lundi 10 mars 2014

Too Many Pattern Attempts topic




I think i already know the answer to this, but this is a last resort....

A co-worker brought me his son's (Sprint) Evo 4G LTE because his son inadvertently locked himself out of the phone. When you unlock the screen you are presented with a gmail account login screen that states "Too Many Pattern Attempts".

I have looked into this, and tried a few things but so far have been unsuccessful. It isn't really a problem to do a factory reset EXCEPT the kid has quite a few pictures he's taken on the phone and doesn't want to lose them. I read on the HTC website that you can factory reset without losing data on internal storage by selecting the right settings, but it is not specific when it comes to doing a reset from the recovery menu (or hboot menu... I'm very rusty on all this). I am assuming that this reset will in fact erase internal storage?

I can't access it via ADB, as I'm sure debugging would never have been selected, I have tried calling the phone and tried pulling down notification bar, getting into contacts, etc.... but everything takes me back to the login screen. My friend set up the account for his son, but can't remember what the user ID is that he created. I tried everything I could think of based on the possibilities he gave me, but no luck.

The devices drive shows up under Computer, but since the device is locked, clicking on it prompts me to insert disk into drive.

Does anyone know of any kind of "hack" that would either get me into the device or allow me to get the pictures from internal storage?





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