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PartyChat Doesn't Work on Google's new Hangout replacement of Talk #327

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Update Hangouts app on phone
2. This deletes Talk from your phone
3. I can't chat anymore on partychat

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I get notifications in my notifications drawer, but since Talk is technically 
removed from my phone, it won't open at all.

Please provide any additional information below.
Can you get this to work with the new Hangouts integration that is removing 
Talk?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DanielL....@gmail.com on 16 May 2013 at 6:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Also it is tough to find not on the new G+ site. Hangouts are there, but won't 
work as described. At present I go the the gmail page and start a "chat" from 
there and that one works. Does not resize on screen and other things that it 
used to do.

Original comment by timri...@gmail.com on 16 May 2013 at 7:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can access it just fine on desktop. It is broken on mobile now. I mainly use 
it on mobile and so me and the rest of my group are all locked out now.

Original comment by DanielL....@gmail.com on 17 May 2013 at 1:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
not exactly sure if they will develop a backend for XMPP, but they say it's 
supposed to work
https://plus.google.com/107968525907303243288/posts/HFe3W7A9Dor
"Thanks for your report of the issue. Hangouts supports basic interop with 
XMPP, so you can-for the time being-continue to use 3rd party clients. It does 
not work the same way as Talk, and so I believe the issue you're having with 
the XMPP bridge will not resolve in Hangouts."

Original comment by tldr@fernandomiguel.net on 20 May 2013 at 11:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
PartyChat doesn't appear in Hangout. I had to rollback to Gtalk. Any plan of 
supporting it?

Original comment by simongpa...@gmail.com on 22 May 2013 at 11:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This still seems to be an issue for our group - I ignored the request to update 
my pc to the new form of chat (just because I hate changing something that I 
like unless absolutely necessary), but some of my friends who did update theirs 
are saying that now they can't see the partychat's in their contacts even on 
their pc's.

Any thoughts or developments on getting this issue resolved?

Original comment by J.Crew...@gmail.com on 29 May 2013 at 8:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
My whole organization uses party chat for our group communications and now it 
is broken on my phone. When will this be fixed?

Original comment by skami...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2013 at 7:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
If you factory reset the Hangout app (not the whole phone, just the app) it 
will set the app back to Talk.  Group chats will work with that.  I would also 
suggest deactivating the 'auto update' setting on that particular app in the 
Play store (if you're on an Android device) so that you don't have to 
'downgrade' the app everytime you turn around.

However, you won't be able to do video Hangouts on your phone without updating 
it back up to the current version of the app.

Original comment by J.Crew...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2013 at 7:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Unfortunately, we don't have a clear way to fix this unless google changes 
something about how hangouts works. For now, the workarounds are:

1. Don't "upgrade" to hangouts.
2. If you do switch to hangouts, then you can still use a non-gmail chat client 
like pidgin or adium when you want to use partychat. If you do this, I don't 
know if you'll get messages that are sent while you're offline.

Hangouts use a different protocol that we can't hook into. Vijay tried building 
a workaround by having partychat be an XMPP client of google talk that you IM'd 
directly, and that would then IM everyone else. Unfortunately, the rate limits 
appear to be low enough on the google side that even a moderately busy room 
drops messages.

Hopefully google will either open up hangouts's protocol or it'll give us some 
way to hook in. Until then, there's not much we can do.

Original comment by nsa...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2013 at 6:03