Questions tagged [google-chat]
Google Chat is one of two replacement apps for Google Hangouts. Use this tag for questions about Google Chat on the GMail app or as a standalone app.
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Google Hangouts keeps history regardless of settings
I use Hangouts to chat with friends. As I don't want to keep history, I set it to be turned off.
So whenever I chat, in the input line I see a constant message of "History is turned off".
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Google Hangouts: Conflicting online status information [closed]
Another "I don't quite understand what is going on in Google Hangouts" type of question....
So - when I view Hangouts via my Android app (running under KitKat), my girlfriend's status is ALWAYS shown ...
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how do i delete a photo from a hangouts conversation [closed]
i sent a picture using Hangouts. I don't want the picture in the conversation thread. how do i delete just that picture, but leave all the other texts in the thread?
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Hangouts can't connect to server - Android phone
I was using my Hotmail account for a very long time for hangouts and other Google services. Today I create a Gmail account on top of my existing Hotmail Google services. This is supposed to mean that ...
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Activate text to speech [closed]
I want to activate text to speech in Google hangouts in my nexus 5 phone so that messages can be read aloud . I couldn't figure it out. Please guide me.
Can this service be used in Gmail and whatsapp....
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Google Chat randomly hyperlinks words like "see", "zoo", "walmart", and "in a" on Samsung Galaxy S22, Android 13
I am using Google Chat from GMail on Samsung Galaxy S22, Android 13. Some words like "see", "zoo", "walmart", and "in a" are linked randomly. When I tap it, I ...
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How to copy the phone number of the sender of a text message?
I'm using a service to report SMS spam via text messages. First step is to forward the text message, and the second step is to send a text message containing the phone number of the spammer.
I ...
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Hangouts Error on Android Phone: Cannot connect to the server [closed]
I'm getting a "cannot connect to the server" error when I try to use Hangouts on my phone. Every other Google app works. SMS works but not Hangouts messages. All my other devices work with Hangouts ...
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Change user account in google hangouts samsung s3 mini
I've just signed up to Google Hangouts but am using a shared phone, as my friend already has an account and is logged in I don't know how to add an additional gmail address to switch accounts within ...
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Sending as Unknown number in Hangouts
In Hangouts 3.1.89134953 I get a "Sending as Unknown number" message at the top of my texts. I googled for this message and found nothing.
What does this message mean?
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Hangouts, Google Voice, and "SMS is no longer supported" notification on a WiFi-only tablet
Although I have been a long-time user of Google Voice and Hangouts, I only recently got my first Android tablet (WiFi only, no cellular).
The way the first two interact with the tablet is puzzling and ...
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Hangouts SMS not showing emoticons
I have a Nexus 5 with Kitkat 4.4.2 and have the Hangouts app as the SMS app. My friend has an Samsung Galaxy S Relay and also uses Hangouts app as SMS app. Whenever we send SMS to each other with ...
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How to revert to Google Hangouts from Google Chat?
My close relative have a phone which have both Hangouts and Chat installed. Chat does not have integrated Voice and Video call function. IMO, Chat is significantly inferior than Hangouts. So I still ...
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Does sending images on Google Hangouts count towards my Google account storage space?
Does sending images on Google Hangouts (Android application) count towards my Google account storage space?
I don't see why it would, but right after sending some images via Google Hangouts I received ...
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What does grayed-slashed icon in Google hangouts mean?
I tried to text a person in hangouts whose profile icon appears like the image below. Does it mean the person has deleted the hangouts account or signout ?
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How do I update the emoji set for standard messaging applications?
I have a basic compatibility problem with emoji: the emoji available on one Android device (Android 8.1) do not match those available on a second (Android 6.0?) in applications including the SMS ...
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Google Voice SMS messages not showing up in Hangouts
I'm using Google Voice to send text messages to someone. I've chosen to send the messages through Hangouts. The messages are being sent successfully and the recipient gets them but they don't show up ...
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How to prevent Google Hangouts from showing nagging "Upgrade Required" screen?
I am using Google Hangouts old version v10 for SMS because its seems no other SMS app does support merging SMS threads by contact (I have tested all top SMS apps).
I have disabled playmaket auto-...
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Hangouts: Cannot Connect to Server After Update
Recently, Google released a fairly major update to Hangouts, an instant messaging app as well as an alternate SMS client. I have a phone (model is irrelevant) and a Nexus 10. I updated to the latest ...
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How can I make a call to an SIP address from Google Voice number?
How can I make a call to an SIP address (e.g. sip:[email protected]) from Google Voice number?
Does Google Hangout support calls to SIP addresses?
Can an SIP address call my Google Voice number?
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Issue with recording Google Hangouts calls
I'm trying to record my Google Hangouts calls. The only app I found that claimed it can record non-dialer calls was Cube ACR. Problem is I'm getting a "Recording failed. Write to storage failure, ...
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Hangouts Notification - SMS no longer supported
I just got an Android tablet (Lenovo 4 8") after using an iPad for a couple of years or so.
I'm getting the "SMS is no longer supported" notification from Hangouts repeatedly and I can't seem to ...
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How to Switch Camera in Google Hangouts on Android 11?
Google Hangouts shows an icon to switch between front and back cameras (or move it from the front to the back) but is there a way to choose between cameras on a phone with a multi-camera setup?
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How can one turn off incoming videos in Google Hangouts?
I wonder how one can turn off incoming videos in Google Hangouts. I.e., disabling all videos for anybody else in the call when in a videoconference. The motivation is to reduce the network usage.
