SD Card encryption question - Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers

SD Card encryption question - Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers

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.

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How to encrypt (protect) the external SD Card

Hello,
I use a 128 GB SD Card in my new S7 Edge, but I can't find a way to encrypt the SD Card.
I don't want someone have access to the data on the card if my phone gets lost or stolen.
Thanks for helping
Felix

Settings -> search "encrypt" -> Encrypt SD Card

Thanks! I was only looking under "storage"...my bad.

Huawei P8 Full Encryption

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?