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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