Data recovery if I root
- By Hadron
- Smartphones
- 5 Replies
I don't think you've much chance. For one thing, Verizon have always been keenest on locking their phones to prevent rooting. But the big problem is that Android has encrypted the storage by default since Android 5, and the S7 was released with Android 6. So unless she specifically turned the encryption off any data recovery program will be faced with trying to recover encrypted data after the encryption key was deleted by the reset. Maybe there's some weakness in the S7's implementation that will let you recover the encryption key (which in modern devices should be in a special secure store, but just maybe they didn't do that properly), but I think the chances are very small.
If stuff stored on a removable SD card was deleted that's easy: those aren't encrypted by default, and you can just stick them in a card reader and run some file recovery software on a computer. But unless you changed the settings the camera was likely to be storing the data in the internal storage.
If stuff stored on a removable SD card was deleted that's easy: those aren't encrypted by default, and you can just stick them in a card reader and run some file recovery software on a computer. But unless you changed the settings the camera was likely to be storing the data in the internal storage.
