Hi, is there any way to have a whatsapp work on a rooted phone (Pixel 7a) with something like frost is to Facebook?
On my rooted LineageOS ROM it workes just fine, just gives a warning when starting it for the first time that I am using a “rooted device” and how my “security might be compromised” but it lets you continue and doesn’t show it ever again.
Could it be an issue that I am from Poland and not us? My friend had the same issue, but on all forums the problem is non existent
Does it refuse to run if it detects root? Im not rooted but grapheneOS lets me run whatsapp no problem.
I too used grapheneos for a long time, but WhatsApp just give me a message about WhatsApp being unofficial, and I downloaded it form Google Play, Aurora and official web site on different installations. I tried to start it from backup, but the problem persisted.
I’ve no issues with it on my rooted phone, even during the times when safetynet fails.
Same I used a rooted phone for years (recently got a new phone) and never had any issues
There are no alternative clients for WhatsApp as far as I know.
The only thing worth looking into are Matrix Bridges (or something with a similar name) but it’s a paid solution.
I’ll look to it. It may be a valid option. Thank you very much
There’s this Ansible playbook to auto-deploy it, It’s pretty simple to get it up and it works very well: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
You can also host it yourself.
@kami @suboczsubocz matrix is a decentralized chat network so a matrix bridge is basically a WhatsApp bot forwarding all messages to a matrix bot so then you can use any of the matrix client apps. It’s open source, self-hostable, but sure, you can pay your maintainer.
