Google is silently blocking RCS on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (Update)
www.androidauthority.com
Google famously campaigned for Apple to "get the message" and use RCS, but now doesn't let rooted Android users use RCS.

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.
  • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
    27•4 months ago

    There should be an encrypted text communication standard that isn’t controlled by one company who can lock you out because you don’t have approved software

    XMPP + OMEMO

      • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
        5•4 months ago

        That too, but it is more resource-hungry to host (my biggest problem is that I have very limited storage and haven’t quite figured out how to disable media downloads from all rooms). But yea, indeed still an option.

          • @Ohh@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2•4 months ago

            I think the conduite server should be very lightweight, secure and easy to set up. But it’s leaking video

            • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
              1•4 months ago

              Yea, Synapse was out of the question for my low-power VPS, so I was going to try either this one or Dendrite. Just that last time I looked, I did not resolve the storage concerns. Ideally, I would like to not save any media and text that comes from federated servers.

    • @KrapKake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      Needs to be something like family is going to use you see. Which is why I liked what Signal had since it doubled as SMS.

    • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Great example since Google essentially hijacked XMPP and took it into a fully-intentional nosedive.