Data recovery for android

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Hello everyone

a relative of mine had android phone and it was factory reset from those combination key (robbery attempt) as the device was locked with password

so all data gone

notice that phone storage was not encrypted so i guess it could be recovered

what we looking for is a data recovery software that has the following feature

  1. free
  2. can work on either of linux windows or android any one of them is accepted
  3. not sure if we would need to root the phone or not but if that needed it’s fine as phone out of warranty

thanks for your time and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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As I understand this, the wiping process deletes inode and directory tables. The data on the disk should not be zeroed out, though. So you can clone the /data partition using a tool like dd and than use a technique known as file carving to retrieve files. You can start from here: File/Data Carving & Recovery Tools | HackTricks
Those programs look for file headers, footers and signatures to identify files. Unfortunately not all files are being written continously one block after another. Retrieving fragmented files is much more difficult.
The best scenario is you can retrieve, or at least partially retrieve the metadata that points to actual files.

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thanks i will check it and see how to going :slight_smile: