Back in September, a few days before I was to fly to Bangkok to meet my guy, my previous phone went dead.
I did not back up my Line account. If I log in to Line on a new phone, all previous messages would be gone.
I took my phone to repair shop and they said it was a CPU issue. At least 2 weeks to fix.
No way for me to contact my guy so I used forum messaging function here to ask a forum member to send a Line message to my guy to let him know my phone was broken.
I was able to establish contact with my guy eventually and it was through Tiktok and then WhatsApp.
Now we use WhatsApp to communicate even though I restored my Line account.