Today the pattern unlock on my a51 randomly stopped accepting the correct pattern. I'm sure it's the correct pattern I've used the same one for a long time now. I have tried it numerous times to the point I have been locked out in increasing increments of time before I can try again - right now it's counting down from 30 minutes. If it matters, there are no overlapping dots in the pattern and I have tried doing it slow and steady to make sure it's being drawn correctly.
I tried several soft restarts/resets to no avail. Unfortunately I don't have find my phone or a samsung account linked to my phone to try anything involving that method. If I ever get back in I will definitely be setting something up and not using the pattern unlock anymore! (Edit: I do have my google account linked, but because google forced me to set up 2FA to get into my account I can't access that now either since it requires getting into my phone!)
I read that letting the phone die and then recharging it might fix it. Currently it's at 61% so I have to wait a while to see if this works.
I want to avoid doing a factory reset if at all possible because I have notes on this phone that are not backed up in the cloud or anywhere else.
I am wondering if this is at all related to the recent update as I had several issues with my phone since doing that update including the notes app crashing and refusing to open until they dropped a new update for that. I feel like the update wreaked havoc on my phone.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do given these circumstances? Or is factory reset going to be my only option..? Thanks for any help you can give.
