[Tool] WhatsApp Key/DB Extractor | CRYPT6-12 | NON-ROOT | UPDATED OCTOBER 2016

[vakanal]

From far as I know, part 3 MUST be STRICKTLY followed.
I my self was unable to succede, so I went back again restoring my previous WhatsApp and syncing with Google Drive, and then did all over again but following it to the letter!!!
It is the only way it would work for sure.
Try looking at what you do and follow it even if some points look strange..
Good luck!

It gave me an error and it didnt restore the previous wa. Now the program says there is no wa installed.

How do I restore the wa installation? The databases are still in the phone but dont know if the key is.

 

[PIRATA!]

It gave me an error and it didnt restore the previous wa. Now the program says there is no wa installed.

How do I restore the wa installation? The databases are still in the phone but dont know if the key is.

If you have a Whatsapp forlder located exactly where it was originally, installing Whatsapp from PlayStore will ask you if you want to restore previous backup that it recognized present into the device.

If you have not deleted any file from that folder, you should have everything there.

It is a good idea to backup on your computer the full Whatsapp folder before making any of these things, so always have a full copy of that folder, even more than one on different supports (hard-disk, pen drive, other computer..)
I had 3 backups of that folder kept a part before even trying doing this.

 

[civiclowprofile2]

Giving the following error, what should i check? Cheers


=========================================================================
= This script will extract the WhatsApp Key file and DB on Android 4.0+ =
= You DO NOT need root for this to work but you DO need Java installed. =
= If your WhatsApp version is greater than 2.11.431 (most likely), then =
= a legacy version will be installed temporarily in order to get backup =
= permissions. You will NOT lose ANY data and your current version will =
= be restored at the end of the extraction process so try not to panic. =
= Script by: TripCode (Greets to all who visit: XDA Developers Forums). =
= Thanks to: dragomerlin for ABE and to Abinash Bishoyi for being cool. =
= ### Version: v4.7 (12/10/2016) ### =
=========================================================================

Please connect your Android device with USB Debugging enabled:

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

WhatsApp 2.21.22.26 installed

Found legacy WhatsApp 2.11.431 in local folder

Backing up WhatsApp 2.21.22.26
4851 KB/s (37885620 bytes in 7.625s)
Backup complete

Removing WhatsApp 2.21.22.26 skipping data
Success
Removal complete

Installing legacy WhatsApp 2.11.431
5383 KB/s (18329558 bytes in 3.324s)
Success
Install complete

Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation.

Please enter your backup password (leave blank for none) and press Enter: 1234

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to process version 5
at org.nick.abe.AndroidBackup.extractAsTar(AndroidBackup.java:420)
at org.nick.abe.Main.main(Main.java:128)
... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to process version 5
at org.nick.abe.AndroidBackup.extractAsTar(AndroidBackup.java:282)
... 6 more
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Cleaning up temporary files ...

Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\whatsapp.ab
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\waplen.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\sdpath.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\wapath.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\wapver.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\sdkver.txt

Done

Restoring WhatsApp 2.21.22.26
4338 KB/s (37885620 bytes in 8.528s)
Success

Restore complete

Removing WhatsApp 2.21.22.26 temporary apk
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\base.apk

Operation complete

Press any key to continue . . .

 

[civiclowprofile2]

Giving the following error, what should i check? Cheers


=========================================================================
= This script will extract the WhatsApp Key file and DB on Android 4.0+ =
= You DO NOT need root for this to work but you DO need Java installed. =
= If your WhatsApp version is greater than 2.11.431 (most likely), then =
= a legacy version will be installed temporarily in order to get backup =
= permissions. You will NOT lose ANY data and your current version will =
= be restored at the end of the extraction process so try not to panic. =
= Script by: TripCode (Greets to all who visit: XDA Developers Forums). =
= Thanks to: dragomerlin for ABE and to Abinash Bishoyi for being cool. =
= ### Version: v4.7 (12/10/2016) ### =
=========================================================================

Please connect your Android device with USB Debugging enabled:

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

WhatsApp 2.21.22.26 installed

Found legacy WhatsApp 2.11.431 in local folder

Backing up WhatsApp 2.21.22.26
4851 KB/s (37885620 bytes in 7.625s)
Backup complete

Removing WhatsApp 2.21.22.26 skipping data
Success
Removal complete

Installing legacy WhatsApp 2.11.431
5383 KB/s (18329558 bytes in 3.324s)
Success
Install complete

Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation.

