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Hi all,

I recently lost (I think) my phone's battery. It just started to discharge and then shut off completely. I learnt from the web that Motorola is notorious for these things. Model G5S, bought 1.5 years ago.

I had a bunch of whatsapp chats and documents that I'm sure I was backing up to my google drive tied to one of my emails (email A)

I have now got another chinese (I know) phones. This new phone was backing an existing whatsapp to another gmail (email B) account. I uninstalled whatsapp on the new phone, reinstalled it and waited for whatsapp to give me an option of emails to restore from but it did not.

Instead, it simply restored gmail (email B). Is there any way I can restore from gmail (email A) to this phone or any other phone?

Any/all help will be God-sent.

Thank you all.

James Watson

If you want to restore WhatsApp backup from Google Drive on some phone, you should have logged in with proper google account(gmail A) on this device.

Thanks, but I have 3 or 4 emails on this device. I was hoping to be asked in the beginning at time of "restore" which email/google drive to restore from. But it did not, it automatically assumed (gmail B) and restored.

Is deleting gmail B from this phone and trying the uninstall/reinstall/restore of whatsapp an option?

I have given it to a repair shop, will let me know early next week...keeping fingers crossed, it's just a bad feeling to feel held hostage to these bad phone designs...I mean what would have hurt them to have built an easily replaceable battery phone like some Samsungs or LG sets.

Thanks again for your advice, will report on the outcome of the repair shop when I get it.