I have had some issues with my phone since unlocking with sunshine. See separate thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/help/help-bricked-xt1254-unlocking-to-t3279581 for description. I have a theory about this now and would like some opinions from folks with more experience.
I used device encryption on my Turbo before the OTA update to Lollipop. After encrypting the phone I would be prompted to enter my PIN to decrypt the data partition before the phone would boot, and then I'd have to enter the PIN again after boot to unlock it. After the OTA I no longer had to enter my PIN when booting the phone, but I would still have to enter it after boot to unlock. After the OTA the phone still reported that it was encrypted in the system security settings even though it didn't need a PIN to decrypt at boot time. That makes sense from what little I know because encrypting the device re-writes the data partition, and the OTA didn't touch the data partition and could not un-encrypt it. I was baffled by this, but I didn't want to factory reset and wipe the data partition to let me re-encrypt the phone.
So after the OTA, the data partition of my phone was still encrypted, but magically the phone was able to decrypt data and boot without my PIN. I don't know why. But one clue is that after unlocking and installing TWRP I looked at TWRP log and saw a log message saying something about decrypting with default PIN. Anyway, I never wiped data, but my phone somehow manages to boot. Re-flashing system and recovery caused problems at first, but now it seems to be back to the way it was. I haven't flashed a new ROM yet, but I expect that when I do I'll have to wipe data and that will get everything back to normal.
My question is has anyone else experimented with device encryption and is this behavior expected?
Thanks.
Not having to enter a PIN with the factory image was a bug I initially discovered, and reported, during the *initial* Android L SOAK test. Needless to say, they never fixed the bug (plus one of the Stagefright CVEs) during the second SOAK rollout. I reported it then, too. They did nothing. That second SOAK was the straw that broke the camel's back, for me. I will never participate in another.
As far as this bug goes, what I would do, is an FDR, and re-encrypt your device to wipe the key store and start over.
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I got notifications that the SU4TL-49 OTA was ready to install on my phone, and I had read that if you try to install it with anything but stock recovery that you get into a boot loop. I figured it was a matter of time before I ended up accidentally installing the OTA upgrade and so decided to wipe my phone and go back to stock, and I would use that opportunity to re-encrypt the phone. It took me a couple of tries before I discovered that factory reset isn't enough to remove the encryption, and that I had to reformat the data partition. This took a few hours of going back and forth between reverting to stock, upgrading, rooting, configuring and starting over before I finally got it right, but eventually the phone said that it wasn't encrypted and gave me the option to encrypt. What a pain. After setting up all my apps for the third or fourth time I thought I was done. Whenever I rebooted I was prompted for my PIN before android booted. I even had to enter my PIN to run TWRP.
At least that's the way it was for a few hours. Now when I reboot it just starts up android with no password again. All the effort to un-encrypt and re-encrypt seems to have been a waste. Oh well, at least I avoided getting into boot loop hell.
Hopefully this unencrypting without requiring password/PIN thing gets fixed when (if) they come out with M for the turbo.
This just keeps getting better and better. I decided to flash the Unofficial CM13 ROM this afternoon just for fun. I got it all set up when I found that the GPS receiver wasn't working. Searching the thread I found a link to a flash-able radio image to fix that, and when I rebooted to TWRP it prompted me for a password to decrypt the data partition! Unfortunately it didn't like my PIN no matter how many times I entered it. I don't know if there's something about entering a numerical PIN on the qwerty keyboard, but it had worked earlier in the day before it stopped prompting for passwords. After a bunch of tries and reboots I gave up and downloaded a fastboot flashable version of the same. I've spent most of the day screwing around with this phone already and I'm not going to reformat the data partition again today for sure! Maybe it just needs a good night's sleep.
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This just keeps getting better and better. I decided to flash the Unofficial CM13 ROM this afternoon just for fun. I got it all set up when I found that the GPS receiver wasn't working. Searching the thread I found a link to a flash-able radio image to fix that, and when I rebooted to TWRP it prompted me for a password to decrypt the data partition! Unfortunately it didn't like my PIN no matter how many times I entered it. I don't know if there's something about entering a numerical PIN on the qwerty keyboard, but it had worked earlier in the day before it stopped prompting for passwords. After a bunch of tries and reboots I gave up and downloaded a fastboot flashable version of the same. I've spent most of the day screwing around with this phone already and I'm not going to reformat the data partition again today for sure! Maybe it just needs a good night's sleep.
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Encryption is totally broken on CM13. The issue is that our version of TWRP cannot decrypt it. I contacted the maintainer of TWRP for our device about this issue and he said that he tried to fix the issue, but he failed.
Also, official CM13 has been out for a while now for the Turbo. No need to go with the unofficial version.
Thanks for the info @TheSt33v, but I'm not sure that it's totally broken.
The strange thing is that I was using TWRP 3.0.2 just fine after encrypting phone while on stock ROM, and it worked for a while even after flashing CM13. Then it just stopped liking my PIN. But CM13 takes my PIN and decrypts data just fine. So my phone is usable for now, and the problem of it decrypting without asking for a PIN is solved for now. I just went to cyanogenmod and see that there's a CM13 recovery. Based on your post I'm guessing that's what is broken, so no point in flashing that. Oh well, at least my phone is secure.
