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Are there any issues with enabling full encryption and loading custom ROMs or will it be seamless?

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There's some related discussion here: Will a Custom Recovery work with an encrypted device – eldarerathis♦ Aug 3 '12 at 15:40

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Encryption is done on the /data partition (where all app-data is stored). However, /sdcard is sometimes encrypted too (if the sdcard is actually internal memory of the phone i.e. not removable).

If the sdcard is also encrypted,then you will be unable to flash ROM's from within Recovery (recovery can't read encrypted sdcard).

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Updating is possible with some extra steps: You can circumvent the latter problem by using a tmpfs mount for /sdcard and 'adb push update.zip /sdcard' just seconds before flashing. C.f. this answer – ce4 Aug 3 '12 at 17:17

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