Got locked out - security wipe - why did it happen?
I had set up the picture password so I had been using that for several weeks or longer.
Today, for no apparent reason that I could figure out - when I went to link my BB Z10 to my desktop I got a message asking me to input my password and telling me that after 5 unsuccessful tries my data would be wiped.
I went to the phone itself, and I had a similar message - I needed to input my regular password - but I had 6 tries left.
Well - after inputting every password I thought it could be - and I do think I had one of them right - the phone wiped itself out.
I understand the security reasons for this but I am so frustrated.
On top of it (and I have nobody to blame but myself for this one) my backup only went to June 21st.
So now I have to sideload all the apps I had, etc. Arrgggggggghhhhh. So frustrating.
Makes me not want to use a password - although from wheat I've read as soon as you enable development mode you have to use one.
But I don't understand why it happened. I thought the picture password REPLACED the regular password. Although there have been times when I have been too quick with the picture password and it will eventually ask me for my regular password (which except for today, I never had any trouble entering correctly - which is why I think that I *did* have the right password one of those attempts, although that kind of defies logic of course). ALTHOUGH - when I set up my email accounts there was one account that kept telling me I had the wrong password. But I signed up online with the same password. It's now working, but had it not been for me confirming that the password WAS correct I would have thought I had forgotten it (and no I did not have any extra spaces or anything...it didn't work and then it did).
So I don't know what to think...I obviously learned 2 very hard lessons - one is back up, always (I *KNOW* this - but believe it or not the USB thing makes me lazy sometimes. Now I'm paying the price for that laziness with DOUBLE the work and headaches :/) and two, the password must go into LastPass so I have a way of KNOWING whether it's correct. Why I didn't put it in there, I don't know.
Arrggggh.
Anyway - anybody know why this happened? Is it possible the phone's screen was on or something and moving around my purse and the incorrect picture password kept somehow being selected? I can't think of any other reason why it would ask me for the number password all of the sudden.
Thanks.