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Thanks for the info @TheSt33v, but I'm not sure that it's totally broken.
The strange thing is that I was using TWRP 3.0.2 just fine after encrypting phone while on stock ROM, and it worked for a while even after flashing CM13. Then it just stopped liking my PIN. But CM13 takes my PIN and decrypts data just fine. So my phone is usable for now, and the problem of it decrypting without asking for a PIN is solved for now. I just went to cyanogenmod and see that there's a CM13 recovery. Based on your post I'm guessing that's what is broken, so no point in flashing that. Oh well, at least my phone is secure.
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Just FYI, our TWRP maintainer has fixed decryption. You can get the latest version here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=39562 (version 3.0.2-0 mod 02 as of this writing). I still had trouble decrypting a partition that was previously formatted using the stock recovery menu, but once I formatted the data partition using this version of TWRP and re-encrypted, it decrypted fine.
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Just FYI, our TWRP maintainer has fixed decryption...
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Yes they have fixed it! I found TWRP Mod 2 over the weekend and saw from the change log that decryption was fixed. I flashed it and it works great. No problems decrypting my previously encrypted data partition since I flashed mod 2. The funny thing about it is that basic TWRP 3.0.2 (no mod) worked well enough for long enough for me to flash CM13, and it even seemed to work for a little while after that. But then it decided that it didn't know how to decrypt my phone anymore and I was stuck until Mod 2. I can't explain why it worked for a while and then stopped, but I'm very happy that mod 2 fixed it.
Thanks for your help and support. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only user who encrypts his phone. There don't seem to be a lot of threads about encryption/decryption issues.
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Yes they have fixed it! I found TWRP Mod 2 over the weekend and saw from the change log that decryption was fixed. I flashed it and it works great. No problems decrypting my previously encrypted data partition since I flashed mod 2. The funny thing about it is that basic TWRP 3.0.2 (no mod) worked well enough for long enough for me to flash CM13, and it even seemed to work for a little while after that. But then it decided that it didn't know how to decrypt my phone anymore and I was stuck until Mod 2. I can't explain why it worked for a while and then stopped, but I'm very happy that mod 2 fixed it.
Thanks for your help and support. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only user who encrypts his phone. There don't seem to be a lot of threads about encryption/decryption issues.
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Most people don't seem to think it's worth the impact that it has on performance.
I was worried about the performance hit too before I tried it. But I don't notice any real difference in performance. Of there is a hit it's too small for me to tell.
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I was worried about the performance hit too before I tried it. But I don't notice any real difference in performance. Of there is a hit it's too small for me to tell.
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This is a very interesting thread. I would like to encrypt so I can setup my work exchange email as its a requirement. Just to clarify what is the order to do this in? Currently I am running RR 6.01 but have run CF's 1.3.6 ROM most of the time as its awesome.
Can I encrypt using RR or do I need to switch back to CFs ROM or to stock Lollipop after installing the upgraded TWRP in place of the standard version I am running now?
thanks for the help and information.
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This is a very interesting thread. I would like to encrypt so I can setup my work exchange email as its a requirement. Just to clarify what is the order to do this in? Currently I am running RR 6.01 but have run CF's 1.3.6 ROM most of the time as its awesome.
Can I encrypt using RR or do I need to switch back to CFs ROM or to stock Lollipop after installing the upgraded TWRP in place of the standard version I am running now?
thanks for the help and information.
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You can encrypt on RR. Just make sure you're running TWRP version 3.0.2-0 mod 2: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=39562
If encryption fails, you'll need to format your data partition (aka do a factory reset) using this version of TWRP. Then it will work.
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You can encrypt on RR. Just make sure you're running TWRP version 3.0.2-0 mod 2: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=39562
If encryption fails, you'll need to format your data partition (aka do a factory reset) using this version of TWRP. Then it will work.
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thanks so much for the clarification! Being encrypted, how does that affect installing future updates or restores? Can I still flash ROMS and other ZIPS from TWRP the same as now?
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thanks so much for the clarification! Being encrypted, how does that affect installing future updates or restores? Can I still flash ROMS and other ZIPS from TWRP the same as now?
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The only difference is that you'll have to enter your password/pin every time you boot twrp. Don't try to use a pattern lock. Everything else will be the same.
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The only difference is that you'll have to enter your password/pin every time you boot twrp. Don't try to use a pattern lock. Everything else will be the same.
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thank you for the help! I was able to encrypt my RR MM install without having to wipe the data partition. It now prompts me to put my PIN in when booting up and when going into the modded version of TWRP. It then is able to decrypt the partition in TWRP so as you said just like before. Only difference is a little longer boot up time. Performance seems the same to me.
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thank you for the help! I was able to encrypt my RR MM install without having to wipe the data partition. It now prompts me to put my PIN in when booting up and when going into the modded version of TWRP. It then is able to decrypt the partition in TWRP so as you said just like before. Only difference is a little longer boot up time. Performance seems the same to me.
