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Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls.

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VanguardLH wrote:

> Hmm, does Hangouts even use wifi on inbound calls?  It shows up on the
> home screen when a new call is coming in but is that via wifi?  I
> suspect that incoming calls to my smartphone are still using cellular
> service.  There's conflicting info on the web and Google doesn't state
> if inbound calls are cellular only or if their Hangouts app will pickup
> calls via wifi.
> 
> About the only sure information on Hangouts is that it will use wifi on
> outbound calls.  Does it also do wifi calls coming in?  That is, other
> than the new-call detection (which could be handled via wifi), is the
> inbound call itself carried via cellular or wifi when using Hangouts?

https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6079064?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
Data use: If you're not connected to Wi-Fi when you get a phone call 
          in Hangouts, you'll use your phone's data plan. Contact your 
          mobile carrier for details about your data coverage and cost.
          
From that, it appears Hangouts will handle inbound calls via wifi.  So
wifi out and wifi in, if wifi is available; else, data in and data out
when wifi is not available.  There's the rub: my cell plan does not
include data, just talk and text.  So no data backup when wifi is not
available or unusable.

So I did another test: disable wifi (and also disable auto-wifi connect
in other apps so wifi stayed disabled) and called my smartphone.  In
Hangouts, the "Incoming phone calls" option was enabled.  Hangouts did
NOT appear.  So it only detects new incoming calls via wifi.

Hangouts provides new-call notification only via wifi.  When there is
wifi, how does Hangouts handle the actual call?  Wifi or cellular?

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Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-08 02:13 -0500
  Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-08 04:51 -0500
    Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-08 05:08 -0500
      Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 08:51 -0700
        Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-08 12:16 -0500
          Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 14:16 -0700
            Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-08 17:33 -0400
            Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-09 01:12 -0500
  Re: Hangouts app: duplicate rings on inbound calls. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-23 02:56 -0500

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