MentalM There is something very different with your installation. I use MitID daily and many other users have reported that it works as well. There is not a single report, except yours, of the current version of the app refusing to work.
Note that once MitID flags an installation as "bad", it will never recover. You need to revoke and reinstall. So whatever the app is saying now is not necessarily indicative of the current state, it might as well be a past bad state.
lbschenkel I have just bought a Google Pixel 8a and trying to install MitID. But after scanning the QR code, the screen turns red and the following messages are showing.
I have installed MitID with Google Play.
I have checked the Google Play version.
Do you have any idea what is wrong?
Proxima Not really. That looks really odd. I just installed MitID from scratch on a fresh user profile, and everything worked. I could do all activation steps.
Just double checking: Are you sure that when you installed for the first time, did you satisfy all the criteria? Locked bootloader, OEM unlocking disabled, Google Play Services, and installed from Google Play? Because if MitID "trips" due to some failing check, it will permanently taint that installation. You will need to uninstall the app and install it again.
lbschenkel Hmm ok, thank you.
Yes bootloader is locked, OEM unlocking is disabled, deleted chache, Re-installed and tried verifying with passport, same thing happen.
But thank you for answering.
It looks like both reports of MitID not working are with the Pixel 8 family? Do we have any other MitID users with Pixel 8 who can share their experience?
@MentalM and @Proxima: can you confirm if the app complains immediately after launching, or later? If later, aren't you able to enroll at all (if not, which exact step fails?) or are you able to enroll but not authenticate (again: which step?).
lbschenkel I have a Pixel 8 pro and it works
I have pixel 8 and works fine.
lbschenkel I have a Pixel 8a and I still can't get it to work!
Trying to verify with passport. In the next after face recognition, it comes up with
Maybe this have something to do with it. The build number of my GOS is 2024062000.
It is outside the scope that are listet on your Github lbschenkel
Proxima I have the same version installed. I only update the gist opportunistically, not on every new LOS version.
lbschenkel I now managed to replicate your findings. I installed the app in a completely new user profile and tried to activate it. Went through all the steps and in the final one, I got the message you're referring to.
So it looks like the app is doing different — and more stringent — checks at activation time than at launch time. So if you are like me and have a profile already activated, the app continues to work but apparently you can no longer activate it for new installations.
I'm not sure exactly what the app is looking for. If it's Play Integrity, then it's game over.
With that said, perhaps this check is only for the passport/ID scan flow and if you manage to activate your MitID via an alternative way (such as a visit to the citizen center), the app perhaps can still work. That will need to be investigated.
I'll put a prominent notice in the gist about this.
lbschenkel @Proxima: can you do some experiments? Can you check the gist and try to install previous versions of the app via Aurora, and check if you can activate through them? Keep going until you find one that works, and if you do, report which version that was.
Unfortunately I can't do that experiment myself because I have a single GOS device which is my daily driver, so I can't downgrade the app and I'm not willing to lose my activated MitID.
lbschenkel @Proxima: before you waste a lot of time doing this experiment, actually try something else first. Open the app properties for MitID and enable the switch named Exploit protection compatibility mode. Make sure to force close the app and try activating again.
I have done that in a new profile and the error no longer showed up for me. Hopefully it will do it for you as well, and then it's good news as we do have a workaround to keep MitID working and they didn't decide (yet) to pull the trigger on Play Integrity.
Can both you and @MentalM try this and report back?
lbschenkel Sorry to say, now I can't get past the face recognition state, the APP just crashes and every thing else I have tried don't work either.
Proxima OK, I want to confirm that you have done this:
At least for me, I was able to do it once I have done the above. The error mentioning that the device is "rooted or compromised" no longer shows up at the final activation step.
(*) Reason for this is because I saw in the logs for my MitID account mentioning of "permanently blocking the installation" when I've done the failing experiment, so better to start fresh with a new installation.
lbschenkel When I switched off Exploit protection compatibility mode. I was again able to get to the error message.
Every time I make a try, I force stop the APP, Clear cache, Re-install the APP, first then I turned on the Exploit compatibility mode.
Proxima All right. Well, it's weird. We'll need to wait for other GOS users to try and chime in.
P.S.: You didn't use the word "uninstall" but "re-install". In case you didn't uninstall the app, please make sure you did that just to eliminate all doubt.