Hi all I want to run a rom upgrade but I need to backup the text messages I have on my phone. And then hopefully restore them,
DOes anyone have any ideas...
Tried searching but no joy surely this is a simple process but I cant find it
Cheers in advance
magpie2000k said:
Hi all I want to run a rom upgrade but I need to backup the text messages I have on my phone. And then hopefully restore them,
DOes anyone have any ideas...
Tried searching but no joy surely this is a simple process but I cant find it
Cheers in advance
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You can use the program PIM BACKUP. Follow this link and you can download it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705&highlight=pim+backup
regards PAtrick
Hello XDA Community,
i recently flashed a new rom to my mobile and wanted to restore my apps as
usual containing whatsapp as well. Everthing went well except whatsapp. I
tried to restore whatsapp with Titanium Backup, MayBackUp Pro and the
build-in restore function of whatsapp of course too. I tried every possible
copy and paste solution i could find on the internet but nothing helped.
The result was always the same the only thing which was restored were the
group chat names nothing else all my chats are gone.
I tried all suggestions from this Post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268031 but nothing helped.
I switched from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151765 to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031467.
Please help me to find a solution. Thank You
Do you have the following folder on your sd card?
sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases
The chat backups should be stored in there. I've successfully uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and restored all the chats successfully before.
Yes i have the folder there otherwise i weren't able to use the restore function of whatsapp.
I reinstalled it dozen times but always the same result. Groupchat names visible but empty and all single chats are gone.
Thank u for ur reply
Check the files within that folder, open them up within a text editor or something, just to check they're not corrupted.
Instead of restoring app+data from Titanium Backup, clear app data then uninstall WhatsApp. Then try installing the app fresh from the Play Store first.
Open it and set it up fresh, hopefully will ask to restore the conversations by itself. Afterwards, restore data only with Titanium.
I tried what u suggested but it didnt work. I installed WA fresh from the Market set it up and after that i restored the data with titanium backup. When i start WA after this procedure WA told me the Database is corrupted and asked me if i want restore from sd-card but it doesnt matter if i press yes or no the result ist still the same. WA Groupchats restored but empty and single chats missing.
Thank u for ur reply
Hmm if it's telling you it may be corrupted, then unfortunately the database may be corrupted.
In the Databases folder, can you rename the msgstore.db.crypt file to something else, then rename another slightly older database msgstore.db.crypt-2013-08-XX to msgstore.db.crypt. Then uninstall and reinstall from Play Store again?
I'm hoping it's just the latest file which is corrupted, and the others backups are ok. You may not get all the messages back, you might lose a day's worth of messages if this works. Sorry if you've already tried this too, running out of ideas
Yes i tried this too. So i wanted to prove if the Backups are really corrupted. I installed another ROM (euroskank) and installed whatsapp through the playstore and restored all messages during the validating process. Viola 27.000 messages restored. So now i have absolutly no idea what i can do to solve it and restore it on the ROM i want.
Anyway Thanks for ur help
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Hah you wouldn't believe me, that was going to be my next suggestion, restore an old nandroid or new ROM to see if it works. I didn't think it would work because it still has to refer to the files on the SD card, independent of ROM. Glad it's definitely not corrupted though
So once it's installed and working on euroskank, make another manual backup.
Then try Mildwild again, install WhatsApp from scratch, it really should work, finger's crossed!
So finally i could test it. AND it didn't work. Still the same problem. Thats insane. I tried even a previous version of the rom to test if it's caused by the latest one but no got the same result.
Thank u for ur help i appreciate it.
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So finally i could test it. AND it didn't work. Still the same problem. Thats insane. I tried even a previous version of the rom to test if it's caused by the latest one but no got the same result.
Thank u for ur help i appreciate it.
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That is insane, that it works with one rom and not the other. Try asking in the ROM thread to see if anyone else has WhatsApp issues?
I'm out of ideas, sorry, hope you get it sorted somehow!
I already did and unfortunately i got no reply till now and nobody got the same problem before. So i am the Columbus here in a bad way. I messaged the developer on xda and Facebook today, i hope he will reply.
Nevermind i thank u alot for trying to help me. You were the only one who at least tried it.
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The solution that worked for me...
Hi I was having the same problem as you and also couldn't find anyone who had the same issue. Anyway I was moving from a gingerbread phone to a jellybean phone. So I used a backup app called Super Backup. I tried numerous things that didn't work. This is what I did that did work.
Also backup up your backup before you start.
1. On new phone uninstall whatsapp, then delete the whatsapp folder on the internal storage.
2. Restore whatsapp from backup app.
3. Before you run whatsapp delete the whatsapp folder on the internal storage again.
4. Copy the whatsapp folder from the sd card to the internal storage.
5. Run whatsapp.
Let me know of this works for you. It did for me.
Thanks.
