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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.

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• Select Share to allow them full access to your computer. To end a sharing session, click Stop Sharing. The access code will only work once. If you are sharing your computer, you will be asked to confirm that you want to continue to share your computer every 30 minutes. Access a computer remotely. On your computer, open Chrome.
• Go to the Scan menu (making sure that your computer is on the logon screen) and pull to refresh (uses Wi-Fi) or press the add button and use the preferred method of unlocking. Select your computer and press Save. Now, go to the Accounts menu, tap the 3-dot menu button of the computer.
• If you have a Samsung account, simply visit the website, and enter your login credentials. With this, you will be able to access your phone data, and hence, can unlock your screen and recover all crucial data, by connecting your device and PC. There is yet another way to get your data backup from your broken Android device.
• If you need to unlock the remote computer after closing the Remote Desktop Connection, here's a trick which you can use to force RDP to disconnect without locking the session and logged local user back in on the local console screen upon disconnection of Remote Desktop Connection.

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)

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.

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:

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.

More proven methods to unlock your phone submitted by our readers

It's possible that none of the options above got you passed the lock screen. Luckily, some of our readers struggling with that issue were able to find even more creative ways to bypass their lock screen and were so kind to share them. We're extremely thankful for that!

We haven't tested them throroughly on multiple devices or Android versions, so we cannot promise that those will work for you. However, a number of people managed to access their phone again and we hope you'll do so as well.

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Submitted by starr:

1. Call your locked phone from another one.
2. Accept the call and hit the back button during the call
3. This should give you complete access to your phone
4. Go to your phone's security settings and try to remove the pin or pattern. To do so, you first need to put in the current one, which you obviously don't know anymore. The only way is to guess and try out different combinations until you get it right. Should you get this far, then you can disable the pin or set a new one.

Submitted by Zubairuddin Buriro (probably only applicable to LG phones):

Zubairuddin's very creative method can help you out in case you're Wifi and data connection are both turned off. As mentioned above, this method might only work on LG phones, since it relies on LG's native quick memo app.

1. Press and hold the volume up key, until the Quick Memo app launches.
2. Draw something random into it.
3. Tap the sharing button and select SmartShare.
4. Selecting SmartShare should activate your phone's Bluetooth and Wifi (important here is Wifi).
5. Make sure you're close to a Wifi network that you're phone connects to automatically.
6. Now, you're back online and you can go ahead and try all the methods discussed above that require a data connection.

Erase your phone (and lock screen) using Android Device Manager

If all the methods above didn't work out, you need to move on to more drastic measures. In case Android Device Manager is enabled on your phone and unlocking it didn't work, you can use it to erase all data by selecting the Erase button. Be aware that this will delete all apps, settings and other data on your phone. The good thing is, once the erasing process is done, you can use your phone again (after setting everything up).

Reset your phone to factory settings

If Android Device Manager doesn't work at all for you, your last resort is to make a factory reset on your device. On Nexus devices, this can be done in recovery mode, for example. Below, we take you through the reset process that work with Nexus devices. If you own a different Android phone, check out this site and look for your manufacturer's support page.

How to perform a factory reset on your Nexus using recovery mode:

Important note:If your Nexus device is running Android 5.1 or higher, you're required to enter a Google username and password associated with your device after the factory reset process finishes. This is a security measure to make sure that no stranger is reseting your phone or tablet. If you fail to enter that data, the phone won't be usable anymore. Really make sure you know your Googel username and password.

No matter what version of Android you're running, you need to have an internet connection and if you just changed your Google account password, you need to wait at least 72 hours before starting the reset process.

1. Turn off your device.
2. Press the volume down AND power button and keep pressing them. Your device will start up and boot into the bootloader (you should see 'Start' and an Android lying on its back).
3. Press the volume down button to go through the different options until you see 'Recovery Mode' (pressing volume down twice). Now press the power button to enter recovery mode.
4. You should see an Android on its back and a red exclamation mark.
5. Press and hold the power button, then press and release the volume up button. Now you should see 'Android Recovery' written on the top together with some options.
6. By pressing the volume down button, go down the options until 'Wipe data/factory reset' is selected. Press the power button to select this option.
7. Using the volume down button again, go down until 'Yes – erase all user data' is selected. Make sure you read through the notes above and then, finally, press the power button to start the reset process.
8. Once the process is done, press the power button to select the reboot option. Your device will now reboot and start the inital setup process of your device. That's it! All you need to do now is to set up everything and restore your data.

