how to automate apk updated when obtanium can't

dotted-gear

bare with me, i'm very new to graphene. maybe this should go in a signal or obtanium forum but i thought here is a good start since there's lots of experience with apk's+signal+obtanium+security in this community.

i've had this issue twice now, where suddenly i'm not able to send or receive messages on signal.

the first time i made sure my settings weren't the issue such as battery saver and notifications. that round of troubleshooting lead me to update my app, so i went to the signal website and downloaded a new apk.

all was working again, except all the messages that came through in that time were lost.

i prefer apk for security & privacy reasons and will not change this practice even if it leads me to a clunky solution.

to avoid this happening again i started using obtanium to manage app updates. a day or so later i noticed there was a signal update so i tapped install and that completed successfully. a few hours later i noticed the same pattern of all my chats being quiet which is unusual. i left it for another 10 hours and still the same, no messages.

i decided to delete and reinstall the app through the signal website again, and this fixed the problem. then i go look in the obtanium app again and its suggesting the same update from earlier.

it seems that my signal app cant be too old and it cant be the newest one through git hub via obtanium, only the apk from the signal website itself runs smoothly.

so, what i'm hoping i can get some insight on is, is there a way i can keep my app on the right version to function so that i don't lose messages?

can i sync obtanium to the signal website updates? (i already tried using the url to the page on signals website where u can download the apk and obtanium didn't recognise it)

or is there another way i can automatically keep my app updated in a secure private way (no google play or mirror)?

or will i be stuck constantly checking the signal website to make sure my app is the same version as whatever release is there?

maybe I'm missing something else entirely?

thanks in advance

gristle-cause

dotted-gear I doubt this is the right solution for your problem.

Running anything but the latest version could be a security risk. There's no good reason Signal should only work on a sliding window of slightly outdated versions. I suspect there is a deeper root cause

dotted-gear

gristle-cause yeah i wonder if it has to do with my phone, i bought this pix 7a second hand and its a bit slow sometimes.

at least the security risk is only for a couple days at most, so far ive observed that the apk on git hub is updated first and signal website follows shortly after.

the most frustrating part is having to check signal website every morning and if i need to do an update, hoping i didnt miss any important messages overnight.

gristle-cause

So far as maintaining apps from the Signal website itself, Obtanium provides a repo of community sourced configs, for apps like this that have more complex setups. Signal should be included. Check it out here

fargozhu

gristle-cause signal is there. But currently is not able to find the latest version...for some reason

dotted-gear

gristle-cause i already had signal in obtanium via the github link, but i tried through this site as well. good resource by the way, thanks. but when i added signal app to obtanium through this new link now obtanium says "7.69.2 installed, unknown latest" where before it said "7.69.2 installed, 7.69.2 latest" so it seems that this link is a bit broken rn? unless u have some insight? ive only just started using obtanium.