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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Onimusha999:
Hello everyone,

I just want share my experience in this issue like other people and hope it will help other user, as till now there is no direct solution for this, even if ask whatsapp support they will give you answer machine to reply same word that not help at all.

First i want say that i try all solution in this topic without any success.

I even try to restore my android whats app backup to iPhone but not working, this related to different encryption type maybe.

I try to restore it in another android phobe.

Try to restore it with other phone number.

I try to restore backup in WhatsApp business.

All my try led to fail.

And unfortunately every time the restore process start and stuck i receive some new message but that i cant see it till the end whatsapp open with group only and no message, then start again from the beginning, so 3 days i am without whatsapp.

After so many try, WhatsApp didn't send me the activation code, whether sms or call, keep me waiting 2 hours, 16 hours, then 36 hours.

Anyway after let me wait for 36 hours i try again to restore but this time:

1- Move data tolder to another location in the phone and keep only database folder that include backup file.

2- Keep my eyes to the storage of whatsapp during restored process then when it reach 31% the storage stop increasing so i forced close the whatsapp and restart my phones.

3- When my phone start again i make it airplane mode and open whatsapp to finde all my chatting restore.

4- After returning the media folder to whatsapp folder i get crash again after some time and do same step to recover again, but this time i didn't return media folder to whatsapp folder, maybe its the reason for the crash, now 1 days and everything looks fine.

There is something wrong in the app make this issue and its not related to corruption of backup file, no, its related to restoring processes as no need to reach 100%, as all my chatting restore at 31% when i force close the app.

Mybe this point it will help to solve the issue for others user in the future.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edappere:
To anyone interested, I've (almost) followed these steps which are accurate (as of may 2022). The main thing to me seems to be step 2 : you have to only have one file in the Databases directory and it must be named something like "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.db.crypt14" (or crypt12, crypt6, etc.). Restore process does not work if you only have "msgstore.db.crypt14" or if you have "msgstore.db.crypt14" + some dated databases ("msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.db.crypt14") in the Databases directory

The annoying thing now : although I've restored all my old chats, all recent messages (received between the last time I accessed Whatsapp and the time I restored the backup) were lost...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kn0tx:
It works, all my chats and media can be recover this way. But occasionally now my whatsapp will out of sudden crash. Not sure if I force stop as it stucked at 24 during restoration that causes it "incomplete" or how.

The weirdest thing is when I tried to delete certain chats, my whatsapp will crash too.

Or when I use whatsapp web to sync and delete my chats, my whatsapp will crash too.

Anyone share the same issue with me after manage to restore using method above?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Speedbird2652:
The described methods here worked okay-ish last time (about mid-end june, 3 weeks ago today) and I only had to try 2 or 3 different dbcrypt-files I had, also it only took like 8 hours for the process to succeed.

Now, I ended up with what seems like 7 recent but all broken backups, and trying to restore one of the mid-June ones (which worked back then!) doesn't seem to work now.

The process starts as described, following the instructions step by step, but instead of the error message that WhatsApp is not responding, the "Sorry mate, unable to restore any of your messages, sucks I know" message pops up. Then when I enter my name and log in, a few messages come up, but a lot, namely all the most recent ones, are missing.

Now what was different than last time? file size in the storage & cache screen never went as high up as it did mid-June. Max I was seeing now was about 4GB, back then it was almost 10. The timestamp on the dbcrypt-files seems odd, too, it's at 17:00 for all but one files, usually the files are dated to 2AM. Does WhatsApp have issues with restoring month-old backups maybe?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Albert83BCN:
Yep, I have been having problems with my chat history since looong ago, seems that something must be corrupted because every day at 2AM when it performed the local backup always crashed. So I ended up with the habit of powering down the device before 2AM so that it would not crash every day.

But from time to time I would forget to power down, and also being too much time without performing the backup is also call for trouble in case something goes wrong again, so from time to time I would let it do the backup and then crash, because I learned that at that point when I was prompted to restore a backup I could always succeed by clicking OK, let it do it's work with the latest msgstore.db.crypt14 file in the Databases folder and when the WhatsApp internal storage reached a certain amount of data I knew it was ok (1.03 GB in my case), force close the app and the chats would be magically there, all of them that I can tell, back to 2011 (I posted about this in this thread or some similar back in 2019 and also many other people confirmed this).

However since early July I just cannot do this anymore. Now it seems as there is an additional 'preparing data' step (in the "post-activation" state of the app, more on this later) where it checks for integrity or something, and I would never succeed with the force-close method again. I also noticed that the storage used during the restore goes beyond what I used to see before. I don't have a clue about how the WA works internally but to me it seems as if previously this worked because chats where actually restored during the 0-24% portion of the process, and from 24%-31% and/or beyond it was about the references to media, and the two processes were somehow separated and force-closing during the 24% allowed to get up and running again, but now it wants it to complete all the process or otherwise it rolls back (?). It's either this, or my backup just got even more corrupted than before, I don't really know.

