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How to restore your WhatsApp chat history in LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1.2)
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LineageOS 14.1 + WhatsApp: how to restore a chat history (WORKING)

  • Works at least with Samsung Galaxy S III phone (tested with LineageOS 14.1 alias Android 7.1.2)

  • A keyword: enable the following WhatsApp permission beforehand (before you launch the WhatsApp app for the first time):

    • Contacts
    • External Storage
    • (Possibly also SMS)

  • Please note that you log out of your Google Account before starting the restoring process

  • The factory reset via TWRP does not really reset the user's personal partition in the phone memory, so the sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases folder can still be found in the phone's memory even after resetting

  • I took two WhatsApp backups in advance

    • renamed msgstore.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12.bak
    • renamed an older backup file msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12

  • I also looked at the guideline on the WhatsApp website

EDIT July 12th 2019: It's not necessary to log out the Google Account. I have tested that this process works also without it. The most important thing is to enable the permissions above before starting the restoring process.

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