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forgetten my pattern

Please see the sticky Nukemaster referred to.
Specifically:

Q. My phone is locked after too many pattern traces it won't unlock.
Q. My phone is locked and I have forgotten my password.
Q. My phone is locked and I have forgotten my Google account info.
Q. My phone was locked by my son and I don't know what he did.
Q. Forgotton Password.
Q. How to recover Password.
Q. Unlock my phone without a Google account

These questions and more are what we get every day with people wanting unlocking help and instruction on how to get around entering a password. We cannot verify ownership and or identity so therefore it's against forum rules to be creating a thread to ask for help with unlocking. Any threads made asking for unlocking help will be closed by one of the Moderators.
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