Google Messages may soon stop silently failing to send RCS chats on rooted devices
Google Messages may soon stop silently failing to send RCS chats on rooted devices
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So much for those fake open standards created by Google and can only be used by Google
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The enshittification continues unabated.
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RCS is an upgrade on SMS. The whole point of rooting is to circumvent restrictions, so wait for someone to stop shit talking modern protocols and figure out how to get it working. The idea that rooting was about making things easier was always a myth. It was never that.
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You can absolutely make a modern protocol
Good luck convincing anyone to use it or implement it
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RCS would only be an upgrade if it was possible to use with an open client and federated. As-is there are only 2 proprietary apps and 1 server, as far as I can tell. It's basically Google's version of WhatsApp.
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It will now loudly fail.
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RCS is horrible, it is a stop gap solution to a problem created by Apple, how hard is it to USA citizens to just use a proper messaging plataform, by that I mean, one that has multiplataform support and, no, falling back to SMS or RCS doesn't count. Apple's monopolistic and anticompetive behavior are a disgrace to society and humanity as whole.
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Just ordered my first iphone. :s
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Send it back. Not a good alternative
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Depends. When it comes to privacy they're a step up from virtually all vanilla Android distributions. And if you care about things like NFC payments and banking apps working reliably (= not potentially breaking with an update to the app or OS) in general that's your only option with Android. I'm not switching to a Pixel with Graphene, it just doesn't do what I need my phone to do. I might switch to an iPhone if the EU actually manages to force them to cut the walled garden crap.
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Why? Did you know about custom ROMs such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS before the purchase?
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Yes. I also ordered another orbic wonder (probably my 5th) but this one showed up in an opened box, so I aint gunna chance it. Will use it for music. I assumed the most secure second hand phone under 400 would be an iphone. Them orbic's don't even give you that boot message when the bootloader is unlocked.
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Ok
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RCS/SMS is such a bullshit standard, I hope US citizens migrate to something less worse eventually
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Doesnt matter to me if it's locked to Google Messages which now requires you login to a Google account.
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Sending a message should never fail silently, so that's an improvement, but fuck whoever decided this.
That's what I was thinking, but reading the article it's apparently not related to sending messages. It's simpler.
Google blocks RCS on rooted devices. And at the moment they don't tell the user that at all, it just fails to work. So actively the worst way to handle it.
Now to see if they mean actually rooted devices, or anything with a non-stock OS.
Don't use Google apps
I don't trust any of them honestly
If you have an iPhone and send a voice text to another iPhone and mention “Dave and Busters”, it will always fail silently. You can text the words “Dave and Busters” and it will go through, but if you say it in a voice text, it will never reach its destination.
That sounded too weird to be true yet it's true. The problem seems to be that it generates some HTML to wrap the attached audio file, does voice to text, and doesn't escape an ampersand, which trips a firewall.
It's bad UX that it fails silently there too; at least the recipient should get some sort of explanation.