Alright, well here is the problem. My father kept entering the wrong password on his phone for some reason. I'm not sure why, but he isn't one of the most tech savvy guys out there. So he gives it to my little brother since he is (a dumbass, well tech wise) and tries to always be the tech hero even when he lacks sufficient knowledge on the situation. I myself don't even own a blackberry, have never used one, but i was aware of the whole 10 attempt thing until the wipe. While he was making the attempts, i was thinking to things at the time. One was that there weren't two many attempts made yet. Two, that maybe after all these years since me learning about it, RIM may have came up with a better and less devastating security feature. Man was I wrong on both of these things. When my little brother gives up and my dad finally decides to give me the phone to figure out the issue. It asks for me to enter blackberry, then after that tells me it was the final attempt before a complete wipe. Had I had just one or two extra chances, i'm pretty positive i could have gotten it unlocked, but it's too late for that.
I have a single shot, and not much else sadly. My first instinct was to obviously back it up. I found out about blackberry desktop, downloaded it, ran it and connected the phone. But instead of giving me the option to backup first, it asked me for the password again stating that it is my final attempt, as i feared could happen.
So now I'm at a point where i don't know what to do. Many forums state that in my situation, all you do is back it up, and then you have nothing to lose. But I apparently can't even do that unless i have somehow done something wrong.
Are there really no other options? I've heard that there are a few people who have claimed to bypass the security feature, but they've never shared how, and if true is also quite complex to figure out.
One further complication is that by default, the keypad for the password enters numbers, but right now it is entering letters by default. His password contains 4 numbers. I've read on forums that if you type in the corresponding letters in place of the numbers, it is actually the correct way to enter it, instead of pressing alt and the corresponding character for the password. Can anyone else confirm this? So if the pass was "2113" would i put in the default "ewwr" instead of pressing alt to type in "2113?
I have a single shot, and not much else sadly. My first instinct was to obviously back it up. I found out about blackberry desktop, downloaded it, ran it and connected the phone. But instead of giving me the option to backup first, it asked me for the password again stating that it is my final attempt, as i feared could happen.
So now I'm at a point where i don't know what to do. Many forums state that in my situation, all you do is back it up, and then you have nothing to lose. But I apparently can't even do that unless i have somehow done something wrong.
Are there really no other options? I've heard that there are a few people who have claimed to bypass the security feature, but they've never shared how, and if true is also quite complex to figure out.
One further complication is that by default, the keypad for the password enters numbers, but right now it is entering letters by default. His password contains 4 numbers. I've read on forums that if you type in the corresponding letters in place of the numbers, it is actually the correct way to enter it, instead of pressing alt and the corresponding character for the password. Can anyone else confirm this? So if the pass was "2113" would i put in the default "ewwr" instead of pressing alt to type in "2113?