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Google Voice intergration - Making it better.

Like many members here in the USA, I am on the $25 unlimited data plan that comes with 400 SMS messages. I plan on using my Google Voice account, to send the bulk of my SMS messages, sense it is free(cheaper then $40). My question, is there anyway to get your Google Voice SMS messages to show up under the "Messaging" app, as normal? Currently when you get the notification, Google Voice is opened when you click the notification.
I do get notifications, that a new message has arrived, and it auto checks every 5-minutes. Not sure if there is anyway to lower the time frame.
I do get asked if I would like to send the SMS via my normal number or my Google Voice number.
So the integration is already pretty good, but I did not know if there are some mods out there to make it even better, or if any others have some idea's.

there is a unofficial version of google voice in the market and it checks evry minute...but wen i had the official version my sms came thru my reg message inbox and in the google voice app inbox..i jus got the unofficial app cuz its better to me but i havnt sent a message out thru it yet since i got it..im gonna see if it comes to my reg message inbox wen i receive a txt...hope i made it clear wat i was tryin to say.

and yes it does come to the messaging app..i jus chk... but it still gives u a notification in the gv app also

Set Google Voice to e-mail your Gmail account upon an SMS. You'll get the e-mail notification much more quickly, as it's pushed. Not the best solution as you get 2 notifications for each text, but it sure beats getting a text late.

What i did was send all my txt msgs to gmail and disabled sms notifications and status bar notifications and auto refresh google voice app every15 minutes.
This way i dont have to be checking google voice app(since it's not push) and i can reply to sms directly from gmail

Yea I just completly disabled notifications in Google Voice. Then from Google Voice on the PC, I went to Settings>Voicemail & SMS, and chose to forward all SMS to my email.
Now I only should get one notification. The notification will open gmail ofcourse. But I prefer to reply via Google Voice, as the interface is a little better.

Here's what I did.
1. Go into settings on your computer (not phone) and click forward to e-mail.
2. Go to your gmail account, then settings, and allow IMAP forwarding
3. On your phone go to market and download k9 beta
4. Setup the app, directions are shown when you start up.
By doing this you will have instant push messaging through your e-mail. Whenever you receive a text message, it will be forwarded to your phone instantly via IMAP where you will be notified by K9. You can reply directly to the e-mail which will text the person back. The only reasons left to keep Google voice are for sending the first text (You start the conversation) and for calling other people.
P.S. I recommend turning off inbox notifications/checking for Google Voice so you wont waste your battery or get double notifications.
I hope that wasn't too confusing, I'm about to head home and I thought I'd leave this here for you .
EDIT: I am 100% for making a new app or even integrating Google Voice directly into the OS. I would specifically like to see a contact by contact option to call with the Google Voice number Always, Sometimes, or Never. That would be immensely helpful.

coolbho3000 said:
Set Google Voice to e-mail your Gmail account upon an SMS. You'll get the e-mail notification much more quickly, as it's pushed. Not the best solution as you get 2 notifications for each text, but it sure beats getting a text late.
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This is what i do and have found it to be the best option, as the email notifications are pretty much instantaneous.
Then i just delete the email thread when i'm done with the conversation.

I uninstalled the official Google Voice App, and gave "GV" a spin. I like the 1-minute notification option, which is much better then being notified via email. The shortcuts are very nice also (long hold empty space on a Home Screen). The options under GV Shortcut are "Directly call through GV| Directly SMS through GV| Open SMS conversations| Quickly compose a GV SMS| Open your GV voicemail| Open your GV call log. Open SMS conversations, is essentially the same as the "Messaging" app, so its a handy shortcut where you can read or choose a new contact to SMS. You also get the popup when you click on a contact, to use GV or normal messaging. I am not using this app for calls.
The only nag I have with the program, is that is rarely crashes. I also can not find a way to change the notification. Currently it just vibrates three times(along with the popup in the notification bar), so no sound. Overall a very handy program.
Edit: Even if anyone has the knowledge/know how, here is the source to the program.
http://evancharlton.com/projects/gv/source/

Personally I got quite annoyed with GV as it continually crashed on me. I have to say that e-mail with K9 forwarding is the best way to go about it.

Excuse my ignorance, but isn't K9 doing the same thing the official GMAIL app is doing? Doesn't it provide instant push?

I'm not entirely sure of the difference between the two. I believe I've read that the Gmail sync is not entirely push but rather a consistant querey to the server, but I am not sure to the validity of that. Personally, I like the layout and overall scheme of K9 in comparison to the Gmail app.

gv never crashes on me(knock on wood lol) i like this 1 better only bcuz u can make free calls thru gv if u only hav a data plan or if ur only usin the g1 thru wifi and dnt hav a min plan but hav a gv acct..u can call for free usin sipdroid-gv and gismo5 but it has to be the unofficial gv..jus a way to get around havin a minute plan thru tmobile..cuz u can call and txt for free thru gv..all u need is data plan or wifi

How do you get gizmo5 to work with this?
Could you outline the process you used to get free minutes?

yea if u hav a gizmo5 acct jus add a new number in the gv app and put ur sip# from gizmo5 as the new number and the calling method shud b set to "call back"..make sure ur signed in giz cuz it will ask u to verify the number..dwnload sipdroid frm the market,open it hit menu and enter acct settings, server: proxy01.sipphone.com, Port:5060, Protocol:UDP, u shud see a green dot wen connected and u shud b able to call thru 3g or wifi for free using ur gv number

Takenover83 said:
Like many members here in the USA, I am on the $25 unlimited data plan that comes with 400 SMS messages. I plan on using my Google Voice account, to send the bulk of my SMS messages, sense it is free(cheaper then $40). My question, is there anyway to get your Google Voice SMS messages to show up under the "Messaging" app, as normal? Currently when you get the notification, Google Voice is opened when you click the notification.
I do get notifications, that a new message has arrived, and it auto checks every 5-minutes. Not sure if there is anyway to lower the time frame.
I do get asked if I would like to send the SMS via my normal number or my Google Voice number.
So the integration is already pretty good, but I did not know if there are some mods out there to make it even better, or if any others have some idea's.
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While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.

yrrebnarg said:
While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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Google Voice has push notifications under Eclair?
Sweet!

yrrebnarg said:
While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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Any chance you could elaborate on this a bit? Gmail push notificaqtions arrive over XMPP, I erote a basic client to test this. Are google voice notifications also being pused over the XMPP service now as well? If so it wouldn't be hard to tap into this. Of course if we all get eclair eventually, It might be a wasted effort but it still interest me.
-James

pReTTyUnG1 said:
yea if u hav a gizmo5 acct jus add a new number in the gv app and put ur sip# from gizmo5 as the new number and the calling method shud b set to "call back"..make sure ur signed in giz cuz it will ask u to verify the number..dwnload sipdroid frm the market,open it hit menu and enter acct settings, server: proxy01.sipphone.com, Port:5060, Protocol:UDP, u shud see a green dot wen connected and u shud b able to call thru 3g or wifi for free using ur gv number
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Alright, I see. Is there any way to get a Gizmo5 account still? If not, is there another service which does the same thing?

yrrebnarg said:
While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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This sounds interesting. Is there a different Google Voice for Enclair or something?

make Google Voice mimic Sprint Visual Voicemail!

In a quest to make google voice (GV) just as good, or better, than sprint visual voicemail, do the following:
1.) setup call forwarding in GV so you keep the functionality of your sprint number and set up your greeting.
2.) under voicemail settings in GV, check send sms to your (sprint) number. uncheck send email. (by using the sms feature, you will get an 'instant' GV app notification on your phone. Otherwise, the shortest refresh interval for the GV app is 5 min, and it will take 5 min for GV app to notify you. By unchecking email setting in GV you will not get an additional notification via email on your phone if you sync to gMail like i do)
3.) download/install the GV app from the market. Set it up on your phone and choose a 60min refresh interval, just for good measure.
4.) Disable the default messaging notification, since you will use Handcent instead.
5.) Download/install Handcent.
6.) place a program shortcut to GV app on your homescreen, similar to the default Visual Voicemail shortcut
7.) call yourself from another phone and leave a voicemail. You will see that you get an SMS and a GV app notification.
8.) Finally, blacklist your GV number within Handcent.
You will now have near instant GV app notification of a voicemail. And there will be no redundant SMS or email notification of a voicemail. Go to your GV app shortcut just like you would Sprint Visual Voicemail.
Now you have 'Visual Voicemail', along with a not-so-accurate transcription service.
(btw, I'm using Damage ROM and notice no call forwarding delays)

Ah, hah! Blacklisting is a great idea! Thanks for the tip! Any idea why my Google Voice might not be playing my custom greeting? I've recorded it and set it to play both online and over the phone, but I am still getting the default greeting.

I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works. The only notification you will get is the one the the google voice app will give you while checking every 5 min and your wasting battery checking that often. Id rather just get the text notification and you have the option to call your voicemail number from that text to get your msg.

isn't there an app on the market that can give you visual voicemail?

fixxxer2008 said:
isn't there an app on the market that can give you visual voicemail?
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not if you wanna use GV or if your using a 2.1 rom.

jguy said:
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works. The only notification you will get is the one the the google voice app will give you while checking every 5 min and your wasting battery checking that often. Id rather just get the text notification and you have the option to call your voicemail number from that text to get your msg.
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Did you turn on SMS setting on your GV account? With that on I can set my GV app refresh interval to 60MIN and still get an instant GV notification, while blacklisted .

How to Forward to GV
Guys and Gals if you call *28XXX-XXX-XXXX The X's being your GV number this will forward your calls to GV when not answered do this from the phone you want forwarded and by the way this does work kinda like it better than sprints version the text is kinda neat to or transcribing of the call.

fesstech said:
Did you turn on SMS setting on your GV account? With that on I can set my GV app refresh interval to 60MIN and still get an instant GV notification, while blacklisted .
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Didn't seem to work the first few times. It has worked when I tried again a few times. I loving it if it ends up being dependable. Thanks

jguy said:
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works.
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I think the gvoice app watches your text messages and will "wake up" when you get one from your gvoice number. Make sure you are not using a task killer and if you are then put gvoice on the ignore list.
This will work nicely unless you do not care about the transcription feature.

so if the google voice app gets shut down by android for memory reasons you could end up with no instant notification?

Why would I want to download Handcent? its garbage...

jguy said:
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works. The only notification you will get is the one the the google voice app will give you while checking every 5 min and your wasting battery checking that often. Id rather just get the text notification and you have the option to call your voicemail number from that text to get your msg.
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If you are using Handcent, you already have notifications turned off for the default messaging app. So you do get a text message there, but you never know about it. You also don't clog your Handcent inbox with voicemail texts. This is working great for me so far. Just make sure you properly setup your Google Voice first.

obannvi said:
Why would I want to download Handcent? its garbage...
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so you can blacklist the googlevoice number and won't recieve a notification about the text message but the gvoice app will still see a text came in and notify you.
He is just showing you a way so you don't get 2 notifications if you want to be notified immediately when you receive a voicemail.

centran said:
so you can blacklist the googlevoice number and won't recieve a notification about the text message but the gvoice app will still see a text came in and notify you.
He is just showing you a way so you don't get 2 notifications if you want to be notified immediately when you receive a voicemail.
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Oh gotcha. When I had text messaging on before I was always notified instantly when I had a voicemail...hmmm weird. I turned it off cause its annoying.

