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Hello all,
I would always like to have a backup of all my HTC contacts in my SIM card too but the moment if I copy even a single contact into the SIM card, it starts showing up under the contacts menu and then I have duplicate contacts which is kinda distracting and annoying.
Is there a tweak or some setting to avoid the SIM contacts from being visible in the HTC contacts menu but at the same time allow me to backup all my phone contacts into the SIM card.
Thanks
Vivek
Check Advance configuration tool (Advanced_Configuration_Tool_v3.3.cab)..
There's a setting in it for this.
I think there's also one in Diamond tool (Diamond Tweak 0.5.3_English.cab)
But not too sure about this one.
Thanks funnysam for your reply.
Could you also post a link for both the softwares you mentioned.
Are they availble on this site ?
Thanks
or you can go to the registry and do hkcu/controlpanel/phone and set ShowSIM to 0
callingrohit said:
Thanks funnysam for your reply.
Could you also post a link for both the softwares you mentioned.
Are they availble on this site ?
Thanks
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oh crap didn't realize how old this thread is.. sorry
hieu2ueih said:
or you can go to the registry and do hkcu/controlpanel/phone and set ShowSIM to 0
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Excellent solution, hieu2ueih.
Thank you so much for your help.
I have acheived what I wanted to acheive.
thanks
I personal only use phone contacts. Since my phone gets sync with my pc about every other day I always have a up to date bacc up. Not sure why you would want to same tot he sim card. You would proably even be better using PHMbaccup and have everything copied to you mcrosd card on what ever schedule you would like it to be.
Zaiaku said:
I personal only use phone contacts. Since my phone gets sync with my pc about every other day I always have a up to date bacc up. Not sure why you would want to same tot he sim card. You would proably even be better using PHMbaccup and have everything copied to you mcrosd card on what ever schedule you would like it to be.
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In my case I have a dumbphone I can use for a backup, and I use it occasionally. So having the contacts on the SIM for me makes them appear in that phone instead of trying to update my contacts in that phone to keep it current.
In my old PDA (Dell Axim) there was a possibillity that the owner of the device could type into a screen, called "My Info", his name, (e-mail)address, phone number and a personal message that said (i.e.): "If found, please return this device to owner (reward included) - Thank you!".
That screen would immediately pop up when anyone would start up the device but it was still locked by the user. So basicly, the finder could not do anything with the device, other than trying to format it completely if he would have kept it to use it himself.
Unfortunately, my HTC HD2 does not have the "my info'' possibility; at least, not that I know off. So, if I would lose my device, an honoust finder would not know who would be the rightfull owner to return it to.
Is any of you familliar with the possibility to make this possible on my device? Maybe by installing some extra software or so?
I hope I will hear from you shortly.
Thanking you in advance.
Best regards,
Robert,
Netherlands
am i mistaken or is there not a contact card in the contacts for "my info" including name, address and the like
Go to contacts tab, click more and there you'll see a contact card 'me' (Ik in dutch)
There you can put in this info
Ropie58 said:
In my old PDA (Dell Axim) there was a possibillity that the owner of the device could type into a screen, called "My Info", his name, (e-mail)address, phone number and a personal message that said (i.e.): "If found, please return this device to owner (reward included) - Thank you!".
That screen would immediately pop up when anyone would start up the device but it was still locked by the user. So basicly, the finder could not do anything with the device, other than trying to format it completely if he would have kept it to use it himself.
Unfortunately, my HTC HD2 does not have the "my info'' possibility; at least, not that I know off. So, if I would lose my device, an honoust finder would not know who would be the rightfull owner to return it to.
Is any of you familliar with the possibility to make this possible on my device? Maybe by installing some extra software or so?
I hope I will hear from you shortly.
Thanking you in advance.
Best regards,
Robert,
Netherlands
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
5. Enable Hidden Owner Info in All Settings\Personal Folder
Go to HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner and change Hide from 1 to 0 and then reset. You can now enter your name you want to register old apps.
