Here you will be knowing how to unlock an Android tablet pc
using command line prompt on a general Computer PC by accessing the
Android shell.
To unlock pattern password through your Computer PC, first you need the
following software:-1) Android Developer Tool. ( Only one folder of Android Developer tool is required i.e. platform-tool) download the Full Android Developer tool from here (400 MB) or if you want only the platform-tools file then click here (900KB) to download.
2) Tablet PC drivers.
Now note the following steps required
to unlock the tablet:
1) Connect the tablet to your system
through a USB cable. The system will automatically detect the drivers for the
Tablet PC. To check if the drivers were detected, you can right click on the My
Computer icon. Then click on Manage option in the appeared menu and
select the option Device Manager.
2) In case the Drivers are not
detected automatically, then the sign shown below will show up in the
Device manager. This means the drivers have to be installed manually.
Under the option “Other devices”
select “Android“. Right click on it and then select “Update driver“.
In the window which comes next, following two option will be available:-
1. Select automatically for updated
driver software.
2. Browse My computer for driver software.
Select first option but make sure
you are connected to the Internet. After clicking on the first option the
drivers will be downloaded from the Internet.
If the drivers were not installed
automatically then you will have to go for the 2nd option which says “Browse
My computer for drivers software“. Click on it and located the
drivers folder on your computer itself.
After the drivers have been
installed. Open the command prompt, for that go to Run and type cmd then
press Enter.
In the command prompt, change the
drive location to the downloaded drivers location. For this use the command “cd
<folder path>” eg. cd desktop/platform-tools
When the folder ‘platform-tools’
path is brought in the command line, type the command adb shell and
press Enter. Now enter the command rm /data/system/gesture.key and press
enter.
Thereafter, look into tablet
and give any pattern sequence. Your tablet pc will get unlocked.
