Why can't I sign into my HTC phone with all the new protection it has put in place ?

[AC Question]

when i try to get my phone to open , it wants a password which i gave it then it goes to draw a shape, then to the locked screen then it starts the whole process over again. It now it goes to a locked answer page that says if I try to open and fail two more times it will revert back to factory default setting and i will lose al my data on my phone. what do i do now??????
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