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Encrypt Galaxy Tab 2 7", ICS 4.0.3, CF-Auto-Root?

One of the first things I did on buying my new Galaxy Tab 2 7" (GT-P3100, Wi-Fi and 3G; Spanish market "PHE" identifier, came with ICS 4.0.3, no updates available either through Kies nor OTA) was to encrypt the Device. It worked.
Then I rooted the device with CF-Auto-Root, which had the side effect of performing a factory reset, and as I understand it from a brief conversation with the author of (the excellent!) CF-Auto-Root this was an expected side-effect of the device having been encrypted at the time of applying CF-Auto-Root.
So, the Tab 2 is back to un-encrypted.
Here are the details:
Android 4.0.3
Baseband version 3.0.8-CL448962-user [email protected] #1
Build number IML74K.P3100XWALD2
But now I'm trying to encrypt again (either/both the SD Card and the Device itself) and I'm having no success at all.
On trying to encrypt the SD card, each time it always returns "SD Card Encryption Error" within a few seconds. (And indeed thereafter I always get a Notification about "SD card encryption error" any time the SD card is mounted by the device). If I go back to Settings -> Security -> Encrypt SD card and select to decrypt the card (even though it's not really encrypted), then I can access the SD Card again - no damage was done (and no encryption either).
If I try to encrypt the Device, I get the black background with the large green outline android, and ... nothing. The green android on the black background just stays there. After the normal screen timeout, the screen goes completely blank; I tap the power button, get the usual unlock screen, unlock it, see the green android again ... and, nothing. If I rotate the tablet, the android rotates. If I tap the power switch, I get the silent/ flightmode/ reboot/ turnoff menu. But nothing will get me back to the normal user interface, and it never finishes encrypting (I really think it never starts).
Eventually (after more than a couple of hours) I give up, tap the power switch and select to reboot, and it comes back up fine, but not encrypted.
One of my main reasons for getting the newer device was to have encryption :-/
Is Encryption (Device, and SD Card) supported/ functional when CF-Auto-Root is in use on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (Android 4.0.3)?
How do I get encryption to work, for both the Device and the SD Card?
Is there a way to get more detailed logging (the Tab is rooted, and I have command line access) and/or to command the encryption from the command line, to see what's really happening?
Thanks!

Hm, I tried encrypting only NEW files on the SD Card now, and that seems to work.
I stored a new file on the SD Card, unmounted the card from the Tab, put the card in a card reader on a desktop computer, and indeed the contents of that file are just "data", not readable. Back in the Tab, the contents are the picture which I'd saved to the card.
But still attempting to encrypt the existing files on the SD Card fails. And still attempting to encrypt the device does nothing (green android appears, but no % complete ever displays, etc, just as I posted before).

One step further with the external SD Card; I copied off all of the data, formatted the card, and then was able to fully encrypt it (and copy back my data).
But the Device itself, I still can't encrypt at all - just the same as before.
No ideas? None? Nobody? Please....?
Thanks,
-Jay

Bump?
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Try the same thing with the device itself.
Do a factory reset.
Not once,twice.
I know u lose all data.
But try it.
And do this without android to start.
Keep press power+vol up.
Get into menu and do factory reset,wipe dalwik...all.
Hope this help.

libove said:
If I try to encrypt the Device, I get the black background with the large green outline android, and ... nothing. The green android on the black background just stays there. After the normal screen timeout, the screen goes completely blank; I tap the power button, get the usual unlock screen, unlock it, see the green android again ... and, nothing. If I rotate the tablet, the android rotates. If I tap the power switch, I get the silent/ flightmode/ reboot/ turnoff menu. But nothing will get me back to the normal user interface, and it never finishes encrypting (I really think it never starts).
Eventually (after more than a couple of hours) I give up, tap the power switch and select to reboot, and it comes back up fine, but not encrypted.
Thanks!
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Did u solve the problem?
i have the same problem

MasterBrush said:
Did u solve the problem?
i have the same problem
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This was over a year ago, and I don't even use the device anymore. Sorry, can't help.
I've since then tried a ZTE "Skate Pro" (the Movistar Spain branding of the "Blade III"). Piece of Sh*t phone. Support encryption natively under Android 4.0.4, but if you do encrypt the phone, the performance of the touch screen becomes unreliable, frequently so bad that swiping (including Swyping) actions don't work right, and you end up less moving things on the screen and more, effectively, tapping things you absolutely did not intended to tap. I discarded the ZTE Skate Pro/ Blade III.
Then I tried a Haier W708, dirt cheap; not a powerhouse, but satisfatory.
And a Nexus 5 which kicks *ss all over the place.
I can't help any more with this thread, and any results in this thread would not longer help me, so I'm dropping off the thread now.
Best of luck to all.

