sauk1 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 I am enforced an encryption on my Samsung Galaxy from the Company I work for. I also need to encrypt the sd card. Now my problem: I had an S4 encrypted, got a new phone, backed the old one up and was ignorant enough to just move the sd card to my new phone, the S5. I couldn't read the encrypted sd card, just see all file names. Chkdsk says the card is fine. So no problem, could just move it back to the S4 and start manually to copy? Well, here I made the terrible mistake to stop syncing emails with work on the old phone. My idea was to remove encryption on phone and sd card, then just move the unencrypted sd card. Well, during the removal of encryption something went wrong, my phone didn't get the encryption removed and denied all my passwords. Thus factory reset by default and now I have an encrypted sd card with data I want! This is quite ridiculous, since there seems to be no way to solve the problem? But say if I had an encrypted phone, dropped it on the floor and needed to send it off to service. Standard procedure is to fix the phone and do a factory reset by default. This means that if my problem has no solution everyone out there using encryption can't rely on their sd card as important storage. It just takes a kid entering the wrong code several times, a smashed display or something that demands service and your sd card data is gone! The Samsung Kies software for backups doesn't backup my sd card data, so I have to do it manually nowadays. So my question, is there a way to read the data on my encrypted sd card? I tried restoring the backuped data on my old unit and then encrypt it and try to read the sd card with no success. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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