So I tried Zenfone 2's security encryption feature, its almost 3 hours now and its still loading (That little ball of circle revolving).
My questions are:
Does it usually take THAT long?
Can I remove the encryption easily without formatting/ erasing my storage? As I saw over the internet that I had to format/ erase my storage for me to remove the encryption? Is there a way to easily remove it without erasing my storage?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
When I encrypted the storage it took only a few minutes, but that was when I hadn't copied any data onto the internal storage. Do you have a lot of data copied to your internal storage ?
As for removing encryption, no it's not possible without a full erase. You need to factory reset your phone from the settings menu.
I encrypted my phone again today after a reset... completed in just 3 minutes.
EnzoDC said:
So I tried Zenfone 2's security encryption feature, its almost 3 hours now and its still loading (That little ball of circle revolving).
My questions are:
Does it usually take THAT long?
Can I remove the encryption easily without formatting/ erasing my storage? As I saw over the internet that I had to format/ erase my storage for me to remove the encryption? Is there a way to easily remove it without erasing my storage?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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I had the same experience. I considered that the encryption tool was getting hung up on something it was not expecting. I had moved most of my apps and data to my SD card to keep the system drive free space large and fast. So I moved all the apps back to the system drive and re-launched the encryption tool. It worked and completed in about 6 minutes. Encrypting your system drive data is a good thing. There is not an option to remove the encryption from the system drive. If there is data you wish to store on your ZF2 but do not wish to access protect with encryption, store it on your SD card.
I have put my mobile for encryption and it is almost 3 hrs, and still i don't see any other thing except the loading screen. Is there a way i can stop the encryption thing. And if so, what will happen to the system(mobile) and its data
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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
Has anyone else noticed that what the system calls 'internal', is actually external storage? And vice-versa? Any way to fix this?
Also is there any way to encrypt external and hopefully internal storage after installing Pantheon? Haqxors (and travellers) want to know...
And finally, is there some way to stop that embarrassing "HELLLO MOTO!!" on boot?
Quantumstate said:
Has anyone else noticed that what the system calls 'internal', is actually external storage? And vice-versa? Any way to fix this?
Also is there any way to encrypt external and hopefully internal storage after installing Pantheon? Haqxors (and travellers) want to know...
And finally, is there some way to stop that embarrassing "HELLLO MOTO!!" on boot?
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I don't see the issue with Storage names, what happens if you remove the sdcard?
For boot sound, go to Setting >>Sound >>Advanced and disable "Power on Sound"
I've now removed the SD and reinserted it (of course while the phone was off), and on boot the internal and SD storage are still reversed. Where it shows how much space is used it is correct, but actually looking at the files the storage is reversed, both in the X-Plore File Manager, and Root Browser.
So it's a mystery about this reversal...
And encryption, which I can't do without.
Quantumstate said:
I've now removed the SD and reinserted it (of course while the phone was off), and on boot the internal and SD storage are still reversed. Where it shows how much space is used it is correct, but actually looking at the files the storage is reversed, both in the X-Plore File Manager, and Root Browser.
So it's a mystery about this reversal...
And encryption, which I can't do without.
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Flash the correct flashall for your device (if you're on Oreo, don't flash any in the linked thread). After that you can get encryption to work again. You can downgrade on Nougat, just be sure to take OTA to update back. Oreo down to nougat isn't currently possible.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/z2-force/how-to/to-stock-roms-t3672859
I did flashall Nugat. Formatted storage as instructed. But this is what I have.
Hello,
Normally, in a perfect world, adoptable storage should allow to enhance memory thank to the sd card.
Anyone who tried to use the adoptable storage with the Nokia 6.1 encountered the problem of corrupt datas.
See
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nokia-6-2018/how-to/adoptable-storage-available-pie-update-t3873841
Does someone enough brave already try again to activate this adoptable storage?
Thanks you
yes, I retried it last week (with latest official patch applied).
I migrated > 10GB of data. Afterwards I checked 'DCIM' and 'Download'. All files got totally corrupted (looks like every byte different).
It seems that newly created files were not corrupted. (Was just a fast check with 2-3 pictures)
I migrated back and removed SD card. Files still corrupted. During the last test in ~2019 I figured out that the files some when magically got fixed again some time after migrating back. Hope this happens again this time...
