How to Remove Lock Screen Password without Format Data

don’t KNOW password/PIN/pattern, and can’t use the fingerprint as well? Then worry not! There does exist an impressive method through which you can remove the lock screen password, and that too without doing a ‘format data’. However, there is a major requirement that you need to checkmark off the list-  your device should have a custom recovery installed, or you should be in a position to install it [more on that later].

there a way to remove these passwords from the device and at the same time preserve all your data

1. First off, download and extract the Android SDK Platform Tools on your PC.
2. Next, open the Command Prompt inside the platform tools folder.
3. If USB Debugging is enabled, then use the below command to boot to TWRP:

   adb reboot recovery

4. If USB Debugging is not enabled, then power off the device. Now, press and hold the Power and Volume Up keys to boot to TWRP.
5. As soon as you are inside TWRP, it will ask for a password, tap Cancel. [However, since we didn’t decrypt the data, we wouldn’t be able to access the Internal Storage.]
6. Now, from TWRP, go to Mount and check USB-OTG. Then connect an OTG device to your phone.
7. Now go to Advanced > File Manager. Then go to data > system.

Now copy the locksettings.db file and send it to your USB OTG device. It will act as a backup. [While you could send the file to your Internal Storage as well, you wouldn’t be able to send it to your PC, so it’s better to use an OTG device.]

Once you have taken the backup, delete this file from data > system

Now go to Reboot > System. Your device will boot to the OS with the password removed.