Google Talk instead of Hangouts?

[Deeco7]

Hangouts is pretty garbage, I preferred being able to see whether people were online/away so I knew if I would get a response if I msged them or not.

If that is the only reason for using Talk instead of Hangouts, then I wouldn't bother. In Hangouts you can tell when the person is online whom you are chatting to, this is shown by a small profile pic in the chat glowing when they are online and greyed/hidden if they are not.

Sent from my Nexus 4

 

[SubMatrix]

If that is the only reason for using Talk instead of Hangouts, then I wouldn't bother. In Hangouts you can tell when the person is online whom you are chatting to, this is shown by a small profile pic in the chat glowing when they are online and greyed/hidden if they are not.

Sent from my Nexus 4

Have they changed this recently? You didn't used to be able to tell.

 

[stevemw]

You can in version 1.1.2.778356.

 

[SubMatrix]

Cool, thanks for the info. How do they do the sorting, is it still by "most recently contacted"? Or is it by online status (my preferred way, and how Talk operates).

 

[xnifex]

Anyone else experiencing an issue where Talk refuses to sign in on 4.4+ ?

 

[AarSyl]

Anyone else experiencing an issue where Talk refuses to sign in on 4.4+ ?

Yes, I noticed this issue. I have also noticed that it doesn't sign in to 4.3 anymore as well, ever since 4.4 was released.

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Phone: HTC EVO 4G LTE
Sense 5, S-Off

Tablet: ASUS Nexus 7.2
Rooted, Custom Rom & Kernel

 

[digiboy1]

Or, you people could just install 'xabber' which is a free app in PlayStore and does and looks quite similar to Talk. Also, since it's gonna get supported in future.
I have been doing the same and it works well. It integrates with your contacts too!

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[AarSyl]

I'm definitely interested in looking into that.

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Phone: HTC EVO 4G LTE
Sense 5, S-Off

Tablet: ASUS Nexus 7.2
Rooted, Custom Rom & Kernel
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[InfX]

Any updates on this? Let me note that i've been successfully using the original talk (copied over as a system app) on Nexus7 with Android 4.3 on it, but now it is no longer able to sign in, while the same APK works just find on my pre 4.3 SGS3 ROM.

I see the following line in logcat while attempting to connect:

E/talk    ( 8903): [AccountLoginUtils] asyncCreateConnectionForAccount: creating connection failed

I didn't try investigating any further.

About xabber, it is missing invisible mode, as well as audio chat mode, that talk got. Also, it needs your google account password entered in, something i usually thinking twice about.

 

[vkk178]

Seems like a lot of work and hassle just to install a dead and bad app when there's a better alternative in Hangouts, and no, no matter what the haters say, Talk is in no way better than hangouts, so don't try

Like someone else already said, get used to Hangouts, it's the future and I'll wager that soon no matter what you do Talk will just stop working, and I hope Google does it soon so people stop wasting time on it

One reason to still stick with gtalk is because talk is more light weight compared to hangouts.

Has any one found a solution for this ? .Gtalk stopped working with the same error after few weeks on my 4.3 ROM