Maybe it also just needs some time after migrating to reencrypt the files for the SD card?
Does anybody know more about the internal processes during and after migration?
Hi, I didn't try the above method, but I used adb commands to format the SD-Card as internal. It basically worked and I am able to run the apps that I migrated to the external card.
HOWEVER:
1. The external card and it's files are completely invisible to any file-system-apps. So I can't see the data.
2. Apps that require some kind of login never keep that login. If you close the app and start it again, you need to login again. This seems to indicated that the apps have been migrated, but are unable to actually use the external space to save new files.
Does anyone think that rooting the device would help?
Cheers,
Calon
my experience with adaptable storage was the same as krisha2k's. all migrated user data I had appeared to become corrupted, and most apps that I moved to the sd card either couldn't save any app data (game saves/logins) or even lost functionality (Snapchat friends list disappeared). some really old and ancient apps that I moved to adoptable storage kept their saves etc (ice cream jump, Neko atsume).
I also found that games with in-app downloads would save their download to the internal storage, as well as external when the app appeared to be stored on the external only.
most apps are broken because of newer android changes that protect external storage write access (and i think read too). I'm not an expert in that though. just speculation
in the end, I just did a factory reset and I've settled with using the sd card as portable storage and storing large files on there (4k video from camera etc).
its a shame because it was a spare 128GB card I had lying around, and I would have liked to have some bigger apps installed, but it doesn't matter too much. but I guess that's just how things are now.
i personally wouldn't recommend doing it. you have potentially everything to loose if you accidentally migrate all your internal data, and what seems to be absolutely nothing to gain.
My device was on android 10 then I flashed android 11 using Odin3.
I have lost all data and photos.
Is there any way I can restore the data?
Thank you
Any help experts
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A7medA50 said:
My device was on android 10 then I flashed android 11 using Odin3.
I have lost all data and photos.
Is there any way I can restore the data?
Thank you
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Why don't you use Google Backup and Google Photos? Easiest way to backup your stuff.
For data (but not photo) backups you can also use adb.
xunholyx said:
Why don't you use Google Backup and Google Photos? Easiest way to backup your stuff.
For data (but not photo) backups you can also use adb.
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If the victim device was backed up with Google or Samsung cloud this is an option... if it works.
Easiest and the best way is to back it up yourself.
Google backup is a battery and bandwidth hog.
With large data files in the hundreds of GBs it's a sick joke.
Cloud stuff can get hacked and otherwise lost.
Properly stored enterprise class hhds are very reliable and very well isolated.
If you have an SD card slot use that as a data drive. Only the OS, apps, downloads (temporarily) and DCIM (temporarily) go on internal memory.
Set up right you can do a factory reset with zero data loss in about 2 hours.
Nonetheless you always keep the SD card fully backed up!
A .5tb V30 Lexar card is only $64 now... and they run great.
blackhawk said:
If the victim device was backed up with Google or Samsung cloud this is an option... if it works.
Easiest and the best way is to back it up yourself.
Google backup is a battery and bandwidth hog.
With large data files in the hundreds of GBs it's a sick joke.
Cloud stuff can get hacked and otherwise lost.
Properly stored enterprise class hhds are very reliable and very well isolated.
If you have an SD card slot use that as a data drive. Only the OS, apps, downloads (temporarily) and DCIM (temporarily) go on internal memory.
Set up right you can do a factory reset with zero data loss in about 2 hours.
Nonetheless you always keep the SD card fully backed up!
A .5tb V30 Lexar card is only $64 now... and they run great.
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I used to make regular backups to ext SD when I had a phone that had an ext SD slot. Since 2018 (P2XL) I've been on the Pixel line though.
When I was on HTC devices and Samsung before that though, I'd be fearless flashing stuff. I'd always have my TWRP backup on SD to restore if things went sideways.
Hello. I have recently unlocked my phone and now I am flashing some custom roms to test around with, but some roms when they don't install, they leave 112 gigabytes of junk and then they make the storage inaccessible? What's the reason behind this? I know how to remove all of the junk, but I just want to know why does that happen?
Normally you have to format data to remove the junk.The "junk" is actually your internal storage and data which is encrypted by default.
Because they are encrypted, the phone can't understand what they are and they get classified as "other" in settings.
And since they are basically nothing more than junk files anymore (because they cant be decrypted) they fill up your phone.