Hello -
I installed Google services and got Hangouts working... well somewhat. What I noticed is that Hangout messages or Google Voice messages will sometimes not come thru. I will need to launch the App first then things will start coming thru... but not always. Sometimes messages come thru just fine after a restart... This is really frustrating because I cannot reliably trust that all my messages are received. Any ideas
Thanks!
eeecarus said:
Hello -
I installed Google services and got Hangouts working... well somewhat. What I noticed is that Hangout messages or Google Voice messages will sometimes not come thru. I will need to launch the App first then things will start coming thru... but not always. Sometimes messages come thru just fine after a restart... This is really frustrating because I cannot reliably trust that all my messages are received. Any ideas
Thanks!
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Have you updated the google services yet?
hungrymr2 said:
Have you updated the google services yet?
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I used the newest pack of open gapps so I think it's up-to-date.
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I'm having issues with Google Voice syncing the conversations done on the website onto my phone.
Here's an image of the texts I sent on the GV website a few minutes ago: http://i.imgur.com/X3fp2.jpg
Here's the same conversation when I open up the GV app on my phone: http://i.imgur.com/Go3dK.jpg
I've attempted to refresh the Google Voice app several times and it just does not sync and show my texts. I also did a full refresh of everything in Accounts and Settings and nothing. Background data is enabled. I am running a stock Galaxy Nexus with 4.04 and the newest Google Voice version.
Anyone have any ideas? Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks
Mine syncs just fine. Even clears notifications on the phone when I view on the web.
Did you go into Google Voice > Settings > Sync and notifications and make sure the app's background data and everything is set up?
Could always try signing out of GV app (which wipes its data) and signing back in to "sync it up".
martonikaj said:
Mine syncs just fine. Even clears notifications on the phone when I view on the web.
Did you go into Google Voice > Settings > Sync and notifications and make sure the app's background data and everything is set up?
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Yup, that's all setup. It's weird because it syncs the messages I receive, but not the ones I sent myself. I'm going to uninstall/reinstall the app.
Edit: That seems to have done it. Cool.
aldo37 said:
Yup, that's all setup. It's weird because it syncs the messages I receive, but not the ones I sent myself. I'm going to uninstall/reinstall the app.
Edit: That seems to have done it. Cool.
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Glad you figured it out.
aldo37 said:
Yup, that's all setup. It's weird because it syncs the messages I receive, but not the ones I sent myself. I'm going to uninstall/reinstall the app.
Edit: That seems to have done it. Cool.
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I'm having the exact same issue. Unfortunately uninstalling/reinstalling didn't work for me. Any other ideas I can try?
So I recently upgraded to CM11 M6 and I've noticed an odd problem. When people message me on hangouts if the app isn't open, I don't get a notification on the phone at all. Then when I open the app I have to scroll through the ENTIRE conversation I've had message by message and it does the animation for each message. This means if I've been talking to somebody for an hour or so I have to scroll for like 5 minutes on my phone to get to the latest message. Anyone have any similar issues or know of a fix? This is only a problem for chat type messages, SMS comes in no problem
What I've tried:
Uninstalling updates from hangouts and google play services then reinstalling hangouts
Removing google account and readding it
EDIT: I think i've found the fix.
remove all phone entries from https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions
Removed the google account from my phone.
reboot
readd google account to phone
SUCCESS!
I have been reading about Google play and different issues with Google services. I will be receiving the phone tomorrow. Google voice (for the voice-mail and transcribed messages) and Gmail are the only 2 apps from google I care about. Anyone have Google Voice working ?
If so how did you enable it.
Thanks!!
It works ok with play services uninstalled. It never was totally reliable though. About 60% of the time it works, the rest of my calls just go out through the cell provider directly. Also you have to keep it open either manually or with an app as it closes down after a while. On my last android phone it worked at least 90% and it didn't have to be watched constantly.
If you rely on anything google, I would just forget this phone though. It is nearly 2 weeks since the play services update and no word or update from google. Without constant fiddling, my gmail, hangouts, and play store are always broken.
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Depends on your setup. If you are using Gvoice with hangouts, be prepared to be frustrated! If you are using Gvoice stand alone, it will work after a few tries.
Hangouts:
Had it working fine with play services 7.0.9 and Fire OS 3.6.8. I did the manual update to 4.6.1 and it all went to hell.. I gained a bunch of functionality but because I use Gvoice integrated in Hangouts I am constantly having issues. Issues ranging from play services updating all the time and causing notifications, sync and reply to all not work, making it useless.
If you are using Gvoice stand alone, it took me a few tires to get outgoing calls to route through Gvoice.. Download and install the Gvoice app, set it for the call settings you want. I had to do this a couple times before those settings stuck.
Until the play services are fixed this is going to be frustrating. I don't see an end in sight right now seeing as it has been this long and I see no official talk about it.
soverc said:
I have been reading about Google play and different issues with Google services. I will be receiving the phone tomorrow. Google voice (for the voice-mail and transcribed messages) and Gmail are the only 2 apps from google I care about. Anyone have Google Voice working ?
If so how did you enable it.
Thanks!!
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Well the problem here will be that play services is causing us a lot of problems since the update. Other than that I can't imagine it being a problem. I don't install the Google voice app anymore since I forward the calls and Hangouts does work to make calls from voice number. I can vouch for that.
