Oooh this is interesting - I uninstalled Google Play from my phone a day or two ago, and now Signal is giving me a "permanent Signal communication failure" error message saying it can't function without it.
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Oooh this is interesting - I uninstalled Google Play from my phone a day or two ago, and now Signal is giving me a "permanent Signal communication failure" error message saying it can't function without it. I was able to send and receive a few messages this morning (it warned me when I installed it that in the absence of Google Play it may be "unreliable", but didn't say it would flat-out refuse to operate), but I guess now I can't use it at all.
I just re-installed Signal this morning after a forced week-long lockout that wiped all my message history. Only a couple people I message with are willing to use it instead of SMS anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter much, but yeesh Google really is the central pivot of a LOT of stuff.
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@LisaKalayji you should probably install signal through this other method. Right now it’s likely yelling about this as it doesn’t know how to push updates
Signal Android APK
Advanced users with special needs can download the Signal APK directly here.
Signal Messenger (signal.org)
