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Dual Messenger For Signal App

karandriems — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:23:47 GMT

Dual Messenger is limited for few apps only. Just we have started new messenger app like signal but we are not able to implement for signal app.

Please provide dual messenger for signal app also.

Thanks

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

DarshanChatterjee — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:51:56 GMT

They'll. Whatsapp Facebook messenger those were/are most popular apps . That's why they optimized their dual app function for them. Wait for sometime. Let Singal be the popular app and see what happens next. Else you can give them feedback from members app home page.

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

ghost135354 — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:19:19 GMT

+1 for this - I can't imagine it being much more than adding the application com name to the features supported app since it's just using the underlying Android Work / Knox feature.

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

benjaminbellamy — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:43:10 GMT

You can force "dual messenger" installation, but note that app permissions won't work so you won't be able to share pictures:

- Enable developer mode on your phone (Setting > About Phone, then click 7 times on Build number, then Setting > Developer, enable USB)

- Plug your phone to your computer

- On your computer install adb : https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools

- Run "adb devices" on your computer terminal to verify that adb can access your phone (it should say "List of devices attached" then list all attached phones)

- Run "adb shell", then "pm list users" to get your dual user ID. You should get something like :
y2s:/ $ pm list users
Users:
UserInfo{0:Benjamin:c13} running
UserInfo{95:DUAL_APP:20001030} running
(where 95 is my dual user ID)

Then type "exit" to exit adb shell

- Download Signal APK : https://signal.org/android/apk/
- Install Signal on your phone with dual user ID by running: "adb install --user 95 Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-5.1.9.apk"

(where 95 is your dual user ID and Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-5.1.9.apk is the Signal APK you previously downloaded.)

That's it!

PS: Remember to disable developer mode when you're done for security reasons.

More info here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/add-non-messenger-apps-to-samsung-dual-messenger.3817250/

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

bullmastiffo — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:35:06 GMT

I've found a way to do it much simpler, once you have adb shell.

- Enable developer mode on your phone (Setting > About Phone, then click 7 times on Build number, then Setting > Developer, enable USB)

- Plug your phone to your computer

- On your computer install adb : https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools

- Run "adb devices" on your computer terminal to verify that adb can access your phone (it should say "List of devices attached" then list all attached phones)

- Run "adb shell", then "pm list users" to get your dual user ID. You should get something like :
y2s:/ $ pm list users
Users:

UserInfo{0:Benjamin:c13} running
UserInfo{95:DUAL_APP:20001030} running
(where 95 is my dual user ID)

type:
pm install-existing --user 95 org.thoughtcrime.securesms

You should see:
Package org.thoughtcrime.securesms installed for user: 95

Done!

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

SauravArora — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:27:32 GMT

You can install a second copy of Signal in Secure Folder.

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

benjaminbellamy — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:15:45 GMT

It seems that you need a "regular" messenger app (Whatsapp, FB, Snapchat, FB messenger…) installed in order to have a dual account.

Now that I uninstalled Whatsapp I don't have a "95" dual account anymore… 😕

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

Teun — Fri, 21 May 2021 08:17:18 GMT

Yes, I also need this. Why is Telegram supported but not Signal?

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

ray-j — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:24:06 GMT

Can you please provide further infos on how to do this?

Re: Dual Messenger For Signal App

jamal01 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:02:26 GMT

Please add signal to dual messenger