Remove screen lock in android with ADB

Have you forgotten the unlock pattern on your phone? Fear not it's not that hard to crack that.

Here are the steps I followed that got me to unlock a locked phone.

• Restart the phone in Recovery mode.
  Switch off the phone. then press the Power button and Volume down key together to move to the Bootloader. Then select Recovery mode.
• Connect the phone via USB. You need to have ADB installed in your machine. (Android Developer Bundle includes ADB)
• Run the following command on a shell

adb shell rm /data/system/gesture.key

• Restart the phone in normal mode. You will be asked to enter the pattern but any pattern will unlock the screen.