Hi There,
I am trying to find out for sure the encryption status of my Huawei P9. I have done multiple searches and nothing seems to answer the point or apply directly to my OS. For example, I don't have an option to 'encrypt device' anywhere in my security settings, and even when I enable developer options 'Screen Lock' is greyed out, saying it is disabled by administrator, encryption policy or credential storage.
After some research I used Termux to find out my encryption status. It gave the answer 'encrypted' - which is a good start - but can anyone give me further information about the nature of this encryption? Is it full disk or just files?
How do I enable the full lock screen?
Regards,
Richard
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My corporate WiFi uses a personal certificate for 802.1x authentication.
It works if the setting "Location and security > Use secure credentials" is checked.
The problem is, after rebooting, that option is always unchecked. When I re-enable it, it prompts for the security store password and all is good.
So, is there anyway to make the "Use secure credentials" setting permanent even after a reboot?
radeon_x said:
My corporate WiFi uses a personal certificate for 802.1x authentication.
It works if the setting "Location and security > Use secure credentials" is checked.
The problem is, after rebooting, that option is always unchecked. When I re-enable it, it prompts for the security store password and all is good.
So, is there anyway to make the "Use secure credentials" setting permanent even after a reboot?
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I’m experiencing the same problem. Have you found a resolution?
I also have this problem, only on a Desire. Is there a solution yet?
Howdy!
I know I am late to the party.
I also have this problem.
Using an HTC Sensation, with cyanogenmod 7.1 alpha10, if that matters.
Where in the filesystem should these kind of options be stored?
radeon_x said:
The problem is, after rebooting, that option is always unchecked. When I re-enable it, it prompts for the security store password and all is good.
So, is there anyway to make the "Use secure credentials" setting permanent even after a reboot?
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Apologies if I misunderstood you, but, are you asking for access to secure store without the password?
Simply, alternative (not predicted by Samsung I presume) is that each boot you'd be asked for a password... and this is not a bug, that when your phone will be stolen, someone directly after reboot will have access to your company's WiFi, I think.
same problem
pre-rooted shipped stock ROM.
everytime rebooted, the "use secure credentials" unchecked automatically.
And i must check it again so i can use the power button to poweroff the phone.
spamtrash said:
Apologies if I misunderstood you, but, are you asking for access to secure store without the password?
Simply, alternative (not predicted by Samsung I presume) is that each boot you'd be asked for a password... and this is not a bug, that when your phone will be stolen, someone directly after reboot will have access to your company's WiFi, I think.
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I'm having this headache too, and for the reasons spamtrash listed above - you don't want it to automatically use the secure credentials.
What would be nice though (and what I could use a hand trying to figure out): Is getting the phone to prompt you for the secure login on boot, or prompt you for the login the first time it attempts to connect to the secure network. I turn my WiFi on from a homescreen widget - so I'm not in the WiFi screens to see the credential login box.
same problem here, using ICS (CM9) and CM7 latest nightly build.
First off I'm using nAa's new ICS rom.
I tried to create a VPN to figure out what exactly it was and I was prompted to put on lock screen protection.
Now I don't want it anymore and I can't get rid of it in the security settings or the VPN settings, or any other settings that I've searched for that matter.
In the lock screen section of security section, the "None" option is grayed out and under it says "Disabled by administrator, encryption policy, or credential storage"
Any help would be appreciated!
Don't take it hard on yourself...
No need to take it hard for yourself,simply reset your phone via recovery and you'll have the factory settings again.
You can backup all you staff via Titanium backup.
here is a complete tutorial for you....http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-use-titanium-backup-for-android-complete-guide/
Enjoy
Reset too many times...
I've done that so many times now and I was hoping for a more simple answer.
I feel really dumb, though, because just before reading your reply I realized that removing the VPN that I had created did the trick.
For what reason the lock screen requires a password/pattern when there's a VPN stored on the phone I shall never know.
Clarify your situation
Being a newbie doesn't mean to be dumb
Of course there are lots of other ways,but what's your exact problem right now?
well,different Roms,have different settings but totally when you are going to change something which you have created before like a pattern/pass,an account or a vpn,the devices needs to know that the Owner is gonna change setting and simply asks you the pass.
