Hey,
Had a Nexus 5x some time ago. recently I remembered I had a lot of old pictures that I in my infinite wisdom didn't backup..
Problem is, I can't recall my password and I don't want to wipe the data.. any possible solutions?
thanks!
I'm afraid not. The filesystem is encrypted with AES128 using a random seed, which is itself encrypted using the password.
https://source.android.com/security/encryption/full-disk.html
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I've got the ToroPlus and recently just encrypted the device. I've noticed that performance has degraded, it's lost a bit of its snappiness. Anyone else experience this? I know that the encrypt/decrypt process has overhead but I didn't expect to see a noticeable difference.
Also, is there no way to turn off decryption without a full wipe?
YokoMotive said:
I've got the ToroPlus and recently just encrypted the device. I've noticed that performance has degraded, it's lost a bit of its snappiness. Anyone else experience this? I know that the encrypt/decrypt process has overhead but I didn't expect to see a noticeable difference.
Also, is there no way to turn off decryption without a full wipe?
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I encrypted mine for a while and didn't notice much of a performance difference. I basically just got tired of having to use a password all the time.
You have to do a full wipe to remove the encryption. You can do the full-backup and restore method using ADB, though (although YMMV because it is a little buggy).
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I encrypted mine for a while and didn't notice much of a performance difference. I basically just got tired of having to use a password all the time.
You have to do a full wipe to remove the encryption. You can do the full-backup and restore method using ADB, though (although YMMV because it is a little buggy).
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I figured I'd have to do a full wipe. I've got Titanium Backups, do you know if they would be rendered useless to restore from due to the fact that they were produced on an encrypted OS? I think the answer is "No," I should be able to restore from them, but I'm curious if anyone has had past experience with them...
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I figured I'd have to do a full wipe. I've got Titanium Backups, do you know if they would be rendered useless to restore from due to the fact that they were produced on an encrypted OS? I think the answer is "No," I should be able to restore from them, but I'm curious if anyone has had past experience with them...
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+1
I encrypted on a rooted STOCK rom to add MS exchange email and even after putting a custom rom (XenonHD), it is still encrypted without my work email sync'd. I'd love to decrypt it without having to wipe if poss, not to mentioned wiping prior to installing XenonHD didn't seem to help?
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I've got Titanium Backups, do you know if they would be rendered useless to restore from due to the fact that they were produced on an encrypted OS?
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Your titanium backups will be fine. For all tb knows, your phone is no different than a non-encrypted phone. Encryption is handled down at the storage controller and filesystem level.
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I encrypted on a rooted STOCK rom to add MS exchange email and even after putting a custom rom (XenonHD), it is still encrypted without my work email sync'd. I'd love to decrypt it without having to wipe if poss, not to mentioned wiping prior to installing XenonHD didn't seem to help?
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You have to do a fast boot wipe.
Code:
fastboot erase userdata
Any other way will not clear the encryption.
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I'll try and sum up my problem...
I backed up my phone like 2 weeks ago. Accidentally cleared my TouchWiz today setting so I figured I would just reload my backup in nandroid. It kept pulling up bad .md5 , so tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114 no help.
but by trying to do the restore it must have messed up my stock os (didn't go pass the note 2 intro) , so i used the one click oden (SPH-L900_MA7_Rooted_Nodata) to be lazy and after, it kept saying my encryption password is incorrect when I know it wasn't due to the fact I have been using it for 3 months now. I read other people had the same problem so just did the quick thing and factory wipe.
Now what my question is all my photos are encrypted still on my sd card still. Is there any way to unencrypt them?
aaaaannnnndddd it's gone.
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Thanks anyways. I'll try restoring old recoveries.
Encrypted my Nexus 7 a while ago, on Slimkat 4.4.4 rom. Now I want to up it to 5.0 or whatever version; problem is, TWRP won't let me wipe the data. Asks me for my password, I enter it and it tells me its wrong. But I know it's not, I've been using my tablet for days and entering the same password. Anything I'm missing here? Any other method to bypass / completely wipe the tablet? Using TWRP 2.6.0.0 (should've updated when I had the chance, damn it. Not that it matters any more)
Seriously, no one has come across this or knows how to solve this?
When I've had encryption induced recovery issues I ended up being able to format the needed partitions as a last resort.
Backup data then format in recovery if you must.
That's what I'm doing; wiping all data in TWRP but it asks me to decrypt when TWRP starts but it doesn't accept the password. And when I try to wipe it, the log shows 'failed' instantly.
Hey guys,
Just as I wanted to update to an Android M ROM I realized decrypting the phone somehow doesn't work. In Settings it says "Encrypted Phone Encrypted" but if I click it nothing happens. Here is a video for demostration: https://youtu.be/cOFFZuckUU0 . In Recovery I can't mount any of the encrypted partitions yet when I restart my phone it does't ask for the decryption code and Android works like always. Any way to get the phone decrypted again?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: After hours of research I couldn't find anything remotely similar to my issue. It doesn't even make sense that the phone decrypts itself without me putting in a code...
P.S.S: Oh and the issue appeared just a few days ago. Before that I could encrypt and decrypt my phone as often as i wanted to and android always asked for the code before booting.
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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You can't decrypt. You mast make a full wipe. If You dont want lose date use Titanium Backup or TWRP Manager with live backup.
You can only turn off, not decrypt ! a sd card encryption
Hi!
It been so many years since I have had my L900 but I was wondering if by now there is some way to unencrypt backups? This might be a more for TWRP as well.
But way back in the day I had TWRP backups of my L900 on my HDD incase the day ever came a crash or something. So one day I updated TWRP and went to enter my password in TWRP to unencrypt and it said my password is wrong so after a million attempts I gave up and moved on with all the data lost.
Figure by now there might be a crack?