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• whatsapp-viewer

  22 1,209 0.0 C

  Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db database (crypt12)

They key wasn't with Google, it was coming from Whatsapp as part of the activation (of the same number) on some different phone. Of course what you've done worked, the only problem is that you went from a locked down directory /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases to the same on another phone via an encrypted container that you can't read! You could never read your data in other, unlocked device like a PC (not because of the format but because of the encryption, there are comfortable readers like https://andreas-mausch.de/whatsapp-viewer/ ) and at any point in time you risk losing everything if something goes wrong on their side, despite you having backups.

• WhatsDump

  2 263 0.0 Python

  Extract WhatsApp private key from any non-rooted Android device (Android 7+ supported)

The next best thing was https://github.com/MarcoG3/WhatsDump that would use an emulator to talk to Whatsapp servers and get the key, but that isn't working too since recently (BTW pinging /u/Drooliog/ if you still think the key is coming from your SIM and you have some totally local backup).

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• WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor

  8 427 3.7 Python

  The most advanced and complete solution for extracting WhatsApp key/DB from package directory (/data/data/com.whatsapp) without root access.

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.

• WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor

  3 354 0.0 Batchfile

  Allows WhatsApp users to extract their cipher key and databases on non-rooted Android devices.

Thank you for linking that one; seems to be a different one to the script I remember using. I did some searching, and I think this might be the Whatsapp backup script I used (sourced my own v2.11.431 APK from a mirror), and it worked. XDA thread (unofficial update fork)

• Manual-WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor

  1 1 5.8 PowerShell

  Discontinued Allows WhatsApp users to extract their cipher key and databases on non-rooted Android devices.

Thank you for linking that one; seems to be a different one to the script I remember using. I did some searching, and I think this might be the Whatsapp backup script I used (sourced my own v2.11.431 APK from a mirror), and it worked. XDA thread (unofficial update fork)

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