OK, OK when you've quite stopped laughing. Even root users like me get confused!
I've made "Hangouts" my default messaging app rather than Samsung's own baked in one, and joined the Google world even more. I'm liking it, but I have a problem. I sent my better half a text message using it, it came through as a hangout. Then I sent her a normal Samsung SMS and the reply from her said yes her normal (she's using a Galaxy S3) text messaging app (she's using the normal Samsung app as default, it picked it up. Her reply came to me - naturally through Hangouts. However now I can't send her a Hangout message, in the conversion, it will only let me send an SMS, can't I interchange between the two in the same conversation? Here's a screen shot with my wife's number "redacted".
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9005 - international Qualcomm version), just in case it is important.
I've made "Hangouts" my default messaging app rather than Samsung's own baked in one, and joined the Google world even more. I'm liking it, but I have a problem. I sent my better half a text message using it, it came through as a hangout. Then I sent her a normal Samsung SMS and the reply from her said yes her normal (she's using a Galaxy S3) text messaging app (she's using the normal Samsung app as default, it picked it up. Her reply came to me - naturally through Hangouts. However now I can't send her a Hangout message, in the conversion, it will only let me send an SMS, can't I interchange between the two in the same conversation? Here's a screen shot with my wife's number "redacted".
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9005 - international Qualcomm version), just in case it is important.