yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royialal:
Hi,

I tried it without a success. Any other idea how to do it? I lost all the history :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheArKa:
The upload process is continuing while the airplane mode is off so the process failed immediately.

#Edit

Well, it works actually. Just wait until the "backup locally" finish, and then the google backup process bar will appear then turn on Airplane Mode.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adiboak:
Is it feasible to transfer the backup from an older phone to a newer one while using a different individual number than the one used to create the bottleneck?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kakashiOnKb:
this was very clever indeed, it worked , but now ysterdays chats are gone, is there a way to sync my yesterdays chat????
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abuobeida:
Worked for me.

Also a better methed to restore a less recent backup than what suggested by WhatsApp support 💪
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sana313:
Hi Vicky. Thank you for literally saving me from a broken heart. My whatsapp backup just disappeared off google drive before I could restore and WhatsApp support was useless. I thought I lost 9 years of chat history until i came across your post. It worked for me with a back up i have from June. But the backup from August didnt work. Anyone know why? Nevertheless i am happy to lose 5 months vs 9 years.

Also please note Step 3. Put ON your wifi/mobile data. Not OF/F.

Thank you once again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
i tryed it on Samsung galaxy S21 and android 13 but it always ask me for google backup..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rockel:
Oh... I only have the "stickers.db.crypt14" from the backup folder and the entire "stickers" folder of the media folder.

Anny chances of restoring it with these files?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alecxs:
you can extract stickers if you pull encryption key from /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rockel:
Hey @Alecxs

Overseen your message here.

I'm on Android 13 on my new phone now, and things seems to have changed quite a bit now.

Don't actually see an option to go to the /data/ folder anymore. Well, the folder is still there but it looks empty when opened. Even when "show hidden files" selected.

I actually managed to upload the backed up sticker backup file now as it seems.

I need to wait until whatsapp is starting to upload. Which is easy to do by dragging the notification screen down already after hitting "backup". As soon as a google drive notification appears it's easy to hit flight modus from here.

Seems it's actually uploading the bigger sticker backup file too, since it's taking much more time. The same goes for restoring after re-installation. Then the same sticker file seems to be downloaded into the backup folder.

So looks good so far. But unfortunatelly there're no stickers to be found in Whatsapp.

Edit:

I've tried it again to be sure the actual replaced stickers.db.crypt14 file was uploaded to Drive.

And it seems it does.

- the actual file is 50,76MB

- i had checked the backup folder after removing whatsapp, and the complete whatsapp folder was gone.

- after reinstalling it teturned. But without the backup folder in it.

- after hitting backup. Whatsapp showed that a complete backup of around the same size was coppied.

View attachment 5810601

- after checking the whatsapp folder again after restoring. The backup folder was there again. This time with the "stickers.db.crypt14" with the exact size of the backed up file.

So it seems that part worked until there. But I can't find the stickers back in whatsapp.

I'm talking about a lot of dtickers I had saved as favourites, but the favourite tab stays empty.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alecxs:
afaik backup to google drive is one-way, unless you wipe app data and setup WhatsApp from scratch. I am not firm with WhatsApp (never used)

I know it once was possible to get encryption key from unrooted device, but won't help you in that case.

https://xdaforums.com/t/tool-whatsa...ypt6-12-non-root-updated-october-2016.2770982
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kosooko:
Another workable method

1. Install Whatsup using older version. Don't open it.

2. Press home button on your mobile.

3. Use a file explorer app. Copy the .crypt14 file (your database file) and paste it to

/storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/Whatsapp/Database. Rename it as msgstore.db.crypt14. Overwrite

all files.

4. When complete, install latest whatsup apk to update the old version.

5. This time open it and follow through the registration and you will be given the option to restore from local backup

6. Press ok and restore.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
I had only local backup, gdrive backup was corrupted.

I did this:

Turn off the backup on Drive in WhatsApp and make a regular backup in the cell phone's memory.

Go to drive.google.com > sprocket in the upper right corner > Settings > Manage Apps > WhatsApp Messenger > click on options and Disconnect from drive

This will disconnect WhatsApp from Drive, because when reinstalling on the S21, WhatsApp asks you "well, you have a backup on Drive - do you want to use it?" and you can either take that backup or continue without a backup.

The backup of WhatsApp is located in the mobile phone's memory in the folder WhatsApp > Databases. You need the one called msgstore.db.crypt14 (no date).

It's a common place, but on Samsung, it's now in Android > media > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp > Databases, so look there if you can't find it in the folder above.

You install WhatsApp on the S21 and transfer msgstore.db.crypt14 to the WhatsApp > Databases folder on the internal memory (create it if it doesn't exist).

