Hi, is there any unofficial ROM, that has real, working encryption of internal (and/or external SD) storage?
I have tested CyanogenMod 12.1 and 13 for some time on my L90 D405n, this ROMs are much better from Stock for me, but they have one huge problem - not working encryption of internal and external storage (SD). I was believing, that it will be fixed in some short period of time, but it was not, and looks like it won't be in the nearest future.
I don't know how it is that, but for me everyday usage of phone without encryption of personal data like photos and other apps with plain text stored passwords is not acceptable.
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Usually i'm used Novathor settings to swap my sdcard with usbstorage, but after i flashed the final version of Carbon rom (Final) once i checked the swipe storage in Novathor Settings and restart it does nothing.
Is there another way to swipe sdcard with usbstorage?
Cause i've try many methods i've got from many forums and still didn't work.
Jovin5 said:
Usually i'm used Novathor settings to swap my sdcard with usbstorage, but after i flashed the final version of Carbon rom (Final) once i checked the swipe storage in Novathor Settings and restart it does nothing.
Is there another way to swipe sdcard with usbstorage?
Cause i've try many methods i've got from many forums and still didn't work.
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Based on my experience in the previous build, swap storage works well in CM11 by TC. I think the last release was also definitely work.
Ps. "Oh..yeah, there something I forgotten to tell you. Before you want to swap storage, it's good once you first back up the data from SDCard1, or move at all your data to the harddisk. Because if not, there is still the possibility of some data previously stored in SDCard1 (because the "swap-storage aren't so perfect) will be mixed with Internal Storage data.
In conclusion: Better entirely clear storage space on SDCard1, for swap-storage process for all data from internal storage. (Suggestion only by me)."
Hi everybody.
I flashed CM13 with success inside the Unsued Partitions (aka Safe Slot), along with the OC kernel.
I tried then to see if I was able to actually use the phone day to day. I was immediately faced the issue of the small /data partition, which, with the pico gapps, starts with nearly 700MB used (first boot), more than half of the available storage.
The built-in "move to sd" option (only for some apps) doesn't move the biggest files to the external storage.
Is it possible to use the "adoptable storage" option for Marshmallow on the Droid 4? (obviously with a suitable sd card).
Will it encrypt the sd card partition by default?
Thank you very much for your help,
sweetsuicide
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Ok,
I found the time to test it out myself. Adoptable storage is indeed available in cm13, but it actually is of limited help: most apps WON'T move to sd. Is this the intended behavior or am I doing aometinf wrong?
Hello everyone ,
I recently encrypted my phone, using the utility in setting>advanced>security>crypt your phone but realized that the sd card wasn't encrypted and that there was no available option in the default menu.
Adoptable storage would be a solution, but, even though there are some hacks that can enable adoptable storage on the honor 4X (like using Root Essentials), those options aren't 100% working (bugs when displaying available space, ...). So that doesn't look like the best solution. (I saw this post, but I don't see how I could use encryption with this method and am not really comfortable with the idea of flashing a pre-packaged modified kernel, in which I can't see what else might have been changed)
I also experimented with ROMs available for the device (ex : RROS) wich have adoptable storage enabled, but I am not 100% satisfied with those ROMs so I don't want to use them on my every day device (problems with the GPS when no GAPPS, which I'd like to avoid, battery drain, ...).
I know there are apps like EDS lite with which you can create an encrypted container, but I'd like to keep it more convenient and so I'm looking to encrypt the whole sd card and decrypt it at boot time. So basically, the best case scenario would be to have an encrypted SD card, but still be able to do everything I'm used to doing with it (move apps, listen to music, scroll my photo gallery, ...)
I am not strictly speaking looking for adoptable storage, just for a solution to have an encrypted sd card working (actually, a scenario more like where I could make a LUKS EXT4 partiton on my whole card would be awesome, so that you can have your data back when the phone dies). Also, my phone is rooted and, even though I don't really know about the "hidden things" in Android, I'm comfortable enough on Linux, so I don't mind having to use a terminal to achieve my purpose.
If anyone has an idea, that would be awesome, many thanks in advance
So I'm kinda new to this rooting thing. Currently on my first rooted phone, and have been loving the experience.
