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  • Using RCS with Google Messages on GrapheneOS

Activated successfully on Sunday on Verizon with the beta APK method. Got unregistered on Wednesday. Repeating the process worked, but now I'm concerned this will be a frequent thing.

Activated through install from Google Play store, over mobile data and VPN turned off.

    Mine keeps unregistering every 3 days or so and I have to repeat the process. It seems to me like we need to find a way to manually change the ACS URL. Unfortunately newer Google Messages versions don't seem to have an option to do this in activity launcher. I've been looking for a way to change the ACS URL in debug settings to no avail.

    I wonder if there's a way to permanently assign an ACS URL via something like adb

    Does anyone know if something changed about Graphene around November/December that might impact this?

    I've done all the troubleshooting including a factory reset and a new SIM card. I get RCS within moments with this SIM on another stock OS phone.

      patienttruth99
      *I've also tried turning on auto verification of phone numbers within my Google account. That's something that helped earlier in the year to get RCS.

      This time around the status of auto verification doesn't change from "pending". Makes me think Google isn't seeing something it wants to see in order to do it's verification.

          If you are using a DNS service like NextDNS or ControlD, try adding your RCS ACS URL to the whitelist to ensure that it isn't being blocked.

            bluesl33ves
            Is that with the older apk?

            I may go that route, but it'd be nice to get this sorted out with the current version. It's not my preference to run old software if I can help it.

                thed0ctor

                It worked 👍.Just installed the version of Messages you sent. I don't think I accomplished anything with Activity Launcher so it didn't play any role. The version of Messages you sent did it all.

                  Unregistered again after 3 days, so that's at least consistent.

                  After turning on airplane mode for a few hours, my status is saying "Setting up". It is not changing from that state.

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                  patienttruth99
                  This is actually an option I opted to turn off instead. Been connected for a full week with no interruptions. I am a little hesitant to update Google Messages after updating it to whatever the current Google Messages build was a week ago.

                      New user here / first post, installed GOS upon purchasing a new 7a a few days ago - was following this thread since RCS chats wasn't working for me (would be stuck at Verifying), which was a feature that was working with my provider (Mint) on my previous phone.

                      Just now I was going through Permissions Manager under Privacy since it was a menu I haven't gone through yet. I scrolled down to SMS and saw that Google (installed for Google Lens / Translate), Google Play services, and Google Play Store was under "Not Allowed". I gave all three permissions, and now I have "Status: Connected" for the first time ever.

                      Forgive me if this is not relevant to this current discussion with using beta versions and things, but I wanted to share. I'll keep an eye on it for now, and would be curious to know if this is even a desirable solution.

                      Messages for me will be a tertiary messaging app since most of my day-to-day messaging happens on other apps, so I wasn't too bothered about the permissions.