ACQUIRE is a free tool by Magnet Forensics that can be used for the acquisition of a wide range of potential digital evidence sources, from hard drives and smartphones to cloud data. Of course, it supports both logical and physical acquisition of Android devices, up to the latest of those running Android Pie. The tool can be downloaded after registration here: https://www.magnetforensics.com/magnet-acquire/.
In this example, we are going to image a rooted smartphone running Android Oreo:
- Start by choosing the appropriate device from the list:
As you can see, our device has privileged access—this means that it's rooted. Also, we immediately have some metadata, such as OS version, device serial number, and so on. If the device you are going to image isn't listed for some reason, you can use the The device I&apos...
