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has anyone got tango to work without lagging like crazy

i've been looking for a video chat app for my nexus s and apparently, only Tango supports the front facing camera right now. BOOO Google for not having a stock app for this. however, when i do make a video call to someone else, it's super laggy and clitchy, to the point that it's practically unusable. it keeps telling me that the network speed is too low, but i made a few calls on wifi with at least 7 mb download and 4 mb upload. this can't be the case. Does anyone else have this problem. is there another app that would work with nexus s. Fring has good video quality with no lag, but it doesn't support the front camera yet.

I was amazed at how well tango worked for me. On 3G no less. Though I'm in an hspa+ city so I benefit and get outrageous 3G data speeds.
But for me Tango works better than expected.
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Edit: Just checked from my Nexus S to my Galaxy S (i9000)...both on 3G. Was pretty smooth, actually. Front camera wouldn't work on the SGS, though. Back camera fine.
Same here...WiFi to WiFi and so laggy/choppy it was unusable.
I have to test it on my SGS to see if the lag was from the NS, or from the app in general. I suspect NS issue, since Tango gets a lot of positive talk about it.
This is one area Apple really hit a home run on: iPhone 4 on jailbroken 3G connection and FaceTime to another friend was like he was in the room with me. Awesome.

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this just pisses me off. i dropped $580 on this phone cause it was supposed to be the most advanced, but nothing f'n works on it. no new market, no video calls, no 4g, useless nfc, and half the apps don't work cause its 2.3.1. i know it will be fixed as soon as devs get up to date, but still. i love the phone, but it's just a let down a little by google itself.

i just made a call on 3g to another nexus s, and it was still laggy. can anyone verify that they are having these issues. i don't know if it's just the nexus s, or some other reason.

wasya152 said:
i just made a call on 3g to another nexus s, and it was still laggy. can anyone verify that they are having these issues. i don't know if it's just the nexus s, or some other reason.
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Did you see my edit to my previous post where I said that a call from my Nexus S to my Galaxy S i9000 worked just fine? Both phones on 3G (one T-Mo, the other AT&T).

distortedloop said:
Did you see my edit to my previous post where I said that a call from my Nexus S to my Galaxy S i9000 worked just fine? Both phones on 3G (one T-Mo, the other AT&T).
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yes, thank you. i did see it, but i just wanted to know if others had it. it seems that you are the only one that i know that does not have issues. my two friends, both with nexus s, have same issues.

Yeah, you are the only one who's gotten it to not suck. I guess you are lucky. I can't wait for voodoo to finish their app.
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Sorry you guys are having issues, but the app has an average of 4 star ratings and lots of "works great" posts, so I'm hardly the only one who has gotten it working.
Really frustrating for you, I am sure.
Voodoo video app? What's that. I just wish Google would give us video that works across platforms in the gtalk app.

Yeah I'm sure it works fine on OTHER phones, hence a good rating. Anyway oovoo looks good, its in market and has a desktop client too, and has announced upcoming support for ns!
Edit: I said voodoo in the last post which is a donut shop here in Portland. Sigh. Its oovoo I'm talking about.
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Sorry you guys are having issues, but the app has an average of 4 star ratings and lots of "works great" posts, so I'm hardly the only one who has gotten it working.
Really frustrating for you, I am sure.
Voodoo video app? What's that. I just wish Google would give us video that works across platforms in the gtalk app.
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stonew5082 said:
Yeah I'm sure it works fine on OTHER phones, hence a good rating.
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You mean there are other phones besides the NS...? Wow, I had no idea. LOL.
Seriously, of course I was have a senior moment.

very very surprised of how smooth it was on a data network, then i put it to the test on my wireless n router...ooooo its just unbelivable how great it was

The short answer for me is no.
Tried Tango on my Nexus S and my Galaxy S on 3G and wifi.
It's lagging all the time.

Tango lags for me too with a buddy who is on his wifi. He reports that tango works well for him to others (he has a G2). I'm starting to wonder if it is a latency consistency thing on my NS as bandwidth speeds are strong on my internet wifi.
NS
Test: 10274 kbps down 1850 kbps up 20ms ping
Computer
Test: 12110 kbps down 1820 kbps up 14ms ping
ps when is skype launching video chat app for android as they have for iphone.. (jealous!)

If I don't video chat soon I'm going to vommit.
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Pretty sure Qik worked fine for me.

Qik wouldn't recognize my FFC... THAT blows.
Edit: Verified again just to be sure; neither the Qik stand-alone app nor the T-Mobile Qik Video Chat app recognize the FFC on the NS. Regular Qik won't allow the changing of the chosen camera, and T-Mobile's Qik app allows you to change the selection to the FFC, but the on-screen feed never changes from the rear-facing camera. BUMMER.

Thoughts so far

So far I love the phone. The feel and weight of the phone just seems better then my Captivate(which I gave to my wife). After not getting data on the phone unless I had WiFi on kind of sucked, but if you make a new network. You will be able to gain data back.
The only thing I am not liking is when I set up my HTC sense with Facebook, it put all my friends from facebook into my contacts list in my phone. I do not want all my friends on the list. I have tried and figure out how to delete from the list but cant figure it out. Anyone know how?
I also side loaded a few apps using the SLW program, once you download HTC sync on your computer it was easy.
I cant wait until this phone gets rooted so I can go in and change some stuff around, like ringtones. You can have custom ringtones when the phone is not plugged in to the USB but once you plug the USB in, it reverts back to the stock ringtones because it thinks shuts off your SD Card. Well you know what, I guess I can have the option to only have it charge will plugged in. That might work.
Other then that me loves the phone. Glade my wife had an upgrade so I could get the phone for $79.99 from Costco and a free charger with it. She loves my old Captivate so I was like hell ya ill trade ya!

Ha I love it...got a feeling alot of wives will be getting a captivate tommorow
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Happy valentines day ......here's my old phone! lol yes there will be alot of this goin on
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lol actually bought the wife a new Inspire to match mine, talked my parents into both getting them as well !

milleirish said:
The only thing I am not liking is when I set up my HTC sense with Facebook, it put all my friends from facebook into my contacts list in my phone. I do not want all my friends on the list. I have tried and figure out how to delete from the list but cant figure it out. Anyone know how?
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I have the Evo for sprint which should be similar. Open your People/contacts app, hit menu, and you should see an option that says 'View'. Select view to choose which contacts you want displayed and deselect your Facebook account.
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abanh said:
I have the Evo for sprint which should be similar. Open your People/contacts app, hit menu, and you should see an option that says 'View'. Select view to choose which contacts you want displayed and deselect your Facebook account.
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Ok so in the people and contacts it has my correct contacts. What am talking about is when you look at the phone on the homescreen you see the button that says phone. If you click on that it will show every one of my Facebook friends, even the ones they I dont have in my contact list. I dont want them there.

I haven't mentioned to my wife yet... she's gonna wonder why the hell I'm getting up early on a Sunday morning, probably think I'm having an affair, lol.

aimfire72 said:
I haven't mentioned to my wife yet... she's gonna wonder why the hell I'm getting up early on a Sunday morning, probably think I'm having an affair, lol.
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You are, with the Inspire 4G. hahaha

I dont regret it for a second, yeah no Real 4G but we have root, roms and radios NOW.
Also, for those that just want to install apps and leave the phone stock you can go to this thread created by me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943174
The phone feels so polished and the screen is awesome, no Craptivate screen but it will turn heads.
We have accomplished so much in so little time.
Thanks to all the devs and porters out there, this is already a more than worthwhile device and for the price you can not beat it.
Atrix is just a bad memory of Motoblur hell, good luck trying to even root that damn thing.. hahaha

