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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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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 12 points 5 months ago

Any idea how long this has been going on? I have an unlocked bootloader but am running a standard upgrade version on my phone and it was never rooted. Some time in the last few months I started getting warnings that my texts weren't going through and was asked if I wanted to switch to SMS... yeah ok I'd never heard of RCS before so yes please use SMS for all of my messages, and everything worked fine.

[-] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Supposedly this isn't doing any warning or asking to fall back. The messages just fail silently. I'd root and use the play integrity hider magisk module.

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[-] pkill@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

imagine using an sms app that requires network access

[-] raptore39@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

So I read that the RCS Apple wants to implement isn't exactly the RCS Google is using.

My hope is that once Apple starts using (a hopefully open standard) RCS, then everyone will switch to that and everyone everywhere can communicate securely.

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[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

begrudgingly leaving a 1 star review about RCS not working

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

and yet I get crap about complaining about android and rooting it when this shit literally happens, on the regular.

Im sorry, i want to like android, but it's awful, and genuinely sucks.

[-] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Wait.... It sucks cause they are actively working to break it. Not because its flawed. Its no different than apples stupid bubbles.

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

I think the point is that if it can be sabotaged by a central authority, it sucks. Both Apple and Google suck.

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