On 28/10/2014 08:53, The Medway Handyman wrote:
Granddaughter has a cheap no name Android tablet - and has forgotten the
4 digit password.

It only appears to have a power button and a volume control.

You get 5 attempts at entering a password, then you have to wait 30
seconds to try again.

Google has not been my friend.

Any suggestions?

Assuming it is a digit only password then there are 10000 of them.

Tell her to start at 0000 and work upwards by brute force.
It will take about 2000 x 30s or 1000 minutes to do it by brute force.
It will certainly teach her patience.

Or get her to try and remember what digits were definitely in it.

If she can remember all the digits in the passkey then it reduces to 4!
= 24 ~ under 3 minutes.

I presume you have already tried obvious ones like 1234 0000 1111 etc.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown