I think I already know the answer to this question but can't find it anywhere. Yes I know Moto voice assist will work with Google hangouts sending sms messages. What I want to know is if it can reply using hangouts and not through an sms. I almost exclusively use hangouts and only sms 1 person I know. Can the touchless controls reply directly using hangouts?
Yes, I have replied to multiple different texts sent through hangouts.
No it can't reply to hangouts messages, only SMS.
Thanks nimper. Thats what I thought
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Is there an texting app that uses the data plan instead of text plan? I currently only have 200 txts per month and don't want to go over it. I believe iPhone has that type of app and hopefully Android would have one too.
i believe google voice does this
systoxity said:
i believe google voice does this
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Can confirm from personal experience -- just make sure you turn off SMS alerts in GV settings. In other words, the app on your phone checks for SMS but GV doesn't send a real SMS to your phone.
I don't know if this is still true, but almost every carrier allows txtx from emails.
Example everyone on att has an email address that it [email protected]
If you email them at this address (it will use your data plan), and they will receive it as a txt.
Not sure if ATT changed this you might want to verify that this will go over data.
Bjd223 said:
I don't know if this is still true, but almost every carrier allows txtx from emails.
Example everyone on att has an email address that it [email protected]
If you email them at this address (it will use your data plan), and they will receive it as a txt.
Not sure if ATT changed this you might want to verify that this will go over data.
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That does work, but if that person receives your txt and replies back, I think it comes back to your phone as a SMS. So you still use one SMS.
Try Google Voice. You can send SMS from it and when they reply back it goes to your Google Voice number in lieu of your real cell phone number. That way it comes in to the Google Voice app. But just as someone else recommended, make sure you turn off SMS notifications, otherwise every time you get a voicemail or txt message google will send you an SMS message to notify you.
or use google talk, its quicker, and they have a BB/Android/iOS client... AND its already installed on your phone.
I just tried TALK last night, and I have Google Voice. I can get messages, but and reply to them.
But I can't figure out how to send a text to someone in my address book whom I have not received a text from yet. The only people who show up in the contacts list for TALK are people who have Google IM set up in email, and that is very few.
Any tips?
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I just tried TALK last night, and I have Google Voice. I can get messages, but and reply to them.
But I can't figure out how to send a text to someone in my address book whom I have not received a text from yet. The only people who show up in the contacts list for TALK are people who have Google IM set up in email, and that is very few.
Any tips?
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When I go into my regular contact list and tap Send Message I get the option to choose Messaging, Handcent or Google Voice to send the message with. What happens if you just tap send message on a contact?
Edit: Oh you said Google Talk. I didn't know you could send text messages using talk. Nevermind then! But you can use Google Voice. Additionally you can set Google Voice notification to e-mail instead of SMS so you'll be e-mailed when you get a new SMS.
That is interesting. It does NOT come up and ask me how to send it. It just tries to send it.
Now, here is something maybe: I did not ever see any insructions that I need to install Google Voice on my phone. I just now went to the market and searched for it, and am installing right now. (Google seems to me to be horrible about providing documentation/instructions).
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Ok, it is installed. I just went to contacts, selected send message, and it is the same.
Another thing...I have seen demos that if you swipe a contact to the left it goes into message, and to the right it calls. It calls no matter how I swipe.
Another note: I do not have SMS messaging with AT&T, and in fact I have it turned off, because I don't want people sending me SMS that I get billed for. I wonder if that could have anything to do with this.
By the way, I had been told I needed Google Talk to get the TEXTs that others send me. But...that was when I was on a WinMo phone. Maybe I don't need Google Talk. Maybe I just need to figure out how to get Google Voice working on this phone. Alathough I will say that the text message I did get from a friend I'm trying to test with came in via Google Talk.
Got it working. The install of voice on my phone helped
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When I go into my regular contact list and tap Send Message I get the option to choose Messaging, Handcent or Google Voice to send the message with. What happens if you just tap send message on a contact?
Edit: Oh you said Google Talk. I didn't know you could send text messages using talk. Nevermind then! But you can use Google Voice. Additionally you can set Google Voice notification to e-mail instead of SMS so you'll be e-mailed when you get a new SMS.
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I'm pretty sure Google Talk is more like a chat IM service than a text messaging service. The person you are wanting to chat with has to have the client installed on their phone as well.
I think Google Voice is the best option for free text messages. You can get a free new phone number, then you just open Google Voice and text away. Anybody who replies to your SMS, their txt will come into Google Voice for free. You can send and receive free text messages all day long.
Not paying AT&T for a texting plan is definitely going to be nice! Thanks for the info.
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That does work, but if that person receives your txt and replies back, I think it comes back to your phone as a SMS. So you still use one SMS.
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It will come back to you as an e-mail if you send it that way. I've texted my mom a few times this way and the reply shows up as an e-mail.
Google voice is open now. You'll have a new #, but free texts over data. Very good push integration too.
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Yep Google talk is the way to go!
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That does work, but if that person receives your txt and replies back, I think it comes back to your phone as a SMS. So you still use one SMS.
Try Google Voice. You can send SMS from it and when they reply back it goes to your Google Voice number in lieu of your real cell phone number. That way it comes in to the Google Voice app. But just as someone else recommended, make sure you turn off SMS notifications, otherwise every time you get a voicemail or txt message google will send you an SMS message to notify you.
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Email method works. When the person replies, it would come to email, not as text... I used this method over an year, before I switched to google voice recently.
Ping chat works great
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Does anyone know how to make the native messaging app send and receive SMS/MMS via Google Voice instead of using GV app?
I'm wondering if it's as simple as changing the messaging centre number to whatever it might be for GV. If so, what's the Google Voice message centre number?
