T-Mobile RCS Messaging Stability Issues

tidbits wrote:

bvleonov wrote:

I have been having issues with RCS working on my phone since I've gotten it. The issue rears its head mostly in group chats where I do not receive about 2/3 of messages sent to me. This has resulted in me being inadvertently excluded from social events because people didn't know I wasn't receiving messages and obviously I didn't know either. I have had to disable RCS to reliably receive messages from my friends. I am also no longer part of a friend group chat and have to rely on my wife to convey information to me about social outings.

Feels like using T-Mobile makes me a second-class citizen. Perhaps T-Mobile wants us to change carriers?

Your issue is a Samsung issue. Google messages and Samsung devices been having issue. Doesn't matter the carrier and which RCS server around the world. 

https://www.sammobile.com/news/rcs-messages-not-working-properly-for-some-galaxy-phone-users/

 

I have seen this happen but is not actually the problem I'm experiencing, since the message will get delivered in some form. The issue I'm having is that I'm just straight up not getting a significant portion of messages from people when I have RCS enabled. Not as sms or rcs, they just go off into the ether. And that is a Jibe/T-Mobile server issue.

The reason I know is that the people I'm having this issue with have the same exact phone as me, or same-generation Samsung devices but are on different carriers. I have checked their RCS settings and they have Jibe as their RCS provider, while I'm over here on the pathetic T-Mobile servers playing by myself.