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I am always seen as online on Google Chat/Hangout
How can I make myself offline so that noone can see that I am available. I am unable to find this option after GTalk -> Hangout upgrade.
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How to delete unsent message from google hangouts?
I accidentaly sent a confidental message to an incorrect contact. Fortunately, I could react in time, and I turned off my phone before it could be sent.
I opened my google hangout from the web, and I ...
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Get Notifications from Google chat web to android
I use a work account on google chat on web. But Google suite of that account dosnt have Google Chat/Hangout app for android. And as far as I know, Google chat only gives me push notification on web.
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Native phone app and Hangouts both answering calls
I have a Samsung Galaxy 7 running Android 8.0.0 using Ting on the Sprint network. I use Google Voice and Google Hangouts. When I get an incoming call on the Google Voice number, both the native phone ...
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Google Hangouts v Hangouts Dialer v Voice : Which to download to call outbound? [closed]
If I desire only to make outgoing telephone calls from my Android, which must I download?
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How to fix Hangouts not working for one gmail account
My Hangouts had two email accounts associated with it. One stopped working. I tried deleting and re-installing Hangouts. I tried deleting and reinstalling the email account that was not working with ...
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How do I delete photos I sent to someone in Hangouts?
I would like to have photos removed from hangouts between myself and another person. They are showing up in their albums, not mine. THey are harrasing and sexully explicit.
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Hangouts Face icons dim to bright
Help me understand icons under messages going from live then back to dim under message.
When I send a message on hangouts the contact face shows live under the message, then reverts back to dim above ...
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I just want to call numbers I find on the internet!
When I click on a phone number in Chrome on the internet it prompts me to download Hangouts. I just want to call it with the default Samsung dialer not Hangouts! How do I do this?
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How to transfer pictures from hangouts onto my computer
How can I transfer the pictures that are on my android hangouts (sent and received messages), so that I can preserve them before I clear my android for space?
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Can't log in to Hangouts
I just uninstalled and reinstalled Hangouts to get the updated version.
(Even though the market showed the new version, it didn't have "Update" yet).
Now, I cannot log in to Hangouts... it keeps ...
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(feature discontinued) Google Hangouts phone app: How to start a group SMS where one of the recipients is a Hangouts user?
I'm actually answering my own question here, and the purpose for this is because the question hasn't been clearly stated before.
Imagine the following scenario:
I have a friend named Joe who uses ...
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How to get rid of "SMS is no longer supported" notification
My 5.1.1 tablet has an icon in the notification area. It looks like a Google Hangouts icon. But the drop-down reads "SMS is no longer supported. To read and send SMS messages, please download Android ...
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How to make Hangouts stop sending me SMS messages?
I've tried out the SMS feature of Hangouts app, which allows you to handle SMS within itself instead of the default one.
I didn't like it for certain reasons, so I disabled it.
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US: sending international SMS, Hangouts
Maybe that is less an android and more an operator policy question, but posting here because it may very well be a bug in Hangouts, the most embarrassing app google ever published.
I have a tmobile ...
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How can I join a Hangouts call with Hangouts Meet?
(The links provided by the Hangouts program do not work in Hangouts Meet - it appears I cannot enter the final character in the link, in either case it says "No such meeting.".)
Alternatively the ...
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How to change default video player app inside Hangouts
A video appeared inside a Hangouts chat stream and when I clicked it, it asked me which installed app I intend to use for playing that video.
I accidentally picked some casting app, but apparently (...
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How to turn off Vibration in Google Hangouts [ Version: 6.1.109448852]
It is really annoying that the mobile phone vibrates on every message arrives on google hangouts after update, how to disable it ? I mean for all messages I just don't need vibration, only sound ...
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As a Google Voice number user, what app should I use for texting now?
Google has decided to push hangouts for enterprise, or something, and now there's a big obnoxious message that takes up half the Hangouts app whenever I open it into the "conversations" view.
I use ...
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hangouts and play services
All my friends are chatting over hangouts and I feel left out. So I installed hangouts to be a part of their chats. I love hangouts on the computer and was super excited about getting it on my phone (...
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Opening google hangouts or another voip based sms app from browser links
My work requires me to text a number of people with a preset text message(ETA for their deliveries). We have a sms: link for each customer which automatically opens the sms app and pre-fills the ...
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How to disable Hangouts?
I have an HTC One, and I went to Settings -> Apps -> All to disable a few apps I didn't want on my phone (7digital, Facebook, Google Play Music, Google+). The apps are now gone and the update ...
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How can I use a smartphone/tablet without being distracted by it in classrooms?
I want to use an android phone without being distracted. I want to be able to block calling applications such as the calling feature in whatsapp, facebook messenger, viber calls, as well as google ...
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Hangouts: How to make the phone dialer default (instead of the hangouts dialer)?
Following a recent Hangouts update, when using Android 5 on Nexus 5, in an SMS conversation with a contact, touching the "handset" icon automatically launches the Hangouts dialer, while I would like ...
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nexus 5, can't see new texts for one person
Yesterday, I was texting this friend with whom I am romantically involved when all of a sudden, I couldn't see the texts between us anymore.
That is to say that I type the text and send it and she ...
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Identify if a user is online in Google Hangout
How can I know if a user is online or offline in Google Hangout? In the Hangout on Gmail web it shows a green line under the user's profile pic. But there no such thing in Android app.
