[Pattern Lock] Unlocking
a Pattern/PIN locked device
Hi guys, here I come with
a useful tutorial and I think would be helpful for you. I know how accidental
this might happen, how messy it is to have drew a wrong pattern to the extent
that your phone now demands a Google mail login (Gmail). It is quite easy as I
believe you would have paired earlier, a google account with your phone. It’s
also a difficult thing for those people whom didn’t or might not have a google
account with the phone.
Disclaimer: Do
at your risk. We are not responsible for any damages caused and hacking
someone’s phone is a crime.
What type of Phone Chip does this Steps work with?
In case you don’t know, will
be explaining few details here strictly for both MTK and Spreadtrum devices as
it is the only assured guides that we guarantee for you, other platforms like
Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Intel - Qoura aren’t compatible.
However, we have
providing two ways of overcoming this problem and the most guaranteed method
requires a PC which am sure won’t be a problem for you. Don’t panic if any of
these steps doesn’t work for you, the only way out would only involve you
flashing your phone. Meanwhile, you should click here on how you can flash
(reload) your phones firmware.
USING CUSTOM/STOCK RECOVERY (MTK)
Let’s try something which
I am very sure won’t be possible with some Android MTK devices – before jumping
to the next step. Let’s assume you still have a stock recovery, boot to
recovery all by (press and hold power and volume up key). There shouldn’t or
should be a “no command” screen with an Android logo. Press volume up/down,
home/power key until you get to stock recovery where you see apply update, wipe
user data/caches. Use wipe user data to see if your phone is fixed. Otherwise,
follow the next paragraph!
Using Custom recovery is
one among the possible ways to unlock your phone, it would have been great if
you had already installed custom recovery on your phone otherwise, you will
need a PC in order to get this step done. Or better still, you check other
alternatives. Custom recoveries (recovery.img) often have the ability to create
and restore device backup. They allow you to install Custom roms/kernels and
MODs but in this post, it is also giving you the ability to unlock your locked
phone.
Procedures for MTK Phones only
1.
You
will have to download Aroma file manager here. Move it to Sdcard
2.
Now,
boot to recovery (press and hold power and volume up key) at the same time
don’t release until it boots to recovery. In some chips, you should release the
button ones a boot logo appears.
3.
Then,
use volume down/up to highlight and power button to choose highlighted.
Actually, some recoveries don’t work like that, you’d use volume up to choose
highlighted while volume down highlights. All these won’t be necessary on
recoveries that support touch TWRP or Philz to be precise.
4.
Now,
choose Install from Sd card or Apply update from SD/external select aroma file
manager which you downloaded above. After flashing, the aroma file manager will
open. Use volume keys as explained above.
5.
In
aroma file manager, go to menu which is located in button strip and select
settings. Here highlight and select “mount all partition in startup” then exit.
6.
After
exit, re-update aroma file manager (using step 4).
7.
Now
go to data and select system. Then find “gesture.key”
(for pattern lock) and or “password.key”
(for password lock), now touch and hold “gesture.key”
or password.key and some option will
be prompted, choose delete to delete that file. Thus; the pattern/PIN is
learned to have saved in the” .key”
file, so deleting the “.key” should
be the most important thing here.
Note: After booting and it asks for pattern/PIN,
just try some random pattern/PIN.
USING STOCK RECOVERY (Spreadtrum)
Unlocking Spreadtrum
devices by recovery – that is, switch off your phone, press and hold power and
volume down key. Release once it brings a boot logo. Now, highlight and choose
wipe user data. This works with some itel and tecno spreadtrum devices.
USING CGP DRAGON
You should check here if
the above doesn’t work, one must work out of two. Download CGP dragon or
Miracle Box. These depends on the type of lock screen you are having. CGP works
for pattern locked and Miracle works for PIN locked. Download Spreadtrum
drivers here.
Extract CGP dragon to
desktop using winrar. Goto desktop open CGP folder, right click CGP Dragon.exe
and run as administrator. A window of CGP D. should appear navigate to SPD and
tick format. Now in the dropdown menu options, select your device chips e.g 8810
Android or 6820 Android. Now tick only Format_UserData then click START.
Turn of your device,
remove it’s battery and insert it back. Now hold volume down button. While
doing that connect the phone to the computer via USB cable and place the
battery.
Immediately, CGP Dragon
will detect the phone and the process will start. Don’t remove until you see
Format_UserData…Success in green color. Ignore any fail log you might get.
Disconnect and reboot your device. It’s as simple as that.
CONCLUSION: Doing this
all requires your effort, it is only explained here, easily how you could
overcome a locked phone problem. However, we are not responsible for any damage
you might cause to yourself. You are doing it at your own risk.
NB: With all the outlined
steps, if you are still finding it difficult to unlock your phone please kindly
email us via any of the contact channel on our blog for technical support. And
remember, the comment box is always yours.
