Recover forgotten wifi password Android

How to find out the saved wifi password on your Android device?


This is only possible on rooted device. You may use an app for that, dozens of which are available in the Playstore. But if you are up to doing it manually, open a root file browser, open data folder, then misc, then wifi.
There is a wpa_supplicant.conf file, open it, and here are all your saved wifi networks.
/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
SSID is the name, PSK is the password, remove the quotes.

ctrl_interface=DIR=/data/misc/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wifi
update_config=1
device_name=Wireless Client
manufacturer=MediaTek Inc.
model_name=MTK Wireless Model
model_number=1.0
serial_number=2.0
device_type=10-0050F204-5
os_version=01020300
config_methods=display push_button keypad

network={
ssid=”network1″
psk=”wifipassword”
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
sim_slot=”-1″
imsi=”none”
pcsc=”none”
priority=4
}

network={
ssid=”network2″
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=7
}

Also be aware that next to wifi there is wpa_suplicant folder, which has a wrong file. It doesn’t contain any saved passwords.

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