Recovery chances for a formatted SD card which was used as Android's internal storage
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I used a micro SD card in a Nokia Smartphone for years as internal storage. I ejected it to test if *another phone* detects this type of SD card. Although we planned to just see if it is detected, certain off-topic factors led to the acceptance of Google's suggestion to '*format it as internal storage*'.
**As long as my phone still remembers the decryption, is there a way to recover** my Photos, GPS-tracks, Text-Notes and other data, despite being *encrypted* with the known key *and formatted* by another phone?
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My assumptions:
* data from a non-encrypted card can often be retrieved mainly because the raw data still 'looks like' photos, mp3 etc;
* encrypted data doesn't 'look like' anything, so recovery tools won't find anything;
* Even if my phone doesn't care about data parts but about some 'yes I am your encrypted storage do not format me' file, a recovery tool would need the *decryption information* to look for the original content (i.e. *how to extract it* from the phone plus tell the tool?)
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Side note/non-duplicate: Similar questions that I found always have somebody losing the decryption key and I agree that recovery should be impossible in those cases.
Asked by bissje-dabbisch
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Sep 29, 2019, 01:15 PM
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