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Guess I spoke too soon. phone was working fine for a day. Yesterday at work I'm looking at my phone as it reboots on its own (just sitting there). I then get cant decrypt partition message. Cant do anything and it wont boot up into the OS WO giving this error. In TWRP still cant do anything because it cant decript the partition. So I formatted the data partition and started over. I had saved a recent backup to my PC so I was able to get back to that. Now running CFs latest instead of RR. I need my phone, cant take a chance on this happening again as I was instantly dead in the water. Just wont encrypt.
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This is a very interesting thread. I would like to encrypt so I can setup my work exchange email as its a requirement. Just to clarify what is the order to do this in? Currently I am running RR 6.01 but have run CF's 1.3.6 ROM most of the time as its awesome.
Can I encrypt using RR or do I need to switch back to CFs ROM or to stock Lollipop after installing the upgraded TWRP in place of the standard version I am running now?
thanks for the help and information.
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thank you for the help! I was able to encrypt my RR MM install without having to wipe the data partition. It now prompts me to put my PIN in when booting up and when going into the modded version of TWRP. It then is able to decrypt the partition in TWRP so as you said just like before. Only difference is a little longer boot up time. Performance seems the same to me.
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Guess I spoke too soon. phone was working fine for a day. Yesterday at work I'm looking at my phone as it reboots on its own (just sitting there). I then get cant decrypt partition message. Cant do anything and it wont boot up into the OS WO giving this error. In TWRP still cant do anything because it cant decript the partition. So I formatted the data partition and started over. I had saved a recent backup to my PC so I was able to get back to that. Now running CFs latest instead of RRI need my phone, cant take a chance on this happening again as I was instantly dead in the water. Just wont encrypt.
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Well, just as you used CM13 Marshmallow and RR Marshmallow just fine without encryption, not sure why you went to CF Lollipop instead of RR just because encryption didn't work. It just seems you were implying it's CM13 or RR at fault when you used them just fine before, and even now on CF you are NOT using encryption.
But it's your phone, so you can run what you want.
I do commend you for having a recent backup on your PC.
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Well, just as you used CM13 and RR just fine without encryption, not sure why you went to CF instead of RR just because encryption didn't work. But it's your phone.
Just not sure why you are implying it's CM13 or RR at fault when you used them just fine before, and even now on CF you are NOT using encryption.
I do commend you for having a recent backup on your PC.
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I should have clarified, I dont think RR had anything to do with my issue. I actually really liked RR, it has some great features, great performance and good battery life too. I just missed the Moto features in the stock and CFs ROMs.
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I should have clarified, I dont think RR had anything to do with my issue. I actually really liked RR, it has some great features, great performance and good battery life too. I just missed the Moto features in the stock and CFs ROMs.
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Strange. I've been using RR M encrypted for several weeks now with no issues. Oh well. If you're happy with modified stock, that's all that matters. You can encrypt that too if you like. I'm a big fan of the Moto features as well, and RR M has basically all of them built in besides Voice (chop chop flashlight was removed for a while, but it has been added back). Although I've never understood what Voice offers that Google Now does not.
Mystery solved!
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... At least that's the way it was for a few hours. Now when I reboot it just starts up android with no password again. All the effort to un-encrypt and re-encrypt seems to have been a waste. Oh well, at least I avoided getting into boot loop hell.
Hopefully this unencrypting without requiring password/PIN thing gets fixed when (if) they come out with M for the turbo.
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I have been running the CM13 ROM for the past few months and it's been great, but now that Verizon came out with official Marshmallow I decided to go back to a stock-based ROM again because I've been missing VOLTE. So I flashed ComputerFreak274_MM. After flashing and rooting I was back in the stupid state of the phone saying that it was encrypted but booting without a PIN. It seemed unreal that Moto/Verizon would have left this bug in MM too. So I reformatted data, re-flashed and rooted the ROM and tried encrypting. Then I discovered that it won't encrypt if it's rooted. So back to wiping, re-formatting and flashing again, but this time I am able to successfully encrypt before rooting. Success! Now root and start setting up the phone. Now I have to enter my PIN before it will boot into the system or into TWRP. Yay! By now it's 1:00am and I have to be at work early, so I let it sit overnight while my apps download. In the morning I flash SuperSU and notice that I wasn't prompted for a password to decrypt when I booted into TWRP and I wasn't prompted for password when booting system after flashing SuperSU. WTF!!! More time wasted. It seemed that stock ROMs just don't like encryption. :crying:
Anyway, after stewing about it all day I randomly chanced into the solution. In the Security settings menu there's an option under Encryption called "Secure start-up" which only becomes available when phone is encrypted. The Secure start-up options says:
"You can further protect this device by requiring your PIN before it starts up. Until the device starts up, it can't receive calls, messages, or notifications, including alarms. This helps protect data on lost or stolen devices."​Secure start-up defaults to disabled for some reason, and when it's disabled the phone automatically decrypts itself when it boots without requiring PIN entry. So you can encrypt your phone and still be totally unprotected. What a dumb-ass default!
But when I enable Secure start-up then encryption works the way it should -- with phone prompting for PIN before booting. Maybe I just didn't notice it, but I didn't see anything when I encrypted the phone saying to enable Secure start-up to actually protect the phone. I'm guessing that this option was there in Lollipop too; but who knew???