*bump* Anyone? No idea? Help?
This is the only reason I haven't ported over to google voice, I don't like that app for texting at all. Even on ics its not great.
As far as I know you cannot but could be wrong, its been a bit since I researched that.
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Exactly! I find the GV app to be no less than very clunky when used for SMS, hence my desire to use the native SMS for GV texts instead. That would be great!
I have activated GV on my Revo (using the Number provided by GV) and I am experiencing an issue I have never encountered with other android devices on other carriers.
When I send a text using the stock messaging app the message caller id to the recipient displays my actual cel # (not my GV number) (either in the stock ROM or gingervolt 1.3). If I receive a text with a person using my GV # it will go in both the GV app by google and the stock messaging app - if I reply to that message it WILL use my GV number (even from the stock messaging app). So only if I originate a text from the stock messaging app the my number shows up to the recipient as my cel# (not GV #)
My questions are these:
Is this how Google Voice works on the verizon wireless network?
Or is there something wrong with my setup?
I have been very thorough and have been able to get this functioning properly with carriers like Sprint and T-Mo using Android and non android devices.
Thanks in advance for any assistance the community can provide.
-Matt
Pretty sure you can only send text from the google voice app. In settings choosing Use Voice To Make All Calls from this phone only refers to voice calls. Unless I am missing the setting also but been through it several times. I know Verizon blocked the voicemail feature
EDIT: Actually try Handcent sms.. just sent txt to my gvoice # and received it on both handcent and Gvoice..
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drt054 said:
Pretty sure you can only send text from the google voice app. In settings choosing Use Voice To Make All Calls from this phone only refers to voice calls. Unless I am missing the setting also but been through it several times. I know Verizon blocked the voicemail feature
EDIT: Actually try Handcent sms.. just sent txt to my gvoice # and received it on both handcent and Gvoice..
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I'm only talking about texting. I have the same problem with Handcent as well. The only time I can originate a text message where my gv # will show to the recipient is from google's gv app.
Nevermind.. you want all txts to come from your gvoice#, right?
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Right by using the stock messaging app (like I have done many times before with other devices on other carriers).
If you send a text from handcent or the stock messaging app (not the google voice app) does it show as your GV# to other people even if you originate the text?
-Matt
I sent a txt msg to my personal email and a buddy and it came from my vzw#..
I sent a txt msg to my GV# from handcent and said sender was my GV#. From GV app sent a txt to my vzw#, replied to it from handcent and checked message details and it was sent from my gvoice#
IMO Verizon blocked sending txts from anything but your vzw# because if everybody would do it then and would never have to pay vzw for texting again. But can't explain why you can reply to a GV# and it will come from your GV#..
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I sent a txt msg to my personal email and a buddy and it came from my vzw#..
I sent a txt msg to my GV# from handcent and said sender was my GV#. From GV app sent a txt to my vzw#, replied to it from handcent and checked message details and it was sent from my gvoice#
IMO Verizon blocked sending txts from anything but your vzw# because if everybody would do it then and would never have to pay vzw for texting again. But can't explain why you can reply to a GV# and it will come from your GV#..
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Hmm.... That is what I thought it is on Verizon's end. Thanks for confirming this.
Can moto x do anything with hangouts ie read incoming messages or send them?
Good question. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 & once I started using hangouts, I lost the ability of Drive Mode to read incoming text messages. On my device, text message reading only works with default text message app.
What is the default text message for the Moto X? Hangouts? One would think Hangouts would be the default like a Nexus device.
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Good question. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 & once I started using hangouts, I lost the ability of Drive Mode to read incoming text messages. On my device, text message reading only works with default text message app.
What is the default text message for the Moto X? Hangouts? One would think Hangouts would be the default like a Nexus device.
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It can read SMS coming to hangouts, but not Hangouts messages.
So, one needs to use their default message app, correct?
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So, one needs to use their default message app, correct?
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If you have Hangouts set as your SMS and it will read you your SMS and use Hangouts to send your SMS. but it will not read if a person sends you a Hangouts message.
Thanks, I was being a bit dense.
I'm thinking about "graduating" to Google Hangouts after using Google Messenger for quite some time. Does Hangouts work like Apple's text messenger app where it sends the message via wifi or cellular signal and the app is interachangeable via desktop ?
I was playing with it earlier and it seems like unless the other person has hangouts as well with the sync'd e-mail address, it's basically just Google messenger ?
If the contact on the other end has their phone number tied to their hangouts app then it'll default to a hangouts internet message but regardless you'll have a little box in the bottom left to switch between hangouts and sms message sending. The app on the Chrome will only send Hangouts message, not SMS.
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If the contact on the other end has their phone number tied to their hangouts app then it'll default to a hangouts internet message but regardless you'll have a little box in the bottom left to switch between hangouts and sms message sending. The app on the Chrome will only send Hangouts message, not SMS.
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I saw the toggle for switching between SMS and hangouts. How can hangouts make phone calls, but not pick up SMS ?
How does the phone dialer work for Hangouts ? You just dial out in on the desktop and use headphones and a mic ?
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I saw the toggle for switching between SMS and hangouts. How can hangouts make phone calls, but not pick up SMS ?
How does the phone dialer work for Hangouts ? You just dial out in on the desktop and use headphones and a mic ?
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Hangouts can send calls to outside numbers but not receive them, I'd assume not sending SMS on PC is from the idea that you wouldn't receive the response. Unlike Mac and iOS the app on PC for hangouts doesn't interact with your phone at all.
The dialer on hangouts sends calls to outside numbers using the internet, the person on the other end will see the call coming from a hidden number. If you call someone that has hangouts then you'll send a hangouts call with the option to add video to the call. On PC it'll use whatever your default (communications) mic and speakers.