Help Locked out of my new S3.

[MonkeyXing]

I just recieved my first smart phone, the galaxy S3. I played around with the settings and put a PIN password on it because i have an old itouch and i like the speed of punching in 4 numbers. This worked 3 times until I plugged it into my PC to put some music on it. now it will not recognize my password. I DID NOT put in my google account.
I would like to know if i can recover it without resetting. I don't want to re-enter my contacts and I just customized it to the way i like it. But if i have to, then i guess i have to.
Personally, I am already disappointed when i found out that something as important as a password failure isn't a rare issue.

 

[brownchm]

I just recieved my first smart phone, the galaxy S3. I played around with the settings and put a PIN password on it because i have an old itouch and i like the speed of punching in 4 numbers. I plugged it into my PC to put some music on it but now it will not recognize my password. I DID NOT put in my google account.
I would like to know if i can recover it without resetting. I don't want to re-enter my contacts and I just customized it to the way i like it. But if i have to, then i guess i have to.
Personally, I am already disappointed when i found out that something as important as a password failure isn't a rare issue.

I think if you get it wrong several times it will allow you to reset it by putting in your email and password

 

[MonkeyXing]

I did not enter my google account.

 

[funkylogik]

To be fair to the phone/android, youre really supposed to log into an android device when you activate it. i think factory reset removes the pin lock (as well as any user data on the device) :thumbup:

 

[MonkeyXing]

To be fair to the phone/android, youre really supposed to log into an android device when you activate it. i think factory reset removes the pin lock (as well as any user data on the device) :thumbup:

I can understand this but a faulty password system shouldn't be covered up by an online password system.
It also seems like some of my settings reset. I changed the sleep mode from 30 seconds to a minute but now its back to 30 seconds.

 

[Slug]

You set up a 4-digit PIN, which worked correctly until you connected via USB to transfer music, after which the PIN was no longer recognised?

I can understand this but a faulty password system shouldn't be covered up by an online password system.

I've never experienced this in the four Android handsets I've owned, so it's definitely not a widespread issue. The use of Google account credentials is simply a secure fallback in case the PIN or password is forgotten, as the account password should only be known to the owner.