Anyone intertested in installing whatsapp on your tablet s?
- need root and rooted android phone
I know this method from my asus transformer but it works here also now we have root.
- root your phone
- install whatsapp on your phone
- install TB (titanium back up) on your phone
- with TB make a back up of whatsapp
- open file manager on your phone and look for TB folder
- take the 3 files with the whatsapp name in them and move these to your tablet s
- root your tablet
- install TB on your tablet
- open TB on your tablet
- in file manager go to TB folder
- move the 3 whatsapp files taken from the phone and place them in the TB folder
- open TB and "restore" your whatsapp
You now have whatsapp on your tablet s using the phone number of you mobile phone
Whatsapp wont like it when you have 2 sessions with the same phone number so it is a good idea to do this with another sim card in your phone, this than will be your tablet s phone number.
Just tested it and it works great, you CAN see the names of your contacts to if you enable it in menu :
in whatsapp :
- settings button
- settings
- more
- show all contacts
Easy as that
If there are problems just ask
Ive installed whatsapp on my cheap ass qware pro 3 running ics, This must work on other devices aswell i guess.
1) Go to your contact list on your mobile phone, From the menu "import/export" choosse "export to sd".
2)Copy the exported file to your tablets SD card.
3)Install whatsapp on your tablet from the market or the official wbsite.
4)In whatsapp you fill in an old number of a mobile that still works (whatsapp cant be on 1 phone number on 2 devices), Or like i did fill in your "house phone, land line" number.
5)Whatsapp now wants to verify your number. choosse to recieve the confirmation code by phone call.
6)Enter the code and voila a working whatsapp.
7)Import the contact list file you placed on the SD card and you now have your complete contact list in whatsapp.
Happy texting!
whatsapp wont install on honeycomb thats wy i posted this method
I tried this method on honeycomb and on ics nd still no joy .
I have a sony tablet s.
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hasjee said:
Ive installed whatsapp on my cheap ass qware pro 3 running ics, This must work on other devices aswell i guess.
1) Go to your contact list on your mobile phone, From the menu "import/export" choosse "export to sd".
2)Copy the exported file to your tablets SD card.
3)Install whatsapp on your tablet from the market or the official wbsite.
4)In whatsapp you fill in an old number of a mobile that still works (whatsapp cant be on 1 phone number on 2 devices), Or like i did fill in your "house phone, land line" number.
5)Whatsapp now wants to verify your number. choosse to recieve the confirmation code by phone call.
6)Enter the code and voila a working whatsapp.
7)Import the contact list file you placed on the SD card and you now have your complete contact list in whatsapp.
Happy texting!
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Hi, I have tried this method on my HP TP with CyanogenMOD CM9 Alpha 2 , but when I open the program, and click the I agree button, a message pops up and says Whatsapp curerntly doesn't work on Tablets and didn't even gave me e a chance to enter anything. Anyway to get around that?
Everyone! I managed to make WHATSAPP work on my tablet using the following procedure:
1. Registered my no. with whatsapp on my phone.
2. Used titanium backup to backup the app.
3. Restored the app + data
4. When it starts, it may say that the tablet isn't compatible.
5. Kill the app and restore only the data.
6. Run the app and voila!
If you don't have a smart phone how can i install this app on my tablet.
is there a way like getting data out of a virtual android system on PC?
Im managed to run a virtual android system on PC with a working wathsapp and i can talk to my friends because virtual 3G but i want this on tablet to that use only wifi connection.
Root my tablet is atm not possible because kernel 10. (Sony Tablet S)
Well it doesnt matter, smartphone or virtual. If ur tab isnt rooted, you cant do a thing. Use condi's guide to root it. Either use pre-rooted ics or upgrade to 3.2.1r2 which might change the kernel. Then you can do whatsapp on ur tab.
Im not sure if that would be possible to pre root ect. Android 4.0.3 kernel 2.6.39.4 build 9#1 tab comes from USA.
noisekick22 said:
Im not sure if that would be possible to pre root ect. Android 4.0.3 kernel 2.6.39.4 build 9#1 tab comes from USA.
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This is already on ICS - currently there is no root for ICS. Sorry.
OM
I gona check out for it.
Whatsapp from Wildfire S running CM7 to Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (rooted)
What would be a strategy to get the Whatsapp app ported from the CM7-based device to an ICS based one? TB has the app disabled (name has a strike-through effect), and it doesn't install onto tablet.
Ideas?
