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I have bought one 128gb sd card recently. When I checked 'security' section for the purpose of encryption I can only see SET SD CARD PASSWORD as the only option. Is it same as encryption.? As experienced users anyone here recommend the encryption of sd card? I will be saving music and media files to SD.
To my knowledge this is it just for safety reasons. so if you use that sd card somewhere else you need the password.
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deaad said:
To my knowledge this is it just for safety reasons. so if you use that sd card somewhere else you need the password.
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As I know once we encrypt we can't use it on other device until we decrypt from same device in which we encrypted. Is that the same case with setting a password also? I am quite surprised to see no option to encrypt sd card on maye 9.
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Hi,
I would like to ask you how do you secure your SD card on your tablet? If I use pattern lock and connect my tablet to the PC it won't show the internal/external storage until I unlock my tablet. But if I remove the SD card the data are fully accessible from card reader on my PC. I have read that ICS should be support SD card encryption but I did not find anything how to do it.
Thank you
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Try this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jointlogic.bfolders.android&hl=en
Just put an encrypted folder on sd card and put everything you don't want people to have access too into it. 256-AES encryption too This also adds the benefit of having some encrypted some unencrypted files, and easily transferable.
Thing O Doom said:
Try this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jointlogic.bfolders.android&hl=en
Just put an encrypted folder on sd card and put everything you don't want people to have access too into it. 256-AES encryption too This also adds the benefit of having some encrypted some unencrypted files, and easily transferable.
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Thank you. So if I want to encrypt and protect my data on sd card I have to use 3rd party software from Google play, right? What about tablet encryption option under settings-security? Does this protect internal memory only?
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Afaik, yes, internal only
Not quite. Am on ICS/4.0.3 at the moment and you definitely get the option to encrypt both internal and external SD memory...
Moe5508 said:
Not quite. Am on ICS/4.0.3 at the moment and you definitely get the option to encrypt both internal and external SD memory...
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It will ask you before you start the encryption?
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Yes indeed. Settings > Security > Encryption > "Encrypt Device" or "Encrypt SD card" options are there...I have encrypted both and am busy decrypting SD card now so I can flash another ROM...only problem is it takes a long time and should probably be one of those tasks that you schedule to run at 2am in the morning while you're sleeping! Decrypting a 16GB card has been going on for about 45min now and I'm only at 65%!!! I had the option to exclude media/multimedia files during encryption and I selected that option. So imagine how long it'd take if I had opted to encrypt those files as well...
Do you have TF101 version? On my tablet I can see ''tablet encryption'', ''sd card encryption'' is not there. I think this will encrypt internal memory only. I am running ICS 4.0.3 as you.
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My bad. I have the Transformer Prime and a Galaxy Note, and just verified now that the encryption menu as described above is available ONLY on the Galaxy Note. On the Prime I can confirm that I also have only "Encrypt tablet"...same as you do. Got caught and mixed up between posting in SGN and Prime forums...
I'm running the stock ROM rooted. I have the bootloader locked still and CWM installed. Ideally I'd like to encrypt internal and external sdcard. Thanks
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fbiryujin said:
I'm running the stock ROM rooted. I have the bootloader locked still and CWM installed. Ideally I'd like to encrypt internal and external sdcard. Thanks
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No if you do you wont be able to flash anything in the future
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No if you do you wont be able to flash anything in the future
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I'm alright with not being able to flash anything for now, plus isn't there a way to remove encryption? I don't care if removing encryption wipes my data, I keep everything backed up to a pair of SANs in my home. (Yes I'm that guy that has an enterprise environment in his own home, because he can)
fbiryujin said:
I'm alright with not being able to flash anything for now, plus isn't there a way to remove encryption? I don't care if removing encryption wipes my data, I keep everything backed up to a pair of SANs in my home. (Yes I'm that guy that has an enterprise environment in his own home, because he can)
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I just went through this process... I encrypted my phone's internal SD because my company email needed it encrypted. If you do this, your SD card becomes useless unless you encrypt it as well. I suppose if you have everything backed up separate from your device AND external SD card you could do so. But from my understanding there is no way to reverse encryption easily. I had to reflash a stock ROM using odin and then restore from my thankfully un-encrypted external SD card.
What is your reason for encrypting?
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I just went through this process... I encrypted my phone's internal SD because my company email needed it encrypted. If you do this, your SD card becomes useless unless you encrypt it as well. I suppose if you have everything backed up separate from your device AND external SD card you could do so. But from my understanding there is no way to reverse encryption easily. I had to reflash a stock ROM using odin and then restore from my thankfully un-encrypted external SD card.
What is your reason for encrypting?
