xperia z3 compact encrypted or not?

lochonaut — Thu, 12 May 2016 10:14:55 GMT

hello,

being a quite satisfied xperia z3 compact owner (no carrier branding or whatsoever) i upgraded ota t marshmallow 6.01. some days ago, and so far everything works fine. now i decided i wanted to finally encrypt my phone (16gb internal storage) and external sdcard (samsung evo 64gb sdxc class 10 uhs-i). before that my phone never was encrypted.

so i connected the phone to the charger to charge it for the needed 100%. due to "power paranoia" i kept the phone connected to the charger and initiated the encryption. the prcess asked for the pin, i out it in, the phone began with the encryption showing a moving padlock. already after some minutes the phone rebooted, it asked for the pin, i put it in, the normal boot procedure worked fine, i was asked for the sim-pin and the lockscreen pin as well and was in. fine.

but as i checked the encryption status in settings, the phone didn't state anything like "encrypted" and still offered encryption. as i had read somwhere that encryption might not wirk correctly with the setting of "passwords visible" i disabled that setting and encrpyted again, which resulted in the same behavior: after a moving padlock for some minutes restart of the phone, pin, boot sequence, sim-pin, lockscreen pin, done. but the encryption status in settings still was like i could encrypt again.

all those procedures took place while my phone was on the charger. after that i disconnected it from the charger, and this morning with about 98% battery as i checked the encryption status again the "next" button for the encryption procedure was not active - probably due to the fact that the battery has not 100% power.

now i wonder, if my phone is really encrypted or not? does anybody know a way to check?

it seems in original google marshmallow setting should show status "encrypted" in settings like here but i don't know, if it's supposed to be the same with the "sony mod"...

hope you guys can help me with this.

thx

Re: xperia z3 compact encrypted or not?

lochonaut — Sat, 14 May 2016 06:36:43 GMT

anyone out there knowing about this?

Re: xperia z3 compact encrypted or not?

zyxxyz — Sun, 15 May 2016 13:33:34 GMT

no, it is not encrypted.

you can try once again, but if it fails then just wait for the next Marshmallow update.

what you did was 100% correct. what the phone did was: software bug.

Re: xperia z3 compact encrypted or not?

lochonaut — Fri, 20 May 2016 09:54:34 GMT

hey, accidentally i just realized that now my z3c says that it's already encrypted when i try to encrypt. maybe the behavior before was some kind of bug in correlation with the encryption of the sd-card: as sd-card encryption did not work for me personally as i had hoped concerning convenience, i formatted the sd-card and did not encrypt it again. and now my z3c tells me that it's encrypted. odd.

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