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Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!

Elmnt80 posted:

I have a family member who passed away a couple of days ago and I'm trying to get into their phone so I can get access to their address book/contact list and their email for financial account information so that I can start getting their estate sorted out and get people informed of her passing that I have no other way of reaching.

Unfortunately due to a a messy breakup and subsequent stalking by someone who is better off as worm food, she had upped her security on her tablet and phone. She went from a 4 digit pin to the android pattern lock screen and though she showed me the pattern a couple months ago in case I needed it, I have loving forgotten it. And I've checked with all of her close friends, none of them know either and they also need phone numbers because apparently there are people to contact that even I'm not aware of. It is a loving mess and dealing with this while riding the edge of an emotional breakdown is not fun, lemme tell ya.

Is there a way to bypass the android pattern lock screen and go to back to the security pin? Is there something that can crack the pattern lock?

(I know this probably wouldn't be a kosher thing, but I'm hoping for a bit of forgiveness since these are kind of extenuating circumstances)

A phone that lets you use pattern lock is probably old, which one is it? there are exploits for older versions of android that might work for this.

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Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
unfortunately for those unless she left adb debugging on, the best you can do to get the contact information is to use the google request, or if she was in a group phone plan in something like T-Mobile and one of them has full permissions, they can check the call/text log, not that would tell the names of who they are. if her sim card has no pin, you can also put it on a different phone and wait for texts/reply to or try recovering website/phone carrier app password and check logs there.

other things to try: if she had a chromecast with google tv/nvidia shield you can open whatever google's latest video chat app is and check the contact list, as for computers, you mentioned she did everything from phone/tablet, but did she use a computer in recent past? if so and it isn't encrypted you should be able to use something like autopsy on its drive to recover temporary internet files and maybe one of them might be google contacts or a contact list.

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