undesigned » mobile http://www.joelduffin.com/blog life is a rum go guv’nor, and that’s the truth Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:08:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to unlock your droid when your kids try to guess the pattern too many times http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2010/01/28/how-to-unlock-your-droid-when-your-kids-try-to-guess-the-pattern-too-many-times/ http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/2010/01/28/how-to-unlock-your-droid-when-your-kids-try-to-guess-the-pattern-too-many-times/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:13:59 +0000 joel http://www.joelduffin.com/blog/?p=388 My daughter’s friends got a hold of my droid and thought it would be fun to try to guess the password pattern. After enough times, it locked up my droid and asked me to login with my gmail account credentials. Problem is, that didn’t work. It is a known bug. After a few minutes of Googling, I found:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4784 (comment 35)

1) create a new gmail account on the computer.
2) call your cell phone with a different phone.
3) answer your cell phone then hit the back button and it will take you to the home
screen.
4) turn on wifi so it can do data and voice at the same time (remember that the phone
is still connected)
5) go to Settings -> Location & Security and disable lock pattern (you’ll need to
enter to correct pattern previously set)
6) go to Settings -> Accounts & Sync and click “Add Account” and add your newly
created Gmail account.
7) hang up the phone.
8) turn the phone back on, at the lockout screen, enter your new Gmail account info
and it should let you back in
9) once the phone is unlocked, you can go in setting and remove the newly added Gmail
account and keep the old one.

Google giveth, and Google taketh away, and then Google giveth again.

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