The other thing that I noticed (fortunately?) is that if you try the force-close method during the "pre-activation" step, it can still work and you end up with the chats restored... but in that case the app will only run OK for as long I have it in memory. As soon as it closes and the process restarts, does this kind of check again and the chat gets corrupted again... the problem here is that activating every day is not possible as you know because of the cumulative delays that WhatsApp imposes in each attempt... I have been trying to get it to work for a few days days now without success (even trying to restore the unencrypted msgstore.db in an Android VM to see if I can extract a "clean" backup again, without success) and now I have to wait for 36h to activate again and I do not have much hope that I will be able to come up with a solution this time.

Guys, a lot of people has trouble with restoring their/our chat history as you all know first hand, we need to keep this updated or come with a megathread or something, with whatever procedures that any of us find that might still work post July 2022.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Speedbird2652:
I can sort of confirm the "magically appear" part...when restoring a mid-June dbcrypt-file, it somehow found a working Google Drive backup without me doing anything besides the mentioned steps here, and I ended up with all my chats intact up until early July!?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Its Pa1:
Any one please help me im also getting this error

Stucking at 24% i tried all above

Nothing works out

It is very important life and death matter

Pls I urge you every one please help me

Pls
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casualnooblord:
My ""solution"" for this issue is that I automatically backup the whatsapp data partition using swift backup (paid version is 7 euros and allows you to set a daily automatic schedule). The backup happens every night at 1:30 pm, then at 2:00 pm Whatsapp crashes. Unfortunately, swift backup does not have an automated restore function, so I used macrodroid app to automatically unlock my screen at 4pm , open swift backup, navigate to the whatsapp backup and restore it.

I've disabled the notifications of these apps, and even used macrodroid to navigate to homescreen, kill background apps and relock my screen after the restore.

Result: swift backup makes a whatsapp backup of the chat history of today (and everything before it), whatsapp crashes an halfhour later, and then after that the chat history gets restored again.

In the morning when I wake up whatsapp works perfectly fine again, all chats are there. And I dont have to actively be bothered by it again, there's not a trace of all the **** that had happened while I was asleep.

It's ridiculous that I have to take these steps because whatsapp has such a ****ty restore process.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolcoelhoo:
I don't know jwat happened

I restored my backup (8 gb) but said my whatsapp was using 32 gb, now says 63 gb (I didn't restore any media, and even couldn't find those big files on my phone) any idea?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolcoelhoo:
also for me isnt backing up to google drive =(

I would back up my 9.5 GB ( i have space on google drive) reinstall and download the backup from google, but keep on "Uploading 0.97 MB of 9.5 GB (0%) and doesnt go futher =(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5uryawanshi:
it seems there's a bug, so before you get stuck all the restore is completed but this bug reverts everything.

worked for me and restored everything

Follow these exact steps :

1 - install a fresh copy of whatsapp

2 - auth and login using your number

3 - select option to restore using google drive backup and select your account

4 - start the restore

5 - the moment it reaches 24% or whatever % you get stuck on FORCE STOP whatsapp! (this is very important)

6 - reopen whatsapp and your chats will be restored! :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CharmB_16:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CharmB_16:
Hello! Could you advise how long it took for yours using the Drive restoration?

I tried the Google Drive restoration method (23GB) and it goes into 100% in a few minutes (i then go into force stop) but it still shows 'unable to restore' and goes to search for Older Backups.

I have tried for several days (google Drive - 23GB, goes to 100% and fails very fast) and 2 local backups (25 Sep 550MB , 24 Sep 232MB)

Also, can anyone advise if for the failed attempts did the media files show up as files but 0 bytes on your phones?

TIA everyone!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5uryawanshi:
Mine was 150mb so it was pretty quick! Try force closing just after it gets stuck, good luck!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbsilva:
Hey, my whatsapp looked exactly like this when I tried to restore backup from google drive!

It reaches 100% and appears to be unable to restore. Files are also 0 bytes in size.

I thought my backup might be corrupted, but it looks like it's a problem involving a lot of people.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbsilva:
My backup is 5.2GB and the conversations backup is 600MB, much smaller than yours but the exact same errors still appear
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CharmB_16:
Hey yes the Drive restoration totally gets stuck at 'restoring messages' and moves to local back up.

When is the date of your drive backup may I ask? Does your local backups work?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbsilva:
My Google Drive backup was taken on 9/26/2022. I don't have a local backup, I urgently need to restore this one from the Drive. I thought it would be corrupted, but I think it's an error of the application itself, there is a bug blocking the restore.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CharmB_16:
I saw some people comment that the last option worked for them? To not allow access to media and another forum was to not allow contact access.

