Protecting Your Phone With Encryption. ZTE BLADE V7 LITE

password that you must enter to unlock the screen.

3. For Pattern, PIN, or Password lock, select how you want notifications and their contents to show when the phone is locked. Then touch

DONE

.

NOTE:

Remember the pattern, PIN or password you set. Otherwise, you will have to upgrade the phone software to use the phone. See

Upgrading the Phone Software

on page 153.

Protecting Your Phone With Encryption

You can encrypt all the data on your phone: your accounts, application data, music and other media, downloaded information, and so on. If you do, you must draw an unlock pattern, or enter a numeric PIN or a password each time you power on your phone.

WARNING!

Encryption is irreversible. The only way to revert to an unencrypted phone is to perform a factory data reset, which erases all your data.

Encryption provides additional protection in case your phone is stolen, and may be required or recommended in some organizations. Consult your system administrator before turning it on. In many cases the pattern, PIN or password you set for encryption is controlled by the system administrator.

Before turning on encryption, prepare as follows:

●

Set a lock screen pattern, PIN or password.

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●

Charge the battery.

●

●

Keep the phone connected to the charger.

Schedule an hour or more for the encryption process: you must not interrupt it or you will lose some or all of your data.

When you're ready to turn on encryption:

1. Touch the key, slide screen to touch

Settings >

Security > Encrypt phone

.

2. Read the information about encryption carefully.

The

ENCRYPT PHONE

button is dimmed if your battery is not charged or your phone's not plugged in.

If you change your mind about encrypting your phone, touch the

Back

key.

WARNING!

If you interrupt the encryption process, you will lose data.

3. Touch .

4. Draw your lock screen pattern or enter your PIN or password, and touch

NEXT

.

5. Touch again.

The encryption process starts. Encryption can take an hour or more, during which time your phone may restart several times.

When encryption is completed, you're prompted to draw the unlock pattern, or enter the PIN or password.

Subsequently, you must draw the unlock pattern, enter the PIN or password each time you power on your phone in order to decrypt it.

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