How can I remove the password from my Nokia Lumia 520?

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how i can remove the password from my nokia lumia 520?

ok so i've put a password on my nokia lumia 520 and i forgot it,but i can't hard reset it because my volume down button is broken and i don't have my microsoft account connected on it

 

[Alex Sherman1]

Re: how i can remove the password from my nokia lumia 520?

Someone may have a better suggestion but there is a recovery tool from Microsoft that you reformat your phone. But unfortunately if you haven't backed it up before or had a Microsoft account attached to it you will lose all data.