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.
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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
I don't care how many services they break, I'm not giving up root access.
How's Google pay with root doing these days?
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
responding here just so i can come back to look up this module
People say it works fine. I wouldn't know, didn't care for the feature even when my phone was fully stock.
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.
Same. DriveDroid is the one thing that keeps me on root though. If I need something, I'll see if I can bypass it.
I would definitely root. But I do want to have access to my banking apps and GPay. Even though I do have a watch that can do all that
You can have root as well as gpay and wallet. I have literally right now in Android 14.
What phone? I'm on S23u and kinda gave up back in the note 10 era. Samsung is going to be my go to regardless of root status.
Sony xperia 5V. Before that, just a few months ago, Poco X3 Pro.
I did.
Why
You're a fool.
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
