Saturday, 23 July 2016

Decrypt internal sd after wipe



Short question here.

- I took the, as internal storage formatted, sd out of my Moto X Play
- Wiped to solve Marshmallow battery drain bug
- Put the sd back in
- aaand the phone doesn't recognize the card anymore.

Apparently an sd formatted as internal storage is encrypted to prevent data theft in case the phone is stolen. The key was apparently stored in '/data/misc/vold' and is therefore lost after the wipe.

I found a similar question here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto...atted-t3360169

Except of a few images from last week in vsco, everything on the card was either google photos or spotify data. So I have a backup of 95% of the stuff.

Is there a way to retrieve the key? Does Google back it up? NSA? Or to brute force? The encryption caught me really off guard so I wanted to shoot a last attempt before I format the card. :)

Thank you for your help guys. :good:



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