I got the phone, was able to get google voice installed (had to remove the store afterwards) But it will only show new messages when I open the app, there are no notification.
Is it possible to get notifications ?
Working !!!
Had to re-associate phone with Google voice and then notifications would pop up
soverc said:
I got the phone, was able to get google voice installed (had to remove the store afterwards) But it will only show new messages when I open the app, there are no notification.
Is it possible to get notifications ?
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Hi,
I have a fire phone with Fire OS 4.6.4
I am running play store. Most apps are working. But Google Hangouts is not. Any suggestions?
I can open hangouts. But if I try to send a message it just gives me a mostly white screen with just loading. I cannot send any sms or chats.
Thanks
hardeepsea said:
Hi,
I have a fire phone with Fire OS 4.6.4
I am running play store. Most apps are working. But Google Hangouts is not. Any suggestions?
I can open hangouts. But if I try to send a message it just gives me a mostly white screen with just loading. I cannot send any sms or chats.
Thanks
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Just got around to installing hangouts. It works well for me. I can make calls, send sms and mms. I am on ggow's cm-11 for safestrap.
FOSS Alternative
hardeepsea said:
Hi,
I have a fire phone with Fire OS 4.6.4
I am running play store. Most apps are working. But Google Hangouts is not. Any suggestions?
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For people who are not looking to root their phone or install an alternative OS:
Google Hangouts instant messaging runs on XMPP protocol. Armed with this knowledge, I found Conversations, which is available from F-Droid. It handles the simple IM work fairly well. It does not have any support for SMS that I can see.
YMMV
-John
hardeepsea said:
Hi,
I have a fire phone with Fire OS 4.6.4
I am running play store. Most apps are working. But Google Hangouts is not. Any suggestions?
I can open hangouts. But if I try to send a message it just gives me a mostly white screen with just loading. I cannot send any sms or chats.
Thanks
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I thought Google Play services was not working on 4.6.4. You will have to downgrade to 4.6.3. I tried to get Google Inbox working on 4.6.4 and everything installed fine. But when I tried to open Inbox it just hung trying to load (at a white screen IIRC).
jwernerny said:
I found Conversations, which is available from F-Droid. It handles the simple IM work fairly well.
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Updates form playing some more...
"Conversations" also allows sending pictures and "voice recordings." Video chat is not supported.
Another interesting client is Xabber, but it does not support pictures.
It will be hard to get google hangouts working without root. Basically, what you need to do is lock google play services to 7.0.99.. I wrote up some instructions on how to lock it here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-phone/general/locking-play-services-to-version-t3194159. I forgot where I found my 7.0.99 version, but you can find it in a lot of places. Make sure to get the one with build 036.
hardeepsea said:
Hi,
I have a fire phone with Fire OS 4.6.4
I am running play store. Most apps are working. But Google Hangouts is not. Any suggestions?
I can open hangouts. But if I try to send a message it just gives me a mostly white screen with just loading. I cannot send any sms or chats.
Thanks
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So this happened after the app update...wtf is this?
I have this same problem. I've noticed that it happens after I've used the Amazon music app. The only fix I've found was to force stop the Amazon music app and it clears these blank messages. I'm now on Android 8.0.0 and had this issue as well with the latest Android version 7, I was on. I have the Pixel 128gb on Verizon.
Its a problem with android messages
Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with the Amazon music app running in the background anymore. Previously, when I saw the prompt that Amazon music was running in the background, if I started the messenger app, I got those blank threads and as soon as I force stopped Amazon music, the blank threads disappeared. Now, they stay and just go away on its own. Even with the recent update to messenger 2.5.211, it still does it.
It's definitely an issue with messenger.
sruel3216 said:
So this happened after the app update...wtf is this?
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Did you ever find a fix for this? I'm having the same issue.
I have this problem also after restoring the sms with the sms backup and restore. Basically the messages are there but I can't see them, only those ghost threads/messages and I cannot scroll down on the message list to see more of them.
same problem. here is what i did.
I downloaded hangouts and manually set it as default app for sms.
Then i opened up hangouts and went through all the threads that messenger wouldnt show.
Then i went back and forced stopped messenger, cleared data, and set it back as default.
noidea24 said:
same problem. here is what i did.
I downloaded hangouts and manually set it as default app for sms.
Then i opened up hangouts and went through all the threads that messenger wouldnt show.
Then i went back and forced stopped messenger, cleared data, and set it back as default.
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Unfortunately the hangouts is not supporting sms anymore and is though unable to be set as a default sms app.
patroll said:
Unfortunately the hangouts is not supporting sms anymore and is though unable to be set as a default sms app.
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i have no idea why i had typed hangouts, must have been late. i meant to say verizon messages.
I got it working. Just disable the messages app and choose yes when it asks if you want to go back to factory app. Then clear cache and data and enable the app again. Then you can view all the messages. After this updating the app through play store is also safe and the messages remain visible.
patroll said:
I got it working. Just disable the app and choose yes when it asks if you want to go back to factory app. Then clear cache and data and enable the app again. Then you can view all the messages. After this updating the app through play store is also safe and the messages remain visible.
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This fixed it for me. Thank you very much!
hmestre said:
This fixed it for me. Thank you very much!
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Great!