This is a fork of the private messaging app Signal with the goal to provide a method to import WhatsApp conversations and facilitating the transition from WhatsApp to Signal.
You can find the original project at: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
It's based on the fork of johanw666: https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android
This fork of the Signal App aims at providing a method to import one's WhatsApp conversations. It's currently still a pretty tedious process, but at least it's possible.
- Import 1-to-1 text conversation threads.
- Import group chat conversations if a group chat with the same name is set up in the Signal App.
- Importing audio images, stickers and videos messages from WhatsApp chats.
- Contact cards and locations are currently not imported.
- It's pretty slow (10 seconds per 1000 messages).
- Extract your unencrypted msgstore.db from your WhatsApp installation. There are several methods to do so. You can try WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor by Yuvraj: https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor
- Copy the msgstore.db file to the top level directory of your internal storage
- Make an encrypted Backup of your Signal Messages using the built-in feature of the Signal App. You should make sure that the version of your Signal app and the version of the importer match. Otherwise there could be incompatibilities.
- Build and install this version of the Signal App.
- You might have to go to the app permission settings and give it the permission to manage all of the external storage.
- Got to backups -> import. Select the options you want, and click on import...
- Be patient until it finishes.
- Export a new backup if you're happy with the result.
- Import that new Backup in your existing Signal app (you might have to reinstall it to do so, as the main Signal app only allows to recover backups after a new installation).
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