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Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps (Here's Why)
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It's been largely fixed for stock with select regions still being affected. RCS is failing on GOS because the correct device ID isn't getting reported and the verification services won't authenticate the OS.
It'll work for about 24 hours, give or take, from a fresh installation, but after that RCS dies and no longer works. Any groups you were in will see you as departed and you will lose any future messages to that group.
It's pretty fucked.
Thanks, I had no idea of the severity. I wonder if they'll be able to fix it.
I convinced my fiance to switch over to GOS because I've had moderate success with it for about a year now. So of course this happens as soon as she made the switch. Now she's talking about getting an iPhone.
Ain't that how it always goes? Best I could do with mine was to get her to use Signal. Better than nothing, I guess.