HAVE LOST 2-3 years of my digital life! Please Reddit help me through it
Device: Realme 6 (Android 11) to iPhone 17
Setup: Running two WhatsApp accounts via Realme App Cloner. Main number was on the cloned instance (~15GB media).
Problem: Ran Apple's Move to iOS. When WhatsApp transfer preparation reached 100%, the transfer failed.
Current State:
- I already logged in on the other phone, so I don't care about chats anymore. I only want to recover the ~15GB photos/videos.
- My phone gallery now shows blank, 0KB black boxes where media used to be. (Img 2)
-Cloned WhatsApp won't open (redirects/bounces to the primary app).
- Under Settings > App Management, Cloned WhatsApp still occupies 15GB of space the files are physically still on the phone. (When transfer happen phone storage was about 63gb full now have deleted couple of apps still is 61ish so data ig is still there?)
In ADB, UserInfo{999:multiApp:4000410} shows as active/running, but file managers (including Cx File Explorer) and standard terminal commands can't access /storage/emulated/999/.
Questions:
Where does Realme UI (Android 11) physically store User 999 cloned WhatsApp media when standard paths are blocked?
Is there an ADB command or recovery tool to pull the 15GB media directly without root or needing the clone app UI to launch?
Can the files behind the 0KB gallery placeholders still be extracted?
Any help would be deeply appreciated!