hey there
my brother has a galaxy s2 and he cganged the password today from pattern form to the typing form, and apperently he typed it wrong twice and now cannot unlock his device! now samsung didnt provide a "forgot a password" button for this!!
i tried to flash a stock firmware but i cannot enable usb debugging on his device because of the password!
can i enable usb debugging in any other way?
is their any other alternative solution?
any help would be more then appreciated.
Ehmm after trying several wrong inputs one after the other, you get an option to unlock the screen by logging into the Google account associated with the phone.
didn't work, apparently it is only applicable if you have assigned a specific pattern as.code, my brother is using the code in the written
form ( type a word not draw a pattern)
that's weird,i tried it on my phone and the unlock using gmail account only showed when using a pattern,your best bet is to perform a factory reset without the need to unlock the phone try this:
1-Turn off the phone.
2-Press and hold down Volume Up + Home + Power buttons at the same time.
3-Release all buttons when you see the galaxy s 2 Logo.
4-you will be in recovery mode now
5-use volume up/down to select to wipe data/factory reset
6-press the Home button to confirm you selection
7-select "Yes" using the same way.
8-the phone will begin a factory reset now.
9-select "reboot system now" the same way too when factory reset finishes.
this will perform a factory reset to the phone and will remove the lock (all data will be lost)

(the recovery would look like that)
@m.sabra: this cant work because, well Im sure you guessed it by now, the freaking code is in the way again. Anyway we took it today to the shop where we bought it at the first place, they are samsung dealers so they sure have their own software to reinstall the stock firmware, they did it and everything is fine now, heck he even got arabic language now:P thanks for the help guys, reall appreciated it :)
wait,the phone asked for the code in the recovery mode when you tried to perform a factory reset :O or it's just you couldn't turn off the phone because it's locked?,i know you have solved the problem but i really wanna know when exactly the phone asked for the code so you couldn't complete the tutorial ?i would really appreciate you reply since it will help me :)
it asked for the code in the recovery; i had no problem turning off or on the phone, and whrn on i could receive and.answer calls but thats about it.
Anything else i can help you with? it would.be my pleadure :)