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encryption question

on on htc touch hd go to start >setting>system
you then have the encryption tool that says when you activate it
"encrypted files can only be read on this device "
so may be a daft question but when i have this activated can i connect my phone via active sync or as disk drive and still see the files and open them and my memory card ?
what im trying to get at is if anyone found my phone they can read the files as they have the phone. what has been encrypted ?
thanks

I'd say no
I'd also say reflash with another rom and you can't read it ever again
even hardreset the phone and you can never read it again
it's made to make sure you're most secret stuff never gets out if you're phone
is stolen not to make sure your stuff will ever be something you can retrieve if something goes wrong

are you saying that you think the encryption is not working ?

No. That's not what he's saying. He's just advising that you not use it. The encryption key is stored on your phone's memory, so that if you ever hard-reset or flash another ROM, the encryption key will be lost and you won't be able to access the data on your memory card, ever again. You would have to do a full format of the card to even be able to use it again.

thanks for clearing that up .
could you recommend any software that i can install on the phone that requires
password to access the memory card while still in the phone and require password if memory card was taken out of phone and put into a pc memory card reader
thanks

I don't really know of anything that would be compatible across multiple systems/platforms like that

I just googled this and found the following software:
http://www.aikosolutions.com/encryption/secubox-encryption-vs-windows-mobile-encryption/
Just some thoguhts for using the native encryption...
I wonder if the encrytion key can be extracted from the phone...?
That way it could be added again on another ROM. Also, the key could then be used in a desktop application that implements the same algorithm (AES, I think). This would allow the card's contents to be accessed outside of the phone.

Linux Live Boot on SD as USB

My goal is to use my phone as a bootable drive, running some flavor of Linux, while having the SD card (or even a portion) accessible for the phone or as mass storage. -- I am NOT trying to run linux on the phone, I just want to boot and run linux from USB.
In the past 24 hrs I've installed raw image to my sd. I was able to get it to boot, however the entire partition was inaccessible to my phone, or windows. Also Gparted was unable to see my phone's SD partition the entire time. Any partitioning that happened happened in Clockwork Recovery 5.
Has anyone successfully pulled this off?

Probably it didn't see your phone? I'm not too linux savy but I know that there needs to be certain rules for the usb to pick up the phone? Is that the issue? It boots but won't pick up the sd card as useable storage because it doesn't see the phone?
What I'm thinking is the usb rules for the phone are not present so its not going to recognize the phone as potential storage.
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ÜBER™ said:
Probably it didn't see your phone? I'm not too linux savy but I know that there needs to be certain rules for the usb to pick up the phone? Is that the issue? It boots but won't pick up the sd card as useable storage because it doesn't see the phone?
What I'm thinking is the usb rules for the phone are not present so its not going to recognize the phone as potential storage.
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I was able to get the computer to recognize the phone and boot from the Linux OS on the SD. I did have a bit of a problem getting the phone to stay in mass storage mode for the computer to recognize it though. I'm not sure why Gparted didn't see it though.

themendoza said:
I was able to get the computer to recognize the phone and boot from the Linux OS on the SD. I did have a bit of a problem getting the phone to stay in mass storage mode for the computer to recognize it though. I'm not sure why Gparted didn't see it though.
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Like I said it may be missing the udev rules for android, Wait the pc recognizes is as storage like it will display your model number in the "places"?
Usually to get the OS to recognize the device you need to have a file for it.
I forget the exact location but it is a list that provides the os with info required to pick up the device.
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Like I said it may be missing the udev rules for android, Wait the pc recognizes is as storage like it will display your model number in the "places"?
Usually to get the OS to recognize the device you need to have a file for it.
I forget the exact location but it is a list that provides the os with info required to pick up the device.
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I have no udev rules and my phone works fine
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marcusant said:
I have no udev rules and my phone works fine
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Odd I had to use those other wise my LMDE wouldn't pick up my phone...
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Don't know if this helps, but Multi-Mount (in the Play Store) is able to mount your SD card and access it from both your phone and USB drive at the same time.