Please enter your backup password (leave blank for none) and press Enter: 1234

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to process version 5
at org.nick.abe.AndroidBackup.extractAsTar(AndroidBackup.java:420)
at org.nick.abe.Main.main(Main.java:128)
... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to process version 5
at org.nick.abe.AndroidBackup.extractAsTar(AndroidBackup.java:282)
... 6 more
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bin\tar.exe: Cannot open tmp\whatsapp.tar: No such file or directory
bin\tar.exe: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Cleaning up temporary files ...

Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\whatsapp.ab
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\waplen.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\sdpath.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\wapath.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\wapver.txt
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\sdkver.txt

Done

Restoring WhatsApp 2.21.22.26
4338 KB/s (37885620 bytes in 8.528s)
Success

Restore complete

Removing WhatsApp 2.21.22.26 temporary apk
Deleted file - C:\WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\tmp\base.apk

Operation complete

Press any key to continue . . .

also after this process, the whatsapp app would crash & cannot open.
Have to uninstall & remove all data, restore back from cloud for hours. Not sure why it refuse to take local backup copy...

 

[Diamond3z]

FINALLY!!!! THIS UP HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO HAVE/FOLLOW SO TO BACKUP WhatsApp FILES WITH LAST 2020 ANDROID ON A WINDOWS BASED SYSTEM!!!!!!

1. Download WhatsApp Key/DB Extractor posted by p4r4d0x86
2. Download whatsapp-2.11.431.apk file from link posted by lopra (if it doesn't work, just googe that exact version)
3. Strictly follow instructions written by fabiml

EVERYTHING DID WORK AT FIRST TRY!!!!!

Thank you guys. I really love ya!!!

OK On a Xiomi 9T Pro it took me some time but what finally worked for me was

v4.7-E1.0

You need to download WhatsApp-2.11.431.apk and abe-all.jar
Then rename WhatsApp-2.11.431.apk to LegacyWhatsApp.apk and copy it to the tmp/ directory
Rename abe-all.jar to abe.jar and copy it to the bin/ directory

Run the script.

Make sure you enable File transfer mode on the phone after you connect it

Also, I needed to open the old version of WhatsApp before making the backup in the script - fortunately the script waits here for a password! First it wants you to update: don't! I got a phone date is inaccurate error. Just wait on this screen and then continue on with the script. The script goes silent here for quite some time.

The best instructions are to be found here by PIRATA! but miss the above few steps.

[Tool] WhatsApp Key/DB Extractor | CRYPT6-12 | NON-ROOT | UPDATED OCTOBER 2016

** Version 4.7 Updated October 2016 - Supports Android 4.0-7.0 ** SUMMARY: Allows WhatsApp users to extract their cipher key and databases on non-rooted Android devices. UPDATE: This tool was last updated on October 12th 2016. and confirmed...

forum.xda-developers.com

Good luck!

Many thanks guys and everybody who has worked on this!

Any quick tip on how to merge two databases and import the resulting file back into WhatsApp?

 

[PIRATA!]

Many thanks guys and everybody who has worked on this!
)
Any quick tip on how to merge two databases and import the resulting file back into WhatsApp?

Thank you!

Well, what you ask it's a bit tricky..
Don't know about merging databases, but the importing works anytime, just need a good working database.

 

[drasterlx]

Hello

I installed whatsapp 2.11.431 in phone with android 8.1(lg g4) made a backup with helium and adb ... after that reinstalled latest version.. everything ok... continue working as usual.
To clone whatsapp without verification... moved the backup to a phone with android 4.0.4... installed whatsapp 2.11.431 with helium restore the backup... reinstaled latest whatsapp and works really good... both phone with same whatsapp..
Yesterday made same steps in a phone with android 10(samsung a6)... but then of install latest whatsapp .. it requested phone verification.... but the other 2 phones continue working ok..

Made similar test with other whatsapp number in same android 10... backup ... restore in android 4.0.4 and work well...

Any one made similar test? why a backup from android 8.1 dont work in android 10 but yes in 4.0.4...

I am really lost... i want to move my whastapp to the android 10 phone.. i cant do the verification because i am out of my country and the line dont have signal :S

Android 8.1 rooted
Android 10 no rooted
Android 4.0.4 no rooted

Any help?

Thanks

 

[Maarten85]

Hi

Could this be done without USB (e.g., network connection, BT, ...)? My smartphone doesn't connect to USB anymore (bad contact, I've been using a wireless charger since).

Thanks

 

[yuvrajraghuvanshi]

Hi

Could this be done without USB (e.g., network connection, BT, ...)? My smartphone doesn't connect to USB anymore (bad contact, I've been using a wireless charger since).