MNubbi said:
I already did and unfortunately i got no reply till now and nobody got the same problem before. So i am the Columbus here in a bad way. I messaged the developer on xda and Facebook today, i hope he will reply.
Nevermind i thank u alot for trying to help me. You were the only one who at least tried it.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
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Hi, i have the same problem when doing the same trasition from gingerbread and runnymedemod007 transition to the MildWil 14 AOPK version,
Whatsapp finds my backup and askes for restoring, but after resoring there are no messages.
when i install the old Sense rom again i can do a restor and all messages are there...
Did you ever find out how to mak it work?
thx.
Unfortunately i didn't solve it. I settled without restoring the messages. You can try what Nicadini suggested.
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MNubbi said:
Unfortunately i didn't solve it. I settled without restoring the messages. You can try what Nicadini suggested.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
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Tried everything in the thread here and even restoring complete backups of the previous ROM (what works when trying to use whatsapp on a WIFI only tablet) but that doesn't even work.
I think it has something to do with the encryption in the ROM i guess or the way it stores the Phone number, as Whatsapp only wants to restore a message database for the same Phone number...
waterfleske said:
Tried everything in the thread here and even restoring complete backups of the previous ROM (what works when trying to use whatsapp on a WIFI only tablet) but that doesn't even work.
I think it has something to do with the encryption in the ROM i guess or the way it stores the Phone number, as Whatsapp only wants to restore a message database for the same Phone number...
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That can't be the case. If I remember right my phone number was the same as the stored number in wa that day. But if its a crypting problem of the rom u better contact the autor of it. Sry that i cant do more to help you. It got out of my hands.
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That can't be the case. If I remember right my phone number was the same as the stored number in wa that day. But if its a crypting problem of the rom u better contact the autor of it. Sry that i cant do more to help you. It got out of my hands.
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I think it has to be something like that, because just as you i have made the same transition from gingerbread to MILDWILD 14 Rom, and the problem only seems to be with the WILDWILD Rom.
any other rom that i have tested, the internal restor of whatsapp works like a charm.
So the only thing that can cause the problem is the framework/UI from the Mildwild roms.
I've written to the Dev.from WILDWILD to ask assistence, but so far no reaction.
Tonight i'm going to test a few other MILDWILD Roms to see if the problem is with all the MW roms or only with the 14
waterfleske said:
I think it has to be something like that, because just as you i have made the same transition from gingerbread to MILDWILD 14 Rom, and the problem only seems to be with the WILDWILD Rom.
any other rom that i have tested, the internal restor of whatsapp works like a charm.
So the only thing that can cause the problem is the framework/UI from the Mildwild roms.
I've written to the Dev.from WILDWILD to ask assistence, but so far no reaction.
Tonight i'm going to test a few other MILDWILD Roms to see if the problem is with all the MW roms or only with the 14
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UPDATE:
I tried all the other WildWild MOD Roms yesterday and the problem only seems to be with the MW-14 Rom.
With all other Roms the WhatsApp restor works perfectly.
So for now i'm going to stay with the MW CM-8 version and try to Mod that myself a bit.
Seems to be very stable and fast, Also more options in the Camera Settings and i like the ICS look.
Only downside are the quicksettings (i like them more from MW14 or Sense)
MNubbi said:
Hello XDA Community,
i recently flashed a new rom to my mobile and wanted to restore my apps as
usual containing whatsapp as well. Everthing went well except whatsapp. I
tried to restore whatsapp with Titanium Backup, MayBackUp Pro and the
build-in restore function of whatsapp of course too. I tried every possible
copy and paste solution i could find on the internet but nothing helped.
The result was always the same the only thing which was restored were the
group chat names nothing else all my chats are gone.
I tried all suggestions from this Post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268031 but nothing helped.
I switched from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151765 to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031467.
Please help me to find a solution. Thank You
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Hi,
Sorry i have to dig this thread out, as i need help. Im also facing the same problem, trying to restore my backup file from old samsung S3 phone onto my new samsung note3 phone. I believe maybe somehow, by now, you have figured it out. I need help here. All my single chat history cannot be restored.
The backup file in the database doesnt seem corrupted. I went through a conventional whatsapp restore by pasting the file in the whatsapp database folder and launch the whatsapp after installation and restore. But still, no single chat history. Only group chats.
danil82 said:
Hi,
Sorry i have to dig this thread out, as i need help. Im also facing the same problem, trying to restore my backup file from old samsung S3 phone onto my new samsung note3 phone. I believe maybe somehow, by now, you have figured it out. I need help here. All my single chat history cannot be restored.
The backup file in the database doesnt seem corrupted. I went through a conventional whatsapp restore by pasting the file in the whatsapp database folder and launch the whatsapp after installation and restore. But still, no single chat history. Only group chats.
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same problem here.
recently bought a HTC ONE which is running android 4.4.2 while my last phone is galaxy glide in android 2.3.6
did everything i can but only restore the group name only.
please help
I accidentally deleted everything on my S9 (SM-G960F) including the OS. Phone doesnt start however I can boot it into TWRP and download, when I try flashing the stock rom with Odin it gets to System then just doesnt work. It doesnt fail nor does it crash or freeze the bar just doesnt go up and ive been trying to fix all day so please can someone help me, its a new phone too. Atm im trying to download the firmware from XDA and see if that one works, is it possible it could just be that the stock rom im trying now is just missing something or could my laptop be the problem? Im open to suggestions and please help I beg.
Make sure to use ODIN 3.13.1 and you might have to check "Repartition" in ODIN options - it can take a while to flash, how long were you waiting for the bar to move?
defaltCM said:
I accidentally deleted everything on my S9 (SM-G960F) including the OS. Phone doesnt start however I can boot it into TWRP and download, when I try flashing the stock rom with Odin it gets to System then just doesnt work. It doesnt fail nor does it crash or freeze the bar just doesnt go up and ive been trying to fix all day so please can someone help me, its a new phone too. Atm im trying to download the firmware from XDA and see if that one works, is it possible it could just be that the stock rom im trying now is just missing something or could my laptop be the problem? Im open to suggestions and please help I beg.
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When your TWRP is working, put a custom rom zip into your storage or sd card while beeing in TWRP and flash this. Thats it.
You can dowwnload all the nessesery files like rom, firmware and vendor here:
http://www.soldier9312.de/#
Hi, I accidentally deleted videos and pictures on my S9. If I root my phone will I be able to recover them?
coolit23 said:
Hi, I accidentally deleted videos and pictures on my S9. If I root my phone will I be able to recover them?
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try to see if google photos automatically backup your photos,
even if you root your phone you may not be able to recover all your photos or even none of them
dimitrispas22 said:
try to see if google photos automatically backup your photos,
even if you root your phone you may not be able to recover all your photos or even none of them
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Thanks for the reply!
I checked and my Google Photos is not configured to backup. My videos were deleted by the DJI app when I cleared Cache. So should I try rooting or give up? Will I only access the files if I was rooted before the accidental deletion?
coolit23 said:
Thanks for the reply!
I checked and my Google Photos is not configured to backup. My videos were deleted by the DJI app when I cleared Cache. So should I try rooting or give up? Will I only access the files if I was rooted before the accidental deletion?
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since you already installed twrp and your Knox is tripped give it a try why not you can try with a few apps where you can find online ... Good luck!
dimitrispas22 said:
since you already installed twrp and your Knox is tripped give it a try why not you can try with a few apps where you can find online ... Good luck!
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I have not installed TWRP before I deleted the files. Does this mean I have no chance of getting the files?
Also, I can't find the unlock OEM option in my phone despite keeping it on for 7 days or tricking the date.
Please tell me is there any way even small hope to get back all pictures I have lost ?? Was very important to me.
arielekagatka said:
Please tell me is there any way even small hope to get back all pictures I have lost ?? Was very important to me.
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A flash memory doesn't work like a hard drive memory. When data is deleted it's gone. On a hdd, when data is deleted the data is just marked as ready to overwrite and is still physically there. As far as we all know, your phone uses flash memory, so all your data is gone, unless you had a back-up to google photos. If not, I'm sorry.
arielekagatka said:
Please tell me is there any way even small hope to get back all pictures I have lost ?? Was very important to me.
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It is very natural to everyone.Please check out your backups such as Google drive,photos,notes , your PC etc.And restore all data as much as you can.You can also log in into your Google account while first boot so that if there is anything was saved to your Google account automatically it will be restored.
Hi! First time posting and I really hope anyone can help me.
So, stupid me had a problem with memo app on my xiaomi (I couldnt place memo notes on my homepage anymore) so I thought maybe if I delete all the app updates from settings it would restore the problem back and I could place those memo again on my home page... Well it didnt solve my problem, plus now all of my memo are gone
I am trying to recover them, unfortunately I have no backup and they're not on any bin or anything... Is there some way to recover them with an app / pc?
I really need to have the content of those memo back
Guliajp said:
Hi! First time posting and I really hope anyone can help me.
So, stupid me had a problem with memo app on my xiaomi (I couldnt place memo notes on my homepage anymore) so I thought maybe if I delete all the app updates from settings it would restore the problem back and I could place those memo again on my home page... Well it didnt solve my problem, plus now all of my memo are gone
I am trying to recover them, unfortunately I have no backup and they're not on any bin or anything... Is there some way to recover them with an app / pc?
I really need to have the content of those memo back
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i'm not fumiliar with miui memo, but most memo apps store the notes on internal storage
check the internal storage folders and see if you find something