Lost my whatsapp chats! Backup from drive is not working! - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Well, my phone was with the internal storage almost full, than I couldn't update my apps. Then, my whatsapp was an older version.
Today, I woke up and all my chats were gone! It asked me if I would want to restore, but it got stucked at 81%. I closed the app and tried again. Same problem. Then, I had a backup on drive from yesterday 23h30. I reseted my phone and would restore my chats from there. I didn't do a bakup for msgstore .db.crypt file, because the backup on drive was updated.
When I installed the whatsapp, it asks me about the backup, but it fails and the chats aren't recovered. I noticed that there was missing an google account in the phone (I use two), but still not working. Now I have to wait 24h to try again.
The problem is that I was using an old version of whatsapp and now the app is the new? Can I recover the msgstore .db.crypt file?
Thanks

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Hey !! i believe that you must have used the old version of backup and restore !!
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http://w ww.sonyericsson.com/update/backupandrestore/xperiaX10?lc=en&cc=gb
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Hi all...
Since this morning my eMail app (Sony's one) was acting strange. when trying to launch it, I had a message saying the app stopped working. then the app started on the screen for creating an account... like if it was brand new...
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How to repair whatsapp corrupted database (msgstore.db) please help

Im sorry but i need urgent help with my WhatsApp .
I did a full backup of my whatsapp in the morning using titanium backup and its said backup complete 100% then around 5PM my whatsapp crashed and started saying initializing untill it started up on the "Agree to continue " stage which meant it had started over againand at that time my whatsapp data got wiped ... I tried restoring my earlier backup using titanium back again but it failed (although it says restore complete ) as soon as i try to open whatsapp it crushed 3 times till it wiped the restored data again.
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Thank you in advance..Ive attached the a screenshot of the corrupt file.
Ps; i have spent all night researching about this but cant find anyway to repair the (msgstore.db) database please any help??..Im gonna try data recovery software for sqlite seeing thag its the same as the database whatsapp uses but i want a positive fix plz
Have you tried merging messages with sqlite?
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Have you tried merging messages with sqlite?
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Is there a way to add them back to db format after merging?

Unable to restore Whatsapp Chat from Google backup. please help!!

Hi All. I downgraded my phone from MIUI 13 to 12.5 and forgot to take local backup of Whatsapp. Although i did a google drive backup one day before flashing. Now I am having difficulty retreiving my data from google drive. Whatsapp is giving me this error after locating backup on drive and downloading chats of 290mb, it fails to inititalize. although it does download the media later on in gallery and file managger but no chats in the app.
this is the exact error i get: Unable to restore your chats from this backup. Do you want to restore your chats from an older backup?
Saadsh.96 said:
Hi All. I downgraded my phone from MIUI 13 to 12.5 and forgot to take local backup of Whatsapp. Although i did a google drive backup one day before flashing. Now I am having difficulty retreiving my data from google drive. Whatsapp is giving me this error after locating backup on drive and downloading chats of 290mb, it fails to inititalize. although it does download the media later on in gallery and file managger but no chats in the app.
this is the exact error i get: Unable to restore your chats from this backup. Do you want to restore your chats from an older backup?
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Full charged phone, same number and only one Google account?
joke19 said:
Full charged phone, same number and only one Google account?
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Yes. Same account. Apparently before making a backup i momentarily turned on end to end encryption and turned it off at once. For some reason it created a crypt15 file and corrupted the chat. I was able to retrieve the crypt15 file from gdrive from a third party app. But I'm unable to use it on whatsapp since it's asking for a password which it shouldn't since i turned end to end encryption before backup

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