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They require a proof of purchase, which I do not still have from 2021.

Google cannot seem to find this phone.

Thanks, but the Vol Up button does not work either, although the result is different -- it causes the phone to reboot.

Yes, that is exactly where I got the instructions which I followed.

Thanks for the reply. However, I have tried exactly this maneuver with this phone at least a dozen times, always with the same result. It simply turns on to the login screen. So I took it to Geek Squad at Best Buy and asked the techie there to show me how to hard reset it, and he could not...

I have a Blue V50 phone, circa 2021, probably Android 8 - 9, to which I have lost the PIN, and therefore wish to do a hard reset. But the described method for bringing up the boot loader -- pressing the volume-up and on-off buttons together, does not bring up the boot loader. It merely starts...

Pressing the lock button causes the app to launch immediately -- short or long press.

Here is a screenshot.

I do not want to remove it, just remove the lock that keeps it in my recent apps list.

No, definitely no such option. :(

But there is no "security-›device administrator". I have looked through all the settings. Nowhere to unlock an app.

Thanks very much for the reply. Unfortunately the reference you gave does not correspond to my phone. I do not find any "unlock" option.