Android Phone locked out - how to unlock it without Hard resetting it
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I was watching heroes season 3, playing with the unlock schema of my phone (Android(1.6) HTC Magic) drawing strange pattern until I locked it down. The phone shows a message : wait 30 seconds until next try (translated from french). I did hit by mistake the recovery button which lead me to a login form asking me for username and password to unlock the device. My phone is set-up with my google apps account 'login'@mansonthomas.com. I've tryed everything and it fails to unlock telling me 'wrong username or password'... For example I've tryed : login@mansonthomas.com, login, my other gmail address with and without the @gmail.com... I've googled and find why it won't works : Apparently, the phone needs a wifi internet connection so that the login/password check passes. It's plausible as the login failure is instantaneous while it should take some time to check your password over the internet through a 3G connection it's said here by l