I am an onsite tech, and I've been using my Old Atrix for almost 1.5 years, I'm excited I get to upgrade in February, but since I got my Nexus, I am totally going to start using it to replace my phone, and here is what I did:
1. Convinced my boss that we need to find an alternative to WhatsApp. So now we are using Google Talk, with Party Chat that keeps a persistent group chat.
2. Setup a Google Voice number, and I use that app to text.
3. Then setup Talkatone for calls, I disabled it from notifying me of texts since GV also does that.
4. The only thing I still need to do is get a BT headset to make calls more efficient.
I still need to test this setup more, but it should work good for me.
So, has your Nexus 7 replaced your phone yet?
So I got my Nexus 6 the other day and I am coming from an LG G3, both on Verizon. I have hangouts installed on those 2 devices plus a Windows 8 and a Windows 7 PC. When I send messages in either a group hangout or a normal single person hangout on the PC, the messages do not sync to my Nexus 6 but does to my LG G3 on Wifi. Plus I am constantly getting a spinning update circle in my hangouts app like it is waiting for more conversations to pop up but nothing ever comes.
I can send and receive messages on my phone in hangouts and they will show up in the chats on my PC but not the other way around. This is pretty frustrating because I come and go from my computer a lot and would like up to date conversations. This is the only device i have ever had an issue like this with. Anyone have any idea how to fix it? i tried removing hangouts from the system, restoring from my last phone, restoring back to stock, signing out of the phone, signing out of the PC, everything. I just don't know how to fix it.
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So I got my Nexus 6 the other day and I am coming from an LG G3, both on Verizon. I have hangouts installed on those 2 devices plus a Windows 8 and a Windows 7 PC. When I send messages in either a group hangout or a normal single person hangout on the PC, the messages do not sync to my Nexus 6 but does to my LG G3 on Wifi. Plus I am constantly getting a spinning update circle in my hangouts app like it is waiting for more conversations to pop up but nothing ever comes.
I can send and receive messages on my phone in hangouts and they will show up in the chats on my PC but not the other way around. This is pretty frustrating because I come and go from my computer a lot and would like up to date conversations. This is the only device i have ever had an issue like this with. Anyone have any idea how to fix it? i tried removing hangouts from the system, restoring from my last phone, restoring back to stock, signing out of the phone, signing out of the PC, everything. I just don't know how to fix it.
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I doubt it's you. Same thing is happening on my sister's Note 3 (AT&T). Might just be a server thing that needs to be addressed...
huh...weird. since this is the only device of mine doing it. my nexus 7 seems to be updating just fine too.
I'm in the same boat. I never ran into this on my OnePlus One, but I switched about a week ago when my Nexus 6 came in and now any messages I send from the desktop/Chrome version does not sync into Hangouts on my Nexus. In addition to not having the issue with my OPO, my Galaxy Tab Pro tablet does not have this issue. Neither does my wife's LG G3. We're both on T-Mobile.
Wanted to jump in to this topic to say I am experiencing a similar issue on both my Droid Turbo (4.4.4) and my Nexus 7 (5.0.1)... I am beginning to wonder if it is something related to Lollipop. The major way I can tell there is an issue, is if I clear cache and data from Hangouts and re-sign in, none of my previous undeleted hangouts show up. Only if I open a new Hangout with that contact will I see the conversation history.
I am having the same issue on my Note 2 as I wait for my N6 to ship. It started happening as soon as I updated the app to the latest version
FYI, I updated to the latest version of Hangouts and all syncs again. http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/hangouts/hangouts-2-5-81587410-apk/
My nexus 6p has been working perfectly with my 2016 vw for past couple of months. Now, I can no longer send a text message or hangouts message. Still connects perfectly, makes calls and navigates by voice but no longer listens when I want to dictate a message. This seemed to happen overnight as it has always worked perfectly before and I am not aware of having made any changes to my phone or car. How weird. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm having the same issue with my Galaxy S7 Edge running Android Auto on my Pioneer AVH-4100NEX. I went on vacation and my car sat for a while and now when I'm in Android Auto mode I can't receive and send text messages. I ask Google for the weather or to do a calculation and I get nothing. However, if I ask Google to dial someone whether in my contacts for not, it dials the number. Does this make any sense? There doesn't appear to be any official Android Auto support. I contact Pioneer and they told me my contacts weren't syncing with Android Auto which was strange enough when they said it, but given the fact that I don't get a reply when I ask GoogleNow for the weather means my contacts shouldn't have anything to do with it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
At the moment, my phone/watch configuration is an iPhone 8 Plus and LG Watch Sport. Wifi and Bluetooth are disabled on my watch and I use AT&T NumberSync to make sure I don't miss any calls or texts. I'm curious as to whether it's possible to enable the texts received on my watch, which has it's own phone number, to also be received on an android tablet. What made this come to mind was the way Apple devices allow texts and calls across any and all Apple devices. I can receive calls and texts on my iPads, on my Macs and my phones, so long as they all are logged into my Apple account. I'm curious if it's possible to complete the cycle to allow my Android devices to see those texts, as well, perhaps by pushing texts from my Android Wear watch through something like, say, PushBullet.
