery apps on my phone itself. Disk Digger, Dumpster, etc. They didn't find anything.
AFAIK, I can't mount the internal storage on the phone as a physical drive like we used to be able to do on older phones.
At this point, I'm not sure what else I can do. It's been a day now, so the phone might have already written over the space anyway. But I'm curious if there isn't any other ways to recover those files. I hate losing pics of my kids.
jasonallen19 said:
Hi All,
I have an S5 SM-G900P w/6.0.1
I keep my photos on my SDCard. Recently after taking some lengthy vids, I ran out of space and it shifted over to local storage.
I was able to quickly recover any of the corrupted files on the SD card using Piriform's Recuva. (maker of cCleaner). I mounted the SDcard directly to the PC and didn't use the phone.
AFAIK, I can't mount the internal storage on the phone as a physical drive like we used to be able to do on older phones.
At this point, I'm not sure what else I can do. It's been a day now, so the phone might have already written over the space anyway. But I'm curious if there isn't any other ways to recover those files. I hate losing pics of my kids.
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Can I assume, seeing that you used "Recuva" that you are running Microsoft on your PC???
If that be the case.... will take a little time , and a good size USB Stick. and hopefully, you have a port left for USB3.0 for the S5..
That said, you could set up Ubuntu on a USB Stick (making sure when doing so, you use the whole card, so changes can be made)
Then making sure your PC can boot from a USB Stick, Power that down, Restart PC, Booting into Ubuntu. then plug in phone. Mount the it, and you should be able to find everything you are missing. (that said, I do hope you were using the Stock Camera App, and mot something else.... if so, the files, might be bad from the start, I hope this is not the case).
hope this may help you
I have a Samsung A3 (2017), there were VERY important files on it, and when I returned the phone to factory settings, I either did not see it, or there was nothing, but it turns out that my files on the memory card were encrypted. (I honestly don't remember that I encrypted them at all) And after resetting the settings, I can no longer just decrypt them like that. Now they are on a laptop, and the old memory card that was in the phone at the time of encryption has been lost.
I tried to restore them through another memory card, but to no avail. I found a list of programs for decrypting files encrypted by ransomware on the website. Can any of these programs help? I downloaded the first one, and there it asks for extension files that I don't know. My encrypted video has the mp4 extension.
And here's the question: is it possible to decrypt these files somehow? I mean, maybe you can find out for a start what algorithm Samsung encrypts files, and then I don't even know how to decrypt them with brute force. These files are VERY important to me.
P.S. Sorry my english is bad and I used google translate.
Banifucy_3 said:
I have a Samsung A3 (2017), there were VERY important files on it, and when I returned the phone to factory settings, I either did not see it, or there was nothing, but it turns out that my files on the memory card were encrypted. (I honestly don't remember that I encrypted them at all) And after resetting the settings, I can no longer just decrypt them like that. Now they are on a laptop, and the old memory card that was in the phone at the time of encryption has been lost.
I tried to restore them through another memory card, but to no avail. I found a list of programs for decrypting files encrypted by ransomware on the website. Can any of these programs help? I downloaded the first one, and there it asks for extension files that I don't know. My encrypted video has the mp4 extension.
And here's the question: is it possible to decrypt these files somehow? I mean, maybe you can find out for a start what algorithm Samsung encrypts files, and then I don't even know how to decrypt them with brute force. These files are VERY important to me.
P.S. Sorry my english is bad and I used google translate.
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Hi,
I had same issue...did you find a way to solve your problem?