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.
  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    What’s really bizarre is that Google had the chance to be a dominant player in messaging when they made Hangouts the default SMS client on Android. Instead, they backpedaled and let Hangouts wither into obscurity. I’m mostly glad they screwed that up, but also puzzled.

      • Joe Cool@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Hangouts/Google Talk was great when they had federation and allowed 3rd party clients. After they locked that it went to shit.

        • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I miss the golden age when we had AIM, ICQ, or GoogleTalk, etc all on the client of our choosing.