How to unlock a forgotten pattern on your Amazon Fire Phone
You were so sure that you memorized the diagram to unlock the screen and suddenly you realize that you have forgotten it and that access is denied.
Then go to your phone operator’s account and go to the “unlock” Amazon Fire Phone section. Once in the field, enter the IMEI code and an unlock key will be sent to you by text message. Finally, you will only have to follow the steps that the website of your phone operator will give you in order to complete the unblocking. If you have completed the information correctly, your Amazon Fire Phone should unlock. You can then re-enter a new unlocking scheme that you can remember easily in the future. Use the Android device manager to unlock your lock screen. There is another technique to unlock your Amazon Fire Phone lock screen. Simply use the Android Device Manager. From the drop down above, simply select the COUNTRY your Amazon phone was purchased in followed by the NETWORK it is locked to (NOT the network you want to use it with). Once we have this information you will be presented with a price and an estimated processing time to IMEI unlock your Amazon device. The time quoted is the average time it has taken to process this service historically.
In what follows, we’ll show you what to do to unlock your smartphone if you forget the scheme.
How to unlock Amazon Fire Phone
On some smartphones you have to enter a PIN code to unlock it, others have locking schemes.
In any case, there are several ways to unlock your Amazon Fire Phone, which we will introduce below:
Unlocking using your Google Account on Amazon Fire Phone
Since you have a Google Account, you can use your credentials to unlock the screen.
This is possible if you have versioned 4.4 of Android or a lower version.
- Enter an incorrect code five times or draw an incorrect template five times.
- The “Forgotten PIN Code” or “Forgotten Scheme” option should now be displayed.
- There are now two possibilities: either you answer a question or you enter your Google data to unlock your Amazon Fire Phone.
- Once you have access again, you can change your PIN or schema. Click on “Settings”, then “Lock Screen” and then “Unlock Screen”.
You can now choose from several options including “PIN Code” and “Model”.
Unlock by reset
You can also reset your Amazon Fire Phone to the factory settings. Please note that in this case, all data will be deleted from your phone:
- Restart your Amazon Fire Phone in recovery mode.
- Simultaneously press the menu button, the button to maximize the volume of the device and the power button.
- An option to reset the device now appears.
You can access the menu via the minus volume key.
- Then click on the start button.
- We recommend that you restart your smartphone after resetting.
Unlocking through Application Manager
You should be able to unlock the screen using the application manager on Amazon Fire Phone.
- Sign in to your Google Account on your computer.
- Once logged in, you can access the application manager.
- Your smartphone should now be recognized. Click on “Lock”.
- You can now enter a new password that will replace the PIN entry.
- Then you can enter the password you set on your Amazon Fire Phone to access as usual.
A small recap on patterns on your Amazon Fire Phone
A lock screen is a user interface element used by many operating systems, as the one on your Amazon Fire Phone.
It regulates direct access to a device by requiring the user to perform some action, such as typing in a password, entering a specific key combination, or using the touch screen gesture recognition feature popular with mobile devices. Whereas most lockdown features on normal desktop computers only use a log-on screen, mobile-only lock-screens often provide greater functionality beyond just unlocking a smartphone or tablet, such as email, SMS, or text notifications, date and time indication or even shortcuts of certain applications.
This should be the case on your Amazon Fire Phone.
The lock screen on your Amazon Fire Phone is not to be confused with the status bar or notification bar, which offers similar overview functions when opened, but can be seen unopened as part of the lock screen at the top.
We hope to have helped you unlock the forgotten scheme on your Amazon Fire Phone.
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The great rbox has done it again. He has just released a method to partially unlock the Fire TV’s bootloader. It’s only a partial unlock because it does not enable fastboot flashing, which means it requires that your Fire TV already be rooted. Sorry, but this release does not help those with unrootable Fire TVs gain root. What it does do is make the Fire TV a little more modding friendly, which will hopefully lead to even cooler mods in the future. For the time being, the most important thing to know is that an unlocked bootloader will be a requirement to installing future updates to ClockworkMod custom recovery. Starting with ClockworkMod version 6.0.5.1.4, your Fire TV will need to have an unlocked bootloader to install ClockworkMod for the first time or to install ClockworkMod updates.
If your Fire TV software is…
(Note: This assumes the file you downloaded is in the same directory as ADB, otherwise enter the full path to the file, like this:
(Note: If this is the first time you’ve ever run the command
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barrystsays:November 3, 2014 at 5:51 amAt the risk of sounding stupid and annoying (sorry!), what is the potential in future mods this allows? Are we talking something like an Android TV rom for example?
ReplyAFTVnewssays:November 3, 2014 at 7:22 amYes, this theoretically makes it easier for someone to port Android TV to the Fire TV.
ReplyBoomSchticksays:November 3, 2014 at 6:51 amWait… didn’t the old procedure for rooting unlock the boot loader? I’m fully rooted after a firmware downgrade mod and then upgrade with the pre-rooted firmware.
So this is something that I still need to do?
ReplyAFTVnewssays:November 3, 2014 at 7:25 amNo, rooting did not unlock the bootloader. As of now, the only reason to unlock your bootloader is to update ClockworkMod beyond version 6.0.5.1.3 since version 6.0.5.1.4 requires your bootloader to be unlocked. In the future, there will likely be more things that require you to first unlock your bootloader.
Replypmcdsays:November 3, 2014 at 10:46 amAre there any negatives to this procedure? What is missing to make it a full unlock?
