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Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I'm trying to use signal on two profiles of my grapheneos phone. I'm already aware signal only allows one device per account, so I've been trying to use the Molly fork, which allows me to connect as a linked device. However, when I switch profiles and try to link it just doesn't work. Does anyone have any solutions? This is really important to me.

EDIT: for anyone interested this is the only possible solution without rooting. Since grapheneos resets your internet after every profile switch it's not possible to do this with internet. You must have a sim card with cell data. Once you toggle off your wifi and vpn, the whole process should work fine. (You still need another device to take a photo of the qr code with). Also the qr code expires so be quick. Also official signal app doesn't seem to work, so I would use Molly.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago*

Because you can't run multiple accounts at once? Either I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, or you're missing the point of a signal backup.

OP is referring to the GrapheneOS feature, well really the android feature heavily enhanced by GrapheneOS, that allows you to run the OS as another user with their own apps and files. OP is asking for help running signal (Molly) in both profile A and profile B as one account. This is technically possible but realistically infeasible because of the way profile switching works on android. I explained why in a different comment.

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