Re: RCS messaging to one user fails

Andrews wrote:

badgolferman wrote on Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:46:32 -0000 (UTC) :
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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.

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Hi badgolferman,
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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?
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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.
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PulseSMS doesn't support RCS but I could probably load any non-Google
messenger app that has RCS support (they should start existing soon).
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Do you know if it's possible for me to test your scenario with those
tools?  How?
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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/>
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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.
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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.