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Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it’s broken for me also.
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Honestly how fucking dare they mess with communication like that, especially with no notice. I’ve been missing messages from my roommate and dad with no sign of anything being misconfigured. It’s one thing for things to be inadvertently broken from rooting, but doing it on purpose under the table is disgusting behavior
Turns out I was missing messages also from my mom during a family emergency. I’ll probably be disabling RCS going forward
Play Integrity Fix currently fixes this
I have 15.8 installed but I’ll try 15.9 and report back
Edit: 15.9 does fix
Yet one more reason to not use the hot garbage that is RCS
I wish they would open it up to other apps
RCS is walled off by design, so that users are dependent on Google and their phone carrier. If they wanted an open standard they would have adopted something like XMPP.
No… RCS is a protocol (from GSMA) anyone can implement, Google just spearheaded it and developed Jibe to make it easy for operators to implement, but by doing this it means Google gained a lot of control of it and added their own features to such as end-to-end encryption.
RCS is designed to be used with a phone number though. And fall back to SMS when unavailable. If XMPP was used.
If RCS was fully walled off, Apple would not be able to implement it like they said they would
RIP but true, I only interact via matrix bridges but maybe I should setup a iMessage one to cover all bases lol
Google Messages is a mess. It NEVER falls back to SMS if you lose data connection, making it very unreliable.
As a result I’ve had several messages fail, with no notice unless I open the app and see the “failed” message.
As a result I disabled RCS and the app and installed QKSMS and only use SMS. It’s 100% reliable. For chats I use WhatsApp.
Add to that they are now blocking rooted users WITHOUT TELLING THEM, and it’s really a pile of steaming sh!t.
Suchai needs to go. Google as a whole is getting worse under his leadership.
Even Android has stagnated under him. It should be way better than it is but he doesn’t inspire creativity and excitement in the staff. They are all playing it safe, with zero innovation.
An “industry standard” that Google seems to have complete control over. Sound like another failed Google messaging app.
They say that it’s for reducing spam but then i read that in india they allow businesses to pay for sending unsolicited spam to the point that enabling RCS it’s like stating “i like spam, please send more”
Google should be forced to open up RCS to third-parties with this move.
Why? How about we just make something better.
We did. RCS was made over a decade ago by mobile phone OEMs
Except now that everything runs Android and theres so few OEMs left, Google gets to dictate a ton of stupid requirements even though it’s open source and runs off the Linux kernel.
They already paid Samsung to remove RCS from their messages app so that google messages would be the only major app with support.
Incidentally, it runs like complete garbage compared to even the OEM SMS apps of Android jellybean.
So when they go around making a hissy fit about imessage, I really don’t care because I can’t even use RCS without using their shitty gapp.
The current alternative is a data based app like signal.
Aaaah… Finally a reason for me to root my phone!
For now I can confirm KSU root does not trigger this RCS block
Not one single mention in the article of what an “RCS message” is.
Boy do I hate articles that just assume you know all the context you need.
it’s broken for me and i haven’t even rooted this phone :p
Can we redo this please with modern specs and cameras? The ubuntu edge phone.
imagine if this kickstarter reached it’s goal 10 years ago… So sad.
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I used to unlock the bootloaders for a couple of years on all my phones, 10 years ago or so. I installed cyanogenmod and used it the way it was supposed to: rooted. But then Google Pay came along as well as banking apps that actually did their jobs better then the banks’ web sites. You couldn’t use either of that reliably with a rooted phone. So now I am back to stock android and I am actually quite happy with it. I like the google services, including Google Pay. Also, stock android improved a lot since the early 10s.
Cool, good for you.
