Help forgot gmail.

[Nova Hamade]

so my cousin has bought a used samsung galaxy j5 with android 5.0.1 and has forgotten his pattern and gave it to me to fix and as i did a factory reset it asked me after for the "original gmail account used on the phone" and i can't bypass it cause the next button is turned off, and we called the guy who sold him the phone he said he forgot the gmail what to do in this situation and how to fix it ?

 

[Parayilhussain]

Hello,
See this may help you.
https://support.google.com/android-one/answer/6172890?hl=en

 

[AZgl1500]

the way I understand all of that, is you are screwed.

You don't know the original gmail or password.

Just do a Hard Reset:

I once forgot mine also, and I did a Hard Reset which erased everything on the phone period.

When it came back up, it asked for the gmail account and password. I had to create a brand new gmail account just for that phone. Pissed me off because now I have lost control of my original gmail account.​

But, at least I recovered the use of that phone.... this has been many phones back, I am much more careful these days and have Backup Email accounts, and backup phone numbers to refer to so that a TEXT message confirm number can be received. When I was an Android newbie, I did not know shit from shinola and made a lot of bad mistakes. That being one of them.