Hello Reddit community!
This is my first ever post on Reddit so forgive me if I make any mistakes.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. I am not sure when I bought it, but I formatted it and then had it repaired by Samsung around June 2017. I have used that phone constantly since then. I never updated it so I think it is still Android 7.0. I set a PIN for the SIM, lock screen, and Data Protection -> Strong Protection (I think this is what it was called). I also selected for the SD card to be encrypted. I did not use the secure folder Knox as I was too lazy to draw a pattern each time I opened an app, and I never downloaded any third party encryption apps.
I have since lost the PIN, and I do not want to try to guess it because I only have 15 attempts before my Samsung Galaxy S7 edge formats itself. I have stupidly switched the phone off and kept it in a draw. Sadly I also cannot unlock it from my PlayStore account, and I made no backups on Google Drive.
I have seen some good tutorials online, but from my understanding most require the phone to still be powered on, others even require the installation of apps. I saw a tutorial which claimed it's possible to put a Samsung engineering bootloader onto the device which can reset the PIN, I think because the default encryption is something in the chip + "default_password" but given my settings explained in the first paragraph I would have changed it from the easy to break default?
I heard Samsung phones are highly secure so nobody can access them, but before I format it and give it to my son I thought I would check with Reddit. Even something destructive such as JTAG or chip-off would be fine.
That phone means the world to me, I really hope this community can help. I have done as much investigating as possible before asking this question to be less of a time waster to the community.
Thank you,
Larry Dobson
Hello Reddit community!
Here is not Reddit bro. lol lol lol
Cellebrite.
What you're describing seems to be a secure startup enabled device. No JTAG, ISP, chip-off is gonna help you. The only solution is to enter a valid password so the phone boots into Android and decrypts itself. Depending on the variant and firmware version, you may be able to find eng-root file and bruteforce it with help of Frida. There is a script to do that on github (google it) so that's something you can try, assuming you'll be able to find match eng-root file. There's still a risk that it'll wipe to phone so test it on spare device before.
Hello Reddit community!
Here is not Reddit bro. lol lol lol
Well, he posted there too, so maybe it is only a copy and paste in good faith
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Use Cellebrite UFED.
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