WhatsApp Questions and Answers thread

[halamadridkimi]

New to WP, first post here.

Is it possible to change the notification sound on receiving a new message?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

With gdr3 Microsoft bringed an new api in where devs can add their own notification sounds but so far whatsapp team hasnt made that.. maybe in next updates it will come.

Till now only few apps has different notification sounds, like 6tag, my talking tom and sofascore

 

[Detectionable]

4+ updates and it still crashes every time you view pre-shared images from the info > media tab

 

[Jonathanmr7]

4+ updates and it still crashes every time you view pre-shared images from the info > media tab

THIS!! i dk why they dont fix that sh!t :|

 

[Sentient Golf Ball]

From Top Windows Phone app certification failures and how to avoid them

App crashes

Requirement 5.1.2 - App closure. This requirement is simply to verify that your app doesn?t crash during certification testing. As you know, if your app crashes in release mode, it just goes away without any user prompt. Certification will reject your app if it ?unexpectedly terminates? during testing.

Do Microsoft just ignore this for Whatsapp? Or does testing not include scrolling chat history?

 

[fieldbaker]

anyone else experiencing crazy battery consumption or is it just me? ps, will we be able, once again, to choose wheater we would like to save pictures or not?:\

I'm experiencing it aswell, my friends are too. WhatsApp is horrible for your battery

 

[broar94]

^ Can someone confirm if it's the same on Android phones?

 

[Detectionable]

Oh nice, just took a photo with Whatsapp and it completely rebooted the entire phone

Absolutely pathetic, gonna move to a different messenger, this is retarded

 

[stevenfun]

My WhatsApp had stopped notification for weeks too, I have try many methods. This thread has given me lots of help.
Finally, I think I have found the solution. The reason behind was my 'Messaging' is always 'Not connected to chat', after getting some helps from the other thread: http://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-8/230929-8.htm , I have found solution for connecting to chat. After the 'Messaging' is connected to chat, the notification function for my WhatsApp had gone back to normal.
Hope above solution will help those who have lost the notification function for WhatsApp.
PS. I am leaving WhatsApp for 'LINE', which has more functions and more stable.

 

[ca_guri]

Yesterday i uninstall the whatsapp due to heavy app data of around 400mb, but when i install it again after that i am facing problem regarding notifications. I am not getting notification from whatsapp, when i open The app, only then i am able to see the new messages, i also have enables the push notifications on in the settings of whatsapp, now i do not know why this problem occurs to me, i haven't face this kind of problem earlier... Can any one 1 help me on this problem......

 

[Diego Angeli]

Is it possible (even in iOS or Android) to delete media within the app? First time I installed WhatsApp it was about 30 MB, now it has more than 250mb and is terrible for L925 stupid low capacity. Any fix rather than uninstaling and instaling again? This have previously caused loss of infos and messages in my case.

 

[Takiiii]

Can any one edit whatsapp xap to have emoj display like massaging app ? I mean we use the emoj in keyboard intsed off original whatsapp emoji ?

 

[iliramove]

Just to share my bit of experience here. Thought it'd be good to know.

If you happen to want to switch between two Windows Phone 8 with the same phone number (SIM), you can do a backup on the old WP8 first to backup your messages.

Once you've switch the same phone number to the new WP8, install Whatsapp, activate it, it could restore your messages from the old phone. I think the latest version will backup to Whatsapp servers now.

Anyone can try and confirm?

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[Wilsen Hernandez]

Is it possible (even in iOS or Android) to delete media within the app? First time I installed WhatsApp it was about 30 MB, now it has more than 250mb and is terrible for L925 stupid low capacity. Any fix rather than uninstaling and instaling again? This have previously caused loss of infos and messages in my case.

Maybe delete old messages or delete the whole conversation containing the media files.

 

[boris tanoto]

I just wish it can be as snappy as the wp8 text app and less buggy too.

 

[vlad1337]

With recent whatsapp updates I'm unable to disable automatically saving pictures. Anybody know anything about this?

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[shmsnh]

With recent whatsapp updates I'm unable to disable automatically saving pictures. Anybody know anything about this?

They removed this feature a couple of updates ago.

 

[Vipul Panchal1]

Dear Sir,

I am using a nika lumia 520 from last 6 month..

everday i am getting problem with whats app...it is getting closed and come to main screen while i start to open some thing.

can anybody pls help me

 

[cuwe]

When will get the design like iOS and Android ? Built in messaging and facebook chat and whatsapp are the same design . It's just plain .

 

[tcube]

I feel the current design for WhatsApp messages works well. Your messages take center stage. Also, it conserves battery for those phones with AMOLED screens. If they do introduce an option to add backgrounds to message view then there should be an option to go back to default unlike Viber which has only an ugly grey background.

 

[cuwe]

I feel the current design for WhatsApp messages works well. Your messages take center stage. Also, it conserves battery for those phones with AMOLED screens. If they do introduce an option to add backgrounds to message view then there should be an option to go back to default unlike Viber which has only an ugly grey background.

I agreed with that too . But , at least give us an option .