WARNING!!! By doing this you are voiding your warranty. I am not responsible of bricked devices or any other problem that may arise
Hi guys,
After having lost about 3 hours of my life trying to unencrypt my phone, I have finally made it and I wanted to share with you what made me take so long.
Why unencrypting your phone?
Unencrypting your phone may be useful if you are a ROM changer junkie. It saves you some trouble in passing your data from ROM to ROM. It is also necessary for some tweaks and mods. Also, by mere logic, an encryption will reduce the speed of the reading and writing of the data, so unencrypting it will improve the speed of your device (don't get surprised if it feels faster, it will because I have told you so, however the difference is merely technical, it won't be noticeable, so that speed is being constructed in your mind by my suggestion...).
How to Unencrypt your Phone?
0. Do a backup of everything you don't want to lose in an external drive (such as an sdcard)
1. Download and flash the latest twrp.img (many people have turned to different recoveries with some extra functionalities such as Orange Fox (me, myself, I, too), however, THIS METHOD WON'T WORK ON THEM (or at least it hasn't worked for me). I spent several hours trying to flash different Disable Force Encryption files, older Magisk versions, etc. but the result was always the same: bootloop).
2. Wipe Dalvik and Cache
3. Flash DisableForceEncryption.zip (https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=6006931924117915021])
4. Flash the latest Magisk
5. Format (not wipe) Data
6. Go back and in reboot select turn off
7. Turn on the phone and cross your fingers
8. In the begging, it will seem like it ha gone into a bootloop. Wait a bit. If it continues rebooting after some time, get into recovery and cleanflash the stock recovery (not fastboot) ROM (https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/miui/beryllium/)
8.b. If it does not enter a bootloop, go and try to distract yourself doing any other thing, because this first boot will take about 20 min.
I hope that this guide has been helpful for you guys!
Javier
Hi guys,
After having lost about 3 hours of my life trying to unencrypt my phone, I have finally made it and I wanted to share with you what made me take so long.
Why unencrypting your phone?
Unencrypting your phone may be useful if you are a ROM changer junkie. It saves you some trouble in passing your data from ROM to ROM. It is also necessary for some tweaks and mods. Also, by mere logic, an encryption will reduce the speed of the reading and writing of the data, so unencrypting it will improve the speed of your device (don't get surprised if it feels faster, it will because I have told you so, however the difference is merely technical, it won't be noticeable, so that speed is being constructed in your mind by my suggestion...).
How to Unencrypt your Phone?
0. Do a backup of everything you don't want to lose in an external drive (such as an sdcard)
1. Download and flash the latest twrp.img (many people have turned to different recoveries with some extra functionalities such as Orange Fox (me, myself, I, too), however, THIS METHOD WON'T WORK ON THEM (or at least it hasn't worked for me). I spent several hours trying to flash different Disable Force Encryption files, older Magisk versions, etc. but the result was always the same: bootloop).
2. Wipe Dalvik and Cache
3. Flash DisableForceEncryption.zip (https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=6006931924117915021])
4. Flash the latest Magisk
5. Format (not wipe) Data
6. Go back and in reboot select turn off
7. Turn on the phone and cross your fingers
8. In the begging, it will seem like it ha gone into a bootloop. Wait a bit. If it continues rebooting after some time, get into recovery and cleanflash the stock recovery (not fastboot) ROM (https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/miui/beryllium/)
8.b. If it does not enter a bootloop, go and try to distract yourself doing any other thing, because this first boot will take about 20 min.
I hope that this guide has been helpful for you guys!
Javier
