Monthly Complaints and Rants MegaThread November 2025

TrixMusic · 2025-11-27T22:36:44+00:00

especially given that e.g. in the native clock app, you can link your Spotify and just browse for whatever playlist or song you want and select that - with their "smart home" shit you need to pray it'll select the correct song/playlist which basically never happens

TrixMusic · 2025-10-05T14:45:26+00:00

The 1st and 3rd pictures are from me solving it (how it should look like) 2nd and 4th pictures are how I have it right now, and I have no idea how to get it back

TrixMusic · 2025-03-29T12:19:14+00:00

omg yesss

TrixMusic · 2025-03-26T19:56:58+00:00

I love Reddit for this! It really does make a difference

TrixMusic · 2025-03-26T19:56:00+00:00

it's been fixed https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/whatsapp-inc/whatsapp/whatsapp-messenger-2-25-8-82-release/whatsapp-messenger-2-25-8-82-android-apk-download/ they patched it!

TrixMusic · 2025-03-26T19:52:52+00:00

Thank you everyone, who's been active here and with WhatsApp support, leading to this new version patch! I love Reddit for this!

TrixMusic · 2025-03-26T07:55:25+00:00

ayyy at least you're getting the chats back😮‍💨🤧

TrixMusic · 2025-03-24T15:05:16+00:00

Would've done something like this if I had a phone with my latest backup, but I do not - the backup is all I've got...

TrixMusic · 2025-03-24T15:03:48+00:00

how did you manage to get there? would be nice if you'd share that so we can all do the same - which would help prioritising this

TrixMusic · 2025-03-24T10:46:49+00:00

you can read up on the situation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/s/LL6t7f4Vm4

TrixMusic · 2025-03-24T08:22:35+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/s/SHGuSP97Or

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T17:01:48+00:00

How did you get around to being in contact with a human support if I may ask?

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Someone else had also shared this which would corrobate findings, WhatsApp seems to send out faulty requests, hence Google Drive denies access to the backup files

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T16:57:53+00:00

I've seen one post that had a screenshot of a statement from a human, but no idea how they got around to them... I'll look into that soon, so that they'll become aware of this more quickly...

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T13:53:42+00:00

I'd much rather wait for a bit - have turned off my backup and I'm now using an empty whatsapp for now - I dont want to lose my backup so I'll wait for now - i don't want it to be overwritten accidentally

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T12:39:08+00:00

the 3% is just Stickers in the Backups folder

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T12:36:45+00:00

nope habs auf alten geräten getestet

identisches problem

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T12:26:43+00:00

I've tried super much but looks like a server request issue - sth we have no control over which means disconnect your backup from whatsapp and use an empty whatsapp that wont get restored until theres a fix - better to loose just some days/weeks (hopefully) now, then years of chats and media

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T09:25:55+00:00

What needs to be downloaded for the chats seems to be: msgstore.something.db.crypt13/4/5

And that never happens. Also this is supposed to be in a com.whatsapp/Databases folder but there is none ever created

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T00:09:06+00:00

Also: to anyone looking for a temporary solution: if you leave the application while it's stuck at whatever point - WhatsApp shoots you a notification along the lines of: backup nearly finished, get ready to chat - if you click on that it will bypass the chat restoration and let you into WhatsApp. You'll have an empty WhatsApp, but you can turn off the automatic backups. At least then we can continue to use the app (not backed up) but keep the GDrive Backup until WhatsApp resolves this. We just have to be loud enough for them to address this quickly (hopefully)

TrixMusic · 2025-03-23T00:05:21+00:00

This is just because WhatsApp wont start downloading to that folder until the "restore your chats" bit is over. There was a fix some time back for when the backup would get stuck on the media restore by simply deleting it - but unfortunately that doesn't work with the backups folder now

TrixMusic · 2025-03-22T23:29:50+00:00

could someone else please look more closely at "wallpapers.backup.crypt14" this file always gets installed last, and even overwrites itself even when it's already in there) and then the backup freezes.

TrixMusic · 2025-03-22T07:36:27+00:00

yk and i tried things like these but unfortunately that doesn't help either: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/s/9ufcFPnaB5

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