HOW TO FACTORY RESET OR UNLOCK PASSWORD PROTECTED ANDROID PHONE

Every Android smart phone users lock their smart phone with a password or pattern lock. This lock offers a safety to your phone and no unauthorized user can touch your phone with the help of these locks. This lock offers you an advantage that your permission or knowledge is necessary for touching your phone. We bring you some methods to unlock password protected android phone.

But locking your android smart phone could be a challenge some times. With android phones locking becomes frustrating at times if by mistake you provide a wrong password or PIN to your phone or use a wrong pattern for unlocking your phone which you have locked earlier. If you make some failed attempts to unlock your phone then for the safety reasons android technology automatically locks your Smartphone. One can try these two simple methods that help in bypassing the locked instances on the mobile. This unlocking can be done either by a factory reset password locked Android phone or by using an App.

Method 1: Screen Lock Bypass:

Screen lock Bypass is an Android application which helps in unlocking the password locked phone very quickly with the help of users Google account. But the application is not available for free which is the major disadvantage attached to it. This App has to be purchased before use:

Ways of Using this App:

This app cannot be installed on the phone when the phone is already locked thus one as to make use of their personal computer for remotely installing this app on the Android phone. This is the method for it:

• Before starting the procedure unplug the charger from your device.
• In the browser of the computer go to Play Store
• Use the Google account and sign in ( try using the same Google account that has been used for setting up the Android phone)
• Visit the link for downloading ( buy) screen lock bypass
• Then click on buy or install button
• Select your device from the given list and then continue
• Make the payment and then click on install button
• This will directly download this app on your device.
• After the installation of the App plug the charger back to the device which will activate the App.
• After the bypass one can see an ‘activate’ button which will reset the lock.

Method 2: Factory Reset Password/Hard the Locked Android Phone

This method requires the hard resetting of the password for the locked Android phone. Factory reset will wipe off all the data from the Smartphone.

Procedure:

• Use power button and switch off the device.
• Reboot the device in recovery mode by holding and pressing the volume and power buttons together.
• Navigate to factory reset by volume up and down key. Then press home button to select.
• Confirm the decision of factory resetting of the android phone.
• Wait until the entire process is completed.
• Select the reboot option after the entire process and it’s done.

Any of the above mentioned methods can be followed for unlocking the android phones.