Monday, 6 February 2017

How to View Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows and Android

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Our phone automatically connects to wifi connections which you used previously. Because your PC store those wifi passwords. Some times we need those passwords. And that's what this trick is all about. Using this trick you can view saved wifi password in your Android phone and Windows PC.

This trick, to get wifi password is very useful in some situation like, sometimes when  your friends asks for password but you forgot that or when you accidentally clicked on forgot connection option of that wifi connection.

In Windows, We have two options to view saved wifi passwords, one for currently connection and one for all connections. 

get view saved wifi password


Android phones store passwords in a configuration file named wifi_supplicant.conf 
You can open this file but only when your phone is rooted

So follow this guide. 

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Get saved Wi-Fi Password in Windows PC

Step 1:- Open Command Prompt. Press Windows + R to open run dialogue box window, cmd and hit enter.

Step 2:- Use below command to see password of any specific connection.

netsh wlan show profile name=connection key=clear

In above command, replace connection with name of wifi connection of which you wants to see password.

If you don't know the name of wifi. Use below command to see list of previously connected wifi list.

netsh wlan show profiles

View Saved Wi-Fi Passwords in Android Phone

For our task to be done. We need to fulfill following requirements.

-> Your phone must be rooted.

Step 1:- Download and install ES File Explorer app from Play Store or using above link.

Step 2: Open app and go to root directory of your phone. Ok Lets get more clear. Go to Phone Memory storage. You will see your current location above as in sdcard which should in 0 named folder. Click on Emulated just before 0 to go back more and than click / (slash) to go back more. And you will be in root directory.
Use below pattern if you find it hard to locate.

SdCard << 0 << Emulated<< /

root directory path



Step 3:- From root directory Go To data >> misc >> wifi 

Step 4:- Finally, you are in Wi-Fi folder. Open the file named wifi_supplicant.conf

wifi-supplicant-file


And you will see list of previously connected wifi connections with their passwords.

saved wifi password view


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It is not that hard to get and view saved wifi passwords in android and windows. If you stuck at any step, feel free to ask us in comment section.

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4 comments:

  1. thanks a lot for this advice! now I have no problems with passwords saving!

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  2. I wasn't aware of those possibilities. I'll try to change something in those settings. Thank you!

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  3. It's great that you shared this information, now I know how to see passwords without much difficulty.

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