Hi
Is there any ways to merge 2 whatsapp backups (old & new) to restore some chats from old backup and also remove duplicate messages?
Basically, old backup has 30 chats, for upto 5 years, I did one last backup called Backup-A and then deleted 5 chats with some friends and did another backup called Backup-B
Then on the new phone I restored Backup-B (which does not have those chat with 5 friends) and continued using it for nearly 6 months, then all those 5 friends again came together and chat continued for another 6 months (but minus their previous chat)
Now I need to bring their old chat (from Backup-A) into the current one but without loosing other chats or any data.
Has anyone done this before or is it doable, if yes then how can I do it please?
Thanks in advance.
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hi i was in the gym today and had to switch batterys , when the phone started back up i had no texts atall and its been over 2 months since my last backup and have lost alot of texts
could the old database file have been orphaned or has my phone a galaxy note moved the file location of the sms database file ? or can i revert back to an old version ?
I was looking around earlier with SQLite Editor and i went under Dialer Storage and found two databases one called telephony.db which holds carrier info(APN) also found mmssms.db which had alot of old messages and phone numbers i deleted a long time ago and much more. I'm not sure how to restore it if it isn't there, Other then if you used titanium backup anytime restoring the SMS/MMS/APN Dialer Storage will restore the apps that were at the time of the backup. I hope this helps
Hello,
My younger sister accidentally deleted one of my whatsapp chat conversations. Is there anyway i can recover that chat history?
I've read numerous posts from whatsapp.com and other sites saying that a 7 day backup is created. I have copied the previous WA msgstore-YYYY-MM to my PC but i dont want to lose my current messages.
Is there any way i can recover that single chat history and then add it to my current WA?
Please if anyone has any ideas i would be greatful, im getting messages daily and i dont want to lose them.
PS anyone know if this website www[dot]recovermessages[dot]com is legit?
Just reinstall
ichigo786 said:
Hello,
My younger sister accidentally deleted one of my whatsapp chat conversations. Is there anyway i can recover that chat history?
I've read numerous posts from whatsapp.com and other sites saying that a 7 day backup is created. I have copied the previous WA msgstore-YYYY-MM to my PC but i dont want to lose my current messages.
Is there any way i can recover that single chat history and then add it to my current WA?
Please if anyone has any ideas i would be greatful, im getting messages daily and i dont want to lose them.
PS anyone know if this website www[dot]recovermessages[dot]com is legit?
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@ichigo786 to my knowledge you can simply uninstall watsap and then re-install it. Messages are stored at the server side so it should download anything that was synced before the deletion.
They're backed up every night to local storage, not online. And its not just 7 days, its everything. It'll prompt you if you reinstall.
ichigo786 said:
Hello,
My younger sister accidentally deleted one of my whatsapp chat conversations. Is there anyway i can recover that chat history?
I've read numerous posts from whatsapp.com and other sites saying that a 7 day backup is created. I have copied the previous WA msgstore-YYYY-MM to my PC but i dont want to lose my current messages.
Is there any way i can recover that single chat history and then add it to my current WA?
Please if anyone has any ideas i would be greatful, im getting messages daily and i dont want to lose them.
PS anyone know if this website www[dot]recovermessages[dot]com is legit?
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Hey thanks for all the replies guys.
My problem is that my sister deleted a single chat conversation by accident two days ago and i only realised a couple of days later when i went to message that said contact. The problem is that i have a backup of that day, but now i have numerous new messages and ive been told if i restore from two days back i will lose my current messages, as i will be restoring messages from say the 9th.
Is there any way i can merge the 9th messages with the new ones or just pull out that single chat and install it.
Hi,
My SGS7 was sent for repairs and I received a temp SGS5.
Before sending it away I performed a backup to Google Drive and also copied the entire WhatsApp folder to my PC.
When I tried to restore the chats to the SGS5 I received a message the restore of my chats has failed and offered me to use an older backup. I tapped "yes" and an hour later nothing has happened yet.
When I cancelled the operation WhatsApp continued with the setup. However, all my private chats were GONE. I could see all the groups I'm a member of, but again, all the chats in them were EMPTY!
