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I have a Fairphone 6 with /e/os and it was great until I found out it has no RCS support, and every time someone with real Android or iOS sends a group text you get nothing and they don’t know you didn’t get it. For it to be workable you have to go around begging your friend to turn off RCS on their end and good luck with that.
If you turn off RCS a day or two before switching and ensure you message these groups after this is typically negated (at least in my experience) GrapheneOS just put out a way to use RCS on its OS this month which is really nice, I have it on its own profile for RCS and use open bubbles for iMessage/FaceTime and I'm astounded how well it works tbh. But the goal is to slowly harass enough of my frequent contacts to get on signal, so far I'm doing great, my largest hold out being my wife lol
Do you have a link to information for this?
I tried using Graphene in September when they said they got it working but the best I got was a day before I had to jump through hoops to get it connected again.
If they fixed it this month I'd love to jump in and try again.
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026021200
Top of the change log
To toggle the switch go to settings, apps, Google Play services sandboxed, play services special permissions and toggle the only available switch for icc
GrapheneOS technically on paper supports RCS but I cant get it working and afaik most people can't get it working either (I think its more RCS works on GOS for some people with very specific carriers)
They just released an update this month that has it working, I mean time will tell if it continues too but they specifically put a new permission in for this issue
Maybe its an ATT issue but I use GOS and it doesn't work
You do have to specifically turn it on
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026021200
Top of the change log
To toggle the switch go to settings, apps, Google Play services sandboxed, play services special permissions and toggle the only available switch for icc
Woah, it works now :3
Pretty fucking cool right?
is it though? messages are now going through google
I mean I only use RCS with android users and open bubbles for iMessage, but the majority of my shit goes through signal
...or rooting the phone, but google comes up with new bs every month to keep you on your toes. the only solution is to force the friend group to get another app.
personly i used rcs for a week, and got like 5 spam messages, so i deleted the google sms app and been using fossify since.