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Hi guys! I'm trying to check Molly-Foss as alternative to Signal. I installed it from its F-Droid repo. When I tap to turn on database encryption, I am prompted for the passphrase. After I set it...it just closes/crashes. Opening the app again, i'm back to the option to turn it on and set a password. What should I do?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Try enabling "exploit protection comparability mode" on the system app settings.

I do not think this is it though.

If you do not set a passphrase, does it work as expected?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah... Even with exploit protection compatibility it crashes. And yes, if i don't chose a passphrase it goes through... What gives? What can i do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ask for help on the Grapheneos matrix channel. I do not have this problem on mine but they are more knowledgeable about this kind of stuff.

Also unless you use google services, you won't get notifications if you do this (use the at rest encryption with passphrase).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can still get the notifications through UnifiedPush right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I believe so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is your pixel up to date? Could you please provide the fdroid repo you have added to your fdroid client?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yup, pixel 7 is up to date, usually downloads latest release update within the same day. I downloaded Molly from the Molly F-droid repo...is there any other repo? F-droid's own repo doesn' thave it, so I added Molly's one...

fdroidrepos://molly.im/fdroid/foss/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=5198DAEF37FC23C14D5EE32305B2AF45787BD7DF2034DE33AD302BDB3446DF74

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I gave their github issues a look and I did not find anything similar to this...

The repo is the correct one. I have no useful advice unfortunately. Either reinstall, use signal or wait for someone who can be more useful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It works on my phone, I've been using it for years. I'm currently using it off of Obtainium though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Same here. It works flawlessly. I installed from Github via Obtainium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Works flawlessly for me, install it from accrescent. Update graphene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well what do you know, the Accrescent version is also the FOSS one. So I uninstalled Molly from FDroid and removed the repo, and went to Accrescent, and installed that one. And...still crashes after setting the password. I've noticed I don't have any storage permission listed (I mean, not that it doesn't prompt for access, the permissions list doesn't even have the storage permission in there). Is this normal? Doesn't it need it for saving the database/backup?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Do you need to uninstall Signal first? I wanted to see if I could run them side by side, just to see how it looked before uninstalling signal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Molly foss is no longer being worked on iirc. Download molly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're thinking of Molly-UP. The regular Molly and Molly-FOSS now both support UnifiedPush so there's no need for Molly-UP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, that's right. Thanks.