Karsten
Or use BsB Tweaks and turn on the option "Owner Info"
Well, there IS a "me"-card in contacts for my info, the only problem is that this info would never be seen by the person that would find the lost HD2 device when it is locked with its password...
Ropie58 said:
Well, there IS a "me"-card in contacts for my info, the only problem is that this info would never be seen by the person that would find the lost HD2 device when it is locked with its password...
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You could always make up a skin with your personal info on it. Make it 480 x 800 and .cab it, and make it your lock screen.
wolfee said:
You could always make up a skin with your personal info on it. Make it 480 x 800 and .cab it, and make it your lock screen.
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That suggestion I also had in mind, but I hoped there would be a much more easier solution...
Thanks for your reply!
Robert.
@Karsten
I really would like to try your suggestion, only I have trouble understanding your path... What is "HKML" and how do I get there? Is it correct from me to understand that I will find the "All Settings\Personal Folder" in "HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner"? And what do you mean by "you want to register your apps"?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for your reply!
Robert
Ropie58 said:
@Karsten
I really would like to try your suggestion, only I have trouble understanding your path... What is "HKML" and how do I get there? Is it correct from me to understand that I will find the "All Settings\Personal Folder" in "HKLM\ControlPanel\Owner"? And what do you mean by "you want to register your apps"?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for your reply!
Robert
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Ok what he means is to use a reg editor program like Total Commander or PHM reg Edit to change the reg key. Here is a cab that will change the reg for you. when it comes to reg some Paid programs it requires you to enter your name or email Addy in the owner info.
jbirdeagle
Here is an easy way to put your "My Info" on your HD2 in case it gets lost.
On a notepad or whatever, write your name and phone number, then take a picture of it and save it to "locked phone wallpaper". It can be nicely decorated or plain. I was really worried about not finding that option (old phone Wing had this) saw locked phone wall paper under settings, personalize.
Hi folks,
Just a couple of days ago I found a working MIUI ported ROM for our A789. Seems that was ported from ZTE V970 or something. I decided flash it. First boot comes in chinese, but I could find the config page to shift language. Surprisingly, there's english and many others, including portuguese (I'm brazilian). The configuration pages remain in english, but others were translated.
Very nice ROM, beautiful, with many themes (It's miui). Until now, no bugs, lags. One intersting thing: the ROM merge DATA and internal USB, ending all saving and usage issues [no. It just disables internal USB... bad...]. Battery drain seems ok. So, I think we can have a lot of fun with it!
Some screenshots attached.
Cheers!
EDIT: NEW version (v4 - 130205) released! Get it here.
Nice.
Its customary though to make phone numbers unreadable in the screenshots. I agree no one in his right mind would now start calling them, but with a few million readers on XDA, there may be a few who are not in their right minds
Also, can you tell me if this has the option to swap 3G to either SIM?
cybermaus said:
Nice.
Its customary though to make phone numbers unreadable in the screenshots. I agree no one in his right mind would now start calling them, but with a few million readers on XDA, there may be a few who are not in their right minds
Also, can you tell me if this has the option to swap 3G to either SIM?
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Hummm... I never realize that... Screenshot removed, just in case.
I don't get your question... Are you talking about GSM/3G shift in 1st SIM?
In settings>mobile networks>3G service there's 2 options, "enable 3G" (in that I can switch between SIM1, SIM2 or disabled) and "network mode" (GSM/WCDMA auto mode and wcdma only). As far I known, SIM2 accepts only GSM....
If you can "Enable 3G" with a choice of SIM2, then obviously SIM2 does not only accept GSM.
Strictly speaking, SIM is separate from Radio. The MT657x have 2 serial ports to read SIM's. And it has a GSM and a GSM/3G radio. There is no rule that claims the OS cannot feed the data from the 2nd SIM into the 1st 3G radio, but it does mean SIM1 then must go into the GSM-only radio.
Its a OS feature that the Mediatek template OS had for a while, but Lenovo seem to have chosen to not copy that possibility from the template.
