Unable to activate Lenovo tablet as a "secondary" Viber device I have been using Viber for almost ten years on many devices (including Blackberries, Android phones and tablets, Windows and Linux PCs). Lately, my old Samsung tablet started to fail, so I bought a new tablet (Lenovo TB-8505F 8" Wifi only). I tried to activate Viber on this tablet as a secondary device which is the way I had used Viber for years: mobile phone is always my primary device; tablet and PCs are my secondary devices.

However, it seems that this new tablet is treated like a mobile phone by Viber (although it is a WiFi only device). So, Viber tries to activate this tablet as a primary device only.

As a comparison:


On the old Samsung tablet, the "activation screen" which is displayed just after I enter my mobile phone number, shows the relevant QR code to be scanned by my primary device (phone). [This is the correct behavior].
On the new Lenovo tablet, the "activation screen" which is displayed just after I enter my mobile phone number, shows that an SMS or phone call activation will be attempted [wrong behavior] just like the tablet were a primary device only (which it should not). In case I continue with the SMS/phone activation, my primary device (phone) gets disconnected [as expected].


I want to activate my new Lenovo Tablet as a secondary device. Is there a workaround to force Viber to "treat" this device as a secondary device?
I contacted Viber Support several days ago. Eventually the answer came from Viber Support (Ian). The steps are like this:


Remove Viber from your tablet (I added this step).
Go to tablet's Settings  Display  Display size and change from Default (or anything else) to Small.
Reboot your tablet so its dpi will change.
Install and activate Viber on the tablet as a secondary device (now you will see the expected QR code).
Change the Display size back to whatever it was before.
To be sure, reboot your tablet and test Viber.


Note: Unfortunately, I cannot check the "Display size" of my old Samsung tablet, because I already did a factory reset on it.