We All are Aware of Messaging app Called Whatsapp. We Use it daily and no doubt We Love it, but have you been in a Situation when you accidently delete an important message on Whatsapp and you don’t know what to do next?
Well, Touchscreen devices are great, but can also be frustrating. A simple tap on the wrong option, for example, and your Whatsapp chat history is gone.
Take another one, Suppose you meant to hit Add a conversation shortcut, but instead you tapped Delete chat. Then you clicked “Yes” without thinking! Your chats are gone now leaving you without a record.
Take another one, Suppose you meant to hit Add a conversation shortcut, but instead you tapped Delete chat. Then you clicked “Yes” without thinking! Your chats are gone now leaving you without a record.
How do you get them back? Alright! There are two methods to do this:
1. Manually
2. Using Web Application
MANUALLY:
This method works because Whatsapp Creates backup of all the data each day at 4 am (system time) which is Stored in the SD card of your Android Smartphone. To get deleted Whatsapp messages just follow below simple steps:
STEP 1: First of all Navigate to the Whatsapp database folder, the path is: File Explorer > sdcard/Whatsapp/Databases.
STEP 2: In the Database folder you will see Chat files which are with names similar like msgstore-2014-01-04.1.db.crypt. You may notices the file names have dates as well but, there is a File which is msgstore.db.crypt, we need to rename it, you can add any word before msgstore.db.crypt or, rename it to “OLD”.
STEP 3: After renaming that files, now select the file which shows appropriate date before you accidently deleted your Whatsapp messages, and then rename that file to msgstore.db.crypt. This Renaming process can also be done on your PC by connecting your device.
STEP 4: Go to Setting > Applications > manage applications> Whatsapp and Click on Clear Data. Now open Whatsapp, Choose Restore when it prompts. That’s it, the chat file saved as msgstore.db.crypt will be restored and hence your messages too.
STEP 5: Click on Restore instead of No Thanks.
Note: In Case if you have deleted any Image, Audio or Video from your Whatsapp chat, then don’t worry, it’s not deleted forever until you delete it. To view that image or Video all you have to do is with the help of your Preferred file Manager, Navigate to sdcard/Whatsapp/Media Where you will find folders with names Whatsapp Audio, Whatsapp images, Whatsapp video, Open them up to find the file you are looking for.
USING WEB-APPLICATION:
There is a great Web Application Called Recover Messages which is Specially Designed to Get back Deleted Whatsapp Messages.
This is a Free Online Services which will help you to Read the Content of the database file and shows you Sent and Received messages.
Simply Go to Recover messages Site, Click on Select SQlite file to upload the Database file, Select the Database file from SD card, Check the box which says I accept the terms of use and click on Scan.
Just wait for few seconds while it takes a bit of time to show you the Messages. This will take few minutes to show your deleted messages.
Note: The only drawback is you can only extract and View/Read your deleted messages but you cannot restore them to your Whatsapp chat history.
reference: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/20887921
