Forgot Pin on Galaxy S5 and locked out?

[awriternot]

I had to factory reset the Memo Pad. There is no recovery..

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[Sarge3]

Not entirely correct. Device Manager WILL NOT let you replace a forgotten password.
It just locates a phone and/or resets everything. It only asks for PW for google eMail account to sign-in
I remember my PW but I want to remove it.... the lock feature is really cumbersome. I should have
looked if I could remove the lock later; but, alas I did not. Now I have to ask how to
remove my PW lock on my SGS3 with version 4.4.2.
Can anyone help? thanks.

 

[Sarge3]

How do I unlock my SGS3 with version 4.4.2? I know the PW. But the security section doesn't support an unlock!

 

[SmashedPumpkins]

The Lock option lets you reset the password/PIN.

Thanks for this... I'm glad I didn't have to wipe my phone.

 

[Moshood Sulaiman]

I just purchased a new S5 G900 galaxy phone and the moment i powered it on, it requires me to put in my pin number even without my sim card being put in the phone. I have contacted the seller and i was told to put i the pin for my sim card which i did but still the same problem. What can i do.

 

[Chane C]

MAN!!!

Phone was locked ALL damn day and got home, refusing to master reset, luckily, the way I was told to do it was wrong so I did some research and found this forum, and Google Android Device Manager is a ******* life saver! The lock option changed my security so I could get access to my phone again and not lose any of my things. I <3 Google all damn day, and the people who suggested the device manager. You all are the bees knees for reals!

Thank you.

 

[Rajani Manmatharajan]

So I downloaded Foxfi, which required me to put a pin on the phone. I put one in, but apparently I put in a different pin than I intended.
So now I'm locked out of my phone which has a pin password. Is there any way to get by this without a factory reset?

I have tried intentionally getting the pin incorrect, but not forgot pin or opportunity arises to log in via Google, in which case I would have my phone back.

I have also tried using Android Device Manager, but it is requiring me to "Set Up Lock And Erase" before I do anything on that.

I have also tried hooking up the phone to my computer, but the internal storage won't mount until I get the passcode right and mount the device.

 

[Maria Cruz2]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Android DEVICE manager saved me.... wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[Robert Coccaro Jr]

This worked perfectly. Thanks!

 

[Lorraine Clark]

The google locator worked and I was able to reset my password. So happy.....I do not know why everyone didn't see your post either.

 

[Ashlee Andreasen]

Ah, thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED! After At&t and Samsung telling me i would have to reset my phone. Loging in and doing this process i didn't have to!!!!

 

[Sunny Odaro]

pls how can i unlock my samsung s5 alternative lock

 

[alfred cruz18]

Thanks a bunch man!! You're a lifesaver IBMJunkman!!! I was honestly just about to reboot the damn thing cuz I was getting annoyed but then I saw your post and thought, "what the heck, I'll give it a try.." and BAM!! Took less than 5 mins for me to fix the problem! Thanks again bud!

 

[pfgolfer]

Similar thing happened to me. Annoyed with fingerswipe so I changed to a pin code. The first time I entered the pin code it told me it was incorrect. Not sure how that happened since I set it up 5 minutes before with a pin code I'm familiar with but oh well. All searches turned up nothing except this one. My carrier, Sprint, was of no help. Seemed like they're not really trained for something like this. Samsung was no help either, even though I have a Samsung account, and said to contact the carrier. Luckily I had enabled Android Device Manager under Google settings to allow find, lock, and erase. I'm too new to post links but I logged into my google account, went to google.com slash android slash device manager. Then went to lock to set a password which overrides whatever security lock you have on your phone, logged into my phone and I was back in business. I really didn't want to do a factory reset because I'm lazy and I have no idea what is saved to the phone opposed to the SD card. Thanks to everyone on this thread for all their input, it really helped!

 

[banilov]

How do i get the device manager when my phone is locked?

 

[AZgl1500]

How do i get the device manager when my phone is locked?

What he is saying is, you must log into the Google device manager from your PC. Once that is done, and only IF you have previously set up a Google Device Manager account, you can unlock the phone from your PC and reset the pincode.

All you need to do is search for these words:

google device manager

https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager




The very first item will be what you want. Sign in, unlock your phone, and away you go.

 

[leeleeplum]

none of these are working
I got sick of the finger swipe so changed it to a 4 digit pin (which I had to confirm by repeating it, I did not get it wrong!) and now it is saying incorrect pin!
I've tried at least 5x 50 times with all sorts of pins and it is not working
I went onto android google device manager page thing, and it doesn't have any options except for:
Locate (which it can't even do, and my phone is right next to my laptop!)
ring (which it still hasn't done after about 1/2 hour ago pressing on tat option)
and enable erase, when i click on that, it says requesting enable erase with admin, or something.
Please help! i don't care about erasing it anymore I just need to get on it!
Curse the day i changed from iPhone to samsung

 

[ttorrell]

Thank you for posting this otherwise I would have had to go into the store at the mall (during xmas hours!) to fix this. I think there must be a glitch with samsung if everyone is having the same issue of changing their passwords only to have samsung tell you its the incorrect pin! I changed from finger swipe to a pin and it said I had the wrong pin however I knew I did not have the wrong pin.
Now that this has happened, I want to back up my phone so i dont have to go through the care of losing everything. How do i do this now

thanks! O

 

[ttorrell]

Hi

I too changed from samsung to iphone to samsung again! I like the samsung much better but it sucks that everyone else has an i phone so you cant group text with them etc. Anyway...I just did the same thing you did and I too know that I did not have the wrong pin even though it said i did! I only ever use two different pins so if it isnt one of those then this phone is messed up. It must be a glitch. If you go to android device manager online, there should be three options for you: Ring, Lock or Erase. If you choose Lock, you can change the pin and this will reset your phone without losing everything. I just did this two seconds ago and it worked! Phew. Good luck!

 

[Leah Zweihorn]

Thank you SO much to the person who posted about the device manager link!
I went through this process once before on a blackberry tablet and lost everything and vowed never to use their products again.
And here I was with the same problem on my Samsung phone.
BUT IT WORKED!!
That site allowed me to login, remotely lock and reset the password and voila!! I was in.
THANK YOU!!!