Please help,Interrupted Encryption,Internal storage older file present¬ accessible
Hello,
I have a poco f1 and I tried to encrypt for company purposes.
The phone stuck in boot for hours, manually rebooted and the phone was wiped and miui was new as factory reset, but the internal storage shows it is occupied the same sapce as it was before this issue but the files are no longer accessible.
I have TWRP v3.3 and it was rooted before encryption but, now lost root.
Please help me if i can gain access to the files somehow. I have my work related files
The files will not be accessible because you did factory reset. That's why make use of the sdcard slot from now on.
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Dear Experts,
Device - Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300
Android Version - 4.0.4
Scenario
1. Encrypted the device for Corporate Exchange Access
2. After few days device prompted for an upgrade
3. Decrypted the device for performing upgrade
4. Upgrade performed successfully
5. Performed backup and kept the data in SD card
6. Performed a factory reset
7. Now unable to access contents on SD card
Tried re-encrypting the device with same password.. it worked fine, but still unable to access memory card data.
Please advise how to get out of this situation.
Regards,
Satish.
Isn't this how it is meant to work? A factory reset breaks the encryption in place. Restore your backup and unencrypt first.
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The problem is that the backup was stored on External SD card.. which is now un readable. Please advise
Hi Experts,
I am having the exact same issue with my S III
Any possible to retrieve my precious media files on the SD?
Any help is very appreciated
I believe if you encrypt the SD card you need to decrypt it as well before performing a FW update. Now your files are stored on an encrypted and unusable sd card which means you have to format it. I think you need to decrypt both device and extremfall storage before doing a fw upgrade. Sorry.
Edit: this is because the key store for the encryption key gets cleared during the fw update. That key would be needed to access your sd card content together with your pass code.
Recreate the keys?
So I got the same problem, my 5y/o reset the phone and left my SD unreadable because it was encrypted. I saved the data in the SD into an .iso image hoping that someday I will recover the media recorded there.
Is there a hacker out there who could produce the keys again and restore the files? I could send over the image file... I have a T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S II.
Thank you!
Hello everyone,
I had to factory reset my cinko slim android phone given that it didn't boot anymore (it was stuck at the opening logo). The recovery mode was the only thing available (I use a stock rom).
I had all my phone contacts stored in the internal memory so before doing that I made a backup to my sd card using the stock recovery (it made a 1gb .backup file in my sd card).
After wiping all the datas, I was able to use my phone without any problem but the recovery mode wasn't available anymore (the device gets stuck on the android logo when trying to access it).
So I tried to load the .backup file into another android device from its respective recovery mode but a message appeared reading ''checksum compare fails''.
Is there a way I can access all my datas from this .backup file and get back my phone contacts?
Thank you very much for your help
Solution?
Hi momomr,
exactly the same happened to me yesterday. Did you solve this problem somehow?
Thanks for answer
momomr said:
Hello everyone,
I had to factory reset my cinko slim android phone given that it didn't boot anymore (it was stuck at the opening logo). The recovery mode was the only thing available (I use a stock rom).
I had all my phone contacts stored in the internal memory so before doing that I made a backup to my sd card using the stock recovery (it made a 1gb .backup file in my sd card).
After wiping all the datas, I was able to use my phone without any problem but the recovery mode wasn't available anymore (the device gets stuck on the android logo when trying to access it).
So I tried to load the .backup file into another android device from its respective recovery mode but a message appeared reading ''checksum compare fails''.
Is there a way I can access all my datas from this .backup file and get back my phone contacts?
Thank you very much for your help
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Hi all,
Although I have read xda forums quite a few times, this is my first post here, and my reason for posting is that I really don't have a clue how to proceed with my Galaxy S2.
The story is the following: I was going to sell my old Samsung Galaxy S2, so I decided to delete all data from it in a way that it is not recover friendly. After seeing that a factory reset would not delete the internal memory completely, I was worried about the new owner being able to read my ersonal information, so I plugged in the phone USB to the Mac as Mass Storage and went to disk utility in Mac and performed a formatting of the phone partition(FAT32). When I rebooted the phone it would not work properly, messages like "Usb storage damaged" and most apps would not work, like camera, file manager and so on. I assumed I deleted important system files when formatting so I went to CWM based recovery and transferred the initial content of the internal memory (previously backed up) back to the phone's memory, in an attemp to put things back to normal.
Nothing has changed and the phone is not able to read that memory. I tried many options from the CWM recovery mode but nothing seems to work. I tried reformatting USB storage from the phone options, factory and cache reset from CWM....
The Android version is 4.1.2, Model GT I9100, Kernel 3.0.31 Siyah s2 v6.0b5+
I have also tried to install a different custom ROM but that does not fix the problem either.
So my question is: Is there anything I can do to restore a recognizable file system into the internal memory?
Thank you so much,
Problem solved. After flashing with ODIN the phone repaired itself performing a USB storage format from the device.
Hi
I accidently deletede all files on internal storage, when trying to setup DropSync. My mistake. Wanted to sync a Dropbox folder til internal storage, but had it set to sync from Dropbox to internal storage root. Well, all files are gone, except the folders synced from Sropbox and the Android folder.
