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From: "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RCS messaging to one user fails
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:46:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrews wrote:

>badgolferman wrote on Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:46:32 -0000 (UTC) :
>
>>Since the adoption of RCS by Apple and upgrading to iOS 18.0.1, I'm
>>having trouble sending messages to one of my Android user
>>co-workers.  The message field where you type shows RCS when I
>>start to message them, but it fails delivery immediately.  I am
>>forced to send again as a SMS message every time.
>
>Hi badgolferman,
>
>I'd like to help you out but I'm hindered by having never used RCS
>(since it does nothing useful to me) but maybe I can run an RCS test
>for you?
>
>I have a variety of iPads and an iPhone 6 (but no SIM card) in front
>of me.  Of course my daily drive is the free T-Mobile Galaxy A32-5G
>which has the  the last known good version of PulseSMS set up as my
>default messenger app.
>
>PulseSMS doesn't support RCS but I could probably load any non-Google
>messenger app that has RCS support (they should start existing soon).
>
>Do you know if it's possible for me to test your scenario with those
>tools?  How?
>
>Looking up my old thread from a year ago asking for non-Google RCS
>apps it seems there may be non-Google RCS apps for me to test with
>iOS for you.
><https://xdaforums.com/t/apps-what-rich-communication-services-enabled-sms-mms-rcs-text-messaging-apps-do-you-know-of-for-android.4642422/>
>
>Let me know if you can think of a test I can do for you. I also have
>family members with the latest iPhone 16 (yes, I still buy Apple
>products) whom I can ask also to send me messages - but they're busy
>with life & kids too.
>
>Let me know if there's a test you can propose that I can do for you.
>I do tests for people all the time on Windows & Android so why not
>iOS.


The mere fact that you are offering to be of assistance is greatly
appreciated, but at this point I have given up since I'm quite sure the
problem is with the other user's phone and there's nothing I can change
on my end to work around it.  Your act of kindness is appreciated by
me, but I'm sure not at all by several others on this newsgroup.