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Google is quietly blocking RCS on rooted devices.
(support.google.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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This is shitty, but genuinely I have no idea why people root or run custom ROMs these days. I haven't found an actual use for it since about 2015
Edit: plenty have people have given me fair enough reasons now, thanks
How do you keep a phone more than 5 years while still having security updates without a custom ROM?
I had my note 8 for longer than security updates existed so I installed lineageOS on it, it got security updates but lost a ton of other features and became buggy and slow. Maybe with other phones the experience is better.
I'm running a 2018 flagship using DivestOS (a fork of Lineage). It's faster than most new phones, battery gets charged midday (because I hammer it), and I'd argue more secure than most (because I have a proper firewall and some other security tools.
If I were to not hammer on it, the battery would last for 10 hours+ (using just messaging apps, instead of ftp, file sync, games, etc).