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you're out on the town you're having fun and your smartphone is the furthest thing from your mind till you get home and check your pockets and it's not there it's happened to the best of us even some relatively high ranking people at Apple have left their brand new prototype phones in bars I'm Joe Levi for pocket now and here's how you can use encryption to make your phone a little bit more secure just in case it gets lost somewhere along the way this is my 2013 Nexus 7 I'm using this because it is not rooted it's just a regular stock out of the box with my own settings and customizations on it and whatnot apparently root gets in the way and causes some problems that's why I'm not showing you on my Nexus 5 but what we need to do here is go into settings from settings go down to security and in security this is where you can set your screen lock now for this to work it does have to be either pin or password you can't use pattern face unlock or swipe to unlock because those are security at all help maybe face lock is but you got to have something a little bit more secure now I've got this set to automatically lock after 15 seconds so after I it goes to sleep it'll turn off I'm going to bump that up to a two minutes that way I don't have to type in my PIN all the time it's going to wait two minutes after it goes to sleep power button instantly locks I have turned off as well so two minutes after I either hit the power button or after it goes to sleep it's going to lock and I'll have to put the pin in again so down here this is what we're looking at encrypt tablet require a numeric pin or password to decrypt your tablet each time you power it on so we'll go in there now this tells us all we need to know you can't decrypt your tablet except by performing a factory data reset so this is something you want to try you want to make sure that you want to do this because you cannot go back without wiping so keep that in mind it does take a long time sometimes an hour or more and you have to start with a charged battery I'm pretty close up here but we also have to be plugged in so come over here and I'll get my USB cord which I have plugged into a power outlet go ahead and plug that in this should then light up and allow me to encrypt tablet it asks me for my pin which I'll do over here once that is done we get another warning and then we'll go ahead and encrypt tablet we get that nice little Android with a tool belt and then the screen goes blank it's doing its first of several reboots here right after that long boot sequence came up I now have this encrypting screen that says wait while your tablet is being encrypted and it does give me a very handy percentage indicator in this case I am four percent complete and I've got my little Andy - Android with a tool belt on down here again or is that cogs I don't know what it is exactly but cool little thing that I haven't seen before in all of my travels with Android we'll go ahead and let it do its thing and we'll be back to show you the progress so after about 45 minutes is past the system rebooted and now I'm met with this my little I'm pretty sure that's a cog rather than a tool belt it's asking me now to type my password so I'll go ahead and do that I have a nice tapi sound while I type that in we'll hit done that point we see the cog again screen goes blank and we're coming back up to yet another reboot so what you can see here when we power on the device we're asked for our password to decrypt the storage now this password and the pin are kind of separate things one let's you into the device and one lets you into the storage so that you can have access to it let's go ahead and type in our password here after we do that the device will restart that's where the decryption happens not at the PIN pad so this is a power on encrypt decrypt that's primarily for time it saves you time by not having to do this encrypt decrypt sequence every time you turn the screen on and off just when you turn the device on and off still a very very good thing to do team that up with a nice secure pin or some other type of security to keep your data on your device all taken care of so that people who shouldn't have access to it don't so that's how you encrypt your phone so that it's extra secure just in case it gets lost along the way if you want to keep the contents away from prying eyes if you liked what you saw here please give the video a thumbs up and of course if you have not yet subscribed to our channel make sure you do that so you don't miss out on all the news all the reviews and everything that is coming out literally every single day from pocket now if you want to find out more about us of course you can go to pocketnow.com or follow us on social networking my favorite is Twitter where we are at pocket now and I am at Joe Levi thanks very much for watching we will catch you next time