Protecting Your Dell™ Streak; Protect Your Device Data With A Screen Unlock Pattern - Dell Streak User Manual

Protecting Your Dell™ Streak
Protect Your Device Data With a Screen
Unlock Pattern
You can protect your device data against unauthorized access by
locking the touch screen with a screen unlock pattern. Once the
unlock pattern is enabled and the screen is locked, you need to draw
the correct unlock pattern to unlock the screen.
After you fail to draw the correct unlock pattern on the screen for five
consecutive times, you will be asked to wait for 30 seconds before you
can try again. If you no longer remember your screen unlock pattern,
follow these steps to unlock your screen:
1 Touch Forgot pattern.
2 When prompted, sign on to the Google website using your
Google account name and password.
3 Draw a new screen unlock pattern as described in To create a
screen unlock pattern.
4 If you fail to obtain a new unlock pattern following the above
steps, visit support.dell.com.
To create a screen unlock pattern
1 Touch the Home button
Location & security→ Set up screen lock→ Pattern, or
touch the Launcher button
Location & security→ Set up screen lock→ Pattern.
2 Read the instructions on the screen and then touch Next.
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