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Re: Extracting WiFi Passwords - SOLVED AT LAST!

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
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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.

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