How to Restore Deleted WhatsApp Messages from Android

Restore Lost Android WhatsApp Messages 

"I don't know what had happened on my HTC M8. After updated to Android 5.1.1, I found some WhatsApp messages from my HTC M8 missing, but other data are still there. I truly have a backup but just for the text messages, contacts, and photos, not including apps data. So I can not restore the lost WhatsApp messages from backup. However, the lost messages are very important, can you tell me how to retrieve them from my HTC without backup?" - Asked by Asura.

"Anyone here can help me to restore the deleted WhatsApp messages on my Samsung Note 5, there are some very important testimony inside, I accidentally deleted by mistake, is it possible to get them back?" - Email from Anderson.

Since WhatsApp has became one of the most popular chatting application for every Android user which including the big brands such as Samsung, Sony HTC, Motolora, LG, as well as the small brands like Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi, BlackBerry Priv, OnePlus and so on. We believe that most of smart phone users around the world have using WhatsApp to chat with friends and family. But a few part of them know how to recover the WhatsApp messages from an Android phone or tablet if they lost for some reason, for example, deletion. Therefore, in this article we will show you the secure and effective way to get your lost WhatsApp messages back from Android devices – Android WhatsApp Data Recovery.

Android WhatsApp Data Recovery also well-known as Android Data Recovery, so restoring lost or deleted WhatsApp messages is just one of its main function, in addition to recovering WhatsApp messages, you can use this powerful recovery tool to restore contacts, text messages, photos, call logs, videos and so on with a few steps. Now, before the steps, please download Android WhatsApp Messages Recovery on your computer and follow the below guide.

  

Note: Once your Android WhatsApp Messages was lost, remember not to operate your Android phone or update anything.

Restore WhatsApp Messages on Android with Android WhatsApp Data Recovery

Step 1 Install and luanch the Android WhatsApp Data Recovery

After downloading the program, install and run it on your computer. Then you will see it's homepage to ask you to connect your Android phone or tablet to your computer via USB cable, just do it.

Step 2 Enable USB debugging on your Android device

You need to enable USB debugging on your Android phone or tablet if your device isn't detected by the software. Check what Android operating system is your device and then choose the correct ways to enable USB debugging follow the below steps:

1) For Android 2.3 or the earlier OS: Enter "Settings" > Click "Applications" > Click "Development" > Check "USB debugging".
2) For Android OS from 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" > Click "Developer options" > Check "USB debugging".
3) For Android 4.2 or the later OS: Enter "Settings" > Click "About Phone" > Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" > Back to "Settings" > Click "Developer options" > Check "USB debugging".

Step 3. Scan and analyze your Android device for lost WhatsApp messages

After the USB debugging process, you will be asked to choose the data type you'd like to scan. As you just want to restore WhatsApp messages, you can tick the check box in front of "WhatsApp messages & attachments" and click "Next" to move on.

Note: Do make sure that your device's battery is more than 20% charged.

In order to conduct the scanning successfully, if the above window pop up, you should tap "Allow" on your Android device to allow the software to check your device and load content into the program.

Step 4 Preview and recover lost WhatsApp messages from Android

After scanning, the recoverable WhatsApp messages and other attachments will be listed in the scan result. Preview them one by one, and mark those what you want to restore, at the last step is just click "Recover" to save them back to your computer.

Please do not disconnect your phone during the whole recovery process. Once all your selected contents have been got back, we suggest that you'd better back up your WhatsApp Messages from Android, so that you can restore it easily if you need again.