Has anyone managed to solve this problem? I think it's a big issue. I'm also stuck on that and cannot access to my +30GB photos/videos.
My setup and how I got to that is a little different but the result is the same... Below the postI have sent to Samsung / Samsung Forum: Last week, I have faced a severe SD card encryption / decryption issue on my Samsung Galaxy S3 (international model), running on Android 4.1.2 (Build Number: JZ054K.I9300XXEMC2). I need urgent help from a Samsung developer to save my +30GB personal data on my SD card... The steps of the problem state (easily reproducable) are following: - First I have set the "SD card encryption" when a SD card with my personal data was already mounted and accessible. Here I choose the 'Full encryption' option (from the builtin "Security/SD card encryption" functionality of Samsung S3) after setting a password for the lock screen. Encryption went well. No problems. so far. I could restart my phone couple of times and after a short SD card decrypting message, I could access my files in the SD card. - After some days, I wanted to deactivate the password protection for display lock for a short while. But when the SD card is decrypted, the other lock options were greyed out. So I simply unmounted (over Android) my SD card, deactivated SD card encryption and chose swipe as lock screen option. So far so good. - After a while I restarted my phone and Android mounted the SD card but... Without decryption/encryption. nothing. And my files are not accessible again. They are listed in the file system (I can see them in Android and also Windows FS) but the content is still encrypted and Android does not know what to do with it. I tried to set the same password for locking but the problem is the phone OS does not understand that the SD card is encrypted and does not try to decrypt it. At this point, how can I rescue my files, i.e. decrypt the SD card content again. Do you have or can you recommend any tools? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
