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GeneralFer fawks sake! How to drive one mad... Pin
OriginalGriff6-Jan-24 0:56
mveOriginalGriff6-Jan-24 0:56 
I'm upgrading my phone from Herself's Samsung Galaxy M32* to a new Samsung Galaxy A54 5G and initially it looked like it was all done very easily - everything transferred to the new phone smoothly and quickly.

Then I noticed that I was missing a load of Whatsapp messages, and try as I might I couldn't get them back on the new phone - though they appear on the old phone, and on my desktop and my Surface ...

Finally worked it out: Google does a weekly backup to Google drive and when you open Whatsapp on the new phone it uses the last backup, rather than the latest message set. Simple solution: switch back to old phone, uninstall Whatsapp on new phone, do a manual backup on old phone, reinstall Whatsapp on new phone, relink Desktop and Surface to new phone. Bingo! Half a damn hour that took to work out... Mad | :mad:


* Because the second SIM slot on my Huawei P30 wasn;t working, and I wanted her SIM and mine in the same phone for a few months so if anyone called her I could break the news ... but I hate the fingerprint reader on the M32 (love the reader on the P30) and I need a "full 5G/4G" phone because 3G is being turned off this month in the UK. And I have to switch carrier because the Vodafone 4G & 5G coverage here is non-existent but EE's works indoors. Just - I'm still using WiFi Calls because the signal is better.

Just to make life entertaining, I'm also dumping Sky landline, broadband, and Sky Q in favour of EE/BT Digital Voice, Broadband, and EE TV Box Pro as it's half the price.

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Alister Morton8-Jan-24 0:10
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