watoi VS WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor

then I decided to use residentsummers watoi but it can only be done using mac and VM instances of MAC OS was not very helpful. Finally using this tool I managed to do it.

(Switched to iPhone recently, and this is what I ended up doing. But if you're tech-savvy, check this out: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi - P.s. it didn't work for me!)

Personal drama here because tech support is not my hobby. Did you know that there is still no official way of transferring WhatsApp chats from Android to iPhone? I found out the hard way, so I just want to celebrate my getting it done without using paid apps that may compromise sensitive data. And it only took an awful week of troubleshooting while mostly following this guide.

> https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

Nice! Is there same for extracts dB of Viber & Facebook apps from Android and transfer to another Android?

Regarding my Whatsapp Data, how will I go ahead and copy it? Also, I have the Dual App (a feature by Samsung) and my Whatsapp Chats are all on my DualApp Whatsapp. I've about the github repo residentsummer/watoi for WhatsApp migration, the question though, will it copy over Images?

the main tool i used for transferring the messages is https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi and also used https://github.com/ElDavoo/WhatsApp-Crypt14-Decrypter to decrypt the messages from the android phone . a full guide is here - https://github.com/needs-coffee/Whatsapp-android-to-ios-guide

There is an open issue regarding media file migration here: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi/issues/1 and a recent update by another developer who managed to get media files working (WIP) can be seen in a comment here: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi/issues/1#issuecomment-932349457

There is no complete and fully functional solution. The one that seems to have the most traction is open source and available here: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

I've used "WHAGODRI" from https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa to download my backup from Google Drive. However, the message database (msgstore.db.crypt15) requires a key file to decrypt. My phone is not rooted, so I am unable to access the decryption key. I have tried https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor but I did not succeed in retrieving the key.

This method is a bit dangerous, since it uses ADB and may brick your phone and also corrupt your history. I made sure I had all my chats backed up before try it for the first time. It worked, then I used again yesterday and it worked again. Cant be sure that it will work on your device, but if you want to give it a try, here is what I did Backuping whatsapp chat history without root: I used these tools back in september 2022 and worked just fine. To extract the key and uncrypted messages database: https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor To decrypt the backup databases using the key you extracted and also to visualize the databases: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/releases To fix the SQL tables in order to visualize in the WhatsApp-Viewer: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/issues/151#issuecomment-1229244368

The only way I know to bypass this limitation (and I searched a lot because this was very important to me) is by extracting the WhatsApp key to decrypt the daily backups and export the chats from there (there is an app called WhatsApp viewer that lets you read the SQL database and export to html/txt). The way that worked for me to extract the key at Android was using this repository at GitHub https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor There is also another way via rooting your android and extracting the key from the internal memory of the app. I couldn't root my phone, so I haven't tried this one.

There is a way to get your key from a non-rooted device that should still work: https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor

You don't say what OS you have on the phone. For Android you need to extract the db/key, one of the few options that work is https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor and then read it in https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer .

Backuptrans is the best solution I’ve found for this, done 3 successful migrations with it.

You’ll need to also use https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-... which makes the process easier than it used to be - no need for an android emulator or second rooted phone

It's https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor . It might still work for you, actually I'm curious. I see there were some changes last year in the project, although my problem wasn't really with any of the adb interaction or that python script, it was whatsapp itself getting frozen on the device. It was installing fine, starting up and getting stuck somewhere (don't know if it was due to some local stuff in the db or from what it was getting from the server about my account). Really scary stuff, because all your data is in their hands, I mean you have the encrypted backups but they can become useless in an instant.