Thursday, July 11, 2013

Forgotten Android Pattern Lock: How To Reset/Unlock Pattern Without Internet Access

Due to security measures in android, when you enter the wrong pattern too many times, the phone locks. The situation worsens if you were not connected to the internet before all that but the good news is you don't have to worry because there are solutions to that.

You only have two options left to get your phone back to normal condition.

First Option

  1. Download this zip file here and save it in your sdcard. Please remember where you've saved it.
  2. Enter into recovery mode by pressing and hold the Volume up button + the power for sometime until the phone displays a screen with four or five options depending on phone that are scroll-able using the volume buttons (Please confirm the exact procedure for entering recovery mode for your phone but that's it for most phones).
  3. Scroll to the 'wipe the cache partition' option and press the power button to select.
  4. Now select 'install zip from sdcard' and navigate to where you'd previously saved the zip file on your sdcard and select apply zip file.
  5. Reboot. You're done!

This method will reset only the unlock pattern and everything in your phone will remain as before including settings and installed apps.

Second Option
This method involves performing a factory reset to your phone meaning you'll lose all the third party apps installed in your phone.

  • Enter recovery mode.
  • Now select wipe data/factory reset option. This takes a while. 
  • When done, select reboot system now. Done!


Hope my article helps you, please leave a comment and let me know

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