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#1 User is offline   T39andcounting 

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Posted 14 January 2010 - 01:52 PM

I want to wipe my Hero to give it a fresh start, but I don't want to loose all the Wireless passwords I've entered for various locations. Also, my OH might be getting an Android phone, so it would be good to be able to transfer over all those passwords rather than doing it manually every time we arrived somewhere with secured wifi that I have the password for.

I'm sure I've seen an app like this mentioned on the forum, but I can't find it, and a search of the Market doesn't come up with anything either.

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Posted 14 January 2010 - 03:50 PM

View PostT39andcounting, on Jan 14 2010, 13:52, said:

I want to wipe my Hero to give it a fresh start, but I don't want to loose all the Wireless passwords I've entered for various locations. Also, my OH might be getting an Android phone, so it would be good to be able to transfer over all those passwords rather than doing it manually every time we arrived somewhere with secured wifi that I have the password for.

I'm sure I've seen an app like this mentioned on the forum, but I can't find it, and a search of the Market doesn't come up with anything either.


In /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf you will find your wireless passwords.

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Posted 14 January 2010 - 03:59 PM

View Postfyremoon, on Jan 14 2010, 15:50, said:

In /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf you will find your wireless passwords.


Using Linda Manager to look, there is nothing in my /data folder in the root of My Phone. The folder is empty.

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Posted 14 January 2010 - 04:17 PM

maybe you should try "root explorer", some file managers doesn't show system files.

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Posted 14 January 2010 - 04:21 PM

View Postmaddiez, on Jan 14 2010, 16:17, said:

maybe you should try "root explorer", some file managers doesn't show system files.


the only ones i know of are root explorer, sufbs and estrongs file manager.
you could also use adb:
adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf #DIRECTORY ON PC#

for example, if i want to copy it to my C:\ drive...

adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf C:\

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Posted 14 January 2010 - 04:35 PM

View Postshenshang, on Jan 14 2010, 16:21, said:

the only ones i know of are root explorer, sufbs and estrongs file manager.
you could also use adb:
adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf #DIRECTORY ON PC#

for example, if i want to copy it to my C:\ drive...

adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf C:\


I've just installed estrongs file manager, changed the file settings to show hidden files, and /data is still showing as an empty folder! Root and Cache are also showing up as empty folders. Am I doing something wrong here? My device is a UK Orange Hero running the Modaco Custom 3.1 GSM ROM

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Posted 15 January 2010 - 08:57 AM

View PostT39andcounting, on Jan 14 2010, 17:35, said:

I've just installed estrongs file manager, changed the file settings to show hidden files, and /data is still showing as an empty folder! Root and Cache are also showing up as empty folders. Am I doing something wrong here? My device is a UK Orange Hero running the Modaco Custom 3.1 GSM ROM


I manage to see the file, but not using EStrongs File Explorer. Try the following:

adb shell cat /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

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