My question is, how do I recover the files that resided on the internal storage. I have only used my phone fore some days, and didn't have any data (of my knowledge) on the internal storage, that I've put there. A don't mind doing a factory reset of the phone, if this means that the internal storage will be build up again to a normal state. I have no idea whether the files are necessary or not, and the phone seems to work fine. Since I've synced other files to the internal storage, I guess a recorvery is waste of time. Haven't found an aswear to whether a factory recovery would rebuild the internal storage. Hope someone here can answer my question.
Best regards
Frank
Did you delete internal SD then just restored but if you deleted system file / with no root, I can't help you.Find your phone's forum online they will be able to help if anyone can.
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Did you delete internal SD then just restored but if you deleted system file / with no root, I can't help you.Find your phone's forum online they will be able to help if anyone can.
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Hi lamike
Thankz for your reply. I'll be more specific, since I forgot this.
I'm on a non-rooted Sony Xperia Z3 running Android 4.4.4.
I installed DropSync to sync folders between my Dropbox and the internal storage. I set up sync from Dropbox to Internal storage, which resulted in only (first) the folders from my Dropbox appearing on internal storage. My mistake was not syncing to at dedicated folder on the internal storage, instead of the root. Then the folder "Android" appeared, and others has show up in the time after the sync. I've had my handset turned off to, which also returned some folders I could recognize. Funny thing is, that when I connected the handset to my PC, I could see the folders, that was gone when browsing with file explorer tool on handset. Weird. Tried to copy all folders, but was only able to copy a few.
Will a factory reset rebuild the folder/file structure on the internal storage back to as when recieved from the factory? As mentioned before, I havn't placed files (only some ringtones) on the internal storage, so I don't think I'll be missing anything.
How does the internal storage work? Are there files residing here, that the system depends on, and which needs to be recreated? Since I did the sync, and new files has been placed on the internal storage, I think a restore might be out of scope, or what? Again, if I can restore the files, by doing a factory reset, I'll just do that. Only used the handset a couple of days.
Best regards
Frank
Well, I went ahead and tried doing a factory reset. From reading several posts, I thought the phone would be brought back to original state, as when I turned it on the first time. But that wasn't the case. Files that was placed on the internal storage by me, still resided there after the reset, which astounded me. I thougt everything was wiped when doing the factory reset. This means that I manually have to delete files, when wiping the phone, or what? Also, original files from Sony wasn't present/recreated after the factory reset, like sample pictures and videos. Are they not recreatable? Isn't it indeed possible to recreate the phone to it's original state, as the factory reset claim to do? If the factory reset claims to reset your phone to the state you recieved it in from the factory, then I'm truly scared, since old data would reside in the internal memory, on phones that I've wiped and sold.
Edit: Ohh, just found out, that a tick should be set, when doing the factory reset for erasing data on the internal storage. Missed that. Trying to factory reset the phone again later today, and see what happends.
Edit 2: Well, did the factory reset again with the tick set. Didn't recreate the original files placed on the internal storage by Sony.
Br
Frank
Contacted Sony Support today. They suggested running a repair through PC Companion (PC software). Tried it, and also tried updating through PC Companion. Same result. Took contact again, and was now told that, it's not possible to restore files like sample pictures and videos, unless I send it to a local service center. Since non important files has been removed, needed by the system (also confirmed by Sony Support), I'm clear to start using the phone. Happy days. Hope I don't f*** up the phone again like that, doh.
Hi there,
First of all, I know that part of this mess was my fault. I had been using CM 10.1 on my Galaxy S2 for quite a while (since 2013, IIRC), but yesterday I decided to upgrade it to CM 12.1. The "CM Updater" app was not working so I decided to just download the .zip file, reboot into recovery mode and flash things from there. I managed to enter the recovery mode, but when I tried to flash the new CM I noticed I couldn't see the .zip file on my internal SDCard... Hmm, this was because my phone was encrypted (including my internal SDCard, of course). So I went back to my browser and did more research. I found a guy saying that, if your phone was encrypted, you could flash your device using the sideload mechanism *or* an external SDCard. Since I have an external SDCard, I chose this option.
Well, it doesn't much to figure out that things went bad. The main partition was overwritten during the installation and I've lost all encryption. However, that's not the worst part: I've also lost access to my internal SDCard! Now I cannot even make Android ask for its password. I really don't know what to do here. I've lost access to photos and videos from years ago. If I am correct, the upgrade process *did not* touch the internal SDCard at all; so my data is still there. Am I right? Do you guys think it's still possible to access it? I spent several hours trying to figure this out without success, so I decided to post my question here before I give up and reformat the internal SDCard.
Thank you in advance!
I am curious, how you manged to encrypt sdcard0 at all.
Never figured out how to do this on CM.
Nevertheless, I guess, Terminal/ADB might be the only option to decrypt and mount that partition. Unfortunately I don't know the commands on Android (on Linux it's cryptsetup).