Thanks

Yes, use TCP mode. https://github.com/yuvrajraghuvanshis/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor

 

[simonjanr]

Hello everyone,

I'm new here on the forum. I followed the instructions as per here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ot-updated-october-2016.2770982/post-86047015

NEW EDIT: Huray! It seemed to work without verifying my mobile number on installing legacy Whatsapp so I gof the messages decripted.

Can I just disable and force stop the legacy whatsap momentarily while I substitute its database with an older db version in its db folder in order to decrypt that and merge it with the tools mentioned in the link below? Or is the process more complicated?

(https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ackup-file-into-one-no-root-required.3142974/

 

[Gykonik]

I made a backup using the tutorial and everything worked, however the restoring of the original Whatsapp didn't work (and the tmp file is empty). So I now have the decrypted files (like msgstore.db), but not msgstore.db.crypt12 and thus whatsapp can't find / restore the database. Is there any way of "converting back" the msgstore.db into a crypt12 file? I don't want to lose the chats of the past 7 years Please help me!

 

[yuvrajraghuvanshi]

I made a backup using the tutorial and everything worked, however the restoring of the original Whatsapp didn't work (and the tmp file is empty). So I now have the decrypted files (like msgstore.db), but not msgstore.db.crypt12 and thus whatsapp can't find / restore the database. Is there any way of "converting back" the msgstore.db into a crypt12 file? I don't want to lose the chats of the past 7 years Please help me!

Those files should be in your sdcard (internal directory) as is. If your version of whatsapp used the path "/sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases" that crypt12 must be there however if that used the path "/sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases" then those crypt12 might very well be deleted I'm afraid.

I could not find any tool that encrypts back the database however many are there which decrypts. If you can reverse engineer those tools then you can encrypt that back. Here are some:

GitHub - EliteAndroidApps/WhatsApp-Crypt12-Decrypter: Decrypts WhatsApp msgstore.db.crypt12 files.

Decrypts WhatsApp msgstore.db.crypt12 files. Contribute to EliteAndroidApps/WhatsApp-Crypt12-Decrypter development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

GitHub - lucasvc/whatsapp-migrator: WhatsApp crypt12 decryption and encryption tool

WhatsApp crypt12 decryption and encryption tool. Contribute to lucasvc/whatsapp-migrator development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

GitHub - daniel-gallo/wadb-decrypter: Extract and decrypt WhatsApp databases

Extract and decrypt WhatsApp databases. Contribute to daniel-gallo/wadb-decrypter development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Drago3110]

Detailed Instructions

Thanks to everybody in this post, I finally made it in life, well, I mean... I managed to de-crypt the WA database as of today (29/02/2020, so it still works yey!!) after just a few hours of "playing" (not a funny game tho).
Because I'm quite bored this morning, I feel the need to give a thorough list of instructions for the newcomers (a kind summary because many have already been given in this post):


First, the "foreplay" steps, if you know what I mean :

1. Enable "USB Debugging" in your phone
2. Verify you have the latest version of Java and the Android Debug Bridge Drivers in your PC
3. Download the .zip from this post
4. Extract it without changing the overall structure of the folder
5. Download WA 2.11.431 (like from android-apk.org)
6. Put it in the tmp folder replacing LegacyWhatsApp.apk

Second, the feel like a hacker from Mr. Robot steps:

1. Launch WhatsAppKeyDBExtract.bat file
2. Input Y to reboot the device
3. Once rebooted, unlock it (you should not find your WA app anymore) and press any key in CW
4. Wait until the streamed install is done
5. Unlock again your phone
6. Prompted "WA has been updated" should be prompted in your phone, press continue
7. Search for WA in your phone and open it
8. (A new prompt in your phone will say it's an outdated version of WA press ok, if it doesnt appear don't worry)
9. Press the adjust date and you will be sent to a Date & Time page, keep it open
10. Press any key in CW
11. Select the option you prefer at the command window
12. Select fullback up in your phone (without entering any password)
13. Restore WA press any key
14. You MADE IT as well :highfive:

Finally you should download the Whatsapp Viewer and use it to open the msgstor.db file
I hope it helps and sorry for the bad jokes

N.B.: For the Steve Jobs lovers I'm sorry I have a Win PC altough I'm not against a fundraise to buy me one, I would love to replace my potato with an apple
WA = Whatsapp
CW = Command Window

Worked for me. I have Android 11. I got my key file and wa.db