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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
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? -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
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? Well if it was an iphone I'd say that there are ways of doing a hard reset that will force it back to factory settings. Maybe something similar is possible. Tim |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:23:09 AM UTC, Tim+ wrote:
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? Well if it was an iphone I'd say that there are ways of doing a hard reset that will force it back to factory settings. Maybe something similar is possible. Tim http://www.howtogeek.com/130611/how-...-it-wont-boot/ |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message ... 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? http://www.howtogeek.com/130611/how-...-it-wont-boot/ michael adams .... -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
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? You can do a hard/factory reset, but loses everything on the phone. If its an older android, there are some ways of bypassing the lock. Does she know what version she was running ? |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
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 |
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The Medway Handyman wrote: Granddaughter has a cheap no name Android tablet - and has forgotten the 4 digit password. [...] Any suggestions? Get her a Lego Mindstorms set and help her to build a robot to try each combination in turn. -- Richard |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:53:53 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:
Any suggestions? Birthday/date of birth, part of phone number, bank card pin? -- TOJ. |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
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The Medway Handyman wrote: Granddaughter has a cheap no name Android tablet - and has forgotten the 4 digit password. [...] Any suggestions? Have you tried suggestions on this page https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3388218?hl=en you might have to do a bit of image searching to identify the manufacturer |
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OT ish; Unlocking an Android tablet
So its just numbers then?
Probably something obvious. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "The Medway Handyman" wrote in message ... 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? -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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