How to unlock android phone or tablet if you forgot the pattern?

What happen forgot your pattern and want to know how to unlock android phone or tablet? Pattern lock is very important for those who have sensitive data or have personal files in their android devices.

This will help you to prevent your device from unauthorized use but the trouble starts when you forget it.

So here we are to help you in this trouble and tell you about unlocking your android phone or tablet.

How to unlock android phone or tablet if you forgot the pattern

Here we are going to tell you two easy methods for unlocking your android devices.

Use your Google account for unlocking

When you try different patterns and unable to unlock your phone in five attempts. Then a message pop-up and shows two buttons “next” and “try again”.

Now click on “next” button and you see two options for unlocking phone. One is answer the security question and the second option is to provide Google account details.

Mostly people don’t set a security question. But if you set it then simply answer the question and unlock your device quickly. Otherwise check the Google account option and click “next”.

Now provide your Google account username and password attached with your device and click on “sign in”.

After that you are directed to choose new pattern and now you can unlock with this pattern.

Unlock pattern without Google account

If you also forget Google account details then what? Here we have solution for this and that is factory reset your android device. Lets talk about how to do it.

Power off your phone.

Now press Volume up, power and home button at the same time and wait until your device starts.

When you see logo screen release the power button and keep pressed the other two buttons.

Now your screen shows android system recovery and there is a list. Use Volume up or down keys to select option from the list. And select factory reset option and then press power button to let the action begin.

Now it asks you for confirmation, select “yes”.

After factory reset completes, it again shows you android system recovery screen. Now select reboot option and after restart it will not ask you for pattern.

Important: 

This method deletes all your data and apps.

In step 2 of this method we use three keys Volume up, power and home. But in some phones home is not available so you can press Volume up and down with power button. Here we are not going to tell you all combination of buttons for factory reset. So you can search for your specified android smartphone or tablet.