But I've run into an issue that I'm not sure how to solve. My phone doesn't support exfat or NTFS for portable storage SD cards. And the files I keep are too big for fat32 to handle.
I know I can format as internal shared storage and use ext4 that way, but I really hate how internal shared storage encrypts everything on the SD. I don't want to tie the data on my SD card to the lifespan of my phone, or to the lifespan of however long before I do a factory reset.
Is there a way to change what os my phone runs in order to move to something that supports exfat? And if so, can you please give me a noob friendly way of how to do that?
Supposedly this Kernel is supposed to give exFAT support when used with a Magisk module.
P.S., where this is your first time ROMming and such, some quick tips: Make sure you flash everything on a high charge (80% or higher), and through a USB you're not worried about having any frays or anything. I'll always use the nicest, newest USB I have just to play it safe. Razer specifically states on their site that the cable included with the phone 2 is NOT intended for flashing any files -- only for massive power passthrough. It's also always a good idea to keep a backup / original image somewhere handy in case **** hits the fan... because believe me, you'll brick your OS one day, and it'll be nice to have a quick fix so you're not out a phone. Feel free to PM if you've got any other general Root/ROM questions!
Zalgus said:
So I'm kinda new to this rooting thing. Currently on my first rooted phone, and have been loving the experience.
But I've run into an issue that I'm not sure how to solve. My phone doesn't support exfat or NTFS for portable storage SD cards. And the files I keep are too big for fat32 to handle.
I know I can format as internal shared storage and use ext4 that way, but I really hate how internal shared storage encrypts everything on the SD. I don't want to tie the data on my SD card to the lifespan of my phone, or to the lifespan of however long before I do a factory reset.
Is there a way to change what os my phone runs in order to move to something that supports exfat? And if so, can you please give me a noob friendly way of how to do that?
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Ill try and type something up as soon as I get it working been running into issues when trying to get arter97 kernel working with exfat.
I got it working and the steps I took are in the link here
I posted it in the kernel thread since I was having issues with that.
I used encryption once, when my N6 was running LOS 14/15. But then the navigation app became very, very slooooow in loading its maps, and my podcast app also was a bit lagging sometimes. So, when I flashed LOS 16, I decided not to encrypt the storage any more.
Now I am running LOS 17.1, and I am reconsidering encryption, because 17.1 is a much newer version, it might be that encryption works faster then before. Does anyone have experience with the this and can anyone tell me, how great the loss of loading speed will be on LOS 17.1 compared to previous LOS versions?
Alternatively, can there be a non-encrypted part of the storage, for things that don't need to be encrypted anyway, like maps and music, and one encrypted part for personal data? If the N6 had a memory card slot, it would be trivial to encrypt the internal storage and leave the external card unencrypted. But given the limited and non-expendable built in storage, a partitioning could get tricky. I guess, for a start root will be needed for this. And then: how will apps behave? Not every app can be told where to save its data.
If any one can tell me any thing about this, and hint or clue or help will be most welcome!
you ever find good info on this? I have a really old LOS, (I think 14.1) and I stopped flashing updates b/c i liked it and it was pretty stable. But I have been getting a lot of crashes and poweroffs and lag recently. I'm currently also using encrypted storage which is probably slowing everything down.
But i want to keep my storage encrypted if possible, but if not I'll at least beupdated to LOS 16 or 17 soon.
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you ever find good info on this? I have a really old LOS, (I think 14.1) and I stopped flashing updates b/c i liked it and it was pretty stable. But I have been getting a lot of crashes and poweroffs and lag recently. I'm currently also using encrypted storage which is probably slowing everything down.
But i want to keep my storage encrypted if possible, but if not I'll at least beupdated to LOS 16 or 17 soon.
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Sudden power-off is a sign that you need a new battery.
Lag and crashes could be many things, but first thing to try is doing a complete backup, then format the data partition. That will fix possible corruption of the file system or system data.
For typical use, encryption is only marginally slower. I doubt that is your problem.
If you upgrade, then remember that encryption was changed at some point (I think it was going from Nougat to Oreo, but not totally sure). That makes it necessary to format the data partition (again, backup first) and then reencrypting. Please note the difference between wiping and formatting, wipe is not enough.
Unfortunately, TWRP hasn't been updated, so if you encrypt with a recent rom, TWRP will no longer be able to access your files.