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Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

XMPP + OMEMO

also matrix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That too, but it is more resource-hungry to host (my biggest problem is that I have very limited storage and haven't quite figured out how to disable media downloads from all rooms). But yea, indeed still an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In worst case, symlink image folder to /dev/null.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the conduite server should be very lightweight, secure and easy to set up. But it's leaking video

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yea, Synapse was out of the question for my low-power VPS, so I was going to try either this one or Dendrite. Just that last time I looked, I did not resolve the storage concerns. Ideally, I would like to not save any media and text that comes from federated servers.