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So I have, after some work and experimentation, got encryption to work with CM 13. However I have run into a problem, TWRP will not accept my password and decrypt my phone. My phone will boot fine, I have CM 13 working correctly, make calls, surf the web and so on. It also accepts my password to unlock the phone no issues. But TWRP will not, so I cannot flash Xposed or any other ROMs without going through the process of wiping, encrypting and reflashing. That is the other oddity, TWRP DID accept the password at first and let me flash the CM 13 mod originally. After that I got a message saying the phones info was corrupted, the password was correct but my phone could not unlock. I restarted it and the phone started like normal but now we have this issue. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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You must be running TWRP 3.0.1.0
Flash TWRP 3.0.2.0 and your problem should he fixed
Actually I am on TWRP 3.0.2.0
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Any other suggestions for this situation?
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Any other suggestions for this situation?
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Re-flash TWRP 3.0.2.0? That update was specifically a fix for encryption issues. If reflashing doesn't work, then don't know.
I just tried to get encryption going on my Turbo with RR, and I got the same issue. I don't think it's a TWRP problem. I'll work on it some tonight and see if I can get it to work.
Yeah, it's some issue with RR. The latest TWRP decrypts the stock rom just fine. Weird.
I was not on RR, I was on CM 13. RR is a mod off of CM correct?
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I was not on RR, I was on CM 13. RR is a mod off of CM correct?
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Correct. So to be more precise, it's an issue with CM.
I read somewhere that with CM12.1 (and maybe CM13), it's necessary to set selinux to permissive before encrypting, but once you do that, you can just encrypt through the settings menu while running CM (no stock rom trickery required). My battery is too low to test this, but I'll definitely test it when I get home tonight.
Edit: Nope. Didn't work.
I'm determined to get this to work. I actually figured out how to get RR to encrypt on its own without having to go back to stock first, but TWRP still won't decrypt it. I've tried all TWRP versions available for quark. I'm going to try using CM recovery. If that doesn't work, I dunno what will. For what it's worth, google says that we're not the only ones having trouble decrypting CM13.
For those who are curious, you can get RR (and presumably CM13) to encrypt by first flashing the stock recovery menu and doing a factory reset. The reason this is necessary is that encryption requires the data partition to reserve about 16kb of data to be used during encryption. However, when TWRP formats the data partition, it includes all of the available space in the partition and leave nothing unallocated. The stock recovery menu knows better.
EDIT: CM recovery is totally useless. It doesn't even touch /data unless you're factory resetting. Welp, I'm out of ideas for now.
Well this sucks! Thanks for your work The St33v. It looks like this has to be edited at the top so it leaves that extra space needed. The TWRP code needs to be fixed imho.
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Well this sucks! Thanks for your work The St33v. It looks like this has to be edited at the top so it leaves that extra space needed. The TWRP code needs to be fixed imho.
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Yeah, I'm not really sure what the issue is at this point. According to my Googling, some devices running CM13 can decrypt with TWRP just fine, but many can't. That tells me that it's a device-specific issue, which means the TWRP maintainer for our device would need to fix it. Who knows though. I could be wrong.
I don't really feel like bothering him about it, but in case anyone else does, the TWRP guy for our device is none other than the legendary baybutcher27.
I tried to get a copy of the TWRP log, but it tries to save the log to /data/media. I don't imagine that actually happened since /data is still encrypted.
EDIT: Nevermind. The log file doesn't have any information that is different from what TWRP displays on the screen, and TWRP doesn't display anything that is helpful.
Different device (Zenfone 2/z00t), but I've been bouncing around forums looking for the same solution. Currently using Flashify to update CyanogenMod Recovery, then using the ADB sideload menu to flash the nightlies. Switching to TWRP every few nightlies to see if it's fixed. It's not an elegant solution, but encryption is pretty much a must.
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Different device (Zenfone 2/z00t), but I've been bouncing around forums looking for the same solution. Currently using Flashify to update CyanogenMod Recovery, then using the ADB sideload menu to flash the nightlies. Switching to TWRP every few nightlies to see if it's fixed. It's not an elegant solution, but encryption is pretty much a must.
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I talked to the maintainer of our TWRP build, and he said that it would be something that he would have to figure out how to add, but he is working on it. Apparently, methods of encryption/decryption are specific to each device.
Right. And since I'm still running nightlies with no snapshot as of yet for my device, I'll deal with the workaround till it's sorted, or file a bug report when a stable release/snapshot is available. Thankfully ADB sideload is an option till then. Thanks for the info about the issue being specific to each device.
Hi guys,
I tried a couple of years ago disabling encryption on my Nexus 6 and the performance was great, but as updates were released it turned out to be a pain to keep up always having to manually update the phone. My nexus 6 now is crawling and I'm thinking about trying to disable encryption. I could not find any sort of reports if it can be done on 7.1.1
Has anyone tried? Is there any guide? Thanks!
Mephisto_POA said:
Hi guys,
I tried a couple of years ago disabling encryption on my Nexus 6 and the performance was great, but as updates were released it turned out to be a pain to keep up always having to manually update the phone. My nexus 6 now is crawling and I'm thinking about trying to disable encryption. I could not find any sort of reports if it can be done on 7.1.1
Has anyone tried? Is there any guide? Thanks!
