Yesterday, I was explaining to a friend how to restore whatsapp backup of his chats and history chats. And when I reached out on the blog, I realized, I only wrote how to backup whatsapp chat history. I knew I have to show how to restore this backup on a new phone or any other phone.
First of all. You must be familiar with "file manager" app on your phone. Be familiar with a "WhatsApp apk" alright here we go. At this point I'd assume you have your backup files in your memory card (.db.crypt12). This is a backup from your old WhatsApp.
1. Open the file manager [internal storage], and create a folder named "whatsapp". Inside this folder create "databases " folder.
2. Copy ".db.crypt12" files from the memory card or from any stored location but paste them inside your "databases" folder on the phone memory you created earlier. (whatsapp>databases)
3. Now install "whatsapp.apk" and follow onscreen commands. (take note your number has to be the same from your old phone otherwise the backup is encrypted and will open to your number only)
4. Once installed and activated, the phone will prompt or automatically look for backups to restore from the folder you created earlier in the file manager.
5. Once whatsapp has found the database files it will restore your messages back to how they were on your old phone.
6. Don't be alarmed if you see chats without saved numbers. This changes when you have restored your old contacts in the phone book.
There you have it, you have restored your backup from a memory card or your local storage. By the way this has been an offline restore.
Feel to ask where you don't understand. And you are welcome to give in feedback (email or facebook)
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