And I think is a very useful feature. I think I will suggest this ROM to my friend, who has a A789.
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If you can "Enable 3G" with a choice of SIM2, then obviously SIM2 does not only accept GSM.
(...)
And I think is a very useful feature. I think I will suggest this ROM to my friend, who has a A789.
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This is intersting! I just assumed that SIM2 was GSM only because of that label from lenovo. I'll try this. Thank you!
One last thing: there's only one signal bar indicator, despite of fact I have 2 SIMs.
Is this ok for P700i?
No, the P700i has a differed LCD screen driver, the kernel and kernel modules needs to be swapped. I'll see if I can do that for you, but no guarantees.
In the mean time: Direct download for the A789 from baidu
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Hi folks,
Just a couple of days ago I found a working MIUI ported ROM for our A789. Seems that was ported from ZTE V970 or something. I decided flash it. First boot comes in chinese, but I could find the config page to shift language. Surprisingly, there's english and many others, including portuguese (I'm brazilian). The configuration pages remain in english, but others were translated.
Very nice ROM, beautiful, with many themes (It's miui). Until now, no bugs, lags. One intersting thing: the ROM merge DATA and internal USB, ending all saving and usage issues [no. It just disables internal USB... bad...]. Battery drain seems ok. So, I think we can have a lot of fun with it!
Some screenshots attached.
Cheers!
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Alissoncg, "valeu meu irmão"
But i have some doubts:
1) By the look of the screen shots, i see only one network signal icon on top... are these screenshots from the web or from your phone? is that configurable or is it the fact that the rom wasn't "worked on" enough to give the rest of the info?
2) Are the default apps in chinese or english? ( calendar, etc )
3) is this rooted?
4) What are the default apps in the rom? (super su, systemapp remover, mobileuncletools, etc ?! )
spinal2k said:
Alissoncg, "valeu meu irmão"
But i have some doubts:
1) By the look of the screen shots, i see only one network signal icon on top... are these screenshots from the web or from your phone? is that configurable or is it the fact that the rom wasn't "worked on" enough to give the rest of the info?
2) Are the default apps in chinese or english? ( calendar, etc )
3) is this rooted?
4) What are the default apps in the rom? (super su, systemapp remover, mobileuncletools, etc ?! )
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Hi spinal2k "não há de quê"
1. Yes, it's my phone. I don't have any idea why it shows only one net signal. By the way, the two SIMs are working.
2. Some apps are only chinese, but are crapware, so I removed with rootexplorer. All others, the important ones, are multilanguage or english.
3. Yes, rooted but no Play Store, only sync with google account. I just flashed it.
4. Humm, let's see... reebooter, fmradio (no transmitter), file explorer (nice app!), root explorer, LBESEC by miui (like original lenovoSEC), miui compass (useless), miui gallery, miui videoplayer, music, sound recorder (nice, emulates a cassete player). All others I installed after flashing ROM.
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3. Yes, rooted but no Play Store, only sync with google account. I just flashed it.
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you could try to install PlayStore by installing Google GMS. Usually if Play store is not installed, neither is network locations, so look into that too from the same post.
What I wanted to ask though: You say DATA and USB storage is merged? I was analyzing the installer (to see if I could make a P700i/A660 port), and I find no hints whatsoever that it re-partitions the memory. It just installs boot & system as usual. Please explain a bit more.
is it just me or the multitasking button switches off screen instead of showing the running apps?
cybermaus said:
you could try to install PlayStore by installing Google GMS. Usually if Play store is not installed, neither is network locations, so look into that too from the same post.
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Hum... I don't know what network locations does, but I simply flashed google apps from goo.im and everything is working.
cybermaus said:
What I wanted to ask though: You say DATA and USB storage is merged? I was analyzing the installer (to see if I could make a P700i/A660 port), and I find no hints whatsoever that it re-partitions the memory. It just installs boot & system as usual. Please explain a bit more.
