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#259914 30-Oct-2019 10:15

https://www-lifehacker-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/10/how-to-manually-enable-rcs-on-android-right-now

Has anyone tried this out yet and got it to work in NZ?
I've got the new menus on my messengers app and it tries to verify my number but I haven't received any text.

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#2346236 30-Oct-2019 10:59

Yup, i have it working as does one of my workmates. We're talking to each other using it.

You've got to make sure you're on the beta of messages, if you skip that step it doesn't work, but it sort of seems like it might work.

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#2346242 30-Oct-2019 11:11

I thought RCS required the carriers to support it? Or is this like iMessage where it's just Google to Google?

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#2346244 30-Oct-2019 11:13

chevrolux:

I thought RCS required the carriers to support it? Or is this like iMessage where it's just Google to Google?

There's a hack at the moment where you can enable it yourself, using Google's RCS servers.

I mean it's an interesting hack and a fun experience, but RCS is (IMHO) totally doomed. No one really wants to support it, only nerds are going to hack their phone to manually enable it, and hello entire Apple ecosystem... They're not onboard.

So it's dead in the water. This is a bit of fun to be able to send MMS type messages, using the Android Messages app, without having to pay MMS fees. Nothing more (again, IMHO)

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#2346257 30-Oct-2019 11:36

RCS is dead

Google ' Vodafone Joyn ' I was on the trial a number of years back and it was between 2D, Spark and VodafoneNZ they pulled the plug

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#2346295 30-Oct-2019 13:23

There's a lot of fragmentation in messaging. WhatsApp is very popular. Facebook Messenger is popular, but I really don't like it, even with the lite version. Apple is a walled garden. Then there's signal, viber, etc that are also rans.

RCS was maybe meant to unite everyone, but I think it will come untied.

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#2346321 30-Oct-2019 14:24

Enabled this on my P30 pro, but don't have anyone to test it with - Unless its rolled out as an official thing of the messages app and not needing to hack it to enable, don't see the uptake being massive.

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#2346448 30-Oct-2019 21:01

I tried it and have received umpteen texts from Google. But when I try to enable it, I get this screen

and when I choose GOT IT it goes away but nothing happens. I am Message 5.2.051

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#2346453 30-Oct-2019 21:05

timmmay:

There's a lot of fragmentation in messaging. WhatsApp is very popular. Facebook Messenger is popular, but I really don't like it, even with the lite version. Apple is a walled garden. Then there's signal, viber, etc that are also rans.

RCS was maybe meant to unite everyone, but I think it will come untied.

I don't like any of those services (WhatsApp or FB Messenger). So I tend to use Wechat amongst the family (and of course sending all my messages to China) and for others Hangouts with the occasional Viber. For work it's SMS.

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#2346555 30-Oct-2019 22:53

lchiu7:
I tried it and have received umpteen texts from Google. But when I try to enable it, I get this screen

and when I choose GOT IT it goes away but nothing happens. I am Message 5.2.051

I can't even get that far, I enter my number click on verify, the tick comes up and back to the main messengers screen.

Not a single text from Google.
There's no special format for th phone number is there? Just the usual international 21XXXXXXX (with the 0 dropped off and no +64 as the app already had this when it registers from NZ)

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#2346882 31-Oct-2019 16:26

timmmay:

There's a lot of fragmentation in messaging. WhatsApp is very popular. Facebook Messenger is popular, but I really don't like it, even with the lite version. Apple is a walled garden. Then there's signal, viber, etc that are also rans.

RCS was maybe meant to unite everyone, but I think it will come untied.

Reminds me of:

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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#2346902 31-Oct-2019 17:18

Still reliant on phone numbers, which is a really annoying thing. If a messaging platform still doesnt keep message history centralized on a server, searchable, able to be used on any phone or PC with a login, then its IMO no better than SMS or MMS. Facebook messenger ticks all the boxes for me and is my prefered one but some people are phobic of it so have to email me instead.

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#2346970 31-Oct-2019 21:25

I get an "Unknown error" every time I try to verify.... sigh.

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#2347016 1-Nov-2019 07:14

SpookyAwol:

I get an "Unknown error" every time I try to verify.... sigh.

Wouldn't surprise me if Google have already shut this down.

RCS is a fail in every respect - the only real reason why providers still have any interest in it is because it enables them to have a next gen messaging product they can monetise. It's pretty much a failure in every respect which is why it's failed to really gain traction, and why it'll never go anywhere

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#2347556 2-Nov-2019 12:02

Well I am still getting message from Google

And when I click the Sun icon with Exclamation Mark I get this screen

When I then choose NEXT I get the screen I pasted before

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#2347566 2-Nov-2019 12:32

I followed the instructions here -https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/31/screw-your-carrier-heres-how-to-enable-rcs-in-the-messages-app-yourself-right-now/ on a second android phone just now and worked fine - Main thing was clearing the app data for carrier services.

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