Recover Deleted or Lost files From WhatsApp on Mobile

Hey everyone, my article is about “ what are we suppose to do, if we Lost our data unfortunately from What’s app” a gallop back one of my friend called me (Mr.Son)  said “ hey I loosed my data on whatsapp, what should I do now ? ” that question put on Halt for few seconds .

Perhaps, I’ve gone through with lot of articles published on websites, recommending to download some third party softwares, which still put me in pause to figure out !

Then I tried a simple technique, which really worked out without
any third party inherence.

This is how I did : 

There are two ways to retrieve the Lost files from WhatsApp !

1.  Recover Old WhatsApp Data on Mobiles – [using Default solution on WhatsApp]

2.  Software to Retrieve Deleted Files from WhatsApp

WhatsApp is one famous messaging app for smartphones . Whats App is a mobile and it is available for all popular smartphone mobiles OS like Android, iOS, Blackberry and windows. Accidentally we may lose or the delete the files in our smartphones. It’s very simple to Retrieve /recover the deleted or lost WhatsApp messages. Let’s  see how to recover the deleted files from WhatsApp.

Recover Old WhatsApp Data on Mobiles – [using Default solution on WhatsApp]

For Every 24 hours WhatsApp usually takes the backup of our data (files) from mobile and stores it on the memory card. So it’s very simple or easy recover or to get back the data or files that are deleted from WhatsApp accidentally.

Step 1 : Uninstall the WhatsApp mobile application

Step 2 : Re-install it [when re-installing it will prompt 'Restore message history']

Step 3 : Select ‘Restore’ option , Now all the old data will be retrieved from your memory card of mobile

Note : The drawback of the default solution is that you can’t  retrieve data that is deleted more than a week ago using the default method

Software to Retrieve Deleted Files from WhatsApp

‘Recover Messages’ – is a software tool which recovers the lost and deleted files easily. But this can be done only in computer not in our mobiles.

Step 1 : connect Your mobile to PC.

Step 2 : If you Mobile  device is not iOS.                                                                              

Go to ‘/sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt’ and copy the file to PC

Step 3 : If You device is iPhone(iOS) user then                      ’net.Whatsapp.Whatsapp/Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite’ and copy the files to PC

Step 4 : After Copying, go to www.recovermessages.com and click the ‘Select SQLLite file’ > Browse and attach the file that has been copied on your computer.

Step 5 : Then, check the Option ‘ I agree the terms of use’ and click on ‘Scan’ button.

Step 6 : Based on the  size of the Whatsapp database & speed of your Internet connection it will process

Step 7 : After Scanning is done. You will have an option to get back the recover the lost data.

Important Note : If You restored your deleted data ,then all the chat history messages are lost or deleted

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Vijay Ptlr