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It's my english... forgive me! :angel:
Well, after my fist posting here I looked in settings>storage. Actually, there is no more USB internal storage. I don't know what happened, but I don't have access to it (if exists now... maybe was erased?). I assumed that "data" and "usb storage" was merged resulting in a 2.5GB DATA, but I have only 792MB. And no USB Storage, only SD card. When connected to PC in storage mode, there is 2 storage devices detected, 1st is CD card and 2nd it's no mounted.
Please let me know if you want I test something to you.
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is it just me or the multitasking button switches off screen instead of showing the running apps?
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Yes, it's a annoying thing. But we have a excellent app/function to swith beteen apps, just long press home button. Not only a switcher, but a memory cleaner.
tbh, i like this rom because off the costumization but i'm going back to cybermaus rom....
this one has loads of bug, i hate the root app that comes in stock!!!!
sometimes i get java errors ( after removing some of the "crapware" )
spinal2k said:
tbh, i like this rom because off the costumization but i'm going back to cybermaus rom....
this one has loads of bug, i hate the root app that comes in stock!!!!
sometimes i get java errors ( after removing some of the "crapware" )
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Here I installed SuperSU to bypass the stock one, and until now, no errors.
Things i liked in this rom:
1) customize every single piece of the UI ( themes, statusbar, more status bar information such as network speed, settings menus, new widget interactions )
2) i tried several themes, all beautiful and very interactive.
3) sms app no longer prompts for network, just click the send button of the network you want to use
4) loads of languages if you find the menu to change the language ( go to settings, click line with keyboard icon, and click first option )
5) some new options in the notification center which i like ( paging, add or remove toggles, etc )
6) <removed>
7) i love the messages in the lockscreen when you have emails, missing calls, unread sms, etc.
8) unlock screen with 4 options instead of two ( besides camera and unlock we have sms and another one i don't remember )
9) i like this main theme more than i like the original Lenovo theme ( i don't like the default dark and red UI and the default font of the default dialer on the original rom )
Things i found confusing in this rom:
1) one signal bar only, even though both networks are working fine but i like the information on both networks. I live in a very "network unstable" environment.
2) app drawer gone (too many apps is a mess, imo)
3) lots of java errors after removing some of the Chinese apps. Had to reinstall rom and wipe device several times to try and detect which was the app causing all those errors after removal.
4) the stock SU app is problematic (executing a "root needed" app asks for permissions, i allow it and then the app hangs... need to go to app to manually allow again and re-execute the app) and changing to the superSu one not so easy ( after 4 wipes i finnaly did it with out errors )
5) if there is more than one icon/network carrier in the upper LEFT corner, 3 dots appear instead. Don't know what's actually running or not.
6) LBE half chinese half english and if i remove it and install the full chinese one, loads of java errors.
7) Fourth button on the phone ( multitask access button ) does the same as the power button when phone is with screen on ( black screen and locks ). Pressing home button more than 2 or 3 seconds brings up the multitasking menu ( swipe up to remove from memory ).
8) USB Internal storage just dessapeared... "/mnt/sdcard/" is the only one that exists (on cybermays rom, at least on my device, /mnt/sdcard2/ is the sdcard partition and /mnt/sdcard/ is the usb internal partition) and is the sdcard one... you don't get the message "Preparing External Storage" at boot time, widgets work properly from sdcard.
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There are probably more things i liked and disliked about this rom, i'm already on cybermaus rom. If i remember i'll say it later.
If you go to the "about this phone", you see that this ROM is marked as BETA1....I'll be checking the updates on this one because there are definitely things I liked in this ROM.
Strange... As I said, I really don't got any errors! I simply remove all chinese-only apps and everything is ok. In fact, all another problems you pointed really exists, but for me it's acceptable, because the whole ROM is simply beautiful... But it's a beta, so we could expect improvements.
If I understand the china guys (with a little help from google translate ) there is a kind of schedule to do things like this port from ZTE to our A789. There is another phones being ported too, so seems there will be hope for us...
