Hi forum,

Got a silly story to share incase someone has run into the same thing.

In short, I was not able to see/view any of my photos stored both in phone and SD card storage.

It happens after I changed the language from English to Chinese.

My phone is running the original ROM and was/still is encrypted.

I was scared sh!tless as after a million reboots, I was still not able to see any of my pics but oddly, I was able to see the files under file managers but was not able to open/view them.

I was about to reset the whole phone as it is only my secondary phone, but I did change the language back to English in the hopes of fixing the issue. And after a billion reboots... PHOTOS FINALLY CAME BACK

:silly: ;)

Great news for encrypters, since Qualcomm's hardware-based encryption provides much quicker read-write speeds than AOSP’s software method.

Quote:

In an announcement on Google+ earlier today, developer Ethan Yonker (Dees Troy) explained that Qualcomm encryption generally offers better performance than ‘stock’ Android encryption, making this a welcome addition to the custom recovery platform.

Source: Android Authority

But there is a caveat:

Quote:

If you didn’t encrypt using CM 12.0 nightly on or after 16th of January 2015, you probably aren’t getting the performance benefits of Qualcomm’s encryption. It also appears that the Oxygen OS team did not add support for Qualcomm encryption. If performance matters to you but you need to be encrypted, then I’d suggest sticking with CM.

So, no-go with OxygenOS, and if you've been encrypted and dirty flashing CM12 since before 1/16/2015, you have do full wipes, reinstall and re-encrypt.

Download link: TWRP for 1+1