Monday, August 25, 2014

Introduction

WhatsApp has become the best messenger for mobile platform. Not only it is available for every mobile platform like Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, Nokia, Java, etc. but also it is the most used app in these platforms too. If you have internet in your mobile phone then you can send unlimited messages to anyone. The message can be long/short messages, video, audio, images etc.

And the best thing is, messaging is almost free. Even if WhatsApp doesn’t put advertisements in its app but it charges users Rs. 53.19/- ($0.99) a year with one-year free subscription.



The popularity of WhatsApp has grown so much popular that many WhatsApp tricks are coming to internet and many and many users are searching for these amazing WhatsApp hacks to use in their phone and amaze their friends. Many of our readers also asked us to share best WhatsApp tricks (with tips). So, here we go.

1. Use WhatsApp Without Any Mobile Number



WhatsApp is required for you to have a mobile number in order to create a WhatsApp account for some reasons if you don’t want to use your phone number, you can still use WhatsApp, send/receive messages from it. How to do this WhatsApp hack? Well, here are the steps:

Uninstall WhatsApp if you already have it installed in your mobile phone. You can keep WhatsApp images/video files.
Download and Install WhatsApp again.
 Block your message service by simply shifting to flight mode. Now, open WhatsApp and add your number to it. So, it will not able to send message to server and verify your mobile number.
As verification is still incomplete and messages are blocked, Whatsapp will ask you to choose alternative method to verify. Choose ‘Verify through SMS’ and enter your email address. Click ‘Send’ and without waiting for a second, click ‘Cancel’. This terminates the authorization process.
Now, you are required to spoof message. Install Spoof Text Message for Andriod and Fake-a-Message for iPhone
Go to your Outbox -> Copy the message details to spoofer app -> Send it to spoofed verification.
Use these details in your spoofed message: To: +447900347295 From: +(Country code)(mobile number) Message: Your email address
A message will be sent to that spoofed number and you can now use this number to connect with friends.

2. Disable WhatsApp auto image download

Though earlier, WhatsApp plus app was required to stop automatic downloading of images, videos and audio files but now, WhatsApp has added this option to its settings. So, you can control automatic media files downloading.




Just navigate to Settings -> Chat Settings -> Media auto-download -> Check suitable option at ‘When using mobile data’, ‘When connected’ on Wi-Fi’ and ‘When Roaming’.

That’s all. :D Now, lets move to next point of this WhatsApp Tricks article ;)




3.==> Hide WhatsApp Last Seen For Your WhatsApp

Last seen timestamp give us an idea about when the person, whom you want to chat was online. It is great feature but the feature comes out to be really very annoying because it reveals whether you’re online and not. You can’t hide yourself from your friends and they’ll keep on chatting with you.


So, if you want to hide this “last seen at” timestamp from your WhatsApp account then download Not Last Seen app. After installing, check the option to hide your ‘last seen at’ timestamp. NO ROOT REQUIRED.

4. Share ZIP, PDF, APK, EXE, RAR Files via WhatsApp

WhatsApp is limited to share audio, video files and images. There is not any option to share documents, compressed files, and other files using WhatsApp. However, by implement a small workaround, you’ll be able to share ZIP, RAR, APK, EXE, PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS etc. files with your friends on WhatsApp.



Follow these steps:

Install Dropbox and CloudSend App
Open CloudSend. It will ask you to link Dropbox with CloudSend, allow it.
Share needed file to Cloudsend. It will automatically upload that file to your Dropbox and provide you link to that file.
Share this ‘link’ to your friends at WhatsApp or any other messenger and they’ll be able to download the files without any hassle.




5. Run Multiple WhatsApp Account on Android

This is most wanted WhatsApp trick as many users have dual-SIM support in their smartphone and they want to run separate WhatsApp account from both SIM card numbers at the same phone.



For this, install SwitchMe App. The app lets you to create separate use profiles on your smartphone which can have different accounts, system settings, apps and data. After installation, open SwitchMe and create a new user profile. Shift to this user profile and you can connect WhatsApp with your second SIM card number.




6. ==>Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages

Have you anciently deleted your WhatsApp messages, or loose message due to any system error, due to resetting of your phone? Well, no need to worry, you can still recover them.



For safer side, WhatsApp (by default) stores all your conversation in SD card. Navigate to SD Card >> WhatsApp >> Database. Here, msgstore.db.crypt contains all the message you have sent/received today and files such in the format msgstore-yyyy..dd..db.crypt contains all WhatsApp messages sent in last seven days.