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It's great but among my contacts, I can count the people using Google Messages on one hand. I cannot send an RCS message from my Pixel to my wife's carrier-pro
by hocuspocus 5y ago
It's great but among my contacts, I can count the people using Google Messages on one hand.
I cannot send an RCS message from my Pixel to my wife's carrier-provisioned RCS app on her Samsung phone.
Google doesn't seem to be interested in a federated and interconnected RCS infrastructure anymore.
- dcomp 5y agoProbably some weird carrier RCS registration issue. My wife uses a s10e on EE (UK) and I use a Pixel 4 XL on Vodafone (UK) and I get RCS messages between us. Only use it for the delivery and read notifications but it works. I do remember having loads of problems with RCS registration failing on the Samsung side, or just disabling itself. Edit: Specifically I think it won't register whilst on WiFi and requires the correct mobile APN. I used to switch APNs to get a public IP address/ unfiltered internet
- hocuspocus 5y agoIt's not an issue on the device, I asked my carrier, Google won't let them interconnect RCS to Jibe. To my understanding, carriers were encouraged to either implement Universal Profile on their own or use a Google-operated "Jibe as a service" infrastructure. The former are now completely isolated from Google's network. To me it looks like British carriers are simply using Jibe.
- izacus 5y agoYeah, RCS is also broken on my Samsung phone and keeps deregistering itself. The dual-SIM support is also non-existent (which shows how every single of our comms services are built by Americans where dualSIM phones have been blocked by carriers for years). In general it's a completely trash fire situation where we're pretty much forced to use proprietary services without APIs to communicate.