Using an android phone is very good and classic but it also comes with some risks like forgeting your password The main reason to set up some sort of lock
screen security on your smartphone is to keep
strangers (or friends) from checking out your
messages or private pictures. Beyond that, you
don’t want anyone who dares to steal your phone
to get full access to your mails, pictures or other
sensitive data. But what if you’re the one who
cannot access your phone? You could forget your
PIN or pattern, right? Or someone pranks you by
setting up a lock screen pattern and just leaves
you struggling with it.
In any case, there’s quite an easy solution to this
without smashing your phone against a wall (or
your friend’s face). The only thing you need is to
have Android Device Manager enabled on your
device (before you locked yourself out of your
phone). If you have a Samsung phone, you can
also unlock your phone using your Samsung
account.
Forgot your Android lock
screen pattern, PIN or
password? Here’s what to do
I tested the following methods using a lock
screen pattern, PIN and password and was able
to unlock my LG G2 with Android 4.4.2
successfully.
Unlock your Android device using
Android Device Manager (ADM)
As already mentioned, the following method only
applies to devices that have Android Device
Manager enabled.
1. On a computer or other mobile phone,
visit: google.com/android/devicemanager
2. Sign in using your Google login details that
you also used on your locked phone.
3. In the ADM interface, select the device you
need to unlock (if it isn’t already selected).
4. Select ‘Lock’
5. In the appearing window, enter a temporary
password. You don’t have to enter a
recovery message. Now click ‘Lock’ again.
6. If it was successful, you should see a
confirmation below the box with the buttons
Ring, Lock and Erase.
7. On your phone you should now see a
password field in which you should enter
the temporary password. This should
unlock your phone.
8. Now, before you go on with your life, go to
your phone’s lock screen settings and
disable the temporary password.
9. That’s it!
Unlock your Android lock screen
pattern with your Google Login
(only Android 4.4 and below)
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If you haven’t updated your firmware to Android
Lollipop (5.0), then there’s a faster way to unlock
a lock screen pattern.
1. Enter a wrong lock screen pattern five times
(shouldn’t be hard if you don’t remember
the correct one)
2. Select ‘Forgot Pattern’
3. Now you should be able to enter a backup
PIN or your Google account login.
4. Enter either your backup PIN or your Google
login.
5. Your phone should now be unlocked.
Bypass your Samsung phone’s
lock screen using its Find My
Mobile tool
This is an easy way to unlock your Samsung
device if you created a Samsung account and
registered it beforehand.
1. Go to Samsung Find My Mobile.
2. Sign in using your Samsung login details.
3. In the Find My Mobile account interface you
should see your registered phone on the left
hand side. This tells you that you’re phone
is registered to that account.
4. On the left sidebar, select ‘Unlock my
screen’.
5. Now select ‘Unlock’ and wait for a few
seconds for the process to finish.
6. You should get a notification window telling
you that your screen is unlocked.
7. That’s it. Your phone should be unlocked.
Disable your lock screen using
custom recovery and “Pattern
Password Disable” (SD card
needed)
This method is for more advanced Android users
that know what the terms “rooting” and “custom
recovery” mean. As the title says, for this to work
you need any kind of custom recovery installed
and your phone must have an SD card slot . Why
the SD card? Well, we need to transfer a ZIP file
to your phone and that’s usually not possible
when it’s locked. The only way is to insert an SD
card with the file.Unfortunately, card slots
became kind of a rare thing in the smartphone
world, so this will only work for some people.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Download the Pattern Password Disable ZIP
file on your computer and put it on an SD
card .
2. Insert the SD card into your phone.
3. Reboot your phone into recovery.
4. Flash the ZIP file on your SD card.
5. Reboot.
6. Your phone should boot up without a locked
screen. Should there be a password or
gesture lock screen, don’t panic. Just type
in a random password or gesture and your
phone should unlock.
More proven methods to unlock
your phone submitted by our
readers
It’s possible that none of the options above got
you passed the lock screen. Luckily, some of our
readers struggling with that issue were able to
find even more creative ways to bypass their lock
screen and were so kind to share them. We’re
extremely thankful for that!
We haven’t tested them throroughly on multiple
devices or Android versions, so we cannot
promise that those will work for you. However, a
number of people managed to access their phone
again and we hope you’ll do so as well.
Submitted by starr :
1. Call your locked phone from another one.
2. Accept the call and hit the back button
during the call
3. This should give you complete access to
your phone
4. Go to your phone’s security settings and try
to remove the pin or pattern. To do so, you
first need to put in the current one, which
you obviously don’t know anymore. The
only way is to guess and try out different
combinations until you get it right. Should
you get this far, then you can disable the
pin or set a new one.