Browse Z3 SD Card

I Hope theres some Mac users here
Is there any chance to browse the SD card in my Z3C on my computer ?
Which program to use ?

Just plug it in and it should pop up the SD card, check your phones USB settings in the overflow menu of storage

Tried Sony Bridge for Mac?
It works for me.

Sorry. I mean with WIFI

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Sorry. I mean with WIFI
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im suggesting use "airdroid", just install the app, open it, login from your mac/pc and voila
but remember since its on kitkat, u can just browse/read the contents in sd card, but cannot edit/write e.g upload a file to it, unless you are rooted

xerophyll said:
im suggesting use "airdroid", just install the app, open it, login from your mac/pc and voila
but remember since its on kitkat, u can just browse/read the contents in sd card, but cannot edit/write e.g upload a file to it, unless you are rooted
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Hmmm....thats bad. I also need to write to SD Card. Any other solutions than Cable connection ?

Use dropbox? I've used it to get mp3 files to my phone without having a cable around before. it's an extra step essentially, but it works.

No app will be able to write on the SD card freely, unless it's a system app or the device is rooted.

Iruwen said:
No app will be able to write on the SD card freely, unless it's a system app or the device is rooted.
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That's fortunately not exactly true. Use MyPhoneExplorer via USB and you do have read/write access. Works like a charm, highly recommended phone management tool. Only for Windows though...
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It's still true because I obviously meant an Android app. And it also doesn't answer the OP's question because he's using a Mac.

Yes...and i want to transfer files over WIFI

That'll work only with built-in functions (i.e. system-apps) or with a rooted device because there's no other way to have write access to the whole SD card.
There's some built-in function to connect to PC companion via WLAN, doesn't that work? I can't look it up, no Z3C at hand.

Copying to SD card

So I am so used to a rooted G3 where I could do anything I wanted with my storage...How does one move files (not apps) from internal to sd? Additionally, trying to set the sd card as the download location for dolphin browser fails; it says android won't allow it.
What are my options?
Thanks in advance.

My Files is the only option currently available to move files from internal storage to the micro sd card. Without root there are not really any other options unfortunately.

Thanks. Sucks that it involves a few more steps, but at least there is a way to do it.
Now if only there was a way to make this phone less slippery
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SD Card permissions

Hi Everyone,
Back with an android phone after quite a while.
Just added a sd card to my SGS7E and realised I can't do anything with it.
All I want is to be able to use the sd card as you would normally, create and move files, folders etc.
Is this possible without rooting?
If so could someone provide any advice or point me to a relevant resource.
If i need to root what would you good people recommend? I don't want to do anything fancy at the moment (I'm sure that'll change) just use the card as normal storage.
Thank you for your help, advice and time.

The SD issues are my biggest let down. My camera won't save to it... people tell me to factory reset but I don't feel like loosing all my work I put into it.
Other apps see it as having storage in mb I think instead of GB. issues and nobody talks about it

Hi,
The sdcard is working okay for me. If system apps can't read or modify the content inside the sdcard, then reinsert the card or reformat it because it's very likely that the phone isn't seeing it.
If you want user installed apps to access the sdcard, it's a bit more annoying. Open the app that you want to access the card, then try to make a modification in it (like creating a new file if a file manager, saving a picture if a camera, downloading a file if a torrent client, etc), it will say it can't access the sdcard and will ask you to point where to root of the sdcard is, just select your sdcard folder on the prompt and it will work fine.
Keep in mind some stuff like app data can't be moved to the sdcard, so try to keep all media on your sdcard and all apps in your internal memory, that's what I found to be a pretty easy and good memory management. If you want however to install apps on your sdcard, you can enable adoptable storage using a terminal window (formatting your card), or root your device to use some third party app that will do that for you.
All the best,
~Lord
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