Custom ROMs and encryption on the S20 Ultra.

[Cazzia]

Hey guys, I recently purchased a S20 Ultra and am finding it a great phone. However, I've come to realize they've removed the encryption on boot-up feature which I was really looking to use for privacy reasons. I went and asked on the live chat on the Samsung website, and they said it was removed and I would have to "use a third party app or rom" to be able to get back this feature.

I'm now looking into installing a custom ROM and haven't done for many years so I need a bit of help with this, is it just me being stupid, or is there no custom ROM's really released for the S20 Ultra yet? As I've not been able to find one whilst searching.

Also I was curious to if anyone knew a easier way or setting that I could activate that I might have not noticed to be able to activate boot up/start up encryption for the S20?

Thanks in advance
Cazzia

 

[bcrichster]

Hello and welcome to Android Forums!
Several questions come to mind when looking for a ROM on any Samsung Galaxy S models:
- Model # (SM-????)

• Usually only the International versions with Exynos chips have unlocked bootloaders, allowing installation of Custom Recoveries and subsequent ROMs.. No USA versions (that I'm aware of) as of the last 5 or 6 S models, IIRC

- Carrier

• VZW won't allow it even on devices originally designed and sold for ROM Development.

- ROMs

• Generally, if it's not posted here anywhere, look in XDA
• If the device release is extremely new (Within 6mo), the kernel & device trees may not be posted or usable for building yet..