So my question is when I go into the Hangouts app theres a contact in the "Frequently Contacted" but I have no idea who it is. I just want to remove it from my list but cant figure out how. I already cleared the data but its still there.
This is driving me nuts as well. I miss good old Google talk. Google seems to be getting way too "iphoney" lately.
+1, it seems that the only way to remove from the list is by blocking the person and then refreshing (sign out, sign in ) other than that I cannot find a way to remove
absolutely terrible
they need to fix this asap
miguelco01 said:
+1, it seems that the only way to remove from the list is by blocking the person and then refreshing (sign out, sign in ) other than that I cannot find a way to remove
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how do u block a person?
Nikos2k said:
how do u block a person?
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Open gmail on your computer, then click on the person you like to block, then once the chat window opens click on settings (right top corner), then select block person and save.
No, blocking is not acceptable. I want to remove the "frequently contacted" list all together on my hangouts app in my phone.
I'm in total agreement, I want to be rid of the "Frequently Contacted" in my gmail, or at least be able deselect or hide it. Anyone have an idea?
I want this feature REMOVED
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Upgraded from Evo to 3D this morning, obviously loving it. However, since integrating Google Voice on the 3D, it is processing all my text messages. I would rather use Chomp as I did before. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling as well as reintegrating without any luck. I sent to the voice site and tried to modify some settings but no joy.
I'd like to keep voice for the cheap international calls, any one else suffering this or find a fix? Cheers.
Ok this has been answered quite a few times. But go to your app and hit menu > more > Settings > Sync and Notifications > Check Text Messages and uncheck Inbox notifications.
Unchecking Inbox notifications will keep google voice from telling you about the text but it'll still be saved there. The only downside is that it won't notify you of voicemails. I leave the widget on my screen to show them to me instead. Google was supposed to update the app so we can turn off text notifications but leave on voicemail notifications but they haven't yet.
Thanks for taking the time to write a response. I'm not sure what's happening as I don't have that option, even after redownloading the latest version of Voice from the Market. When I go to menu > more > Settings > Sync and Notifications, under Notifications, I have Text Messages (notify via text message) which is unchecked, followed by inbox notificatoins, vibrate, light and select ringtone. That's all the options there are. I can't unselect text as you mentioned, grr, slightly frustrating, the google text interface looks like it's plucked from the 80s.
Re-read, will play around with "inbox notifications" - currently chomp doesn't even notify, even though it's set to, so I think using this option, I won't ever get notifed. Thanks again.
Uninstall it and reinstall it - when you get to the first option to SKIP! DON'T DO IT.
Google royally ****ed up a good thing here. If you don't skip then things will work as they before the iPhone style takeover.
Appreciate the advice, I didn't skip, I've installed twice and gone thru each step, I'll try again, disabled notifications in Voice, but Chomp's notification ability is not ruined. Grr - why did they change, worked so well on the Evo up til yesterday!! The text engine is a joke, should be an easy option to switch it off.
VoXHTC said:
Uninstall it and reinstall it - when you get to the first option to SKIP! DON'T DO IT.
Google royally ****ed up a good thing here. If you don't skip then things will work as they before the iPhone style takeover.
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this is the first major android phone since all sprint is done google voice integration, not a mess up just people not reading all the instructions in in integrating their numbers without knowing
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I went through this problem on my og EVO. Turns out you need to change a setting on the desktop ver of voice. For some reason Google decided to uncheck the "get texts on this number" I don't remember where the setting is but dig a bit, you'll find it. Uninstalling the app does nothing
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You have to skip the whole Sprint and Google Voice integration. That's what screws everything up.
lopezpm said:
You have to skip the whole Sprint and Google Voice integration. That's what screws everything up.
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Sprint and Google integration is great when done correctly. I prefer actual solutions than just avoiding the problem.
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Yes its the sprint and google integration thats messing everything up. When I got my phone this morning it went ahead and switched over my sprint number to GV and I was getting txt through the GV app. I deactivated the integration and now it works as before. I just dont get any txt notification when I get a txt sent to my GV number which sucks.
donatom3 said:
Sprint and Google integration is great when done correctly. I prefer actual solutions than just avoiding the problem.
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I tried the integration, it worked great for voicemail, but i didnt want Voice to handle my texts - they cant take MMS. I couldnt find anyway to let the phone handle SMS - so I undid the integration...
I have GV+Sprint integration (carried over from integration on Pre-). I took the OTA & all updates.
This was pissing me off so bad. I want to use the app to listen to voicemails, but not for sending/receiving SMS. So here's what I did to keep the Voice app from hijacking the SMS inbox notifications:
Voice>menu > more > Settings > Sync and Notifications
Synchronize Inbox: UNchecked
Background Data: Enabled
Text messages: Checked
now my text messages (including MMS!) still go to the stock messaging app. I still get SMS/VM notifications from the Voice app periodically, but i just clear the SMS ones & listen to the VM ones.
Trying out this combo now though:
Voice>menu > more > Settings > Sync and Notifications
Synchronize Inbox: Checked
Background Data: Enabled
Text messages: Checked (confirmed warning)
Inbox notifications: UNchecked
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I tried the integration, it worked great for voicemail, but i didnt want Voice to handle my texts - they cant take MMS. I couldnt find anyway to let the phone handle SMS - so I undid the integration...
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You didn't set it up right cuz its been posted many times that your default apps can handle text instead of voice.
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You didn't set it up right cuz its been posted many times that your default apps can handle text instead of voice.
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Then by all means please share with us how to properly set it up. I'm new to this integration as I was predominantly using my T-Mobile and Verizon dealer lines since a bit before they launched this integration and I had the same issue so I too uninstalled the integration. I liked the idea tho. But all of a sudden Google Voice was handling all my messages and they WEREN'T hitting my phones inbox.
To put it simply, Fail.
So please, instead of just telling us we did it wrong, how about telling us how you achieved perfect harmony in spirit of honoring what this forum is about. Helping each other.
I didn't want to read through the previous flames, but if it didn't get answered already you need to go directly to google.com/voice and adjust the settings manually. You have to disable integration, from there you can add a new number, type in your current number and it will tell you you have options to select from, choose google voice lite for voicemail only. I'd get more specific but I cant access the site from here.
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Then by all means please share with us how to properly set it up. I'm new to this integration as I was predominantly using my T-Mobile and Verizon dealer lines since a bit before they launched this integration and I had the same issue so I too uninstalled the integration. I liked the idea tho. But all of a sudden Google Voice was handling all my messages and they WEREN'T hitting my phones inbox.
To put it simply, Fail.
So please, instead of just telling us we did it wrong, how about telling us how you achieved perfect harmony in spirit of honoring what this forum is about. Helping each other.
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I've answered this question atleast in 4 seperate threads even giving Android police links with instructions on how to do it. Sorry if I didn't want to retype it in yet another thread while on my phone, so please don't condescend me when a search would have shown this.
Here I went and just looked through my post history and found my answer from yesterday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15103491
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I effin hate Google voice. I notice majorbattery drain when I use the appso I quit usng it. However .... I can't get GV to stop hijacking my damn voicemails. Google needs to stay away from.this type of stuff
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Rippley05 said:
I effin hate Google voice. I notice majorbattery drain when I use the appso I quit usng it. However .... I can't get GV to stop hijacking my damn voicemails. Google needs to stay away from.this type of stuff
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http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1207078
If you already did that disable conditional call forwarding by dialing *38 and hit send.
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Rippley05 said:
I effin hate Google voice. I notice majorbattery drain when I use the appso I quit usng it. However .... I can't get GV to stop hijacking my damn voicemails. Google needs to stay away from.this type of stuff
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Alot of us are using google voice for our voicemail services just fine. I have been since the moment I got my Evo 4G.
Honestly, I think its the best. I do the vast majority of my texting during the day from the computer now. And with chrome + the GV extension, I can check, reply or create from a tiny icon, and not even have to open the GV page.
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I didn't want to read through the previous flames, but if it didn't get answered already you need to go directly to google.com/voice and adjust the settings manually. You have to disable integration, from there you can add a new number, type in your current number and it will tell you you have options to select from, choose google voice lite for voicemail only. I'd get more specific but I cant access the site from here.
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That is exactly it. I removed my number from the google site then clicked on update my account. Chose to use my mobile number, then chose the light version which only handles VM and no other feature's. Reinstalled it on my phone and all is good to go like it used to be.
Now I just wish spare parts battery option would work I can see if GV has any wakelock issues.
So I use GrooveIP to make calls on my phone, and I've been using it on the tablet at home - problem is, I hate the way groove manages contacts (it doesnt really). The OTHER problem is that, beacuse I just have a wifi tab, my contacts app and google voice WONT let me dial contacts directly from those apps. Is there any way to make it so that my tablet recognizes groove IP as a phone and lets me dial from GV and the contacts app?
Anyone? =/
Skype? O-o
No, i mean like - the tab 10.1 doesn't recoginze calling as an action - you can't use "call" as a voice action, you cant click on numbers in the contacts app to call someone. I'm trying to find a way around that. >_>;
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No, i mean like - the tab 10.1 doesn't recoginze calling as an action - you can't use "call" as a voice action, you cant click on numbers in the contacts app to call someone. I'm trying to find a way around that. >_>;
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Currently that's a little challenging :\ I haven't figured a way around that apart from skype. There was a way to add a Phone.apk module that would allow it, but was still WIP
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Currently that's a little challenging :\ I haven't figured a way around that apart from skype. There was a way to add a Phone.apk module that would allow it, but was still WIP
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Thats what I figured needed to happen - has there been any progress on that? =/
Actually, to clarify a bit, the effect I'm going for:
In the contacts app included in the tab 10.1, when you open a contact and click on a phone number, nothing happens. I'd like to be able to click on a number and have the option to call it via GrooveIP. ANYTHING to have that kind of functionality would be nice.
