{"id":1147,"date":"2014-04-14T22:59:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2014-05-08T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:27:46","slug":"google-hangouts-showing-phone-number-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/google-hangouts-showing-phone-number-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hangouts showing phone number not contact name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-2604352259\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><h2>The Problem<\/h2>\n<p>I recently upgrade my phone and am using &#8220;Google Hangouts&#8221; as the default SMS client.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my contacts appear with their phone number whilst others appear with their name.<\/p>\n<h2>The Issue<\/h2>\n<p>It appears that Google hangouts matches the contact by the phone number.. <strong>EXACTLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So 0418 1111 2222 is NOT the same as +61 418 1111 2222<\/p>\n<h2>The fix<\/h2>\n<p>The fix is in two parts:<\/p>\n<p>1. Make the phone number of your contact match the phone number as it appears in Hangouts, (generally in international format).<br \/>\nThis can be done by (google hangouts 2.0.303)<br \/>\n  &#8211; open the offending message with the phone number displayed<br \/>\n  &#8211; select the menu, (top right &#8230;)<br \/>\n  &#8211; choose &#8220;people &#038; options&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8211; select the phone number, and a menu pops up &#8220;Add to People&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8211; choose OK<br \/>\n  &#8211; search for the person<br \/>\n  &#8211; select the person you wish to attach the phone number too an choose OK.<\/p>\n<p>2. Logout and Login<br \/>\nThe phone numbers will still be appearing incorrectly. By logging out and logging in again it refreshes Hangouts.<br \/>\n  &#8211; select the menu (top right &#8230;)<br \/>\n  &#8211; settings<br \/>\n  &#8211; select your email address<br \/>\n  &#8211; under account settings choose &#8220;sign out&#8221;<br \/>\n you will now be signed out<br \/>\n  &#8211; beside the hangouts icon press &#8220;SMS&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8211; choose your email address<br \/>\n  &#8211; you will be signed in and all your recently connected contacts should update<\/p>\n<p>Note: Sometimes even login and logout doesn&#8217;t force it to refresh, I have just given up and then a few minutes later when I check it is now up to date?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem I recently upgrade my phone and am using &#8220;Google Hangouts&#8221; as the default SMS client. Some of my contacts appear with their phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}