When I try to encrypt my device, it appears to start encryption but fails and it appears to have done a quick reboot. The whole process lasts about 30 seconds. Phone does not encrypt, this entire failure process lasts 30 seconds. Any idea what could be causing this? I have formatted my phone done a clean flash. I am lost.
Is this a known bug or am I an isolated case?
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So I've just encrypted my LG G4 H815. Going to root it next.
So now, every time I boot up it says, "Enter PIN to unlock" and "30/30 attempts remaining". I want to know, what happens if someone enters the pin wrong 30 times on my phone?
Before someone suggests it, no, I will not test and find out lol
I think it erases the phone contents and locks it?
I actually just found out... and lost some of my internal data D:
It will factory reset your device.
I noticed that when I enable "PIN on boot" in security settings (when setting a PIN, it gives you the option to require the pin to boot - to my understanding it's hiding the decryption key for /data in another boot image, which then decrypts the key and hands over the boot process) I can briefly see a "Android is upgrading" message before I can enter the PIN.
It does not take long, it just does this on every boot. Note this is for the decryption only, it's not for the "regular" Android lockscreen that comes later.
I was wondering if there's anything wrong with this, or if it's just like this. It's not a major annoyance.
Maybe someone else on 3.2.7 can check and let me know.
Thanks!
I'm having the same thing here on 3.2.7 but never really wondered why tbh
I used to see that but I removed the "pin on boot" option as it is just annoying as it means the phone stops in the bootup process and you have to manually continue it. If you turn that off then the phone still requires a pin entry instead of fingerprint to unlock the first time after booting.
That's true. But it means your system is still much easier to break into. When Android has fully booted, the data partition has already been decrypted. Pin on boot (to my knowledge) unlocks the partition only after the pin has been set.
I've been trying out a number of ROMs for the OP3, and I'm confused as to why the setup wizard only sometimes asks me if I want to enable encryption. I've flashed multiple ROMs multiple times each, and I can't determine a common factor. I've seen the option with both open and dynamic Gapps, but not always. It's very confusing!
If anyone knows and could tell me how to ensure I'm being asked to do it at boot, that would be very much appreciated, as it's very inconvenient to have to plug the phone in and charge it in order to encrypt it.
My setup is a Oneplus 3 with OOs 5.0.1 with TWRP, Magisk and Franco Kernel. Naptime and Servicely are two other installed apps that interferes with the normal system behaviour.
My phone randomly reboots two to four times a day, whenever that happens sometimes the booting completes (with longer than usual times), other times it stay stuck at the boot animation and I have to manually shut it down and power it on repeating the whole process till I get a successful boot.
Some suggested to look at the logcat but from my understanding using a logcat viewer, the log starts from the boot so I can't tell what happened before the reboot.
Before proceeding with a trial and error approach by removing everything (the kernel, apps and magisk) is there a smarter and more efficient way to tackle down what's happening?
I will try to use a terminal emulator app to run in background 'logcat -f myfile.txt' but since I down know when the next reboot will happen the file might get HUGE.
I have a second space issue, and i hope someone can help me out. i have pictures of my deceased grandmother in my second space, but the problem is that when i enter my password it shows "too many incorrect attempts and 85000 seconds to try again. i go back and try again the correct password same message and the second still on countdown. there is " forgot password" and it doesnt give any options except to how to wipe the data. Is there any other way to retrieve picture through the phone on a laptop or i should root it so i have complete acces? thank you any advice would be extremely appriciated
How long do you wait between attempts?
Also, did you try this?
https://c.mi.com/thread-1430128-1-0.html
when i enter my correct password its shows the message with wrong attempts and starts at 85000 seconds, if i try again in a minute its 84940 seconds. so i though 85k second is almost 24 hours, so i waited 24 hours and then it starts at 85000 seconds again.
Is resetting the password as the link I posted suggested an option?
there is no forgot password option, even before entering password. i had it twice that forgot password showed up, i click on it and then it suggests how to wipe data, no other option as suggested in your link
Well, I guess getting root is your best option then.
Make sure the bootloader is unlocked before attempting anything
but would you know where these files (pictures) might be located from the second space? or maybe try to delete password of second space so it would be possible to access? Thank you for your time and advice
No, I don't know. But I can guess if you like.
However it is probably protected, so you might need root.
Try looking under /storage/emulated, possibly under /mnt/user.
okay i will try that, appriciate your help)