getChatById() fails for 100% of @lid contacts with "No LID for user" — not intermittent, survives full logout + re-pairing

[JhonyCreativo]

Issue Description

client.getChatById(chatId) throws for every @lid contact on this account (confirmed across 12 different contacts), not just occasionally. The thrown error's name/message/stack are a single minified letter (e.g. r), consistent with the internal WAWebFindChatAction.findOrCreateLatestChat → toUserLidOrThrow "No LID for user" failure described in #3834, but here it's 100% reproducible rather than intermittent.

This breaks everything downstream that needs a resolved Chat object for an @lid id:

• chat.sendStateTyping() / chat.clearState() (typing indicator)
• Reading a chat's own recent messages as a fallback when sendMessage()'s return value/message_create doesn't carry a serialized id (related: client.sendMessage sometimes resolves to null #3767, Have error TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'serialize') when send message #3637)
• client.getChats()-based syncing of existing chats (every @lid chat fails to load)

Interestingly, client.getContactLidAndPhone([chatId]) does resolve correctly for the same contacts, so the account clearly has a usable LID mapping somewhere — findOrCreateLatestChat specifically seems unable to use it.

Reproduction Steps

1. Link a WhatsApp Business account whose contacts are mostly @lid (hidden-number privacy id) rather than @c.us.
2. Call client.getChatById('@lid') for any of them.
3. Observe it throws consistently (not once in a while — every single call, every single contact).

Code Sample

User Setup

WhatsApp	Type
Account Type	WhatsApp Business
Authentication Strategy	LocalAuth
WhatsApp Web Version	2.3000.1043159177, 2.3000.1043179329
whatsapp-web.js Version	1.34.7

Environment	Version
Browser Type	Chromium
Browser Version	24.38.0
Phone OS Version	IOS
Running OS Version	Ubuntu
Node.js Version	v20.19.6

Checklist

• I use the latest released version of whatsapp-web.js.
• I have searched existing issues and confirmed this is not a duplicate.
• I have verified this is a library issue, not a problem with my code.

[geohk]

same here, since yesterday,

[yairmelamed]

same here, since yesterday.. and also IDMessage returns empty..