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Android 12: Export: wa.db - Contacts are not exported. #63
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Hi. Would you be able to find where the contact names came from? |
This is normal.
I can reproduce the problem. But further investigations are needed. |
The The contacts app on my Android, synced with Gmail contacts, contains all contacts used in the WhatsApp conversations. |
I've tried several ways of trying to force whatsapp to refresh the contact list. But none of those options caused the contacts table to get populated. So i took another approach. I downloaded all contacts from Gmail in After that I wrote a Powershell script to sanitize the phonenumbers and replace all occurences with the actual contactname in the generated |
No sure if WhatsApp changed the database structure again. Any more people encounter this issue? |
In the meantime I have a script (Github gist) to fix the problem using exported Gmail .vcf contacts to replace contactnames after running the Whatsapp Chat Exporter. |
Weird. I just did a new export from WhatsApp 2.23.25.3. The |
I can confirm same behavior reported by the op happens here with a decrypted wa.db.crypt15 : only populated tables seems to be wa_trusted_contacts and wa_trusted_contacts_send. |
The issue also happens here with an export from version |
Hi, I also see the issue on WhatsApp 2.24.8.85 on Android: the |
Using a WhatsApp database I exported a few years ago (mid 2021), I am experiencing the same issue. Looking at the |
I have a OnePlus Android 12 Phone.
Using
WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor
I can successfully extract the whatsapp databases. My whatsapp backups are not password protected.However, after explorer the
wa.db
with DB Browser for SqlLite i see that thewa_contacts
table remains empty.Other tables like
wa_vnames
,wa_contact_storage_usage
,wa_biz_profiles
in this sqlite are populatedAlso in Whatsapp on the device all contacts in the Whatsapp conversation have their correct names.
FWIW:
When i have to confirm the permission for the backup and press Enter afterwards, i can give the permissions, but i can't open the app because of the
Your phone data is inaccurate. Adjust your clock and try again
error, - even though the system time is correct - that is caused by the older version of WhatsApp.Whatsapp Chat Exporter:
Extracted files:
WhatsAppKeyDBExtract output:
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