Recent content by BinkyBean

No, the phone does not offer any opportunity to unlock it with Google. And I have used ADM and that did not override the original password. Despite what other people have said in many places, the phone remains locked. You're right about the contacts and photos, of course. Thanks for the...

Well, I got an answer back from my carrier, stating definitively that there is nothing but a factory reset that will get around that lockout screen. I'm not sure I'm willing to accept this as final, but that seems to be their only solution. Should I just give up and lose all my contacts...

I liked that suggestions, but that didn't work either. It opens at the password screen, but in Safe Mode. It won't accept anything I can think of, and definitely not the password I set when I installed Android Pay. Any other ideas?