Disable Force Encryption? - Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers

Hi. I'm just wondering what this is that we flash before installing a new rom, why do we flash this, what does it do? Is it necessary to flash it?
Thanks

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Just keep onething in mind before digging into this matter. Having a decrypted device is the same as having a stolen device. No security at all and the device gets extremely vulnerable and easy to be hacked. I don't really know why some people still decrypt their devices when we already got a TWRP which decrypts the device temporarily while booting on recovery (without actually decrypt your device permanently).

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Disable Force Encryption (a.k.a DFE) is flashed during installing a custom rom to avoid the system encrypting /data partition when the devices boot for the first time.
DFE is not necessary but some custom recoveries (Official TWRP for example), needs the /data partition to be unencrypted to access the internal storage for you to flash something or to access /data and internal storage. (Except if you have SD Card, then DFE is no longer needed)
OrangeFox Recovery for example has its feature when installing custom recovery, flashing DFE is no longer needed because the recovery itself will patch the boot.img to avoid the system to encrypt data.
Final Verdict:
-If you want a secured device that has a lot of golden stuff inside, then do not flash DFE or disable the DFE on OrangeFox Recovery.
-If you want to access /data for your inconvenience, then flash DFE everytime you install a custom rom or enable DFE on OrangeFox Recovery.
Edit:
The unoffical TWRP that has data decryption patch doesn't works as new and updated vendor, boot.img, etc. comes in and the fix is useless. It only works on older system patches, e.g. MIUI 9.

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If i decrypt the device. How to encrypt it again?

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SamyakJ said:
If i decrypt the device. How to encrypt it again?
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Security&Location > Encryption&credentials > Encrypt phone
I think it requires your phone to be at 100% charging to start the encryption.
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And I don't even know if it is stable or not after the encryption. I haven't tried encrypting the device via the Settings.

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So this is where I am stuck since March 25th, oneplus 7 pro with oos 11 final and encrypted phone with a lot of precious data. All I need is root (not really need custom recovery).
Is there any way to get it rooted without data loss? I've tried to flash the patched boot image found in this thread but the phone keeps looping in boot until I force restart it then it boots normally. Tried that several times with no luck.
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can't you just backup all the data? you don't exactly need root for backups

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I continue the post with 2 questions
sorry for the banality of the questions and I searched online and on the forum before asking
1) So if I don't disable the forced encryption the only problem I can have is the appearance of the set warranty bit kernel written every time the phone is rebooted?
2) What is the difference between these? (1) Tabs3_oreo_forced + encryption_disabler (2) Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt-master (3) no-verity-opt-encrypt- ?
and how can I check the compatibility of the phone?
Tks !!!

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Darklouis said:
Disable Force Encryption (a.k.a DFE) is flashed during installing a custom rom to avoid the system encrypting /data partition when the devices boot for the first time.
DFE is not necessary but some custom recoveries (Official TWRP for example), needs the /data partition to be unencrypted to access the internal storage for you to flash something or to access /data and internal storage. (Except if you have SD Card, then DFE is no longer needed)
OrangeFox Recovery for example has its feature when installing custom recovery, flashing DFE is no longer needed because the recovery itself will patch the boot.img to avoid the system to encrypt data.
Final Verdict:
-If you want a secured device that has a lot of golden stuff inside, then do not flash DFE or disable the DFE on OrangeFox Recovery.
-If you want to access /data for your inconvenience, then flash DFE everytime you install a custom rom or enable DFE on OrangeFox Recovery.
Edit:
The unoffical TWRP that has data decryption patch doesn't works as new and updated vendor, boot.img, etc. comes in and the fix is useless. It only works on older system patches, e.g. MIUI 9.
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Is DFE and avb2.0 same?
Coz I'm using shrp and unable to find close avb2.0 ?