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Using adb pull without rooting Nexus7 (2012)
chaikenj:
--- Quote from: matt on October 21, 2014, 03:43:31 PM ---It may be that the backup wasn't completed on the server
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Thanks. I used "bmgr list sets" and find two sets, one for each of my Nexus7s. I cannot tell which is which, because the hex number is not the serial number or MAC address or anything I can find.
Now I'll look up the subcommands for bmgr ....
chaikenj:
--- Quote from: chaikenj on October 21, 2014, 04:21:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: matt on October 21, 2014, 03:43:31 PM ---It may be that the backup wasn't completed on the server
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Thanks. I used "bmgr list sets" and find two sets, one for each of my Nexus7s. I cannot tell which is which, because the hex number is not the serial number or MAC address or anything I can find.
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Well, well! I used "bmgr restore" for the first-named Nexus7 and Google restored all my apps and WiFi networks. My project is finished! Thanks for your help, Matt... this solution to my "adb pull" question certainly is not well documented.
matt:
Flying by the seat of my pants on this one, lol. Great!
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chaikenj:
I am posting the answer to my question, as the thread is lengthy.
1. I wanted to get wifi passwords off my old Nexus7 (not rooted) to use on my new 2nd gen LTE
2. All the apps that would show wifi passwords needed root
3. But I was told if I installed the program adb on my Windows computer I could pull the file /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf, which contains the wifi passwords, even without rooting
4. This advice is NOT TRUE --you need root to pull this file to your computer using adb
5.I rooted my old Nexus7. But on startup it did not offer a choice of restoring from Google's servers
6. I installed a terminal emulator and ran bmgr restore
Google downloaded my wifi passwords and all apps to my Nexus7
7. Since the Nexus 7 is now rooted, there are various ways I can see the passwords.
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