Still have to pick between SMS and Hangouts manually, but a step in the right direction.
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Still have to pick between SMS and Hangouts manually, but a step in the right direction.
The death of Google Voice is imminent.
New Hangouts really is great with SMS and Hangouts being in one place now. White bubble means it's a text and a green bubble means it's a Hangouts message.
I guess the only issue is that you have no way of telling how the person sending you a message sent it since it's white for them no matter what.
I guess the only issue is that you have no way of telling how the person sending you a message sent it since it's white for them no matter what.
The Faceless Master
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Sounds like they just dump the SMS and Hangouts messages into one big list and you can toggle if your responses use Hangouts or SMS
This is the only step. Anything else would be going too far.
outunderthestars
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Looking to make the jump to Android for my phone. Found someone who will buy my iphone for $300 and really want to go to the Nexus 5. Is the Nexus 5 still worth buying? Any deals or coupons floating around for it?
Anything I should know? Can I just take the phone to an att store and have my account switched over to it?
Anything I should know? Can I just take the phone to an att store and have my account switched over to it?
Testicular Sound Express
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yup. just make sure to turn off imessage before you deactivate it. It will make things much easier for you.
It says "via SMS" at the bottom the messages. All Hangout messages you receive will not have that caption at the bottom. Problem solved.
I've also received a prompt on top that says "Autoswitched to Hangouts based on the last message received"
So the app is smart enough to autoswitch for you depending on how the message was sent to you.
Oh I didn't catch that part at all. I was wondering why they left it at all white for the other person. Feels like they should have highlighted it for them just to keep consistency though.
I think it's green for all outgoing messages, white for incoming, irrespective of whether it's a hangout or sms.
No need to go to the store if it's a micro sim. Just pop it and it will work. It just shows up as an unknown device in your account page on the web(I haven't
used att in a while so they might have fixed this), but everything works fine.
Nope. It's white for outgoing texts as well as incoming messages. It's only green for outgoing hangouts messages.
yes still worth buying. There won't be a successor until Nov/Dec and there was just a comparison posted where the N5 is smoother and opens apps faster than the just released S5.
Not sure if this thread is appropriate to ask, but I need some convincing between the HTC One M8 and the Xperia Z2. I'll just make a list of personal pro's and con's for each and any other opinion is valued:
Sony Xperia Z2
Pro's
Con's
HTC One M8
Pro's
Con's
I've been using iOS for the past 3 years so it'll be weird to jump back into Android. I am partially leaning towards the M8, as I don't heavily use my camera outside some instagram photos and stuff, but at the same time a nice camera is always nice to have, right? The shape of the Z2 is a little bulky for my liking because I have baby hands, but it's not a deal breaker. Something like the screen being awful outdoors is though, so any input on that would be pretty cool.
Sony Xperia Z2
Pro's
- Screen size
- Seems more "future proof" (more RAM)
- Mostly stock Android
- Camera quality
Con's
- Size and shape
- Fingerprint magnet apparently
- Display is bad outdoors (Verge review)
HTC One M8
Pro's
- Curved back = comfy
- Blinkfeed seems useful
- Screen size and quality
Con's
- Camera ("Ultrapixel"?)
I've been using iOS for the past 3 years so it'll be weird to jump back into Android. I am partially leaning towards the M8, as I don't heavily use my camera outside some instagram photos and stuff, but at the same time a nice camera is always nice to have, right? The shape of the Z2 is a little bulky for my liking because I have baby hands, but it's not a deal breaker. Something like the screen being awful outdoors is though, so any input on that would be pretty cool.
Jazzy Network
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You forgot one Z2 con. Can't find that shit anywhere.
#BritainSwag
It's not widely available here but at least it exists. My heart goes out to my US cousins. ;_;
ThatObviousUser
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Still doesn't natively support using Voice numbers for SMS. =/
Not that it's TOO bad since there is a workaround, but still. Annoying.
