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Encryption is it worth doing

All of my study is in the city so my tab could get stolen one day and at home i have a younger brother who loves to play with settings etc
Is the encyption worth the hassle?
Does it break anything?
Do i have to decrypt re-encrypt every boot is it slow?
I have never had this option before but it seems like a good idea i just want to know how it plays in real world use before i do it.
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Decided to try it
it didnt work little droid man for a couple seconds then reboot then nothing any thoughts is this a root issue rom issue?
has anyone who isnt on stock got this option working is it just my tab?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1232907

Thanks for that but it didnt say why it doesnt work with some custom roms
either way ill probably leave it for now but thanx all the same
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debork said:
The problem with having an encrypted partition is that CWM at moment can't really do anything useful to those partitions. You cannot flash, backup, or restore via CWM. This means your ability to work with custom ROMs is effectively crippled. In fact, to undo the encryption (or if you forget your password), I had to nvflash back to stock. Factory reset via CWM cannot be done since, again, the partitions are still encrypted.
If in the future, CWM is able to access the partitions like the stock recovery can, then you'd be fine.
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I wouldn't touch it for now. If/When CWM allows for it (possibly ICS, as I might guess that the closed nature of HC is limiting development around encryption support?) then maybe..

Thats a good point ae hopefully with icys than can also make abit more headway with the more advanced recoverys to
Never thought about that before thanks
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Help recovering soft brick/odin not working/not a noob

Like many times before i used the one click odin root to root my phone. This time as soon as it started, it failed. Now my phone boots straight to this screen:
Odin Mode
Product name: SGHI727
Custom Binary Download : No
Current Binary: Samsung official
cell phone pic----------------------exclamtion triangle pic---------------------computer pic
Firmware upgrade encountered
as issue. Please select
recovery mode in kies and try again.
I used odin to try and flash again, i used one click flash, and I reinstalled all my drivers, checked my usb connection and even tried a different computer. I cannot restore my phone. I was on stock ginger bread but not sure which one.
I go into download mode manually, i slect up, and i get back to the same screen as on top w no result.
Help plz. $20.00 donation to who can help me crack this...i really need it fixed, thx.

I also tried to use klies. it didnt work. computer does read the phone as the yellow shows on odin. But everytime i try to flash something it starts, then fails.

You do have an i777 at&t phone right?

getbuzzin said:
You do have an i777 at&t phone right?
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no. its an i727 as indicated in the OP....
OP is in the wrong forum....

Lol and the tittle says not a noob
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Can you still transfer stuff over Odin, or is your computer not picking it up at all?
Also, are you using Desktops or Laptops to Odin?

This thread is epic. I would've reported it if there was a report button :-(
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I love threads like this(where the answer is actually in the OP's question) reported for clean up
P.S. I, too, run into problems when trying to run "klies"

Yeah....not a noob

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Need help to fix botched update.

I tried to flash a custom ROM using cwm without enough knowledge, an now I am stuck here. Any info on how to recover an get phone working again? Yes I'm a rookie.
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You are in download mode. Not recovery. Can not flash from there. Pull battery then power+home+volume up to get to recovery. Before flashing rom did you flash CWM. Did you unlock boot loader. Need to read Droidstyles guide before going any further. It has everything you need to know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709

RichPLS said:
I tried to flash a custom ROM using cwm without enough knowledge, an now I am stuck here. Any info on how to recover an get phone working again? Yes I'm a rookie. View attachment 1441960
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Please learn what you're doing before flashing and breaking your phone.
You're in download mode. Just pull your battery and put it back in.

This is what I get when I hold vol up, home an power.
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You did not unlock your bootloader properly. Seriously. Please read up before you do more stuff to your phone and break it.
This is easy to recover from, just go back into downloading mode and flash the stock rom in ODIN.
You can find information on this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709

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What he said. You must Odin back to stock and start from scratch.

prdog1 said:
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What he said. You must Odin back to stock and start from scratch.
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if using the ez unlocker tool from the market, read the description, 1.4 was buggy and wasn't actually unlocking bootloaders correctly, so you had to download 1.2 from the link provided and use that to unlock your bootloader properly

Thanks, I will read up some more an terry.
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Got it. Now I'm running modified Verizon 4.1.1 and is working great! THANKS GUYS!
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[Q] Bricked Horribly

Ok, sup.
So let me start from the beginning....
I had just soft-bricked my phone and after a while got it to be detected by a stock infuse program and I just remembered ( in the beginning of the download > during Factoryfs < I had to run it off because the program never finished and left me with a samsung boot screen forever.. So I took out the batter put it back in and tried to go into recovery.. I get this picture >>
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also I get it while trying to turn on the phone and trying to go into Download Mode.. Got any ideas.

check this thread out, itll help you, i know cuz i've had my phone at the same screen many times, easy fix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1629079 just follow instructions after choosing what android version you want, the first one is froyo, second is GB, third is ICS, and the post under ics is a gb kernel, that screen is a download mode screen and it shall be treated as such, just make sure to flash bootloaders also, just to make sure it sticks

deathblade said:
check this thread out, itll help you, i know cuz i've had my phone at the same screen many times, easy fix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1629079 just follow instructions after choosing what android version you want, the first one is froyo, second is GB, third is ICS, and the post under ics is a gb kernel, that screen is a download mode screen and it shall be treated as such, just make sure to flash bootloaders also, just to make sure it sticks
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OMG THANK YOU!! This cleared up a lot of things I'm glad I'm not spending $155.88 for a fix but I'm not new to android

np always glad to help, all i ask is for you to take one second and hit the thanks button

Wow that's weird...this definitely just happened to me today nd took me forever to find the solution. Glad that worked out for you too man.
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jonahly said:
Ok, sup.
So let me start from the beginning....
I had just soft-bricked my phone and after a while got it to be detected by a stock infuse program and I just remembered ( in the beginning of the download > during Factoryfs < I had to run it off because the program never finished and left me with a samsung boot screen forever.. So I took out the batter put it back in and tried to go into recovery.. I get this picture >>
also I get it while trying to turn on the phone and trying to go into Download Mode.. Got any ideas.
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Did your ROM brick it?????
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First thing I had thought as well.
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No. My ROM did not brick my phone it was my own doing.
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Help installing custom recovery!

I have root access and no matter what I do I get errors.
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I've tried a few methods including rom manager app and no luck, it just tries booting to stock recovery.
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Also I am on 4.2.2. Just got phone today and spent a good 2 hours trying before asking for help! Hopefully it's a dumb mistake on my end and is an easy fix
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The furthest ive gotten is doing it manually in cmd and it says the image file is not a loki image and when it boots recovery its blank black screen. No one has any help for me? Should i try going back to stock recovery first? How do i do that?
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I used freegee from the play store to install twrp 2.6.3.3, works perfectly.
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I tried. It got stuck and wouldnt finish.
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So you'll never guess what happened. I woke up next to my phone and it was in cwm! But guess what?! My phone did the OTA on its own while I was asleep and bricked my 2 day old phone! Any help WITHOUT using Linux? I can't even get into recovery anymore because I tried to install another recovery zip to fix it and now there is no recovery
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I'm making an appointment with geeksquad (phone came from best buy) and the service rep I talked to said they'd most likely replace it for me. If not, my computer asks me if I want to format the drive (repeatedly when I plug it in with every drive letter of the alphabet) what would happen if I did?
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Just restore back to stock. There is a lot of info on how to do this on this forum. You don't need the geek squad.
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