Forgot security code: Any other way than hard reset?

[BigBlue007]

I have an XDA 2 which I haven't used for some time now. I was just about to sell it but wanted to copy some more or less important files (mostly selfmade pictures and some sent messages) from the device before I hard-reset it.

Unfortunately I enabled the security code feature some months ago. Which doesn't mean the SIM pin but the 4 digit security code which the device then asks for every time you switch it on. And of course I forgot that code after that long time. :(

I know that I can hard-reset the device, and I will to that anyway in preparation for the sale. But as said, I'd like to have these old files before I do that.

An ActiveSync connection does not help because ActiveSync asks for this code as well before it would let me access the device.

Is there a tool available that reads out or clears this code somehow? Something like the ShowPin tool for the SIM PIN? Or do I have to forget about my files? :(

[BigBlue007]

No one any idea about that? :roll: :(

[Rudegar]

not that i know of would not be much of a security code if you could bypass it though....

[BigBlue007]

not that i know of would not be much of a security code if you could bypass it though....
Well, the same would be true for a Simlock code, however it's pretty easy to retrieve/remove it... ;)

[mtbsoft]

Do you have a backup of the device on the PC (via ActiveSync)? If so, I believe that it disables the PIN when it restores - At least Sprite does and Ithink I recall AS doing it too. Alternatively you could extract the files from the backup directly with the STG viewer?