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Bypass blocking on Windows background. How to reset a forgotten password on a Microsoft phone. Unlocking a smartphone on Windows Phone. Locking Windows accounts. Recovery instructions. Use the service from the smartphone manufacturer

Everyone knows that Nokia smartphones - Lumia - are very easy to use, high quality and reliable. True, many users are very upset by the closed operating system. Happy owners of Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 have already been able to fix this problem. Available for them full access And custom firmware. But what about the Lumia 610 and 900? Is there no such happiness for them yet?

We hasten to please you: there is a way, and it’s OFFICIAL! But that's just partial unlocking. This involves registering your LiveID account as a developer and gives you access to install applications in *.xap format, bypassing the market. Unlike sewing, this method is completely safe and does not void the warranty.

Let's get started. What need to do?

First, we need a Windows LiveID account. If you are a user Windows Phone, you probably have it. Then go to the website www.dreamspark.com. In a nutshell, this site is intended for students of different educational institutions, which helps them create software for Windows Phone. You need to register on this site. How to do it?

There is a "Students" button in the top menu. Click on it and go down. We see the “Create an account” item. Just below there are two buttons “Login” and “Create an account”. Click "Create"

In the first paragraph, indicate email your Windows LiveID. Then select your language and country. It is best to use Russia, since the market is not fully available for Ukraine.

We minimize this window. Now we must pass the test. The system must believe that we are truly students. For this, the online university intuit.ru will help us

We will be given our “student code”

Enter our student code in the “I have a confirmation code” field. Click continue. Congratulations, you have started your academic career, blah blah blah. Now very important point! You need to match your DreamSpark account and LiveID! Click "Compare data"

The next step is registration on the developer’s website. Go here - http://create.msdn.com/

We see two large signs, select WindowsPhone Dev Center. Click SignIn. Top, right.

We have entered your account information. The same LiveID that was used to register with DreamSpark.

On the next page, select the country - Russia. Account type - "Individual or student"

We also agree to the terms of use. Click next. Again select the item “I`m Student”, click next.

If you did everything correctly, in the next window you will be congratulated on being registered. Go down a little and click "Done"

All. The hardest part is over. Now open the pre-installed Windows Phone Developer Pack. We tear off Windows program Phone Developer Registration.

For everything to go smoothly, connect your device to your computer. Unlock your phone's screen and launch Zune. Now enter your LiveId account details and password with which you registered the developer on AppHub. Click Register. Registration should take place in five to ten seconds.

The phone is registered and now you can upload applications to it without using the Market. To do this, open Application Deploy from the “Windows Phone Developer Tools” folder in the “Start” menu, select the *.xap file, and in the Target item select Windows Phone Device. During this step, the phone screen should be unlocked at all times. Click Deploy. We wait. Voila! The program is downloaded to your phone.

IMPORTANT! Can be installed only three programs Thus! if you want to install more, delete one, upload it to a friend, or buy developer status for $99! :)

Smartphone theft is a big problem. Its scale is so great that the governments of many states and interstate entities have adopted a number of laws aimed at radically reducing the attractiveness of phones in the eyes of thieves. This is how smartphones introduced a mechanism for remote blocking and destruction of data, and later linking the smartphone to the user account, which should make theft pointless. But how effective are these measures really and are they easy to bypass?

The first law aimed at protecting user data was passed in the state of California in 2014. The law spells out a new requirement for all smartphone manufacturers wishing to sell their devices in the state. According to this requirement, from July 1, 2015, manufacturers are required to build in a so-called kill switch, which will allow the owner to remotely block the phone or destroy data.

It should be noted here that remote data destruction has already been used in practice by such manufacturers as Apple (Find My iPhone function), BlackBerry (Protect) and Android (via Android Device manager). In fact, the law has made the use and activation of these functions mandatory. In particular, Microsoft smartphones have caught up: now all new devices sold in the United States have a Find My Phone option.

However, it quickly became clear that the thieves are completely uninterested in the user’s data, which is destroyed by a remote command. All the thief needed was to reset the phone to factory settings as quickly as possible, and then configure it to work with or without a new account.

Manufacturers have tried to improve the existing system by adding linking of devices to the user account and protection that would not allow such linking to be bypassed. According to statistics, these measures worked: after their widespread introduction, smartphone thefts decreased by a very noticeable 40%. How effective these measures really are and how to circumvent them is the topic of today’s article.

Hacking Apple iOS

Factory reset protection: yes, on all relatively modern devices
Remote Lock: Since iOS 4.2 (November 2010)
Reset protection release date: iOS 6 (September 2012)
Geography: all over the world
Firmware downgrade protection: yes, and works great
To remove protection: unlock the device (PIN or fingerprint required), disable Find My iPhone (Apple ID password required)
Current status: protection is working

iOS is a closed system, the code of which is completely controlled by Apple. All relatively fresh iOS versions(and this is about 98% of devices in users’ hands), it is impossible to bypass the moment of device activation. iPhone activation impossible without a “go-ahead” from a server controlled by Apple. Accordingly, if a device is tied to a specific account, then this binding cannot be bypassed without access to the server - at least in theory.

The remote lock feature is enabled by default. Managing this feature is available in the iCloud → Find My iPhone menu:

What happens if a phone with the Find My iPhone function activated Even if an attacker immediately turns off the phone, and then resets it to factory settings or reflash it completely (no problem - this is done easily through iTunes), then the first thing he will see when turning it on is this activation wizard. The phone will need to be activated, for which you must connect to the Internet. As soon as the phone establishes a connection with the Apple server, the activation wizard will ask for the password for the Apple ID that was used before the hard reset.

In older versions of iOS (prior to iOS 6), it was possible to bypass activation. But where have you seen an iPhone with iOS 6? This will most likely never fall into the hands of the average thief, and if it does, its material value tends to zero. Roll back to old version iOS won’t work either: for modern devices, vulnerable versions simply do not exist in nature, and for older devices, very effective protection against downgrading the system version will work. However, even bypassing activation on vulnerable versions of iOS did not allow using the device as a phone; in fact, instead of an iPhone, it turned out to be an iPod Touch.

What if you're just going to sell a phone you're tired of and don't want the buyer to have problems? Everything is simple here, but you will have to do this before you reset the device to factory settings:

Unlock your phone (with fingerprint sensor or password).
Turn off Find My iPhone in iCloud settings.
Enter your Apple ID password.

That's it, you can reset it. Protection is disabled. But an attacker will not be able to disable the protection. To do this, he will have to overcome two levels of protection: screen lock and Apple ID password.

Protection against reset and unauthorized activation in Apple smartphones works great all over the world. It is not possible to bypass it programmatically. Forgot your Apple ID password or deleted your account? Go to the Apple Store or call support, be prepared to present a receipt or other evidence of the legitimacy of ownership of the device. Since the protection is activated on the server side, Apple employees can help when such evidence is presented.

There are hardware ways to bypass the protection. For very old devices, it was enough to re-solder a single capacitor. Modern ones require disassembly, direct access to the memory chip and manual operation of the programmer to change the device identifier. After changing the ID, the device can be activated, but there is not the slightest guarantee that it will continue to do so after the system update. In any case, this method of bypass is too complicated for an ordinary thief, so they try not to mess with the iPhone - the stolen device can only be sold for spare parts.

Android

Factory reset protection: on some devices (if Android 5.1 or higher is installed, and the device was released with Android 5.0 or higher firmware) via Google Services
Remote lock: optional via Android Device Manager (December 2013), all Android versions 2.2 and higher
Reset protection release date: Android 5.1 (February 2015)
Geography: worldwide, except China
Firmware downgrade protection: depending on the manufacturer and model of the device; doesn't work more often than it works
To remove protection: unlock the device, delete Google Account (no password required)
Current status: works without any problems on most devices

Let's agree: we are now talking exclusively about devices with Google Android, that is, with GMS services installed out of the box. The author is aware of the existence of Mi Protect and similar systems in Chinese smartphones and knows how to bypass them. With an unlocked bootloader, this is so simple that it is of no interest (and no, no response from the Xiaomi server is required at all in the case of Mi Protect).

So, the ability to remotely reset or lock a phone in Android appeared a long time ago, at the end of 2013. Moreover, interestingly, this opportunity is not tied to a specific version operating system(which can be either old or very old with no chance of updating), but is provided by Google Mobile Services (GMS) mechanisms and the Android Device Manager application.

No need to be surprised if your device runs under Android control 5.1 or 6.0 and does not have such protection. Like many Android features, this one is left at the discretion of the manufacturer, so they may or may not include it in their devices. However, manufacturers of the first and second echelons, as a rule, activated this feature in devices of the 2015 and 2016 model years. And here's to Chinese smartphones This is not the case at all: the lack of GMS in China and the resulting lack of requirements for device certification leads to a widespread disregard for safety.

An important point: if the bootloader in the device is not locked or can be unlocked, then any protection will be bypassed in a few movements. We won’t even consider this path, it’s not interesting. Things are more interesting with models in which the bootloader is locked and cannot be unlocked using standard means.

First, let's figure out under what circumstances the protection is triggered. I’ll note right away that there is no specific option in the settings: the protection is activated by itself if certain conditions match. So, if you have a phone running Android 5.1 or 6, then reset protection is activated automatically under the following circumstances:

The user has set a secure screen lock (PIN, password or pattern).
At least one Google Account has been added to the device.

Once the latter of the two conditions is met, hard reset protection is automatically activated. To disable it, it is not enough to remove the PIN code from the screen lock. When you disable the PIN code, you will see a menacing message about deactivating the protection, but in reality this does not happen! In order to remove the protection, you must delete all credentials. Google posts from Settings → Accounts.

If you don’t do this, then this is what you will see when you try to configure the device after a reset:

You will have to log into the device with the exact account that was active before the reset. Moreover, if you had two-factor authentication configured, then you will also have to get a one-time code from somewhere - a non-trivial task for a simple user if he did not bother to configure Google app Authenticator on another device.

Before moving on to hacking the scheme described above, let's note a few non-obvious things.

Firstly, Google has provided an interesting additional anti-theft measure. If you change the password for your account, you will not be able to activate the device after a hard reset for 24 hours from the moment you changed the password. Just a few months ago you would have had to wait 72 hours, but Google received too many complaints from angry users.

And second. I already wrote that Google Device Protection (that’s what it’s officially called) does not work in the case of an unlocked bootloader. Accordingly, enabling the OEM unlocking feature in the Developer Setting should seemingly lead to deactivation of the protection. And indeed, we can see this message:

However, in reality, hard reset protection is not deactivated, nor is it deactivated when the screen lock PIN is removed. The only way disable protection - remove all Google accounts from Settings - Accounts.

We've sorted this out. Now let's see how the protection can be bypassed.

It turns out that it’s not easy to get around, but very simple. For now, let’s leave behind the possibility of downgrading the firmware version to Android 5.0 or older: after all, such an opportunity (as well as such firmware) is not available for every device.

All you need to do to bypass the lock is to bypass the device activation wizard. If we manage to get to home screen- there will be no talk of any blocking. All working methods are aimed precisely at initiating an abnormal termination of the activation application. One of the methods that works great for Samsung devices, - launch the Setup Wizard application from an external flash drive connected to the phone via an OTG cable. The fact is that Samsung phones In such cases, they automatically launch the built-in Samsung File Explorer.

Another method that works equally well on devices running Android 5.1 and 6.0 from any manufacturer can be viewed on YouTube. As the authors of the article from Android Central note, “even a seven-year-old child can bypass such protection.”

It is important to note here that with the next security patch the gap could have been closed, but has it been received? specific phone- is never known in advance.

Another method is more complicated, but it works even on devices with the July security patch. It's even easier on LG devices. And this is how protection works on new ones (and very attractive to thieves) Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.

In any case, the idea here is the same: get to the main screen of the device in any way, access the settings menu, or the ability to launch any third-party APK. To do this, a wide variety of errors are used in the activation wizard: unexpected Wi-Fi shutdown after setting up the network, buffer overflow, and automatic start third party applications when performing certain actions (for example, connecting a flash drive via OTG). Once you access the main screen, you will be able to launch a modified program initial setup phone, with the help of which any account is added to the device - not necessarily the one to which the phone was originally linked.

Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile

Factory reset protection: on some devices (devices intended for the American market, operating under Windows control Phone 8.1 GDR2 and Windows 10 Mobile)
Remote lock: optional via Find My Phone (WP8 and newer)
Reset protection release date: Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 build 8.10.15127.138 (February 2015)
Geography: USA only
Firmware downgrade protection: yes
To remove protection:
- Windows Phone 8.1: unlock the device, About → Reset your phone, enter your Microsoft Account password
- Windows 10 Mobile: unlock the device, disable Find My Phone → Reset Protection, enter your Microsoft Account password
- Via the web: go to your Microsoft Account at account.microsoft.com/devices, click I don’t own this phone anymore, save the recovery key shown and use the key to unlock your phone
Check blocking status: https://account.microsoft.com/devices/resetprotection
Current status: protection is effective; Detailed studies have not been conducted due to the low distribution of the platform

The share of Windows in phones is less than 4%. There is little interest in these devices from thieves, especially considering that the vast majority of such devices in the hands of users are outright state employees.

Nevertheless, for them, Microsoft has provided protection against hard resets - but only where required by law. But for now it is required only in the United States, so you most likely will not see the menu items described in this article on your device, regardless of Windows versions: Hard reset protection may or may not be activated on Microsoft smartphones at the time of manufacture.

Here's what Microsoft itself writes about its security system:

Reset and reactivation protection - a stolen device cannot be used without entering the Microsoft Account password until reset. Even completely flashing the device using WDRT will not help the attacker.
Anti-rollback protection - protection against downgrading the firmware version. Everything is not so simple here: you can downgrade the firmware version in WRDT, but flashing a version without reset protection (or Country Variant, which does not have such protection) is theoretically impossible. “Theoretically” simply because no one has tried it: the platform is not widely used and the interest in it from researchers is weak. In practice, the Country Variant idea may well work.

Setting up protection against hard reset looks something like this (screenshot from one of the early builds of Windows 10 Mobile; in later builds, the feature became unavailable for non-US devices):

Protection is turned off as standard: Find My Phone → Reset Protection → Off or by entering your Microsoft Account password immediately before resetting the device.

An interesting feature is the platform’s ability to unlink the phone from the Microsoft Account and disable reset protection via the web after the device has been reset without disabling the protection (for example, via WDRT). To do this, just go to account.microsoft.com/devices with your username and password, and then find required device and... But no, simply deleting it from your account is not enough.

Here's what you need to do:

Go to account.microsoft.com/devices.
Click Remove phone.
Save Recovery Key. Be sure to save!
Agree with the message I’m ready to remove my phone and remove the device. Just in case, the Recovery Key should be sent to you by email.
Confirm that you saved the Recovery Key (I’ve kept a copy of the recovery key) and click OK.
Recovery Key will need to be used to activate the phone after a hard reset using the Disable using recovery key option.

Another interesting point: the device’s protection status can be checked by IMEI. In this case, a login and password for a Microsoft Account are not required.

BlackBerry 10

Factory reset protection: yes, on all devices running BlackBerry 10 10.3.2
Remote blocking: available on all devices since the platform was released
Reset protection release date: BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.3.2 (June 2015)
Geography: all over the world
Firmware downgrade protection: yes, but can be bypassed on all builds except 10.3.3 (which has not yet been officially released)
To remove protection: unlock the device, disable BlackBerry Protect, enter your BlackBerry ID password
Alternative method: perform a factory reset through your phone settings, enter your BlackBerry ID password. Disabling after a reset: go to https://protect.blackberry.com/, Manage Devices, select the desired device and click Remove. The protection will be disabled and the device can be activated with a new account
Current status: works without any problems on most devices

BlackBerry phones were touted as the most secure devices on the market. Data protection by remotely resetting and locking the device was available already when the first devices entered the market, and protection against activation after resetting to factory settings appeared only in June 2015 with the release of BlackBerry 10 version 10.3.2 (the current OS version to this day ).

The structure of the BlackBerry 10 bootloader is such that it is not possible to bypass the security system or the activation wizard using manipulations similar to what we saw in Android. Ideal protection scheme? As it turns out, no.

Watch your hands.

Once. Hard reset protection appeared in OS 10.3.2. More early versions(available, by the way, for all devices in the line) did not have such protection. Rolling back to an earlier build is not a problem at all if you use an autoloader (simple executable file, which already contains all the necessary drivers and the firmware itself).

Two. BlackBerry is not completely stupid, and they have provided protection against downgrading the firmware version - starting with OS 10.3.2. You will not be able to roll back to an older version of the OS.

And three. One of the alpha versions of firmware for developers, available for download for some time from the BlackBerry website, declares a build number higher than any current version OS 10.3.2. However, there is no protection against hardware reset in the alpha build. Checkmate: just go to any thematic forum dedicated to BlackBerry smartphones, and you will find a working link to the notorious firmware. Yes, they are deleted, but users continue to post them.

By the way, all of the above does not apply to BlackBerry phones running Android.

Conclusion

It is impossible to make a defense system stronger than its weakest link. In the case of BlackBerry, it was enough to discover the firmware (made and published by BlackBerry itself), which you can switch to to bypass the protection. Android is an eternal topic for jokes; With rare exceptions, there is no security on this platform. Not just one bug, but another, there is always a gap. With Windows Phone it’s more complicated: bootloaders on some models can be unlocked and reset protection can be bypassed with some skill, but it’s not clear whether the game is worth the candle. And the most popular target for thieves of all stripes is Apple iPhone- shines in splendid isolation: protection against hard reset on relatively recent generations of devices that are at least worth something in the eyes of thieves cannot be bypassed without hardware intervention.

Our recommendations for Android users: if there is protection against hard reset, use it. Enable screen lock, disable Smart Lock, activate encryption. Don't disdain firmware updates and security patches. Got your phone stolen? Call the police, call your provider - have them blacklist your IMEI, block your phone remotely, or immediately erase your data. What happens next is not up to you.

Yesterday a friend asked me: “I forgot the password to my Lumiya, what should I do?” First, we figured out exactly what password she forgot. Microsoft account password or Lumia lock screen password. It turned out everything was simple, she couldn’t enter the store (I still didn’t understand how the password fell off), but while I was waiting for her to arrive, I googled how to unlock a Lumia smartphone and now I’ll share it with you.

If you forgot your Microsoft account password

In this case, the password can be recovered simply:
1. Go to https://login.live.com

2. Select “Can’t access your account?”

3. Next, follow the intuitive instructions.

If you forgot your Lumia lock screen password

This situation is no longer pleasant, because you will have to do the so-called hard reset Lumiya smartphone and the phone will return to factory settings.

Note!
When you complete all the steps described below, all information stored on it (files, photos, games, contacts, music, etc.) will be deleted from your phone. In fact, you will have Lumiya as if from a store.

Before resetting the settings, it is advisable to fully charge the Lumiya or at least bring the charge to 50%.

Method 1.

Turn off the phone, press and hold the volume down + power + camera button at the same time until it vibrates.
After vibration, release the power button while continuing to hold the camera and volume buttons. Press “WIN”, wait for reboot

Method 2.

Turn off your Lumiya and unplug the plug charger from the phone
Now you need to press and hold the volume down key on your phone and connect the charger. After this, an exclamation mark (!) should appear on your phone screen.
Next, you need to press the keys in the following order: key increase volume, key decrease volume, key nutrition, key decrease volume.
You need to wait a little about 5 minutes until the reset process is completed. At this time, you will see rotating gears on the smartphone screen. After this process, the phone screen will go dark for about 30 seconds and then the phone will reboot.

I hope any of these methods will help you.

The issue of personal data security is quite acute these days. Increasingly, you can read in the news about the massive theft of user data of a service from a server, or directly from their devices. In this regard, smartphone developers are constantly trying to improve the reliability of their products. One of the best mobile systems, from a security point of view, can be called Windows Phone. It has taken all necessary measures to ensure the safety of your data in the event of possible outside interference. In this article, we’ll talk about how to secure your smartphone when physically accessing the device, namely, how to set a password on Windows Phone. Go!

Every user wants to protect personal information from prying eyes

You can set the code on your smartphone in the lock screen settings. To get started, open “Settings”, select “System” and go to “Lock screen”. A window with all the settings will open in front of you. There you can change the background and customize the information displayed on the screen in lock mode, as well as notifications from applications. Below you will find just what you need. In the “Screen off after” item, set the time after which the device will lock itself. A gap that is too small will interfere with normal use of the phone, and a gap that is too large is not recommended from the point of view of security and energy saving.

Next is the “Password” item we need. to install password protection on Windows Phone, move the slider to the “On” position. The next step is to create a password. First you will need to enter your key, and then confirm that it was entered correctly. After this, you can configure the frequency with which the system will request the code in the “Require password via” item.

In version Windows Phone 8.1, it became possible to set a pattern. However, this feature is not built-in and works through the application. It does not fully replace digital input, but rather complements it. To set a picture password on Windows Phone, you will need to download and install the Live Lock Screen application. In it you will be asked to set a graphic key by drawing any figure by points on the screen. After this, the pattern key will be requested immediately after entering the digital one, which will significantly increase the security of your phone.

Nokia Lumia smartphones are becoming increasingly popular among young people around the world. Perhaps the only significant disadvantage of some models is the locked Windows Phone operating system. There is an official way to unlock without voiding the warranty.

To install *.xap applications on Nokia Lumia not from the market, just create and then register your “Windows LiveID” account as a developer on www.dreamspark.com. On this site, students can create widgets and applications on Windows Phone. Create a new account here and link it to your Windows LiveID mailbox. Next, you will need to check whether you are really a student. Minimize the current window and launch the online university http://www.intuit.ru/department/itmngt/pmusemspr and register there. Then, to get your student code, go to http://www.intuit.ru/cgi-bin/ms_keys.cgi?GO=1. It is this verification code that must be entered on the verification page of the DreamSpark website. After a few pages of instructions, you will be prompted to match your DreamSpark and LiveID accounts, accept it.

Next, you will need to create a registration record on create.msdn.com. Select "WindowsPhone Dev Center" and click "SignIn" in the top right corner. Enter the details, indicate the LiveID registered on DreamSpark. To assign developer status to your post, follow these steps: On the main page, click “Submit APP”, on the page that opens, click on the big red “Join Now” button. Fill out all the fields, select “Individual or student” as “Account type”, confirm your consent. In the next step, select the “I`m Student” item and click “Next”. Scroll down and click "Done".

Open the pre-installed Windows Phone package from the developer. Launch Windows Phone Developer Registration. Connect your smartphone to your computer, unlock the screen on it and open Zune. Next, enter the parameters of your LiveId account and the password that is registered as a developer on AppHub. Click on the “Register” button. The phone is unlocked for downloading applications.

To install the application on Nokia Lumia, now click “Start”, open “Windows Phone Developer Tools”, then “Application Deploy”, select the desired *.xap file, and in the “Target” select “Windows Phone Device”. Check if the smartphone screen is unlocked, click “Deploy”. Behind a short time the application will be installed on your smartphone.

Thanks to these instructions, you can easily and without loss of warranty expand the selection of applications for the Windows Phone operating system installed on Nokia Lumia.

The problem of user data security has been relevant for a very long time. At first it concerned only computers and storage media, and then migrated to mobile devices. For years now, developers have been trying to come up with new ways to keep data secure on a device. So far, all the options that are used in various smartphones are a code (PIN), graphic password, fingerprint. All this is designed to protect the contents of your phones from unauthorized persons. But it happens that either due to the fault of the device OS, or due to the fault of the user himself, the owner of the phone cannot access it. What to do in such a situation? In this article we will figure out how to unlock Windows Phone. Let's get started. Go!

In smartphones running Windows Phone OS, blocking is carried out using special code, which is set by the phone owner himself. But what to do if you forgot the code and cannot log into your phone? The simplest solution is to perform a factory reset. But in this case, all data will be deleted from the smartphone, which is an unacceptable option for most users. Luckily, there is a method that allows you to unlock Windows Phone without resetting or deleting your phone's contents.

Now in more detail about this very method. For everything to work, it is necessary that the “ ” and “Location” modes are activated on the device. Otherwise, you will not be able to unlock the phone and the only possible way to solve the problem is to reset the settings. If the above modes have been enabled on your phone, proceed to the procedure to unlock your phone.

The first thing you need to do is log into your Microsoft account on your computer. To do this, open the appropriate page on the Microsoft website and enter your username and password. Please note that you need to log in to the account that is linked to your smartphone.

Click Login

Once you've logged into your account, click on "Devices" and select the "Your Devices" category from the list that appears. Next, find your device and click on the “Find my phone” button. Click on the “Block” button located under the card. Please provide your phone number and country. You can also check the box “This phone does not have a number” so as not to enter it. The next step is to set a four-digit unlock code. Click the “Block” button. After this, the phone will reboot and you can now unlock it by entering the PIN you just set. Now that you have unlocked your smartphone, you can go to the settings section and disable the lock using a code, if you wish.

Attempts to protect personal data on your phone often lead to thousands of people asking the question every day: How to unlock your phone if you forgot your password?

First of all, you shouldn’t get rid of your favorite device and buy a new one.

This publication presents several basic methods for resetting the lock for the most popular portable devices on Anbroid and Windows.

Disabling a pattern

Resetting user settings

If the above methods do not work, then you can restore your smartphone to factory settings.

Important! Using this method will lead to the complete loss of your settings, data and programs installed after purchasing the gadget.

If you value nothing especially, since all photos, music and other personal files are in the “cloud,” then feel free to resort to this method.

The algorithm of actions for all Android smartphones is the same.

Turn off your device.
Simultaneously press the key combination: volume +; Power and the “Home” button (there is a house icon under the screen). Keep the buttons pressed until the vibration stops.

After this procedure, a menu will be displayed on the screen in which, using the volume rocker, select the “Wipe data/factory reset” item.

Confirm the action with the “Home” button.

Confirm the action.

In the next menu, a list of commands will be displayed on the screen in which you need to select “reboot system now”.

After activating this menu item, the smartphone will reboot and will be unlocked.

Important! Some models of Android devices have a button for the reset function.HardReset.

Resetting settings on Windows Phone devices

You can independently unlock a smartphone on the Windows Phone mobile platform only by resetting the settings to factory settings, and as you know, this is fraught with complete loss of user information.

To unblock gadgets made on the Windows Phone 8 platform, you need to perform all the steps, exactly in the order in which they are described:

Disconnect your smartphone or tablet, including from the charger. At the time of the “hard reboot”, the device screen should not display any messages.
Press the Volume button and, while holding it, press the power button.