Of course, if you did not put the password by yourself (your friend, colleague, kids…), it will be impossible to take these kind of shortcuts (btw, this is how my friend finally unlocked her phone – trying several logical sequences remembered the PIN phrase in the end) it will greatly reduce your password “hacking” efforts. If you used sequences of 2 neighboring numbers – e.g. Eliminate digits that you did not use, and also remove non-logical combinations / positions of the pattern. Otherwise, they are the same thing, except passwords are more robust (harder to guess / brute-force). Note the difference between PIN and PASSWORD is that the PIN is digits/numbers only, and password must contain mixed letters and numbers. First, set the length of the passphrase itself (4-digits, 6-digits and so on). Try to remember your PIN / password / pattern somehow.If you have a newer Android version, not rooted, not enabled USB debugging and following options listed below, the only way to unlock your phone is to: In a highly unlikely event that your GMail / PlayStore account gets compromised, this will stop potential abusers to gain access to your phone by bypassing the lock PIN or pattern. This method was available on Android versions 4.4 and lower, however, in Android 5.0 Lollipop and above this option was removed to increase account security.

Android Screen Unlocking with Google Gmail Account Recovery

Pattern password disable