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Phone locked with pattern lock

Hey Friends !
My friend messed up with pattern lock of HTC DESIRE and tried many wrong pattern and now phone locked and asking gmail password to unlock, unfortunately he forgot his gmail password since no longer using gmail.
Please help any solution for this to unlock phone ?
Thanks in advance !
Sorry, if already there is related thread.

Probably the only way he can do this without losing his data is to go to gmail and use the can't access your account link to retrieve his password. Otherwise you'll have to factory reset the phone. There may be other ways which i am unsure though.

On the unlock screen, attempt to enter your unlock pattern five times. When prompted to wait for 30 seconds, tap OK. If the display goes off, press the POWER button to turn the display back on, and then press the bar on the lock screen and slide your finger down to unlock the screen. Tap the Forgot Pattern button in the lower right corner when it appears. Enter your Google Account name and password, and then tap Sign in. You are then prompted to create a new screen unlock pattern. If you no longer want to use a screen unlock pattern to secure your phone, tap Cancel.

I know u dont remember the account but maybe theres some other option there.
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go to recovery > wipe data (factory reset)

If you can't get your gmail password back (through the reset function), Your only option might be unfortunately to reset the phone...

Thanks guys for advises
Unfortunately, can not retrieve gmail password too... guys I don't want to loose may data, any alternative solution for this?
If not I have to do factory reset at last

omegfa said:
go to recovery > wipe data (factory reset)
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How to enter recovery ?
What is Key combination for factory rest ?

ShresthasR said:
Thanks guys for advises
Unfortunately, can not retrieve gmail password too... guys I don't want to loose may data, any alternative solution for this?
If not I have to do factory reset at last
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Try nandroid backup your phone and see if you can extract the data out. For recovery, turn the phone off, press Vol down while pressing the power button and press volume button to point recovery and confirm with power button.
Sent from my HTC Original Desire with Android 4.0.4 ICS using Tapatalk

You can also delete the gesture.key to remove the pattern lock via adb.
If USB debugging is enabled :
Code:
adb shell rm /data/system/gesture.key
If not, go on recovery, mount all and delete gesture.key with adb !
Or crack it http://forensics.spreitzenbarth.de/2012/02/28/cracking-the-pattern-lock-on-android/ a bit difficult.

dqb said:
You can also delete the gesture.key to remove the pattern lock via adb.
If USB debugging is enabled :
Code:
adb shell rm /data/system/gesture.key
If not, go on recovery, mount all and delete gesture.key with adb !
Or crack it http://forensics.spreitzenbarth.de/2012/02/28/cracking-the-pattern-lock-on-android/ a bit difficult.
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Good bit of info to know
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Thanks guys for your helps and suggestions
But guys I unlocked by very simple tricks
Just exposed the screen in light & see the trace mark of previously drawn lock series.
I got the finger marks ... here we done, unlocked cell

[Q] [help]Unlocking pattern problem

Dear all, I have a htc wildfire s. yesterday my younger brother try to unlock my phone without knowing the unlocking pattern. He tried so many times that my phone was completely locked. now i have to enter my Google account username and password to access my phone. but no matter what format i entered, it just kept saying incorrent username or password. I have very important information stored in my phone and I don't want to lose it. Is there any way to unlock the phone?
many thanks

houjia said:
Dear all, I have a htc wildfire s. yesterday my younger brother try to unlock my phone without knowing the unlocking pattern. He tried so many times that my phone was completely locked. now i have to enter my Google account username and password to access my phone. but no matter what format i entered, it just kept saying incorrent username or password. I have very important information stored in my phone and I don't want to lose it. Is there any way to unlock the phone?
many thanks
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It happened with me once but the device unlocked when I entered my google username and password(and amazingly without any data connection)..
I think it matches the username and password stored in the device(used 2 connect 2 android market,2 sync data etc) to verify(may be thats why it didn't need any data connection..
try this :
-->If u use any different password along with your google account username to connect to 'htc hub' and/or 'htc likes' try those(i don't remember which i used)..
-->try entering null as password. (together with your google username)
-->try entering your username without @gmail.com
-->use both of above two steps together
-->try changing ur google account password via computer and try again..
-->go to htcsense.com and click forget password under sign in and reset ur password following the link sent to ur gmail and then try again
-->Call yourself from another phone, answer, without hanging up press the home button, then menu button, settings, try to disable pattern-lock or change pattern
-->Call yourself from another phone, answer, hang-up, directly after hanging up start pressing your buttons like a madman for <30-60 seconds ending with your home button (might take a while to get the timing right). Go into settings and disable pattern-lock.
-->try first 4 steps without the sim..
other than these saving ur data on devices internal memory will be difficult..factory reset phone or contact service centre(who will also probably factory reset ur phone)..well !! Best of Luck..:fingers-crossed:

If you created device specific password for your phone through "google 2-step verification", you have to enter that password instead of your actual google password...

just restart ur phone nd try ur pattern again.. thats it....

