Molly-Foss crashes on start on GrapheneOS (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

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).

[+] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 3 months ago

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[-] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Things don't crash on me. But bank apps may not work, they usually use play protect and apps with that may not work. Also you will not have root access, it has to do with security but certain apps like titanium backup need root to work. I've heard seed vault (built-in backup) isn't that great but I haven't used it. I like GrapheneOS, the only annoying thing for me is the lack of notifications for certain apps. That's pretty much how it goes when you don't use google on your phone. My workaround is using a separate work profile that has sandboxed google play for apps that I need notifications for.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

You can still get the notifications through UnifiedPush right?

[-] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, I believe so.

[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months 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.

[-] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, that's right. Thanks.

[-] subatomic5745@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months 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?

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months 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.

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