i like your idea, and finally want to see if GV is worth anything to me...
anyone want to invite me to try google voice so i can give this a whirl?
richardtessi <at> gmail <dot> com
i think that's the biggest problem with everyone's GV solutions is you assume we have Google voice... but until we finally want to try it for some reason, sign up and then as Google says "We will let you know as soon as we open up the service to more users." I'm not one to sign up for something i don't want to use or try so i cannot have already been waiting and gotten my GV invitation... now there might actually be a reason I'd want to try it but i'm stuck waiting
quite disappointing, but maybe someone still has an invite!
R

I just wanted to post this even though some people know about it already. But I was also on this quest to get quasi-native mms/voicemail on my Hero. The problem was the mms handling in the google voice app (v0.2 since im on 2.1) sucks. The only thing I liked was that when someone left me a voicemail i could listen to it right in the Google Voice app (sort of like VVM and I thought a lot faster.)
I turned off notifications in the HTC messenger and stuck with google voice while having all my voicemail's in a filter sent directly to my phone with a script I wrote running on my web server at home. It was pretty cool because I could be watching TV and get text messages and voicemail notifications pop up on XBMC, I would then look down at my phone and notice the filtered email just arrived with a link... all tagged with a filter called "voicemail". I won't go into this setup unless others want it, but this all led me directly to something even better.
gvmax.com. It was the answer to everything. Now, I don't have to worry about any text messaging service. I just use a chat client. All my texts and voicemails come through gtalk, and I don't have to wait 15 freaking minutes for the google voice app to check for new messages, or worry about dual messages in multiple programs.
gvmax routes them directly to my web server INSTANTLY so I still get the notifications while watching tv. I can actually see a teaser of the text message. voicemails go to gtalk with a tinyurl, voicemails also go to my email, mms comes in as a new chat, and I can reply to the person directly over gtalk. To be honest, there are times I am chatting with someone for a several minutes before I realize they think they are text messaging me. OHHH and it doesn't cut you off in size to 2 mms (320 characters) at a time. It is an UNBELIEVABLE setup, and you can route your mp3 voicemail downloads wherever you want. I am guessing you could put them in any folder on your SD (including vvm) and have it come up just about any program you like.
It works, I think, better than the gv app as you can still call people directly from gtalk. You can even email or @reply them on twitter and it will go right to their phone.
Anyway, I discovered that free service from someone on xda and figured I would bring it up again because I know a lot of people missed it. It may not seem like it at first, but routing your mms/voicemail over a php script (http-post) with gvmax has changed my life. Since I use a chat program for everything now, it really is sort of like the messaging on the pre or iphone.
Anyway, try it out if you have time. It is really easy to setup. I can tell you I haven't missed a call or voicemail since because every computer/tv/phone I have all receive the messages. So when I have my daughter wants to play a game on my phone and I am waiting on a text I just pick up my laptop and start chatting with it. Saves a lot of time arguing.

RTessi said:
i like your idea, and finally want to see if GV is worth anything to me...
anyone want to invite me to try google voice so i can give this a whirl?
richardtessi <at> gmail <dot> com
i think that's the biggest problem with everyone's GV solutions is you assume we have Google voice... but until we finally want to try it for some reason, sign up and then as Google says "We will let you know as soon as we open up the service to more users." I'm not one to sign up for something i don't want to use or try so i cannot have already been waiting and gotten my GV invitation... now there might actually be a reason I'd want to try it but i'm stuck waiting
quite disappointing, but maybe someone still has an invite!
R
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Sorry, I missed this post. You are right, I always forget that google voice is not open yet. Well I tell you what. Go put your name on the invite list. Hell, sign up a few email addresses. They usually come in a week or so.
Until then I think I have 3-4 invitations left. Keep in mind, gv users cannot invite you. we had to sign up our email addresses to get these just like you would. It is not like we get a gv account and then can invite 10 friends. So signing yourself up is probably just as quick as finding someone who has extra invites left. They are like $5 on ebay but like I said. It takes a week MAYBE two to get an invite.

