topic Re: to many pattern attempts in XPERIA archive https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779377#M18304 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am afraid you will have to do a repair/reset via PC companion or Sony Ericsson Update Service. This phone and i believe it is an Android thing, require you to have a google mail account, I personally don't think that is emphasised enough in the literature or on initial start up,&nbsp; Sadly by doing the reset you will loose some or all of your info stored in the phones memory but not on the sd card.&nbsp; The gmail account gives&nbsp; you access to the Android Market too, you don't have to use the actual email address for anything once its set up other than security on things like this.&nbsp; If you look in the box to the right 'More Like This' you will see that you are far from being alone... the lock out happens loads!</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:10:58 GMT suze 2010-09-04T07:10:58Z to many pattern attempts https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779375#M18302 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>my phone is locked usually makes me wait 30 seconds but now it wants my google account login but i dont even have a google account</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:04:12 GMT https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779375#M18302 2010-09-04T07:04:12Z Re: to many pattern attempts https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779376#M18303 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><EM style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; ">If you can't remember your pattern then please avoid using the feature.</EM></P><P><EM style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; ">Google accountis easy to create and is greatly usefull. Can't you create one? Gmail is a nice application.<BR /></EM></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:09:55 GMT https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779376#M18303 Er_Kannan 2010-09-04T07:09:55Z Re: to many pattern attempts https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779377#M18304 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am afraid you will have to do a repair/reset via PC companion or Sony Ericsson Update Service. This phone and i believe it is an Android thing, require you to have a google mail account, I personally don't think that is emphasised enough in the literature or on initial start up,&nbsp; Sadly by doing the reset you will loose some or all of your info stored in the phones memory but not on the sd card.&nbsp; The gmail account gives&nbsp; you access to the Android Market too, you don't have to use the actual email address for anything once its set up other than security on things like this.&nbsp; If you look in the box to the right 'More Like This' you will see that you are far from being alone... the lock out happens loads!</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:10:58 GMT https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779377#M18304 suze 2010-09-04T07:10:58Z Re: to many pattern attempts https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779378#M18305 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i know my pattern my kid was playing with it and ive set up a google account but it does not work</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:23:52 GMT https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779378#M18305 2010-09-04T07:23:52Z Re: to many pattern attempts https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779379#M18306 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thank you very much suze i will try that now</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:24:39 GMT https://community.sony.rs/t5/xperia-archive/to-many-pattern-attempts/m-p/2779379#M18306 2010-09-04T07:24:39Z