The interesting thing is, there are contacts where Signal Android shows phone numbers but Whisperfish doesn’t
I also have this problem
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Yep, that’s a current limit. Should be possible to fix though, now that Gallery is open. Shouldn’t be a hard one to contribute as a first patch! Basically copy it over from Gallery or Quickddit 
Thanks for confirming! So that means we should be able to sync them over, but @direc85 has become the sync-expert meanwhile :'-)
Me too! We messed around with the dbus definitions to get a bit closer to Harbour submission, and that’s probably where it went haywire.
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Short question: is it supposed to be that the new messages counter on the cover also counts messages from muted and archived chats?
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That’s actually a bad translation; it’s the number of unread chats, not unread messages. We should nudge either the translation or the number…
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We should make it the number of unread non-archived non-muted chats maybe. Although muted chats should still kinda count… can we somehow display both? Large number for normal ones, small one including the muted ones? I guess the cover gets cluttered at that point…
But yes, @NIS, it bothers me too, in both the archived and the muted cases!
This is obviously going to be personal preference, but personally I wouldn’t be interested in muted ones at all, and would rather have unread-unmuted-unarchived chats, and sum of unread messages within those.
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Logically? if messages are muted you’re not interested in them (for now) so no need to count as active.
You can go into main app to check those
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Depends on what you’re muting them for. I can imagine I’m not the only one who permanently mutes busy group chats, not because I’m not interested in them but because I don’t like it when my phone is constantly buzzing for attention, and the group chats’ contents aren’t extremely important.
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Yes I would agree with you to, sometimes I do that, on FB messenger. That is something to think about…
Yep indeed, I have many such groups too, some of which I do care a lot about. I’ll give the UX a good think, and come back to this. Some day.
Meanwhile, I made a small website for Whisperfish, mainly to track incidents and current important issues.
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Finally have Whisperfish up and running as 2nd device. Big smile!
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Just so that others also know, there is now this amazing guide to move over chats/contacts from one sfos phone to another: Migrating to a new device · Wiki · Whisperfish / Whisperfish - Signal on Sailfish OS · GitLab All credit to these two champs @rubdos & @direc85, this is definitely life quality improvement!
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Let me know if there’s anything unclear there, or if there aren’t enough warnings about safety (please disable your old installation, I really don’t want to deal with debugging the strange effects of running the same device identity on two devices 
). I proofread it a few times for errors (and fixed a few).
I also updated the emoji guide, but the new version of that script will only work when Emoji version bumps (!804) · Merge requests · Whisperfish / Whisperfish - Signal on Sailfish OS · GitLab is merged. Thanks to @ichthyosaurus for documenting that page so well that it’s highly trivial to bump the emoji versions.
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With v0.6.0-beta.42 I have conversations suddenly with “(Unnamed)”. But this conversation was going already. When I open the conversation the name shows “(Unnamed)”, but swiping right reveals the actual name, going to “Show contact”, shows “(Unnamed)”, trying to link shows “No similar contact founds”.
Do I enter a Gitlab ticket or is there something else going on?
If you just recently updated the WF version, just wait a bit. It takes a while for the new profile handling to sync everything. See above post by the author.
I have an issue where I don’t receive incoming messages for exactly one contact in Whisperfish. I’m getting incoming messages for all the other contacts, and I’m also seeing the outgoing messages that I sent to this particular contact from other devices.
Can I create any logs that could help debug this?
Thank you!
Logs from you (not) receiving a message from this contact could be helpful indeed. It’s not so easy to reproduce at the moment.
You can try the following: enable debug mode (in Whisperfish settings), then go to the contact’s profile page, pull down to identity reset, wait until that’s done, and then pull down again to session reset. Sometimes this works, sometimes this doesn’t for some reason.
Thank you, I did both resets, and now I’m getting the messages!
I saw before the reset that “Sealed sending mode” was “unknown” for this contact, and “enabled” for others.
Now, after the reset, and after I received some messages, I checked again, and it is also “enabled” for this contact, too.
Not sure if this has anything to do, just wanted to add in case it does help anything.
Thank you!
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That’s only an indicator that everything is going well now. Sealed sending means that Signal cannot reliably track who is sending any given message (on application layer). It’s one of many of Signal’s built-in privacy-enhancing technologies.
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