Submitted by Zubairuddin Buriro (probably only
applicable to LG phones):
Zubairuddin’s very creative method can help you
out in case you’re Wifi and data connection are
both turned off . As mentioned above, this method
might only work on LG phones, since it relies on
LG’s native quick memo app.
1. Press and hold the volume up key, until the
Quick Memo app launches.
2. Draw something random into it.
3. Tap the sharing button and select
SmartShare.
4. Selecting SmartShare should activate your
phone’s Bluetooth and Wifi (important here
is Wifi).
5. Make sure you’re close to a Wifi network
that you’re phone connects to
automatically.
6. Now, you’re back online and you can go
ahead and try all the methods discussed
above that require a data connection.
Erase your phone (and lock
screen) using Android Device
Manager
If all the methods above didn’t work out, you
need to move on to more drastic measures. In
case Android Device Manager is enabled on your
phone and unlocking it didn’t work, you can use it
to erase all data by selecting the Erase button. Be
aware that this will delete all apps, settings and
other data on your phone. The good thing is, once
the erasing process is done, you can use your
phone again (after setting everything up).
Reset your phone to factory
settings
If Android Device Manager doesn’t work at all for
you, your last resort is to make a factory reset on
your device. On Nexus devices, this can be done
in recovery mode, for example. Below, we take
you through the reset process that work with
Nexus devices. If you own a different Android
phone, check out this site and look for your
manufacturer’s support page.
How to perform a factory reset on your
Nexus using recovery mode:
Important note: If your Nexus device is running
Android 5.1 or higher, you’re required to enter a
Google username and password associated with
your device after the factory reset process
finishes. This is a security measure to make sure
that no stranger is reseting your phone or tablet.
If you fail to enter that data, the phone won’t be
usable anymore. Really make sure you know your
Googel username and password.
No matter what version of Android you’re running,
you need to have an internet connection and if
you just changed your Google account password,
you need to wait at least 72 hours before starting
the reset process.
1. Turn off your device.
2. Press the volume down AND power button
and keep pressing them. Your device will
start up and boot into the bootloader (you
should see “Start” and an Android lying on
its back).
3. Press the volume down button to go
through the different options until you see
“Recovery Mode
screen security on your smartphone is to keep
strangers (or friends) from checking out your
messages or private pictures. Beyond that, you
don’t want anyone who dares to steal your phone
to get full access to your mails, pictures or other
sensitive data. But what if you’re the one who
cannot access your phone? You could forget your
PIN or pattern, right? Or someone pranks you by
setting up a lock screen pattern and just leaves
you struggling with it.
In any case, there’s quite an easy solution to this
without smashing your phone against a wall (or
your friend’s face). The only thing you need is to
have Android Device Manager enabled on your
device (before you locked yourself out of your
phone). If you have a Samsung phone, you can
also unlock your phone using your Samsung
account.
Forgot your Android lock
screen pattern, PIN or
password? Here’s what to do
I tested the following methods using a lock
screen pattern, PIN and password and was able
to unlock my LG G2 with Android 4.4.2
successfully.
Unlock your Android device using
Android Device Manager (ADM)
As already mentioned, the following method only
applies to devices that have Android Device
Manager enabled.
1. On a computer or other mobile phone,
visit: google.com/android/devicemanager
2. Sign in using your Google login details that
you also used on your locked phone.
3. In the ADM interface, select the device you
need to unlock (if it isn’t already selected).
4. Select ‘Lock’
5. In the appearing window, enter a temporary
password. You don’t have to enter a
recovery message. Now click ‘Lock’ again.
6. If it was successful, you should see a
confirmation below the box with the buttons
Ring, Lock and Erase.
7. On your phone you should now see a
password field in which you should enter
the temporary password. This should
unlock your phone.
8. Now, before you go on with your life, go to
your phone’s lock screen settings and
disable the temporary password.
9. That’s it!
Unlock your Android lock screen
pattern with your Google Login
(only Android 4.4 and below)
echo adrotate_ad(5, true, 0, 0);
If you haven’t updated your firmware to Android
Lollipop (5.0), then there’s a faster way to unlock
a lock screen pattern.
1. Enter a wrong lock screen pattern five times
(shouldn’t be hard if you don’t remember
the correct one)
2. Select ‘Forgot Pattern’
3. Now you should be able to enter a backup
PIN or your Google account login.
4. Enter either your backup PIN or your Google
login.
5. Your phone should now be unlocked.
Bypass your Samsung phone’s
lock screen using its Find My
Mobile tool
This is an easy way to unlock your Samsung
device if you created a Samsung account and
registered it beforehand.
1. Go to Samsung Find My Mobile.
2. Sign in using your Samsung login details.
3. In the Find My Mobile account interface you
should see your registered phone on the left
hand side. This tells you that you’re phone
is registered to that account.
4. On the left sidebar, select ‘Unlock my
screen’.
5. Now select ‘Unlock’ and wait for a few
seconds for the process to finish.
6. You should get a notification window telling
you that your screen is unlocked.
7. That’s it. Your phone should be unlocked.
Disable your lock screen using
custom recovery and “Pattern
Password Disable” (SD card
needed)
This method is for more advanced Android users
that know what the terms “rooting” and “custom
recovery” mean. As the title says, for this to work
you need any kind of custom recovery installed
and your phone must have an SD card slot . Why
the SD card? Well, we need to transfer a ZIP file
to your phone and that’s usually not possible
when it’s locked. The only way is to insert an SD
card with the file.Unfortunately, card slots
became kind of a rare thing in the smartphone
world, so this will only work for some people.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Download the Pattern Password Disable ZIP
file on your computer and put it on an SD
card .
2. Insert the SD card into your phone.
3. Reboot your phone into recovery.
4. Flash the ZIP file on your SD card.
5. Reboot.
6. Your phone should boot up without a locked
screen. Should there be a password or
gesture lock screen, don’t panic. Just type
in a random password or gesture and your
phone should unlock.
More proven methods to unlock
your phone submitted by our
readers
It’s possible that none of the options above got
you passed the lock screen. Luckily, some of our
readers struggling with that issue were able to
find even more creative ways to bypass their lock
screen and were so kind to share them. We’re
extremely thankful for that!
We haven’t tested them throroughly on multiple
devices or Android versions, so we cannot
promise that those will work for you. However, a
number of people managed to access their phone
again and we hope you’ll do so as well.
Submitted by starr :
1. Call your locked phone from another one.
2. Accept the call and hit the back button
during the call
3. This should give you complete access to
your phone
4. Go to your phone’s security settings and try
to remove the pin or pattern. To do so, you
first need to put in the current one, which
you obviously don’t know anymore. The
only way is to guess and try out different
combinations until you get it right. Should
you get this far, then you can disable the
pin or set a new one.
Submitted by Zubairuddin Buriro (probably only
applicable to LG phones):
Zubairuddin’s very creative method can help you
out in case you’re Wifi and data connection are
both turned off . As mentioned above, this method
might only work on LG phones, since it relies on
LG’s native quick memo app.
1. Press and hold the volume up key, until the
Quick Memo app launches.
2. Draw something random into it.
3. Tap the sharing button and select
SmartShare.
4. Selecting SmartShare should activate your
phone’s Bluetooth and Wifi (important here
is Wifi).
5. Make sure you’re close to a Wifi network
that you’re phone connects to
automatically.
6. Now, you’re back online and you can go
ahead and try all the methods discussed
above that require a data connection.
Erase your phone (and lock
screen) using Android Device
Manager
If all the methods above didn’t work out, you
need to move on to more drastic measures. In
case Android Device Manager is enabled on your
phone and unlocking it didn’t work, you can use it
to erase all data by selecting the Erase button. Be
aware that this will delete all apps, settings and
other data on your phone. The good thing is, once
the erasing process is done, you can use your
phone again (after setting everything up).
Reset your phone to factory
settings
If Android Device Manager doesn’t work at all for
you, your last resort is to make a factory reset on
your device. On Nexus devices, this can be done
in recovery mode, for example. Below, we take
you through the reset process that work with
Nexus devices. If you own a different Android
phone, check out this site and look for your
manufacturer’s support page.
How to perform a factory reset on your
Nexus using recovery mode:
Important note: If your Nexus device is running
Android 5.1 or higher, you’re required to enter a
Google username and password associated with
your device after the factory reset process
finishes. This is a security measure to make sure
that no stranger is reseting your phone or tablet.
If you fail to enter that data, the phone won’t be
usable anymore. Really make sure you know your
Googel username and password.
No matter what version of Android you’re running,
you need to have an internet connection and if
you just changed your Google account password,
you need to wait at least 72 hours before starting
the reset process.
1. Turn off your device.
2. Press the volume down AND power button
and keep pressing them. Your device will
start up and boot into the bootloader (you
should see “Start” and an Android lying on
its back).
3. Press the volume down button to go
through the different options until you see
“Recovery Mode
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