How to encrypt your files on the Honor 8On the Honor 8, there are several ways you can protect your files. Oe way is to use the built-in app lock app to set an access code for specific apps. The other way is to create an encrypted folder on your phone's local storage to hide your private files. Here is how you do it:
Create a Safe
First we will open the "files" app. Tap "safe" in the bottom right corner and setup a password and security question for your safe. This will create an encrypted empty folder on your system. To add files to this folder, open your safe and select "add".
Find Safe Location
Find the file path of your safe by opening your safe and selecting "safe location". This folder is hidden from standard file browsers so it's nice to know the direct path to your safe folder.
Switch Safe
You can create multiple safes and switch between them. To do this go to your safe settings and select "Switch Safe". Here you'll have the option to create a new safe or switch between the ones that you have.
Safe lock files
My phone model is honor 8x nad i have saved my datas in the in build safe lock. Now i dont remember the password as well as the security answers. And above that i cant decrypt that files too. Can you help me with that.?
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I'm trying to access my Final Fantasy IV data folder to backup my save folder, but I can't seem to find the folder even though I already researched the specific directory. How do I access the "hidden" directory? I am using root access explorers set to show hidden files but that doesn't help.
Here is a link that shows the specific directory to backup the save file (read the second comment).
Introduction:
This is a long but detailed guide to move user apps to system and to make them survive OTA so they will get restored on flashing every OTA(any rom?). This is lengthy but has to be done only once.
Things needed:
Unlocked and rooted device with TWRP installed and on any custom rom like Lineage which supports addon.d (NOT MIUI)
60-apps.sh
Link2sd
Titanium backup
A PC with any good notepad editor (I use notepad++)
Directory Printer
A USB Cable
Some free space (2GB) in internal/external sd card) temporarly
Little time and presence of mind (can't give link, sorry)
See Screenshots (folder) if it gets confusing, they are numbered 1 to 40 so it will be easy to understand.
Instructions:
1. Install you favorite rom and set it up. Install all the apps you use(do set the apps, just install for now). Once done, Install link2sd and titanium backup too.
2. Open link2sd and grand root permissions.
i. Tap menu and then Storage Info to check how much space do you have in System
ii. Tap back and set sorting mode to apk+dex+lib size and filter to User apps (both buttons are next to menu, you can't miss them)
iii. Now tap and hold on any application name you want to move to system, ideal apps would be like Greenify, Instadic, Truecaller etc. (apps you want to let run in background), apps you always keep in your phone or apps which are big in size. I used Kernel Adiutor-Mod here to demonstrate.
Move all the required apps and keep checking system space, leave 100-200mb free.
3. Once done, Reboot to TWRP
i. Tap Mount and put a tick before System
ii. Go back and Tap Advance--->File manager
iii. Scroll to find system, open it and find priv-app, open it too (you are here- /system/priv-app)
iv. Tap menu button and copy folder, scroll to find sdcard/sdcard1, again tap menu botton and swipe to copy. (i used Alarms folder in /sdcard)
4. Once done, Connect the phone to PC.
i. Make a folder (name it sysapps) and copy this priv-app folder in sysapps folder. (delete from sdcard)
ii. Download 60-apps.sh from here and place it in sysapps folder too.
iii. Open priv-app folder and delete everything except the apps you moved. Tip-Default system apps should have proper names like Settings. SystemUI, Velvet(gapps too) etc.
iv. Run Directory Printer and click save to disk. Set everything as shown here and navigate to \sysapps\priv-app folder.
v. Click Save to disk and again navigate to sysapps folder, name the file as my.txt and save it.
5. Run Notepad++ and open my.txt in it.
i. Press ctrl+h to open replace, write everything written before priv-app in find what column and delete everything written in replace with column. Click repalce all. (we are removing everything written before priv-app in every line)
ii. Again write \ in find what column and / in replace with column. Click replace all.
6. Open 60-apps.sh in notepad++
i. Look for addon.d/60-apps.sh under list_files() {
ii. Select and copy everything from my.txt and paste it between addon.d/60-apps.sh and EOF (there is a blank line there, check and delete if any blank line remains after pasting)
iii. Once done, save it and exit notepad++.
7. Now copy/move this 60-apps.sh to sdcard and disconnect the phone
i. As done above to copy priv-app from system to sdcard, copy 60-apps.sh from sdcard to /system/addon.d
ii. Navigate to /system/addon.d and tap 60-apps.sh. Tap chmod 755. Swipe to confirm.
iii. Reboot your phone.
