How to Encrypt Your Android for Extra Security | Pocketnow

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You're out on the town, you're having fun, and your smartphone is the furthest thing from your mind -- until you get home and check your pockets, and it isn't there. It's happened to the best of us, even some important people at Apple have left their super-secret prototype phones in bars. Here's how you can use encryption to make your Android a little bit more secure just in case it gets lost somewhere along the way.

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[lepersteps]

Great video. Question: At 3:50 you talk about entering a password to decrypt storage and how it's different from the PIN. You entered a password off screen. Was that a new password? If not, and it's not the same as the PIN, where did you enter it before encrypting? I got stuck here and had to wipe my device (a couple of weeks ago and before watching your video).

[suspectajt]

If someone steals my phone and decides to flash it using odin, can encrypting protect against that?

[Anonymous-hnmh]

Actually, the storage isn't decrypted on boot, because that would mean it would need to be encrypted again when turned off.

It's booting the system before it asks for password, as system partition isn't encrypted, then it asks you to finish the boot by unlocking the encrypted data partition, where all your downloaded apps are, and personal data.

The decryption itself happens on the fly, when data is accessed, no permanent data on the flash chip is ever decrypted, which means if your device suddenly loses power, the data is still encrypted, only ram contains decrypted data, but data on ram fades away in seconds when power is lost.

[Stevestech]

Oh the iPhone at bat thing happened with the iPhone also. I thought that was Google with the nexus 5. I wish I was lucky enough to return a new phone

[JayCsolsona]

Can you update easily the OS with your encripted device?

Could I update the OS normally for example from 4.4.2 to 4.4.3 ?

Thks. You have done a pretty useful video. If you lose your phone you only need to regret about teh value of the phone and not your data.

[kinzacooks]

hi i did the encryption ehen i got this phone 2 years back now when i try to do it again to change my password all the data got erased. how can i get my data back :(

[TheNiceguy]

If i'm rooted and on a custom rom, will it affect my rooting later on i decide to change roms, etc etc?

[zphyrdok]

now what about doing that to my SIM and SD card?
oh, and you sound like Seth Rogan! hahaha

[Vijeth]

Sir, what is the different between GPS, A-GPS, S-GPS support and GLONASS

[MartinLawlietProioxix]

That Android has a utility belt. Batdroid, coming 2016. 

[acacioman]

but how does it work, you should put a video to see how it work on the daily basis

[KaivalyaThanekar]

Something YouTube Problem...only allowing me to watch in 360p

[mglndrs]

Android Authority already did this a couple weeks ago

[unixpert]

Joe Levi:Please do a video on nexus 5 custom rom cm11....

[eddieayala]

What if you want to do this in order to sell your device ?

[ValaZadeh]

I've always thought that the thief will definitely hard reset the phone prior to using. So all those security measures are useless.

[jaredmbennett]

I would love to see videos on keeping the nsa out of my business. We must protest against nsa or corruption will take over. No doubt they have dirt on every reporter, judge, general ect

[Saif]

Does this mean encryption doesn't work on a rooted phone?

[mmyr]

So it only works if you turn it off???

[apocali]

Still won't help with androids major Knox for Samsung devices is still vulnerable because as Samsung stated there is a security flaw in android