cons of encrypting android phone?

[tommo123]

never done it before and thinking about it. would it mess me up for the way i use my phone? i root and flash roms etc.

i can't imagine you can flash roms as you please if it's encrypted. what about the mSD, is that encrypted too?

 

[Ravynmagi]

Not sure what impact it would have when flashing a ROM. I usually do factory resets between ROMs anyway, so other than having to re-encrypt the phone, I don't think it would be a problem. The boot loader, prompt to authenticate the encryption and does have access, so I imagine you could flash a ROM without having to do a factory reset.

I've not noticed any performance decrease, the I imagine there likely is a small impact.

Main con I have is that I also had to encrypt the SD card and now can't swap it out easily. So it's basically permanent storage now in the phone. But I didn't take it out much anyway, so not really a big con for me.

 

[tommo123]

so what happens if your mSD card is failing and you want to connect it to the PC? you're stuck using the phone?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I believe TWRP is setup to work w/ encryption in that it asks for your encryption password. I think CWM has some trouble w/ the /data partition. I'm not 100% sure so go check that out. I think encryption is a bit less popular amongst the ROM community.

 

[Ravynmagi]

so what happens if your mSD card is failing and you want to connect it to the PC? you're stuck using the phone?

PC won't read it. Only the phone can read it. So you'll need to leave it in the phone, connect the phone to the PC and copy the files off the SD that way. And you can format the SD and use it without the phone if you choose. Just will need to re-encrypt it again if you want to use it with the phone again.