Can I get the messages on both units (phone and tablet)?
xyancompgeek said:
Everyone! I managed to make WHATSAPP work on my tablet using the following procedure:
1. Registered my no. with whatsapp on my phone.
2. Used titanium backup to backup the app.
3. Restored the app + data
4. When it starts, it may say that the tablet isn't compatible.
5. Kill the app and restore only the data.
6. Run the app and voila!
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Dude, you are awesome! Thanks!
Even that method wont work for me. Just makes the app crash.
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It works XD I have a motorola xoom and works great! I link the whatsapp of my table to my Google voice number xD
thx a loooott
well if it is newer thing with whatsapp or not i am not sure but i just used my unsmart phone to use whatsapp on my simlocked phone.
what i did.
i installed whatsapp using wi-fi entered my regular phone number, sms came to my phone. waited and then i just entered my 3 digits verification code by hand and now it works.
thanks OP for the titanium backup method! it works!
How to run Whatsapp on WiFi Android tablet - No root required
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2112011
Hi guys,
I've just re-installed WhatsApp. I manually backed up my chat history before uninstalling using the built-in backup feature. When I re-installed it, the installation successfully found the backup and automatically restored it. I can see all my messages but the problem is the thumbnails of previous pictures do not open the full image. When I click on the thumbnail it says "Sorry, this media file doesn't exist on your SD card."
However when I check the folder, WhatsApp/Media/Images on my internal SD card, they are all still in there. It seems like the links are broken. Any new pictures that I receive after the re-installation work fine. And these new pictures are also in the said folder along with the previous pictures.
I have tried forcing a rescan of the media; moving all the pictures into another folder, rescanning, moving them back in then rescanning. I am on CM10. The WhatsApp folder is on the internal SD partition as it's always been (even in CM7).
Does anyone have any ideas?
CVonV said:
Hi guys,
I've just re-installed WhatsApp. I manually backed up my chat history before uninstalling using the built-in backup feature. When I re-installed it, the installation successfully found the backup and automatically restored it. I can see all my messages but the problem is the thumbnails of previous pictures do not open the full image. When I click on the thumbnail it says "Sorry, this media file doesn't exist on your SD card."
However when I check the folder, WhatsApp/Media/Images on my internal SD card, they are all still in there. It seems like the links are broken. Any new pictures that I receive after the re-installation work fine. And these new pictures are also in the said folder along with the previous pictures.
I have tried forcing a rescan of the media; moving all the pictures into another folder, rescanning, moving them back in then rescanning. I am on CM10. The WhatsApp folder is on the internal SD partition as it's always been (even in CM7).
Does anyone have any ideas?
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try wipng data in settings >>applicatiin>>manage apps >>whatsapp >>clear data
and sign in again
or try to send an error report to whats app about this matter
Soul reaper said:
try wipng data in settings >>applicatiin>>manage apps >>whatsapp >>clear data
and sign in again
or try to send an error report to whats app about this matter
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that's pretty much the same as uninstalling and reinstalling. but yeah gave that a try anyway and still the same result
and yeah i did email whatsapp support.. not sure if i'll get a reply though
Just don't think that's possible as of now. Maybe they'll enable it later. If they respond to your email, can you post their response here for all of us to see?
I think/ am quite sure that Whatsapp for now does not re-allow images to be put on their backup servers because of the space it uses. (for millions of users)
Guess that will be a feature will not get for the moment.
it's not restored (uploaded) back onto their servers..
i've restored many times before on CM7 with the thumbnail links (well pointers to be exact) to the full-sized images on the sd card being correct
but i've never experienced this breakage of the "pointers" =\
i will post their reply if they ever do
Loveleen Kaur (WhatsApp Support)
Jan 09 09:07 (PST)
Hi there,
Thanks for your response. Apparently, this issue is relative to switching from CM7 to CM10. We apologize for the inconvenience. We hope to resolve these types of issues in the future. Unfortunately, we cannot comment on the timeline of when a fix will be available.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We would be happy to help!
--
Loveleen Kaur
[email protected]
WhatsApp Support Team
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:/
interestingly enough.. the CM10.1 09/01 2nd build for the LG P990 fixed this whole problem!
Hi
After reading that email response and not seeing no update tells me this has not been resolved?
I just downgraded my phone back to my old one, which in the past I successfully transferred whatsapp (Xperia Mini Pro > Xperia Z)
Now for a temporary reason I need to transfer back from the Z to the Xperia mini pro.
