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I have OnePlus8 Pro with Android 11. As you all know, with latest Android changes, now the WhatsApp media/documents/status data is put in /sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp.com

I uninstalled the app, and I dont know if I deleted it or uninstallation did, but I lost all the whatsapp media content. I later installed WhatsApp thinking I would get the media back but the folder is fresh with barely any data.

Is there any way to recover this data using ADB commands or some linux thing?

gsb22
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  • on stock android devices /sdcard is part of Internal Storage and therefore encrypted. once deleted, FBE(+metadata) encrypted files aren't recoverable. But some media can be downloaded again (afaik last 4 weeks at least) – alecxs Mar 23 '22 at 09:51
  • HI @alecxs, thanks for replying. The above post suggest that I dump userdata partition onto an image and then fetch data from there.

    I tried to do this cat: /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata: Permission denied but getting permission error. My device is not rooted, could you please help me how to move forward. Again, thank you so much for your help.

     – gsb22 Mar 23 '22 at 10:40
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    the above post covers some links with exceptions such as TRIM DISCARD ERASE F2FS FBE where data recovery is impossible. furthermore it requires raw access (such as EDL or root) – alecxs Mar 23 '22 at 11:22

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