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How To Backup and Restore WhatsApp On Galaxy Smartphone?

Most of you who might have done a factory data reset, bought a new Samsung Galaxy Smartphone or installed with a new firmware, this tutorial is for them who must have thought twice about it before doing that, may be only because of losing the WhatsApp conversations and media on your phone. Please don’t worry as if you follow this tutorial carefully it will help you to backup and restore WhatsApp conversations and media on your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone completely  in very very easy steps.

Steps To Backup and restore WhatsApp conversations and media on your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone

1. First open WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone and click “Settings“.

2. Once you tap on “Settings” you will get the below screen.

There please tap on “Chat Settings“.

3. Once you tap on “Chat Settings” you will get the below menu.

4. Now click “Back up chats” and you will see something like the one shown in the screenshot below which will backup your WhatsApp conversations and media files to your Galaxy Smartphone.

5. Now the backup of your conversations and WhatsApp media files are successfully done, but now what you need to do is restore it to your new (or flashed, hard reset) Galaxy Smartphone. For that use any file manager suitable for your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone, here I am using the ESFile Explorer. Now Tap on the “WhatsApp” folder and copy all it’s contents.

 

Once you have copied all the above files/folders you are good to go.

6. Now what you need to do is install “WhatsApp” on the device on which the conversations and media files to be restored. But please don’t open the application.

7. Now connect the Galaxy Smartphone to your PC using the USB data cable and copy the WhatsApp folder contents which you have previously copied to your new Smatphones WhatsApp folder. That’s it guys, now once you open “WhatsApp”, it will ask you  to do a restore, it will be a step by step method so you don’t have to worry about it…Just follow it and once done all your WhatsApp data and media will will be restored to your phone.

Compatible Galaxy Smartphones

This method works on all Samsung Galaxy Android Smartphones like Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy S8+, Samsung Galaxy C7, Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro, Samsung Galaxy E5, Samsung Galaxy E7, Samsung Galaxy A3, Samsung Galaxy A5, Samsung Galaxy A7, Samsung Galaxy A8, Samsung Galaxy A9, Samsung Galaxy J2, Samsung Galaxy J3, Samsung Galaxy J5, Samsung Galaxy J7, Samsung Galaxy On5, Samsung Galaxy On7, Samsung Galaxy On8, Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900H, SM-G900R4, SM-G900V), Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo (SM-N7500, SM-N7502, SM-N7505), Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (GT-I9060), Samsung Galaxy Win Pro (SM-G3812), Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 (GT-S7582), Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus (GT-S7580), Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 (SM-G7100)SM-G7102 (Dual SIM), Samsung Galaxy Star Pro (GT-S7260)GT-S7262 (Dual SIM), Samsung Galaxy Express 2 (SM-G3815), Samsung Galaxy Round (SM-G9105), Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite (GT-S7390)GT-S7392 (Dual SIM), Samsung Galaxy Light (SGH-T399), Samsung Galaxy Core Plus (SM-G3500)SM-G3502 (Dual SIM), Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S7270)[8]GT-S7272 (Dual SIM), GT-S7275 (LTE), Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9000, SM-N9002, SM-N9005), Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-I9190)[10]Galaxy S4 Mini I9195 (LTE), Galaxy S4 Mini I9192 (Dual SIM), Samsung Galaxy S4 Active (GT-I9295), Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom (SM-C1010), Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo (GT-S5310)GT-S5312 (Dual SIM), Samsung Galaxy Star ((GT-S5280)GT-S5282 (Dual SIM), GT-S5283 (Triple SIM)), Samsung Galaxy Core (GT-S8262)GT-i8262D, Samsung Galaxy Y Plus (GT-S5303), Samsung Galaxy Win (GT-I8550)Galaxy Grand Quattro (GT-I8552), Samsung Galaxy Mega (GT-I9150, GT-I9152, GT-I9200, GT-I9205), Samsung Galaxy Fame (GT-S6810, GT-S6810P), Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500, GT-I9505, GT-I9506), Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710), Samsung Galaxy Young (GT-S6310, GT-S6312), Samsung Galaxy Grand (GT-I9080, GT-I9082), Samsung Galaxy S II Plus (GT-I9105), Samsung Galaxy Pocket Plus (GT-S5301), Samsung Galaxy S III Mini (GT-I8190), Samsung Galaxy Rugby Pro (SGH-I547), Samsung Galaxy Rugby LTE (SGH-i547C, Canadian ket), Samsung Galaxy ExpressSGH-I437, Samsung Galaxy Rush, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Samsung Galaxy Reverb, Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE (SPH-L300), Samsung Galaxy Pocket Duos (GT-S5302), Samsung Galaxy S Duos (GT-S7562), Galaxy S Duos (GT-S7568), Galaxy Trend II Duos (GT-S7572), Galaxy Trend (S7560M), Samsung Galaxy Stellar (SCH-I200), Samsung Galaxy Ch@t (GT-B5330), Samsung Galaxy Appeal (SGH-I827), Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300), Galaxy S III I9305, Samsung Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy S II Lite, Samsung Galaxy Rugby (GT-S5690M), Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300), Samsung Galaxy Rugby St (SGH-i847), Samsung Galaxy Beam (i8530), Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS (GT-S6102), Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 (GT-S6500), Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 (GT-I8160), Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 x (GT-S7560M), Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus (GT-S7500), Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos (GT-B5510, GT-B5512), Samsung Galaxy Nexus (i9250), Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Stratosphere, Samsung Galaxy XCover (S5690), Samsung Galaxy Precedent, Samsung Galaxy Y (GT-S5360), Samsung Galaxy M, Samsung Galaxy W (I8150), Samsung Exhibit II 4G (SGH-T679), , Samsung Galaxy R (I9103), Samsung Galaxy S Plus (GT-i9001), Samsung Galaxy Z, Samsung Exhibit 4G (SGH-T759), Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100), Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Samsung Captivate Glide, Samsung Galaxy Neo, Samsung Galaxy Pro, Samsung Galaxy Prevail (SPH-M820), Samsung Galaxy Mini (GT-S5570), Samsung Galaxy Next, Samsung Galaxy Pop, Samsung Galaxy Gio (GT-S5660), Samsung Galaxy SL (GT-I9003), Samsung Galaxy Fit (S5670), Samsung Galaxy Ace (GT-S5830, GT-S5830i)[42]Samsung Galaxy Cooper (GT-S5830), Samsung Galaxy K[44], Samsung Galaxy 551, Samsung Galaxy U, Samsung Galaxy 5, Samsung Galaxy Europa, Samsung Galaxy 550, Samsung Galaxy 3Samsung Galaxy Apollo, Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000), Samsung Captivate, Samsung Vibrant, Samsung Fascinate,Samsung Epic 4G, Samsung Mesmeriz, Samsung Galaxy Spica GT-I5700 and Samsung Galaxy Portal.

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