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SMS issues when data active?

I'm not 100% certain, but APNdroid widget pretty much saves me on this stupid and quite odd issue.
Every time I initiate a data connection my phone won't receive SMS's and when I disable data (using APNdroid) all my messages come in that I've "missed" during my data session.
What's the go with that?
Maybe someone re-produce. I tried it twice and I found the issue.

It is kind of weird the behaviour of the sms retrieval when I'm using a data connection. I'm quite certain that its still happening but I've had success at times too so it makes it unpredictable.
I see that no one has a similar problem so I may have a dud haha
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Odd. Sms don't use data access unless you use mms.
Maybe you are getting mms mixed up with sms? Also sounds like a network problem and not your phone
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Have asked the support from your carrier? I guess this is a problem with your provider. Maybe you can try a different device with Data connection to test it?

What i have noticed is that sometimes i cant recieve nor sms neither calls and I have full of signal.
I dont know if it has to do with my 3g internet connection wich is always on or with my provider.

ado_civon said:
It is kind of weird the behaviour of the sms retrieval when I'm using a data connection. I'm quite certain that its still happening but I've had success at times too so it makes it unpredictable.
I see that no one has a similar problem so I may have a dud haha
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I have a similar problem as well, but i can't send out sms. i can receive sms and calls...i find it odd...and yes, my data connection is also on as well. O_O

BakaSenpai said:
I have a similar problem as well, but i can't send out sms. i can receive sms and calls...i find it odd...and yes, my data connection is also on as well. O_O
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Have you got SMS send enabled on your simcard/telco ? SMS recived is usually enabled but sometimes sms/caller id and mms is disabled at telco end.

SMS issues disappeared.
I haven't mixed mms and sms up but for that day I reproduced this issue a few times but I'm happy to say that its not happening anymore.
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make sure in settings
your APN it setup to use both internet+mms
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[Q] Why can I not send Picture messages on Nexus 4?

So I just got my nexus 4 today. Amazing phone... but the only problem I keep having is sending picture messages. I was able to receive picture messages, but that also took a long time to receive. I am on Tmobile and anyone else experience the same problem? Any suggestions on if I should contact Tmobile or if I should play around with the APN settings? Or is just because my phone had about 25% of battery left? Any help would be great. Thanks

mkamal23 said:
So I just got my nexus 4 today. Amazing phone... but the only problem I keep having is sending picture messages. I was able to receive picture messages, but that also took a long time to receive. I am on Tmobile and anyone else experience the same problem? Any suggestions on if I should contact Tmobile or if I should play around with the APN settings? Or is just because my phone had about 25% of battery left? Any help would be great. Thanks
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have the same issue on mine, just stuck on SENDING. also on TMO.

Same on Straight Talk :/

Had the same problem. Make sure your APN settings are correct for your carrier, fixed it for me.

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cloud1111 said:
Had the same problem. Make sure your APN settings are correct for your carrier, fixed it for me.
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yah this is why i am going to make a run to att in the morning and let them cut my sim down and stick in their apn. then i can test what they want me to use around here. then test flashing different modems later on.

The nexus 4 is made to be world phone with no specific carier affect. Call up your carrier and ask them to send the MMS settings to your phones. That should fix it.

dlovely said:
have the same issue on mine, just stuck on SENDING. also on TMO.
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This is exactly what my phone is doing also.
cloud1111 said:
Had the same problem. Make sure your APN settings are correct for your carrier, fixed it for me.
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When I check my APN settings... how exactly do i "make sure" my APN settings are correct for my carrier
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The nexus 4 is made to be world phone with no specific carier affect. Call up your carrier and ask them to send the MMS settings to your phones. That should fix it.
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I guess I will try calling my carrier today and ask them to send the MMS settings... lets see if this works.

Also make sure your using the stock messaging app and not a third party one. That has also been known to cause issues. There's a few threads out there about this same issue that mention this.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

deleted my APN and then manually created a new one with the exact same settings. rebooted. turned wifi off and attached a new pic and sent, it worked. tried it again with wifi on and it gets stuck "sending". sounds to me like my problem may be with wifi because if toggled back and forth turning it off and on and can reproduce the issue every time. for some reason mine doesn't like wifi on when sending mms.
BTW the old ones are still stuck showing "sending" so i'm not sure if they ever get delivered, have to wait for my girl to get home and ask her. the beauty of being with a school teacher, she can't use her phone at school!