You start WhatsApp on the S21 and now it should tell you that it has found a backup on the mobile phone, so if you want to restore from it - select it and the messages will be restored.

But as you can guess from the fact that msgstore.db.crypt14 is about 100MB - it's just text messages.

For media, you need to copy the entire WhatsApp folder from Mate to S21. It contains subfolders Backups, which has some wallpaper and profile settings, and Media, which has subfolders WhatsAppImages and similar - so you can copy only the things you want.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m3adn:
Thanks alot, it helped!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
I sucesfully restore internl backup following this.

The backup of WhatsApp on Mate is located in the mobile phone's memory in the WhatsApp > Databases folder. You need the one called msgstore.db.crypt14 (no date).

It's a common place, but on Samsung, it's now in Android > media > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp > Databases, so look there if you can't find it in the folder above.

You install WhatsApp on the S21 and transfer msgstore.db.crypt14 to the WhatsApp > Databases folder on the internal memory (create it if it doesn't exist).

You start WhatsApp on the S21 and now it should tell you that it has found a backup on the mobile phone, so if you want to restore from it - select it and the messages will be restored.

But as you can guess from the fact that msgstore.db.crypt14 is about 100MB - it's just text messages.

For media, you need to copy the entire WhatsApp folder from Mate to S21. It contains subfolders Backups, which has some wallpaper and profile settings, and Media, which has subfolders WhatsAppImages and similar - so you can copy only the things you want.

So msgstore.db.crypt14 will return all conversations, but the media files will be blurred and you won't see them. If you want complete WhatsApp - copy the entire WhatsApp folder to the S21.

Since Android has not had classic access to files for the last few years, copying via USB to a computer and back to the S21 can take an awfully long time - especially when there are several nested folders.

For me, copying to the memory card and then switching from the memory card to the new cell phone turned out to be much faster. However, since the S21 does not have a memory card, you can try to connect USB if you have an OTG cable or create a zip and upload directly to Drive or somewhere like that if you have an ok upload speed.

That might be faster. Also, the built-in file manager (I don't know if Huawei has one) turned out to be faster than a custom one I used.

If you have no choice but to use a USB cable, try to copy folder by folder - so you don't copy a folder that has other folders in it.

I don't know why, but it turned out to be faster for me - or so I imagined.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salva Pérez:
Hi Tinko,

I also had GDrive corrupted backup and followed your steps with the local backup I saved on my phone, file size is 588 MB and after it loads it starts restoring messages and the progress bar won't go further 31%, stays there for hours, I'm afraid my local backups are corrupted too, don't have any idea of what else I can do, I'm trying to see if there is a third party software that can assist on the restoring process in order to make it to it's 100%.

Any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
Try to find older backup. Maybe from older phone. Every backup is better than none.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salva Pérez:
No man, I tried with the las 7 local backups that I had and I got the same issue 🤦🏽‍♂️

Do you know about any software that can assist me on the WhatsApp chat restoring?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLostOne:
Amazing, thank you!

I've lost all my messages because of some error. In the WhatsApp log it was saying that the database disk image is malformed.

All my previous attempts to restore my messages failed but your instructions work!

The only problem now is that backups fail now with the error message "unable to back up messages".

Any clue how I can fix it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dorikov:
when i restore it up after re install with gdrive it just gives me to restore from older back up and stucks in 100%

any fix?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_Chosen_One_Z1:
Hi am new here , I saw your thread and tried it step by step , at first I have an s8+ , so I did do your steps but when I reinstall and it loads the backup , at 100% it says unable to load your chat, history wha should I do ,I really need my chat history , I have been protecting them for 7 years and it is very important to me because it is confidential and I need it for goverment purposes . I regret not. acking it up solely but anyway any help ? I have everything the data the media the links the backups and even the database but maybe missing a file or 2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_Chosen_One_Z1:
When I do your step of backing up , it switches to crypt14 , while the original files were crypt15 so I had to rename and replace it but with no avail
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hopeful_diary_:
Is there anyway i could find find my msgrestore crypt14 file in my internal storage.

I accidentally uninstalled my WhatsApp twice and skipped restore backup.

After uninstalling first time i could see msgstore crypt14 file in my storage now i reinstalled once again, now the file is missing..

Is there anyway i could restore that file and restore my chats? Is it auto destroyed after 2nd uninstall? Can I find it anywhere in my storage?

Kindly help..i lost my 3 years of my chats because of my stupidness.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
@tinko975

This method worked, but just for one time and that too only for the whatsapp chats file, but not for the whatsapp media folders.

so after one time of restoring whatsapp chat file, it does not restore anymore from local storage and gives error.

also i put the whole whatsapp media folder in different folders in main android folder, but whatsapp didn't pick the backup folders.

error:

so can you please help.

