App crashes immediately after I enter phone number

[amrhosseiny]

The title is pretty much it. The app crashes immediately after I enter my phone number. Windows 10. And I use wipemychat_Windows_x86_64.zip, Nov 25 2023.

[rusq]

Hey @amrhosseiny, were there any messages printed?

[rusq]

Just tried the aforementioned version on windows 10 x64, and it works on my machine, looking forward to see the error message.

[amrhosseiny]

Hey there,
I checked again, the problem persists. And no there was not anything being printed. Only a sudden crash after I enter the phone number...

[rusq]

My guess is - you have entered invalid api hash or api secret or both, I just tried it, with invalid values, it allows to enter the phone number, but then terminates. I'll see if there's an API endpoint that allows to check the validness of api credentials before offering to enter the phone number.

Can you reset the auth with .\wipemychat -reset and try again, ensuring that credentials are correct?

[exciar]

this is the same issue that I had been dealing with I'm going to try resetting and see if it makes a difference

[exciar]

@amrhosseiny @rusq I have a suggestion and I think I know why this is happening and yes I think there needs to be a menu

it needs to state explicitly in the enter a phone number part (after credentials) that its the International Number format that's required

[amrhosseiny]

Hi again...
I've checked both possibilities before posting this issue. I am sure that 1. I am entering the phone number with correct formatting and 2. the api credentials entered are correct. I don't know what else could be wrong...

[rusq]

Sorry about that, thanks for the information. I'll see into adding some optional tracing, because otherwise I'm walking blind.

[exciar]

Hi again... I've checked both possibilities before posting this issue. I am sure that 1. I am entering the phone number with correct formatting and 2. the api credentials entered are correct. I don't know what else could be wrong...

run the reset like how rusq instructed me how and then, rerun the program if it closes when it prompts you to enter a phone number (international format) then run the number again (international format)

[rusq]

@exciar that's a good suggestion re adding instructions on international number format, thanks! I'll bundle it with the tracing

[rusq]

@amrhosseiny @exciar I'm glad that finally this repository gets some activity, so thank you both for issues and suggestions. I haven't advertised it anywhere, so that got me wondering, could you tell me how you discovered this repository?

[amrhosseiny]

@exciar @rusq
I've done all that, the problem persists...

[amrhosseiny]

@rusq
Also I found it using github search :) Nice work, by the way...

[exciar]

@amrhosseiny @exciar I'm glad that finally this repository gets some activity, so thank you both for issues and suggestions. I haven't advertised it anywhere, so that got me wondering, could you tell me how you discovered this repository?

I like clearing and deleting my messages, and I don't like leaving digital footprints (messages) so I can leave a group/platform with minimal traces, so the easiest thing or way to do that is to look for GitHub projects and browser extensions to do things like these, I liked your project since all the others, especially the most popular one requires you to run it in a python script and I find that finicky and I'm lazy, that's where I found this, it's clean, simple, and has a GUI

[amrhosseiny]

@rusq
I got a new api_id and api_hash and that fixed the problem! don't know what was wrong with the first one...
Thanks...
Just one more thing, could you please add support for arabic/persian characters? Group names with those characters aren't shown properly...Since that's out of the scope of this issue(?) I can open a new one, if you like...

[rusq]

Glad to hear that it started working for you!

I created an issue #13 , but it may be harder than it seems, as this might be limitation of the tview library - I'll have to explore it a bit.

You could use the "batch" mode as a workaround meanwhile, it will use your terminal capabilities, and output proper UTF-8.

[rusq]

This is now fixed, it won't save creds unless they're valid.

Also, it won't allow to enter the phone in non-international format (the checks are pretty dumb, no check for the phone number length, but that's on the user).