I can't activate Viber on Jolla Phone

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Hello. Anyone got Viber working on new Jolla Phone? It is the one app that is critical for me, I was hoping it should work with android app support, but I can’t get it to activate. I enabled all possible permissions but I’m still getting “activation failed“. I can get around bank app and contactless payments not working, but unfortunately without Viber phone is basically unusable for me..

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Hello and welcome! I don’t use Viber personally, but there is report that Viber have worked with at least in one instance: How to get push notifications? - #3 by filip.k . Not with Jolla phone assuming from the date, but any way. There is also threads that it doesn’t work, but maybe @filip.k can shed some light.

Edit. In the meantime you can find more info regarding Viber by using the search functionality in top right corner.

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Yeah I tried search but found nothing newer than 2022. I could even live without notifications, but the problem is I can’t even activate it. I use it every day for my job, unfortunately phone without working Viber isn’t an option for me.

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My experience might be obsolete. Besides I forgot. But it still works for me on C2.

EDIT: no MicroG here.

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Do you have MicroG installed? Did you try to install older versions from Aurora?

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I do have MicroG installed. I don’t see an option on Aurora to select different versions for download.

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From top right under the three dots (if I remember correctly) you can select manual version download

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Thanks, I just tried about a year old version, no luck still, “verification failed“ message every time.

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A few years ago I adjusted the dpi of the phone ( from the AAS side to 600+ ) to get it to download the tablet version from aurora.
It showed me a barcode if I remember correctly to scan from my other device and it worked perfectly fine.
After that I adjusted the dpi back to default and that was the end of it.

I didn’t setup my j2 yet so I’ll report if I find a solution when the time comes, but you can give it a shot.

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I managed to get it working - under MicroG settings - Register device, I had to change profile from Native (default) to Real. When I did that, activation call got through. Now I just have to figure out if it is possible to get notifications to show up, because atm I’m not getting any

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Well that is already amazing!

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Probably you have to enable them in microg, there is a setting for push notification, althought it might happen service will not work

Weirdly enough it works flawlessly for whatsapp (for me) but not for the package tracker

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I would appreciate it if you could reply to my message.