How to Add More than 100 Members in Whatsapp Group??

As well all know that WhatsApp is coming with a Calling
Feature soon, Yesterday in a post I explained you “ How to
enable WhatsApp Call Feature without getting an invite” and
today WhatsApp has found a patch for that and that trick
has stopped working. Today is something which is often
required by many marketers/large group students or any
other large online community.
Since WhatsApp makes communication easy and faster most
of the online communities are thinking to settle on WhatsApp
but one limitation of not being able to add more than 100
members in groups stop them to connect on WhatsApp.
Previously WhatsApp allowed only groups with 50 members,
However the size was increased to 100 after the Facebook-
WhatsApp acquisition. However, 100 is also a small number
when it comes to large groups which has more than 500
members.
So what can they do? They can obviously go with the various
WhatsApp Mods available but then like WhatsApp banned the
users for using WhatsApp Plus. The same might be the case.
So while trying to enable the call feature yesterday I found
a way to add more than 100 participants/members in a
WhatsApp Group. Yes! More than 100! Are you shocked?
Don’t be let’s begin with the steps to add more than 100
members in WhatsApp group so that you can widen your
Groups in case you are having large number of people.
How to Add More Than 100 Members in
WhatsApp Group [Breaking the Limit]
Before beginning with the steps let me tell you that you will
be able to add more than 100 members in any WhatsApp
group you are an Admin of, To cross the limit of 100
members in WhatsApp, there are something which you will
require, Oh! No extra software or hardware device, just
simple changes would work. Below are the things required :
Latest WhatsApp Installed (Since I’ve tried it with the
latest version, I would recommend this)
Root Powered File Explorer (ES File Explorer)
Rooted Android Phone.
If you are having all of these things ready with you then
lets begin with the steps so that without wasting a minute
you can widen your circles and can add more members to
your existing circles to make them a part of the group.
Step 1 : Open File Explorer (Used ES File Explorer
Here)
The first and the foremost thing you will need to do with the
ES File Explorer is, you need to enable the “Root Explorer”
Option in it, To enable the root explorer in ES File Explorer,
Just Open it and swipe from left and enable the Root
Explorer by giving access to the superuser. In case you are
confused with enabling root explorer just follow the sequence
shown in the Image below.
Step  2 : Open the below shown Folder and Edit the
WhatsApp_Preferences.
So once you’ve given proper access to the Root Explorer and
have enabled root explorer then lets begin with the Editing
WhatsApp_Preferences File. So navigate to the following
Directory : data/data/com.whatsapp/shared_prefs/
com.whatsapp_preferences.xml and edit the
com.whatsapp_preferences.xml file. Didn’t get the proper
location? didn’t find the file? Follow the below image to
reach the correct destination.
Step 3 : Edit the WhatsApp_Preferences.xml File
using the Editor.
Once you reach the above mentioned location, what you have
to do is modify the WhatsApp_Prefrences.xml file, Below is
the part of the file which you will have to modify so that
you can add more than the existing whatsapp group limit.
Look for
“int name=”participants_size_limit” value=”100″ and replace
the 100 by the maximum number of members/participants
you would like to have in your Group, Here I’ve replaced by
1000 because I want 1000 members in the WhatsApp Group,
You can keep the number depending on your needs. After
changing it, save the file and close it.
Now go to the App Manager and Force Close WhatsApp. After
force closing come back to WhatsApp and Turn it on and now
create a group and add members, you will see that the
member limit which was previously 100 has raised to the
number you entered in the maximum participants in the code.
That’s all folks, Now you can add as many people you want in
your WhatsApp Group. At the end I would like to tell this is a
trick which I came across while testing some stuff. This
information is just for information purpose. Neither
Droidmen nor the Author would be responsible for any
problems if they take place.
P.S : This trick no more works, WhatsApp has patched it.