yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] reptile64:
Somebody have to try and get in contact with josheijmans (the guy who wrote on sony forum) and guide him how to rip off this ROM and make a nice fft!! :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] somemadcaaant:
^ this.

-smc
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alexgogan:
Ok maybe I had this wrong, but thought the said we will not get it till June which is just ğggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Late April/ early May is the most commonly given date.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] harfot:
...and don't belief to much in all the rumours - it will be there when it's ready ;)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Samsung.Is.Awesome:
Anyways theres ICS on Galnet MIUI. Can I flash it?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] FauxAffliction:
Yes. Search the forums for "hellraiser" I'd link you but I'm on my phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Truckerglenn:
No you can not flash ICS, not even with hellraiser. You can flash i9000 GB roms then immediately flash hellraiser.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Samsung.Is.Awesome:
So whats the best Android 4.0 rom available for the Infuse? I heard that there was a guy making a compilation for the Infuse. Can anyone fill me in if so?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
Best? Is there even one?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Samsung.Is.Awesome:
Well is there one. Or an Experimental one in Beta or something?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jesi.james:
-.-

Froggys go ribbet :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LuvThyMetal:
Just wondering if it's worth rooting the S2 or not?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ChiTown29:
I say go for it. You have a great phone in your hands..why not see what it can really do? My brother has the same phone but stock, and drools at my setup, the lightning quick speeds at which it performs its tasks and added options I have at my disposal. Just make sure you read up first.

As you can tell by my measly 3 posts, I'm new to the game as well. I did, however, spend countless hours reading up on this site on how rooting works and what to do, and more importantly, what not to do. QBKing77 has a TON of videos on YouTube, showing how to root correctly, as well as installing ROMs, kernels, modems, etc.... He has been my virtual mentor through the entire process. I literally would watch him go step-by-step, pause the clip, and do the same. He even goes through troubleshooting techniques in case something doesn't work as it should, which luckily I haven't had to use as of yet.

Start here (assuming you're running on EL29):

*can't post links at my noob status...go to youtube and search for QBKing77's "How to Root the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch on EL29"

...and let the adventure begin! I really don't think you'll regret it, and if you do, you can always go back to stock! :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mark.J.Linskiy:
Very much so.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LuvThyMetal:
Thanks for the reply. I'm going to look up on that YouTube channel for a while cause I don't want to screw up. I get occasional lags so I want to try some fast roms. I can't find threads to read on how to root this phone :-\
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
ROOT?! YES!! But do your homework 1st! and do a lot of it. Spend some time in the General, QA AND development section.

Read through entire posts especially the stickies.

Since you are new you should check out sfhubs 'one-clicks' and autoroot posts.

Good place to start on a new phone is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1433101

Get a stock rooted EL29 and then use his autoroot to add CWM+Rogue recovery.

And for goodness sakes please read (and watch Qbking77's vids too!) about how to use CWM. And the 'how NOT to brick your phone threads. Learn what the terms here mean and how to use them. This phone is the sh&t. Just be careful and take your time and you will really enjoy it.

Oh and Chatsworth is a great place; grew up there. - miss freeclimbing the face at StoneyPoint then repelling ausie down.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ChiTown29:
Just go step-by-step with QBKing77 and pause when you need to. He's never steered me wrong. Under the clip will be links to everything you need. After you get it rooted and add CWM, try an EL29 ROM like Calkulin's 3.0, Blazer 4.1 or Mijjah's Blend 2.6.2....ICS ROMs can get a bit trickier, especially when you're flashing from ROM to ROM and looking for a "good fit". I'd suggest you wait until you're more comfortable with the process until you mess with ICS, but that's really up to you.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LuvThyMetal:
I have lots of reading to do. Thanks for the recommendations guys! :-D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Good luck. Just wanted to second the advice from ChiTown29 - get comfortable with GB versions and using ODIN and especially CWM to do backups and flash zips.

One thing I don't see people talking about but I highly recommend is really learning how to use CWM to RESTORE you system.

Get root with good recovery (sfhub's autoroot CWM+Rogue is excellent). Boot and then get all your accounts loaded and synched (gmail, mail calendar, facebook etc.) and all your apps loaded and configured. Let it run for a day or two to settle in. Boot into recovery and do a backup>advance backup> and back up everthing. Then boot back up.

