How to unlock android phone through ADB

Question

My screen is dead and I want to unlock my phone so I can access it through Kies to backup my pictures.

I locked the phone through Android Device Manager setting an e

Answer 1

If you had MyPhoneExplorer installed and connected (not sure this is a must, happened to be my setup already), you could use it to control the screen with your computer mouse. It connects via ADB, for which your normal USB cable is enough.

Another solution I found that even worked without a reboot is updating tables in settings.db and locksettings.db I had to switch to root to open the settings.db though:

 adb shell
 su
 sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

 update secure set value=1 where name='lockscreen.disabled';
 .quit

 sqlite3 /data/system/locksettings.db

 update locksettings set value=0 where name='lock_pattern_autlock';
 update locksettings set value=1 where name='lockscreen.disabled';
 .quit

Source that made me edit my tables