so almost had phone stolen and feel i need to protect my personal,valuable information...... i don't care for the pattern or signature so which is better pin or password? password is consider according to the device high in security level.... next question is how many attemps are given for phone locks you completely out ? how do you recover it besides are hard reboot? all my info in backed up on drives such as att,google...... my phone is a samsung note 3 thru att...