Things went like this :
1: I did a backup (local and gdrive) of my messages on old phone/number
2: Click the change number on old phone and did the process successfully
3: Transferred my backup to the internal storage of new phone
4: Downloaded whatsapp on new phone/number and verified the account
5: Whatsapp saw the backup and tried to restore it but failed
I realized I did the backup with the OLD number and I am trying to restore it on the NEW number.
I tried opening whatsapp on the old phone (to do a new backup now with new number) but it said my account was verified on another phone now.
I was about to verify again my account on my old phone when it suddenly DIED. (it was on its last legs, barely working, all screen cracked). Now my old phone does not power on.... I cannot do a new backup
IS there any way I can restore my messages on my new phone?? I had about 4000 unread messages!! My account transferred fine but I cannot restore my messages.
Backup was made with latest version of whatsapp, it is a crypt12 file and I have the key file from OLD phone.
(New phone is not rooted)
Thank you very much, I hope someone can help me figure this out
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Hey, after i updated to 2.1 i attempted to restore alla my data I had previously saved with the built in SE Backup and restore. When I open my contactbook no contacts appear, if I click on Favorites though there are 6 contacs as it should be. If i go in to the message app all my messages are still there, with contact names and numbers displayed, even though my contactbook shows no contacts?? Sort of like the contacts are there but won't display...
Also no applications were saved =(
Did this happen to anyone else? Anyone got a fix?
Thanks in advance
Hey !! i believe that you must have used the old version of backup and restore !!
SE has released a new version of backup and restore, with backing up market application and stuff !!
well.. this info may not be of any use to u know as u are already in 2.1..
But as for me, who is still in 1.6, I downloaded the new backup and restore and installed in 1.6 it has got market backup, etc...
may be to all those who are going to update to 2.1 by using the flash method from XDA must use this to backup ...
http://w ww.sonyericsson.com/update/backupandrestore/xperiaX10?lc=en&cc=gb
And it is always nice and better to restart from ur phone once u finished the backup !! hehe just my advice !!!
I restored my Contacts successfully. Here what I done
1) Reset to factory default
2) After the phone restarts I did not do any setup. I skipped all including email and contact setup.
3) Left the phone idle for 30 mins so things could settle.
4) Went to Backup and Restore and selected only Contacts and call log (No messaging or other Stuff)
5) Done. After 99% it says it done but my contacts got restored.
I have a sim card which has stopped working, my network provider cut me off after not topping it up regularly enough. This sim card is 11 years old with tons of business contacts in whatsapp and vital messages I need restoring. I just recently went through a process to upgrade the ROM without thinking and although that failed to work out, I put the old rom back only to find out i can no longer restore my original number with all those contacts on. Before I started to flash the ROM i did make a manual whatsapp backup to drive.
Now, I have a new number, installed whatsapp and I have no option to restore the backup from the drive I did earlier on the old number.
Is there any hope here for me to restore my old backup to the new number?
I think, you can't. Even if you synced with the same Google account, you cant restore backup from another number.
Hello,
I suddenly lost all my WhatsApp messages for no reason, and restoring them from my local backup does not work. Can you help me fixing this issue?
Let me explain:
In January I used the app « Import That App Messages from Windows Phone », in order to recover my WhatsApp messages from my old Windows phone to my new Android phone. I successfully performed the data transfer process to this phone (OnePlus 7T Pro, Android 10).
However today when I opened the WhatsApp app I suddenly got a message which said something like « Your chat history stopped working. You can restore your data by clicking on Restore ». I chose Restore but it actually only restored empty group discussions, without any messages inside, and no discussion were restored. Then, in the WhatsApp settings I checked my backup settings and saw there was a Google Drive backup dated of January (which corresponds to the moment I originally transferred my data from my old Windows Phone) and a local backup from February (which contains important new messages arrived in the meantime).
So I decided I would try to restore the local backup, since it is more recent.
