Whatsapp restore backup

alex_herrero

[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.

alex_herrero

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?

grapheneosuser

alex_herrero
Yes I do

grapheneosuser

Hulk
As I said I tried restoring but I can't because I can't select my Google account when requested

Hulk

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.

MBoJaLhV

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

MBoJaLhV
I did it...
I copied Backup and Databases but nothing got loaded...
Maybe I have to copy Media as well? Let me know

MBoJaLhV

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

alex_herrero

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

grapheneosuser

Will try and let you know if it works or no

lucaf

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

alex_herrero

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

Juvbm

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 :,)

hellcat1944

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 :-)

vcmj

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.

Juvbm

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 ?

spiral

vcmj

Curious if anyone has tried backing up and restoring their WA accounts recently. I tried the method listed, copying the backups to my new device at /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp but this is not working.

Has anyone successfully done this since A14?

vcmj

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

Juvbm

vcmj It worked !! Thank you so much !

Abdullah89

That's not related, I know. Could you please explain to me why the OGWhatsApp website appears in Chinese when I tap the link above? The connection was made using Vanadium and a Proton VPN EU server.

treequell

Abdullah89 What is that website?

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treequell Its a website of some unofficial Whatsapp mod