Hi, normally when you restart your phone, you have to enter your password/pin/pattern to unlock the phone, then it'll continue booting to your lockscreen. Normally your phone will not boot and stay at this screen until you enter your password. For whatever reason, my phone goes directly to the lock screen, which I have to enter my password there (I can't use fingerprint, it requires password regardless on first boot). Anyone know why this is happening?
LineageOS 15.1 (8.1.0)
OPM6.171019.030.H1
ElementalX 6.08
TWRP 3.2.3.0
Magisk 16.0
Found out why. I'm using an accessibility plugin for keepass2android, for its auto fill keyboard plugin. Enabling this removes the encryption features. See attached screenshot. Mods please close thread, thanks.
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So I just encrypted my phone when I was prompted to do so by Outlook as part of my company's security policy. I begrudgingly complied and now am unable to boot into my phone as it sits at the boot screen. When I try to boot into TWRP, it asks for my password. I used a PIN to set up the encryption, and TWRP asks for a password. When I use my PIN, it appears to decrypt the partition and mount, but then while loading, TWRP shows a continuous stream of
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E:Error parsing XML file
errors until it just restarts. My problem is that my backup is on my system partition (I know this was dumb, but I forgot to move it back to my SD card last night after formatting it.) so I have no way to restore the backup.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'd hate to have to completely reset my phone again.
Specs -
Device: Galaxy S4 SPH-L720
ROM: Team OctOS Oct-N (Nougat 7.1.1)
Recovery: TWRP 3.10
Hey guys,
I made the mistake to flash the unofficial LineageOS 15 while my device was encrypted. now everytime i boot it says:
Give your password to start android
When I enter my password, it says:
The password is correct, but your files are damaged.
It then gives me an option to reset my phone. when I do that, it reboots and prompts me again to enter my password.
Does anyone know how to fix this? maybe by removing the encryption through ADB or TWRP?
Much appreciated,
Tim
Can't you just wipe data and caches and start clean?
I'm running the LineageOS 7.1.2 (8th February 2019) and yesterday I saw there was an upgrade to TWRP-3.3.0-0 so I downloaded the image for S7 Edge (hero2lte) and rebooted to the existing TWRP custom recovery (3.2.3-0).
On entering TWRP I was not asked to unlock my encrypted device which was strange but I went ahead and flashed the new TWRP and rebooted. On booting system I was not asked to enter my pattern to unlock the encrypted partition on my phone, which was strange as I normally am. I checked `Settings > Security > Encryption` and it stated the device was encrypted. Tried rebooting a few times and not once was I prompted to enter my unlock pattern.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or have advice on how to restore the encryption prompting on booting (to either TWRP or system)? Without it the device is in effect not encrypted (although unlock pattern is required to start using the phone when booting system).
Turns out secure booting had somehow been disabled, how I don't know as I didn't do it.
This can be enabled under..
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Settings > Security > Pattern > Screen Lock
Knox just sucks in general
I like to regularly backup my data partition using TWRP. I noticed once I enable my fingerprint screen lock, TWRP is unable to access my data partition because Android 8.0 encrypts it from the moment I set a screen lock password (obligated when I enable fingerprint screen lock). For the moment my device in not encrypted and I don't want it to be encrypted, "preserve force encryption" is off in Magisk. Can I take the risk and enable my fingerprint screen lock now? Or will it encrypt my data partition again? I don't want my data partition to be encrypted as I like to access it out of Android. My bootloader is unlocked and my phone is a Samsung SM-G935F (Galaxy 7 edge) with Android 8.0 (TGPKernel.S7E.6.12.6).
ps: TWRP does not ask for a password after my Android device/partition is encrypted.
So does enabling a screen lock turn on encryption automatically and can I disable this behaviour?
Use the modded version of TWRP (the one on my signature, green one) for S7 edge.
I installed TWRP through the pc using ADB.
its is installed but when I try to boot to TWRP (by holding the buttons) it shows me a password box. I have no idea which password it is. It is neither the miui account password nor the phone lock password. I didn't find any video about this. Every problem I've seen with other people was in the TWRP but I couldn't even boot to it If anyone faced this issue let me know how to fix it.
backup all your data-photos,music, etc because you will have to format your entire data and internal storage. This will remove the encryption on TWRP. Then flash Orange Fox recovery, it is far more stable compared to other unofficial TWRP ports/versions.
how do I format the internal storage?