Google is blocking RCS on rooted devices
Google is blocking RCS on rooted devices
Google says it’s taking measures to prevent spam and abuse.
Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it's broken for me also.
Reasoning
They stated its for reducing spam and that jazz.
However, it has the hidden benefit of yet another reason to avoid rooting, which means less access to functional adblocking
yet another reason to avoid rooting
we can all agree that literally nobody would give up their rooted phone if they're forced to choose between root or RCS
Wait what... How does that cut down on spam if it's backed by sms?
Shrug. Just repeating what the article said
Booooo! It's crazy that I can use gpay but not RCS
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
I'm on LineageOS, rooted, and RCS is working for me. Is the block tied to the device safety attestation?
My device (somehow?) passes safety check, and I've had no problems with my banking app, Pay, or other annoying apps that insist you don't own your own device.
I lost RCS for most of yesterday on my rooted stock phone. After I realized what was going on I went into Magisk and saw that an update was available for Play Integrity Fix and that solved the issue. What I found most annoying wasn't that it didn't work, but that it broke in a way that seemed like it was working. Both myself and other people saw that we were connected/chatting via RCS and their messages sent just fine, but I didn't receive them. Well, until I applied the update, then I got all of them.
I'm not sure which level I pass, I can use everything but etrade right now.
Tap to pay using gpay and all my banking apps work
You can use Simple Play Integrity Checker on IzzyOnDroid (fdroid repo) or the play store. It also checks safetynet.
If gpaywallet works that would indicate 2/3 play integrity if your android is recent I think, so it might be unrelated to the api. 3/3 isn't enforceable yet afaik, too many legitimate devices can't pass it.Apps can still bring their own root checks, but magiskhide should allow you to pass those.
Unless the app is quite nasty and checks for the mere presence of apps that don't do much without root or xposed, in which case there are also modules that allow you to limit what apps other apps can see being installed (really seeing installed apps should be a permission, but sadly it isn't on most roms yet)
Have you got Magisk or KSU?
Magisk
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!
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.
For now I can confirm KSU root does not trigger this RCS block
it's broken for me and i haven't even rooted this phone :p
Found info on Samsung website that "Samsung Messages" app should support RCS? Is it true? Can this app be installed on non-Samsung phone?
It used to, it no longer does because Google paid or convinced Samsung to remove RCS and make Google Messages the default.
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.
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.