@tgalal: Can you verfiy that the phone-number you used to register the account is found as registered with an official WhatsApp Client? That was a problem I had when registering the way I described: The registered Account wasn't found by an official client. Maybe you need to be logged in to get found? But great to see that you are now able to make a connection to the server!
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