- I used a micro SD card in a Nokia Smartphone for years as internal storage.
- I ejected it to test if another phone detects this type of SD card.
- Although we planned to just see if it is detected, certain off-topic factors led to the acceptance of Google's suggestion to 'format it as internal storage'.
As long as my phone still remembers the decryption, is there a way to recover my Photos, GPS-tracks, Text-Notes and other data, despite being encrypted with the known key and formatted by another phone?
My assumptions:
a) data from a non-encrypted card can often be retrieved mainly
because the raw data still 'looks like' photos, mp3 etc.
b) encrypted data doesn't 'look like' anything, so recovery tools won't
find anything - and even if, my phone doesn't care about data parts
but about some 'yes I am your encrypted storage do not format
me'-File
c) a recovery tool would need the decryption information to
look for the original content (-> how to extract it from the phone +
tell the tool?)
Side note/non-duplicate: Similar questions that I found always have sb. loosing the decryption key and I agree that recovery should be impossible in those cases.