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Actually, to clarify a bit, the effect I'm going for:
In the contacts app included in the tab 10.1, when you open a contact and click on a phone number, nothing happens. I'd like to be able to click on a number and have the option to call it via GrooveIP. ANYTHING to have that kind of functionality would be nice.
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Unfortunately GrooveIP hasn't added that feature to enable it as a default/optional choice, Like how when you have messaging, and you download GoSMS, it asks you which you prefer to use. Likewise GrooveIP has to offer that function, or it probably does? But the Phone.apk isn't detected hence it doesn't give the option?
I agree the option the OP speaks of would be nice.. I wote GrooveIP an email asking if this is possible from their end..
I have not found anything on this so excuse me if this is a repost of sorts.
I have Swiftkey installed on my phone but when the phone is in landscape mode and I am trying to send a message via text, there is no send key, it somehow just vanishes. But as soon as you turn the phone into portrait mode, it returns.
Suggestions?
Thanks
I dont use stock messaging or swiftkey but I do have the paid version and it does not seem to have a send button in stock messaging. I do have it in other messaging apps though.
paid version of swiftkey has it when using hangouts for sms...try hangouts to see if its there for you..
OP can try that. I prefer not to enable hangouts sms...
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OP can try that. I prefer not to enable hangouts sms...
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Why do you prefer to not enable it?
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Why do you prefer to not enable it?
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Because i dont want all my sms synced to google servers. And then who knows what will happen turning it off.
I am very strict with who gets what of my data...
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Because i dont want all my sms synced to google servers. And then who knows what will happen turning it off.
I am very strict with who gets what of my data...
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Agreed, Google is a bit nosey.
But it didnt work anyway, i get a button that says execute but it does not send. Oh well
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Because i dont want all my sms synced to google servers. And then who knows what will happen turning it off.
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How do you know enabling SMS on Hangouts Sync's your SMS'es with Google servers?
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Because i dont want all my sms synced to google servers. And then who knows what will happen turning it off.
I am very strict with who gets what of my data...
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they dont get synced to google servers...
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/12/ask-lh-will-google-hangouts-back-up-my-sms-messages/
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they dont get synced to google servers...
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/12/ask-lh-will-google-hangouts-back-up-my-sms-messages/
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Ok. I dont want google digging into my texts (ie data mining)... backed up to their servers or not.
I doubt that any text,email, or other communication that we make via the internet or our providers' network is safe from interception/mining/reading if the "powers that be" decide that they want to see it..an unfortunate side effect of the hacker/NSA/security nightmare that we now live with on a daily basis..
Doesnt mean I need to feed it to them. Let them work for it if they want it.
For some reason any text message opens in the messaging app only, any way to at least have an option to use Google Voice?
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For some reason any text message opens in the messaging app only, any way to at least have an option to use Google Voice?
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if your saying use google voice in text messaging app then you can change keyboard to google voice
if your saying for google voice to read your text messages then i dont think thats posible yet,
excuse me for misunderstanding what you wrote doesnt make much sense to me
Sorry, I should clarify... I'm trying to make Google Voice as a "messaging" option on my phone. For example, if the phone recognizes a number and gives me an option to call or text, I'd like to be able to text via Google Voice; right now only the messenger app opens.
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Sorry, I should clarify... I'm trying to make Google Voice as a "messaging" option on my phone. For example, if the phone recognizes a number and gives me an option to call or text, I'd like to be able to text via Google Voice; right now only the messenger app opens.
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i dont think that can be done on a z2' i think a nexus can because its got that google now direct acesss
My old Samsung could do it, the phone just recognizes a second option for messaging (similar to having multiple browsers and clicking a hyperlink). Just not sure about now. Maybe if I uninstall/install?...
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For some reason any text message opens in the messaging app only, any way to at least have an option to use Google Voice?
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Yo have to say "send text to xx" and then google voice ask you, what you want to say in the message.
I´m using it a lot and it works great
whiteblazer01 said:
For some reason any text message opens in the messaging app only, any way to at least have an option to use Google Voice?
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If you're up to KitKat, the option to have Google Voice as a default SMS app has been removed......GV and Hangouts are supposed to be merged at some point, eliminating the need for separate apps.
This may be more of an Android question, but on my V10 on the official MM update, I got a message asking whether to allow contact suggestions when composing an email in the Gmail app, but i had a screen filter or such, so i got sidetracked and wasn't able to allow contact suggestions. Now when i go to make an email, i have to type the entire email address(i know i can select it from my contacts list, but i want the contact suggestions back). I can't find where to re-enable that!
Side note: all the extra permission granting in Marshmallow seems like kind of a pain to me!
They are a pain..
Go to Settings>General>Apps
Find Gmail and clear the permissions
or turn on the the Contacts permission.
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They are a pain..
Go to Settings>General>Apps
Find Gmail and clear the permissions
or turn on the the Contacts permission.
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Many thanks, much appreciated!