I reinstalled my phone yesterday and ran into a weird problem where restoring a Whatsapp backup from Google Drive doesn't work, or more specifically gets indefinitely stuck after downloading about 200kB.
Does anyone have the same problem or heard something somewhere? I can't figure out whether their servers are messed up or it's a problem on my end (reinstalling WA, rebooting the phone and the usual stuff made no difference). There are a few posts on reddit but nothing conclusive.
I tried contacting support but that was the easily worst experience I had in my entire life. Writing from anything but Gmail resulted in undelivered error, copypaste responses no matter what I wrote, and the few moments I thought a real human was responding, it was such utter bullshit I wished they used trained monkeys. Not even the usual outsourced support in India was EVER this bad. Eventually they closed my ticket and I couldn't even get an automated response if I tried to send in another anymore. Holy shit!!!
Whatsapp backups
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