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johanw666 / Signal-Android

Fork from a private messenger for Android with extra options added: full backup and (partial, ony text) xml backup of messages. Restore can happen at any time, not only after a fresh install. Import SMS database. Import of (unencrypted) WhatsApp databases. Removed apk expire. Choose between passphrase protection and the Android screenlock. Choice for the backup location (internal or removable storage on Android < 11 (on 11 and higher this is already possible)). Set the maptype in the place picker. Option to treat view-once media as normal media. Option to ignore remote deletion. Choose between FCM or websocket notification delivery.
https://johanw.home.xs4all.nl/Signal/signal-jw.html
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Can't export messages #33

Closed Ulikuo closed 1 year ago

Ulikuo commented 3 years ago

Choosing export leads to the app crashing.

guilhermequinta commented 3 years ago

I was having the same problem. Solved it by manually giving storage permission to the app. The correct behavior should be to have a prompt asking for the permissions but for some reason it doesn't.

johanw666 commented 2 years ago

I finally got a stable Android 11 device to test with and most export issues are fixed in 5.23.1. The system prompt asking for all file access works now. On Android 11 the export directory can be anywhere, not only in Signals own directory in internal or external storage.

Go-rom commented 1 year ago

Hello @johanw666

just a quick question : there was a time where backupping to external storage was not safe. Problem was : backups were deleted when uninstalling Signal.

Is this still true ? (I'm running Android 12 btw)

johanw666 commented 1 year ago

This issue is only the case with Android 10 and lower. On Android 11 and up you can select almost any location for the backup files.

On the official Signal this can be done from Android 10 and up, but due to some limitations for the other backups I was not able to implement that on Android 10.

Go-rom commented 1 year ago

Great, thanks a lot :+1: