Currently the WhatsApp app is one of the most innovative messaging tools used by users of all ages, including the elderly, to maintain communication with loved ones anywhere in the world, writing messages, making video calls, or simply having fun sending audios backwards , that is why losing personal or confidential records of them is not an option that any user can like.
In this sense, the backups (copies) are the protagonists of this app, as they allow us to see and restore messages that for any reason we have lost, eliminated or simply because when we change the phone we do not want to lose the WhatsApp records of our cell phone .
However, whatever the justification, that motivates you (need or curiosity), surely you have wondered how to see and restore a security duplicate of your WhatsApp records? Don’t be alarmed by WhatsApp Viewer; it is a useful tool that lets us see the chats using a tabbed base. We will tell you how to calm this restlessness.
WhatsApp Viewer
This application is used by many users in order to read the duplicate of all the records of the WhatsApp app, on the Windows PC, without any inconvenience, even if they have been deleted. You can only download this application on Windows , that is why you will not be able to download it on your cell phone .
Open and reset a duplicate WhatsApp security with WhatsApp Viewer
To start and restore a duplicate without having to restore it in the same app, you must have the Java already located on your computer, also have the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) placed on your computer , download the WhatsAppKeyDBExtractor and finally you must download and install on your WhatsApp Viewer computer. In this sense, there are two alternatives to carry out this process, proceed according to your case:
The Cellular device is not rooted
- Connect your phone to your computer: in order to download the document from the file base (data) of the security request that we want to open.
- then choose the option “transfer documents”.
- Completed the previous step, from the browser access your mobile and enter the internal memory where your WhatsApp is, look for the document in the name WhatsAppDatabases; In it is located the file msgstore.db.crypt12 , with the messaging database of the backup of your mobile, this you will have to download to the computer.
- Then you must look for the WhatsApp Key document so that you can encrypt the message, either using the instrument (ADB) or with the WhatsAppKeyDBExtractor.bat script that is located in the downloaded document. Before you start the Script, connect your phone to the PC in USB debugging state: you go to settings, then system, then you go to where it says “About phone” and press many times where it says “Build number” when you see the notification that says you are a developer you go back to setting, alternative developer system and enable USB Duration. Ready, proceed to start the script, you will see a notification asking if you want to make a security duplicate of your records, you confirm and then the extraction of the Key document begins.
- After the previous process, open WhatsApp Viewer, look for the File menu, then Decrypt .crypt12 . In the window that appears you go to file and load the file msgstore.db.crypt12, then to key, then you must press Decrypt. Wait, in seconds all the information of the document you selected will be displayed in WhatsApp Viewer, which you can read on your pc. Ready is not that difficult right.
The cell phone is rooted
- Download to your computer the document msgstore.db.crypt12 that is in your cell phone.
- Subsequently, you must download the document with the name Key that is on your mobile device to your computer.
- Then you must download and install WhatsApp Viewer on your pc.
- Then start WhatsApp Viewer.
- You upload both the tab base document and the Key document.
- Finally you must decrypt the backup. Ready really easy.
In summary, starting and restoring a duplicate of WhatsApp security with WhatsApp Viewer is as simple a task as linking your cell phone through a USB to the computer. With this information that we put to your practical reach and activate your WhatsApp Viewer on your pc.
