I have problem with encrypting internal storage. Everytime I want full encrypt, phone reboots, stays turned off, then turns on but it is not encrypted.
What should I do?
enable knox and set policy to encrypt sd card and internal storage.
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Hi All,
I have an S5 - G900F running Android 5.0 stock and I would like to encrypt the SD card. As I am often forced to factory reset, sometimes because the phone boot loops I am not always in the position to decrypt the SD card first.
I would like to know: can I access and backup the encryption key for the SD card so I can access the data after a reset. Or failing that, some encryption software that can secure the whole card and works with fingerprint log in.
Thanks
John
Hi,
just bought the Huawei P8. Im wonder if my phone is now fully encrypted, including the SD Card.
1. Internal Storage
After factory reset there was no screen lock (just swipe to unlock). I clicked 'encrypt phone' and it took only a few minutes. AFTER that i could still swipe to unlock, there was no option to set a password during the encryption process. So I set the password afterwards. Now the pw must be entered to unlock the phone.
Does this mean the internal storage is now fully encrypted and can not be accessed without the password? Even though i did not set a password before the encryption?
What if someone where to remove the internal memory module from the phone?
Does the encryption encrypt ALL files in the internal storage or just certain areas?
2. SD Card
That one was strange, too. I clicked 'encrypt SD Card'. There i had to set a pw in advance.
But the encryption also took only a few minutes. That seems odd because the 64 GB SD Card was half full. This should have taken hours to encrypt.
Can I be sure alls files on the SD Card are fully encrypted now?
3. Why I am asking
Before I had the Samsung Galaxy A5.
When encrypting the device you had to set the pw in advance and it took much longer. That seems logical to me.
When encrypting the SD Card the phone asked me if I wanted to encrypt all files on the SD Card, including Fotos, Videos, MP3s etc. It warned me, that this might take a long time. Encrypting the SD Card with some 30GB on it took severeal hours. That also seems logical to me becaus SD Cards are much slower than the internal storage. So I am wondering why the Huawei P8 only took a couple of minutes for the SD Card.
Can someone please elaborate?
I am especially interested in having my photos (which save to the SD Card) encrypted so nobody can access them when my phone is stolen. I also have company emails and such on the phone.
Hi,
on internal storage... Data Partition would be encrypted. I am not sure if cache partition would also encrypted. File's from internal storage would be saved in Data, so all files are encrypted.
But SD-Card wouldn't be encrypted...it's only password protected. That's why it takes only few seconds to set the protection.
If you set a password for internal storage, you could choose to set the protection in the Boot process. So before the whole system boots up you would be questioned for the password.
Thanks for the answer.
I activated the boot password.
What use does the sd card password have? I tried to put the sd card in my computer and the card wasn't even detected. Does this mean nobody can access the files without the password? What is the difference to a full encryption?
Was not able to find Encrypt SD card in settings. Just encrypt tablet. Will that secure data on SD? I think not!
Hello,
I see in security options one for put a password to SD Card, but it does not encrypt the SD. Also I have seen in internet it is very easy for a thief to get the password in a PC. Do you know if is there any way to encrypt the sd card? also is internal memory encrypted?
thanks.
Hello Community,
hope to be right here.
My Sony Xperia X Compact starts only in a bootloop after restart with a completely full internal storage.
The phone had about 400MB free internal storage for a longer time.
Yesterday, because of an empty battery, I restarted the phone and it had left 4KB internal storage.
So I rebooted it again, and since then it is in a bootloop. Sony-Screen, Android-screen, black screen, then it reboots again.
The phone is rooted and twrp is installed.
I tried to get access to the internal storage (to delete some data) via adb, the device is not found, only via fastboot detected.
I also tried to get access via twrp-Explorer. In the file system it shows me the Folders sdcard and sdcard1. sdcard1 shows me the file system of the external sd-card correctly, but the Folder sdcard is empty.
Choosing in twrp (backup) the backup-device, I can see the internal storage with 0MB. For the SD-Card is the physical space of the card listed.
I made a backup of the data-partition with twrp. Trying to open this backup on the computer as a .tar-archive runs into an archiv-error.
At this point, i don't know what to do to extract some data from internal storage and make more free space in the internal storage for boot.
Is it only the software which crashed, or is the internal storage defect?
Is it a completely other error?
Do you have any idea?
Thanks in advance
ascore5000