Recover data after unsuccessful force encryption

lontu

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Jun 11, 2011
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I am in trouble of loosing all my userdata after following the below process:

1. I was on stable 4.5.1 and not encrypted.
2. flashed blue_spark 8.52 recovery.
3. Reboot to recovery and full wiped (except user data).
4. Flashed OOS beta 18 and Magisk 14.3.
5. Rebooted and waited for 20 min but was still on rebooting process.
6. Force rebooted to recovery and alas!, twrp asking for decrypt password!!!
7. Reboot to system and message appears as 'Encryption Unseccessful'

I am not been able to access any partition including userdata from TWRP (as it's asking password), OOS also not booted as well.

Now I will be grateful if someone have any knowledge to skip TWRP password and provide access to userdata to recovery/copy data (photos/files etc) from the device before format userdata and start over again.
 

damiensturdy

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If your data was previously decrypted then disable encryption, format data, install a ROM that does not enforce encryption, then try looking on the Play Store for photo recovery apps.

Note that it will not be possible to recover data from the encrypted part of the device. If you left it running for 20 minutes, the chances are your data is almost entirely gone at this point.
 

Didgeridoohan

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May 31, 2012
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Like stated above, your data is probably destroyed since you interrupted the encryption process.

Have you tried "default_password" as the password in TWRP?
 
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