Thanks

Ammar
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
Which phone do you have and where is Whatsapp folder?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
i have redmi note 8 pro(non rooted) and the whatsapp path is; internal storage\android\data\com.whatsapp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
It is in media folder, not data. Read my previous post again.

Android > media > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
yes, you are right, both chat file and media files folders should be in main media(the one you are pointing out), and it worked perfectly. ✅

By the way in storage\android\data folder it also picked only chat file, but not the next time, so i did some other experiments too and i noticed that in order for your method to work perfectly, it requires three steps BEFORE installing whatsapp on phone:

1- one must keep the g-drive disconnected from WA, till the resolution of the problem.

2- one must make sure that there should be no com.whatsapp folder in:

storage\android\data

3- one must put whatsapp chat and media backup folders in: storage\android\media\com.whatsapp\whatsapp.

🚨🚨🚨

SO i must finally say that this method is actually the easiest and reliable method (which only due to my experimentations didn't work) and it perfectly works and people must use this method, because it makes sense that first disconnect G-Drive from whatsapp and only then whatsapp will be forced to pick the backup.

Thanks,

Ammar
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zulismail:
Hi everyone.. I have been struggling for almost three days to back up my WhatsApp folder and restore it to my new phone.

Here is the answer:

In Android 10, the Whatsapp folder used to be in the root folder (emulated/0)..

BUT in Android 11 and later versions, it has moved to Android/media folder.

That's why it can never find the backup files (msgstore.db.crypt) no matter how much you tried!!

Here's the location for those who want to place your backup folder in Android 11 and later versions:

/storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anmac1789@gmail.com:
I have a Samsung galaxy s8 on android 9 (pie) and I can agree with @zulismail that the msgstore.db.crypt14 file is under \sdcard\WhatsApp\Databases folder
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
Hello everyone.

On 14 aug morning , when i woke up i opened my whatsapp and it was showing " restore ur msgs now otherwise it will never be restored again " so i click restor and waited. But after restoring there was nothing on my whatsapp just the group names and no chat history etc....so i checked my backup it was showing ladt backup on 2021 on Googledrive. ( my mistake at that time i dint do Google backup).

I connected my phone to laptop found the local backup files in android media folder and copied backup and databases folder ( again i did a mistake dint copy media folder ).

After that i uninstalled my whatsapp and tried to restore with local backup file.(never had a issue with it from restoring local files when i used to change phone)

At first it was not picking my local file and as there was no backup in google as well so my whatsapp was all empty just groups names thats it. I tried 3 to 4 times after logging out from google etc.

It started picking local files but at 99percent it stucks and says " sorry couldnt restore any of your messages".

I also managed to free some gbs form my phone to create space also updated my phone software whatever i could searched i have applied. But nothing helped.

Now i have this 600 mb file crypt.14 with no chat history on my whatspp. I have lost 9 years old data . I recently completed my postgraduate in medicine and i lost many important files and chats :(

Have anyone experienced this?

Anyother way that i can recover ?

Is my backup corrupted? I tried with 2 3 files.

Can anyone please help????
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
1- Which phone do you have that has this whatsapp problem?

2- Have you saved the "data" and "media" folders of whatsapp?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
1.oppo reno 5

2. Out of 3 folders of whatsapp i saved backup and data folder . Dint save media folder. But while restoring i made a media folder .com whatsapp folders.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
Sorry, i forgot the path so i asked about the wrong folders, i'll ask again:

In whatsapp folder have you saved the "databases" folder, because that is where the backup is stored?

And the encircled file is the backup file.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
Yes. ! I saved the databases folder that had these files msgstore.db.crypt.14 and backups folder as shown in your pics 1. But dint save media folder. So lost all images and vdos too :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
ok, then i think you have lost the media files BUT at least the chat backup file is saved, which is usually much important to people, so you can restore it.

For media files, you have to find some good RECOVERY SOFTWARE and run a scan on your phone, and IF the phone is allowed to be scanned, then you may find your lost media file.

coming to restoration of chat which gets stuck, one thing is clear you have the chat file, so if you want to try a restore with only chat backup, then you can try some tips, which i'll give you after you respond.

And if you want to restore the media backup file along with chat backup file, then, you'll have to find and run some recovery software first.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
Yes you are right .I am just considering to restore my chat backup atm.but i am unable to do so..

Do u have any idea what am i doing wrong or why is it happening ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
ok, do you have a stable wifi connection?

and do you have right now whatsapp installed and running or is it uninstalled?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
Yes stable. And running now. It was uninstalled from 14 to 23 aug though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
and is messaging or usual functions happening fine there?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
Yes it is
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
ok,

1- check if in whatsapp settings "backup using cellular" option is in which status, turn it off.

path: whatsapp setting/chats/chat backup

2- disconnect whatsapp from g-drive.

