[Q] Messaging not default SMS app

Webern

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Jan 14, 2015
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Every few days I get a notification:

"Messaging not default sms app. Tap to make Messaging your default SMS.."

(that's what it says; it actually stops mid sentence). I click on it and there's a dialog box:

"Change SMS app?
Use messaging instead of Hangouts as your SMS app?
No Yes"

Now obviously I don't want to do this (why would anyone), but I click on No and the box goes away but it'll come back again later. I can't uninstall messaging, and when I load it to see if it has options to never do anything again ever the first thing it does is pop up the "Change sms app" box again, and when I press No it quits.

Hangouts is indeed my default SMS app; it's enabled (you can see it in the settings), it works (i receive SMS and hangout messages through it).

Do I have to start disabling apps, or is there a way of getting this to stop? I'm on 5.0.2 on a 6603 (uk unbranded) and this problem is new to lollipop.
 
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