The fix isn't showing on my unbranded unit purchased from the UK.
Could someone please tell me if...
A) the update resets the device to factory settings?
B) bluetooth now works while internal storage encryption is enabled?
C) the phone storage is no longer wiped during the process of enabling phone storage encryption (which is separate from internal storage encryption)?
Hy !
What I can tell for sure is that the update doesn't wipe your phone (as for every update on previous HTC phones in my case)
For the rest... waiting to see what the updates will bring on the Custom Roms
Cheers
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I'm running OpenDesire 1.6a and wondered something.
I've been getting a number of "Do you want to scan for errors" messages when connecting via USB and enabling USB storage mode to xferfiles over and 99% of the time no errors are found.
This is on 2 different memcards.
I am waiting until write ops have completed before turning off USB storage mode and returning to the phone.
I think it might be the EXT partition interferring with the card and causing Windows to think the card may have errors?
I'm wondering, if I reset factory defaults then, in SpareParts enable the external storage so all apps I install go into the SD card folder .android_secure will this mean that if I factory reset next time round or need to wipe if I want to try another FroYo ROM that my installed apps will remain as is and I won't need to reinstall them because FroYo will see the contents in this folder?
This seems like a safer way of doing things perhaps?
Hi there,
Having a bit of a stressful problem. My HTC m8 (Marshmallow) is encrypted, as well as the external SD card. All my photos are on the SD card. I have lots backed up but I'm having a great trip to NYC that didn't backup to google because I was roaming (it seems). Anyway, today my phone crashed (I think the battery is failing, it turned off instantly at 14%). When it turned on, all my photos are showing a gray icon (like they are corrupted). I cannot imagine how every single photo (of thousands) in multiple folders has corrupted.
Now, I noticed that when I go into Storage options the "Encrypt SD Card" box is UNTICKED. Implying the phone has forgotten the card is encrypted and thus cannot read the images. Though I thought it was weird that it can read the directories at all, implying its doing a file by file encryption rather than a full card encryption.
Anyway, obviously I know my PIN number that I need to decrypt the phone at boot up, is there any tool I can use to decrypt the images using this PIN? My fear is that (upon some research) that this is "encFS" encryption, which uses an encfs6.xml file to read the data and consequently the crash has deleted/corrupted this file. If so, this seems like a very delicate encryption mechanism.
Something else, when the phone started up again, it had reset a few other things. My default keyboard was no longer SwiftKey, I'm getting Android "tips" for scrolling etc. Also, I used to have a DND (Do Not Disturb) button in my pull down menu which is gone. Is it possible a carrier update occurred and wiped the encryption key file? Or the crash reset it and other default settings? Does Android by default use encFS to encrypt SD Cards? If this is encFS, is it a file I should be able to find on the internal storage called "encfs6.xml"? I did it as so (months ago, without issue until today... on holiday sigh)
Settings -> Storage -> SD Card (SanDisk) -> Encrypt SD card content.
As mentioned, it's currently unticked
Anyway, please, anyone, help me get my photos back
Many Thanks, WA
Spec:
UK Carrier - Vodafone.
Phone isn't rooted.
Version 6.12.161.4
HTC Sense 7.0
HTC M8
Is it possible to separate my internal storage to be internal storage and another partition to be external storage.
Uses:
• Keep TWRP backups on device but still be able to wipe it off completely.
• Keep my "Music" files on device and still be able to wipe device without losing them.
• Offload my Primary ROM into "external Storage" while I experiment new version of android or custom ROM in internal storage.( I haven't checked if multitom is supported for this device yet tho so maybe that's not yet viable)
Those are the main uses I'm thinking of. I have a 128 GB device. If I can partition it, it might eliminate my needs for using a OTG cable and USB again
Any help would be highly appreciated, thank you very much
-Farhan Pasha
As far as I know, there isn't any way to partition most android devices with the stock ROM. You may be able to achieve this with a custom ROM, but I've never heard of one that has separated partitions. I had a ROM on a phone I had few years back that used 8 of the 16 GB available but I didn't have access to the other 8 GB of storage (it was a sketchy ROM). It was just unallocated and inaccessible by the device, so even in that case, it wasn't useful. I would just stick to the OTG.
Hello! I have a TMO stock unrooted phone and purchased a micro sd 64G. I have done some digging but am coming up with nothing. Are we not able to format as internal OR move apps to SD?? The official online help manual for phone clearly shows that I should be able to format as internal but I do not have that option. I have also ticked the option in dev options to force allow apps to be written to SD but it made no difference. Am I missing something? Any input would be appreciated
**nevermind looks like it is basically unsupported now, don't know why they left the option in dev opts tho**
I think that Android Oreo is the answer. In Oreo on default app to SD is imposible. Probably you read manual for Z2 with Android N..In N this was posible.
Hi there,
I received my 5X recently that replaced my previous SGS5+ as daily driver.
It's a nice device too with lots of support, as it seems.
However, as I always used to have my data stored on SD cards, I wonder if I can replace or reset my currently in use ROM without to lose things such as music or downloaded files?
Tried MaruOS because I am interested in the concept but neither Casting or the camera seem to work.
Perhaps someone can help out :silly:
Kind regards
The user data (names "external storage" in TWRP I think) will not be wiped, only partitions data, cache boot and system must be wiped when switching ROMs.
Ahh, so I am safe when resetting my phone or switching ROMs again!
Thank you
bootflop said:
Hi there,
I received my 5X recently that replaced my previous SGS5+ as daily driver.
It's a nice device too with lots of support, as it seems.
However, as I always used to have my data stored on SD cards, I wonder if I can replace or reset my currently in use ROM without to lose things such as music or downloaded files?
Tried MaruOS because I am interested in the concept but neither Casting or the camera seem to work.
Perhaps someone can help out :silly:
Kind regards
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Your internal SD and external SD storage should be safe, but you never know. I always backup both to my PC before doing any update or upgrade. That's just common sense. And of course a full TWRP backup of your ROM before doing the same.