Marlinspike expects it to have high battery consumption and an unreliable user experience, but would be fine with it if it comes with a warning and only runs in the absence of Play Services. There is now a bounty on making this pull request, and the person/team making the pull request would also receive whatever the BitHub payout would be at the time. This would effectively eliminate Signal's dependency on GCM and thus allow the official Signal app to function on custom Android ROMs that do not include Google Play Services. In the same thread, Marlinspike said that he would be willing to consider 'a clean, well written, and well tested' pull request that would add WebSocket support to the Android version of Signal. # There is a FAQ about what to do when LS stops working (because of the version check) All that matters is you have the relevant app on your new phone, and can save it to the same Signal folder on your new device (the Files app lets you create new folders if you tap the three dots up in the top right-hand corner).#This project was abandoned because Moxie Marlinspike said he was not OK with LibreSignal using the Open Whisper Systems servers and the name 'Signal'.

Once you've found the Signal backup, long press on the file and hit the Share button, you can send it to whatever app you want-you could even email it to yourself if you want to.

If you don't already have the Files app on your phone, you can download it from the Google Play Store. How you go about this is up to you-there are plenty of apps and methods, depending on your make of phone and the version of Android you're using-but you could, for example, use the Files app on stock Android to share the backup to Google Drive, then download it and put it back in the same folder on your new device. You then need to manually move your most recent backup over to your new phone: It'll be in the '/Internal Storage/Signal/Backups' or '/sdcard/Signal/Backups' folder. On your old device, it's enabled through the Chats and media and Chat backups options on the Signal settings screen-again, make sure you note down the passphrase that's displayed on screen, because you're going to need it to get your chats back on a new device.

On Android, you need to make use of the backup feature we've already mentioned above.

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