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for password see how N900 device lockcode works (e.g. in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=524522) - the problem is the lockcode function is part of the OS running, and I'd guess on N9(50) your best bet is to reflash the complete device to unlock an unknown lockcode. That's been the intended effect it been implemented for: protect your data when you lose device. So recovery path is: delete all data aka 'reflash'

{edit] while in N900 the lockcode (hash) is stored in NAND, in N9 iirc this is slightly different as in: you can't (write?) access the lockcode in openmode, as the storage location gets 'sealed' when the bootloader decides to enter 'openmode' and run an unsigned kernel.
[edit2] basically I guess your situation is identical to this http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=603825
[edit3] afaik it was possible on N900 to set "locked: no" flag by mere flashing of rootfs in maybe up to PR1.2. However I'm sure they fixed that by adding a sort of flag to MyDocs as well, so you had to reflash both, in probably PR1.3.
Sorry I lost interest in N9 / Harmattan when it became clear that user don't own their device since Nokia doesn't hand out the keys for that security stuff
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