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| From | Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android |
| Subject | Re: Extracting WiFi Passwords - SOLVED AT LAST! |
| Date | 2024-11-09 01:15 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vgmd4c$3eclt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2024-11-09 01:01, Java Jive wrote: > On 2024-11-09 00:08, Java Jive wrote: >> >> There is a command ... >> <path>\adb backup >> ... which creates a backup of the phone or tablet on your computer. >> However, the backup so created, called backup.ab, is a unique tar file >> format that almost nothing else can read as is, though there are neat >> workarounds as long as it is not encrypted; however, because my tablet >> is encrypted, so is the backup, which means that the simple >> workarounds don't work. >> >> A whole Perl upgrade later, where the biggest problem was actually >> uninstalling the previous version, to run a Perl script to extract the >> contents resulted only in a message that it couldn't do anything with >> this version 4, a version later than that for which it was written. >> >> A whole Java upgrade later, where again the biggest problem was >> uninstalling the previous JDK and JRE, finally extracted it, but it >> seems to contain nothing useful that was not available already simply >> by connecting the phone to the PC in the normal way. > > Actually they were there all along, which shows just how useless is > Windows Search, by contrast Textpad's Find in Files option found them. > > So, the full procedure is: > > 1. <path>\adb backup > > ... 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 > > 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] > > The resulting tar file can be extracted by 7-zip. Search the extracted > files' contents for an SSID known to be on the device, mine were in: > > \apps\com.android.providers.settings\d_f\flattened-data Should have added my thanks to all those who have helped along the way. -- Fake news kills! I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk
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