How to unlock Android phone through ADB
My screen is dead and I want to unlock my phone so I can access it through Kies to back up my pictures.
I locked the phone through Android Device Manager, setting an easy password (I was hoping for an Unlock option once I locked it) and tried various methods to unlock it. For example:
adb shell input text 1234
Since I don't know what the lock screen looks like, I'm not sure of the correct inputs to unlock it.
I know the phone is on and that it responds to adb
. I am also able to run apps on it through Eclipse.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android 5.0.