google play wont let download hangouts chat

Be sure that your speakers are not muted or your volume is very low.

Go to Flashblock and click Preferences on the right side.

From the Tools menu, select Add-ons and Extensions.

If you are using Flashblock you need to adjust your settings. (Which you already said you have checked).

Ensure your notifications are enabled.

What can I do to get the Hangouts taskbar icon to flash, a sound to play, and/or otherwise notify me when there has been a new message in chat, such that I no longer miss incoming messages?Īccording to the Google support pages, you should check 4 items to be sure. Is the OS preventing it? Is there some Hangouts setting that I have inadvertently disabled? Does Hangouts simply not have this functionality? I'm not sure at this point why no notification occurs on incoming messages. My OS volume is not muted for any application for my active speakers (my headset - the only enabled sound output device on the system), and I can hear sounds from other applications normally: I do have the Down-arrow-options-menu > 'Sounds for incoming messages' checkbox checked (from the Hangouts window with my list of contacts):Īs well as the Gear-icon > Notifications checkbox (from a Hangouts chat conversation window):

The browser (Firefox) window in which I have Gmail running also shows incoming chat messages, but also does not flash upon receipt of a new message.Ĭonsequently, I am frequently missing new messages, and unintentionally causing my colleagues to think that I am ignoring them! When there is a new incoming message in a Google Hangout multi-person chat that I have joined, neither the Windows taskbar icon for the Hangout chat window nor the Hangouts icon in the Windows notification area / 'system tray' flash or otherwise indicate that there has been a new message. My company uses Google Hangouts chat as an IM client.

Google play wont let download hangouts chat