Hi all. I've messed up bad. I'm not an amateur, been rooting/installing roms for several years but mistakes can be made.
I mad a big one. it's my sisters phone and I've lost her whatsapp database backup files!
I did the usual, made a twrp rom backup to the sdcard. I've been using Migrate app to backup particualr apps.
I had used mixplorer to copy the whiole whole of the whatsapp folder to the sdcard, this is where things messed.
I thought it had completed it.
I went through this rom's installing process and it called for format data, which I don't normally do as it includes the internal memory, but as I had assumed all was backed up, I did it.
After installing this rom, I went to install whatspp, run and theres no chat restore from local databases! I dont do Gdrive backups
I've tried the usual recovery apps diskdigger/undeleterapps to find the database files, but nothing. they mostly target media and docs etc.
Dr.fone doesnt work, keeps saying the phone is not rooted, although magisk is installed and running.
I havent installed anything extra on internal memory, so still have a chance to recover files so what app or pc software could find files with such extentions from internal memory? please, I'm so desperate. The chat history of hers has some very sentimental chats and I feel so so bad messing it up..First time ever.
I have now created a twrp back up of iodeOS rom and tried to restore the previous rom (lineage 17.1 by derf),
which also seems messed up as it keeps going in a boot loop. Whats going on, I'm losing my mind.
I thought maybe whatsapp could have some other backup somewhere, cluthing at straws.
please someone