Process:

a- on browser go to drive.google.com, login with the email account which is used in whatsapp backup.

b- if you have opened the site on phone browser, then in browser's configuration menu i.e. three vertical dots, open it and check the box in front of option "desktop site".

c- on top right side open the settings menu, select "settings", then select "manage apps", then in the list find item "whatsapp messenger", then tap "options" in front of it and select option "disconnect from drive".

3- uninstall Whatsapp

4- then perform steps 2 and 3 in the following picture.

NOTE: in step 3, "whatsapp chat" means put your saved "databases" folder in this path.

5- install whatsapp and restore.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R.Hina:
Hey... My backup cellular was off and it was also not connected to gdrive when i tried to restore. Problem is it takes app 5 min when it reaches 99 percent and then nothing recovers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
ok,

1- in whatsapp settings set the option "backup to google drive" to "never".

2- FACTORY RESET your phone.

Make sure you save all your important data and settings.

3- when reset is done, make sure g-drive is still disconnected, by watching its status on drive.google.com.

4- then perform steps 2 and 3 in the following picture.

NOTE: in step 3, "whatsapp chat" means put your saved "databases" folder in this path.

5- install whatsapp and restore.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmmarG240:
by the way send me the picture of your "databases" folder, so that i can see what files are there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pragyakaushik:
I'm not able to recover my WhatsApp chats. It says no backup found in Google drive. Please help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HuaweiFit2:
I need to factory reset and fully restore a phone, for a performance boost and a proper deep junk cleanup.

I am running 2 WhatsApps on the same old RealMe 3 ColorOS 6 Android 9 device. Not rooted. I would prefer to merge the WhatsApp accounts into 1 unified account with 1 unified Google Cloud backup, under 1 phone number, but that seems to be out of the question.

I am not able to Google Drive backup the cloned whatsapp - the option simply isn't there to do a cloud backup, but offline local backups seem to get done successfully on command.

The problems are:

1/ Where are the cloned files? That way I can try to force-merge chats and combine an offline-restore with a cloud-restore in the correct order to effectively "merge" two accounts into one.

IF I could merge the cloned whatsapp account into the original one, merge all chats and contacts, I would, but the option isn't there.

Is there an online paid-for FIVERR style service for these kinds of operations via zoom+screen share+adb tools+scrcpy?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maz izaackovich:
lil bit tricky ya? but it seems worth to try
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinko975:
yes i saved my chats thanks god.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jiby333:
But here is a Problem - I saved my backup into a local folder. But when I try to restore, WhatsApp asking a password or 64-digit E2E encryption key. So anyone trying to take a backup should save that 64-digit key too. Otherwise, you will lose your backup. (High chance)

now I'm trapped
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahraz3:
How to find the /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Database

for copying?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahraz3:
{Mod edit: Quoted post has been deleted. Oswald Boelcke, Senior Moderator}

Does this work??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahraz3:
Worked Like A Charm for me.

My Gdrive backup got deleted.Thankfully i had a local backup.

(Pay Attention to the name of FOLDERS)

1)In my new phone I copied the contents of com.WhatsApp as it is using SD card(com.whatsapp has a Folder named WhatsApp,First I copied the entire WhatsApp Folder in sd card in my old phone and then later copied from sd card to my new Phone,do check the contents are in the same order)

Path to be created is

Android<media<com.whatsapp<(copy WhatsApp Folder Here)

Create folders with above name and then copy all of the folders of com.whatsapp of previous phone into the new phone.

Inside com.whatsapp you have A folder named WhatsApp.

Inside WhatsApp you have 3 Folders

Backups,Databases,Media

If you want to retrieve everything as it is you MUST copy the entire contents of the old phone's WhatsApp folder

In the Databases Folder you will see a File named as msgstore.db.crypt14 and many other files with dates..the msgstore.db.crypt14 file is the most important.Even if you have only this file in the Databases folder you can retrieve the whole chats.If you have enabled end to end encryption for backups then the file name would be msgstore.db.crypt15

2)You must unlink WhatsApp from google drive.Go to drive.google.com

(If you are on mobile go for desktop version of site)

There you will see the account you have

Settings cog in top right corner>settings>manage apps

Scroll and you will find whatsapp .

Unlink it

3)In the new phone you must not have any Google account linked.Install WhatsApp before unlinking all google accounts.

After installing go to apps in your phone where you can give all permissions to WhatsApp.After installing whatsapp unlink all google accounts

4)Now open WhatsApp ,register and hopefully you will see the restore option

If it was a crypt15 file you will need to enter password which you set for encryption.Other wise no password is needed