Originally Posted by
robsteve I have two Passports, one on 1435 and one on1463. The one on 1435 takes about ten seconds to encrypt, and has about 18gb of free space. The one on 1463, has about 10gb of free space and took a while longer. I didn't time it exactly, but probably in the five minute range like a previous poster.
I don't know what it means, other than the phone with more data on it takes longer. It may also only be encrypting just the data files, not the whole file system/os, so a phone with little in the user's home directory may only take seconds to encrypt. It may also only encrypt certain things.
Both phones had started with the same backup restore, but the one with more data on it has been used longer. Both had years of photos on it. I suspect the photos are not being encrypted. It may be as simple as us making assumptions that all the data is getting encrypted and BlackBerry may just be doing something to make the data inaccessible without encrypting all of it. It's beyond me.