I'm currently running Fulmics 2.7 with TWRP and am considering encrypting the internal SD. Has anyone had experience doing this?
I have had all kinds of issues from encrypting my phone. Problems arise when I would attempt to flash a ROM while the current setup was encrypted. If something goes wrong and you have to reflash then your kind of screwed. You will need a PC with admin rights to install the tools necessary to "back to stock" your phone. This has been my experience with loli and below. Not sure about MM is. I know better than to find out.
If you want encryption I suggest reverting to stock non root.....factory recovery setup since recovery will not be nearly as difficult. Also encrypting will add a good minute to your boot time and generally slows the phone down.
Hello,
I have 2 Mi4i phones and i have to encrypt them for my work (and my wife's work).
With Miui i can encrypt them, but i don't want to use this.
I want CM13 or Lin14.1
Problem is that on both custom rom's, i can choose to encrypt.
After that it shows the Android robot for a second or 2, then reboot's the phone.
After the restart the phone is not encrypted and every time i try it, i get the same result.
Both rom's are clean installed, no extra's are installed (no kernel etc.)
Is this a bug, or do i have to change something to get it to work?
Anybody any idea what is going wrong?
elot01 said:
Hello,
I have 2 Mi4i phones and i have to encrypt them for my work (and my wife's work).
With Miui i can encrypt them, but i don't want to use this.
I want CM13 or Lin14.1
Problem is that on both custom rom's, i can choose to encrypt.
After that it shows the Android robot for a second or 2, then reboot's the phone.
After the restart the phone is not encrypted and every time i try it, i get the same result.
Both rom's are clean installed, no extra's are installed (no kernel etc.)
Is this a bug, or do i have to change something to get it to work?
Anybody any idea what is going wrong?
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Yes this is a bug :|
Anyway, aosp custom rom based on miui 6.6.10
Which have encryption bug too .-.
So this feature ( encryption ) won't work for now
I have tried quite a few ROMs, and all ended up going back to stock firmware because they wouldn't boot. I know I have to format data, and some ROMs ask you to change the data partition as f2fs.
Still, I think that there may be no ROMs that currently work for the US variant. One guy said LOS 13 worked, but when I flashed it, it failed. If someone has gotten it to work, can you please post as many steps as you remember on how to get it work?
Debrand to BLN-L21 following this guide and you're ready to flash cooked ROMs https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-6x/how-to/guide-successful-debranding-to-bln-t3701050
RedSkull23 said:
Debrand to BLN-L21 following this guide and you're ready to flash cooked ROMs https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-6x/how-to/guide-successful-debranding-to-bln-t3701050
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Thanks, but wouldn't there be more issues down the line with a debranded phone? What if I soft-bricked my phone, it seems like it'd be really hard to restore? Has anyone actually ever done this on a BLN-L24?
Hello all,
I too am having issues with flashing roms to this device, US variant (BLN-L24). In my particular case, the rom boots up (EliteRom v7.1) and will actually function. However, wifi does not work, as well as I have no sound whatsoever. Youtube also will not play, nor will any videos, which I'm guessing is tied to whatever issue is with the sound. I have flashed multiple times per the step by step instructions, as well as following the Youtube video, all with the same result over the last few days. At this point, my phone is effectively useless to me, though cellular data does still work, just no calls can be answered. Anyone have any suggestions I might be able to follow? Also, even my TWRP backup that I made before installing the rom will not restore at this point. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
Jessooca said:
You must be missing a step or something, because [Elite ROM][EMUI 5.1] Elite ROM v7.1 for Honor 6X by HassanMirza01 works on the L24 us variant without issues, I have none.
Perhaps go back to stock and start over. I haven't had any issues with his rom and I didn't do anything more than what's needed to root/install twrp and flash the rom per his instructions.
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I just followed the instructions; I believe to the best I could, and I'm stuck in a bootloop now. Which version of EMUI were you on before flashing? I was on EMUI 5.0 which may be my issue.
I started from EMUI 5.0
Unlocked my bootloader
Let it factory reset
Installed the Elite TWRP on the page
Booted to Elite TWRP
Formatted all partitions excpet for external sd card
Reformatted Data to f2fs
Re-wiped data
Checked that it was f2fs
Installed Elite ROM zip
Installed open gapps 7.0 ARM64
Installed the patch
Rebooted
Bootloop
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I just followed the instructions; I believe to the best I could, and I'm stuck in a bootloop now. Which version of EMUI were you on before flashing? I was on EMUI 5.0 which may be my issue.
