The good news is that know a lot about Android, so I can try to help! I haven't had a lot of experience with data recovery, specifically, but I can at least make some suggestions / try a few things: And even then, with forced encryption, it isn't always a gurantee of a successful recovery, like it used to be in the past.Īww man, I was scrolling my frontpage and stopped, because I genuinely felt terrible for you. To answer your question about copying the internal storage to run a recovery program on it, what you're referring to is called 'imaging'. If you're looking for just images, you can check the cached images with this program: And rooting wipes the phone, which destroys the encryption keys, which makes 100% of the data unrecoverable.

Which you would have to have rooted before the data was put on the phone or lost.

The catch 22 here is that there are some programs that MIGHT be able to help (and that's a long shot), but they all require root. There are data recovery software that can find cached images not available to the user, but if you're looking for anything else, it's probably not recoverable. Unfortunately, Android uses forced encryption these days, making recovery almost impossible.

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