G+_David Herron Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Has anyone found a solution for making your SMS through Google Voice function more like traditional SMS with other devices? So, for example, with my car's bluetooth connection, it's designed to read and show my text messages through the car's system, but it doesn't because it doesn't recognize GV messages in Hangouts as SMS messages to my phone (because it's not routing through my carrier). Is there a way to make it work I haven't thought of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Open Hangouts and try going into Settings --> SMS --> Send SMS from and selecting Google Voice. I was able to send the message using the Google Search app (I typed but voice prompts would do the same thing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mike T Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 /sub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Turns out, that came from my T-Mobile number. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Corey Fields Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I think I'm having trouble communicating my question. I exclusively use my Google Voice number via Hangouts for SMS/texting. I have all those settings in place. But what I'm saying is that auxiliary devices don't recognize a Google Voice SMS in Hangouts as an SMS, because it's not going through my carrier. So, let me try to reword: in newer cars, there is a bluetooth system that will sync your phone contacts, phone calls, SMS, etc. such that you can use your car's systems to make voice calls and send texts through your phone. Your contact's names, messages, etc. can appear on your car's display. You can dial someone using your car's interface through the bluetooth connection with your phone. You can hear and reply to SMS through your car's interface through that same connection..... ....except, I can't because I use Google Voice and Hangouts and my car doesn't recognize those incoming messages as texts. So I was just wondering if anyone has found a solution/work around for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Corey Fields Yeah. There has to be a framework change for this to happen. It's basically the same problem I mentioned above. Maybe Hangouts just needs to be updated to handle this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Franco Colomba I doubt that. Messenger doesn't require a Google account, and only handles SMS/MMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 There used to be an app that merged Google Voice texts into the SMS list - Google Voice Plus or something but that was before the Hangouts changes and the registered-SMS-app changes in 4.4. Cyanogen's Voice+ app also used to do that but I think it was integrated into Cyanogen. I'm not sure but I think for this to work you'd need an app that registers as the default SMS app while also listening for notifications from hangouts and putting them into the SMS database. Not sure if Pushbullet or IFTTT can do this.? Or maybe as a workaround you just need an app that will read out hangouts messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Lionel D Voice+ would work, and all you need is root and the Xposed module. Unfortunately, they don't have it working on 5.1, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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