Monk4Life said:
Also make sure your using the stock messaging app and not a third party one. That has also been known to cause issues. There's a fee threads out there about this same issue that mention this.
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Yup... I am using stock messaging. IDK why its not working on stock...
dlovely said:
deleted my APN and then manually created a new one with the exact same settings. rebooted. turned wifi off and attached a new pic and sent, it worked. tried it again with wifi on and it gets stuck "sending". sounds to me like my problem may be with wifi because if toggled back and forth turning it off and on and can reproduce the issue every time. for some reason mine doesn't like wifi on when sending mms.
BTW the old ones are still stuck showing "sending" so i'm not sure if they ever get delivered, have to wait for my girl to get home and ask her. the beauty of being with a school teacher, she can't use her phone at school!
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Hmm... well i just tried your method of deleting the old and setting up exactly as before.. and still nothing. I was able to send a picture message a few times yesterday but they went like 15 min after i sent it and ever since then... nothing.

mkamal23 said:
Yup... I am using stock messaging. IDK why its not working on stock...
Hmm... well i just tried your method of deleting the old and setting up exactly as before.. and still nothing. I was able to send a picture message a few times yesterday but they went like 15 min after i sent it and ever since then... nothing.
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i'm rooted but on stock messaging too. are you using wifi or mobile? the delete/manually recreate apn was something i saw on androidcentral when researching the issue. i'm about to call t-mo to rule out anything on their end. i never knew this was such a popular issue according to google.
if i send with wifi on it hangs on sending. i wait a minute, still stuck at sending. i then toggle off wifi and go back to messaging, and the for some reason it sends. weird...

dlovely said:
i'm rooted but on stock messaging too. are you using wifi or mobile? the delete/manually recreate apn was something i saw on androidcentral when researching the issue. i'm about to call t-mo to rule out anything on their end. i never knew this was such a popular issue according to google.
if i send with wifi on it hangs on sending. i wait a minute, still stuck at sending. i then toggle off wifi and go back to messaging, and the for some reason it sends. weird...
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I was using mobile. I know its not working on WiFi. I had no problems before this on my GS2. But yeah... let me know if u get in hold on tmobile. I prob will try to do the same later today after work.

mkamal23 said:
I was using mobile. I know its not working on WiFi. I had no problems before this on my GS2. But yeah... let me know if u get in hold on tmobile. I prob will try to do the same later today after work.
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called t-mobile, kinda useless. they verified apn settings and said everything was fine. the only useful info they gave which i completely overlooked was sending MMS to myself lol didn't even think of trying that instead of spamming my girl with useless pictures.
turns out i was wrong about just blaming wifi alone. the issue with mine was using wifi and adblock plus! i turned off adblock plus and everything was better. uninstalled the app until it's fixed and went with a hosts file replacement to block ads in the meantime.

having this problem too, i can't send via 3g or wifi, maybe i need to reboot

Monk4Life said:
Also make sure your using the stock messaging app and not a third party one. That has also been known to cause issues. There's a few threads out there about this same issue that mention this.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
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Yeah, THIS is weird. I was using Go SMS Pro and no pictures would go. But when I went to the stock messaging app for the pictures, they went almost immediately. The APN settings were correct, don't know what stops them from going with Go SMS.

Can confirm that Go SMS doesn't send pics no matter what.

Connection Problem - No Email & Not Sending Pictures
I took my phone to T-Mobile today They made a call to an "expert" and while I waited, the problem was solved. After updating to 4.3 on my Nexus 4, I couldn't connect to my email and could not send pictures. I was asked to delete my email accounts and re-enter them:victory:. This solved the problem! I guess after the upgrade, my connection/emails, whatever couldn't be 'read' so had to start from scratch. All of my email was there. Hope this helps someone else who's having this problem.

I'm on rogers canada, can't send pics sms either… stock or go sms
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I'd really recommend GO SMS for text/MMS service. On go SMS settings change the maximum MMS size to 500 KB, and check "preserve image resolution". Also put Nexus as your user agent. Same with stock messaging if you prefer the stock. If you are using go SMS make sure to disable the stock so it does not interfere with each other. Hope it helps. This is my settings I use and it works.
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Hangouts

So... MMS is not working on Hangouts. The reason being is because it uses its own custom apns.xml, with bad info. I suppose this is in regards to them not wanting to release source code? Why it doesn't revert to stock apn is beyond me. Anyone able to shed more light on this?

