Recovering an AP password already in use on N900
 

Hi

I need to recover the AP password of my friend's cabin's wifi router. I have permission, he gave it to me and it is saved and useable on my N900. He is currently on honeymoon in the carribean and would be quite annoyed if i bother him with this (He is definately not an always online type). I often use the cabin as base for hiking trips but I can't find the stupid slip of paper with the AP password. I want to hook up my Laptop and my Android directly, going thru the N900 is cumbersome.
Is there a way to retrieve the stored password?

Thanks

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Wow. Thanks. I'm stunned that it's not encrypted....

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@casketizer,

If it was encrypted, then the N900 wouldn't be able to use it :)

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Almost 4 years after, THANK YOU!! Today it was a godsend.

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Technically, you don't event need a command line. Just do this:

• Turn on on-screen keyboard (set to on when slider closed)
• Open slider and edit wifi connection
• Select password field
• Close slider
• Onscreen keyboard pops up with password showing.

Re: Recovering an AP password already in use on N900
 

This does not work on my device. The 'gconftool-2 -R / | grep passphrase' command shows more information.

Re: Recovering an AP password already in use on N900
 

Neither does it on mine.