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Unlocking old phone

  • 24 February 2023
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i have an older LG phone which I no longer use. I’d like to give it to my grandchild as a camera, but I’m unable to unlock it with my fingerprint and can’t remember the 9 dot pattern on the touchscreen. is there any other way to unlock or reset the phone?


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What model? You maybe able to do a hard reset with the off and volume keys.

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The model number is LG K30. I did a restart with vol. down and power.  When the it restarted, it still would not let me use the fingerprint unlock and just presented the 9 dot pattern.

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Have you trued this sequence.

https://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/VS980/Userguide/075.html

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Thank you gramps28, that did the trick. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to back up the phone first, since I couldn’t unlock it. Fortunately, I’m pretty sure there wasn’t anything important on it.

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