Even though I have factory reset the Xperia mini pro and firmware updated it, when I go to restore the whatsapp, but I am missing the images between the time I got the Xperia Z.
There is like a 6 Month gap, all the Xperia Z media is not linked although they are all in the same folder?
There is a linking issue since the old ones load?
Any thoughts on this.
The only think i noticed that has changed was that the Xperia Z had the files on the Internal SD, where as the Xperia Mini Pro had them on the External SD... Which would explain it, but I cant actually put files on the internal space (it has none for user use)
I would like to resolve this at some point soon.
Many Thanks
i am facing a similar issue as well.
i had to send my xperia z for repair, so i did a backup of the whatsapp folder and did a restore to my old HTC desire s.
whatsapp on the HTC phone was saying that the media is not found (only for old media files), but new media received on HTC phone was ok.
after i got my xperia z back, i did a backup of the whatsapp folder on the htc phone and restored on my xperia z.
now xperia z is able to view all my old media files that were originally received on the xperia phone. but when i try to view any media that i received on the HTC phone, whatsapp is giving the "media not found error". but all the media files are inside the whatsapp directory.
Yeah I just got a note 3 a few weeks ago and transferred my WhatsApp folder from my LG 2X. Got the same problem again. They were both stored on internal SD. I don't think I can be bothered anymore.
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I also encountered this problem "sorry this media file doesn't exist on your SD card" and the images are blurred, and after playing it for a while on my ace 2, I finally solved it. Its Whatsapp folder pointer problem.
Basically you need to use a file explorer, and there should be 2 folders, sdcard0 (internal phone memory) and extsdcard (external sd card), your backup (conversations, images, videos) are in extsdcard, and you need to copy the media folder in extsdcard/whatsapp folder and then paste it to sdcard0/whatsapp folder (overwrite), and that's it. If your sdcard0/whatsapp/media contains some images already, then you got to copy the images from extsdcard to sdcard0 (not by folder overwrite).
Hope this helps
I'm having a similar problem.
I downgraded my Samsung Galaxy S from CM11 (which I used for about 6 months) to a custom ICS mod. Even though al my media files are located in the correct folder on my internal SD card and Whatsapp properly reloaded my chat database, Whatsapp doesn't seem to be able to locate the pictures I received or took in the last 6 months. However, pictures from before CM11 are detected properly.
Did something changes in the filesystem setup between ICS and CM11? If so, is there a way to correct this for Whatsapp??
right now the offical last version is 2.11.378 which i downloaded from play store after a clean new rom and i got the "unable to restore" message. then i had downloaded whatsapp+ because of the more options. so i said lets try nothing to loose and voilaaa succesfully restored even with the pictures and everything. i checked the + version. right now it is 2.11.301
thewalekk said:
right now the offical last version is 2.11.378 which i downloaded from play store after a clean new rom and i got the "unable to restore" message. then i had downloaded whatsapp+ because of the more options. so i said lets try nothing to loose and voilaaa succesfully restored even with the pictures and everything. i checked the + version. right now it is 2.11.301
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I just tried now with Whatsapp+ but still nothing...
Those who cant get their history back, here is the %100 working answer.
First rename your whatsapp folder something else just incase.
Then download whatsapp+ 6.15D and install
Rename your folder back again as whatsapp
Open the app and register your phone just like original version
(If you had a plus backup before the app will ask to restore the plus backup. Pass it and register as normal)
Now restore your messages (you will see it will be restored)
Now go to the plus options and take a full plus backup (not normal whatsapp backup! Plus backup!)
Now rename whatsapp folder again just incase and uninstall whatsapp+ and install the latest plus version
Rename the folder back
This time use plus restore option when you first open the app
And there you go... latest version and your all messages are back )
P.S : Sometimes you can get an error when you register your phone like "your client's base has chaned" if you get the error install the latest original from play store and uninstall it and do the steps from the begenning...
b1inarical said:
i am facing a similar issue as well.
i had to send my xperia z for repair, so i did a backup of the whatsapp folder and did a restore to my old HTC desire s.
whatsapp on the HTC phone was saying that the media is not found (only for old media files), but new media received on HTC phone was ok.
after i got my xperia z back, i did a backup of the whatsapp folder on the htc phone and restored on my xperia z.
now xperia z is able to view all my old media files that were originally received on the xperia phone. but when i try to view any media that i received on the HTC phone, whatsapp is giving the "media not found error". but all the media files are inside the whatsapp directory.
