Forgot your Android lock screen pattern, PIN or password?

Unlock your Android device using Android Device Manager (ADM)

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. backup-pin.

Bypass your Samsung phone’s lock screen using its Find My Mobile tool

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 sideabar, 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.

find-my-mobile-unlock 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.