Enable RCS (Rich Communication Services) on Samsung Stock Messaging App

[tribalfs]

If you have a galaxy smartphone with RCS feature NOT yet enabled, this will help you

https://youtu.be/HNmUxDkDshk

[franks1]

RCS would have been good but not all people use it, even the pure Android phone carriers (other phones using Google Messages as default messaging app).

I love the idea of RCS, as you would get to send not only chats, images, and videos, but also any type of FILES.

[tribalfs]

If they are not using a samsung phone, you can suggest them to use google message.

Google message has built-in RCS feature that they can enable. It's a battery hog though, at least in my experience.

[franks1]

haven't tried checking the batt tho, but for an early take on Google Messages on RCS being a batt hogger is reasonable. Not to mention the app has to be on the background aways.

[tribalfs]

It consumes 30% - 50% of my batt on my note10+ before. But when I used the stock messaging, the battery consumption is negligible even with RCS enabled.

[franks1]

wow, that's very significant. the issue must have been solved already.

[tribalfs]

Still not updated. Latest version is still Oct 14, 2020.