My personal experience with Hangouts is that it would often hang and disconnect so that I would have to forcefully close the app. Then it wouldn't update the re

My personal experience with Hangouts is that it would often hang and disconnect so that I would have to forcefully close the app. Then it wouldn't update the read receipts, or possibly worse, lie about who had seen what. I put all of this down to my having an old phone. Recently, however, I got a new phone. I was excited to have a usable Hangouts once again, as that's where many of my close friends are. Unfortunately, now I know that the problem is Hangouts, not my phone.