How to find out the password from VK on Android - we find everything that is hidden
Surely everyone has happened to forget their password from an email or account of any of the social networks. Many Internet resources that provide for an authentication procedure offer the user the opportunity to recover a forgotten password in such a situation. This may be a security question specified during registration, an SMS message sent to a phone number, etc.
However, cases when the phone number or the same e-mail are lost are not excluded. Then, for example, having forgotten the password for the account on VKontakte, the user will not be able to send a special code by message due to the fact that the subscriber number has already been linked to another page, and the mail account has not been used for a long time.
In such cases, the password recovery procedure takes quite a long time and consists in compiling an entire questionnaire with passport data, sending a screenshot from the display, where the completed page would be visible.
It turns out that owners of Android devices have the ability to recover the password from their VK page much easier. How to find out the password from VK on Android? To do this, you need to know where passwords are stored. We will talk about this now.
If you have used the save passwords function on your device, then it will not be difficult to see the forgotten password:
The fact is that the saved passwords are in the browser, where, as a rule, it is possible to see the password, which is hidden behind the asterisks. What should we do:
Using system functions
Open the browser (in the screenshot of Google Chrome) in the search bar, enter the link passwords.google.com In the opened window " Saved passwords"We find the desired application or site, in our case, this is" Vkontakte ", we see the login (email address) and the password hidden behind the asterisks. To see the password itself, you need to click on the icon that looks like an eye:
Through a browser on a computer
If you have one account in VK on all devices and the login was carried out automatically (i.e. the password was saved), then you can see the password hidden under the asterisks on the computer. This method will be relevant if, for some reason, you cannot use the previous instruction.
First way
Open a browser window. In the upper right corner, click the icon to call the settings (three parallel dashes). In the "Settings" section, at the very bottom, click on "Advanced settings", find the item "Passwords and forms", select the second line "Offer to save passwords for sites", click on the "Settings" position. In the window that opens with passwords in the search bar, enter the address of the site you are looking for or login:
Now, in the list of sites with saved passwords, click on VK and then activate the "Show" button, after which, in the field where the asterisks were, we will see our password:
Second way
We are pleased to publish instructions for those users who are not accustomed to looking for easy ways to solve a particular problem. This is exactly the same case. Although, it is quite possible that this method will be the most convenient for you. So.
We go to our page in VK. To log in, a window will open with a login (phone or email) and a password hidden with asterisks, select them with the left mouse button and right-click on the selected password. A line will appear containing the parameter type. Double left click on its value password(or pass.).From the list of actions that opens after this, select " Viewing an element's code«.
Now, in the page code, we make changes - we replace type='password' on the type='text'
After this simple manipulation, instead of asterisks, we will see our saved password.
Finding a forgotten password with a traffic analyzer
Using Wireshark (PC)
We need any program that analyzes network packets (sniffer). You can use one of the most popular in this segment - "Wireshark". It is a cross-platform tool that works on almost all operating systems, including Windows.
The program is endowed with a logical and understandable interface, works with most protocols.
We will not talk about the program itself and its merits now (for those who are interested, they can easily find the necessary information on the Internet). We are now interested in the opportunity to solve the problem with finding a password in VK. To do this, download Wireshark from the official website:
Installation on OS Windows is extremely simple (next->next->next).
Connect your Android to PC via USB. Now we need to configure the program for the network to be analyzed and enable it to search for packets:
Then from the smartphone we send the form with the password. After receiving the packets, turn off Wireshark and look for the “password” keyword among the received data, where the login and password will be displayed.
Here it is important to say the following. Working with sniffers is a topic for a separate discussion, and a rather voluminous one at that. Therefore, an unprepared user should not take this method as a guide to action. We briefly talked about Wireshark, only to indicate to our audience the existence of such an opportunity to solve the issue under study.
If you consider yourself an advanced user, and even more so, have had experience with such software, you can easily solve the problem of a forgotten password.
Video tutorial on using Wireshark:
Using Intercepter-NG (Android)
Another representative of the sniffer line that will need to be installed on Android is Intercepter-NG.
The program is a multifunctional network sniffer ported to Android OS. Intercepter-NG quite successfully copes with the task of intercepting and analyzing network traffic, allowing you to recover files that are transmitted over the network, messages from various instant messengers, and, which is important for us in the context of the problem under consideration, recover passwords.
The mobile version turned out to be quite lightweight, which greatly simplifies management. Conditions required for work:
- Android version 2.3.3 and above
- Availability
For more information about setting up the program and its operation, watch the video: