Where does Android store system settings such as WiFi networks?

Question

Can't find the databases with the system settings on my device. Where are they located?

Answer 1

On my Samsung (One UI 2.5), this is the location:

File: /data/misc/wifi/WifiConfigStore.xml

SSID: <string name="SSID">&quot;*&quot;</string>

Password: <string name="PreSharedKey">&quot;*&quot;</string>

Both are in plain text.

There's a wpa_supplicant folder (/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant) but it's empty; there is a wpa_supplicant.conf file, under (/data/vendor/wifi/wpa/wpa_supplicant.conf and /vendor/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf), but it's just a 25 bytes file.

Answer 2

You can modify /data/misc/apexdata/com.android.wifi/WifiConfigStore.xml

More information here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20875807

Answer 3

If you're trying to pull all your system configuration through root access, then I guess you should look up into

/data/system/users/0

As everything will be saved there as xml preferences.

Answer 4

The SSIDs and passwords of the wifi networks are stored to /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

Answer 5

The settings database is located at /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db. You cannot access it unless you have root.