Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Is it possible to encrypt device after rooting? If so, how?

It seems that most of the community is gravitating toward disabling forced encryption, so I might be alone here, but I actually like the idea of having the device encrypted.

I rooted my device without flashing twrp (I'll cover the steps I took in just a second) so that it could retain the original stock recovery. I'm trying to keep the device as stock as possible, just with root and xposed.

Steps I took are as follows...
  1. Download
  2. Enable developer mode on device
  3. Code:

    adb reboot fastboot
  4. Code:

    fastboot boot twrp*.img
    (I had to nuke /data at this point, otherwise it wouldn't boot)
  5. Turn on ADB sideload in TWRP
  6. Code:

    adb sideload BETA*.zip
  7. Code:

    adb sideload xposed*.zip

It's successfully rooted and xposed framework is installed, but it's not encrypted, and if I go into Settings -> Security -> Encryption and attempt to encrypt the device, it will just hang for hours at a time.

If anyone can offer any insight as to how I can get it rooted with xposed framework while retaining device encryption, that would be super helpful.


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