Need help diagnosing and solving a bizarre problem: S10 doesn't receive texts from a specific sender, except after restarting, retroactively receives all texts sent by that sender. Supernatural powers might be involved, given the sender's phone is mine, and the fickle S10 is my wife's.
I'm including a lot of info below, b/c this seems to be a tough problem to diagnose, so I'm erring on the side of completeness.
Specs: My phone is an LG V35, rooted with Magisk, Android 9. Her S10 is not rooted, running Android 9. Her phone is logged in to the same Google account I use on the Play Store, so that she can use any of my paid apps without paying again. (This has never caused any SMS problems in the past, just annoyances like her getting my reminders, which I then turned off on her phone.)
The problem started on 10/26/22 (about three weeks ago). I know this b/c I sent her a long text that day, which her phone received immediately, followed by another text that same day, which she didn't receive until eight days later on 11/3/22. There were several other texts I sent btw 10/26 and 11/2 that she didn't receive until 11/3. However, we did not catch this problem until yesterday (11/17), when she discovered that I had not, in fact, been ghosting her, but that her phone was not getting my texts. We found this out b/c some other app on her phone wasn't behaving normally, so I restarted her phone -- and BAM, all my unreceived texts suddenly arrived on her phone. Since then, I've tried texting her phone, and it receives nothing from me until a restart, and then her phone receives all my texts retroactively.
As far as we can tell, neither of our phones has any problem with SMS communications with anyone else's phone (except some iPhones -- don't get me started). Other people receive my texts normally, and her phone receives other people's texts normally.
I tried texting her from two different Google Voice accounts I have (both different from the Google account our phones share), and her phone received both G-Voice texts immediately.
I tried changing my SMS app (from Pulse to Textra). No effect (her S10 didn't receive texts until restarting). I tried changing her SMS app. No effect. I did a Samsung software update (thru Settings) on her phone. No effect.
I have an old S10e, my last phone before I switched to the LG. As an experiment, I popped her phone's SIM card into my old S10e. I installed an SMS app neither of us has ever used before, Handcent Next, on the S10e. Without doing anything else (i.e. w/o transferring her S10 data or settings to the S10e), I texted her number from my LG. The text arrived immediately in Handcent. I thought, Eureka!
I promptly factory-reset my S10e, and used Samsung's Smart Switch to transfer "Everything" from her S10 to the S10e. After all her data, apps, & settings were transferred to the S10e, I texted her number, and… NOTHING. The S10e did not receive my text, until I restarted it.
So, my question to all Android sleuths out there is: What the hell?
Excellent detail and info.
My initial guess may be because you're sharing the Google account. Yes, I know you said this didn't cause problems before, but now with Google Messages (I know you're not using that, but still) doing lots of RCS and background stuff, I imagine there may be some behind-the-scenes interaction that is causing problems. I'm not saying this is a fault of RCS or anything like that, but I think the sharing may be the issue?
I would suggest trying to create a new Google account, and keeping the phones on separate accounts... it's a free and easy test, I figure... and you seem quite skilled in more difficult things, so this should be easy enough?
Also note, some apps support family sharing, so if you setup a "family" between the two accounts, you may get the purchased apps on both accounts without too much issue. My wife and I do this and it has worked pretty well for our apps. (FWIW, we both have S10+ and use GMessages on separate google accounts, family shared, and don't have any issues with texts, etc.)
schwinn8: I liked your idea & reasoning, and I implemented it -- new personal Gmail account for her, added to my G-family. Restarted her phone, and sent her a text which did not arrive. (I texted her from a Google Voice account, and that SMS arrived instantly.) I then restarted her phone again, and, for the first time, the initial text still did not arrive. That's new, at least.
What setting could possibly delay a text from coming in?
Well, that's not the direction I wanted things to go either!
Not sure what else could delay texts from coming in... not aware of any delay mechanisms in most cases.
Are both on Wifi during this process? Is the LG running a ROM with working VOWIFI? Yes, I am grasping at straws...
Well, recalling my old Windows 3.x experiences, I factory-reset the S10e (my old phone), and installed all of my wife's apps and recreated all her settings on it from scratch -- i.e. no transferring apps or settings from her phone. A labor-intensive solution, to be sure, but it is working so far. The S10e receives my texts normally.