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It's no different. If your bootloader is not unlocked, unlocking it will wipe the user data partition. If the bootloader is already unlocked, you'll need to wipe the user data partition.
*IN EITHER CASE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DATA. DO A BACKUP FIRST
Then flash a ROM with an included kernel that doesn't force encrypt. Or, just flash a kernel that doesn't force encrypt.
Now that I've answered your question, IMHO, it's not worth the effort. If your phone is crawling, do a factory reset. On a stock ROM, go to Settings > Backup & Reset and make sure you have your Google backup settings enabled. Use the Factory Data Reset button to actually reset. READ through the information and confirm. This will cause your phone to reboot with a wiped system partition.
If your on a custom ROM I'm going to assume you know how to wipe through recovery.
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...., IMHO, it's not worth the effort. If your phone is crawling, do a factory reset.....
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My 7.1.1 uses the lite stock rom of Danvdh.
I think you're right about the hassle. Only decrypting is not enough. But debloating and removing unused stuff and decrypting the data partition did raise performance on my N6.
Yeah, I know it is a bit of a hassle, but considering there will be no more updates after 7.1.1 it should be a once only process right? Is possible to disable encryption on 7.1.1. without rooting?
I'm happy to unlock the bootloader and wipe the phone, not a problem.
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Yeah, I know it is a bit of a hassle, but considering there will be no more updates....
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Don;t forget the monthly security updates.
I am using the lite stock room of Danvdh. It's a pre-rooted stock room.
But I think updates can be dirty flashed because the system, radio and bootloader will not change anymore.
So root and install TWRP to flash the updates
the problem with rooting is that many apps will not work, I'm cool staying without root and vanilla android, I just want to get rid of the encryption
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the problem with rooting is that many apps will not work, I'm cool staying without root and vanilla android, I just want to get rid of the encryption
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In that case the post of @ktmom is applicable.
I am on 7.1.1 and have used the fed patcher mentioned on this site and it has worked nicely on custom and stock ROMs. But u have to be rooted.
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In that case the post of @ktmom is applicable.
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I'm a bit illiterate in this aspect, apologies. but I could not find a vanilla android for nexus 6 with just encryption disabled and no root. I would really appreciate if you could give me some directions?
The NEXUS 6 ANDROID DEVELOPMENT and NEXUS 6 ORIGINAL ANDROID DEVELOPMENT seems both to have only modified versions. I'm a bit confused
Mephisto_POA said:
I'm a bit illiterate in this aspect, apologies. but I could not find a vanilla android for nexus 6 with just encryption disabled and no root. I would really appreciate if you could give me some directions?
The NEXUS 6 ANDROID DEVELOPMENT and NEXUS 6 ORIGINAL ANDROID DEVELOPMENT seems both to have only modified versions. I'm a bit confused
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Plain vanilla unencrypted would be google factory image plus a non forced enforcing kernel. B14CKB1RD, Franco there are others.
Custom ROM that is close to vanilla but comes with a non forced encrypting kernel would be Pure Nexus.
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I would really appreciate if you could give me some directions?
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I have only one direction for you and that's the lite stock rom of Danvdh.
The kernel is the modified part. (no forced encryption).
After flashing this rom, you can unroot by uninstalling supersu.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59561445/
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I have only one direction for you and that's the lite stock rom of Danvdh.
The kernel is the modified part. (no forced encryption).
After flashing this rom, you can unroot by uninstalling supersu.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59561445/
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Hi, I also want to remove encryption from my Nexus 6 Stock as it is a stuttering mess.
I have rooted and installed the stock rom of Danvdh, but to my disappointment on boot up the phone is still showing as encrypted.
Have I done something wrong?
saltyzip said:
Hi, I also want to remove encryption from my Nexus 6 Stock as it is a stuttering mess.
I have rooted and installed the stock rom of Danvdh, but to my disappointment on boot up the phone is still showing as encrypted.
Have I done something wrong?
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That was an answer to a different question.
The ROM you installed I believe has a non-force encrypting kernel. But just installing a non-force encrypting kernel isn't enough. You need to wipe user data and install a kernel that doesn't force encrypt.
Please read back a page to two for the whole recent conversation that has more details, like the fact that you'll lose all of your data in this process.
saltyzip said:
Hi, I also want to remove encryption from my Nexus 6 Stock as it is a stuttering mess.
I have rooted and installed the stock rom of Danvdh, but to my disappointment on boot up the phone is still showing as encrypted.
Have I done something wrong?
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Got it working, just followed this:
Just because forced encryption is disabled doesn't mean it decrypts you. You have to do that yourself by formatting data either through TWRP (TWRP > Wipe > Format Data button) or through fastboot (fastboot format userdata), which will wipe out your app data and your internal storage partition so make the appropriate backups.
saltyzip said:
Got it working, just followed this:
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You going to take credit, you should at least use your own words ?
I've gone with your guys suggestion with stock lite, working like a charm, very snappy. The phone feels indeed light, and multitasking is way smoother now, thanks!!!
just on a side note, after you install the rom you need to wipe the data partition to get rid of the encryption
Installed twrp on bn Nexus 6 os 5.1 OTA for 7.1.1 encrypted it
No clue how to fix this I'm a noob unlocked bootloader unencrypted Android 5 then it OTA updated to 7.1.1 and now can't get to twrp to wipe encryption how can I get this going again phones working just can't use cable to computer have the SD card reader micro SD any help would be appreciated
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...just can't use cable to computer...