You can also check out Google's official page and follow the instructions there.

As already mentioned earlier, be aware that reseting or erasing your device will delete all data like apps, settings, videos and pictures.

Last words

Should you set up a new lock screen PIN or pattern. Make sure to write down the numbers or pattern on a piece of paper or in a text file on your computer to avoid that hassle the next time. If you run into any problems using the methods above, feel free to leave a comment.

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Your Android smartphones screen is the most crucial component and without the touch screen, you won't be able to navigate, swipe, send text, save contacts, check emails or perform any task that requires finger touch. So, if the most painful moment has arrived in your life and for some reason you have broken the screen then it will be tremendously difficult to assess your phone because mostly likely you already added a passcode, pin or pattern on it

The touch screen immediately stops responding when you break the phones screen and hence, there will be no way to enter your password or draw the pattern lock. This could be a real issue because without entering the password you won't be able to recover the data from your phone which is your last hope to save the important files and documents from your phone.

In this chapter, we will demonstrate how to access Android phone with broken screen and retrieve data from it so that you can restore them on your new phone. Try any method shared in this guide and you should be able to unlock Android phone with password protection.

Method 1: How to Access Screen-Broken Android via OTG Adapter

This method requires you to buy a mouse and an OTG adapter to establish a connection between the phone and the mouse. Mouse can't be connected to Android directly and that's why we need an OTG Adapter as a medium.

Step 1: Connect a OTG adapter to your phone as well as the mouse.

Step 2: Reboot your phone and wait for it to recognize the mouse.

Step 3: If the connection is successful then you should be able to draw the pattern of your phone and unlock it.

However, it can only crack pattern lock and not text password. In addtion, many smartphones can't recognize the mouse as an input device.

Method 2: How to Access Android with ADB Interface

This part requires a certain level of computer expertise since it will require you to code some program before accessing your phone. ADB command is a software used to connect your phone to PC without using any external third party program. This program works fabulously if your Android phone is working abnormally.

Step 1: Install ADB on your computer and launch it. A command prompt like window will open.

Step 2: Copy and paste the following code on the ADB window and press enter.

Adb shell
echo 'persist.service.adb.enable=1' >>/system/build.prop
echo 'persist.service.debuggable=1' >>/system/build.prop
echo 'persist.sys.usb.config=mass_storage,adb' >>/system/build.prop' Free text processor.

Step 3: Restart your smartphone and it should now appear on the computer screen. Simply recover all the files from your smartphone and save them on your PC.

This method is only eligible for computer programmers. Beginners should stay away from this method as running any wrong command will permanently brick your phone. And USB Debugging mode should be enabled on your phone.

Method 3: How to Unlock Android with Screen Removal Software

If you find the above methods too complicated or not working then it is time to pull out the big guns and take assistant from third party Android screen removal programs. There are too many software available on the internet but we are going to recommend the best among them which is Android Lock Screen Removal.

Why Android Lock Screen Removal is so Special?

Simply because it can remove the password from your smartphone without you touching it at all. It can bypass any kind of lock screen protection such as text, PIN and pattern password and with the latest version of this program, now you can even unlock fingerprint passwords as well. The main specialty of this tool is that it won't delete anything from your phone and you will be able to safely recover them from your smartphone.

It requires no coding skills and works with most Android smartphone brands such as Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, LG, etc. It is certainly the safest way to unlock your phone without any data damage.

Step 1: You need to install the tool on a Mac or Windows computer first.

Step 2: Click 'Remove Screen Lock ' tab and connect your phone to PC with a USB data cable. Then select the device information on the main interface.

Step 3: Click on 'Start' from the main interface of the software and reboot your Android in Download mode by pressing Power, Home and Volume Down buttons together.

Step 4: Android Lock Screen Removal tool will now download the required and necessary recovery packages by its own and at this point make sure not to disconnect your phone or else the process will horribly fail.

Step 5 : After finishing the downloading process, the program will automatically remove the password from your smartphone without causing any data loss at all. You may now copy all the files from your phone and save it on your PC.

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All methods shared in this article are valid and working but honesty speaking that the first two methods requires a lot of technical skills and any mismanagement will totally destroy your phone. Android Screen Lock Removal tool is way more efficient and very less complicated. You only have to connect your phone and let the software do the rest of your job. We will hope that you were able to access your Android phone after this and try to buy a case cover and screen protector for your new phone to avoid any physical damage. In addition, you can also use Androidphonesoft tool to access locked Windows PC with inputting the correct password.

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