Nokia N95 micro SD cards

Hi

Right I done abit of research on this. Results were not very good. I got a MicroSD card which was password protected. I inserted it into a card reader, the auto play function didnt work. So I clicked My Computer and tried to access it troug the drive letter. It didnt ask for a password and I got an error " driveletter/ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." So I thought lets acquire it in encase. But every time I clicked on the physical drive option in the drive selection box Encase died on me. As soon as I disconected the card reader, encase started functioning properly. Tried FTK Imager, but got the same problem as encase. However, in FTK Imager it did at one point pick up the memory card. But as soon as I started acquiring it I got an error message "No Media Present". So I thought I will try to acquire it through a phone. So I put the MicroSD in a mobile phone Nokia 5500. But as soon as I switched the phone on I was asked to input a memory card password. I canceled this screen and connected the mobile phone to .XRY. After acquisition I noticed that everything from the mobile phone was acquired, but nothing from the password protected memory card was acquired.

Didnt know what else to try. So if anyone else researched into password protected memory cards and got a result please post out come. It will help alot.

Kind Regards
Imran R. Khan

(CY4OR)

you can read the memory card password from the pm records for some phones assuming you have the phone and it isnt password protected. From memory I think it is record 308,5 and password is stored in plan text.

Failing that, if you have access to an ATF box they claim they can brute force the password. I haven't tried it, but lots of people say it works so could be worth a go if you have access to the box

EDIT sorry, just realised how old the original post is… roll

@cyrus. Even though its an old post it's not a problem that's been solved yet

What were you referring to re the record number?

So far I've found that the best way to unlock the card is put back in the original phone and try unlock it through the menu settings. Sometimes that doesn't ask for a password. Alternatively it may auto mount which means you can use a phone examination tool like ufed or xry to get the data

Failing that we're working on another method in the lab to try and get the data. But I'm not sure how promising it is without using a physically destructive process.

What he means is that in nokia phones the record 308,5 of the PM memory stores the password for the microSD card in plain text.
so if you have the phone, you can access that value and read the password.

if you don't have the original phone, ATF box has a function that allows you to bruteforce the password of the microSD

here are some infos about pm memory
http//forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f83/nokia-permanent-memory-1080640/