When I downloaded WhatsApp on my new phone and tried to restore WhatsApp from Google Drive, it stuck at 43% and then shown me the restore failed notification”, said Emma, avid user of WhatsApp. It’s surely that lots of WhatsApp messages have sentimental value to us. The recovered database from dumping the corrupt file and recompiling is Readable on WhatsApp viewer (for PC) and shows my Messages but whatsapp Application won't read the msgstore.db and keeps crashing if I put the recovered file in the /data/data/whatsapp/database folder (I tried permissions 660, 771, rw-rw--, rwxrw-) Jul 10, 2017 · In this way, to back up and restore WhatsApp chat flexibly, please check out the case below: 1. If you need to restore the deleted or lost WhatsApp chat only, you are recommended to try Android File Recovery program, which allows you to recover almost all of the data types including photos, videos, WhatsApp messages, contacts and more.