Recovering the deleted data from Android SD Card ?

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Published on 2010-03-18T18:58:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 19:01 UTC
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I am trying to make an Android application which would try to recover deleted content from the SD Card. How feasible it is ? I have following method in mind:

1) Since, the files are not actually deleted, can I access the file system to see files which has been marked to be overwritten. 2) Or will I have do header/footer file carving ? Is it possible from the application layer of android ?

I am concerned about files stored on contiguous sectors and not the fragmented once. I want to do a basic file retrieval.

Please let me know some resources which I can use to make this application ?

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