I then uninstalled WhatsApp, copied the backup files from my PC to the phone, and reinstalled the app hoping it will pickup the LOCAL folder (like it used to in older versions). But WhatsApp kept trying to restore from my Google Drive backup (which is possibly corrupt). And at the end of the process I had the same empty groups and no private chats.
Since then I uninstalled and reinstalled WhatsApp at least a dozen times, each time using a different msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.db.crypt12, and renaming it to msgstore.db.crypt12.
All the results, with all 7 backup files, were exactly the same: I see all the groups, but no chats. And no private chats.
Since then I received a couple of new messages in private chats, and the messages in these 2 chats are showing regardless of which msgstore.db.crypt12 I'm using.
It's as if WhatsApp is reading my messages from somewhere else!
Can anyone help?
I have some info in chats that is important to me and really don't want to lose.
Will appreciate ANY help.
Y.
yud said:
Hi,
My SGS7 was sent for repairs and I received a temp SGS5.
Before sending it away I performed a backup to Google Drive and also copied the entire WhatsApp folder to my PC.
When I tried to restore the chats to the SGS5 I received a message the restore of my chats has failed and offered me to use an older backup. I tapped "yes" and an hour later nothing has happened yet.
When I cancelled the operation WhatsApp continued with the setup. However, all my private chats were GONE. I could see all the groups I'm a member of, but again, all the chats in them were EMPTY!
I then uninstalled WhatsApp, copied the backup files from my PC to the phone, and reinstalled the app hoping it will pickup the LOCAL folder (like it used to in older versions). But WhatsApp kept trying to restore from my Google Drive backup (which is possibly corrupt). And at the end of the process I had the same empty groups and no private chats.
Since then I uninstalled and reinstalled WhatsApp at least a dozen times, each time using a different msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.db.crypt12, and renaming it to msgstore.db.crypt12.
All the results, with all 7 backup files, were exactly the same: I see all the groups, but no chats. And no private chats.
Since then I received a couple of new messages in private chats, and the messages in these 2 chats are showing regardless of which msgstore.db.crypt12 I'm using.
It's as if WhatsApp is reading my messages from somewhere else!
Can anyone help?
I have some info in chats that is important to me and really don't want to lose.
Will appreciate ANY help.
Y.
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try to subscribe to their beta version
google play -> whatsapp -> somewhere at the bottom of its app page there is a "become a beta tester"
tap it, accept and wait for an update
then try to restore the latest .crypt without any dates. the original file name itself
leongzxc said:
try to subscribe to their beta version
google play -> whatsapp -> somewhere at the bottom of its app page there is a "become a beta tester"
tap it, accept and wait for an update
then try to restore the latest .crypt without any dates. the original file name itself
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Thanks for the suggestion.
I cannot find the Beta Tester link!
(page search in 2 different browsers are showing me the word Bets is there but I cannot find it. Am I blind???)
yud said:
Thanks for the suggestion.
I cannot find the Beta Tester link!
(page search in 2 different browsers are showing me the word Bets is there but I cannot find it. Am I blind???)
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open on your mobile play store
search for whatsapp
then scroll to somewhere towards the bottom
should have a "become a beta tester" button
leongzxc said:
open on your mobile play store
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Thanks!
I was searching using a laptop.
Found it on the mobile app.
(I uninstalled and reinstalled so many times that I now cannot get the SMS code for 2 days! or get the code by a phone call tomorrow)
Im using whatsapp groups for almost 1 year. I started joining and creating groups from my personal number. So firstly the problem is that whatsapp holds 66GB of storage and secondly the backup process is a nightmare. I don't have to mention the restore process witch is worst than backup. I also forgot Google drive backup that is also endless.. I have several questions.
1.can I transfer with some way groups to a new number?
2. Can I edit the crypt12 db of backup so I can remove some groups that I was banned or I exit from them? This is because I tryed deleting almost 200 groups with some conversations and the deleting process was about to take almost 1 month without letting me use the app in the same time..
3. Is there any other option so I can delete some groups or worthless conversations so I gain some space so the backup could me smaller?
Any help would be appreciated..
Hi there, I hope you are doing well.
I'm quite desperated today. I recently change my phone number because I started a new job (about a week ago) and I also got a new corporate phone for it.
