Help random numbers and letters on root explorer

[herblord]

why is it that i only see random letters and numbers on root explorer? i just wanted to view my wifi password on wpa_supplicant.conf

Yes, my phone is rooted. my phone is SM-N750 samsung galaxy note 3 neo Running on 4.4.2 kitkat.
pls help me to resolve this problem. Thanks in advance guys.

 

[funkylogik]

Repeating the same question won't get you anymore help buddy.
If someone sees your post and thinks they know the answer, they'll reply so chill a bit eh

 

[Hadron]

We're seeing a lot of repeats at the moment - so many more than we used to that I wonder whether there isn't a technical issue behind some of them?

Is the whole thing "random" or just the passwords? If it's the whole thing then maybe it's been encrypted (not standard, but imaginable). That or for some reason the character encoding is not what root explorer expects.

If just the password then are the letters only in the range A-F? Because if it's just passwords the simplest explanation would be if they've been stored as hex strings (which will also work as passwords, though you may need to prefix them with 0x to make explicit that this is the format you are using). Each pair of characters in a hex string represents a single ASCII character, e.g. "61" = "a", so you can also translate back to ASCII if this is the case (there are web pages to do this if you don't fancy working it out by hand).

 

[Slug]

why is it that i only see random letters and numbers on root explorer?

The file isn't ANSI-encoded. I've just looked at my own (from a Sony handset running Android 5.0.2) on my PC with Notepad++ and I'm not sure how it's encoded... it's just a mass of NULL and other special characters interspersed with human-readable characters.

 

[Hadron]

Unfortunately it's perfectly readable on my HTC

 

[Slug]

Unfortunately it's perfectly readable on my HTC

Hmm, curiouser and curiouser (said Alice). If I remember I'll have a longer look tomorrow.

 

[iowabowtech]

Inadvertently looking at the binary at system/bin possibly? Instead of data/misc/wifi location. At any rate, I'm not able to see a wifi password and I didn't realize that would be expected to show up there. Could be just my device idk.

 

[Slug]

Inadvertently looking at the binary at system/bin possibly?

Erm....

Looking at the correct file, I can see all saved APs listed along with their SSIDs and PSKs.