my screen is locked and i forgot my password

[EMTStacy]

i kept my old galaxy s3 because it had importants texts on it. when i powqered it up today to retrieve those texts the screen was locked and asked for my password. i've tried 7 of 10 available tries and it's threatening to do a factory reset if i pit the wrong password in 3 more times.HELP PLEASE!!!:'(

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Sorry, there isn't much you can do there. You could try Android Device Manager on the web, but from what I've seen, it doesn't actually allow you to change the password remotely. Samsung's Find My Mobile is another possibility.

 

[Rom-er]

i kept my old galaxy s3 because it had importants texts on it. when i powqered it up today to retrieve those texts the screen was locked and asked for my password. i've tried 7 of 10 available tries and it's threatening to do a factory reset if i pit the wrong password in 3 more times.HELP PLEASE!!!:'(

I know its an old post but just in case someone else has the issue.

If you can root your phone and get a custom recovery installed you can use that custom recovery to make a nandroid backup then you can do a factory reset in recovery and reboot the phone and the password will be removed, then you restore the text messages back on to the device from the backup that you made then you can view the texts again.

Again

1)root your device

2)install custom recovery

3) make a nandroid backup in recovery(this will save your texts in the backup)

4) after making the backup and while still in recovery, find the factory reset option and factory reset(this removes password).

5) reboot device, restore the text messages from the backup to view the texts.

Those are the steps, you can find instructions for how to do each step with some simple Google searches including what you are looking for along with your model number, this will tell you how to root your model number, how to install custom recovery for your model number. Creating the backup and restoring the texts is the same for every model but root and recovery have to be for your model number and not another.