Steamer86 said:
So... MMS is not working on Hangouts. The reason being is because it uses its own custom apns.xml, with bad info. I suppose this is in regards to them not wanting to release source code? Why it doesn't revert to stock apn is beyond me. Anyone able to shed more light on this?
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Is this a common problem on stock ROM? Haven't heard this discussed yet...that's a bummer.

Common problem with any ROM, the app, and a mass of phones in general.

im also having the same issues, the come in as trying to download, but fails to download at all (no data is being sent or recived

And this is due to false and or failed apn. Hangouts resorts to its own instead of the phones. Edit in your actual APN values. I bet it will work. An alternate fix is to extract the apk, remove the apns.xml file, and repack. Thus making it resort to stock apns. Have fun. GL.

Unpacked com.google.android.talk-2.apk. Removed the apns.xml. Repacked and reinstalled. MMS working...
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Last step, Google, give me some free play credit... lol

Last step, Google, give me some free play credit... lol[/QUOTE]
Can this be done on a stock ROM, unrooted? I can't seem to find com.google.android.talk-2.apk in my phone's storage.

You can do it yourself without root if you download the apk. It does install deeper though.

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Will this work on the Sprint variant?

Any

No luck yet
Steamer86 said:
Try this. Report back. File was too big for attachment. http://www.mediafire.com/download/w...le.android.talk-2.0.122%20%28904984-30%29.apk
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Alright, so I tried to install this as an update to Hangouts after turning on Unknown Sources, it prompts to install and then says application not installed. Tried uninstalling current release of Hangouts downloaded/installed through Play store, rebooting, and installing the one you linked to again. This time it installed, then immediately crashed during setup.
Running on Sprint LG G2 (LG-LS980) Hardware Rev. 1, Android 4.2.2 Stock ROM un-rooted (so far )

Use this one. My apologies.
https://www.mediafire.com/?th743vvcb1xc6g8

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Use this one. My apologies.
https://www.mediafire.com/?th743vvcb1xc6g8
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No apologies necessary my friend, on the contrary, thanks for trying to help me out here! That one installed no problem, and the first test I tried was downloading a previously received message that was "stuck". It still tried to download but never succeeded, just kept Retrying. I' waited for someone to send me a picture message to see if ones sent after the update was installed would work, but no joy. I then full uninstalled Hangouts, and used yours as a base install. This time it installed fine, but as soon as I clicked "Done", Hangouts crashed. Then every time I tried to launch hangouts, it would also crash.

Damn, that sucks. No clue why it would be crashing, pretty basic and only one file removed. Ben writhing perfect here. I am rooted though.

My problem is a little bit different.. I can send and receive MMS IF I enable the data plan. If data plan is disable..MMS cant send or receive anything.
Arent MMS supposed to connect to data automatically without us have to manually enable it (data)?

No. MMS use data. The carrier (if included in plan) negates it. It actually goes across the data network and does not auto switch. You won't get any MMS or standard internet services if in a non data zone unless on Wi-Fi or are using as app that supports MMS over a Wi-Fi connection. I was under the assumption that hangouts was supported, if sent to your actual hangouts id and not mobile number. The integration can be cumbersome to end users as it is not fully auto and can't really distinguish when you do or do not have a data or Wi-Fi connection. This is left to the user to distinguish. Best to let your contacts know to send MMS to your actual Google id. Just doesn't work that way. Why some prefer separate when not on MMS / data plans.

Steamer86 said:
No. MMS use data. The carrier (if included in plan) negates it. It actually goes across the data network and does not auto switch. You won't get any MMS or standard internet services if in a non data zone unless on Wi-Fi or are using as app that supports MMS over a Wi-Fi connection. I was under the assumption that hangouts was supported, if sent to your actual hangouts id and not mobile number. The integration can be cumbersome to end users as it is not fully auto and can't really distinguish when you do or do not have a data or Wi-Fi connection. This is left to the user to distinguish. Best to let your contacts know to send MMS to your actual Google id. Just doesn't work that way. Why some prefer separate when not on MMS / data plans.
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I could never get MMS to work in hangouts on the sprint lg g2... When I flashed to a custom ROM however, it worked flawlessly. Go figure.

asrulz said:
My problem is a little bit different.. I can send and receive MMS IF I enable the data plan. If data plan is disable..MMS cant send or receive anything.
Arent MMS supposed to connect to data automatically without us have to manually enable it (data)?
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I just tested this without enabling the data plan, and it works excellent. I'm having a d802.

