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Google is blocking RCS on rooted devices (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Batbro to c/[email protected]

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Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it's broken for me also.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I don't care how many services they break, I'm not giving up root access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How's Google pay with root doing these days?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Been paying a bunch on my rooted custom a13 rom in the past 2 months. 1 single magisk module (Play Integrity Fix by chiteroman) was all it took, simpler than it has been in a long time. I have full safetynet or 2/3 play integrity reliably, which to my understanding is all google can reasonably enforce on modern devices and android versions for a while to come.

So with sadness I must say I can't use google pay at all ... cause they killed it. But google wallet (formerly google pay, formerly android pay, formerly google wallet, formerly google checkout), works just fine

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You better set yourself a reminder for 20 minutes from now to update this when they rename the app again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Indeed. I have found an article which I hope I can simply keep bookmarked to make it a simple task following whatever the next method may be.

But I have also found things calm down considerably over time, google seems to concentrate their resources on recent android versions. Once a15 or a16 are out for a bit, I probably won't even have to update the module anymore.

All my older rooted phones have access to everything, even after years of not caring at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

responding here just so i can come back to look up this module

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

People say it works fine. I wouldn't know, didn't care for the feature even when my phone was fully stock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I have it on z fold 4 and with Magisk, Zygisk, Play integrity Fix, Shamiko I'm able to use it fine. Today I got the message that my phone doesn't meet the "security requirements" even though I passed safetynet and couldn't use it. I was ready to disown anything Google, but then I updated Play Integrity Fix and everything is working now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Same. DriveDroid is the one thing that keeps me on root though. If I need something, I'll see if I can bypass it.