Wednesday, 18 June 2014
How to easily recover deleted messages in WhatsApp
Before WhatsApp was developed we could not think of an app that would be free to send text, photos, videos, and audio.
When there is some kind of uniqueness in a particular thing, it doesn't take time to become viral. Same is with WhatsApp, it did not take much time to be in almost every Android and Symbian phone in the world.
This is the reason for which Mark Zuckerberg bought it for a jaw-dropping $19 billion, and he still thinks that WhatsApp is worth more than that.
Today WhatsApp is the most popular messaging service which uses data plan to transmit users' messages.
So it was a brief introduction to WhatsApp, Now let's come to the point and get started.
Recovering deleted WhatsApp messages is not that difficult as it may sound. If you have deleted your chat history by mistake, then don't panic because WhatsApp automatically makes a backup of your chat history and saves them to your phone memory. The backup will not be removed before 7 days, after that it may be overwritten or deleted.
There are two ways to recover your deleted WhatsApp chat history: -
There are two ways to recover your deleted WhatsApp chat history: -
Method 1. Reinstallation method
Uninstalling and then reinstalling WhatsApp restores the chat history in most cases.
So it is the simplest thing you can do. Just follow these steps :-
Step 1. Uninstall WhatsApp
Step 2. Reinstall from the .apk file you've got.
Step 3. When you'll start it, it'll ask you to whether restore from backup file or not. Simply click on Restore to get your messages back.
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© WhatsApp
It should restore your messages, but if it didn't, don't worry we've got another way to get our valuable messages back. Just follow the steps to the next trick.
Method 2. Restoring from Backup file
If the previous trick did not prove to be useful for you, then continue reading this one.
It did solve the problem for me.
Requirements : A file explorer. Use any well-known file explorer from Playstore, such as, ES File explorer, or Root Explorer.
(In this tutorial I have used ES File Explorer.)
Now follow the steps carefully: -
Step 1.
Open ES File Explorer and navigate to sd card > WhatsApp > Databases.
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Step 2.
There you'll find files of your past seven days backup. They will be named as msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt
Step 3.
Now find the one with the date you want to recover messages from. If you don't remember the date, go for the latest one because it will have most of the messages.
Rename that file as msgstore.db.crypt
Mark these words, they should be exact, crypt should not remain crypt5 or crypt7, it should only be crypt.
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Step 4.
Now follow Method 1 from starting, i.e. Uninstall and Reinstall WhatsApp.
When it asks for restoration, click on Restore to get your messages back.
That is all. We have successfully recovered all of the deleted messages.
Now go and recover your messages fast before their backup gets replaced with the newer one.
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I followed the first method. It asks for restoration. But I don't get the second window . It directly goes to next step and only groups are visible . Plz help :(
ReplyDeletethanks for your comment...now regarding your problem, first method does not work in some cases so i request you to uninstall whatsapp once again and follow the second method, it works great and will surely solve your problem......
ReplyDeleteIf you have the backup in iPhone or iTunes, there are two ways for you to recover deleted whatsapp messages from iPhone
ReplyDeleteone is recover them from iPhone by scanning the data directly
one is recover them from iTunes by clicking iTunes > Preferences > Devices