My little brother had put a pattern lock on my old phone. I can't lose any data from that phone as It has many important contacts in it. so I'm not going for a factory reset. I had recently changed my password of my gmail account. Now I cannot access my phone through that gmail account. What can I do? The phone is Samsung Galaxy y with android 2.3.5.
On older Android devices, if you lock your phone using Google's find my device you'll be able to choose a new password, and you'll then be able to access your phone.
Go to android.com/devicemanager enter your email address and password. Now, press on lock. You will now see an option to put in a password to lock your phone with. After filling it out and pressing lock, You should be able to unlock your device with the password you chose.
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