I am using Silence as a messaging app to encrypt SMS/MMS.
Now, I get no notifications on new SMS (but the one sent by another Silence user). Also, I do not receive MMS. Additionally, all SMS sent through silence to another Silence user is sent twice (Silence always displays this message : “Duplicate message.”).
I’m using this version from F-Droid : 0.16.12-unstable. The same issue appears with this version : 0.15.16
Anybody have similar issues ? If yes, How do you fix them ?
yes, known issue, something has changed in Android 15
the source repo is gone, even if you have a fix we’d need to rehost it ourselves
OK, I get the point.
Nonetheless, there is no plan to save this app ? The UI and UX of this app is awesome. It’s using the signal protocol to encrypt SMS/MMS (which is rock-solid). I strongly believe that this app adds something useful to the FOSS ecosystem. I would be dramatic to let it die.
I loved this app, too. Silence website seems to be dead…
Another issue with Silence is that it is not compatible with phones that enforce 64-bit code only. (I doubt “code” was the correct word there.)
The source is here:
We’ve fixed that >1 year ago, Encrypted SMS and malware scanning | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
So far
That source code page seems to not open at all. I have been trying for few weeks now. The domain itself is no longer available (as hosted).
The source linked in F-Droid points to a dead domain, but its Github mirror is still there. I checked before posting.
That’s great! I’ll try that out, though I won’t like leaving behind the customization of Textra.
No no. I am not denying that. What I mean is, the domain where it got moved.
Git is 5 years dead, and the moved out domain too. If someone forks it and tries to update it, probably that might help. But reviving dead repos is very much time consuming.