I started from EMUI 5.0
Unlocked my bootloader
Let it factory reset
Installed the Elite TWRP on the page
Booted to Elite TWRP
Formatted all partitions excpet for external sd card
Reformatted Data to f2fs
Re-wiped data
Checked that it was f2fs
Installed Elite ROM zip
Installed open gapps 7.0 ARM64
Installed the patch
Rebooted
Bootloop
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On one of the attempts that I did for installing, I installed the patch and it put me in a boot loop. Maybe not installing the patch can help you?
I cant get anything to work for the US version. Sure stuff boots but some of it is just broken. On octOS i am unable to use root unless i switch supersu to automatically grant root to apps. I cant get root access by using prompt because nothing pops up. On crdroid i have the same exact issue. Id rather have the prompt than allow any app root access without my knowledge. With ELITE ROM my first boot brings up a home screen with no keyboard. It completely skips any kind of setup screen. I can get the setup screen by flashing a keyboard from an aroma gapps installer but then i lose google services. The US version also seems to be forgotten as for most roms you wont see it anywhere under supported lists.
I've never been able to get a custom rom to work on my BLN-L24. Everything just ends in a never-ending bootloop of frustration.
Though, I have only ever tried with EMUI 5.0+. Maybe an earlier version of EMUI gets better results...?
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I've never been able to get a custom rom to work on my BLN-L24. Everything just ends in a never-ending bootloop of frustration.
Though, I have only ever tried with EMUI 5.0+. Maybe an earlier version of EMUI gets better results...?
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It really sucks that nothing seems to work. Ive tried flashing using multiple recoveries and ive tried all kinds of flashing to fix issues with the ROMS. Nothing helps. If anyone has successfully gotten a ROM fully working on BLN-L24 they need to tell people exactly what they did step by step.
It seems that for the roms located here, they seem to all assume that the phone has been debranded to bln-l21 variant. I don't know if it has any bearing on the current issues we're all experiencing, but I did notice that all twrps available for this device on the forums state they are the "Open Kirin Edition". It's been a while since I've rooted or rom'd a phone besides this one, but I've never encountered a twrp with a custom name like that.
I know that the developer of the EliteRom had his custom twrp, but is there a different twrp besides that one that does not state it is an "Open Kirin Edition"? Like I said, not sure if it has any bearing on things here, but I've been very confused about that.
TurtlePwr82 said:
It seems that for the roms located here, they seem to all assume that the phone has been debranded to bln-l21 variant. I don't know if it has any bearing on the current issues we're all experiencing, but I did notice that all twrps available for this device on the forums state they are the "Open Kirin Edition". It's been a while since I've rooted or rom'd a phone besides this one, but I've never encountered a twrp with a custom name like that.
I know that the developer of the EliteRom had his custom twrp, but is there a different twrp besides that one that does not state it is an "Open Kirin Edition"? Like I said, not sure if it has any bearing on things here, but I've been very confused about that.
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For most phone i've ever owned you never had to change the recovery for each ROM. Its confusing. Most recoverys say Open Kirin Edition when booting. What confuses me is why we need to debrand to get the ROMS to work. If the phone pretty much run on the same hardware then why is L24 having so many issues? Why are the devs not testing on these devices?
BakedOnSomeSour said:
For most phone i've ever owned you never had to change the recovery for each ROM. Its confusing
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Right, that's what I was thinking. For any phone I've ever rom'd, there was always just one twrp that everyone worked from.
Edit: found this while looking through the roll back to stock forum. I don't know if it will help anyone else, but figured I'd put it here as well if it might. All credit for this goes to the original poster johnnyrichter:
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Tried this method after being on LineageOS for a week or two and having poor LTE signal, no MMS, and voicemail issues so I'm trying to go back to stock so I can have a fully functional phone since I rely on it heavily for work. Followed all steps using BLN-L24 B360 firmware. On step 10 I rebooted to update and it went right to "5% Installing Update" and stuck there for 5 mins, then rebooted itself, has been sitting at "honor" boot screen for 14 minutes so I made it reboot to EMUI recovery, wiped/factory reset, rebooted, loaded EMUI afte 2 more minutes. Appears to have worked and hopefully my issues are fixed!
Edit: Signal, mms, and voicemail issues fixed.
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Hopefully will benefit someone here as well.
When debranding the BLN-L24, and branding it to BLN-L21, are there any issues with the ROMs once they're installed? I imagine the radios, and such are different for the two models??
BakedOnSomeSour said:
Why are the devs not testing on these devices?
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Devs can only test devices they have in possession. If they don't have your phone model, how are they going to test it?
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Devs can only test devices they have in possession. If they don't have your phone model, how are they going to test it?
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well, many don't want to give them a phone because most developers here tend to stop work on a ROM and leave people hanging.
I have gotten several ROMs working on L24 variant...
Yes it seems to me any Elite kernel based ROM works or should work on the L24. But /data must be ext4 format. Then even that the ROM works, the fingerprint scanner never allows a complete successful scan. I think because it must be f2fs format for that encryption to work or something. This is the link to those ROMS https://hassanmirza01.blogspot.com/p/custom-roms.html?m=1
On the other hand the LOS based ROMs never work or at least they reboot and the screen is always black or the ROM branding just stays there flashing. This sucks cause I want to run the newest Resurrection ROM but I ask the developer about why I have that problem or how long that ROM takes to boot and I never get an answer. He also just put a new beta AOKP ROM up and it does the same black screen thing too.
I am also suspicious it has to do with the version of TWRP. I think some are capable of formatting f2fs correctly or the encryption or whatever. Point is some of the devs need to be a little more consistent answering questions at a minimum. I know it takes time to fix bugs but give us a little heads up.
Hello,
I have tried many unofficial roms (LineageOS,Resurrection Remix-N,AOKP-N,AOSiP,crDroid,dotOS), all of them have a problem: can not encrypt phone, after click the button "encrypt phone", the system reboot, but nothing happen, the phone still not encryptted.
I was thinking about buying this phone, but if encryption isn't supported in custom ROMs then maybe I will have to look elsewhere.
P650SE said:
I was thinking about buying this phone, but if encryption isn't supported in custom ROMs then maybe I will have to look elsewhere.
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more details: if you have encryptted phone in official miui rom, don't format data partition, just flash unofficial rom, then you will keep the phone encryptted, but wifi will not working. So , encryption and wifi, you can only choose one.
wildess said:
more details: if you have encryptted phone in official miui rom, don't format data partition, just flash unofficial rom, then you will keep the phone encryptted, but wifi will not working. So , encryption and wifi, you can only choose one.
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That is unfortunate! WiFi is definately more important than encryption but it's a shame you can't have both at the same time. It sounds like the only solution for the moment is just to run MIUI until custom ROMs are able to support encryption properly without making compromises.
Don't be paranoic guys, a phone is still unsecure even with a working encryption enabled. In most of cases better have a last patched updated software like in custom Than in miui. You can boost your security settings with a firewall, like afwall+ (obviously can be avoided even that),but the conclusion is that the only secured phone is a phone switched off and without battery, or an old phone like Nokia 3310??
ROMs has nothing to do with that, just tell ROM devs to use LOS kernel instead of Priima
I haven't looked at the rooting community for about 4-5 years. I remember the era of Cyanogenmod, with an HTC One and Note 4, where android superusing was so amazingly straight forward. You flash a custom recovery, custom ROM and SuperSU and bam you have full control of your clean AOSP phone with superuser access. And everything works.
Now I've already gotten over waiting 2 weeks to unlock your bootloader. Then you have these rollback protections, region locks, encrypted data partitions, vendor/firmware versions. I look at the android partiton and I can't even recognize a single folder? I no longer know what exactly happens with my phone when I'm flashing something and it used to be so simple (your read-only system partition and your data partition). Every custom ROM now belongs to some guy that has the nerves to port some custom ROM to his phone for personal use.
Before I thought I was a risk-taker, flashing literally anything on my phone even in public transport knowing I can always bring it back from the dead no matter what. Now I just want a ROM with an exact step by step by step guide starting from unlocking the bootloader itself and downgrading my firmware(if needed) all the way to flashing magisk and first boot.
What does "flash Encryption Disabler" mean and why is it marked as "(optional)" when my whole data parition is in base64 and my phone has turned into a paperweight? Since I already bricked one poco, I don't even care about selinux or my 90hz display or gpay or anything, I just want my phone to work.
http://newandroidbook.com/Articles/aboot.html just start reading bro.