I would send you an invite but i dont have any yet.

You dont need an invite if you want to use it for voicemail. As was discussed on one of the other Google Voice threads, all you have to do is download the app from the Market. You have a phone running on Google software, your invite is installing the app. After the that just follow the directions to set it up. I have never been invited to use GV, and I successfully use it everyday. And thanks to the OP's idea, I have it set up perfect now. Good idea on the blacklisting, I was using Handcent already anyways.

bought my invite on ebay, cost $1.30 and paid through paypal.
Didn't feel comfortable asking anyone here for an invite as I haven't been active (lurker) for too long.
bought the invite and setup GV in under 10 minutes this way.
no waiting for invites
if you're desperate for GV for the voicemail, I'd say this is the optimal way to go.

[Q] Google Voice txt vs Google Text for Nexus S

I have linked my Google Voice to my Sprint line, but now every text message I receive goes to the Google Voice app, as well as the Text app on the Nexus S. Is there some way to DISABLE texts to the Google Voice app? I'm not a fan of the interface.

Everything is going to your Google voice inbox so you have to Unselect notifications in your Google voice app and may sure text messages is select it.
Sent from my EVO cannibal!

Im having this EXACT problem.
I enabled Google Voice Intigration for my Sprint number. Everything was working normally for a day or two. Txt messages were going to the normal messaging app.
But now txt messages ONLY go to the Google Voice app. Messing with notifications does nothing. My normal messaging app no longer receives the txt's at all.
Is there anyway to fix this? I can live with using the Google Voice app, but id much rather use the normal app.
EDIT: FIXED IT!!! ZOMG!
I didnt have this checked on my Google Voice settings (for some reason it is unchecked by default!)
http://i.imgur.com/Ef3i8.jpg

AshsToAshs said:
Im having this EXACT problem.
I enabled Google Voice Intigration for my Sprint number. Everything was working normally for a day or two. Txt messages were going to the normal messaging app.
But now txt messages ONLY go to the Google Voice app. Messing with notifications does nothing. My normal messaging app no longer receives the txt's at all.
Is there anyway to fix this? I can live with using the Google Voice app, but id much rather use the normal app.
EDIT: FIXED IT!!! ZOMG!
I didnt have this checked on my Google Voice settings (for some reason it is unchecked by default!)
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I don't have that option in my settings. When I sign out of voice on my phone, I miss all calls and don't get texts. Very weird.
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You don't get two messages now? When I changed it I get one message from Google voice and one from stock.

kashb91 said:
You don't get two messages now? When I changed it I get one message from Google voice and one from stock.
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Works perfect for me.
Go into the Google Voice app on the phone, and turn off all the notifications.
Then goto settings in voice.google.com and enable the one setting that i have circled in the screenshot above.
This problem frustrated me for HOURS yesterday until i found that one setting.
-Ash-

another thing to look out for: I've noticed several times, usually when reinstalling the Google Voice app, it will disable receiving sms messages to my cell.
If you're not receiving texts for any reason, I'd check your google voice settings (on the web: google.com/voice) then, on the website go to Settings > Phones > Edit > Text Settings (check).
EDIT wait.. did u modify the original post? Or am i crazy..

Maybe this is another thing entirely. I get texts while using google voice but only with google voice.
However, I want my phone to receive MMS/SMS the way it normally (used to) so I can still use handcent.

