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.
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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