I encrypted the shield tablet, but there seem to be no option to encrypt the external SD card. Anyone else care to shed light on this? Or maybe it encrypt stuff while writing on it?
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I mean, I could encrypt it using Android Encryption, but then I'd lose the fingerprint scanner and pattern unlock features.
Only reason is that...what if I lose my phone, someone grabs my phone and takes out the external SD card and managers to find my files on it?
Then again what about the phone's internal memory? Should I encrypt both?
What do you guys do?
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Hi all. I have a Moto X Force which I'd really like to take advantage of the disk encryption which is selectable on settings however my concern was if it would also be encrypting my SD card too as I've heard that if SD card is encrypted I won't be able to access my stuff (priceless photos and videos of when my daughter was born) from my laptop. Will I be losing anything in encrypting??? Answers would be greatly appreciated. :good:
Hey all,
I just discovered the option to encrypt my external SD card in Android. I like the idea as without it anyone can get data off my SD card if they steal my phone.
However, if my device ever dies presumably that card will never be recoverable as the decryption keys will be lost with the dead device. Is there anything I can do pre-emptively to protect myself from this scenario?
Presumably the encryption keys are stored on the phone somewhere. Can they be backed up and stored on my PC or something to ensure I can always recover the SD card later?
I own a Samsung ON 7 phone and I was using a class 10 Sandisk memory card which was encrypted by the device in the lock screen and security menu and with no other third party software. Now I have done factory reset on my phone and accidentally forgot to decrypt the SD card, now SD card is detectable and all the files are there and visible as well. but i can't open any file. What to do, please help ! :crying:
Are you sure you have permissions set correctly? Can you just plug your phone into a computer with a USB cable and move the files over that way?
Also, those Sandisk SD cards are crap. I had a few of those cards and every 6 months they would fail and go read-only I/O error, never with more than 25% of the space used. Your card could just be being a Sandisk.
DIsclaimer: I don't actually know what Android uses for encryption, I assumed LUKS or something similar. It's possible that Android has the dumbest encryption scheme ever and lets you see the filenames in an encrypted volume, but that seems really unlikely.
I was in a similar situation recently and was looking for advice on the forum. I connected my SD card to a PC and restored the files using the Uneraser program. I think that this option can help many.
When you use sd card as an adoptable storage, (galaxy s7) even when i wanna change my sim card, would removing the tray cause a serious system problems? Or is there a workaround. I wanna use adoptable storage to have some more space to install apps but this question in my mind prevents me from doing it.
Can anybody enlighten me with experiences?
Should you format adoptable?
Generally it's a bad idea which lots of manufacturers don't support, and for good reasons. For starters, you'll no longer be able to remove the SD card from the device. This is because Android will store system files onto it. Also, SD cards can only have data written to them a limited number of times. After they expire, your phone will not function properly. SD cards also perform much slower when formatted internally, and it can often cause apps to perform poorly and lag. Some apps won't even work at all, and any other device will not be able to use the SD card without formatting it itself.
Proceed at your own risk.