In this tutorial, we will show you how to remove the TWRP Data Encryption Warning on Mediatek devices. The safety of the data stored on your smartphone is the top-most priority for every user. In this regard, you might have used two-factor authentication on various accounts, used a stringent PIN or Password, and have kept FRP enabled. Along the same lines, data encryption is another pretty important security aspect. Google, after the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop, automatically encrypts all the data on your device.
And when this happens, all your data gets converted to a non-readable random string of characters. When the user with the correct credentials (password, pin,) unlocks the device, the data gets decrypted on the go. Then they could easily access that data. However, when it comes to custom development, things might get a little bit complicated, especially if you are using a custom recovery. In this guide, we will make you aware of the need and the steps to remove TWRP Data Encryption on your MediaTek devices.
What is TWRP Data Encryption?
So here is what really happens. Since the Encryption is enabled on your device by default, TWRP respects that decision. As it is a custom binary, therefore, Google will prevent it from getting access to the data stored on your phone. In other words, when TWRP will try to access any file on your Internal Storage, it will instead be greeted with random alphabets and numbers. This in turn might cause an issue or two to the end-user.
This is because the user wouldn’t be able to recognize any files stored on their device. As a result, you would be in no position to flash the file. Even your Internal Storage would be shown as 0MB inside the recovery. In earlier TWRP builds, you just needed to enter the default device password and the data would then be decrypted. However, with newer builds, this is no longer applicable. But even then there exists a pretty nifty method through which you could remove the TWRP Data Encryption Warning on Mediatek devices.