I just discovered that USB internal storage wasn't erased or something else. Apparently it's just not mounted. Because of my "recovery battle", after flash cybermaus one, I looked in recovery and I could see USB internal storage there.
A660
WOW!
A miui rom!
It's possible to have it for the A660?:cyclops:
zonatar said:
WOW!
A miui rom!
It's possible to have it for the A660?:cyclops:
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Atm, you cannot install this specific rom on another phone other than the A789...
ok, I referred here by a friend after explaining what is going on.... my wife has a sharp FX plus... and it has been a problem since day one with the memory... I read the Q & A sticky, but don't know what I need to do in order to fix the problem so once I figure that out I should be ok.
the sharp says storage device is full on phone, if she gets two text messages it is full, she repeatedly daily has to uninstall games and erase all messages the phone does not give the option to move unused apps to the sd card or to erase unused apps, not to mention if she has mms on she can't receive texts and if she has text on she can't download mms.... like I said I'm new to all this... does anyone know how to fix this she loves the phone and the slide out keyboard and hates how big new phones are so I'm here to see if I can find a fix.... please help so I can put a smile on the wifes face!!!!
wow, not even a shot in the dark.... thats crazy.... I know there has got to be something....there is stuff all over the web so I guess I'm off to search.... I've softmodded alot of console so I should be able to get it down pretty quick, just need a direction to go.....
Need more info
basswiigee said:
The phone does not give the option to move unused apps to the sd card or to erase unused apps
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What do you mean here... It sounds like your saying you have to "use" the app first in order for it to be moved or erased? Which im sure is not the case.
Respond with details of what ROM/ android version, build, memory option, etc. These are things needed to know before any help can be given because suggestions vary especially if you are rooted.
... But try this first, go to settings --> Storeage --> Internal memory and respond with either a screen shot or details if privacy is an issue. I would figure you will find the 'heavy' items there to delete... usually multimedia and not apps are the culprit.
Hello dear xda users,
I wanted to transfer my WhatsApp to a new phone. I have created a local backup and transferred it to the new phone. Though WhatsApp doesn't want to recognize it and just prompts me for the google drive backup. The number stayed the same and in the past I never had problems with that. The same things happens on my old phone. So now I have all the data, but I cannot use it. It would be sad for me to lose all my chatlogs (6 years). So I wanted to decrypt the database with the help of https://andreas-mausch.de/whatsapp-viewer/. Though I haven't found a recent and decent manual on how to get the WhatsApp Encryption Key from the newest app version and newest Android (crypt 14). I can root my phone if necessary. So if someone knows how to do that, may you please provide a manual or point me in the right direction?
Kind regards,
sollo477
Ordinarily, you should be able to restore WhatsApp chatlog from your local backup.
I have the same problem... i can´t restore from local file, i spent all my SMS verification codes, i have to wait til tomorrow to try again... ;(
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Ordinarily, you should be able to restore WhatsApp chatlog from your local backup.
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I know, it always worked before. But now WhatsApp is just stupid. I also contacted the WhatsApp Support. They were like: "Well...tough luck. We can't help you." Maybe they should just give people an easy way to make an unencrypted export of all chats. I did everything according to the manuals and then the restore of the backup doesn't work. You don't even get any pop up, if something was wrong with the backup file or that WhatsApp cannot find any back ups on the phone. I have Threema as well, but most people I know don't use it.
I am also facing the same problems since yesterday.. And i am losing almost 3 yrs of my important chats due to this careless whatsapp bug. Anyone please help me in this..
mayur9890 said:
I am also facing the same problems since yesterday.. And i am losing almost 3 yrs of my important chats due to this careless whatsapp bug. Anyone please help me in this..
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My backup database file is having crypt14 extension.. (usually it was crypt12) i already tried installing older Whatsapp version, rooted my phone and tried getting the key as well but whatsapp viewer saying invalid key as the file got skipped while authentication and activating whatsapp. Now i am stuck with a database file which i cant use and whatsapp is not at all concerned to help me with their system.
That really sounds like a bug. So maybe I should just keep the backups for now till they are old enough to be opened or WhatsApp fixes the problem.
I saw this fix on another thread and it works
Copy the files ("msgstore.db.crypt14", "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt14"...) in "internal storages/WhatsApp/Databases" on your old Android smartphone
Create the path "sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases" on your new Android smartphone and paste the copied files there
Install Whatsapp via Google Play Store on your new smartphone
Open Whatsapp and verify your phone numer (you have to use the same number as on your old smartphone)
When it asked you to grant access to your files for Google drive, ignore the message and instead close the app (press □ and wipe Whatsapp away)
Activate airplane mode
Open Whatsapp again and wait until you see the message that scanning is taking longer than usual. Press "skip" (don't know the English word, I'm also using Whatsapp in german) and in the new message also press "skip"
You should now see your local backup, press "restore backup"
Disable airplane mode and activate Wifi
Ignore the message regarding Google Drive and, when your backup has been restored (look at the progress bar at the bottom in the background), close the app
Open Whatsapp again and you should see now your old and new messages alltogether!
Oddking said:
I saw this fix on another thread and it works
Copy the files ("msgstore.db.crypt14", "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt14"...) in "internal storages/WhatsApp/Databases" on your old Android smartphone
Create the path "sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases" on your new Android smartphone and paste the copied files there
Install Whatsapp via Google Play Store on your new smartphone
Open Whatsapp and verify your phone numer (you have to use the same number as on your old smartphone)
When it asked you to grant access to your files for Google drive, ignore the message and instead close the app (press □ and wipe Whatsapp away)
Activate airplane mode
Open Whatsapp again and wait until you see the message that scanning is taking longer than usual. Press "skip" (don't know the English word, I'm also using Whatsapp in german) and in the new message also press "skip"
You should now see your local backup, press "restore backup"
Disable airplane mode and activate Wifi
Ignore the message regarding Google Drive and, when your backup has been restored (look at the progress bar at the bottom in the background), close the app
Open Whatsapp again and you should see now your old and new messages alltogether!
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Can u give the thread link to this fix?
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Can u give the thread link to this fix?
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WhatsApp cannot detect local backup file
I did a backup for my messages then uninstalled WhatsApp. The next day, I reinstalled it for a quick thing and it restored locally without problems then I uninstalled it again. 2 weeks later, when I
stackoverflow.com
@sollo47..Did you tried any of the methods above.. My WhatsApp is stuck for verification for next 48 hrs and i wont be getting sms codes to verify.
I just wanted to chip in to say that I am hitting exactly this issue right now. I wonder if it's a new bug in WhatsApp because just a couple of months ago I migrated really smoothly from my old Huawei P10 Lite to Pixel 4a and everything was fine.
Now I'm trying to migrate my wife from her Honor 9 (very similar to the P10) to a second Pixel 4a and WhatApp is being a nightmare! There are successful local and Google Drive backups on the old handset and all the messages are still present on that one, but when the new one restores from Google Drive, it only seems to retrieve the media files and none of the Chat history.
I've copied over the latest msgstore.db.crypt12 file but WhatsApp didn't seem to detect it and went back to Google Drive again. Now I've exhausted my verification options for a couple of hours so will have to wait (seriously! I've used 2-3 SMS codes and about 3 phone verifications trying to sort this out!!)
One thing I've noticed, which I really hope isn't going to be a big problem is that when it creates its own new database when restoring from Google Drive it's got a `crypt14` extension.
When I'm able to retry the verification I am going to try as above and put it into flight mode before attempting a restore so that it is forced to look at the local files for options.
Every other App on the damn planet includes menu options for both Backup and Restore, so what does WhatsApp only have Backup and make it damn near impossible to do a proper restore. :-(
I'll update with any progress.
