Wazapp

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About Wazapp

Wazapp logo created by The Best Isaac
Wazapp is an IM application for N9 that allows you to chat with your Whatsapp buddies.

Wazapp consists of 2 parts, the IM application (wazapp), which is in Python, and the accounts plugin (waxmppplugin) in C++. The accounts plugin should be rewritten in python soon.

Despite thousands of Nokia N9 users signing an online petition, WhatsApp Inc. ignored all demands for releasing a version for the MeeGo. Tarek Galal released the first version of Wazapp for public beta testing on May 18, 2012. On May 25, 2012 Wazapp was made open source on GitHub. As of September 2012, Wazapp supports almost all features of the official WhatsApp client and languages (see features and languages comparison below).

The source code can be obtained from github.



Wazapp in action

A tribute to our heroes CepiPerez and knobtviker for the beautiful UI and full emoji support!

Loading screen

Main screen

Normal chat

Unread messages

Create group

Group chat

Contact synchronisation

Misc options

Theme and orientation

Notification

Profile setup

About

Feature comparison

Feature Original WhatsApp Wazapp
Chat x x
Group Chat x x
Location sharing x x
Media sharing x x
Exchange contacts x x
Broadcast messages x not yet, see GitHub issue
Broadcast media x not yet
Chat history x x
Message timestamps x x
Profile picture x x
Status update x x
IOS 6 Emoji (846) x x
Contact synchronisation x x
Account registration x x
Resize images before sending x x
Landscape mode x x
Change language no x
Custom theme colours x x
Custom background x x
Custom notification sounds x x
Block contacts x x
Audio recording x x
Push notifications x x
Daily database backup (7 days total) x work in progress
No international charges x x
User interface good awesome ;)
Price $0.99 free
License proprietary (closed source) open source (GNU GPL)

Supported Languages

Big thanks to all translators on Transifex!

Language Original WhatsApp Wazapp
Albanian x x
Arabic x x
Basque (Spain) no x
Bokmål x Request on Transifex
Bulgarian x x
Catalan x x
Chinese x x
Chinese (Hong Kong) x x
Chinese (Taiwan) x x
Croatian x x
Czech x x
Danish x x
Dutch x x
English (United Kingdom) x x
English (United States) x x
Estonian x x
Finnish x x
French (France) x x
French (Switzerland) x x
German (Germany) x x
German (Switzerland) x x
Greek x x
Hebrew x x
Hindi no x
Hungarian x x
Indonesian x Request on Transifex
Italian x x
Japanese x Request on Transifex
Korean x Request on Transifex
Macedonian no x
Malay x x
Norwegian x Request on Transifex
Persian x x
Polish x x
Portuguese (Brazil) x x
Portuguese (Portugal) x x
Romanian x x
Russian x x
Slovak x Request on Transifex
Spanish (Spain) x x
Spanish (Argentina) x x
Spanish (Mexico) x x
Swedish (Finland) x x
Swedish (Sweden) x x
Thai x x
Turkish x x
Ukrainian x x
Urdu no x
Vietnamese x x

Latest Upstream build

QR-Code

The latest wazapp version is 0.9.20 (Official Tgalal version)


The latest nightly is Nightly 22 (Coderus version)


Suitable terminals for N9

You do not need developer mode enabled in order to be able to have a terminal. Typing this will add terminal to your apps permanently, even when not in developer mode: 

cp /usr/share/applications/meego-terminal.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/terminal.desktop

Suitable terminals are (non exclusive list):

Terminal commands

Enter superuser / root mode

devel-su

Type the root password (default: rootme)

Note: The cursor will not move when you are typing the password, it is normal.

How to backup your Wazapp database

This should be done prior to anything else. Just in case things get bad (and they will sooner or later).


GUI solution

  1. Disconnect USB cable in case phone is connected to computer.
  2. Activate "Show root filesystem" AND "Show hidden files" in Filebox settings menu.
  3. Navigate to folder 
    /home/user/.wazapp
  4. You should see a file similar to 
    123456789012345.db
  5. Select and copy it (long keypress)
  6. Navigate to 
    /home/user/MyDocs
    and paste the file here
  7. Close Filebox and connect your phone by USB cable.
  8. You should find your backup copy in the MyDocs folder.


Terminal solution

  1. Disconnect USB cable in case phone is connected to computer.
  2. Open your favourite terminal
  3. Type 
    cp ~/.wazapp/*.db ~/MyDocs/
  4. Close terminal and connect your phone by USB cable.
  5. You should find your backup copy in the MyDocs folder.


Install a new wazapp build

Download the deb file to your downloads folder (default: /home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/), then disconnect the phone from your computer (if previously connected by usb). 

devel-su

Type the root password (default: rootme) 

cd /home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/
dpkg -i filename.deb

(filename obviously is the name of your deb file)


Kill / exit a stuck wazapp process

killall wazapp
kill `pidof wazapp`


Deleting your wazapp database

Warning: you will lose all chat history and messages! 

rm -rf ~/.wazapp/*.db
rm -rf home/user/.wazapp/*.db

Create a logfile for troubleshooting

If developers asks for a log, you will send them one ;)

This is how it's done.

Note: wazapp must not be running! 

/opt/waxmppplugin/bin/wazapp/wazapp >/home/user/MyDocs/wazapp-logfile.txt 2>&1

Once you're done capturing your log, you can find it on your usb storage when connected to pc via usb. Post it on Pastebin, attach the logfile as txt to your post or send it to CepiPerez if asked.

Autostart Wazapp on phone boot

devel-su
wget http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VfxNtsYg -O /etc/init/apps/wazapp.conf && /sbin/reboot

Completely purge Wazapp from your Nokia N9

devel-su
{enter your password}
apt-get --purge autoremove wazapp
rm -rf /opt/waxmppplugin/
exit
rm -rf /home/user/.wazapp/
Then reboot, & then install new version (if wanted).
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