I haven't noticed much of a difference on mine since Kit Kat.
Because it's terrible compared to the other currently released phones as well as the ones released last year.
I need Android-Gaf's help. My wife has a HTC One Mini and a new Jeep with a UConnect stereo system. I get stuck with tech support and I don't know much about android phones. I paired the phone with the car and the contacts don't download to the system. She can't call by saying "Call [name]. Text messages don't get announced and the system won't read them out loud. Is there any trick to this? I've unpaired and deleted on both the phone and the car a few times and repaired, but both problems remain.
The call [name] thing worked for the first week or so, but now neither work and she can only dial out by saying the number or punching it into her phone. Is there any app that will help with either problem or some other trick? The firmware in the car is the most recent available and the phone is Android 4.4.2.
The call [name] thing worked for the first week or so, but now neither work and she can only dial out by saying the number or punching it into her phone. Is there any app that will help with either problem or some other trick? The firmware in the car is the most recent available and the phone is Android 4.4.2.
OriginalThinking
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Unpair the phone an try again?
I've done that a few times, including deleting the profile off of both the car and the phone. No luck. May 4.4.3 will help?
You guys weren't wrong. Turns out AOKP does pretty much suck.
Yeah you have to manually switch. But it seems like it automatically switches to the way the last message was received, so if the last message you got was an SMS it'd switch to SMS mode and vice versa.
Nicktendo86
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Yeah, massive step in right direction anyway. Like the new design as well.
OK, that's a little better, but I've been in situations where I'm in the basement of somewhere and I don't have any cell reception so I get texts late, but at the sametime I'm on Wi-Fi
It looks the same. Just a drop down selection to the left of the text area to switch to Hangouts or SMS. It wasn't really a new redesign.
Also, new blue dialer?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quintstoffers.DataSync.beta
I think google play game app supports it too, but like no developer uses it >_<
Hmm - it requires a root which I'm not really interested in doing. Any knowledge on this? - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
I just don't want to play through my apps twice depending on which device I'm on.
So you guys didn't tell me why this wasn't working, but it's OK because I figured out. I have to link contact phone numbers with their gmail account for all this to work. I'm glad we have the ability to merge everything, but I just hope other people are smart enough to do the same. If everyone was on google hangout's this would all work much better. My friend was bitching though that if he chats from his desktop, he won't be able to see SMS messages.
Is this what iMessage does? Convert every message into an iMessage whether it's sent via text or wifi?
Is this what iMessage does? Convert every message into an iMessage whether it's sent via text or wifi?
Hangouts doesn't convert SMS. It merely merges two threads together.
iMessage I'm not sure about though.
Every solution I've found on Google has been useless but I figured I'd ask here: anyone know of a surefire cure for the iPhone imessage bug? Since switching to an S5 from a 4G last week I've been unable unable to receive texts from anyone who previously texted me from an iPhone. I manages to get it to work for one person by tediously deleting, readding, deleting, readding my contact for almost an hour.
Unknown One
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I recently switched and my brother told me to turn off SMS messaging on the iphone during the process. It has to be related to that I think.
From what I understand, turning off iMessage before switching numbers helps.
Naturally, Verizon did not warn me of this challenge.
Unknown One
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I turned off everything just in case before he activated my SIM card for the new phone.
The Faceless Master
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why would Verizon warn you?
The Faceless Master
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I've been told by another carrier that Sprint needs to unlock my SIM slot in order to use my phone on the other carrier's network.
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better than nothing...
Well, if they've encountered complaints about people switching from iPhones to Android devices before, I'd have hoped they would have mentioned something prior to me fucking myself.
Instead of, you know, trying to sell me overpriced cases and bullshit insurance the entire fucking time.
Because I'm sure they have heard complaints about it before. Warning people would probably save them a substantial amount of customer service time.
Hooray for more colour!
What? I had the M8 in my hands 2 days ago and the camera was mindblowing! Outstanding picture quality.
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