Whatsapp messages not sending / receiving on LOS with sideloading

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Hi there,

whatsapp on my wife’s phone cannot* send or receive messages anymore.

-> I did upgrade 3 weeks ago when whatsapp mentioned the current app version would not work anymore.

-> I sideloaded the newest version on apkpure

-> I sideloaded the newest version on whatsapp.com/android, which was newer then on apkpure.

-> today I updated again via whatsapp.com/android, now version 2.25.27.73

Phone: FairPhone 5. OS: LineageOS 21, version 20241203. No google plays services.

When sending a message, it only shows the icon for ‘waiting to be delivered to the server’.

When receiving a message, it sometimes

- does not show at all (1-1 messages from me),

- shows ‘waiting for this message. This may take a while.’ (in a certain app group)

- actually showing the message, but only when it is a subtitle to a picture or other document.

Starting or answering a video call works without problems.

Anyone knows what is going wrong?

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Also no MicroG?

You could try to download from Aurora Store, would make updates in general easier.

Any reason the system is so outdated?

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No microG either, no. Didn’t know about Aurora, will have a look at it.

Most likely never seen newer updates on LOS. Now I see that I need adb and sideload to get LOS 22 and it feels like a hurdle to do that. Any risk of data loss in the process? Whatsapp should work from android 5+, and lineageOS 21 is similar to android 14 so should not be a problem?