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Get your phone's USB port fixed, then you can fix the ROM issue.
As of right now I am currently using FreedomOS CE 2.11 (7.1.1). It was the only rom I had on my hard drive that I knew would work. I own the OnePlus 3T for any of you curious. Here lately I have had some issues in getting certain roms to work. I'd go through the whole process of flashing: to include a clean wipe of everything. I'd flash the rom and get no working data whatsoever. That's the first issue. The next question I have is why exactly would I need to encrypt or decrypt my one plus 3t? I have heard it's for multiboot, but I've never had any reason to use two roms at once. I had an issue with liquid rom 8.1 earlier where it was asking me for a password during the initial bootup, so I entered 0000. A few moments later I got a message saying decryption successful, but wanted me to reboot into recovery for some reason. I've also experienced the password problem using stock recovery, but I haven't seen that in a week or two. I mainly used blu recovery or twrp (latest versions).
I can't say why others decrypt their phones, other than to avoid the inconvenience of typing in a password, but I always have my data encrypted so that, if I lose my phone, no one else can access the information on it.
I also always use a password (not pin or pattern) and require it to boot the phone.
Without this, because I have an unlocked bootloader, anybody could use TWRP to delete the password files and then boot the phone and have access to everything on it.
I have not decrypted my phone since I bought it a year ago. And have never had issues with passwords because, I'm guessing, I set it to be required on boot. I've used different versions of TWRP and ROMs all without problems.
Someone is testing LOS 16 on yours Shamu Phone? 15.1 Nightly is a stable build, is it 16 Nightly Build the same?
How should people know this? Lineage-16.0 is out since a few hours.
but since we have this https://github.com/LineageOS/charter/blob/master/device-support-requirements.md you can be shure of a certain quality
Any guidance on moving from 15.1 to 16.0? I assume a clean install is probably a good idea?
Thanks!
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First build isn't working properly for me. After flashing it gives me the "Decryption unsuccessful" message. Don't have encryption enabled, and my phone is formatted to ext4. Tried wiping multiple times in different ways. Had been running LOS 15.1 for months with no problems. Clean flash.
Update: Just to see, reinstalled LOS 15 and encrypted my device. Decryption still fails after flashing LOS 16 and trying to boot.
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First build isn't working properly for me. After flashing it gives me the "Decryption unsuccessful" message. Don't have encryption enabled, and my phone is formatted to ext4. Tried wiping multiple times in different ways. Had been running LOS 15.1 for months with no problems. Clean flash.
Update: Just to see, reinstalled LOS 15 and encrypted my device. Decryption still fails after flashing LOS 16 and trying to boot.
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I was thinking about flashing back to the last official google release (N6F27M), and then up to 16.0, but was going to wait to see if there was any official recommendation. Kind of a nuke the "site" from orbit approach - "it's the only way to be sure..."
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cdaly1970 said:
I was thinking about flashing back to the last official google release (N6F27M), and then up to 16.0, but was going to wait to see if there was any official recommendation. Kind of a nuke the "site" from orbit approach - "it's the only way to be sure..."
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Yeah, I was thinking about doing that, but just didn't feel like it, and can't imagine how it'd help. Probably just wait a week (probably more) or so for the builds to settle down. They're always pretty unstable at first anyway.
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First build isn't working properly for me. After flashing it gives me the "Decryption unsuccessful" message. Don't have encryption enabled, and my phone is formatted to ext4. Tried wiping multiple times in different ways. Had been running LOS 15.1 for months with no problems. Clean flash.
Update: Just to see, reinstalled LOS 15 and encrypted my device. Decryption still fails after flashing LOS 16 and trying to boot.
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Did you follow the instructions on the LOS site? I upgraded from LOS 15.1 to LOS 16 without issues. I wasn't encrypted on LOS 15.1 and still won't because right now that is a headache with TWRP being unable to decrypt.
https://lineageos.org/Changelog-22/
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Did you follow the instructions on the LOS site? I upgraded from LOS 15.1 to LOS 16 without issues. I wasn't encrypted on LOS 15.1 and still won't because right now that is a headache with TWRP being unable to decrypt.
https://lineageos.org/Changelog-22/
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I don't see anything that isn't normal in the instructions. Wipe, flash, done. And also don't know what you mean about TWRP being unable to decrypt. Newest TWRP (been for like 2 years) 3.2.3-0 works fine for me. That's interesting that it works for you though. No clue what's causing my problem.
Also when you say upgrade, do you mean you flashed 16 on top of 15.1? I did a clean flash, wiping everything.
The March 2 build is now booting for me. Noticed some changes to cryptfs in the logs, and sure enough. Now that it's booting, everything actually seems pretty stable.
I also got the "Decryption unsuccessful" on first boot of an upgrade from lineage 15.1
I was eventually able to boot, but had to do a bunch of random button pushing, and ended up nukeing the phone, but eventually got it to boot... But it has several other issues...
