If you purchased the new Samsung Galaxy S6, then you want to transfer your saved with security WhatsApp messages from your "old" Android smartphone, so they are not lost. Unfortunately, there is currently through the app itself no automatic backup and restore solution for WhatsApp messages.
Therefore, we now want to make a manual available that explains how to WhatsApp messages from an old Android smartphone transfers to the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and there then restores in WhatsApp you.
And as you must proceed as follows.
Save the complete WhatsApp folder from your old Android smartphone on your computer. To do this, connect your phone via a USB cable to the PC. If this was recognized as a mass storage device, navigate to a PC running Windows on:
Computer -> Portable Device -> Phone
Here you will now find the folder "WhatsApp". This must now complete copy and save to your desktop for example (right click -> Copy -> Paste). You have now successfully made a backup of your old WhatsApp messages on your PC.
Now you can import this backup on your Samsung Galaxy S 6 again. You must remove the first thing WhatsApp of the Samsung Galaxy S 6 or uninstall if you have it already installed from the Google Play Store. If you have completed this step, connect the Samsung Galaxy S6 now via USB cable to the PC and move to folder "Phone", ie the root of the Samsung Galaxy S 6. Previously made backup WhatsApp
The folder so WhatsApp is now up to the same memory address as your previous smartphone.
When you have finished this step, you install WhatsApp again on the Samsung Galaxy S6 by downloading it again from the Google Play Store.
Then open "WhatsApp" on your Samsung Galaxy S 6 and follow the instructions on the display. It is then the following screen will appear:
Import WhatsApp messages
Now tap Restore. This will import all WhatsApp messages from the backup to your Samsung Galaxy S 6. You will then be able to see all your messages from WhatsApp again. The restoration of WhatsApp messages worked! Congratulations!