Recovered photos from SD card have all the same size

[coppiman]

Hello guys.

So, I've been using my SD card as internal storage in my android phone.
My phone broke and I had to factory reset it.
Of course the issue with the SD card is that I am not able to access any files that existed there, anymore. Mainly I care about pictures.

What I did in order to fix this is first of all connect the SD directly to my PC and use various recovery software (testdisk, ZAR, remo recover etc) and none could read anything on the SD card.

The only software that manages to read stuff on it is called Stellar Photo Recovery.
Found 13GB and recovered them, but the result is .ppm files that ALL have the same size! Check the pictures below for more info.

Of course the recovered .ppm files cannot be opened by any software and I am here then in order to ask for advice.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[USAFRet]

Change the extension on one of them to .jpg.
See what happens.

Likely those are all just fragments, and it won't work.
But worth a try.

This is specifically what backups are for.

 

[coppiman]

Change the extension on one of them to .jpg.
See what happens.

Likely those are all just fragments, and it won't work.
But worth a try.

This is specifically what backups are for.

Yes, I know the value of backups but these things happen anyway sometimes.

I tried and this just creates another unreadable file.
Am I out of options?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, I know the value of backups but these things happen anyway sometimes.

I tried and this just creates another unreadable file.
Am I out of options?

If you're tried the usual consumer level tools, and none of them worked...you're pretty much out of luck.

 

[fzabkar]

Android started using full disk encryption by default several years ago.

https://www.itworld.com/article/299...ot-mandatory-for-some-android-60-devices.html

If the data are encrypted, then you will see gibberish in a hex editor.

Try HxD (freeware hex editor):
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

 

[hang-the-9]

That ^ could be the issue, with encrypted disk/files, no other device other than the original one will be able to read it. If you try to run a file recovery on such a disk, you will get junk.

 

[popatim]

That's exactly what the issue is since the card was formatted as Internal Storage unfortunately.