This whole thing pisses me off to no end. NONE of the settigs are working right. I'm now missing ALL calls and texts. Totally disabled GV on phone and web and still nothing...

wingman1659 said:
Maybe this is another thing entirely. I get texts while using google voice but only with google voice.
However, I want my phone to receive MMS/SMS the way it normally (used to) so I can still use handcent.
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So you *want* to recv all texts thru handcent, but you're not? If that's the case, it sounds like the forward sms setting isn't checked (my post above).
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AshsToAshs said:
Im having this EXACT problem.
I enabled Google Voice Intigration for my Sprint number. Everything was working normally for a day or two. Txt messages were going to the normal messaging app.
But now txt messages ONLY go to the Google Voice app. Messing with notifications does nothing. My normal messaging app no longer receives the txt's at all.
Is there anyway to fix this? I can live with using the Google Voice app, but id much rather use the normal app.
EDIT: FIXED IT!!! ZOMG!
I didnt have this checked on my Google Voice settings (for some reason it is unchecked by default!)
http://i.imgur.com/Ef3i8.jpg
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I got it working. Don't forget to hit "edit" under your #
Uncle Jimmy says hello

I just want to point out that NONE of this worked for me. The ONLY way I was able to make it so that I was getting text notifications and receiving phone calls was to completely disassociate my number with GV and sign out of the GV app on my phone.
No matter what combo of settings I tried, I would miss every single phone call (phone would never ring), not be notified of voicemails (even though email and text were chosen as notifications), and my texts would all go to the GV app but it would never notify me even if I had the settings right on the website and the phone.

I have also tried all of the mentions above, with no success. I actually sent texts to myself from my computer, and tested a ton of combinations of settings.
The main thing I've learned is that it is impossible (so far) to receive a text to the STOCK app, and NOT to Google Voice.
I changed settings on GV from my phone app, as well as on my GV on the computer.

grimace2255 said:
I have also tried all of the mentions above, with no success. I actually sent texts to myself from my computer, and tested a ton of combinations of settings.
The main thing I've learned is that it is impossible (so far) to receive a text to the STOCK app, and NOT to Google Voice.
I changed settings on GV from my phone app, as well as on my GV on the computer.
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Yes if you ported your number all your texts go through Google voice now.
You PORTED your number. Any calls or texts go through Google voice now and are handled by Google. Your texts and voicemails are saved in the Voice cloud.
If you don't want to use Voice as your messaging app just turn off notifications.
Its really not that complicated.
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Notifications

I am considering getting this watch. However, one important question:
My Nexus 4 is running data only (No Voice Plan). I use Skype for phone calls and Sliding Messenger (through Google Voice) for Text Messages. Will I be able to see Incoming Calls from Skype? Will I be able to see and respond to text messages through Sliding Messenger (Google Voice)?
TIA!

i think you can see who is calling you from skype by using watchit! app that push notifications from your phone to skype. but you won't have answer/decline funcionality.
you will be able to see your text messages but you can't respond to them - i think to do that you need 3rd party app that gives you keyboard funcionality.

Just seeing who is calling and an indication of missed calls would be enough.What is the link for the watchit! App?
Likewise, just seeing the text messages would be enough. I can reply from my phone. So, there is a way to see the text messages even though they would NOT be coming into the Messaging App on the phone, but into Google Voice?
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i think you can see who is calling you from skype by using watchit! app that push notifications from your phone to skype. but you won't have answer/decline funcionality.
you will be able to see your text messages but you can't respond to them - i think to do that you need 3rd party app that gives you keyboard funcionality.
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not too sure if any one of these will serve your needs.
the following smart extensions in google play store forward notifications from phone to watch
whatit!
wristn
augmented smartwatch
try them out and let us know the outcome

Hangouts SMS and GV

So I am sure this been asked before and probably even here. I have looked all over and cannot find an answer. A few weeks ago, I started getting the popup in Hangouts that SMS is moving out of Hangouts and that I need to select a different app for SMS messaging. Google voice texting will still be available.
So here's the thing. I only use Google voice for my number. It is my main phone number. I send and receive texts only from this. If I follow the prompt, it makes me change to a different default text app and breaks my texting functionality. Once I change it, I cannot select Hangouts as my messaging app anymore. I can roll it back to an older version and it fixes it temporarily, but as soon as it updates, the giant obnoxious message comes back.
Surely I am not the only person with this. What are others doing. I have already submitted feedback to Google on this.
Thanks,
B