Don’t Miss: 50 Best Apps for Rooted Android Devices. Adb get-serialno. Displays the adb instance serial number string with the device. Shows the status of the device. Adb wait-for-device. This command is used to program delay before the next command is issued. Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile command-line tool that lets you communicate with a device. The adb command facilitates a variety of device actions, such as installing and debugging apps, and it provides access to a Unix shell that you can use to run a variety of commands on a device.
My Android-Phone is locked because I put too many wrong patterns. When a wrongpattern is entered too often, your device is locked and asking to unlock it viagoogle. You are a lucky guy, if it is locked with Wifi or data network on and ofcourse you remember your google username and password. But if not, you have twopossible solutions:1. hard reset your device.2. use adb commands.
If you use number 1 all your data are gone. Maybe you can restore it with a backup.
To use 2 you have to have enabled USB Debugging on the device before it islocked. If you have, and I have it always enabled on all my android devices, youcan use the following solution to unlock your device.
To run the adb-commands you have to change to the platform-tools
directory inyour android-sdk (/path/to/your/android-sdk/platform-tools
).
Now you can use the following commands
Now your device is unlocked. If not use adb shell rm /data/system/gesture.key
.
Alternatively what might also be an option here is to use Appium's io.appium.setting's app. Once that app's installed on the device you can give it permissions and mock location through adb like this. You can change the locale/language for testing purposes without rooting the device, also on newer (4.2+) devices. You have to create an application that changes the device locale. Or, you can use a helper app, e.g. ADB Change Language.
I cleared lock patterns and removed the permanent lock from database. I havebroken the security to unlock my device, but I saved my device and all data andI can use it again.
My Android-Phone is locked because I put too many wrong patterns. When a wrongpattern is entered too often, your device is locked and asking to unlock it viagoogle. You are a lucky guy, if it is locked with Wifi or data network on and ofcourse you remember your google username and password. But if not, you have twopossible solutions:1. hard reset your device.2. use adb commands.
If you use number 1 all your data are gone. Maybe you can restore it with a backup.
To use 2 you have to have enabled USB Debugging on the device before it islocked. If you have, and I have it always enabled on all my android devices, youcan use the following solution to unlock your device.
To run the adb-commands you have to change to the platform-tools
directory inyour android-sdk (/path/to/your/android-sdk/platform-tools
).
Now you can use the following commands
Now your device is unlocked. If not use adb shell rm /data/system/gesture.key
.
I cleared lock patterns and removed the permanent lock from database. I havebroken the security to unlock my device, but I saved my device and all data andI can use it again.