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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Hi all, i guess it's is already mentioned.. but i couldnt find it after searching for almost a day.
I have old whatsapp messages that i want restored, could anyone explain me the way how to do it?
greetings,
Gertjan
I'm not quite sure what your problem is. Did you change the device or reinstall whatsapp and want to restore a backup?
In general it should work following these steps:
http://www.teamandroid.com/2011/08/21/how-to-backup-chat-messages-in-whatsapp/
Follow the steps below to backup your Whats chat conversations:
- Open WhatsApp.
- Press the Menu key, and go to ‘Settings’.
- Scroll down and go to ‘More’;.
- Now tap once on “Chat History Backup” and backup will start.
That’s it! Next time when you re-install WhatsApp after a full reset, you will be asked to restore your previous backup (which is stored on your SD card).
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If not, we need some more information...
However I guess it's not that useful too have all those older messages in whatsapp, because they are just filling the internal space and you can't easily access them (you would have to press "load older messages" again and again and whatsapp will become slower and slower ...).
A good possibility is to transfer the full whatsapp backup to your PC and use a tool called "Whatsapp Extractor" to display all the conversations.
Here is the link:
[TOOL] Whatsapp Database Analyzer / Messages Extractor / Chat-Backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24603294
ztedd said:
Here is the link:
[TOOL] Whatsapp Database Analyzer / Messages Extractor / Chat-Backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24603294
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Thanks for the link
Sent from my SK17i using xda premium
is there a way to restore iphone whatsapp backup/history to android htc one X?
Re: Whatsapp reader or restore old messages
WhatsApp automatically makes backups every 24 hours and stores them on the microSD memory card of your Android phone. To restore the deleted messages of WhatsApp, you will need to uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp. During the installation process, you will be prompted to restore the lost message history of WhatsApp. Choose restore your missing chats.
Today I woke up in the morning and saw that all my whatsapp messages were deleted, I did not perform any back or restore from any backup utility such as Titanium backup. I am on Android 4.3 on Samsung note 2.
I tried to uninstall whatsapp and re-install again, it asked for restoring messages from backup folder but only restored messages till date 30-Dec-2013, although message backup was present with latest backup of yesterday’s date i.e. 23-Feb-2014.
Please let me know how can I restore all the messages and resolve this issue.
golo83 said:
is there a way to restore iphone whatsapp backup/history to android htc one X?
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Have you tried whatsapp migrator tool?
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Try this way
Have you tried to restore by WhatsApp. If you have done a backup, messages, chats can be easily restored. If not, try Android Data Recovery on RecoveryAndroid. I used it to get my lost Whatsapp messages back days ago.:highfive:
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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I am unable to restore my whatsapp backup from google driver. It stucks on 20%-30% and says unable to restore. I have installed whatsapp and even updated my phone's firmware. I have seen that there are several topics already on this topic but I am creating it again because I didnt found the solution in old threads.
Your help will be highly appreciated everyone!
Hi,
try copy manually all whatsapp backup in your handphone. and please dont skip restore at the first place.
Azizan said:
Hi,
try copy manually all whatsapp backup in your handphone. and please dont skip restore at the first place.
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If I copy Whatsapp folder from old phone to new phone on exact location. Will it restore all my pictures and chat ?
It happens to me. from XioMi Max to Huawei P20.
1. I do normal backup.
2. I copy everything from my folder under Whatsapp.
3. Than i try to restore it back when i already copy and paste from old files.
if it takes more time that you have.
Please backup your video and picture to Google Photos first.
Azizan said:
It happens to me. from XioMi Max to Huawei P20.
1. I do normal backup.
2. I copy everything from my folder under Whatsapp.
3. Than i try to restore it back when i already copy and paste from old files.
if it takes more time that you have.
Please backup your video and picture to Google Photos first.
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If I go to the settings of my whatsapp backup. It says last backup on drive is made on 28th May 2018. There is no information about local backup. Does it create local backup automatically? Or will I have to switch Google Drive Backup to "NEVER" in order to get local backup?
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If I go to the settings of my whatsapp backup. It says last backup on drive is made on 28th May 2018. There is no information about local backup. Does it create local backup automatically? Or will I have to switch Google Drive Backup to "NEVER" in order to get local backup?
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Please backup it using google drive first.
i have set mine to Daily Backup.
if you set never , it wont backup anything.
from my experience it always backup to your phone first.
folder Whatsapp >
it has three main folders
1. Backups
2. Database
3. Media
Very weird....
I had two Google accounts on my phone. I found out that on each one of them there was a different WhatsApp backup (on each google drive account) - one from today and one from 2016.
After formatting, WhatsApp finds the backup of today, but after finishing the process there are only messages earlier than 2016....
I tried to delete the google account with the early backup from the phone and perform the process again, but it acts the same.
Any idea?? Help
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.