Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it’s broken for me also.

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    9 months ago

    yet another reason to avoid rooting

    we can all agree that literally nobody would give up their rooted phone if they’re forced to choose between root or RCS

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      9 months ago

      I don’t care how many services they break, I’m not giving up root access.

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          9 months ago

          Been paying a bunch on my rooted custom a13 rom in the past 2 months. 1 single magisk module (Play Integrity Fix by chiteroman) was all it took, simpler than it has been in a long time. I have full safetynet or 2/3 play integrity reliably, which to my understanding is all google can reasonably enforce on modern devices and android versions for a while to come.

          So with sadness I must say I can’t use google pay at all … cause they killed it. But google wallet (formerly google pay, formerly android pay, formerly google wallet, formerly google checkout), works just fine

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            9 months ago

            You better set yourself a reminder for 20 minutes from now to update this when they rename the app again.

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              9 months ago

              Indeed. I have found an article which I hope I can simply keep bookmarked to make it a simple task following whatever the next method may be.

              But I have also found things calm down considerably over time, google seems to concentrate their resources on recent android versions. Once a15 or a16 are out for a bit, I probably won’t even have to update the module anymore.

              All my older rooted phones have access to everything, even after years of not caring at all.

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          9 months ago

          People say it works fine. I wouldn’t know, didn’t care for the feature even when my phone was fully stock.

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          9 months ago

          I have it on z fold 4 and with Magisk, Zygisk, Play integrity Fix, Shamiko I’m able to use it fine. Today I got the message that my phone doesn’t meet the “security requirements” even though I passed safetynet and couldn’t use it. I was ready to disown anything Google, but then I updated Play Integrity Fix and everything is working now.

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        9 months ago

        Same. DriveDroid is the one thing that keeps me on root though. If I need something, I’ll see if I can bypass it.

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      9 months ago

      I would definitely root. But I do want to have access to my banking apps and GPay. Even though I do have a watch that can do all that

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        9 months ago

        You can have root as well as gpay and wallet. I have literally right now in Android 14.

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          9 months ago

          What phone? I’m on S23u and kinda gave up back in the note 10 era. Samsung is going to be my go to regardless of root status.

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            9 months ago

            Sony xperia 5V. Before that, just a few months ago, Poco X3 Pro.