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(SOLVED) How to get RCS working on GrapheneOS (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/android@lemmy.world

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I've heard the process is a pain in the ass and not very reliable. I am trying to prepare for when Apple adds RCS support because unfortunately in the US almost everyone has an iPhone and refuses to use a messaging app outside of iMessage.

I have installed sandboxed play services and the Carrier Services app from the google play store with a dummy google account and have put in my phone number in Google Messages for it to verify but it has not been able to do anything and is just stuck on "Trying to Verify" for hours now.

I've already tried clearing cache and everything as well.

Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: the following did the trick! Steps are to

settings
apps
Sandboxed Google Play
Google settings
mobile data messaging
phone number verification
automatically verify phone number (toggle on)
RCS should verify
Back to 7. And toggle off

Then go to Google Messages and enter xyzzy in the search bar, click the debug option, click RCS, and click on Force Client to Unregister, and then I went to click on RCS in the settings again and boom it was enabled.

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[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've had trouble with it in the past as well. Are you in a place where you can get actual cell service or just wifi?

[–] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Yea I've been on mobile data for this whole process

[–] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I was able to get it working, check the updated post

[–] user@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember it working some time a go. And recently checked the settings to see if all is well and yep same as you. So I assume something had changed. Maybe GOS code or android code 🤷

[–] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was able to get it working, check the updated post.

[–] user@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks bud. On step 8, RCS still says 'setting up' & 'trying to verify' Should I continue with the rest of the instructions? Or wait for step 8?

[–] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Did you go through the debug menu and everything?

Also you might need to install the Carrier Services app from google play. I also had given phone, call, contacts, and sms permissions to both play store and play services.

[–] user@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Installed now carrier services w no network permission 🤣 now its telling me 'maximum number of retry attempts reached, try tomorrow' 🤷 will play w it tomorrow. Appreciate the replies. 👍

[–] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Give it network perms and try it, let me know if you are able to get it working

[–] user@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago

I enabled network permission, still nothing. Tried step 8 and search for debug setting nothing came up. So I uninstalled carrier services app. From memory when I got RCS working some time ago, I think I disabled some permissions I had enabled. But can't remember where. I will dig through GOS instructions, I assume they're somewhere. When I get a chance. Thanks for assist.

[+] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

If you consider 0.6% more people to be "most", well, sure.

Most people I know/see have Android, with iOS mostly being used for work phones (because there's no advantage to Android on a work phone). I know one person in my extended circle (about 100 people) who uses an iPhone personally.

Every time I lookup the stats for the last year, iOS vs Android users, it's about the same. Given iPhone is the defacto work-provided phone in enterprise, those stats are misleading (I've worked for 3 companies with 50,000+ employees, with 2/3 of them carrying work-supplied phones). So I think the number of personal-use iPhones is much lower than it seems. Keep in mind, those companies don't permit personal use of company phones - it opens them to risk. So we all carry 2 phones.

[–] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

Thank you for your useless comment. Actually not even thank you cause your statistics are wrong. US marketshare is 57% iOS and 43% Android, in the younger generations it's something more like 85% iOS and 15% Android which is the demographic I have to deal with.

[–] dillydogg@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago

I would suggest that you consider that other people may live in a place with a different distribution of operating systems than you and that they might know what they want. Even if what you were saying is true for the OP, this isn't even helpful.