Do try and let us know if it works for you? I haven't been able to restore from Drive/local too...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsmanask:
Just one simple solution - Force Stop the WhatsApp app as soon as it reaches 24%

And when you'll reopen it, your chats would have been come back.

Don't worry, just trust me, and do it.

It works like magic.

The only catch is that your Media won't recover, only your chats will.

But you can redownload the last 30 days media manually by clicking on each Photo/Video separately. I'm sorry, but till now, I've found no way to recover the media beyond 30 days.

I've researched through hundreds of articles and videos but this is the ONLY solution that worked for me.

I even contacted WhatsApp Support but they said that my "Chat Backup is Corrupted" and there's no way to recover it. Finally I found this solution on YouTube and got my chats back.

Come back and tell us if it worked for you or not :)

Thank me Later.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MinaMikhail:
Hi All

I had same issue however after reading tons of reviews and a lot of Trial of error I FIXED THE ISSUE !!

Let me break down what happened :

> Quick Brief

- My old phone is dead all of a sudden ; I do not have a local backup stored on a harddrive and I do not have access to the old phone to get the latest local backup therefore I was totally defendant on the Google Drive backup for WhatsApp

- Old Phone - Pixel 3 XL / New Phone - Pixel 6a

- Tried restoring the google drive backup for whatsApp and it does not work

Steps :

1. install WhatsApp and start the process of restoring with Google Drive ; as soon as it reaches 24% and gets stuck Force Stop WhatsApp and close it .

2. Open WhatsApp ; you will find your chat / message history restored without any media

3. Take Local Backup from the restored Chat DB and stop the backup with google drive ( this is IMPORTANT )

4. Copy the local backup from the phone to your an external location ( PC / external hard-drive )

5. Uninstall WhatsApp and wait for a while then install it again and prompt the restore from the Google Drive again .

6. The Google drive restore will get stuck at 24% ; wait and do not force stop or do anything and give the process its time.

7. The restore will fail and ask you if you want to restore from an older version of DB or you want to skip ; choose skip

8. WhatsApp will open with the groups you were added to only and without any message history however you will find at the top of your chats "Restoring Media" ( image attached )

9. The restore Media process will take its time ; at my case it was restoring 5GB of media .

10. After the restore media finishes connect the phone to the PC and copy all restored WhatsApp media ( images , voice notes , videos , documents , .... ) to the PC / external hard-drive WA

11. Now you have on your PC/hard-drive the local backup from WhatsApp ; the DB with message history along with the restored media

12. Uninstall WhatsApp and repeat steps 1 & 2 to get your message history

13. Copy manually all your media from the PC to the WhatsApp media folder on the phone

14. Now you have both your message history and your media restored .

I tried it and it worked for me ; it is tiring and will consume time but it is worth it

P.S : Make sure each time you uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp that you leave a bit of time or WhatsApp will think you are a hacker and will not allow you to register your phone for sometime ( 1 hour / 24 hours / .... )
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsmanask:
I wish you had posted this 30 days ago. I was facing this similar issue last month and managed to get back my chat history using the Force Stop technique, but failed to get my media back. Unfortunately, I guess that now it's too late and there are hardly any chances left that I could recover it back.

Anyways, I thank you from bottom of my heart for your help. You took out your time and typed such a long answer just to help others. Most people don't even bother to do it once their issue is resolved.

It'll surely help many people to recover their chats and maybe help me too incase I face this issue again. Most people don't understand the intensity of how valuable WhatsApp chats can BE for someone.

The world needs people like you Mikhail. Keep it up 👍
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MinaMikhail:
Thank you for the encouraging words !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crisdurx:
instructions to recover files and chats

I managed to solve this problem, they are long and somewhat large steps, also specific.

To put them in context whatsapp gave me an error out of nowhere, I was using it normally, I was going to answer a message and out of nowhere I get an error and it closes, I try to restore and could not.

Then I deleted all my data and uninstalled to restore my backup (at this moment I lost all my data).

The backup went from 24 to 100 (%), and there were two options, omit or try to restore with another account, I gave omit and I noticed that although it did not restore the chats above if I managed to restore the files because the load came out at the top of the app.

I went to many sites and this was the best, I used stuff from here in the steps below.

1. Start restoring your data, it doesn't matter if it stays at 24%, let it load until it gives an error.

2. Click on skip and it should come up loading your files at the top, you can also check in gallery or file explorer, if so let it finish, you also need to remove your automatic backups, change the journal option to only when you press the save button (danger, don't press it).

3. When you are done go to the whatsapp folder and inside it has a folder called media that contains all the files (photos, videos), copy this folder to a safe place.

4. In this step what I did was delete the database folder, but actually I think this does not matter, after I had my files in a safe place I deleted the whatsapp data, I think also the com.whatsapp folder, uninstall the app and reinstall it (so that I got back the login and ask if I want to restore with drive).

