Unable to Restore Whatsapp data from Google Drive?

I recently encountered an issue when attempting to restore WhatsApp on my brand-new Motorola Edge 40 phone. My old Realme phone had two instances of WhatsApp, one of which was a duplicate. This is the problem. Consequently, there was no backup of the chat in Google Drive, even though I usually backed it up there. I attempted to solve the issue by following articles and instructions found online, but none of them worked. Thankfully, I found a practical solution, which I will outline for you all in this post. It describes how to retrieve a WhatsApp conversation without using a backup from Google Drive.

The two options that were available worked out well. Depending on how much time you have, you can select your favourite. First off, WhatsApp already provides important links to resolve all of these backup issues; however, it doesn’t deal with the issue of individuals using WhatsApp clones.

Finding Alternative Way

WhatsApp creates and saves your chat history automatically to the internal storage on your phone. It is possible to quickly restore these backups by reinstalling WhatsApp. Use these steps to restore WhatsApp from a local backup:

1. Open WhatsApp and navigate to Settings > Chats > Chat backup.
2. Click “BACK UP” to create a local backup of your WhatsApp data.
3. Once the backup process is complete, take WhatsApp off of your Android device.
4. After reinstalling WhatsApp from the app store, launch it.
5. After logging in, verify your phone number on WhatsApp.Note: Following verification, WhatsApp ought to identify the presence of a local backup on your smartphone.
6. When prompted, select “Restore” to access your WhatsApp conversation from the local backup.
7. You will be able to see how many messages were successfully restored once the restore process is complete.
8. Click “Next” to proceed with the restoration of your most recent WhatsApp backup.

In the event that you did not create a manual backup prior to erasing WhatsApp, you can still retrieve your messages by utilising the internal storage backup. WhatsApp synchronises daily backups of your chat history to your phone’s internal storage. Execute these steps:

1. Launch the File Manager app on your Android phone.
2. Choose Databases from Internal Storage/Phone Storage under WhatsApp.
3. To find the most recent backup file, look for one with a date in it.
4. Change the name of this document to “msgstore_Backup.db.crypt12”.
5. After completing the setup, download WhatsApp once more from the app store.
6. Select “Restore” when prompted to retrieve your WhatsApp messages from the internal storage backup.

How to find the backup

This is the most prevalent issue that users of clone apps encounter. The steps listed above won’t get your backup for you. After trying a few different file explorers, I was able to get CX file explorer to work. Two storage systems must be located. The first is the primary storage, where your regular WhatsApp backup is kept, and the second is an emulated filesystem, such as /999. In other file explorers, you can find it once you enable show hidden files; however, CX file explorer does not require it. You can now share the entire database folder however you’d like. The procedure is depicted in the following images:

Next, you restore by following the previously mentioned steps. This could be challenging for some people.

Restore with Transfer:

After I recently complained about this problem, Meta introduced a new transfer chat feature. Even though it might not be, I still feel fortunate. I did move from my realme to edge 40 using this technique. This is located in WhatsApp’s chat section of the settings. It ought to appear as follows:

Following your on-screen instructions, the transfer will now start as indicated below. No files or backups are required! Wonderful, isn’t it? Now, it might take 30 minutes if you have any more conversations. I guess the wait was worthwhile.

That’s all for this post. If you need help regarding restoring WhatsApp data, feel free to send us a email.