SD Card not accessible after encryption

[elophant]

Hello,

I am running Android 4.4.4 on my Xperia Z1 Compact.

I just activated encryption with the flag "Encrypt SD Card" set and with my SD card full of data (pictures, videos, etc.). I use a 4-digit PIN as the screen lock password.

After the encryption was finished and after restart of the device, a notification in the upper left says, that my SD card is either empty or has a not supported file system. Clicking on that only brings up the option, to format the SD card. But I do not want to do this.

The SD card is now not "visible" for the phone and I cannot access my photos, videos, etc. on it.

This problem was also reported elsewhere:

/t5/Xperia-Z3-Compact/SD-Card-issues-after-Encrypting-phone/td-p/851471

Any idea how to solve this?

Regards,

elophant

[Uliwooly]

then the SD card might be corrupted

[elophant · Accepted solution]

Hi uliwooly,

the SD card was not corrupted. I basically confirmed the message to format the SD card by the phone. After it got formatted, I connected my phone with the USB cable in MSC mode, so that it showed up in the Windows Explorer as a new volume.

It was actually shown as being empty and also had full capacity left. But then I did a deep scan with the program Recuva and it was able to restore nearly all files from the SD card.

So I conclude, that the files on the SD card haven't actually been encrypted nor have they been erased by the formatting after the encryption process.

Problem solved now.

Best regards,

Philipp