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.
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.
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.
Hmm ok, maybe not related then. I had no issues with going back to standard SMS, and if they won’t play by the rules then why should I care as long as I can text my family?
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