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Google Hangouts For Android: How to Set Notification Sound

By Mitch Bartlett 24 Comments

You can enable, disable or change notification settings for messages you receive in Hangout for Android. Just follow these steps.

  1. Open the “Hangouts” app.
  2. From the screen where you have your list of friends, tap the “Menu” Menu Button button, located at the upper-left corner of the screen.
  3. Tap “Settings“.
  4. Choose the account you are using (usually your email address).
  5. In the “Notifications” section, select the “Messages” option.
  6. From this screen, you have a few options to control the chat notifications:
    • Notifications – Controls whether you receive a notification at all. Uncheck this box if you don’t want any type of notification including sound or a message in the notification bar. Check it if you’ll be using some type of notification.
    • Sound – Set a custom ringtone or silence the notification sound.
    • Vibrate – Device will vibrate when a message arrives.
  7. Back out of the Messages settings, and you can choose “Google Voice SMS” and/or “Google Voice voicemail” to set the notification sound for text messages (if you use that feature in Hangouts).

Be aware of the settings in the “Video Calls” section as well. You’ll have the same Notifications, Sound and Vibrate options as above for video calls.

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Filed Under: Android Tagged With: Google Hangouts

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  1. Tes says

    November 4, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    This is how to make your Hangout app notification sounds work.
    Go to your settings app. Go to your apps. Scroll down to Hangouts and click on it. Look at your permissions and click on it. Make sure phone and SMS are turned on. Or everything is. Then look at your notifications below it. Click on it. Turn it on.

  2. Tes says

    November 4, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    This is how to make your Hangout app notification sounds work.
    Go to your settings app. Go to your apps. Scroll down to Hangouts and click on it. Look at your permissions and add phone and SMS. Make sure they are turned on. Then look at your notifications below it. Turn it on.

  3. Tes says

    November 4, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Go to your settings app. Go to your apps. Scroll down to Hangouts and click on it. Look at your permissions and add phone and SMS. Make sure they are turned on. Then look at your notifications below it. Turn it on.

  4. Lynette Faucett says

    September 27, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    I got the latest phone last week and I have trouble with can’t get a notification sound when someone texts me

  5. Masaki Kobayashi says

    August 10, 2020 at 1:28 pm

    My hanouts was closed by me for couldn,t create new conversation, some days ago,and l want to connected it again but can,t login in it,and still for 20days .l don,t know for why,or haven,t good wlan or well mobile data .

  6. PJ says

    June 24, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    Hi,
    I would like to know if there is a way to hide your ID when talking to 2 different people? Or is there a way to make sure the 2 are not able to see each other or see whom you are talking too? I need the privacy for a special plan….nothing dirty or wrong.

  7. Mitchell J. says

    June 3, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    WOOOO Kate!! How do I lift someone onto my shoulders online?

    Get this woman a mountaintop, for she is the true guru! A couple simple sentences and she just IT’d the bejesus out of a problem that has plagued my wife’s phone for ages now.

    We swore off children, but damnit Kate, you will be honored with the name of our firstborn!

    Long live Kate the Eternal.

  8. Kate says

    May 11, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    I had the same problem. The notification sound of my Hangout app was set to “app provided sound” in settings but no sound came out. I changed it to some other notification sound and now there is sound notification when a message comes in.

  9. TIFFANY TREADWELL says

    May 9, 2020 at 8:47 am

    My notification won’t let me turn on the sound. Its saying the sound is blocked and when I try to switch it the other way it doesn’t let me. Help!!

  10. Unca says

    April 30, 2020 at 11:02 am

    This helped. Thank you for the fix.

  11. John Daugherty says

    April 18, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    In order to see the customized sounds I added to my Android I had to convert the mp3s to .ogg files. Now I can see all of them and each one works. I used Nero Recode to convert.

  12. Beverly says

    March 27, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    All notifications on my android phone are turned on but I still do not receive any sound on my notifications. I Receive notification sounds on my other apps but not on hangouts. Please help

  13. Carla Geenen says

    March 25, 2020 at 3:49 am

    same problem as described above on my samsung a51

  14. Dan says

    March 23, 2020 at 1:34 pm

    This worked! Thank you so much. Even though I never changed the sound, for some reason the sound had been switched to something in Zedge. I changed it back to the default Hangouts sound and I’m back in business!

  15. Debbie says

    March 15, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    Hangouts notifications on my android are all turned on and other sounds on my tablet are working but no notification sounds are working with Hangouts even though they are turned on.

  16. Mary Rose Cranfield says

    October 7, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    I am having the same issue with no sound. When I check I see there is a message that notifications from this category are blocked but I never blocked it.

  17. CHRISTINE HENSON says

    August 10, 2019 at 4:24 pm

    I have no sound option at all?? Can anyone help?

  18. Debbie says

    February 22, 2019 at 6:36 pm

    I don’t have a Notifications when I click settings. This was working until recently. Was there an update or something?

  19. Jane says

    February 22, 2019 at 6:03 pm

    Thanks. I guess an update reset all my sounds to default and I couldn’t remember how to get at the settings. I would add one more item: restart the phone. Settings didn’t take effect until I did that.

  20. bhavana says

    February 15, 2019 at 2:03 am

    What about for windows 12

  21. Liz says

    October 19, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    My hangouts sound notification also doesn’t work. It’s set in settings to play a sound but no sound plays when messages are sent.

    I’m actually wondering if this is an Android system problem sound notifications aren’t working for carrier phone number emails even though notifications are set to sound.

  22. John says

    October 13, 2018 at 4:52 am

    As Emmie William said above (and I pasted below) when someone sends me a message there is no sound what so ever. This needs to be looked into Google as it is an important option

    [/quote]
    Emmie Williams says
    September 11, 2018 at 12:33 am
    My hangouts notification sounds works in settings but not when someone sends messages.[/end quote]

  23. Emmie Williams says

    September 11, 2018 at 12:33 am

    My hangouts notification sounds works in settings but not when someone sends messages.

  24. Waughman says

    June 6, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    When i go on hangouts i see my bf is active cos it says so under his name .When he don’t replie i asked him why .He says it’s not him active but it’s notification..That is correct.or have i got something to worry about.ty from TAMIELA..

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