Setting Hangouts As Default Dialer - X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is this possible? I have a non activated T-Mobile sim in the 2014 Moto X Pure Edition on 5.0
I only use google voice with hangouts to make and receive calls. I want to be able to hit a number online and have it call with Hangouts. Instead it only give me the option to call with the default dialer or Viber. I have SMS set as default so I recieve that directly through Hangouts. Not sure what im doing wrong with the dialer.

Anybody?

Hangouts dialer just updated today to allow to set it as default when tapping on numbers on websites.

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ICS SMS to answer call will not use Google voice

I am using Slim ICS, and like the feature to send an SMS to an incoming caller.
I use google voice, and have set it as the default SMS app, but when responding to a call with the canned SMS messages it always uses the phones messaging app instead of google voice (shows the wrong phone number to caller).
Is there some file I might edit to change this?

Get Google Voice SMS History Into Phone

I recently ported my Google Voice number out of GV and into Verizon, replacing my old Verizon number. The port process is "complete" (still not receiving texts from carriers other than Verizon, but that is another issue that is apparently solved by waiting a few days) and GV automatically removed my number (so now it only says "Get a Google Voice number." Is there a way to get my SMS history from Google Voice into my Moto X? I used Google Takeout to export my Voice data, but I have no idea how to get it into my phone. I plan on using Hangouts as my default SMS app if that makes a difference.

Send a text FROM Google Voice number in Hangouts

I have searched and searched, and cant find the answer to this. I have Google Voice sms enabled in my Hangouts app but when I go to send a new text, my only option to send a text from is my Verizon number, and when someone sends a text to my Google Voice number, it says "Send an SMS to ... from my Verizon Wireless number". How do I send a text in the Hangouts app FROM my Google Voice number? The little SMS button in the lower left where you switch between Hangouts and SMS does not have an option for my Google Voice number. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Go to settings in Hangouts > SMS > tap on "Send SMS from" and choose your Google voice number instead of your Verizon number. P.s. There is a bug with "smart reply" option. If you choose that then hangouts automatically chooses Google voice number as your default number and there is no way to switch between your number and Google voice number. Unless you do it manually thru settings.
Is it only one or the other, I cant have one conversation on my Verizon number, and the next one on my Google Voice number, and bounce between them without going into settings?
Unfortunately no. At least that i know of. Switching them in settings is the only way around it so far.
*sign* Thanks for the response. I was hoping they would actually let you select which number to use for individual message threads, for those of us that use both numbers. Oh well. Back to the Google Voice app.

Anyone use Google Voice as their primary number?

Wondering if anyone uses Google Voice as their primary number for texting and calling. Do 3rd party SMS apps allow you to use your Google Voice number to text? Also, I don't know why but I was using it before but sometimes I wouldn't get text notifications, or there would be a long delay.
Yep. I use hangouts to text/mms.
I too use my Google voice number as my primary number. Sometimes there are some hiccups but for 99% of the time it's perfect and easier now since the hangouts integration.
Same here, hangouts works great for Google Voice SMS unless you're using Android Wear. When I send an SMS from my smart watch it won't use hangouts, using my normal cell number instead. Setting Hangouts as the default SMS app doesn't fix it.
I even take it a step further. I setup Google Voice to ring my SIP number. So when I'm on wifi I have tasker turn off my cell antenna. Saved a lot battery life on my S3, just testing it on my N6 now. I still get calls through SIP (people calling my google voice number) and I can dial out on my google voice number using hangouts dialer and use hangouts for SMS. When I'm not on Wifi, Tasker and secure settings turns off SIP calls so I don't get calls twice.

Hangouts Dialer As Default Bug - How to properly file a bug report upstream?

Hey guys, I need some instruction on how to file an official bug report upstream for the android team and what information captures I should include and how to retrieve those? I am including a description of the bug/problem here on the off chance that anyone knows of an existing fix or workaround.
PS. Stock unrooted locked encrypted google play store variant nexus 6 64GB midnight blue with the latest OTA updates and all apps up to date, no "user modifications" made....yet
I have set up hangouts & hangouts dialer as my default MMS/SMS client, and I have ticked use hangouts dialer for incoming calls in hangouts. My google voice number is the same as my sprint mobile number thanks to sprint google voice integration, I have disabled all forwarding phones in google voice options. When I get a call to my sprint number incoming hangouts dialer shows up alone and works perfect and unanswered calls go to google voice voicemail.
When I open chrome and click on a phone link I get the choose default popup that has the options to select "phone dialer or hangouts dialer" I select hangouts dialer and tap on "always", then I close chrome reopen it to a new phone link and tap the phone link and it again opens the choose default dialog even though I just set hangouts dialer as my permanent default a second ago, it continues to do this EACH time no matter how many times I set hangouts dialer as my default dialer. I have tried disabling google dialer in settings(defaults option for google dialer are greyed out), turning off mobile data & everything but WiFi (don't see how that should change anything, and it doesn't change anything).
So to sum it up I can not set hangouts dialer as my default dialer on a google play bought nexus 6 running stock everything latest updates all apps up to date. The default dialer selection " always" just does not seem to get set when always is selected. Me setting hangouts dialer to always is not remembered.
To make matters worse when I select hangouts dialer and tap "always" it opens hangouts one time and it DOES put the number into the dialer but it does NOT hit call or initiate the call, like the default dialer does with phone links.
Further, after attempting to set hangouts dialer as default "always" 20 times, when I do "OK google call xxxxxxxxxx" voice command it shows the blue google dialer logo there's nothing to tap on to change what dialer OK google opens and it opens it with the default google phone dialer, is there some trick to make a call using hangouts with OK google? Is the trigger word not "call"? I've tried ", hang out with" which seems unrecognized and a few others. This really effects me as have two android wear devices and I use hangouts as my primary SMS/MMS/phone dialer and when I make a call through a wear device it doesn't use hangouts and it doesn't show in my hang outs call history.
I have installed the google voice app and selected the options "view and play voice mail in the phone call dialog". (Most likely unrelated).
If anyone knows a fix or workaround for this I would be seriously thankful.
Any help on how to file a bug report with adequate information upstream and how to motivate the android team to fix this is also appreciated!
Thanks.
Gary M.
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Also, when I swipe left to right from the lock screen to open the default dialer google dialer opens NOT hangouts dialer which I have tried so desperate 30 times to set as default.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app
Did you ever find a go-around for this? Any solution at all? FYI, this problem is NOT Nexus 6 specific. I have the EXACT same issues on the Moto X 2014. Must be an overall Hangouts Dialer Bug.
Anyone else have ideas for a go-around until Google fixes it?

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