[Completed] HTC one Logged out

Hello all
Recentaly i was in a remote area and my battery was low so i turned off my wifi and mobile data from settings and kept the phone for charging.
after sometime i found out my niece played with the pattern lock and ultimately i was pushed to the google credentials screen after many attempts.
Not i dont have internet and i cant login.
i have very important photos and documents which i cant loose.(really important).
what all options is there for me.
till now what i have tried.
I tried everything on the forum(tricks).
i started working out with adb shell but no luck as debugging mode not on.
I tried inserting different sim and a lot of things but no luck..
LAstly i have to do the factory reset. if there could be any help plz lem me know.
what is the difference between recovery,fastboot,factory reset ??
Please respond :/

I think that you need help for your HTC One M7 and not M8
It's a little difference but it will be good to be more specific in the elements of your terminal.
What do you mean by
what is the difference between recovery,fastboot,factory reset
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Factory reset, if you use TWRP, it's wipe cache - dalvik and data
But if I understand what's exactly your problem: your pattern lock is blocked and you cannot access to your device, is it correct ?
Try this:
Before you perform this unlock you must remove the sim card and sd card or it will not reset!
1, With the phone turned of, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button.
2, Wait for the screen with the 3 Android images to appear, ONLY then release the VOLUME DOWN button.
3, Press VOLUME DOWN twice to select "CLEAR STORAGE", and then press the POWER button..
4, When asked to "CONFIRM", press VOLUME UP
5, Finally "REPLACE" the SD Card and SIM Card to restore settings and contacts and you're away!
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or try this:
Locked Out? Learn to Crack the Android Pattern Lock

Disney Killed My S8+

It was hot. I don't think the phone was necessarily feeling the heat like me... but... the way it was acting... maybe so?
The second to last day of my vacation at Walt Disney World (first time!), my S8+ started acting wonky. I tried to take pictures and the application wouldn't work right.
So, I rebooted.
Now, I'm staring at a screen with a textbox at the bottom of the screen and some text near it (I don't recall it verbatim) "Enter your emergency password".
What? What's an emergency password? Typing in the textbox, it was obvious that it wasn't a numeric-only textbox (for PINs) but it was alpha-numeric. I simply don't recall registering anything but a pin and my fingerprints.
Freaking out, I kept trying to restart and worked with the power and volume buttons.
All I continued to see was the Samsung logo.
Suddenly, I got a black screen with text telling me things were being erased. I then see a blue screen with an android bot telling me stuff was being erased.
After a bit, I was back at the language selection.
Gone. Pictures. Data. SSD... entire phone... fully erased. (Thankfully, a majority of my pictures were immediately put into Instagram... the lost pictures I used the phone's camera app because it works better than the Instagram camera).
Don't have my laptop... so I don't have my password database, so I cannot get into ANY applications.
I know there are requirements for Microsoft Exchange, and other applications that require special security for being a device administrator... I'm not aware of Exchange requiring a password for the phone but... who knows? I didn't enter the password wrong too many times.... even as hot as it was I still used my print to unlock the phone.

Man, that is horrible. My condolences. If you can boot the phone into recovery mode (Hold down volume up, then the Bixby button & then the power button...all at once). Once in recovery, do a factory reset and you shouldn't have to enter that 'Emergency Password'. Unfortunately, everything is lost unless you ran a backup into the cloud or on your 'puter.
Sorry for the post if you've already reset the phone as it sounds like you might have since you mentioned the language screen.

TheBigEasy88 said:
Man, that is horrible. My condolences. If you can boot the phone into recovery mode (Hold down volume up, then the Bixby button & then the power button...all at once). Once in recovery, do a factory reset and you shouldn't have to enter that 'Emergency Password'. Unfortunately, everything is lost unless you ran a backup into the cloud or on your 'puter.
Sorry for the post if you've already reset the phone as it sounds like you might have since you mentioned the language screen.
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Yeah I didn't have the choice -- the phone decided to reset to a fresh install point. Once I got back home I restored to a previous backup after trying everything I could to undelete stuff on my SDCARD.... but none of the software I tried would work... kudos Samsung... your deletion of my SDCARD was VERY complete...

Did you have the SDCard stand alone or merged with the internal storage? I'm surprised that got wiped also.

Chris Dickerson said:
It was hot. I don't think the phone was necessarily feeling the heat like me... but... the way it was acting... maybe so?
The second to last day of my vacation at Walt Disney World (first time!), my S8+ started acting wonky. I tried to take pictures and the application wouldn't work right.
So, I rebooted.
Now, I'm staring at a screen with a textbox at the bottom of the screen and some text near it (I don't recall it verbatim) "Enter your emergency password".
What? What's an emergency password? Typing in the textbox, it was obvious that it wasn't a numeric-only textbox (for PINs) but it was alpha-numeric. I simply don't recall registering anything but a pin and my fingerprints.
Freaking out, I kept trying to restart and worked with the power and volume buttons.
All I continued to see was the Samsung logo.
Suddenly, I got a black screen with text telling me things were being erased. I then see a blue screen with an android bot telling me stuff was being erased.
After a bit, I was back at the language selection.
Gone. Pictures. Data. SSD... entire phone... fully erased. (Thankfully, a majority of my pictures were immediately put into Instagram... the lost pictures I used the phone's camera app because it works better than the Instagram camera).
Don't have my laptop... so I don't have my password database, so I cannot get into ANY applications.
I know there are requirements for Microsoft Exchange, and other applications that require special security for being a device administrator... I'm not aware of Exchange requiring a password for the phone but... who knows? I didn't enter the password wrong too many times.... even as hot as it was I still used my print to unlock the phone.
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The only reason I see for this to happen is if on the "lock Screen and Security", inside the "Secure Lock Settings" have enabled the "Auto factory reset".

