Download Whatsapp On Google Play Store
Edelira Longinotti
I just flashed GrapheneOS for the first time on my Pixel 6, and so far the switch from stock has been smooth and almost all my old apps are working as intended. The only major issue I'm facing at the moment is trying to restore my WhatsApp backup, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to make it work.
Now, when I get the to part where WhatsApp asks to give permission to restore from the Drive backup, it asks me to login again to Google but since this is already done it just says that that account is already added. Backing out at this point only allows me to skip the backup, leading to empty chat history.
Not sure if the order I tried to do things is wrong or why it is not working. I've tried to install the app from both Aurora and Play store, but the results were the same in both cases. I also tried creating a WhatsApp folder manually and copying the Databases and Backups folders there, but I didn't get any prompt to restore from a local backup either.
I am having the exact same problem unfortunately and deadinside91 has explained it very well. In my case it is even more flagrant since I am moving from grapheneos in a pixel4a to grapheneos in a pixel 6a. Not sure what you mean by the "Google app". All the apps I download are from the google play store. I have the sandboxed google play services installed in the owner profile; and it does not make any difference, it seems impossible to restore the whatsapp backup from my google account.
Atotalnoob probably meant the Google launcher app (called just "Google" on the Play Store), but sadly installing this and reinstalling WhatsApp does not seem to change anything, I am still not able to restore the backup from Drive. It really is too bad because everything else aside from this is working perfectly and where I am from WhatsApp is unfortunately the main channel for communication, so losing all my chat history would be a big loss.
Hi, I'm having a problem restoring my WhatsApp backup. I tried putting the backup file in /WhatsApp/Databases (I had to create the directory, I think WhatsApp has access to it - I set up the WhatsApp dir with storage scopes), and also in /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases, which is where WhatsApp seems to be writing its backups, but either way, WhatsApp isn't noticing the backup and triggering a restore. Any ideas on what I should be doing different? Thanks.
Kinda interesting. I don't think it helps re. contact scopes, though... there doesn't appear to be any specific contact I can add to the scope that will let it pick up my google account (including a contact w/ the same email as my google account).