How to locate Hangouts on cellphone

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The latest Hangouts 4. I'm not familiar with Google Contacts. I'll check it out when I have more time. Sounds like a good suggestion!

Comment by Kenneth V on Thursday, March 30, Any idea on how google's new push to remove SMS from hangouts and require use of their messaging app will affect the usability of google voice for voice or texting through Freedompop? Hangouts is removing carrier sms capability, but it will still work fine with Google Voice numbers. Comment by Linda on Thursday, March 30, I am reading and re-reading all your guides, people comments, and your answers.

Things are coming together for me, but I cannot seem to get straight in my mind how to use hangouts as my SMS app and have it show messages coming from my google voice number. When I type in my recipient it says "sending as unknown number". What am I missing in this equation? Thanks much for your help. I'm assuming you've also installed the Hangouts dialer and clicked it to make a call.

You also need to make sure you are signed into your Google voice account on the Hangouts app. At some point I remember being asking which number I wanted my calls to be sent from. Maybe that's the first time I used the Hangouts Dialer. You only need to use the dialer app directly once, then it works within the Hangouts app. Please let me know your email address if you have further questions. Thank you for all of the detailed instruction - it has really helped a lot. And the phone works like a champ. I especially like the navigation, with the maps appearing on the car's screen and the navigational instructions over the car's audio system.

Very nice. The only thing I can't get to work is integration of the phone calling and receiving through the car's microphone and speakers. Really, it doesn't even get to that point - the call ends before it ever gets started. This happens both in Android Auto and with vanilla "hands-free" dialing. I'm guessing it has something to do with the data-only nature of the phone's configuration.

Just wondering if you or anyone else has gotten a Google Voice or FreedomPOP phone to work through their auto's system. Thanks again for all of your help. Great minds think alike! As for linking your phone to your car and getting the functions you are describing, that is beyond me. We have two cars, a and a , so neither of our cars has your car's capabilities.

It's cool to hear what you are able to do though, and I hope you can get the integrated phone calling to work too, but I have no idea what to do to make it work. It might be related to the voip nature of Google Voice as you suggest. Good luck! Will keep you posted if I discover a magic setting or app to make it all work. I'm convinced most cellphones will be voip in the coming years, so this problem will eventually get solved.

An because it's free, you also don't get stuck with all the associated state and Federal taxes and fees.

It also includes a lot of free options, like voicemail, voicemail to text, call forwarding, and more. It's also incredibly portable, as I can access it from any computer or any phone with Hangouts. The phone number isn't tied to a phone or a cellular provider. The only potential downside is that it is not considered a "traditional" phone number, and some people have reported issues using their Google Voice number with certain businesses. I've used a Google Voice phone number for our home phone number with an Obi device and I've had free home phone service for three years.

I still have to pay Cox for my cable internet connection, but I'd be paying that anyway. I've also been using a different Google Voice phone number for my cell number with the Google Hangouts app and dialer app. To use a Google Voice number on your cell phone, you need to use the Hangouts app and dialer, and you need wifi or cellular data. I also like that I can point my Google Voice number at multiple phones I seem to be collecting cheap smart phones now.

Google Voice might not work for everyone, but I recommend checking it out.

After all, it's free so there's no risk to getting a free number and trying it out. There is also the recently updated Google Voice app, but I haven't tried out the Google Voice app because the Hangouts app works just fine for me and I figure, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Hawaii has a different taxing structure and that is probably why Google does not want to be handing out Hawaii phone numbers. I did not know. I just searched Google, and found out that as of Google Voice numbers are only available for the continental United States.

Apparently local phone service in Hawaii and Alaska is more expensive, and Google has decided not to cover it since Google Voice is a free service. I guess that's one of the costs of living in paradise Hawaii, that is. The only thing I have not being able to configure properly in my GV app nor my Hangouts App but I'm not sure if the Hangouts app ever offered this functionality is the following: I would like to have my GV number show up on the phone of the person I'm calling while using the FP minutes not using data nor wifi but minutes.

But FP is a virtual number not sure about the correct terminology so even after configuring the GV app properly it doesn't work the FP number shows up. I found an ugly work around by logging in to GV thru my phone's browser Chrome, Firefox, etc and placing a call that way.

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What GV does in that case is initiate the call thru their server and then it calls you back on your phone's FP number to join your phone with the person you are calling. The person you are calling sees your GV number and FP thinks somebody is calling you and uses the minutes. I hope you can shed some light on this issue. I know one can do this with emails, that is, I can tell Yahoo email to put a different "reply to" email on the messages I send.

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But I did not know that you can do this with phone numbers, and I don't know how one would do this for the FP app specifically. I'm impressed by your "ugly" work-around. But I really don't know how you would do this in an easier manner. It does remind me of the topic of phone number "spoofing", which is now abused by spammers so that people think it is someone else calling instead of a telemarketer.

I used to get random missed calls in the middle of the night. When I'd call the number back in the morning, the person said they'd never called. It was because someone else was using their number. My caller ID was showing the spoofed fake number, not the real number that called.

Anyway, I don't know how to do what you're asking, but it might be even harder to do because of legitimate anti-spoofing measures. Good luck, and let me know if you figure it out! I decided to go back and do some research on this topic again and found a new app called GVoice Callback. It does exactly what I was looking for.

Every call out of the default dialer is intercepted by the app and then routed through my GV account which then calls me back etc, etc. The reason I was trying so hard not to lose the functionality of going thru my GV account is because I really want my contacts to only ever know my GV number instead of having to know my 5 different SIM numbers. Let me clarify that the ability to display your GV number instead of the carrier's number works out of the box no callback needed with "normal" SIM cards which integrate seamlessly with the GV app dialer you can read more about it in the GV web site.

However FP network for whatever reason doesn't play well with the GV app so I was forced to use my "ugly" callback workaround. Fortunately this new app automates the callback mechanism and allows me to always display my single GV number as well as use my free FP minutes. Let me know what you think if you decide to try it out.

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Thanks for the followup. I'll check out the GVoice Callback app and try it out when I have time. Thanks for providing this information for other readers.