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Hi
A friend just experienced the same "Sorry, this media file doesn't exist on your SD card." problem when he moved his WhatsApp chats between two phones, like b1inarical did with his Xperia Z and HTC Desire S.
Has anyone found a technical workaround to this perennial WhatsApp account transfer problem, or is it innate and cannot be solved?
Thanks in advance.
This worked for me - backup the entire WhatsApp directory from the old phone from the SDCARD (or wherever it is on your phone), then copy it to the new phone BEFORE you install WhatsApp. When you install it on your new phone choose to RESTORE THE MESSAGE backup and the images should be linked to the correct directory on your phone
sam10000 said:
Hi
A friend just experienced the same "Sorry, this media file doesn't exist on your SD card." problem when he moved his WhatsApp chats between two phones, like b1inarical did with his Xperia Z and HTC Desire S.
Has anyone found a technical workaround to this perennial WhatsApp account transfer problem, or is it innate and cannot be solved?
Thanks in advance.
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sam10000 said:
Hi
A friend just experienced the same "Sorry, this media file doesn't exist on your SD card." problem when he moved his WhatsApp chats between two phones, like b1inarical did with his Xperia Z and HTC Desire S.
Has anyone found a technical workaround to this perennial WhatsApp account transfer problem, or is it innate and cannot be solved?
Thanks in advance.
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I have found the root cause, but not a way to fix this issue.
By switching WhatsApp from a Nexus 5 to a Galaxy S2 (have to send N5 in RMA) I restored conversations but media link is broken, although the folder has been placed correctly.
By opening your WhatsApp DB (/data/data/com.whatsapp/msgstore.db) with a text editor like Notepad++, look for
Code:
/storage/emulated/0/Whatsapp
This is the WhatsApp folder on my Nexus 5. However, the internal SD card on the Galaxy S2 is /storage/sdcard0. Since WhatsApp is quite stupid, it saves the FULL path in the DB, instead of pointing straight to /sdcard/.
If I open this DB with ANY SQLite browser, I can find only few of these paths, contained in the media_refs table. Only 51 results are shown, while I have thousands of audio clips and pictures. Messages table does contain many information, including the Whatsapp server where the media has been downloaded, but not the path on the device.
Does anybody know how to pull this information? It is displayed when opened in Notepad++ (and I can see thousands of results searching for /storage/emulated/0/) but the DB table does not show all of them...
Sorry to bump an old thread but is the only thread I can find with a similar issue to mine. HTC M8 (lolipop) is in for repair and managed to back up my chat history to a loan phone from a friend HTC desire 610 (kitkat). Chat history has been restored with no issues. But the media images are "not on SD card" however if I manually browse they are there. Did anyone find a solution or a way to change the path as per Oliver's post?
Strange part is that videos have moved over with no issues. Just images.
I have an Xperia P device rooted (running on stock jelly bean) , I have WhatsApp activated with a number whose SIM card I don't have now, I have been using the WhatsApp with that particular number for years now. However, I have new galaxy s8, I want to use that same WhatsApp with that particular number, however the issue is the WhatsApp asks for verification again and again on galaxy s8.
I tried adb backup of old device for WhatsApp app, the restore completes however still WhatsApp asks for verification. I tried different combinations, like same version of WhatsApp on both phones, with and without Android data, but yet none of these combinations work. The problem is that the activation key or something is in one of the root folders to restore them in galaxy s8 would require me to root it, but I don't want to do that. is there any way someone could help me to restore my WhatsApp? I even tried helium, but WhatsApp has disabled backup of its app and data.
Edit: I even tried to backup my whatsapp data with titanium and then tried to push the whatsapps data folder with adb push command but permission was denied.. any way how I can put my whatsapp data Please help I dont want to lose my whatsapp account
Hi,
Logging into xda after 3 years seeking your help.
I am using a xiaomi poco f1 on lineage 16 without gapps/ no google flashed. Boot loader is unlocked but not rooted. My Whatsapp version is 2.21.22.26
I am looking to transfer my whatsapp to another phone and was trying to back up my my whatsapp chat to the device. But once i click chat backup and click back up, the chat gets backed up, but not sure where to find it.
Its not there Files>whatsapp>searched all folders here.
Really hope there is a simple solution.
Kindly guide.
Open File Manager on your phone.
Go to Internal Storage or SD Card.
Find the WhatsApp folder and tap "Databases".
In the Databases folder, you should see all the WhatsApp local backup files which are encrypted by WhatsApp.
Btw, the latest version of Whatsapp is v2.22.9.73. Update your WhatsApp Messenger.