Re: Extracting WiFi Passwords - SOLVED AT LAST!

On 2024-11-09 01:01, Java Jive wrote:
In response to Andrews' comments, I think I need to clarify these.  In particular, the adb command given is probably wrong, because, after all the attempts to uninstall and reinstall Perl and Java the actual command I gave had fallen off the end of the DOSKey list, so I wrote it, late last night, from memory.  However, I got it from here and can now tell that I must have misremembered it (312-314):
https://gist.github.com/Pulimet/5013acf2cd5b28e55036c82c91bd56d8
So the (corrected) full procedure is:
1.    <path>\adb backup -all -f backup.ab
... creates backup.ab in the current directory
2.    Install or update to the latest Java Runtime Environment, currently 1.8.0_431:
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/download_options.html
3.    Download Nelenkov's abe*.jar file:
https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor
https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor/releases/download/latest/abe-3e9a273.jar
4.    Give the command (without the square brackets around the password, they are merely a convention signifying that it is an optional parameter):
java -jar <path>\abe-3e9a273.jar unpack <path>\backup.ab <path>\backup.tar [password]
5.    The resulting tar file can be extracted by 7-zip.
6.    Search the contents of the extracted files for an SSID known to be on the device, mine were in:
\apps\com.android.providers.settings\d_f\flattened-data
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