Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Using automated tools

There are several automated solutions available on the market for unlocking Android devices. Commercial tools, such as Cellebrite and XRY, are capable of bypassing the screen locks, but most of them require USB debugging to be enabled. We will now examine how to unlock an Android device using the UFED user lock code recovery tool. This tool only works on those devices that support USB OTG. This process also requires a UFED camera, Cable No. 500-Bypass lock, and Cable No. 501-Bypass lock. Once the tool is installed on the workstation, go through the following steps to unlock the Android device:

1. Run the tool on the workstation and press 1, as shown in the following screenshot:

UFED user lock code recovery tool

2. Now, ...