Akhil137 said:
just restart ur phone nd try ur pattern again.. thats it....
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Well he has already reached the point where his device is asking for google username and password to unlock..pattern lock screen is not showing..so he cannot enter his pattern and thats why he needs help..so restarting will not help..

oh.. then he just have to enter its google username nd Password thats it..

Akhil137 said:
oh.. then he just have to enter its google username nd Password thats it..
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and thats where the problem starts..device doesn't recognises username and/or password(as it is with htc devices)..

That happened to me once, I saw it as a opportunity to flash a new rom
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"You can overclock as much as you want, your phone will always seem too slow."

titochan said:
and thats where the problem starts..device doesn't recognises username and/or password(as it is with htc devices)..
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Restore your phone nd then try to enter username
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omnomnomkimiiee said:
That happened to me once, I saw it as a opportunity to flash a new rom
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!! NICE:highfive: !!

HTC M8 pattern password not accepted or resetting.

Somehow my password pattern is suddenly not detectable and it shows as wrong password. As there is no more option in lollipop for "forgot password" and using the gmail account to log in. How do I reset the password on a HTC M8 without doing a reset? I've tried logging into the google account, and I can use the "find" option in the device manager to locate the device, but if i press the "lock" button and try to enter a new password, for a split second it says "We have sent a lock request to the device", but then it says "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed." Wtf is going on? I am stuck with a pattern locked phone of whose password i know but the phone doesnt detect it anymore. Is there another way to reset the password?

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Well.......
Let me start by saying that this is a delicate matter, what if the device is stolen and somebody wants to get the info or device to work without wiping it. I know that this is probably not your intention and that it is hard to prove otherwise. But the possibility could be there in the worst case scenario !
Now don't get the above personal, it's written from another point of view, as i am running HTC phones for the past 6 years and never encountered this all of a sudden at any point. So from my point of view i find it difficult to believe.
To get to your point ...... not sure if it can be done otherwise but to reset the device. Depends if it's rooted or not for instance ?
Cheers

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According to the story, looks like either : 3rd party apps are interfering (can also be malware/virus) OR someone physically got hold of the device and changed the password(perhaps he thinks its his own)
Try restarting the device while holding the volume up button only, android will go into safe mode and disable all 3rd party apps. If the password still doesn't work, then you have 2 options:
1) if S-ON : factory reset and lose all user data
2) if S-OFF or bootloader unlocked: remove password (this is the most details I can give without being an accomplice)

Bypass google account help!

i need help to bypass google account.

Let me help you out here. If you did an untrusted reset (Reset via recovery or ##786# or reset device with google account still on) and then changed your password. You are locked out for 24 hours. It may keep saying "Please enter in the google account on this phone" if you know you have the right account and did an untrusted reset, and reset your password you will have to wait 24 hours before the phone wll let you log back in. It's called android factory reset protection and it cannot be bypassed. There used to be methods but as far as I'm aware these methods have been patched.

Password still available after hard reset

I have a redmi note 8t.
I performed a factory reset and a hard reset (power + vol down) erasing all data. After the reboot, I setup my phone with the same google account. I installed an app of a stream service (its name is infinity) and I got access without password to my profile. My google account has no stored passwords.
To check this behaviour I repeated the procedure.
I removed every google account and I performed a factory reset. Then I performed a hard reset removing all data. This time I set up the phone with a newly created google account. I removed the sd card either.
The first thing I did has been to install this stream service app. Again immediate access.
By the way, if I logout from inside the app at the next access I have to type the password again, but if I uninstall and reinstall this app without logging out, access occurs without password.
I don't understand why it's sufficient to install it after multiple hard reset to have access to my profile.
Thank you
edit:
I checked with another device and this behaviour doesn't occur. Apparently hard reset doesn't erase login credential of this app in this device