Crap, was I drunk...lol. I have never really tested. I'm on Verizon, if I don't have some type of data enabled I will not get an MMS either way. 4G / data can be disabled, as long as I can get get a 3G for delivery.

[Q] No MMS After KitKat Update

Hello all! I'm having a problem I hope someone can help me with. I recently updated my Note 3 with the leaked KitKat build and while everything seems to be working fine, I have lost the ability to receive MMS picture messages. I can send them to anyone just fine, but have not been able to receive one since. My fiance has sent me several and I don't get the picture or any kind of notification of a new message. I've tried both the stock messaging app, and Handcent, no difference with either. Anyone out there have any suggestions? Thanks!

Try the Verizon messaging app from the play store. You can even access your messages from the Web and has a built in cloud backup.
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bpopilek said:
Hello all! I'm having a problem I hope someone can help me with. I recently updated my Note 3 with the leaked KitKat build and while everything seems to be working fine, I have lost the ability to receive MMS picture messages. I can send them to anyone just fine, but have not been able to receive one since. My fiance has sent me several and I don't get the picture or any kind of notification of a new message. I've tried both the stock messaging app, and Handcent, no difference with either. Anyone out there have any suggestions? Thanks!
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I had the same problem of sorts. Not sure if you could but I was able to get the picture message just not download it. I found that if I turned WiFi off and just went off cellular network it would download then though, but not when connected to wifi. Hope that helps.

I had the problem of sending mms with WiFi on with my Note 2, but no problems with mms at all on the Note 3 until the KitKat update. Is there a setting someplace that I am missing? It's weird that everything worked before the update.

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Alright, here's my story, after switching from Sense to CM11 when I first got my HTC One a few months ago things were working alright, then at some point I lost the ability to send or receive mms messages. I looked online and found that there were a few people with the same problem, most said the problem had to do with the apn settings, the solution to was either modified apn settings or using an alternate messaging program, such as 8sms.
Anyways, I tried several different apn setups to try and get my mms back, my LTE internet worked, but no mms. Eventually I found a setup that allowed me to send a mms to someone, but not receive one. I figured that was a good as I was going to get it.
After a few OTA nightly updates I decided to tinker with the apn settings again; my hope being that one of the new nightlies would have fixed the problem if I restored my apn settings to default. This didn't help and cost me the ability to even send mms. Needless to say I scoured the web to find usable apn settings again (I prefer to use the stock messaging app), eventually I ended up Frankensteining several together and found a solution that allowed for me to send and receive mms, as well as my LTE internet!
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Found APN settings that enable sending and receiving mms, as well as LTE internet (with a lte subscription, it's not a hack or anything).
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I know some people have connection problems including wifi, idk anything about that. This is just the set up I found that got mms sending and recieving working again.
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Get to 'APN Settings' by opening 'Voice Dialer' and saying clearly "Open APN", this will prompt you to open APN Settings, from there you can edit things.

bpopilek said:
I had the problem of sending mms with WiFi on with my Note 2, but no problems with mms at all on the Note 3 until the KitKat update. Is there a setting someplace that I am missing? It's weird that everything worked before the update.
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Fore me it works fine, i can send mms with wifi + data on. Did you fallow the instructions when you did the KK update...my suggestion is try to send the mms just using data but turn your wifi off, also make sure the receiver has the cellular data on if you are sending it to phone.
Hope it helps

[Q] Hangouts not appearing as default messaging app option

So I have Hangouts which I use for texting (via Google Voice features to be more specific).
Since GVoice isn't supported as a default messaging app, I've been using Hangouts.
However, on my S8, I can't make Hangouts my default messaging app since it doesn't appear as an option.
I've installed other SMS apps to see if it was some bigger issue, though they're listed properly.
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Is anyone else having a similar issue and/or know how to solve it?

I thought hangouts disabled non-voice SMS features awhile back. So you can SMS via your hangouts (e.g. "voice") number within hangouts, but anything to do with SMS inside hangouts is not considered "SMS" outside of hangouts—e.g. by the phone device.