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That sounds complicated and annoying. I record my phone calls, and I'd rather keep them encrypted, considering the recorded ones are related to business. I could just store the recordings on the external SD card. You said you can't use external SD if the internal is encrypted, unless you encrypt both, but can I encrypt just the external SD card? It's probably a lot easier to decrypt the external SD card, since I can just stick it in my computer and format it, or would Android not work properly if the SD card suddenly came back blank, and not encrypted? Thanks
Hello. I had a Note 4 (with Android 5.1.1) and my SD card worked well. In my S7, this card is read-only, which is quite annoying for Titanium Backup. I tested with 2 others cards, formatted by the S7 in exFat, and the issue is still there. Am i the only one ? Is there any software solution like SD Fix for Android 4 ?
Thanks.
+1 here as well.
Cant modify any files in sd storage nor sd card in my S7.
Help please.
S7 - sd card rw issue
fazzieng said:
+1 here as well.
Cant modify any files in sd storage nor sd card in my S7.
Help please.
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From my understanding, The app being used should be updated by the developer to be able to use the android feature to ask for permission to access SD card for editing, deleting. Incase the app has not been uodated by the developer it will fail to access the sd card for writing. Once a new app is installed and run, it shall ask for permission to access, which should be granted. Atleast this is what has happened with me, but the apps which are not updated since few months back are not able to access the sd card.
Hi,! I have a galaxy note 8, this is the problem I have:
I encrypt my sd card from the mobile (sandisk extreme 32gb sd card) android system version 9,
I have a problem right now, it doesn't let me decrypt the sd card,
when I'm going to decrypt, I don't get that option, I get the option to encrypt... (as if I hadn't encrypted it before)
I do not understand what could have happened, I can enter without problems and see the files of the sd card, but when going to open a video or file of the sd card, it is not seen (because it is supposedly encrypted)
I hope someone can help me
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Hi,! I have a galaxy note 8, this is the problem I have:
I encrypt my sd card from the mobile (sandisk extreme 32gb sd card) android system version 9,
I have a problem right now, it doesn't let me decrypt the sd card,
when I'm going to decrypt, I don't get that option, I get the option to encrypt... (as if I hadn't encrypted it before)
I do not understand what could have happened, I can enter without problems and see the files of the sd card, but when going to open a video or file of the sd card, it is not seen (because it is supposedly encrypted)
I hope someone can help me
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U should of never done that in the first place like who encrypts a SD card
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Hi, I have been checking all the files on the sd card thoroughly, it seems that it has not got to encrypt all the files, I can listen to some loose songs, and see some loose things, but in a percentage I can agree to see 15% of the sd card 85% is encrypted, is it possible that it has encrypted badly? And is it possible that security patches, having installed it had to do with this problem of decryption? (it just happened I installed after encrypting in android security patch), hopefully someone can help me
Hi,
Does anyone knows how to root Huawei Y5 2019?
I just want to root it because i want to be able to transfer the APPS to SD Card
And i can't find a way to do this from the phone itself, so if anyone knows how to do this.. Please help
How to move apps to external SD-card in detail is described here:
How to Move Your Android Apps to an External Sd Card: 7 Steps
This wikiHow teaches you how to move an Android app to an SD card. This option may not be available for all of your apps. Open your Android's Settings. It has a gear icon that's either gray or white. If you don't see it on the home screen,...
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How to move apps to external SD-card in detail is described here:
How to Move Your Android Apps to an External Sd Card: 7 Steps
This wikiHow teaches you how to move an Android app to an SD card. This option may not be available for all of your apps. Open your Android's Settings. It has a gear icon that's either gray or white. If you don't see it on the home screen,...
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Unfortunately, this is not possible on Huawei Y5 2019, if i manage to root it then with, for example Link2SD application i can transfer them.. Like this, i cannot do anything, but i said that if maybe anyone knows a way without root too
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thsiw said:
Unfortunately, this is not possible on Huawei Y5 2019, if i manage to root it then with, for example Link2SD application i can transfer them.. Like this, i cannot do anything, but i said that if maybe anyone knows a way without root too
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Maybe because your phone doesn't have a sd card u need a sd card for the phone
Not all phones have a sd card
If you're phone doesn't support for a sd card than it's just not possible
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Maybe because your phone doesn't have a sd card u need a sd card for the phone
Not all phones have a sd card
If you're phone doesn't support for a sd card than it's just not possible
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Phone has a microSD slot.
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Phone has a microSD slot.
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Yep that's true
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Yep that's true
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Bought a 32gb one few days ago, just cant find a way to transfer the apps to it, unlucky
thsiw said:
Bought a 32gb one few days ago, just cant find a way to transfer the apps to it, unlucky
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Well most apps really can't be moved to external SD-card. Only a few can.
BTW:
The mentioned Link2SD app - as it name implies - simply creates in Android OS's file tree links ( read: shortcut in Windows OS terminology ) to apps / their data what are located on external SD-card. This only will work if the external SD-card has two partitions (at least): one partition works as a regular external storage on SD-card, for pictures, music, etc.pp, the second partition ( must be ext4 formatted ) would work as the "extended real memory" or, the virtual memory, where "externally installed apps" are housed.
Since Android 6 this technique is part of Android OS: it's called Adoptable Storage.