5. Install the app again, say that if you want to restore with your Google drive account, you have to be aware, when you finish downloading the data and you see that reaches the number in which it stays (in my case 24%) immediately you have to go to applications, then whatsapp and force stop, in this step even not open whatsapp but the chats should be restored after doing this.

6. Go to where you saved the previous whatsapp media folder with your files and paste it into the new com.whatsapp directory, if you open whatsapp it should be working correctly with your chats and files.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lampe2020:
I have found a very easy solution to the backup-stuck problem: just wait.

When my backup got stuck at 58mb of 61mb I force-quit the app and emptied the cache, however the problem persisted. WhatsApp uploaded the first 58mb very quickly and then got stuck again.

I put my phone away because I didn't want to bother about it at the moment and two hours later my smartwatch alerted me that the backup was now at 99%. Another hour or so later my smartwatch alerted me again, saying that the WhatsApp backup is complete.

With restoring it, that's most likely also just a matter of waiting and if it fails, retrying.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simon_29:
Force stopping WhatsApp a few seconds after it reached 24%, fixed the problem for me aswell!

Thanks everyone!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gio999999:
my gdrive backup was stuck at 24%. i force stopped the app and everything worked. now i have a new problem it doesn't allow me to perform any backup on drive or local. you can help me? Thank you

ps:eek:n gdrive i have enough space and also in the device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boeder9:
The method of force closing around 24% worked fine for me until July 2023, right until WhatsApp became Android 5+ instead of 4.4+ (versions 2.23.7 and above).

Now nothing works, I've tried stock and a couple of mods.

The newest stock version restores data until 99% and then it fails.

I use a local backup as my mod version never had Gdrive backup.

I hope someone finds a workaround. I don't know whether this is a case of a corrupt db or a WhatsApp bug?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] le khanh 111:
sorry i'm not good at english I saw an update for the June 1 patch h870

Has anyone tried this? install star?
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] jurastefo:
Yes I install only new is for cam brightnes mode,qlens but no AI feature. Update was via LG Bridge for UK
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] romcio47:
Not recommended, this is an update for Polish carrier PLUS, so branded ROM. There were some problems with SIM card on these versions. Be patient and wait for generic European ROMs.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Fauzibest:
Hello,

my phone suddenly hang and then i restart my phone it become bootloop..

after that just restore to factory setting..OMG i was forgot my gmail password.. and most bad luck for me.. this gmail not linked to any phone number and backup mail... :crying:

just now stuck on verifying account

im trying to find some solution but nothing help me to solve it.

i just try to downgrade from 8.0 to 7 but failed

i just try using combination file android 7 but no luck at all

i just try to root but failed

i just try to install TWRP but failed

all of this failed because FRP LOCK : ON

can somebody help me to solve this problem????

[IMG="this is my recovery look like"]https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k0A03SGNTdWuMBHAK1lbGduQ0wKFJlpk[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] benjamen50:
Did you try flashing the latest 7.0 firmware you can find? Too old ones will not work as the phone will reject it.

Note that SM-G935F and FD firmware are pretty much the same, so if you are intending to flash always flash SM-G935F firmware and not FD for better firmware options.

Otherwise you can take it to someone that does the FRP bypass or get it remotely done for a fee, there are websites out there that offer their services remotely for it. Not going to advertise businesses here.

Try a YouTube video like this on how to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGIACjDdsp8
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Balkrish999:
Hello, have you managed to solve this?

I have also similar problem

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8.0.0/R16NW/G935FXXU2EREM
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Fauzibest:
just now im using box to remove it.... done with box
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Balkrish999:
Did you have version 8.0?

How do you do it with box? Can you please share tutorial you used and link's please

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] insanityxxx:
can you please explain.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] piracik:
You need Z3X Samsung activated box + uart cabel... then combo + ufs frp and it schould work...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] erraticless:
Hi, I solved the same problem with my SM-G935FD using Odin3 v3.13.1. As I had Oreo previously installed, I flashed the following Oreo files (downloaded from sammobile):

AP_G935FXXU2EREM_CL13438344_QB18291953_REV00_user_low_ship_meta.tar

BL_G935FXXU2EREM_CL13438344_QB18291953_REV00_user_low_ship.tar

CP_G935FXXU2ERD6_CP9567704_CL13438344_QB17934979_REV00_user_low_ship.tar

CSC_OJV_G935FOJV2ERE8_CL13439324_QB18100674_REV00_user_low_ship.tar

After flashing, phone was set to factory defaults, but fully functional again. Bye!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] masood8:
Hi,

After flashing, was the FRP lock removed automatically ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ecompton59:
or you can use the exe z3x box 29.1 it's on xda somewhere if you need help to find I will find it sprint s6 thread I used it with app worked like a charm hope that helps