My old Note 8 was sitting in a drawer, as I've tried to make backups and move things over, the past few days. Today, when I went to open WhatsApp there, I got redirected back to the "Send SMS Verification" screen; locking me out of seeing my own messages that are stored in the SQLIte databases (msgstore.db.crypt12) in my own device!
From what I've been reading, the most probably cause is that a new subscriber to the phone company received my old number and created a new WhatsApp account. I know that they won't be seeing my messages, as those are stored in my device and encrypted with.
What I'd need to retrieve is my WhatsApp encryption key, located in /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key to read my messages, but, obviously, needs root. My phone is not rooted and, from what I've also been reading, if I went to root it with any of the know methods, it would wipe everything and I'd lose that key.
Is there any way in which I can gain root and copy that file, without wiping? If not, is there any way I can create a "low-level" backup that woul ALSO backup that data; to later restore (after rooted). I think that all the common backups in the Play Store will, of course, not be able to access that data to backup. But I don't know about any of the Samsung bloated own apps (like Cloud Backups, Smart Switch, etc.); if those would work in my scenario.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide; looking forward to hear back from you.
Regards.
Dan_Aykroyd said:
Hi there, I hope you are doing well.
I'm quite desperated today. I recently change my phone number because I started a new job (about a week ago) and I also got a new corporate phone for it.
My old Note 8 was sitting in a drawer, as I've tried to make backups and move things over, the past few days. Today, when I went to open WhatsApp there, I got redirected back to the "Send SMS Verification" screen; locking me out of seeing my own messages that are stored in the SQLIte databases (msgstore.db.crypt12) in my own device!
From what I've been reading, the most probably cause is that a new subscriber to the phone company received my old number and created a new WhatsApp account. I know that they won't be seeing my messages, as those are stored in my device and encrypted with.
What I'd need to retrieve is my WhatsApp encryption key, located in /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key to read my messages, but, obviously, needs root. My phone is not rooted and, from what I've also been reading, if I went to root it with any of the know methods, it would wipe everything and I'd lose that key.
Is there any way in which I can gain root and copy that file, without wiping? If not, is there any way I can create a "low-level" backup that woul ALSO backup that data; to later restore (after rooted). I think that all the common backups in the Play Store will, of course, not be able to access that data to backup. But I don't know about any of the Samsung bloated own apps (like Cloud Backups, Smart Switch, etc.); if those would work in my scenario.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide; looking forward to hear back from you.
Regards.
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WhatsApp app itself has to create a backup of the chats.
In WhatsApp settings - Chats - Chat backup.
If you have to change your mobile number, there is a feature in WhatsApp to migrate your data, chats, settings, etc. to your new phone number. And to inform your WhatsApp contacts that you have a new number.
In WhatsApp settings - Account - Change number.
If there is a new WhatsApp account created with your old number, it might be too late now.
Thanks for your inpur @It_ler.
I know that you can migrate the WhatsApp number and how the procedure work. The thing is that WhatsApp deactivates accounts with no activity for more than 120 days and now, when opening it again, it tries to send validation to the phone number that I no longer own. Nobody created a new account with that number; as far as I know, it haven't been reassigned yet to another subscriber. Still, all my chat history is in the device itself, but encrypted with the key I can't get access to without rooting, while rooting hard resets (erases) everything; hence losing said key (catch-22).
Do you know of any way in which I could root or get access to the encryption key without having to delete everything?
Thanks again.
Dan_Aykroyd said:
Thanks for your inpur @It_ler.
I know that you can migrate the WhatsApp number and how the procedure work. The thing is that WhatsApp deactivates accounts with no activity for more than 120 days and now, when opening it again, it tries to send validation to the phone number that I no longer own. Nobody created a new account with that number; as far as I know, it haven't been reassigned yet to another subscriber. Still, all my chat history is in the device itself, but encrypted with the key I can't get access to without rooting, while rooting hard resets (erases) everything; hence losing said key (catch-22).
Do you know of any way in which I could root or get access to the encryption key without having to delete everything?
Thanks again.
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Sorry ... no, I don't
And do not forget to activate automatic chat backup into your Google drive for your new/recent chats.