How to make Hangouts stop sending me SMS messages? I've tried out the SMS feature of Hangouts app, which allows you to handle SMS within itself instead of the default one.

I didn't like it for certain reasons, so I disabled it.

However, for some reason, almost each time anyone sends me something via Hangouts (from a PC for example), I get it in both Hangouts and via SMS (with phone number that looks like "1000274" ). That's right - I get 2 messages - one for hangouts and one is an SMS message shown on the normal messaging app.

Why does it happen? How can I stop it from happening?

I hope it's a bug and that it will get fixed soon... :(

NOTE: I have Android 4.3 on a Galaxy S3 I9300 device.
Go to 


Settings -> Under data usage tap More
Tap Default SMS app and select your SMS app




Source with detailed instruction: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57613499-285/manage-default-sms-app-on-android-4.4-kitkat/