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Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


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)

EDIT: Other possibly relevant things are I don't think this phone or her tablet have ever been synced to a computer, she did effectively everything from her phone. I don't think the google account used on this phone and tablet were ever accessed on a computer or if they were, the google account hasn't been logged into since she upped her security on everything.

Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Jun 26, 2023

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Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


poo poo, I suck and this should have been in the tech support forum. I am great at this, A+, no notes.

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012



Thank you, I'm probably going to need that at some point if I can't get into the phone because she changed her gmail password into some ridiculously long string of numbers and letters that is just making GBS threads on her ex in leet speak, but I really need access to her phone itself if at all possible. And this is still a very recent thing that happened, they haven't even issued a certificate of death yet (actually, as of right now they haven't even issued a cause of death), so I won't be able to send that to them.

Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jun 26, 2023

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


I think it may be a Nokia X100. She also has a Vortex Tab8 tablet that most likely uses the same pattern on its lock.

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