Then download another GB ROM (Blazer, VeNum etc.) to your SD card, boot to recover and use Calkulins Modified Format the flash (install zip from SD card). Check it out. See how you like it.

THEN Boot to recovery and do an advance restore and completely restore your original system.

That way you can know and be sure you understand the process of recovering!

Being in IT I can't tell you how many organizations I've been into where they've never restored any data and don't really know how to!

I make nandoids (images) almost daily and copy them (the 'sdcard' folder on the external SD card) to my pc into folder named by date and ROM name for easy recovery.

Once you do that and understand that process you can then flash away.

Once again while getting aquainted with all this I do recommend sticking with the Gingerbread stuff and away from the ICS for now. There are very experienced developers here who have bricked their phones with the newer kernels, recoveries and ROMs
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JsVerbal:
I went back and forth on this for 3 weeks after getting this phone. I came across qbking77 on youtube and decided to root. Best decision i ever made. Just follow the videos and you wont regret it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Esoteric68:
Definitely root, and then when you're comfortable with the basics of flashing, move on to some of the amazing custom ROMs by hard working Devs like Calkulin, Venum, agat63, mijjah74, T.C.P. and others. And for easy peasy one click rooting, you can't go wrong with sfhub's work. And can't forget qbking77 for sure. His posts and videos have been beyond helpful.

Trust me, you'll be thrilled you decided to dive in. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GuestD0701:
When you have a phone that's stock its very limited. When you root, you unlock your phones full potential. I know when I first rooted, I thought to myself why didn't I do this a looooooong time ago! YouTube is full of helpful videos that help to start to learn this deal. Qbking77 is a great person to follow for this... Then going through xda and reading you can learn alot!! If you root, you will wonder why you didn't a long time ago... :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PanchoPlanet:
If you don't root you miss out on the forums..................lol

Pp.

sent from my microwave ala XDA premium.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] flupo2000:
Hi Everyone,

I have the Motorola Razr XT910 with Android version 2.3.6 (the latest update). I had issues with the signal since last update mid February. So after so many trials to solve the issue, I decided to do a factory resetting yesterday.What happened is the signal became better, but I receive a continuous message whenever I connect to the internet. The message says "Sorry! The process com.motorola.service.main has stopped unexpectedly, please try again." So I have to force close. I tried to search for a solution in the net but no help.

Kindly help me

:confused::confused::confused::confused:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] IdowhatIwant:
If you're rooted I would boot into recovery and wipe cache/system etc.

If you're not and don't plan to, then the only thing I think you would be able to do and hope it works would be to format internal storage and remove your SD card, do another factory restore and see if that clears it up.

Otherwise you're probably going to need to root so you have more control over the internal data to wipe and start fresh.

That process that is crashing is a core piece of the operating system. Something got borked along the way for some reason. Don't fret someone here much smarter than myself will be able to help you, just not at 11:30pm at night :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] flupo2000:
Thanks for the help.

My Razr is not rooted so I'll try the 2nd option.

BTW, I'm in overseas now and it is morning time here.:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] odock:
OK so I plug my phone in a minute ago to the computer and no options come up for media stuff... restarted phone and computer and nothing... I'm on aokp b29 4.04 and I can't recall if it has worked at all since I installed this rom. But I Know it always worked before this any help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nbeebe24:
You probably have fast charge enabled. Disable it and reconnect your phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] odock:
Awesome thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sking710:
I was in the middle of doing a flash and the battery died completely. Now i get no response from the tablet and the screen wont turn on. I can plug the tablet into the dc outlet and it comes on with the charging light but still cant get any response from it. Please help is there anything I can do to unbrick my tablet
[Android Apps and Games] fudensinho:
Worked here!

Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Glad you can use it! :)
[Android Apps and Games] abumhmmd1:
any way to ADD more emjoyies ... if OK ... how ??
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
What do you mean? Do you want to be able to post more emoticons in the android whatsapp app?
[Android Apps and Games] jasaad:
i did what is said above, but when i use xtract.bat nothing happen,

just a cmd popup and close but nothing else open

edit: my files are .db.crypt
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
msgstore.db <--> msgstore.db.crypt

It won't work with the .db.crypt files from the SD card. You need the unencrypted msgstore.db that you can get from the internal memory, location:

/data/data/com.whatsapp/databases

I guess you will need a rooted android to access this.

I updated the Readme to show 3 different ways how to do this, e.g. using Titanium Backup.

Update 2012-04-28: new version 2.0 supports android whatsapp .db.crypt files!
[Android Apps and Games] Clair.f:
I don't suppose there is a video tut to go with this is there? I am finding it hard to follow.. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Mayn:
For a while now I'm looking for such a tool, for my iPhone. I know this is a Android forum but I was still wondering if it would be very difficult to "adjust" this tool to work for the ChatStorage.sqlite database in iOS?
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Whatsapp Extract messages from Backup for Whatsapp on Iphone / iOS

Yes, there is a possibility. The "old" version of this tool works with Whatsapp for Iphone:

http://blog.digital-forensics.it/2011/12/whatsapp-xtract.html

http://code.google.com/p/hotoloti/

However, it doesn't support the new features yet, that's to say displaying smileys, images, videos, and so on.
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Where exactly can't you follow? At which step?
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
New version of Whatsapp Backup Extractor: v1.3 Updated April 17, 2012

As of today, a new version is available.

V1.3

by Android Fan on April 17, 2012

- corrected linking of offline files (now linking according to media file size)

Download:

http://freakshare.com/files/yw32d30x/Whatsapp-Extractor-for-Android-V1.3-2012-04-17.zip.html

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1009665&d=1334683158
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
The developer Fabio Sangiacomo told me that he is working on a new version of the Iphone Whatsapp Backup Extractor. This will be compatible as well with Iphone and Android Version of Whatsapp databases and will have all the features of my Android Version (e.g., displaying smileys, images, and so on).
[Android Apps and Games] Mayn:
That is good news!

I just read that the developer of iTwin is also working on implementing Facebook and WhatsApp output in his (Windows) program.
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Ah, interesting.

Have you tried the 1.0 version of Whatsapp Extractor with your iPhone whatsapp backup files?
[Android Apps and Games] Mayn:
I'm about to. But maybe I'll wait till Fabio has come up with his new version.
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
How to open and convert a crypted whatsapp database backup (msgstore.db.crypt)

CRYPTED WHATSAPP DATABASE

If you only have a backup in the crypted format from /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt then you need to decrypt the database at first.

At the moment, this can only be done by reinstalling whatsapp. If the backup is present in the mentioned folder on the SD, then you will be asked to import the backup. However, the backup can be from a totally different phone number / whatsapp account.

After installing and importing the backup, access the database files as explained above (1. and 2.).

You don't need an android phone for this, can use Bluestacks Emulator for Windows. Make sure to root Bluestacks, using this guide:

http://www.androidfilehost.com/main...ueStacks Beta/HowTo/HowTo Root BlueStacks.pdf
[Android Apps and Games] TSAnouaar:
Here it isn't working i have the unencrypted file, placed in the same folder as whatsapp_xtract.py and .bat and three folders, the bat appears for a second and it pop away.

What i'm doing wrong?

Edit: Getting error: This file is encrypted or not a database.

But it isn't a db.crypt file.
[Android Apps and Games] jamal001987:
heeellllppp

is very important
[Android Apps and Games] Bongs2010:
have been trying as well. if anyone can make a video it would be highly appreciated
[Android Apps and Games] a200200092:
Halo : )

Can I use this tool to transfer the chat history from iphone to android?

If so, may you tell me the steps? Thank you so much

Sam
[Android Apps and Games] Kirmeswatz:
Hi,

I have a problem installing pyCrypt0:

Ca you help me please? Any hint?
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Iphone to Android conversion

As you can see on the first page, it was already requested as a feature, but it's not supported.

Still I'm thinking like posted here:
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
You didn't use the newest version. Please download the newest archive from the first page

Then rightclick on !install pyCrypto.bat and choose "run as administrator".

If you still get errors, post screenshot again and give some information on which version of Windows, ActivePython, .. you use.

Also you might try it on a different computer with a different windows. And you might google your problem with installing pyCrypto module for ActivePython.
[Android Apps and Games] galaxy.5:
Works 100%!!! Thanks a lot!!! :D
[Android Apps and Games] Mayn:
@ Ztedd:

I'm feeling like a complete noob, but in the first post you write:

net.whatsapp.WhatsApp/Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite

(You can use an Iphone Backup Tool to get the file, e.g. I-Twin

As far as I know, I-Twin doesn't import chatstorage.sqlite by default. So how do extract this file by using I-Twin? (I'm using version 3.3 Final)
[Android Apps and Games] ffontana:
More related to deleted messages

I think deleted messages are somehow stored in chatstored.sqlite because I can read them if I open the file with notepad (hard to read in notepad, but you can try)

Even in my case chatstorage.sqlite weights 2.5Mb and .html output only 800Kb (so I think not all the info is shown in the .html file)
[Android Apps and Games] denpad2010:
i just tried and worked great....thanks
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Actually I haven't tested this. So I guess I would recommend you to just use Iphone Backup Extractor. That should work.
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
That's interesting. Haven't noticed that yet, but I'd like to look into this. Maybe you could send me an example database file of that.
[Android Apps and Games] ffontana:
I only have my chatstorage database, not a sample one.

I can change phone numbers with a text editor to preserve personal information and send it to you somehow (not uploading top a public forum)

Messages are not sensitive if you don't know to whom they concern but phone numbers should be changed before (with fake numbers but same length).

And yes, it also seems interesting to me because I was trying to find those messages with sqlitebrowser and I found nothing, but you can see them with notepad.

It's easy to find them with the notepad just searching the phone number, and close to the number you find the messages (deleted and not deleted)
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
I have sent you a PM with my mail address. You can use some hex editor to search and replace phone numbers (with normal editor the database would become corrupted).
[Android Apps and Games] sps_us:
Tengo el mismo problema, algunas se dejan abrir y en otras da el dichoso error, como siempre la que me interesa recuperar es una de las que no puede abrir.... de todos modos es un trabajo excelente, enhorabuena por la labor.

Por cierto las bases de datos que intento abrir son copias de seguridad algo antiguas, supongo que no sera ese el problema, gracias de antemano, un saludo:

LuisMi
[Android Apps and Games] Shav3:
I have this problem: h**p://i47.tinypic.com/2wdawib.jpg (I can't post links because i'm a new user!)

Do you know how can I solve it?

Thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Normally this shouldn't happen, your script is executed in the wrong directory.

Please try the following:

1. start whatsapp_xtract_console.bat

2. check which folder is displayed there, is it still C:\Windows\System32 ? (If yes, you need to to step 3 and 4, if No and there is something displayed with Whatsapp, you can directly go to step 5)

3. If yes, switch to the Windows Explorer Window and click on the name of the folder location in the top of the window: "> whatsapp >"

Now copy the whole folder name, for example C:\Documents\Whatsapp

4. Switch to the cmd window, type "cd C:\Documents\Whatsapp" (just paste the Folder name)

5. Now paste the command "python whatsapp_xtract.py msgstore.db.crypt"

Done! Now it should work.
[Android Apps and Games] grpre:
Still doesn't work for Blackberry?
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
No. We haven't figured out yet how to copy the unencrypted files from a Blackberry device.
[Android Apps and Games] drksn:
EDIT: It's working now, after deinstalling Python 3.2 and reinstalling 2.7 Version ! :)

Hi

i'm getting this error, when trying to convert the unencrypted DB to HTML .. db file has ~5MB, resulting HTML stops in the middle and has ~3 MB.

Thank you for Help !

D:\Whatsapp_Xtract_V2.1_2012-05-16>python whatsapp_xtract.py msgstore_new.db
Python Version 3.x
Android mode!

printing output to msgstore_new.db.html ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "whatsapp_xtract.py", line 2066, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "whatsapp_xtract.py", line 1446, in main
y.media_thumb = "data:image/jpg;base64,\n" + base64.b64encode(y.media_thumb)
.decode("utf-8")
File "C:\Python32\lib\base64.py", line 56, in b64encode
raise TypeError("expected bytes, not %s" % s.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: expected bytes, not str
[Android Apps and Games] Shav3:
I tried following your instructions, but I still have a problem: h**p://i47.tinypic.com/18ek5f.jpg

C:\Windows\system32>cmd.exe /t:A0 /k python whatsapp_xtract.py -h
python: can't open file 'whatsapp_xtract.py': [Errno 2] No such file or director
y

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\Gabri\Desktop\whatsapp

C:\Users\Gabri\Desktop\whatsapp>python whatsapp_xtract.py msgstore.db.crypt
Python Version 2.x
Android mode!

trying to repair android database...
trying to decrypt android database...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "whatsapp_xtract.py", line 2066, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "whatsapp_xtract.py", line 988, in main
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
ImportError: No module named Crypto.Cipher

Do you know how can I solve it?

Thank you for your help :)
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
You need to install PyCrypto. Did you already run the !install pyCrypto.bat?

If yes, then try it again the following way:

Repeat steps 1-4:

1. start whatsapp_xtract_console.bat

2. check which folder is displayed there, is it still C:\Windows\System32 ? (If yes, you need to to step 3 and 4, if No and there is something displayed with Whatsapp, you can directly go to step 5)

3. If yes, switch to the Windows Explorer Window and click on the name of the folder location in the top of the window: "> whatsapp >"

Now copy the whole folder name, for example C:\Users\Gabri\Desktop\whatsapp

4. Switch to the cmd window, type "cd C:\Users\Gabri\Desktop\whatsapp" (just paste the Folder name)

and then:

5. run this command (WITH ""): "!install pyCrypto.bat"

After this try again to run the Whatsapp Xtract Script as already explained.
[Android Apps and Games] Shav3:
I follow your instructions but I have the same problem: h**p://i45.tinypic.com/t6s5rs.jpg :(
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Do not install 64bit version of ActivePython!

This error was already answered in this thread (did you already try a search for it?):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1583021&page=18#post26567882

You need to install 32bit version of ActivePython! As stated in the Howto:
[Android Apps and Games] eddol20:
cant find certain chats

i got the whatsapp xtract working no problem but it seems that if the contact is deleted from your whatsapp contacts you cant see the chats with this contact .... i know the phone number im looking for but the contact is not the friends list no more .... how can i find the chats with that number ? help please
[Android Apps and Games] aasheet:
is there any way to edit the conversations ?
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
I don't know exactly what you want since your question is very short, but if you like to edit chat messages inside the database file, then you can use the tool "SQLite Database Browser" as described in the posting on the first page of this thread:

Some Additional Information

With SQLite Database Browser or any other SQLite Database tool, you can edit the Sqlite database files whatsapp is using.
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
Whatsapp Xtract can only extract what is inside the database file. You can use a tool like SQLite Database Browser (see the posting above) to look inside the database file whether there is some content that Whatsapp Xtract doesn't display, but I'm quite sure there isn't.

At least for the Android version of Whatsapp I have tested it, if you delete a chat, then it is deleted on the whole, including all the messages.

So the only way to restore it would be to use an older backup from the SD card folder /WhatsApp/Databases
[Android Apps and Games] shaffaaf27:
i have a nexus galaxy, did this successfully, only problem is that the names turn up as their phone numbers
[Android Apps and Games] ztedd:
This is normal. If you want that the names will be displayed, then you need to give Whatsapp Xtract the file wa.db from the internal storage (/data/data/com.whatsapp/databases/wa.db).

And then use the command

python whatsapp_xtract.py msgstore.db -w wa.db

or

python whatsapp_xtract.py msgstore.db.crypt -w wa.db

However, copying the wa.db is not so easy. If you don't know how to access the folder /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases, then you can't do it.
[Android Apps and Games] darKpoiSonend:
Would it also be possible to merge old and new backup and import them afterwards?
[Android Apps and Games] calif123:
Hello dear ztedd,

I have to congrat you and your team for the really great job you did.

Everything worked fine, I can access all the normal conversations with the dragndrop but I cannot access the deleted messages, as some other people are also in the same situation.

For it's really a very important matter, I have some details that cannot be lost on these deleted conversation. Please can you help me with that?