[Q] New KitKat Hangouts

pkopalek

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Well, I tried it. I installed it normally. No hitches. Works just fine.

Haven't tried video chatting yet, which (as I understand) has issues on some devices, like the Moto X (needs a different library or something) but works fine on others.

I will report!
 

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Well, I tried it. I installed it normally. No hitches. Works just fine.

Haven't tried video chatting yet, which (as I understand) has issues on some devices, like the Moto X (needs a different library or something) but works fine on others.

I will report!
I have been using it since droid life posted it last week and it seems to work well enough. I stopped using it because I prefer to have individual notifications.
 

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Hangouts just updated via the Play Store for me today and asked to take over SMS/MMS duties after installing.
I looked for it at the time of my post and it was not available for update.

I wonder if an official version is coming for some users!

Because video chatting DOES NOT work (I should update the original post here).

Can't get it to happen.

EDIT: My Hangouts only updated to 1.2.018. Won't update to the 2.0.x yet.

Strange. I'm on CleanROM (Stock basically)
 
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pkopalek

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I have been using it since droid life posted it last week and it seems to work well enough. I stopped using it because I prefer to have individual notifications.
Yeah, when are they going to let individual hangout/conversations have different notification settings (other than ignoring notifications or not)?

It CAN'T be a hard feature to implement.

I'm keeping Handcent installed for now. But this thing won't update in the Play Store. Hoping to have a version where Video chat works, because I use that more htan phone calls.

Most of my friends (even iphones) have Hangouts now, and I just video call + turn off video + turn on 'handset' for sound (so it's basically a phone call).

WOrks well for a few friends I have that have 0 reception at their house but have wifi with good internet at home.
 

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Google usually does staged roll-outs of updates for their apps. I'd think that by tomorrow you should be able to update to the latest version. Also, try going to Hangouts in the Play Store. I've seen sometimes where apps can be updated, but they don't show as being able to update from the all apps screen, but you can update it from the Play Store listing itself.
 

pkopalek

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Google usually does staged roll-outs of updates for their apps. I'd think that by tomorrow you should be able to update to the latest version. Also, try going to Hangouts in the Play Store. I've seen sometimes where apps can be updated, but they don't show as being able to update from the all apps screen, but you can update it from the Play Store listing itself.
Yeah I'll check tomorrow. I went right to it, too, to check. Good advice though.

Are you on the stock-based 4.1.2? I wonder if I need 4.2 or 4.3 ROM going to make it happen.

I put that new Video lib .so file for the video chat. with OR without it, video calling seems to connect for a second, then stops working. I'll just wait for the official one, I do suppose!
 

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Yeah I'll check tomorrow. I went right to it, too, to check. Good advice though.

Are you on the stock-based 4.1.2? I wonder if I need 4.2 or 4.3 ROM going to make it happen.

I put that new Video lib .so file for the video chat. with OR without it, video calling seems to connect for a second, then stops working. I'll just wait for the official one, I do suppose!
The new, official version is rolling out.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/11/07/google-hangouts-2-0-122-with-sms-integration-rolling-out-to-all/

So like imnuts said, just check back and it will eventually update.