Get your key and database file from the phone. Easiest method I know: forum.xda-developers.com. Open WhatsApp Viewer. File - Open - Select file. Select msgstore.db in the folder “extracted”. Leave account name empty, is was used for older versions of WhatsApp (crypt5) Optional: If you. Feb 11, 2015.
Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db. Supported versions are crypt5, crypt7, crypt8 and crypt12.
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The purpose of the Thumbs.db file is to store a cached copy of the thumbnail versions of the images in that specific folder, so that when you view the folder with thumbnails visible, you get to see a small preview of the image without having to open it.
Yes, SQLite database viewer is capable to support.db files created in android smart phones. Follow the Below Steps to View SQLite db File: Step 1: Launch SysTools SQLite Viewer Step 2: Click on Add File button to select SQLite db file or journal file Step 3: Now browse the SQLite database files from destination folder Step 4: Again Click on Add button to View selected database files.
In this case, you can also look out and install file browsing apps like ES File Explorer File Manager from Google Play! Next, open the ‘Internal storage’ files from where you can locate the ‘WhatsApp folder’. Within the WhatsApp folder, look out for a folder under the name of ‘Media’. Then, tap and hold on it.
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Get your key and database file from the phone. Easiest method I know: forum.xda-developers.com
Open WhatsApp Viewer
File -> Open -> Select file
Select msgstore.db in the folder “extracted”
Leave account name empty, is was used for older versions of WhatsApp (crypt5)
Optional: If you want, you can import contact names from the wa.db file
Click on a chat to show the messages.
You cannot see bigger images because only thumbnails are stored in the database. You see cryptic phone numbers because account names or details are not stored in the database. However, you can import your wa.db file to resolve your contact names.
Do you have a good idea or new feature you would like to see in a future release? Please check whether it is already on the TODO list. If not, create a Github Issue or write me an e-mail. Please keep in mind I develop WhatsApp Viewer in my spare time, I won’t promise any features or release dates.
Can I decrypt the database without the key file?
WhatsApp is able to do that, but I am not. If you have lost your phone or the key file, the backup is worthless. Please, do NOT write me e-mails because you cannot find the key but the messages are SOO important for you. I cannot help you.
What about iPhone / Blackberry?
Not supported.
Where can I get the msgstore.db database file?
How can I decrypt .crypt7 / .crypt8 /.crypt12?
First of all you either need root access to your device or get the key file using the backup method of Android (see link above). When you got root access, you can download the file from the system memory at /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key. Personally, I use MyPhoneExplorer for this task and I can really recommend this tool.
Once you got both, the .crypt7 and key file, use the menu File->Decrypt .crypt7 (or .crypt8), select your files and press OK. The decrypted file should be in the same folder, you can now open it in WhatsApp Viewer.
How can I decrypt .crypt5?
.crypt5 files are, as the name implies, encrypted database backups. The key is combined of some numbers and your personal email address. Usually this is the first account on Settings->Accounts on your phone and is a Google-Mail account. Make sure you enter the whole email address as account name. If you have trouble, sometimes leaving the account name empty is known to work.
So in order to decrypt the file, click File->Decrypt .crypt5, select your file and type the email address. Now you should see a confirmation and the decrypted database on your disk.
Error: could not load chat list sqlite error 11 database disk image is malformed
Sometimes WhatsApp creates a malformed backup and you need to repair it. Currently there is no automatic repair option in WhatsApp Viewer, so you need to do it manually. You need sqlite installed on your computer and run these two lines from command prompt:
Now you can load repaired.db with WhatsApp Viewer.
I get error XYZ, the conversation is not displayed, the app crashes without any error message, …
Please consider this app as beta, I can’t test all variations of WhatsApp backups out there.
However, if you don’t mind and would like to improve the experience for all users you can send me the file you have problems with and I try my best to help you or fix errors. I understand a backup file contains a lot of personal information most users don’t want to share, however debugging is much easier when you can reproduce the problem, so it would help me a lot. I am not interested in your personal data and will delete all the files you send me from my disks after the bugfix.
If you think you found a bug or have suggestions for future versions please report it here: Github Issue
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About WhatsApp and crypt files
WhatsApp is a hugely successful instant messaging service with over 1 billion users. It is available on all mobile platforms and handles over 55 billions messages each day.
The thing that bothers many of WhatsApp users is the ever changing format for storing chat history. These files could be originally found with the file extension CRYPT (and later CRYPT5, CRYPT7 etc), but eventually with each newer WhatsApp version, the extension was changed first to CRYPT12.
