{"id":8894,"date":"2017-05-03T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2017-05-04T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:30:49","slug":"how-to-export-whatsapp-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/05\/how-to-export-whatsapp-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to export Whatsapp messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0was rather easy with my rooted Android phone. However, when flashing it with <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.huawei.com\/jo\/support\/downloads\/detail\/index.htm?id=79243\">Android 6<\/a>\u00a0due to some memory leaks, root\u00a0access does\u00a0not work anymore. Neither by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpit.de\/adb-treiber-android-windows\">adb<\/a>, nor by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/de.kingoapp.com\">Kingoroot a<\/a>nd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kingroot.net\">Kingroot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To export Whatsapp messages, however, I urgently need the\u00a0whatsapp.cryptkey. And this key is only accessible in a rooted phone.<\/p>\n<p>So I went down by another strategy by using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=2770982\">WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master<\/a>\u00a0script on the Mac. To make this work, the JAVA JDK needs to be updated to at least version 7. The JDK\u00a0needs to be manually downloaded and installed from the Oracle site<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\noracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/downloads\/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In a next step, the Android Debug Bridge needs to be updated from the terminal as the version in the zip file listed the phone as being inactive<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nbrew cask install android-platform-tools\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then we can run<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nWhatsAppKeyDBExtract.sh\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>which puts 5 new files<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\naxolotl.db\r\nchatsettings.db\r\nmsgstore.db\r\nwa.db\r\nwhatsapp.cryptkey\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>into the<\/p>\n<pre>\/WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor-master\/extracted\/<\/pre>\n<p>folder. Move\u00a0this folder back to\u00a0the SD card where the &#8220;Backup Text for Whats&#8221; App can\u00a0find the key to export all encrypted Whatsapp messages.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 22.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0was rather easy with my rooted Android phone. However, when flashing it with Android 6\u00a0due to some memory leaks, root\u00a0access does\u00a0not work anymore. Neither by adb, nor by\u00a0Kingoroot and\u00a0Kingroot. To export Whatsapp messages, however, I urgently need the\u00a0whatsapp.cryptkey. And this key is only accessible in a rooted phone. So I went down by another strategy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/05\/how-to-export-whatsapp-messages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to export Whatsapp messages<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions\/8901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}