8. Use your phone as you do and flash any ota without wiping system. If changing rom, try deleting everything except priv-app and addon.d folder in system, instead of wiping system partition completely.
Moving updated apps to system:
Occasionally apps will get updated and they will start to acquire space in data. To move them back to system do this.
1. Open titanium backup, tap Backup/Restore, tap click to edit filters and under Filter by type tap User and Uninst. to leave just System enabled. Tap green Check above right to set.
2. Tap Order by app name (click to change) and tap last update time.
3. Backup all updated apps temporarily and close titanium backup.
4. Open link2sd and set filter to Updated
5. Tap and hold on app's name and tap Integrate update into system
6. Once done, reboot.
7. Open titanium backup again and restore data only for the apps you backed up.
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Wow. Thanks bro
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Isnt repartition of data system would serve better for this.
Camlin3 said:
Isnt repartition of data system would serve better for this.
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Yes definitely. But I am not familiar with qcom much. Had done that on mtk before.
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Sudeep Duhoon said:
Yes definitely. But I am not familiar with qcom much. Had done that on mtk before.
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Yes, its a little easy for mtk. Me Too played with mtk phones
Sudeep Duhoon said:
Yes definitely. But I am not familiar with qcom much. Had done that on mtk before.
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You think it can be done however? In TWRP there's an option for repartition. But obviously I guess it isn't that simple :silly:
Does it require developer-level skills?
Thanks for the guide, BTW!!:good::good:
iG0tB0lts said:
You think it can be done however? In TWRP there's an option for repartition. But obviously I guess it isn't that simple :silly:
Does it require developer-level skills?
Thanks for the guide, BTW!!:good::good:
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Yes. can be done. but not through twrp. How? i don't know for sure yet.
Ty very much for this guide
There used to be an option in the photo gallery to move photos to a private folder but that seems to be gone on the S8. I don't know if it has been gone since before the S8 came out because I haven't had a Samsung phone for a while.
Does anybody know if that option is available or can be put back?
The S8 contains Secure Folder, which is a hybrid between MyKnox and Private Mode.
Enable Secure Folder, access it and click the add files button on top. You will be able to select add images.
Hi I just want to ask, I recently notice this since I decided to placed some pictures/videos of my device on the secure folder app of Samsung S8+ however I just notice that even if it is already hidden under secure folder, it still shows up on my phone's Gallery app. Is there any solution to this?
after you put the media files in secure folder, just delete from your galery
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Yup. Anything moved to your secure folder needs to be deleted from your device afterwards (if you no longer want it there). Apps that you install directly while inside Secure Folder will only exist inside the Secure Folder.
Secure Folder is a sandbox. Things installed or downloaded while within SF stay there. For instance, install Chrome Dev and a file manager of your choice while in SF. Open SF Chrome, download a few images, then go into the SF file manager. The images you downloaded should be there. Now, leave SF and go to the file manager in the app drawer. Look everywhere for those images you just downloaded. You won't find them. This is because SF is sand boxed. It's basically an encrypted virtual machine running within Touchwiz. The only way to access it is through the Knox Framework.
This is why things moved into Secure Folder from Android remain in 2 places -- they're 2 different environments. The Knox encryption is then what stops you from moving things out of Secure Folder -- the decryption key isn't available in that direction. You can move apps from Secure Folder to your homescreens, but they're still Knox enabled. Try to share a photo in Secure Folder to a contact via SMS and observe how sparse the share sheet is.
Knox is pretty cool.
How can SF be in sandbox but showing contacts on the main contacts app can this be disabled ?
Yes can anyone explain this Secure folder ? Why are my ''secure'' contacts showing in normal contacts ?
I am experiencing the same thing... I don't understand why my "Secure" contacts are showing in my unsecured regular contacts app.
Could it be because of Google sync? If you are signed in with your Google account inside secure folder, contacts may get synced to Google and show up in regular contacts also.
So I did a factory data reset, restored a saved backup I had on Secure Folder, now I cannot share any video or pictures from the gallery to any apps inside the secure folder. When I select what I want to share, the Share Via does not show any applications from my Secure Folder that I can share my picture and says "no apps can perform this action". Even when I'm inside an app on Secure Folder, and I try to add a picture or video, the same problem comes up.
Can anyone tell me how I can fix this? I have already done 3 factory reset hoping this gets fixed but I had no luck
Click on the link so you can see a screenshot of the issue
Note that I have always been able to share pjctures/videos from the secure folder internally to any apps inside the secure folder with no issues.
https://imgur.com/a/vao2SgX
Also, no open apps from the secure folder no longer show up on my recent apps