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Chapter 10. Android Data Recovery
Techniques
While the data extraction and analysis techniques provide information about various details
such as call logs, text messages, and other cellular functions, not all techniques can provide
information about the deleted data. It is rare to find a smartphone today that doesn't contain
data the user intended to delete. The probability that the deleted data contains sensitive in-
formation (which is why the data is deleted in the first place) is high. Hence, data recovery
is a crucial aspect of mobile forensics as it helps to unearth the deleted items. This chapter
aims to cover various techniques, which can be used by a forensic analyst to recover the
data from an Android device.
