Importing Wi-Fi passwords to a new device - possible?
April 30, 2018 6:49 AM Subscribe
Hi. I have just upgraded from a Samsung smartphone to a Samsung tablet and have successfully imported almost everything from the old to the new device - except for Wi-Fi passwords.
The old phone holds an archive of all the Wi-Fi passwords I've ever needed on my travels, some of which weren't easy to obtain. Moreover, I can find no way to view them and copy them manually - a chore but feasible as a last resort.
I've managed to import "everything" (according to the description of the app) using the Samsung transfer app SmartSwitch, but I now find every time I try to connect to a known and previously used Wi-Fi I need to obtain and enter the password again on the new device.
I'd be very grateful for any suggestion on locating the password archive and exporting it (but to where in the new tablet?), or even as a last resort on locating it and viewing it or printing it out for manual copying. (Although that of course would imply carrying it with me everywhere I go until I'm in range of a new network and then entering it.)
Please answer for use by a 5-year-old - thanks.
The old phone holds an archive of all the Wi-Fi passwords I've ever needed on my travels, some of which weren't easy to obtain. Moreover, I can find no way to view them and copy them manually - a chore but feasible as a last resort.
I've managed to import "everything" (according to the description of the app) using the Samsung transfer app SmartSwitch, but I now find every time I try to connect to a known and previously used Wi-Fi I need to obtain and enter the password again on the new device.
I'd be very grateful for any suggestion on locating the password archive and exporting it (but to where in the new tablet?), or even as a last resort on locating it and viewing it or printing it out for manual copying. (Although that of course would imply carrying it with me everywhere I go until I'm in range of a new network and then entering it.)
Please answer for use by a 5-year-old - thanks.
Best answer: Now why the heck couldn't I find that?! Many thanks - it looks like the perfect solution. I'll have to put this off until this evening, because it'll involve swapping out the SIM from one to the other and back and forth, which will take a while and I can't do it while working, but I'll check back with report of success if/when done. Thanks again.
posted by aqsakal at 7:02 AM on April 30, 2018
posted by aqsakal at 7:02 AM on April 30, 2018
Response by poster: Turned out not to be so easy and to cost money (which I hadn't expected): all those solutions required the old phone to be rooted. Due to my technical incompetence, that took a whole day and cost me $30. Fortunately yesterday (Labour Day) was a public holiday - I used almost all of it on this chore. Still, success: I'm reporting back becasue I promised to, and so that anyone with the same task has some useful further info.
posted by aqsakal at 11:54 PM on May 1, 2018
posted by aqsakal at 11:54 PM on May 1, 2018
Response by poster: Limited success, really. With the (free) apps I've found, I can only export the passwords one at a time - not (as I had hoped) in a single file listing them all. Still, a step forward...
posted by aqsakal at 5:41 AM on May 2, 2018
posted by aqsakal at 5:41 AM on May 2, 2018
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