Force unlock a Lumia 920 to recover files?

My Lumia 920's screen suddenly became unresponsive a few days back. The phone is obviously running fine but I just can't do anything with it besides watching the battery drains out. I've tried soft reset (lower volumne key-power) numerous times with no luck. I'm going to bring it in for repair, but I would hate to lose the photos I took. Is there a way (even only in the repair shop) to force unlock the phone (through software for instance and let me enter the code) so that the data can be retrieved?
Thanks in advance for any help!

unfortunately, you will need to take your phone to Nokia Care for inspection. there is no guarantee unfortunately that they will be able to recover your data either.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I have checked to make sure that I've got the latest phone updates via the option in the Settings section. I'm not sure if that includes firmware updates - are these automatically installed also, or do I need to download them separately?
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Hi,
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