Encrypted SD card
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scratch pervert

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498 posts

253 months

Thursday 4th April 2019
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I bought a Samsung S10+ a couple of weeks ago and traded in my S8+.

After transferring the data from my old phone to the new the assistant at the Samsung store did a factory reset on the S8, while I had my encrypted SD card in the phone.

When I put the card in the new phone it says it must be inserted back into the original device that was used to encrypt it.

Is there anyway to recover the data on the card?

karma mechanic

841 posts

153 months

Thursday 4th April 2019
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Not as far as I know, the main point of the encryption is so that the card simply can't be read on another device.
A blunder in other words. It can be reformatted and used again though.

scratch pervert

Original Poster:

498 posts

253 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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karma mechanic said:
Not as far as I know, the main point of the encryption is so that the card simply can't be read on another device.
A blunder in other words. It can be reformatted and used again though.
That's what I've been told... pissed off!