Whatsapp restore backup

I know, unrelated. But can anyone say why am I getting a chinese frontend of WhatsApp website upon tapping on link above? Using Vanadium, connected through EU server of Proton VPN.

[deleted] unrelated, I know, but many times, Meta apps wrongly label specific groups of IPs as chinese, russian or iranian, as people use VPN to connect to internet, but leave their GPS data on. So they start labeling those IPs as from their "real" location instead of their "VPN location". So to speak. Hope that makes sense to you, I've seen this happened hundreds of times for VPN users.

grapheneosuser I've performed a local backup recovery absolutely fine the first and only time I needed it, so it's probably not Graphene but something else of your configuration. Do you have Google Services enabled?

The way I do it is to copy the entire com.whatsapp folder out of /android/media onto my PC, then drop the folder back in to the same location on the new phone

grapheneosuser copy the entire com.whatsapp file, a few levels up from the ones you've copied, and see what happens. It's worked for me when I was having issues before copying and pasting individual folders

grapheneosuser can you please put exactly the path you copied, the original and the destination paths?

grapheneosuser
Sounds like you want to restore your Google Drive cloud backup of WhatsApp.
In this case you need to uninstall WhatsApp, install Sandboxed Google Play and login to your Google account.
Only after that you shall download WhatsApp from Play Store and try to restore your cloud backup.

I am very confused with the things you say here.
You seem to be trying to restore (both?) local and cloud backups.
That's not how WhatsApp works, you can only do one.

I have a pixel 7 and had the same issue.
The local backup must be placed in /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/ in older Android versions was directly on /WhatsApp/
I cleared all app data, put all the old files in this folder and then after doing the setup i got the recover prompt

lucaf exactly this! That's how it worked for me.

lucaf Hello ! Sorry to dig this post haha
I am currently having these issues. I have tried many things, but nothing works for now. Can you confirm the following path is what you have done, and if not, could you correct me please ? It would really help me ! I can't really try it since I've requested to move my account litterally too many times and I now have like 15 minutes between each new code, and I'm afraid not to be able to do it again haha
0-download the APK from whatsapp.com/android without installing it
1-copy the entire com.whatsapp folder from the old phone into my pc
2-create /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/ on the pixel 7 without whatsapp installed
3-copy the com.whatsapp folder into it, leading to the following path : /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/com.whatsapp (that is where I don't really know, should I copy the whole com.whatsap folder or the 3 subfolder into Whatsapp, leading to /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media , /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases, etc ? )
4-install whatsapp by cliking on the APK
5-following the instructions and asking for a new code

Thank you for your help, it is really driving me crazy :,)

Juvbm
You need to replicate the folder structure as it was on the old device, so no leading, copy the 3 folders directly into the WhatsApp folder in Android/media/com.whatsapp. I've also found it necessary to disable backup encryption temporarily (disable Drive backup before doing that) and, oddly, to wait for the backup size calculation to complete when it offers to restore the local backup. It only offers to restore after confirming your number.

vcmj Thank you for your help ! Should I install the apk before ou after replicating the folder structure ? Or I transfer the property of my account into the pixel, and then I delete and replace the folders with my old ones ?

Juvbm
Install time is not so relevant, the folders just need to be in place before you log into your account as it looks for local backups during that setup wizard

vcmj It worked !! Thank you so much !

lucaf Thank you very much ! On my older phone, Whatsapp stored files in /Android/data/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/ and so I put the data in the exact same folder in my new phone, without sucess : no restore prompt. As you wrote, the data has to be in /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/ in order to Whatsapp to be able to find the backup :-)