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Google Hangouts For Android: How to Set Notification Sound

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

  3. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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]

  8. 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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