Sunday, December 13, 2020

How to restore WhatsApp backup from Old Android Phone to New Android Android using Local Backup

In this article we are going to explain how to transfer Whatsapp messages from old Android phone to new Android Phone. In Whatsapp, by default Whatsapp automatically creates a backup daily at 2am. The folder is located in your device's internal memory Whatsapp/Databases. This local backup used to transfer WhatsApp messages between Android devices. Pleae follow the below steps..

NOTE: Both old and new phone should have latest whatsapp versions. If both are in latest version we will get the latest backup file i.e same cryp version of the backup file.

Old Phone :

Go to Whatsapp/Databases folder in old phone.

In Databases copy the latest msgstore.db.cryp12 and Send to your new phone through SD Card or Using Computer. Dont do any rename to the backup file.



If you have installed the WhatsApp on an external SD card, simply take the SD card out of your old phone, and put it into your new one

New Phone:

Install the latest whatsapp version.

It will create a folder called Whatsapp. Now copy the msgstore.db.cryp12 to the folder Whatsapp/Databases. If databases folder is not exist create a folder in Whatsapp foler with name Databases.

Now open the whatsapp and provide the number and OTP. After OTP is succesfull it will check for the back up and you would be notified that a message backup was foun and asks you to restore or skip the backup.



Now you click on the Restore option. Whatsapp will restore all you old phone data into your new phone.
You can also view the same in the below Youtube Link
https://youtu.be/DQGooYVwiO8

2 comments:

Unknown said...

If lost phone then what can we do

Shaik Nazeer Basha said...

The above article is to transfer backup from old to new phone using local backup. If you have backup to google account use that account to restore your backup as in your case phone is lost.