Updated Corona Contact Tracing Germany from Apps fails

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I found a workaround here: https://codeberg.org/corona-contact-tracing-germany/cwa-android/issues/51

vanitasvitae proposes to downgrade to v1.7.1.2 (which is not possible from F-Droid, at least under Q) but it works with the following command:

adb install -r -d ~/Downloads/de.corona.tracing_1070102.apk

I can confirm, this worked on my FP3. While crashing when I first tryed to open it and taking some time to do a new check, by now everything is working.

Some more detailed instructions:

  1. Get the 1.7.1.2 build of the CCTG app, download to the download folder, as indicated in the adb command above (or just change the link in the adb command) you can find the apk here (open link in browser): https://f-droid.org/de/packages/de.corona.tracing/
  2. Connect your phone to a computer that has platform tools installed.
  3. Confirm the phone is connected and authorised by allowing adb debugging in developers option and using this command:

adb devices

  1. If the phone is connected properly, enter the command mentioned above.

Now CCTG should be downgraded with the data partition intact. Don’t forget to disable automatic updates in whatever app store you are using for CCTG.

Really don’t know if there are any dangers to doing this, so everything at your own risk.

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