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I thought hangouts disabled non-voice SMS features awhile back. So you can SMS via your hangouts (e.g. "voice") number within hangouts, but anything to do with SMS inside hangouts is not considered "SMS" outside of hangouts—e.g. by the phone device.
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Ugh. That's what I was afraid of.
I was using Hangouts on an older phone; maybe I was able to skirt around that disabling for a bit...
So basically there's nothing out there I can use as my default messaging app for my GV texts?

TheAma1 said:
Ugh. That's what I was afraid of.
I was using Hangouts on an older phone; maybe I was able to skirt around that disabling for a bit...
So basically there's nothing out there I can use as my default messaging app for my GV texts?
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Good question and I hope you get an answer to it.
In the meantime, as long as you have the APK for an older version that still integrated SMS, I don't see why you can't just uninstall the version on your S8 and replace it by sideloading the old APK. Or just get the version number and download it from any number of APK archive sites on the web.

Go to settings/apps and make sure hangouts has all the permissions enabled (including messages). After that, go back to hangouts and try to make it your default messaging whiting the app after you've enabled its permissions. Please report back if this works.

TheAma1 said:
Ugh. That's what I was afraid of.
I was using Hangouts on an older phone; maybe I was able to skirt around that disabling for a bit...
So basically there's nothing out there I can use as my default messaging app for my GV texts?
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Yeah, it's a shame. Google has so many chat products, and can't simplify a simple universal messaging service.
This is a good article about the Hangouts/SMS/Google Voice fallout recently. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/google-voice-update-makes-googles-messaging-strategy-confusing/

Nah even with all permissions enabled it's still not recognized by the OS as a possible default messaging app.

JDM9499 said:
Yeah, it's a shame. Google has so many chat products, and can't simplify a simple universal messaging service.
This is a good article about the Hangouts/SMS/Google Voice fallout recently. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/google-voice-update-makes-googles-messaging-strategy-confusing/
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Thanks for the link! It's indeed a real cluster...
I was initially looking into porting my GV number to my carrier (who knows when Google will shut-down GV altogether), but since I still need my carrier's number it's a dead end.
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Go to settings/apps and make sure hangouts has all the permissions enabled (including messages). After that, go back to hangouts and try to make it your default messaging whiting the app after you've enabled its permissions. Please report back if this works.
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Tried it with current GPlay version (18.0) but still no option available.
The permissions were initially turned off, but even after enabling all of them there was no option in either Hangouts either or the default app section.
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Good question and I hope you get an answer to it.
In the meantime, as long as you have the APK for an older version that still integrated SMS, I don't see why you can't just uninstall the version on your S8 and replace it by sideloading the old APK. Or just get the version number and download it from any number of APK archive sites on the web.
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Awesome suggestion which seems to have worked!
Well, sort of.
I ended up getting the last version before the official SMS removal (17.0).
Lo and behold, the SMS section appeared in Hangouts' options:
Through there, I selected Hangout as my default SMS app, as well as my GVoice number and account to be the default sender:
I then used Google Assistant to text a contact...
Which ended up using Hangouts (yay) but through my carrier's SMS (boo). It's also two separate threads in Hangouts (one with texts sent via GV, another via the carrier).
So, almost back to square one (the goal being to default-text via GV across the device).
Since Hangouts is the default SMS app, I'm guessing the current issue may be that the vocal command for "texting" is somehow tied to the carrier's SMS in lieu of GV. Especially since Hangouts' SMS default is GV...

Hangouts is moving support for SMS. Got a notification on my s6 the other day. Messages by Google is the new app specifically for SMS MMS like things now.
I know.....mmmmmm ghey...

I'm in the same boat. I hate native cell text messaging (and test messaging in general). GV has always been the lifesaver for me. But it is a pain that it no longer can register as a messaging app.
I honestly don't care what app is used as long as it routes the SMS through GV and does not require cell connection to be active and messages are stored server side on Google so are searchable and available on all devices.

Switched to a new phone and was not able to reply to SMS messages via my Google voice number. So I uninstalled Hangouts, sideloaded version 16, set my default SMS app to Google Hangouts through version 16 and it went back to working. I then updated the Hangouts app and it informed me that SMS will no longer work. So I pressed the show me button in the message to close the persistent notification, it sent me to the Android Messaging app that I closed and I can now use Hangouts to send SMS again. Hope that helps.

I just tried this and it looks like it no longer works. After it forces me to update to the latest version of Hangouts my default messaging app goes back to Messages and Hangouts is no longer an option. Does anybody else have any ideas?