I have a S** which needs to go for repair for a few weeks (yes this is africa!)... so I...

I have a S** which needs to go for repair for a few weeks (yes this is africa!)... so I want to put all my data on my old Note *. Everything worked fine like contacts, photos... but not whatsapp!I have copied the whole whatsapp folder on the Note * but every time I start whatsapp (after successfully putting the code received by SMS), there are no messages history at all. The only thing I see are the groups I created but with no content.There is no way I can restore the chat history although I created a google drive backup AND a local one from the S**... but whatsapp never asks me to restore from a backup.*On top of that, because I have been going in and out of whatsapp on both phones, which I have to register the number for everytime and wait for their stupid delays... * h!*I need to talk to someone at whatsapp! and solve this problem urgently.*Paul