These devices can also be imaged with near 100% success rate. Some devices come with locked bootloaders, but are user-unlocked at some stage.These can be imaged with nearly 100% success rate (unless encrypted).
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Some Android devices come with factory unlocked bootloaders. Depending on all these factors, your approach to acquiring an Android smartphone can differ greatly. Do you know the passcode? Is its bootloader unlocked (or semi-unlocked)? Is the phone rooted, or can you root it? Is there service access available on a given model? (LG has it on all devices, while MTK smartphones with unlocked bootloader also have service access available). Is the device encrypted? (That would be a given in iOS, but dubious with Android.) What version of Android is installed? (Most pre-Lollipop devices can be decrypted if they are not Samsung). Several hundred manufacturers, over 20,000 device models, countless chipsets coming from about a dozen manufacturers, as well as the wild west of Android versions, revisions and OEM customizations allow for no straightforward approach. Unfortunately, considering the wide diversity of Android devices, the number of questions we’d have to ask regarding a single Android device would far exceed the short iOS questionnaire.Īndroid is a highly fragmented platform. Is the device locked? Do you know the passcode? Do you know the user’s Apple ID and password? Do you have access to the user’s computer? Does that computer have iTunes installed? And so on, and so forth. We love asking this question when it comes to iOS. The article is not intended to be a technical guide instead, it’s supposed to give you a heads-up on approaching Android acquisition. This article is a general summary of available acquisition methods for the various makes, models, chipsets and OS versions of Android smartphones. 
In this article, we decided to sum up our experience in acquiring the various Android devices, explaining why we decided to go for a cloud acquisition tool instead of implementing the many physical and logical extraction methods.
While here at ElcomSoft we offer a limited range of tools for acquiring Android devices that’s pretty much limited to over-the-air acquisition, we are still often approached with questions when one should use cloud extraction, and when other acquisition methods should be used.
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