Locked out of account after migrating to Molly (from Molly UnifiedPush)

[mon4d]

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Bug Description

I followed the tutorial for migrating from Signal to Molly, but instead migrated from the now deprecated Molly UnifiedPush version.
After asking me for my
PIN, SMS and Cloudflare captcha I had to reenter my phone number and pin again (still as part of the same authentification process), just to be presented with the 7 days account lock message.

I found issues almost identical, related to the Signal (not molly) app, but those are now 1-2 years old already. People there worked around it by installing a different version, some claimed the issue came from not having google services installed or using a vpn.

I am posting this as bug because I for sure didn't misstype my PIN (there is a notification if I enter it wrong).

I now hope it will work on 7 days, when supposedly the pin is deleted, along with the data (i have backuped the chats at least)

Anyone experiencing something similar?

Screenshots

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Device Model

Pixel 9a

Android Version

Android 14 Graphene OS

App Version

v7.26.1-1-FOSS

Link to Debug Log

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[mon4d]

This is almost identical to what happened:
signalapp/Signal-Android#12835

Only difference is I don't get any missing playstore notification, which would make sense for the foss version.

[valldrac]

Yes, this is a recurring issue in Signal. The root cause seems to be the Signal anti-spam system, that is especially aggressive when FCM isn't used. Unfortunately, we can't fix it on our end.

[iago-lito]

Well, this has us locked out of our accounts :\ Is there still a working workaround in #12835 ? What can we do in the meantime ? I don't want to upgrade to lineage 22 because I'm fearing this could happen again. And my friend is just out of signal rn with no solution.

Can you please point towards discussion on this "recurring" upstream problem and its "root cause" @valldrac? I'm struggling to find up-to-date information.