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Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs
(www.androidauthority.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I've disabled it for now. Rooted phone is enormously more valuable to me than RCS that only half works right to begin with.
I was able to get RCS working again yesterday by updating to the latest version of Play Integrity Fix, but if that hadn't worked, I would have disabled it and then probably switched over to Textra or Yatta for texting since RCS is basically the only thing keeping me on messages for texting.
I have it disabled anyways along with the Carrier Services app. Guess what: my battery life improved dramatically.
Carrier services isn't required for RCS anymore pixel phones brand new don't even have it installed.
You can just install the PlayIntegrityFix module. It works again.
Google doing shit and it's fine to circumvent it.
Yep. Sadly WhatsApp is the standard now.. I'd like to go back to something neutral like SMS, but not if they pull this shit.