Hi,

what could be missing in my Telegram app or OS, such as that I don't receive SMS?
I granted all the necessary permissions, but not stupid things like Camera and Microphone, but it doesn't send an SMS, neither it blocks me if I try for many times, so it seems that something is not working in the OS, or maybe the app installed from their website needs the Google Play services??

Shall I use the FOSS version? But wonder where it is exactly, should they not provide the FOSS version by default from their website??

    • [deleted]

    • Edited

    steve66th This happened to me as well.
    I uninstalled the app. Restarted my phone. Disabled my VPN. Installed the official Telegram from Aurora Store (with Google Play Services enabled) and it finally worked. When I got in, I enabled my VPN again.
    In all likelihood, it's Telegram blacklisting VPN's due to spam.

      Yes, you need the Google play services to get the sms...

      What I did to get Telegram working on my main profile without google play services is to create a second profile, install the google play services, install and activate telegram on it. Then activate Telegram of your main profile with a code generated by the Telegram of the second profile. Then you can delete the second profile.

        pixel6test1 Thank you but did you do all this?
        I mean, despite the google services are installed, they are sandboxed in somehow, if you use that profile only for extreme privacy, then what's the problem that pushed you to remove the profile?

        [deleted] do you know if Telegram blocks Tor exit nodes or VPN after the registration? I mean, can you use both without being banned?

          I faced the same issue. For me, using Telegram X worked.

          • [deleted]

          steve66th I don't. This is just my best guess since my situation was not dependent on the absence of GOS but only turned when I disabled my VPN.

          Thanks everyone for the hint, I was able to succeed in the following way:

          1. Install and activate the Gservices (3 in total and downloaded from the stock App Store of GrapheneOS)

          2. Download Telegram from Aurora, I didn't succeed with the version downloaded from their official website, weird but it is what it is

          3. Register your account, maybe better to login also in the web

          4. Disable the GServices but keep this Telegram version, I didn't succeed to use the FOSS version, it didn't send the code notification to the other app, or probably that needed to be in a different GrapheneOS profile. Whatever, I lost patience and I keep using the official app from the Google Play Store. I don't know if there is a way to receive the SMS instead of the App notification, but it didn't happen to me...

          Regarding the real goal of this thread, I saw that Google Services don't have access to any harmful permission, plus they are permanently disabled once you disable them, so you won't see them ON at the next reboot, fantastic.