What to Do If You Forget Your Android Phone’s Pin, Pattern Or Password- Unlock Phone

One of the main reasons you secure your phone with pin, pattern or password is to prevent strangers from accessing your messages, images, personal details and so on. Trying to protect your phone from any unauthorized usage, you tend to mess things up by setting complicated password, pattern or pin, thereby forgetting it. This is quite embarrassing and frustrating isn’t it? Be calm, do not panic, I will show you how to unlock your phone or android tab with ease. However, there are chances that you might lose your data in the process.

There are 3 ways to unlock your phone, they are:

1. By using Google Account
2. Restore Factory Setting
3. Android Data Recovery

How to Unlock Phone Screen with Google Account

This is the easiest method to unlock your phone. After several attempts to unlock your phone or Android tab with either Pin, Password Or Pattern and you didn’t succeed. Follow these steps to unlock your phone:

1. Firstly visit google.com/android/devicemanageraccount and sign in.
2. Choose the mobile phone you want to unlock from the Android device manager interface.
3. Click the option ‘lock,” and you be redirected to a new page.
4. In the new page, put in a temporary password, pattern or pin and click on the option ‘lock’ again.
5. Then a confirmation message will appear below the box with the buttons Ring, Erase and Lock.
6. Next is to key in a temporary password in the new password field.
7. After doing that, your phone will be unlocked, then go to settings and disable the temporary password.

Note: This method requires the usage of data to connect your device to internet and You must have a Google Account before you can unlock your phone.

How to Unlock Phone By Using Restore the Factory Settings to Remove Password

This method requires you reset your phone to factory default which is termed restore factory settings. This method is very effective ut all your data will be lost after it has been done.
Follow these steps to reset your Android device:

1. Switch off your phone
2. Hold down the volume down key and the power key simultaneously for a few seconds. It will fast boot your phone.
3. Then it will redirect you to the Recovery Mode where you will see a red exclamation mark.
4. You can scroll by using only the volume down key. Then go to “wipe data/factory reset “, click it.
5. Once you do that, It will wipe all the settings and data on your phone and the password will be removed if the reset was successful.

How to Unlock Phone By Android Data Recovery Method

Use Android Data Recovery If you don’t have a Google account and also if you don’t want to lose all your data on your phone. Android Data Recovery has password removal tool embedded into its program which can remove the password, Pin, Patterns or finger print in a few minutes without any form of any data loss.

Follow this steps to unlock your phone:

1. Download and install Android Data Recovery on a computer.
2. Open the program and click “Unlock” from the main window. After that, the program will bring up a new window.
3. Connect your phone to the computer with a USB cable.
4. Get your Android phone into Download mode. The Download mode may take up to a minute.
5. Then click “Start” button when your phone was in Download mode. The program will start to download corresponding recovery package required by the program.
6. After the download is complete, Android Data Recovery will start to analyze the device and remove the password. This will take only a few minutes and the good part of this is, there isn’t any data loss during the process.

Android Data Recovery doesn’t only help in unlocking your phone, it also helps in retrieving deleted files from your Android internal memory and SD card.

I hope this guide helped you in unlocking your phone. Don’t Forget to share this article.