This periodical changing of CRYPT extensions created various problems for users, in the form of accessing older CRYPT chat history backups, when you are looking for something some of your friends wrote you, or eve restoring older CRYPT backups. All in all, a function that probably was developed to protect the user and his data, can be really annoying at the same time.
One of the most searched conversions on our website are those that try to convert CRYPT12files to the original CRYPT, or to something else that can be easily viewed by users, like TXT, DOC or HTML format.
For this case we have decided to show you, how you can convert CRYPT12 to CRYPT on Android smartphones, because after that it's just a simple step to view your old WhatsApp chat history.
Converting CRYPT12 files to CRYPT on Android
WhatsApp for Android stores its messaging history in an encrypted SQLite database with one of the many CRYPT extensions depending on the version of the app at the time when the file was saved. These are then stored on the SD card.
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At first, there were some programs that could easily view or extract the contents of the original CRYPT files, but with each additional version, the encryption algorithm was changes and programs that used to work, simply didn't work unless the developer updated them.
The basic idea is to convert the latest CRYPT12 files to the original CRYPT, which then can work with the viewers that still work with it.
The premise for this is that your Android phone is rooted. Without this, it is not possible and you do not need to read any further because you won't be able to perform any of the newer CRYPT conversions.
Almost every Android device has an unique procedure how to get root permissions. Many these procedures are described on the popular xda-developers forums.
Be careful, the rooting process can corrupt your device and rooted devices also lose warranty from their manufacturers!
Using WhatsApp Tri-Crypt utility to transform WhatsApp CRYPT databases
The WhatsApp Tri-Crypt is a small utility for Android that allows you to decrypt, or recrypt WhatsApp databases. The last version also supports the previously used CRYPT8, CRYPT7 and CRYPT6 databases, but if you need to enable this feature you will need to ROOT your Android device.
WhatsApp Tri-Crypt is available to download on official Google Play store. Download it to your phone and click on application icon.
WhatsApp Tri-Crypt on Google Play Store
After you launch the app, you can see that there are several options on a main screen used for different purposes. If you have an older version of WhatsApp that uses original CRYPT, or any later (but now old) formats, simply click on Decrypt WhatsApp Database. Minecraft sp mac free.
If you have newer version of WhatsApp with you will need to first lick on Enable Crypt (Root Required) function and only after that you can use the Decrypt WhatsApp Database button.
WhatsApp Tri-Crypt on Android
If you are no sure, which version of CRYPT format your WhatsApp messenger uses, open any file manager (Root Explorer, Astro File Manager, etc.) and navigate to 'sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases' where you can see files with one of the WhatsApp extension, with the latest being crypt12.
Typically, WhatsApp chat databases look like something this:
msgstore-YYY-MM-DD-N.db.crypt12 - backup database
msgstore.db.crypt12 - main database
The purpose of the WhatsApp Tri-Crypt tool is to for example convert CRYPT12 to CRYPT, so on the SD card can then be found both the msgtstore.db.crypt12 and the converted msgstore.db.crypt file.
Old WhatsApp msg backups on SD card
WhatsApp Tri-Crypt also contains two other interesting features worth noting: It is able to automatically convert on-fly every newly created CRYPT12 database backup (msgstore-YYY-MM-DD-N.db.crypt12) to CRYPT file. When desired, this function might be disabled with the Service Running - Tap to Disable button. It can also Trigger SMS Backup+ popular SMS backup utility and enable it to backup WhatsApp messages to your Google account from newer CRYPT formats.
Converting CRYPT files to something else
Now you can transport msgstore.db.crypt file to your computer and view it using any applications, like Whatsapp Xtract, or in web service like WhatCrypt Tools, that work fine with old CRYPT files.
Personally, WhatCrypt Tools are probably better and more easier choices, because with the Decrypt WhatsApp Database function it's just upload a CRYPT and download a decrypted ZIP. So a great choice for CRYPT to ZIP conversion.
WhatCrypt Tools screenshot
Inside these ZIP files, you can find one or more HTML files, one for each conversation. So if you chat with 10 people, there will be 10 HTML files. There are also some CSS files and other files, so when you open these .html files in a web browser, it will look much like WhatsApp.
With these HTMLs you can do many things, convert them to plain TXT, Microsoft Word DOC etc. depending on what you need. But if you just looking for some texts, opening the HTML in a web browser works just fine.
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And that's it. We hope it was not too much cryptic for you..