How to Restore Deleted WhatsApp Chat History and Attachments from Android

WhatsApp is a well-known messaging app available for various kinds of smartphones powered by Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows. It provides us a convenient communication method that we can exchange multimedia content such as text messages, voice messages, photos, videos etc with families, friends and workmates flexibly. As smartphone gets a smart responsive touch screen, the WhatsApp messages and attachments are apt to be deleted by mistake. If you’re seeking an solution of restoring WhatsApp chat history on Android, please check the methods mentioned below:

• Part 1. Retrieve Deleted WhatsApp Messages from Android Without Backup 

• Part 2. Restore Lost WhatsApp Chat History on Android from Backup Copy

  Part 1. How to Retrieve Deleted WhatsApp Messages from Android Without Backup

  If your important WhatsApp conversations have just been deleted intentionally or accidentally but there’s no backup for it, you can quickly undelete these WhatsApp messages and attachments from Android by using Gihosoft free Android data recovery tool. By using this tool, you can rescue all kinds of files such as contacts, photos, SMS, music etc from different smartphones powered by Android OS.
  
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  Step1. Select WhatsApp for recovering

  Once you started the WhatsApp recovery Android tool, you will be asked to select file types to recover, hit "WhatsApp" option.
  
  

  Step2. Connect Android device to PC

  Make PC and Android device connected by USB cable. If the two are connected successfully, your device type will be presented on software interface.
  
  

  Step3. Start analyzing and scanning WhatsApp files on Android

  The analyzing process may take a few minutes, please be patient. The less files on your Android device, the shorter the scanning process is.
  
  

  Step4. Restore WhatsApp messages or photos on Android

  When scanning is finished, all the WhatsApp related files will be listed on left panel. Please preview and select scanned results for recovery. All the restored Android WhatsApp messages will be exported to PC in CSV and HTML format. The WhatsApp attachments such as photos, music, video etc will be showing original format.
  
  

  Part 2. How to Restore Lost WhatsApp Chat History on Android from Backup Copy

  If you ever checked the FAQs on WhatsApp official site, you may know that WhatsApp automatically make a backup copy of chat history every night at 4 am system time. It means that you can restore lost WhatsApp messages from backup on Android. There are two situations:
  

  A. How to Restore Recent WhatsApp Messages from Android (within a week)

  If the WhatsApp messages you need to restore is deleted or lost within seven days, it would be simple to get them back. Please try to:
  
• 1. Uninstall WhatsApp from Android
• 2. Reinstall WhatsApp on Android phone
• 3. Click "Restore" when you get message “would you like to restore your message history from backup?"

B. How to Retrieve Old WhatsApp Chat History from Android (a week ago)

The older WhatsApp message records are also recoverable from Android device for free. Below steps will show you how to regain older Android WhatsApp messages which were lost more than seven days ago:

• 1. Uninstall WhatsApp.
• 2. Go to backup folder, the default path is: /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases.
• From the backup file extension, you can easily figure out when each backup copy is made.
• 3. Rename “msgstore.db.crypt” to “newestmsgstore.db.crypt”, in case your latest message backup getting lost.
• 4. Select the backup file that you want to restore. Please choose the date before you accidentally deleted or lost WhatsApp messages.
• 5. Rename selected file to from "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt8" to "msgstore.db.crypt".
• 6. Reinstall WhatsApp. When it asks you to restore, please click Restore.

To learn more details about how to restore WhatsApp chat history on Android from backup file, please go to: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/20887921.

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