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.
  • JohnEdwaEnglish
    25·
    4 months ago

    And most flying things aren’t drones, they are radio controlled models, but you try getting people to stop using that term.
    Android/Custom ROM is the name for them, even if it doesn’t mean what it should. It’s not that far off as that partition is usually set as read-only, so it kinda is a ROM.