Biometrics won't trigger a device wipe, they will only force the pin/password field on too many attempts.
You say Exchange. Is this a corporate account? Is there a possibility that someone remotely wiped your device? Log into OWA (the web interface of your Exchange), navigate to Options -> See All Options, then click the Phone tab and see if a wipe was sent to it. Because what you described sounds a lot like a remote wipe. (Though I've never seen the emergency password field.)
Also make sure that you're not violating your corporate policies. Granting admin access to the Exchange app gives your company full control over your device. They can see you accessing your email with it, and if you're doing something that you shouldn't be, they will wipe your device.

mcnascimento said:
The only reason I see for this to happen is if on the "lock Screen and Security", inside the "Secure Lock Settings" have enabled the "Auto factory reset".
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No way of knowing but I don't recall ever setting that (I wouldn't).

something corrupted your ROM it sounds like, somehow!
if it was the red box that says like "enter password" I believe it is actually "default_password"

Phone restored to factory settings by itself while charging!? Can I retrieve my data?

Hello everyone!
Yesterday I powered off my Moto G3 and plugged it in to charge. After a few minutes I heard a short vibration, which normally means that the phone powered on by itself and is booting. I then checked the screen; I had to put in the PIN for my SIM card, but afterwards there was no pattern I had to draw in order to unlock the phone (I had one set up before!). After unlocking the screen I can see a blue screen with "Welcome" at the top, a choice of language and a yellow arrow ("next") button in the middle and "Emergency" call button at the bottom. And in the top right hand corner are the usual signal strength and battery icons.
When I press the yellow button, I'm asked to connect to a Wi-Fi network. I haven't proceeded beyond that point, as I don't want to mess up my phone even further. Basically it looks like my Moto G3 returned to factory settings and wants me to set it up for first use.
I then tried to reboot the phone a few times. I always get the standard Motorola "stitching" animation and get booted into the described screen. I also went into recovery mode, but almost every single option booted me into the blue screen and one time I got the "No command" screen. But maybe I did something wrong; I'm certainly no expert when it comes to using the bootloader.
Having described all of that, my questions are: is it possible for the phone to have reverted itself to factory settings? If yes - why and how? I have an SD card with a lot of photos, documents and application data that is very important to me. Is it still possible to retrieve the data that was saved on the device?
I would very much appreciate any help with this problem!
Thank you,
Meletel

You can copy the contents of the SDCARD while in TWRP.
1. Put MicroSD card and copy the contents of Internal Storage to microsd though TWRP File manager
2. Connect your phone to your computer by USB Cable while in TWRP and you can access your phone through MTP

Error after RESET by *#*#2846579#*#*

Hello
I wanted to reset my Huawei P40 PRO, under 10.1.0.121.
I was asked to disable its location, which I did; but the reset does not work, after 3 times, I composed the *#*#2846579#*#* to reset it.
Since then, I've been stuck on a Huawei account password request page that doesn't allow me to type the account password because it disappears in 1/2 seconds, with a next window telling me of a network error; so I'm stuck; Would any of you have an idea ?
Thank you

Hey there. I assume you already tried rebooting the phone. Try the following: power off your phone. After it's turned off, press and hold the power button and volume up button. Hold the two buttons until you see an EMUI logo with options to restart, clear data etc. (See screenshot). Try the "clear data" option. It will wipe EVERYTHING on the phone's storage. Then it should reboot and hopefully the issue is gone. Or perhaps you could try "safe mode"? Not sure what that does, but you could give it a try.

jericho246 said:
Hey there. I assume you already tried rebooting the phone. Try the following: power off your phone. After it's turned off, press and hold the power button and volume up button. Hold the two buttons until you see an EMUI logo with options to restart, clear data etc. (See screenshot). Try the "clear data" option. It will wipe EVERYTHING on the phone's storage. Then it should reboot and hopefully the issue is gone. Or perhaps you could try "safe mode"? Not sure what that does, but you could give it a try.
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I have found, i had to go also to my HUAWEI CLOUD on the WEB and deactivate LOCALIZE MY PHONE; and this time after a restart i could went a huawei login password on the phone

I think I've got the same problem, I've just done a factory reset, and now it just flips straight past the Huawei ID login page and takes me here. unable to connect to server. touch the screen to retry Ive tried clearing the cache and resetting again and nothing works. anyone got any ideas please.