Reversing Pattern/Password/PIN encryption on Lollipop topic

Hi all,
Everywhere I looked online said that the only way to reverse encryption is to factory wipe. Yet, today, when I went to change my lock screen pattern, I was offered the option to choose whether I still wanted to encrypt my phone with this pattern. I chose no, for the heck of it, and on reboot, it didn't take me to the decryption screen. Went straight to Android.
I'm guessing that the encryption is still there, but it's somehow just bypassing it. Any ideas?

This is on Stock Lollipop 5.0.1 with no root

EDIT : My phone's encryption status still says "Encrypted" even though it doesn't ask me for a pattern

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By: dd On 06:04

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Why dont Xiaomi phones support encryption? topic

Hi,

First time poster, long time forum stalker, I just bought a mi3 and I think I regret it. The reason is that it doesn't seem to support phone encryption. I headed over to the en.Maui forums but they seem to ignore people that ask difficult questions.

Anyway do I need to wait until the kernel sources are released or is there anything else I can do

Cheers

By: dd On 06:59

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Encryption through Android and flashing roms? External SD Card topic

welp I may be screwed, but thought I would ask the pros.

I always back up my sdcard personal files, but the media files (music I don't). I have a 128GB card and I am trying to save myself some rebuild time.

I encrypted my external 128gb sd card in android (I have my data backed up thank goodness), but I have full wiped the phone, to install a new rom (full wipe and factory reset).

I have rest the screen password to the same encrypted password, yet when I reboot the phone (installed new rom from separate external sd card since TWRP wont write from an encrypted sd card), the phone is fine, but the card is still being shown as "checking sdcard for errors"

is there any way to restore access to the encrypted card since I full wiped? I know that I can just reformat the card back to fat32, but I really don't want to sit and transfer 100gb of flac files again.

By: dd On 15:23

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[Q] Stock Recovery, Encryption and OTA topic

This seems silly, but I'm on 22.11.6.titan_retuaws.retuaws.en.US.retus and have encrypted my phone. When I copy the OTA to the sdcard and then boot into recovery to apply the OTA, it never prompts me to decrypt the phone. Does anyone else have this problem?

By: dd On 13:00

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[Q] How long is encryption supposed to take? topic

I've been working through random, dumb issues getting my Nexus 6 set up for the last couple of hours, and finally got everything sorted out, and then got it rooted with no problems. The phone rebooted, and just as I was breathing a sigh of relief, the page pops up that says it's encrypting my phone. I don't know how long this is supposed to take because it just says "Time Remaining: 0:00" and that's all it's said since the screen popped up.

Any idea of how long it's supposed to take? I had to go on and pop my SIM card back into my old phone because it's been going for about an hour now and I have stuff to do tonight. :-\

By: dd On 18:08

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