Snapchat login temporarly failed

answered 2017-06-03 01:12:05 +0300

pisarz1958
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I doubt it's SafetyNet, the VMs I used today never passed it. It must be some other check, it's not about su binary either, I'm pretty clueless right now. Anyway, I came up with something today. This is not a solution everyone will like, but some terminal voodoo let me run Snapchat on my phone. This might be useful to someone.

First of all, I installed Snapchat on an Android VM. Here is catch, not every single one would work. Installing Android x86 on VirtualBox - no go, same error. Andy failed me miserably. Both Bluestacks and Remix OS Player did work, I used the latter because well, Bluestacks is a bloated piece of crap.

Here is a catch though. We can't root Jolla C/AquaFish for now, which means no Titanium Backup. Sad. You should be able to do the backup part using it though. I went with the old fashioned way. Remember to enable developer mode if you're going down this road. After logging in to Snapchat, backup your credentials this way:

Backup:

1. Open terminal

2. su

3. cd /data/data

4. tar -cvf /sdcard/snapchat.tar com.snapchat.android

Remix OS image came with super outdated tar, you might come across an issue with filenames longer than 100 bytes. If this happens, not all the files will be packaged, so you have to manually remove/rename files to avoid that. I assume using Titanium Backup or something instead should suffice too.

Now you need your backup transferred to your Jolla. I used this:

1. adb pull /sdcard/snapchat.tar && scp snapchat.tar nemo@192.168.0.1:~

For adb to work you need to enable developer mode. Also make sure ssh is enabled on your Jolla and you have your password handy.

Restore:

1. ssh into your Jolla, run devel-su and cd to /opt/alien/data/data

2. ls -la | grep com.snapchat.android // note the username. I had perms problem the first time I tried that and failed.

3. tar -xvf /home/nemo/snapchat.tar

4. chown -R 10064:10064 com.snapchat.android // replace 10064 with username you got from ls command

If you made any changes during backup, reset them.

Now you should be able to open Snapchat on your phone (it's borderline unstable for me, but it does open, so that's something I guess).

answered 2017-03-19 16:53:05 +0300

pisarz1958
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SafetyNet check fails on my AquaFish, not sure what causes this (maybe Android 5.x with 4.4.4 API level is suspicious? no clue), but there are quite a lot of apps which use that API, including Snapchat. Can someone check that as well to make sure it's not an isolated feature. I did a lot of weird things to my AlienDalvik files.

answered 2017-04-06 01:37:22 +0300

M1CK431
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Hi,

Same issue here. Now I'm using "Casper" (android app) as an alternative client. It's not perfect and some features are missing but you can at least view/download snaps and manage your friends (add, delete, block...) so it can be a good workaround. You can find more information about Casper (and official APK) here: https://casper.io/

I have also found another alternative but not tried: https://github.com/fisch0920/snapchat

Hope this can help...

Regards,

answered 2018-02-08 15:40:30 +0300

Malinux
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updated 2018-02-08 15:41:54 +0300

I had this issue too, until today. I am not sure exactly why it started to work. I didn't follow pisarz1958 sollution

The things I have done since my last login attempt is:

1. Emptied cache and data
2. Upgraded my Intex Aquafish from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
3. Tried to login as normal, got a message about "wrong username or password" and NOT the usual "Login temporarly failed"
4. Retested the password and choosed to use the phone t a new password via SMS
5. Logged in normally. Had to hit accept on new conditions

Not tested:

1. Send snap
2. upgrade to latest version of snapchat

Don't know for how long this will work or if it works after upgrading to latest snapchat version.