Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

[m4110c]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 03:10:39AM -0500, Dale wrote (rdalek1967@×××××.com):
>
> I was reading up on some other stuff, making the SD card available to
> install apps on, and it seems the sd card can be encrypted the same way
> the phone is.  Would that affect how this is done or will it not matter
> as long as the phone is on and the code is entered? 
>

I don't think so. If the phone is up and the correct code is entered, it
should be decrypted completely. Except, if there was some additional
encryption applied to the SD-Card. (but why would anyone do that if they
can use Android for it?)

>
> m4110c, where does scrcpy come from?  Is that part of android-tools as
> well? 
>

No, it's a tool developed by some guy. You can find it on github under
the link I provided. It is a tool that uses the ADB protocol to transmit
the screen and other data from the phone to your PC. It communicates
with android-tools if you want. 

However if you have access to the phone it does not make much sense to
use it, as you can just ues the phone directly.

> It's weird, this was fairly easy on my old Razr. It was pretty basic and
> all but it worked.  :/

Anyways, I would say that it's very probable, that there is just nothing
on that phone. If it would be encrypted, you would not have access to
the card at all. So no folders to see. Usually, disks/cards that are encrypted
do not even show up as having a file system so the card will not be
mounted and readable at all. As you say that you have access to the
folders I guess there is just nothing in there.

Except of course, that you have the phone of a super-hacker-secret-agent
who uses tools to let you access his device but hide the data from
you... ;-)


m4110c

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