Well... I'm no further forward :-(
I tried downgrading the App to 2.21.8.17 and then following these instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67756993/4915304
By putting the phone into flight mode and skipping the internet checks the application _did_ then discover a local backup file however it then failed to Restore it :-(
There's a possiblity this failure was my fault... I've discovered that on my wife's phone there's an old Directory from 2020 containin backups, and then the external SD card has more recent ones... I'd accidentally copied the wrong ones, which I realised when it offered to restore the newest backup from nearly a year ago :-( So before accepting, I thought I'd try my luck and I replaced the msgstore.db.crypt12 via adb push to be the up-to-date one. I was hoping that it might not care. The reason for it failing was not displayed but now there's no option to restore unless I reset the app, which means waiting another 4+ hours before they'll give me a new verification code :-(
I also tried purchasing WonderShare MobileTrans as it claimed to be the only option to enable restoration of messages without reinstalling/resetting the installed application. Unfortunately that's of no use to me because it required the Source Phone to have WhatApp verified and active in order to capture the backup that it needs! Under the hood it's entirely reliant upon 'adb' access to the phone and I'm sceptical as to whether it will even work with the newer versions of WhatsApp.
On both the Android 8 source phone and A11 destination phone, it pops up with a warning that the application was built for an older version of Android and might not work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm sooooo annoyed about this now. If it wasn't for the fact that so many friend and family are only using WhatsApp I'd uninstall it now and use something more open instead.
I had the same problem yesterday! Spent ALL DAY trying to restore my WhatsApp local backup (I've done it before a million times and no problems).
Looks like there is a problem with the latest version (2.21.10.16) restoring local backups.
I downloaded an older version apk (WhatsApp Messenger 2.21.6.17 from apkmirror) and copied to my internal storage.
Went through the normal process of instaling and verifying my number... IT FOUND MY LOCAL BACKUP!!!!
I thought I had lost all my chats from the last 4 years or so!
Try it and good luck!
@groovy909 and all others. Many thanks for help and all the hints here. After 24 hours of using hating speak, I was able to restore least 2 years old back up.
- the downgrade of Facebook Whats-app helped and I have least something.
Many thank for awesome community and please keep the great work.
sollo477 said:
Hello dear xda users,
I wanted to transfer my WhatsApp to a new phone. I have created a local backup and transferred it to the new phone. Though WhatsApp doesn't want to recognize it and just prompts me for the google drive backup. The number stayed the same and in the past I never had problems with that. The same things happens on my old phone. So now I have all the data, but I cannot use it. It would be sad for me to lose all my chatlogs (6 years). So I wanted to decrypt the database with the help of https://andreas-mausch.de/whatsapp-viewer/. Though I haven't found a recent and decent manual on how to get the WhatsApp Encryption Key from the newest app version and newest Android (crypt 14). I can root my phone if necessary. So if someone knows how to do that, may you please provide a manual or point me in the right direction?
Kind regards,
sollo477
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My suggestion is to root your phone...it's way much easier to get the key.
Concerning whatsapp-viewer...I suggest you another parser for crypting/decrypting/viewing whatsapp databases: https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa
It works very nicely...one you have the key of course.
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Anybody can decrypt msgstore.db.crypt14 ???
Hey guys, I was very busy the last few month and couldn't afford to lock myself out of WhatsApp again due to the limitation on the 2FA. So I have tried it as well with an older WhatsApp version from February 2021 and it still didn't work. I will go for the solution of rooting my phone once get the key and then unroot it again. Then I can use the offered Whapa Extractor to extract the old backup. Although since I can't merge the new database with the old one I will just keep the encrypted old database one for references. It's sad and I wish there would be another solution, since I am now forced to use google drive to backup my data for the future.
Unless you know a better solution to backup Whatsapp locally and can guarantee that a restore will be possible in the future. I would even pay for that.
Certainly, titaniumbackup is the best option.
VD171 said:
Certainly, titaniumbackup is the best option.
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Does it also work when I restore it to a different android phone?