this is a pretty technical question:
Someone I work with had the unfortunate experience of having a verizon employee delete every picture on her S4 with a single click (quite the design flaw if you ask me). I've read that it's likely the data is still on the phone, and I'm trying to do a recovery. Here are the problems I've run into:
Android 4.2 no longer allows mounting internal storage as a USB drive, so any utilities on my PC that would be able to scan the partition for data won't work. Even with android debugging there seems to be no way to mount internal storage as anything other than mtp/ptp
I found a method that involves backing up the entire phone to raw, converting to vhd, then scanning, however it requires root, and this phone is not rooted (nor can I root it).
Anyone have any ideas?
Someone I work with had the unfortunate experience of having a verizon employee delete every picture on her S4 with a single click (quite the design flaw if you ask me). I've read that it's likely the data is still on the phone, and I'm trying to do a recovery. Here are the problems I've run into:
Android 4.2 no longer allows mounting internal storage as a USB drive, so any utilities on my PC that would be able to scan the partition for data won't work. Even with android debugging there seems to be no way to mount internal storage as anything other than mtp/ptp
I found a method that involves backing up the entire phone to raw, converting to vhd, then scanning, however it requires root, and this phone is not rooted (nor can I root it).
Anyone have any ideas?