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you know when google did this..
when they broke google voice wifi calling via the mobile phone, i remember that transition when i was on the nexus s 4g; all of a sudden, gv wouldn't call out unless via the phone channel, then i noticed later how hangouts wouldn't sms to numbers via wifi..07-01-2014 10:56 AMLike 0 -
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Sent from my Nexus 5 using AC Forums mobile app07-01-2014 11:24 AMLike 0 -
You can send text messages, photos... you can also make voice and video calls to other Hangouts contacts as well. You can even send/receive hangouts messages (including video) from your desktop browser as well (if you are logged into Google+) .
The one thing that is lacking, and the one thing that EVERYONE is waiting for, is the ability to make voice calls to external phone numbers (VOIP).... meaning you could send and receive regular voice calls if your service sucks and you only have a Wi-Fi signal.07-01-2014 11:28 AMLike 0 - 07-01-2014 12:21 PMLike 0
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- 07-03-2014 12:32 PMLike 0
- To put this to rest...
Hangouts CAN:
Send/receive SMS to EVERYONE via your phone's radio (traditional SMS)
Send/Receive Hangout text video and picture messages to another Hangouts user... functionally identical to traditional text programs, but over your mobile data or WiFi connection
Send/Receive Voice AND Video calls to other Hangouts users over your mobile data/WiFi connection
... and a few more communication stuff (like group hangouts, etc).
You can send a hangouts message to someone via your desktop browser, etc...
The transition between SMS and Hangouts texts is seemless... and it doesn't lock you into the Hangouts messages like iMessage does.
What it can't do:
Make voice over IP calls to external phone numbers (yet).... functionality that everyone is expecting will be added to Hangouts at some point, current guess is that when they roll Google Voice into hangouts, we'll be able to do VOIP calls using your Google number.07-03-2014 05:04 PMLike 0 -
Posted via Android Central App07-04-2014 12:00 AMLike 0 - 07-04-2014 01:32 AMLike 1
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Hangouts on WiFi will only send to other hangout users, same as imessage on WiFi will only send to other imessage users.daihard2008 and BMukherjee91 like this.07-05-2014 03:14 PMLike 2 -
Why does it work in iMessage, then? Because you are probably sending that iMessage to another iPhone user.... Try sending an iMessage message to someone with an Android phone. You can't.. it's impossible because Apple doesn't make Android apps. Thank God for that... the last thing we'd need is Apple kidnapping phone numbers of people with Android phones as well.
Now, someone with an iPhone can go to the App Store and download Hangouts, log on in and you'll be right as rain sending them Hangouts messages over a data connection.
But in both iMessage and Hangouts... they need to be registered with the service in order to take the native message types. Otherwise it's SMS-only over the phone connection.BMukherjee91 likes this.07-05-2014 10:21 PMLike 1 - You 100% can send a hangouts message on WiFi. Make sure that it is a hangouts message, going through Google servers, and not an SMS, going through carrier servers. Just like imessages go through apple servers and not carrier servers.
Posted via Android Central App07-06-2014 12:41 PMLike 0 - I don't know if people are purposefully ignoring the words being used or what..
HANGOUT MESSAGES are not SMS...he is asking why hangouts doesn't send SMS over WIFI... = NO CELL SIGNAL, NO CELL SERVICE, JUST WIFI
as far as i can tell as of this morning, you cannot send an SMS over WIFI in hangouts. it uses your CELL signal... that's the issue.
now maybe you all have been under a rock, or just for some weird reason paying for cell service AND using google voice to text and just didnt get what the point of google voice was, but that is a STEP BACKWARDS from what google voice had before.. where you were sending SMS over GOOGLES network via WIFI AND making calls over their network. so even though most of us tied google voice into our carriers phone, we really didnt need teh carrier, and like myself cancelled it. so now people like myself who have not had a cell service for a while now, wake up today with no way to text anyone because i have been using google voice for the past five years and just sending pictures via facebook messenger or other apps.09-19-2014 12:12 PMLike 0 -
Question:
It can, and does... sending messages over Wi-Fi or Mobile Data connection is what Hangouts does.
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If you can not send a message, it means the recipient does not have a Google account and can't receive native Hangouts messages.
Why does it work in iMessage, then? Because you are probably sending that iMessage to another iPhone user....
Answered again:
Even calling via Google Voice was not entirely on Google's network - the Google voice app would make the call using your cellular radio to Google's servers and then, from there, it would interface with the telecom network to reach the person you dialed. It was not over your data connection.
Now Hangouts does support VoIP calling - but remember, it is only a data connection till Google's servers. After that, it still has to interface with the telecom network to reach the person you dialed. It is not entirely only on data (even though it may only be using data connection at your end) - slight technical difference.
You CAN use the hangouts app to send SMS over WiFi to non-Google users - just like Google Voice did. Just need you to understand that it is not purely over WiFi. It goes over your data connection to Google. From there, Google will forward that message to the recipient's number over the telecom network. At the end of the day, you still get the SMS like functionality (recipient gets your message that you sent over your data network, and they can reply to it and you get the mesage), even though it is NOT technically SMS.daihard2008 and BMukherjee91 like this.09-19-2014 02:07 PMLike 2 -
Edit - Sorry, just saw your post was dated from July.daihard2008 likes this.09-19-2014 03:55 PMLike 1
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