I uninstalled WhatsApp, then installed it again and followed the instructions until it asked me to restore from a Google Drive backup. At this moment I turned off my Internet connection, clicked on Continue, waited until a message told me something like « The research is taking longer than expected ». Then I clicked on Skip so that WhatsApp detected my local backup and asked me if I wanted to restore it. I clicked on Restore, then the process started with a progression bar, but when the bar arrived at 100% I got an error message proposing me to Ignore or to Look for an older backup. The 1st button led to a restore only of empty group discussions.
I uninstalled WhatsApp again, did the same process and tried the 2nd button, which led to a search for a Google Drive backup, which I don’t want to use.
I tried the process several times but it failed every time.
I precise that in my internal phone storage I kept a folder « WhatsApp » inside which I have 3 visible folders: Backups, Databases, and Media. There are also 4 hidden folders: .Shared, .StickerThumbs, .Thumbs, and .trash.
Inside Backups there are 4 files: chatsettingsbackup.db.crypt1, statusranking.db.crypt1, stickers.db.crypt1, and wallpaper.bkup.
Inside Databases there is 1 file: msgstore.db.crypt12 (which I believe is the main backup file to recover my messages).
Inside Media there are 10 folders : .Status, WallPaper, WhatsApp Animated Gifs, WhatsApp Audio, WhatsApp Documents, WhatsApp Images (this folder contains all my pictures sent and received), WhatsApp Profile Photos, WhatsApp Stickers, WhatsApp Video, and WhatsApp Voice Notes.
I really need help. Can you help me restore my messages? What should I do?
Thank you a lot in advance!
Hi, I need help regarding reading my FMWhatsapp Database that is .crypt14, Now this is what happened with me and I am helpless from all sides..
I was using Fmwhatsapp from last 1 year, Just last week, My phone number which I was using for my business in FMWhatsapp stopped working so I decided to change my number, I changed my number then and sent a message to almost 20-30 people at once.. After sending msgs, immediately i got a error showing you cant use whatsapp for spamming.. something like this. FmWhatsapp shuts down then and when i reopen it, it again shuts down without any interface, it happened everytime i tried to open it. So i decided to copy my FMWhatsapp folder to sd card, and decided to uninstall it and install whatsapp, after I done it, When i tried to restore chats in whatsapp, it again and again said, We cant restore your chats, please try with old chats.. I checked everything to read my whatsapp database and everything pointed me to toot my device first, I rooted my device, for that i had to reset my phone to unlock bootloader, in which i think i lost my key file for fmwhatsapp..
Now , i got the reason why i cant restore chats are because, i have changed the number and backup was made on old number. For reading database, i need key file which i dont know how i can get appropriate key bcz it was deleted while resetting... Can anybody help me by any means please...?
Hello,
I need to restore an old WhatsApp backup from 2014 (crypt7). I still have the same phone number, so there should be no problem.
Usually I do the following:
1) Copy the backup to "/sdcard/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/"
2) Install WhatsApp
3) Start WhatsApp and verify the phone number
4) A notification asks me if I want to restore the local backup
5) Done
This worked for recent backups and also for backups back to mid 2016.
For the backup from 2014, WhatsApp didn't find the local backup, instead I was asked to check for Goode Drive backups.
As mentioned here in this case I turned off WiFi & mobile data, let WhatsApp check for online backups till the network error appeared and skipped.
But in the end, there was no local backup found.
The problem is also, from all this trying, my number got now blocked for 12 h because WhatsApp thinks I'm a spammer, sadly.
What am I doing wrong?
1) Should I remove my Google Account from my smartphone (Android 12) after installing WhatsApp and before staring the verification process?
2) Would it maybe help to install and old WhatsApp version like 2.21.8.17 as mentioned here?
3) Is there a way to push a local WhatsApp backup to Google Drive, so I could restore it from there?
4) Can I do anything against the spam protection mechanism, so WhatsApp knows that all these verifications are for a good reason and not for spamming?
Thanks in advance.