Originally Posted by
ouyangchris I was just watching netflix when my phone suddenly restarts by itself. At first the reset let me go through, then it restarted again. This time a white screen popped up asking for a pin/password to decrypt. I never had a password because I used a lock pattern. Now I tried everything to get to my phone, but it just stays on the same white screen asking for a passcode.
Encryption doesn't happen all by itself. You have to go in and ask for it, and then confirm it more than once. I've never heard of this happening before.
There is no way to bypass it. You have to put that passcode in or it won't boot. That's the point of encryption, to protect your data. If there were a way to bypass it it wouldn't serve its purpose.