{"id":5958,"date":"2014-05-28T21:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:12:39","slug":"rooting-and-encrypting-my-samsung-galaxy-s3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5958","title":{"rendered":"Rooting and encrypting my Samsung Galaxy S3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5959 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfautoroot.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>A few months ago, I upgraded my rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747M) smartphone. In the process, I lost root, which was rather annoying. I was able to re-root the phone using CF-Auto-Root, but only after decrypting its memory first. When I tried to re-encrypt the phone afterwards, the process failed. The log (<tt>adb logcat<\/tt>) showed that it was unable to unmount the <tt>\/data<\/tt> partition.<\/p>\n<p>I have since tried several approaches to encrypt the phone while retaining root, but to no avail. Here are the things I tried over the past few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Temporarily disabling SuperSU;<\/li>\n<li>Disabling SuperSU using Triangle Away;<\/li>\n<li>Wiping the phone (factory reset) while retaining root;<\/li>\n<li>Turning off SuperSU logging;<\/li>\n<li>Booting into Safe Mode;<\/li>\n<li>Manually unmounting\u00a0<tt>\/data<\/tt> and most other partitions;<\/li>\n<li>As above, in Safe Mode;<\/li>\n<li>Unrooting, encrypting, and then rooting using Kingo Android Root (supposedly worked for some people; didn&#8217;t root the phone for me).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, I give up. I don&#8217;t really need to encrypt the stupid phone.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5958' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I upgraded my rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747M) smartphone. In the process, I lost root, which was rather annoying. I was able to re-root the phone using CF-Auto-Root, but only after decrypting its memory first. When I tried to re-encrypt the phone afterwards, the process failed. The log (adb logcat) showed <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5958' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5960,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions\/5960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}