ReplyAFTVnewssays:November 3, 2014 at 11:48 am
The only real negative is yourself. Meaning, the more modifiable you make your Fire TV, the greater the chance you’ll do something wrong and mess something up. As long as you take care not to try untested modifications, there’s no harm in unlocking your bootloader.
A full unlock would allow you to flash images via USB using fastboot. And preferably not require root.
Replytuxensays:November 3, 2014 at 10:50 amTo be able to unlock it without root..
Replyandy bsays:November 3, 2014 at 12:06 pm
can you please show a more specific way of installing this using adbFire. when i get to chmod it tell me no such file. thanks
ReplyAFTVnewssays:November 3, 2014 at 12:15 pmNo, sorry, but it would take too much time to write individual guides for all the different Fire TV utilities. Jocala, the developer of adbFire, is aware of this bootloader unlock. He does a great job keeping adbFire feature rich so I’m sure he’ll release an update soon that includes a 1-click option to unlock the bootloader.
ReplyEdgarsays:November 3, 2014 at 2:22 pmSo sad I can’t do this anymore. My firetv updated on its own last night. I thought blocking those 2 links on my router would’ve been fine. NOPE. Disable on the firetv people or risk being sad like me.
Replynydersays:November 3, 2014 at 3:09 pmThis is why all the guilds say to disable the update service after you root.
ReplyJsays:November 3, 2014 at 10:07 pmI disabled the updates right away using the adb guide people had posted. It worked great. My never updates. Only problem I have is when I need a reboot, the fire tv box is stuck on amazon. So I must unplug the usb hub 1st before a reboot. Question? Would the fast boot unlock take care of the usb hub issue on booting?
ReplyAFTVnewssays:November 4, 2014 at 5:02 amNo, it wouldn’t. The fire TV is detecting power coming from your USB hub. That’s why it is putting itself into fastboot. Unlocking the bootloader wouldn’t help that.
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says:November 4, 2014 at 1:01 pmHi, it says no such file or path when I try to use the above guide to install it on. When you download the aftv-unlock it downloads to my Windows download folder like every other file I download. I don’t understand how you can download it to an ADB folder (what is that?) or where that path above is located on the computer. I wish you could make a more simple guide where the average download path would be for the average user, such as desktop or the download folder. There isn’t enough explanation as to how to put the file in that location so that it will be successful on the ADB command.
ReplyAFTVnewssays:November 5, 2014 at 6:30 amJust enter the full path to the downloaded file in the ADB command. You don’t need to move it.
If you’re on windows and using the default download folder, it’s probably something like: C:UsersChrisDownloadsaftv-unlock
So your ADB push command will be something like this:
adb push C:UsersChrisDownloadsaftv-unlock /data/local/tmp/
Replysnow716says:December 6, 2014 at 12:19 pmI am having the same problem.
I have put the aftv-unlock in the same folder as my adb program: C:/Users/name/Downloads/adbfw114 as well as leaving a copy at: C:/Users/name/Downloads/
Every time I try and push the file using those exact commands (either one) I get the directory not found. Should I be using temp instead of tmp like the other user?
Replysnow716says:December 6, 2014 at 12:38 pmAlso, I wanted to add I was putting Backslashes except for the /data/local/tmp/
Replysnow716says:December 6, 2014 at 1:31 pmSo I still can’t make this push in terminal, but using adbfire, I just unlocked the bootloader from the menu and am ready to install cwm. I have never done this before, but it is my understanding that installing cwm, boot kernel, and updating to the latest pre-root update will let me get the latest software changes while staying rooted? I would still want to maintain the block on auto updates on my router and my fire tv correct?
Do I even need to update past the current one I have? 55620? Or will everything work fine? My goal is to use this primarily as an xbmc box with other apps/amazon prime tv, etc.
Jasonsays:November 23, 2014 at 6:43 pmWhen I try to push the aftv-unlock onto my fire tv I get permission denied. When I look into the data folder on my aftv the folder doesn’t have a local folder and I can’t add one. I don’t know what to do to get past the permission denied.
ReplyJasonsays:November 23, 2014 at 6:52 pmsolved my own problem wrote temp instead of tmp.
ReplyBradesays:November 29, 2014 at 8:42 amHow do the commands work for Mac?
ReplyBradesays:November 29, 2014 at 8:55 amIt’s not locating my directory at all… I’m using a Mac …. Can I use fireadb for this? If so, how?
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ReplyMarksays:December 3, 2014 at 11:18 amI think I’m doing everything correctly, but I getting the following error message.
u0_a97@flo:/ $ adb push /storage/emulated/0/Download/aftv-unlock /data/local/tmp/
505 KB/s (39010 bytes in 0.075s)
u0_a97@flo:/ $ adb shell
shell@android:/ $ chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/aftv-unlock
shell@android:/ $ su
root@android:/ # /data/local/tmp/aftv-unlock unlock
/data/local/tmp/aftv-unlock[1]: syntax error: ‘<' unexpected
1|root@android:/ # /data/local/tmp/aftv-unlock unlock
/data/local/tmp/af
Nevermind…wouldn’t work from a tablet but worked with no issues on Windows
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Codysays:December 24, 2014 at 3:50 pmI can’t get it to push. I am on a Mac and have tried everything.
The file aftv unlocker is in my download folder.
My hard drive is called Macintosh HD
I thought this would work but it doesn’t. Can someone look at it and fix it…
adb push aftv-unlock /Macintosh HD/Users/Cody/Downloads/
Thanks, Cody
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