I did an "Advanced Wipe" in TWRP, and turned on every checkbox... Cleared every partition... Then did TWRP sideload of:
lineage-16.0-20190302-nightly-shamu-signed.zip
open_gapps-arm-9.0-nano-20190302.zip
Magisk-v18.1.zip
And it still asked for password on first boot... No way to put away the password entry keyboard BTW, preventing you from getting to the "Emergency Call" button... No 911 for you :'(
So I read somewhere that doing a "Format Data" under the TWRP wipe might help...
So I rebooted, did the above steps again, then tried "Format Data" before leaving TWRP... This failed to mount, and so no format... For some reason, I think on my phone I have TWRP on 2 partitions maybe? For some reason, rebooting from inside TWRP to "Recovery" (so yah, load recovery, then reboot directly to recovery) appeared to fix this unable to mount issue...
So now, I again wiped all paritions, sideloaded everything, got the "Format Data" to mount and work, then rebooted...
This booted and presented the initial setup (YAY!!) Went through that, and attempted to do a Google restore of the phone during setup... This looked like it worked, but NOTHING would download (Everything said it was trying to install, but nothing would...)
I am not super knowledgeable about this stuff, but one of my guess-timations of the issue was that it was a storage permission issue... Rebooted to TWRP again, and under Advanced I found something called "Fix Contents" that claimed it would attempt to repair the SELINUX model or something, which sounded permission issue related to me, so I tried that one...
And it booted, and things installed from Google Play (Double YAY!!)
I attempted to setup multiple users, and logging in a second user apparently seems to kill the Software Home Buttons for all users, and only rebooting brings them back for the primary user, and they disappear again when booting a secondary user... Other than this so far it is very fast, really quick, and looks like it has alot of potential as soon as they work out the kinks
P.S. Now I just wish they would un-discontinue Lineage support for the LG V20... Long live Removable Batteries paired with SDCard slot and IR-Blaster for the win!
Is there a way too root yet
I installed the "stock" version of Gapps that came with the pixel launcher. I can only use the Trebuchet launcher because the Pixel Launcher only crashes. Should I have installed a different Gapps version if it is unsupported? Or is this just a bug? Also, the Android Setup wizard keeps crashing when it is checking for an update at the beginning. It will not complete. Other than those issues, everything else seems to be working fine so far.
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Is there a way too root yet
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Yes. Magisk.
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I installed the "stock" version of Gapps that came with the pixel launcher. I can only use the Trebuchet launcher because the Pixel Launcher only crashes. Should I have installed a different Gapps version if it is unsupported? Or is this just a bug? Also, the Android Setup wizard keeps crashing when it is checking for an update at the beginning. It will not complete. Other than those issues, everything else seems to be working fine so far.
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I am also seeing this problem, as are several others: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/pixel-launcher-issue-lineage-16-nexus-6-t3906748
I am also facing the problem of the crash of pixel launcher. Does anybody know whether there is a recovery could decrypt the data of Android Pie?
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I am also facing the problem of the crash of pixel launcher. Does anybody know whether there is a recovery could decrypt the data of Android Pie?
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Do you have a backup of your data? If you do, don't bother trying to decrypt it. Just wipe format your phone and start fresh.
wipe is not enough, must format encrypted partition
Just wanted to clarify that wiping is not sufficient to remove the encrypted partition. it must be formatted from the advanced wipe settings in TWRP.
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Do you have a backup of your data? If you do, don't bother trying to decrypt it. Just wipe your phone and start fresh.
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Just wanted to clarify that wiping is not sufficient to remove the encrypted partition. it must be formatted from the advanced wipe settings in TWRP.
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Yes. Sorry. I am aware of this, but used the incorrect terminology. Format was indeed what I had intended to say.
the 1st 16 release my camera did not work but it did on the 2nd nightly. i did today's [mar 6th] update and the camera does not work. info only.
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the 1st 16 release my camera did not work but it did on the 2nd nightly. i did today's [mar 6th] update and the camera does not work. info only.
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Usually, a reboot fixes the camera. It seems that on some boots it works and on some it doesn't.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ne...geos-16-0-nexus-6-shamu-t3906045/post79053994
ok, i will give it a try.
I'm running the CrDroid 5 rom, and I dislike the force encryption, I've tried a force encryption disabler and hacking Magisk to disable force encryption even with encrypted data detected, but it hasn't fixed the issue. (I've found a disabler that works)
I also heard about the hidden 120Hz mode the phone has from here https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-xz-premium-hidden-120hz-screen-mode-razer-phone/
Under the update, it's mentioned that this phone also has it too, and I'm wondering if anyone has been able to enable it, and if it's possible, how
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I'm running the CrDroid 5 rom, and I dislike the force encryption, I've tried a force encryption disabler and hacking Magisk to disable force encryption even with encrypted data detected, but it hasn't fixed the issue.
I also heard about the hidden 120Hz mode the phone has from here https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-xz-premium-hidden-120hz-screen-mode-razer-phone/
Under the update, it's mentioned that this phone also has it too, and I'm wondering if anyone has been able to enable it, and if it's possible, how
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What exactly is force encryption messing up on your phone?
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What exactly is force encryption messing up on your phone?
