Had decided that I want to encrypt my entire phone along with encrypting the external SD card on my GS4.
I have a few questions on this before proceeding.
1. Will I have to encrypt the entire device itself first before encrypting the external SD card?
2. And I heard that after encrypting the whole phone or device, it cannot be decrypted. Is this true?
If so, then will a Factory Reset be able to restore the phone to a Decrypted state again?
Thanks in advance
My Note 4 is running the latest stock android 5. It has been previously rooted. however i went back to stock so i could run the encryption.
I have the phone and SD card encrypted and i know my password however the phone wont recognize the password. It has been working fine for 6 months encrypted.
Is there anyway to decrypt the sd card. without the phone. I know my password.
I just want to get all the photos and notes off of it.
Cheers.
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?
Hey there fellas i am new to these forums so i dont exactly know how this thing works so bear with me and my english.
I had samsung J5 which i encrypted both (sd card and device) but somehow ive broke my phone and but thankfully was able to recover my sd card. but when i insert my sd card into my new phone the data won't load up although its shows the names and amount of files it contains but no picture,videos or audios. i remember my password which i used for encrypting the (card and device) but it doesn't prompt me to put my password and processes to decryption. please help me out how can i safely decrypt the SD card with all my data.
Hello,
I have a Xiaomi Mi A1 and I have merged my SD card with the internal memory of the phone. I had to reset the phone, but it no longer recognizes the SD card and offers to format it. How can I recover my data? They look encrypted and therefore not readable by a computer.
I managed to recover the data from the Sd card but the data is encrypted and the decryption key was probably deleted during the restoration.
Many thanks to you and have a nice evening.