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Carrier Services in the news

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Kind of a follow-up to my previous "explain Carrier Services" post, in
today's news Ars Technica explains it and tells how the latest version
has serious issues.

The second paragraph explains it, the third details the problem in v50.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-breaks-sms-on-many-android-phones-is-rolling-back-changes-now/

    If the text messages on your Android phone have suddenly stopped
    working, you're not alone. Google pushed out a bad copy of the
    Carrier Services app, and the result was broken SMS on many Android
    phones. It also sounds like the company is rolling back the update
    and fixing the problem.

    Carrier Services is a little-known Android system component that
    popped up on the Play Store in 2017. This highly privileged app with
    the package name "com.google.android.ims" is part of Android's IP
    Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)--the collection of 3GPP standards that
    lets your phone connect to the cellular network and typically
    delivers voice, video, and text, including the fancy stuff like
    Voice over LTE, Wi-Fi calling, and RCS, a more modern replacement
    for SMS. Google typically uses this app to push new RCS features out
    to users, but it can also be used to rapidly distribute bugs to
    users when things go wrong. With over a billion Play Store downloads
    as a default Android app, it has a big reach.

    Google pushed out version 50 of Carrier Services, and afterward,
    many users--including Samsung, OnePlus, LG, Motorola, and TCL
    customers--have reported sending-and-receiving issues for SMS.
    Android Police says it has received some reports of users being
    automatically downgraded to the previous working version of the app,
    Carrier Services v48.

    If you want to check your version of Carrier Services, the easiest
    way is to open the system settings, hit the search button in the top
    right, type in "Carrier Services," and press the app info result for
    the Carrier Services app (it has a multi-colored puzzle piece next
    to it). If your Android skin has somehow broken the settings search
    feature (it happens), the long way is pressing on "apps &
    notifications," then "see all ~100 apps," then scrolling to find
    Carrier Services. Once you're on the App info screen, press
    "Advanced" at the bottom, and you should see the version string all
    the way at the bottom. If you're on version 50 and having problems,
    uninstalling app updates (available via the three-dot button in the
    top right) is a temporary fix.

Elijah
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currently on a v20 version of Carrier Services

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