I'm using my One X on Activesync which forces you to encrypt the phone's disk. I then have to enter my pin to unencrypt the disk whenever the phone is restarted.
My question is whether the one-click root methods mentioned in the Developer's forums will work on a phone with an encrypted disk (especially if the process required multiple boots of the phone).
Anyone have any idea?
FatblokeUK said:
I'm using my One X on Activesync which forces you to encrypt the phone's disk. I then have to enter my pin to unencrypt the disk whenever the phone is restarted.
My question is whether the one-click root methods mentioned in the Developer's forums will work on a phone with an encrypted disk (especially if the process required multiple boots of the phone).
Anyone have any idea?
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Go to config.
go to disk options
switch off encrypyion of your disk
root the device
switch encryption back on.
Before you do this backup your data to your pc and restore after encypted again.
Your activesync mail is temporay not available untill encryptio is switched on again
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Hello.
My HTC Touch Pro 2 encountered the following problem:
Additional to the PIN (for SIM-Card) I have also set a 4 digit PIN to lock the device, which is activated automatically after 5 minutes.
After accidentally deep discharge of the battery (forgot my phone in the drawer of my desk for over a week) and loading the battery afterwards, the phone refuses to unlock the device. The inputting device lock code, which is 100% correct, does not work anymore- no matter whether I type it on the touch screen or keyboard.
Even after several soft reset - not change. The PIN (for SIM-Card) works but the device-Lock PIN does not. No possibility to unlocked the device – it tells me always “entered code is wrong”. Even after connecting to a PC, the computer does not recognize the phone - so I cannot even read out the data of the phone via a computer.
On the phone are important data, photos, entries that I will not delete!
HTC has got - as usual – no idea of their own devices and the German support on the phone told me that I should buy myself a new cell phone - very helpful!
A hardware reset / reset of the device, I do not want to do otherwise the data all are gone.
Is there a way to circumvent/ bypass the device lock and hack the data in some way out my phone?
The emergency plan, which I do not want to try by now, would be a hardware reset and subsequent data recovery using the software "File Scavenger ®" This works very, very good with defective USB sticks and accidentally deleted computer hard disc drives (deleted system volume information etc.) . Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of memory, the HTC Touch Pro 2 uses (it's been no SD card inserted in the device).
And I do not know how the phone reset works - simple device reset witch clears memory only (which would not be that serious) or if the entire memory will be overwritten (which would be fatal).
Maybe someone has a solution and can help me, how to get my data out of my cell phone. Thank you!
If you have the data on the SD card, why worry? Photos, music, etc should all be on the SD card, not the phone itself.
Either way, I doubt you'll be able to recovery anything. Good luck.
If your data is on the sd card/sim card then I would pop it out and do a hard reset on the phone. Put it back in and hope for the best after the reset.
If your data is on the phone you are screwed. When you do a hard reset it will do lots of writing to the nand memory, and overwrite anything you might try to scan for data recovery.
I have never heard of anyone finding a way to get into the data on these phones when the pin didn't work. It is also the reason I never used that feature.
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(it's been no SD card inserted in the device).
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OP mentioned that he does not have a SD card inserted into the device. I think that is why he is so concerned!
Any updates there OP?
When I plug my HTC into my computer via usb it mounts the MTP device and opening the device in file browser in Windows 7 pro shows "Internal storage" Which I can use to transfer files from/to my HTC one.
However sometimes it shows the device but opening the device just displays an empty window. "Internal Storage" is not present.
I have not found a pattern to when it works and when it does not. This is a new Verizon HTC one, unrooted.
Does anyone know why it sometimes lets me access internal storage and sometimes does not ?
Also is it possible to mount the device as a drive without having to root? Seems like what I am reading says it only works if rooted and an app is installed. It would be nice to be able to edit files from my PC instead of having to copy to PC, edit, copy back to Phone. I rooted my previous HTC Incredible so I may just root again but I like to work with stock for a while to decide if it is worth it.
Thanks
rgps said:
When I plug my HTC into my computer via usb it mounts the MTP device and opening the device in file browser in Windows 7 pro shows "Internal storage" Which I can use to transfer files from/to my HTC one.
However sometimes it shows the device but opening the device just displays an empty window. "Internal Storage" is not present.
I have not found a pattern to when it works and when it does not. This is a new Verizon HTC one, unrooted.
Does anyone know why it sometimes lets me access internal storage and sometimes does not ?
Also is it possible to mount the device as a drive without having to root? Seems like what I am reading says it only works if rooted and an app is installed. It would be nice to be able to edit files from my PC instead of having to copy to PC, edit, copy back to Phone. I rooted my previous HTC Incredible so I may just root again but I like to work with stock for a while to decide if it is worth it.
Thanks
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I figured it out. When I plugged in the HTC One. If it is already on and screen unlocked it will mount the "Internal Drive" if it is off it will wake when plugged in and the device will mount but the "Internal Drive" will not mount until the device is unlocked. Thought I would post my findings in case anyone had this issue and found this thread....
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I figured it out. When I plugged in the HTC One. If it is already on and screen unlocked it will mount the "Internal Drive" if it is off it will wake when plugged in and the device will mount but the "Internal Drive" will not mount until the device is unlocked. Thought I would post my findings in case anyone had this issue and found this thread....
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thanks for figuring this out
Hi everyone,
I've encrypted my HTC One M8 and I thought this would mean that plugging the phone in via USB would require a screen unlock. However I've just plugged my phone in to empty the internal storage and I can access all my photos/screenshots/camera data straight away..
I wanted to encrypt my phone to prevent a thief being able to see all of my photos in the event of a loss/theft. Why is this happening and is there any way to achieve this? Encryption seems pretty pointless if I can just see everything anyway..
Cheers guys.
My mistake, I realised I changed the screen lock settings so the device was unlocked when copying. Encryption works as expected.
Please can a mod delete at their soonest convenience, thanks!
My screen on my samsung galaxy is completely done and want to know how i can recover data off of it
wsperling said:
My screen on my samsung galaxy is completely done and want to know how i can recover data off of it
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If you can't access it using a PC you're boned.
You have the ability to use an SD card as a data drive, why didn't you?
All your critical data should be stored there for reloads and... this.
I did someone hacked my Gmail and reset my phone boom therewent everything
wsperling said:
I did someone hacked my Gmail and reset my phone boom therewent everything
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So the hardware's still good?
Check alternative 2nd email account if you have one to determine if it was unauthorized access took place.
Factory reload and change Google password after reload.
*You may have to reset Google account password if it was indeed hacked before you can regain device access. Try the original password first.
You get 3 tries before you get locked out for 72 hours.
If you got hacked, one or more of your devices was/is compromised. Always use a strong password and change it every few months.
Never use a "master" password for the Google account, it needs to be unique.
ALWAYS backup critical data on the PC and at least 2 more hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from the PC. If the your PC got hacked don't connect the backup hdds until it's clean.
I keep the laptop I use for backup offline and with no Google account on it for this very reason...
So, my SD card died, I want to try to read it from PC, but I need encryption key for this.
Guides on internet says that this key is stored in /data/misc/vold directory, but, in TWRP File browser I don't see any files here at all.
Any help? Or when I tapped (forgot storage) keys was deleted?
My phone has unlocked boot loader but it is not rooted and it uses official firmware Android 8.1
Anyhow, by try and error I figured out that I lost my encryption key so my data is lost forever.
So lets this will be a lesson for others. Do not take action before thinking.