Hangouts or Default SMS client

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Do you use Google hangouts as your default text messaging client or do you use the default app that comes pre-installed. One downside with hangouts is when sending texts to iphone users who have also have the hangounts app installed then they may not notice they've got a text message because the text is sent to Hangouts as opposed to their default iphone app.

maki

What about those of us that use neither? I use Textra personally.

Vinz Mesrine

Does hangouts require a data connection to work?

G1032

I've gone back to Chomp SMS for my texts.

Hangouts is just too laggy for me for sms. I used it for weeks and weeks and prefer that my hangouts and sms are in the one app but it is just too laggy

In short I use both Hangouts and Chomp SMS

jester77

I use hangouts, no problems with it. Hangouts requires data if you are not sending an sms. The only thing I find annoying is that SMS and Hangout messages from the same person are not in the one thread.

Sonics2k

jester77 wrote: »

I use hangouts, no problems with it. Hangouts requires data if you are not sending an sms. The only thing I find annoying is that SMS and Hangout messages from the same person are not in the one thread.

Same here. If they were combined in one thread Hangouts would be perfect.

jgbyr

I use Handcent SMS.

Vinz Mesrine

jgbyr wrote: »

I use Handcent SMS.

Me too, I've never had an issue with it.

same ol sh1te

jester77 wrote: »

I use hangouts, no problems with it. Hangouts requires data if you are not sending an sms. The only thing I find annoying is that SMS and Hangout messages from the same person are not in the one thread.

They've promised it, it's perfect except for this

Uriel.

Vinz Mesrine wrote: »

Me too, I've never had an issue with it.

me three.

Might use hangouts the odd time for send a photo or a video or something, but Handcent is where it's at for me otherwise.

Squeeonline

Hello SMS is a great alternative to default. Really nice UI.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotext.hello

advertsfox

I use both separately but only because I use CyanogenMod so I can reply / read / delete my texts from the notification bar but not with Hangouts.

matrim

I use 8sms which I think is just a rebuild of the default SMS app, but am not 100% happy with it. I may have to give some of the suggestions here a go

Idleater

Sonics2k wrote: »

Same here. If they were combined in one thread Hangouts would be perfect.

And if they backed up the smses to your Gmail. That's an obvious ommission. Sms backup was one of the first and most useful apps I ever got back a number of years ago.

J_E

jgbyr wrote: »

I use Handcent SMS.

Same, I like the interface.

Dudda

Use Hangouts myself. As mentioned above the only things that annoy me are the hangouts and SMS threads separate for the same person and only the hangout messages show up on my tablet while the hangouts and sms messages show on my phone. Would like the sms messages to be backed up and synced too.

swampy353

Squeeonline wrote: »

Hello SMS is a great alternative to default. Really nice UI.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotext.hello

Until it spams everyone In your address book

Squeeonline

swampy353 wrote: »

Until it spams everyone In your address book

That's never happened to me. There is an option in settings to remove the nags to invite friends. Makes the app 10x better too.

jonnny68

Hangouts is OK but Textra is definitely the best of them.

Kev.

Go SMS for me,love it..

daytob

add me to the go sms pile. love it, the pro version is brilliant. schedule texts and private box

apope8

I was using Hangouts but just tried hello and going to keep that for a bit. Thanks for the suggestion

AlanS181824

I use Hangouts, it's a great little app.

BionicRasher

I use Chomp as I like the repeat notification options and the pop up box when a message arrives.
Tried Hangouts but the killer for me was the lack of thread integration

I started using Disa.IM and really like that too. It's in Alpha testing at the moment and it can integrate text/mms and WhatsApp and there is a Facebook message plugin on the way. It's great and if they could integrate Hangouts and some other message services and get a Web interface I would love it
Check out their profile on Google+.

same ol sh1te

The latest version of Hangouts merges sms and chat conversations

Google is crossing off a major complaint about Hangouts this week: the messaging app will finally merge your SMS and Hangouts conversations. Users can pick between Hangouts and SMS when sending a given message, but that's it. There's no option to use Hangouts with SMS as a fallback option, which is the approach Apple takes with iMessage.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5637122/google-hangouts-adding-merged-conversation-view

Get the apk here
http://androidspin.com/2014/04/21/download-google-hangouts-2-1-way-sms-improvements-widget/

Idleater

same ol sh1te wrote: »

The latest version of Hangouts merges sms...

still doesn't backup to Gmail :rolleyes:

same ol sh1te

Idleater wrote: »

still doesn't backup to Gmail :rolleyes:

All they've done is merge sms and hangouts chat threads which was a big annoyance.

Hangouts already falls back to Gmail and conversations save to your Google history.

Idleater

same ol sh1te wrote: »

All they've done is merge sms and hangouts chat threads which was a big annoyance.

Hangouts already falls back to Gmail and conversations save to your Google history.

I know that, the sms backup is the only obvious ommission now.

same ol sh1te

Idleater wrote: »

I know that, the sms backup is the only obvious ommission now.

Maybe not an omission, maybe Google don't want to make it an iMessage clone

Idleater

same ol sh1te wrote: »

Maybe not an omission, maybe Google don't want to make it an iMessage clone

Nah, they backup every wifi password to log in detail. They even now launched a remote desktop to chrome. They added sms and integrated it with chat. Just a final step.

Dudda

Idleater wrote: »

I know that, the sms backup is the only obvious ommission now.

According to an Android Police app teardown the app contains code reference's to SMS backup or export along with Google Voice references so both should come to the Hangouts app in the future.

Idleater

Dudda wrote: »

... so both should come to the Hangouts app in the future.

Read that all right too.