Was It clear?
Hi all,
I recently bought a P7 as my new smartphone. However, there is one thing missing. In the EMUI settings device encryption is not accesible, however this is a standard Android feature. I need this feature enabled because of enterprise policies otherwise I can't connect to our Exchange. Contact & agenda synchronization is necessary for me as my smartphone is a working device.
I tried updating to EMUI 3, but it's still not part of the ROM. It's a bit ridiculous Huawei isn't enabling this option within EMUI or doesn't even put encryption enabled by default.
Is their a workaround to enable this feature?
Thanks in advance.
Cerveza said:
Hi all,
I recently bought a P7 as my new smartphone. However, there is one thing missing. In the EMUI settings device encryption is not accesible, however this is a standard Android feature. I need this feature enabled because of enterprise policies otherwise I can't connect to our Exchange. Contact & agenda synchronization is necessary for me as my smartphone is a working device.
I tried updating to EMUI 3, but it's still not part of the ROM. It's a bit ridiculous Huawei isn't enabling this option within EMUI or doesn't even put encryption enabled by default.
Is their a workaround to enable this feature?
Thanks in advance.
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I didn't find in setting but using the app "activity launcher" you can reach the hidden menu.
Open activity launcher>all activity>setting> encrypt phone
I don't know if encryption will work
Thank you for this interesting post usb2. I am able to open the Encrypt Phone activity and I can do all the prerequisites. When I start the encryption the phone gets "stuck" on a white screen with the green Android dude.
It's actually the same as the encryption screen on stock android, except without text and loading bar. Only the guy on a white background.
First I thought he was just busy encrypting but after 3 hours it was still like this. I just rebooted my phone and he is still working. Still not encrypted tho.
This is sad, I will need another ROM for this phone.
Seems totally random, but when attempting to activate an accessibility service (settings > accessibility), after toggling the switch to on, a pop-up displays asking if you would like to activate the selected service and you have options of 'cancel' and 'ok' - none of them will allow me to hit 'ok' but 'cancel' works just fine! I'm clueless on this, but fear that it's probably something silly that i've overlooked. I'm on stock rooted 5.1 (LMY47D) with Franco r21 kernel. I initially had a similar issue with SuperSU and root requests - it wouldn't let me grant OR deny access to anything, but a bit of digging lead me to the 'tapjacking protection' feature in the settings - i'm wondering if this issue is something similar?! i searched around a bit but wasn't turning up anything useful - anyone have any good ideas?! all i want is LastPass to be allowed to form fill my passwords!!
I was doing some contract work and I had to install Airwatch (MDM) on my device to access corporate email, and apps. As part of install I had to encrypt storage, and set numbered PIN. Once contract ended, I uninstalled Airwatch. Unfortunately some of the corporate security policies applied remain in effect, No Swipe Lock, certain Android settings greyed out (see screenshots).
I did some research and several suggestions were proposed that seemed to work for other persons (remove App as sys admin, remove credentials). I have removed App as sys admin, but am unable to clear security credentials as it is greyed out.
The unfortunate side effect I now have is that on my own device I am not able to upgrade my Android version as upgrade is only allowed on unecrypted device. I can not unencrypted my device as option is greyed out.
My device is a Samsung Note 4, Android 4.4.4 on Tmobile.
I would appreciate any assistance on how to enable the greyed out security options. I am comfortable using command line and adb, so any adb shell suggestions are welcomed, as are any other options.
I think I have resolved the above. When I would select Security->Decrypt Device I was prompted to enter a password, which I did. A screen would then appear, at the bottom of the screen would be a "Change lock password" option. I would select the option as it was the only option. Next I would be presented with "Select Screen Lock" screen. I would stop here, as it did not make sense to me why it would prompt me with this option to Decrypt Device, as I already had a screen lock password set.
Well I finally select the only option enabled in the "Select Screen Lock" screen, "Password", and set a new screen lock password. It then when through the process of Decrypting device.
When Decryption was complete, a side effect was that the options in the "Select Screen Lock" screen were now enabled.
My Clear Credentials option is still greyed out, but I was able to upgrade to Lollipop which was my ultimate goal.