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Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TL;DR

Users who have rooted their phone, have their bootloader unlocked or are using some custom ROMs report that their RCS messages are not being sent, even though RCS shows them as connected.
The Google Messages app does not show any error messages when blocking RCS messages of these users and does not send the messages out as SMS or MMS either.
Google famously campaigned for Apple to include RCS messaging in iMessage but is now blocking it for certain Android users.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What is the benefit of RCS? Ever since it started using that system, I've constantly had to manually change over to SMS because RCS just stops functioning entirely causing messages sent by me to not be sent and messages sent to me don't get pushed to me until I turn RCS off. So from my perspective, RCS fuckin' sucks.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Essentially it allows for end-to-end encrypted messages and high quality pictures and videos.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 5 months ago

high quality pictures and videos.

Oooo... So I can send more than a grainy 30 second video now? I mean, when it's working?

[-] dandu3@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah. It works well for me and never really had many issues with it. Sometimes it's slow when sending huge videos but that's to be expected

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but I still get shit quality from iMessage users.

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