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I just don't like it, I also found a disabler that works, so I'm not worried about it anymore
I see its an older post now asdf2345 . But could you share the tool you used to disable the force encryption. I freakin hate it specially because its been "forced" Just replaced my xperia Z5 Compact with a 2nd hand XZ1 Compact after 6 years yes.... LOL Its rooted with magisk and installed twrp latest for xz1c. all works fine but i dont want the "forced encryption" at all . On my windows 10/11 laptops i already disabled these idiot features so the installer not even bother to set it up by default. My old z5c was on android 7 i really liked it, no additional wasted partitions for system ROM images and so forth. I tried many methods, in fact if i haven't reflashed this poor bugger 10x by now.... This was my main reason i longed as much on old system7, i am google less rooted . Forced encryption is messing up a lot of my things just being there.
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I see its an older post now asdf2345 . But could you share the tool you used to disable the force encryption. I freakin hate it specially because its been "forced" Just replaced my xperia Z5 Compact with a 2nd hand XZ1 Compact after 6 years yes.... LOL Its rooted with magisk and installed twrp latest for xz1c. all works fine but i dont want the "forced encryption" at all . On my windows 10/11 laptops i already disabled these idiot features so the installer not even bother to set it up by default. My old z5c was on android 7 i really liked it, no additional wasted partitions for system ROM images and so forth. I tried many methods, in fact if i haven't reflashed this poor bugger 10x by now.... This was my main reason i longed as much on old system7, i am google less rooted . Forced encryption is messing up a lot of my things just being there.
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I've forgotten where I got it from, but I still have the file.
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I've forgotten where I got it from, but I still have the file.
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Very kind thank you. I was searched far n wide on the net. find lots of similar things, however they either wasnt for sony or specified strictly for xxxxx devices LG, ASUS,OPPO etc etc. You still have xz1c G8441? I tried out Havoc-OS 4.8 works really well but i missed sony camera, and my call recorder "ACR Pro" wasnt working properly. Than i had to find out that flashtoop always gives a null error while flashing roms and i had to find again new softwares "newflasher" to do the job. Thanks again will try it out. What i should kow about it? Flash wipe /data/ i assume, I am on TWRP 3.3.1.0
Forgot to mention that my device running on stock kernel with flashed drmfix. Update ... After a bit of messing around it worked. Its not encrypted now. Flashed factory UK stock 228 because it went to bootlooping than twrp 3310, and this time i flashed bliss rom 12.12 android 10 for lilac. Flashed the file you sent me and flashed magist 23. First boot went to recovery. So i assumed , it want a factory reset so i did one. than all fine. Now i just need to go in my bank to unlock my barclays banking app as i installed it about 25x in the last few days. Thank you again for the fast response and help asdf2345. Will se in a few days how this rom fares, but appears to be the best so far, even has sony camera app built in, and i am using it without google or gapp spyware.
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Forgot to mention that my device running on stock kernel with flashed drmfix. Update ... After a bit of messing around it worked. Its not encrypted now. Flashed factory UK stock 228 because it went to bootlooping than twrp 3310, and this time i flashed bliss rom 12.12 android 10 for lilac. Flashed the file you sent me and flashed magist 23. First boot went to recovery. So i assumed , it want a factory reset so i did one. than all fine. Now i just need to go in my bank to unlock my barclays banking app as i installed it about 25x in the last few days. Thank you again for the fast response and help asdf2345. Will se in a few days how this rom fares, but appears to be the best so far, even has sony camera app built in, and i am using it without google or gapp spyware.
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Yeah, I hate that because the device is treble, you gotta reinstall the original ROM to flash a new ROM, so you always gotta start fresh and unnecessarily wear out the flash. I currently use the Resurrection Remix Oreo ROM by hockeymikey.
Will try set fingerprint later as it makes it much easier to unlock and log-in to paypal and banking apps, but hope it would still unencrypted. Also would be nice to get rid of the [system image] 5000mb and [vendor image] 1500mb partitions that just a waste of storage. My old z5c didnt have these useless things on android 7.0
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Will try set fingerprint later as it makes it much easier to unlock and log-in to paypal and banking apps, but hope it would still unencrypted. Also would be nice to get rid of the [system image] 5000mb and [vendor image] 1500mb partitions that just a waste of storage. My old z5c didnt have these useless things on android 7.0
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Yeah, that's how I have it. I wish I we could get rid of the image partitions as well. I thought it was because of treble, but my non-treble XZ also has those as well, so I dunno.
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Forgot to mention that my device running on stock kernel with flashed drmfix. Update ... After a bit of messing around it worked. Its not encrypted now. Flashed factory UK stock 228 because it went to bootlooping than twrp 3310, and this time i flashed bliss rom 12.12 android 10 for lilac. Flashed the file you sent me and flashed magist 23. First boot went to recovery. So i assumed , it want a factory reset so i did one. than all fine. Now i just need to go in my bank to unlock my barclays banking app as i installed it about 25x in the last few days. Thank you again for the fast response and help asdf2345. Will se in a few days how this rom fares, but appears to be the best so far, even has sony camera app built in, and i am using it without google or gapp spyware.
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plz give me drmfix script?