Hello,
Two weeks I bought a new phone, a Samsung S23 Ultra. I transferred all data from my old phone, a S21, to my new phone. All went well according to the Samsung transfer tool, so I didn't look any further.
However, last week I noticed that I couldn't view any of the images that I sent with Whatsapp. When I click a greyed out image in a Whatsapp conversiation, it gives this error: "media file does not exist on internal storage whatsapp sent images". So I looked into that folder and there wasn't any old image there, only a few that I sent over the last few days.
At first I thought something must have gone wrong with the transfer from my old phone to my new phone, so I unstalled Whatsapp, reinstalled it and let Whatsapp do a restore from Google Drive instead. This didn't work either, it produced the same result, no sent images.
I think someting went wrong with the data transfer my old phone to my new phone, and because I noticed it only a few days later, Whatsapp made a new backup to Google Drive with an (almost) empty 'sent' folder, overwriting all existing sent images. I don't have my old phone anymore because I sold it. So I can't recover these images from my old phone, but now I lost years worth of images in all my Whatsapp conversations.
Does anyone know what I can do to somehow restore this? Is there a way to get an old backup from Google Drive?
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HI Guys- first post here. Hope you can help
Rooted my phone HTC desire HD last night and now trying to restore my sms- I used android app SMSbackup (I took a note of the name of the app before rooting). It turned out to be that there are 10's of SMS backup apps with this name. I could not remembr which one I used to back up my folders through to the SD card!! I don't recall a visual image of the logo.
I have the back up folders as I can see them on the SD card but so far all back up app I downloaded from PLAY could not recognise the sms files. I suspect that this is due to the fact they have been backed up in an db. format and not xml???
Can any one please advise how to go round this issue (e.g. is there db. converter to xml? is there a known sms back up app which reads db.? etc)
thanks in advance
I want to upgrade my non-rooted phone to a new model (specifically, from an HTC M8 to a M10), but I would like to try to transfer as much as the settings/data from my old phone as I can.
It's not rooted (though I plan to root the new one immediately) so that really limits my options.
First of all, would restoring an adb backup to the new phone be a bad idea? Obviously I wouldn't use the -system switch, but would even restoring general data and/or apks this way be a bad idea? If so, are there any better methods one can recommend to backup my app/settings data and restore it to a new phone? I don't mean just stuff like contacts or SMS.
And second, I always use a SD card to store my photos, but after it being in this phone for a few years there are a lot of deleted photos, which results in situations where I would have files like photo0012 photo0013 photo0016 with "gaps" between the file numbers. Since most camera software writes to the first available "number" my photos are going to be a scramble of new and old once I start using them on my new phone. Any good (preferably on PC) apps or recommendations on how I can rename them all in order based on the date they were taken so there won't be any "gaps"?
Should this have been posted on a specific phone's forum? It seemed like a general question to me.
EDIT: OK, so for some reason, this got posted here instead of the Whatsapp section. My bad.
Hey, guys.
I broke my phone and it's getting repaired. I used it for several years and thus have hundreds of messages and media and stuff on it (since whatsapp messages are not tied to one's sim card sadly). Since Sunday I've been using a temporary phone, and I've exchanged new messages with friends on this temporary phone.
Obviously, the new phone's storage files pertaining to whatsapp only contain messages since Sunday, whereas my old phone has everything that was exchanged with friends up until the day it broke.
My old phone will be fixed soon, and I'll soon want to go back to it, but I want to keep all my chats updated, which means somehow getting the messages from this temporary phone and add them to my older phone's.
Now the question is, isn't there only room in whatsapp backup files for one single backup? Meaning, if I choose to insert my temporary phone's whatsapp data onto my older phone, won't that overwrite everything that's on the other phone?
I want to keep everything. What are my options here?
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I'm posting this here as well because I think this is the right section.
Hey, guys.
I broke my phone and it's getting repaired. I used it for several years and thus have hundreds of messages and media and stuff on it (since whatsapp messages are not tied to one's sim card sadly). Since Sunday I've been using a temporary phone, and I've exchanged new messages with friends on this temporary phone.
Obviously, the new phone's storage files pertaining to whatsapp only contain messages since Sunday, whereas my old phone has everything that was exchanged with friends up until the day it broke.
My old phone will be fixed soon, and I'll soon want to go back to it, but I want to keep all my chats updated, which means somehow getting the messages from this temporary phone and add them to my older phone's.
Now the question is, isn't there only room in whatsapp backup files for one single backup? Meaning, if I choose to insert my temporary phone's whatsapp data onto my older phone, won't that overwrite everything that's on the other phone?
I want to keep everything. What are my options here?
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Apart from missing call logs or text messages, am trying to figure out why I need to use Samsung SmartSwitch (setting up another new S21 and have setup previously another S21 and used SmartSwitch)
All apps used are on Google Sync and contacts are all on contacts.google.com for the accounts I primarily use.
What important or essential "stuff" will be missed by non-use of SmartSwitch and just letting Google restore "it's things" ?
This is what samsung backs up
So basically there is no value in SmartSwitch for my additional phone as Google itself has the important bits. It is no trouble to connect wifi for the office, home and bluetooth for car. Old messages are not important at all. Contacts all on Google.
xdafly said:
So basically there is no value in SmartSwitch for my additional phone as Google itself has the important bits. It is no trouble to connect wifi for the office, home and bluetooth for car. Old messages are not important at all. Contacts all on Google.
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Hi. I just used yesterday to change my old A8 to my new S21. I didn't have any trouble. Even my app layout on the screen were similar. I recommend you use it. No damage and it makes migration easier. Just remember to backup you whatsapp history before changing sim to the new phone. Then, when you open wap in the new, it will say that detected a backup and ask if you want to restore it.
Goog luck!
Have setup now several new S21 phones and have *not* used SmartSwitch. Nothing went missing and nothing was missed. All apps that mattered were handled by Google Drive/Docs/Sync. Some apps needed a re-identity verification which was simply password/text or email message for 2-step-auth
Will not continue to use SmartSwitch on any tablets or phones
do you guys know how to copy existing wifi passwords from an old not Samsung device to a brand new S21? during inital setup it doesn't ask to recovery from a google backup and smartswitch copies all but wifi settings
privateer00 said:
do you guys know how to copy existing wifi passwords from an old not Samsung device to a brand new S21? during inital setup it doesn't ask to recovery from a google backup and smartswitch copies all but wifi settings
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/86zkzf
Trust nothing.
Make backup hard copies of all critical data and store in at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other. A flash drive can be used too but it must be backed up by hdds. Verify the copies integrity and -do not- use cloning apks to copy, especially music databases (it can and will lose needed null data).
What's in the cloud isn't in your hand and can be lost forever. Let that sink in...
Plan ahead and backup now or you will lose data.
Google backup wastes a lot of battery backing things up and from there forward. Unfortunately if you have no SD card slot you lost your best backup tool.
As for SmartSwitch it probably will work but it could also drag with it issues from the old OS or fail to work. Have at least one other backup plan using hdds. Stagger doing backups between the hdds to minimize the chances of your database being compromised by malware.
$hit happens... count on it, otherwise sooner or latter the odds will catch up with your data.