milleirish said:
Ok so in the people and contacts it has my correct contacts. What am talking about is when you look at the phone on the homescreen you see the button that says phone. If you click on that it will show every one of my Facebook friends, even the ones they I dont have in my contact list. I dont want them there.
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Ok I know what you're saying, and I didn't even realized my phone did that until you just mentioned it. I didn't see a way to get rid of them either.
If this is bothering you because you have to scroll through so many more names to get to the contact you want to dial, have you tried the t9 smart dialer feature? Lets say you want to dial 'John', instead of scrolling all the way down to his name, just spell out his name via t9 (5 for 'j', 6 for 'o', 4 for 'h', etc). The contacts that match what you're typing will appear and you don't have to scroll through all the names. My Evo and other HTC sense phones do this ( stock android doesn't, but you can download other dialers in the market that do). If you already knew this and just don't want the names to appear, can't help you there.
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I really, really like this phone. My ear speaker is great, although the external speaker is a little weak. Not a huge deal though, just had to select the high pitched notifications to be sure to hear them.
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I thought it was interesting that Facebook .com thought my phone was a nexus one
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i went to check this out in the store today. a few thoughts
-size is great. i compared it to my nexus one w/seidocase and it is only slightly larger... like less than a .25" larger in width and length
-weight is great. very comparable to n1 w/case
-sense 2.0 looked pretty slick.
-very fast... zero lag.
-my only stickler was the screen. i could see the "grid" dots on the display unit. is this typical of slcd?

Love it already and havent had it 5 hours yet, beats my old htc surround hands down.

This kicks the captivates ass all around, even unrooted with stock rom. Soooo glad I pulled the trigger... nice to have a decent exchange email client as part of the basic package (sorry touchdown, but the integration is a big plus... I hated the separate address books).

The more I use my phone the more I realize everything works and works well.
Have installed pretty much everything there is and it plays or runs them without a hiccup.
Obviously the only apps it will not run are the ones that require root. My plan is to do this very soon so I can take advantage of those as well.
Every single game I've installed is smooth with no lag.
Emulators work with zero issues, my plan is to try the the psx one next.
You can not measure the battery life right away, it has to get used to a few charges first. See the Desire HD forums and they will say the same.
I've made some calls and can say that it sounds great, I've tried both the loudspeaker and the ear speaker and both sound fine to me.
Obviously the small speaker will not be that loud especially at first. Still planning to use DSP Manager to see if it fixes it.
I've still to try out the gps while moving in the vehicle as well.
Build quality is very satisfying and is what's expected from HTC.
Where I had trouble getting 3G I am now getting a constant H+ according to the phone.
What else can I say I made an excellent choice and with the Sideload Wonder Machine, root, radio and custom ROMs there's room to make this phone even better with those options.
Sent from my illmatic Inspire 4G / Desire HD

[Q] Thread for Evo Shift on Boost Mobile

Hi - I'm new to the forum - just wondering if any others users here are running their HTC Evo Shift on Boost Mobile?
My apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum or is covered in another thread – I know there are a lot of posts in the general forum about running smartphones on Boost Mobile, but my searches weren’t returning anything specific to the HTC Evo Shift on Boost.
I've recently rooted my phone (thanks to this thread) and now I am hoping to find solutions for a couple of issues that are inherent to running the Shift on Boost:
Voicemail
Understandably my Boost voicemails aren't syncing up with the stock voicemail app that came designed for Sprint. It's not the end of the world to have to auto-dial my own phone number to manage my voicemails manually, but it would be nice to view them through an application – or, at the very least, get notifications & alerts when new voicemails are received. I've been looking at services such as YouMail and HulloMail – but from what I understand; Boost Mobile does not support the call forwarding features that are necessary for these to work. Are there any other Evo Shift users on Boost here that have found a workaround for their voicemail?
MMS
Yes, I know the issue of MMS functionality on Boost Mobile has been covered in a dozen or more other threads on the general forum. However, those threads deal with a lot of different phones – they do not address MMS issues on the Evo Shift specifically. The few solutions suggested there have not worked on my Evo Shift so far.
Just to clarify – I have no trouble sending outbound MMS messages. My pictures and videos seem to be delivered normally to the recipients. The problem is with receiving inbound MMS messages. Rather than receiving a message with the MMS content displayed, I am sent a normal text message from Boost Mobile that essentially says “Hi you’ve received a media message, click here to view it!” and then it provides a link to https://mediamail.boostmobile.com where I’m supposed to go and log in to my account to view whatever picture or video was just sent to me. Obviously, this is incredibly annoying. To make matters worse – the link that Boost provides in their text message doesn’t even work – I have to go open my web browsing app and pull up my bookmark for the media mail website.
Is there an Evo Shift user on this forum who has found a way to receive true MMS functionality through Boost Mobile? So far I’ve just been tinkering with the MMS Server URL under the advanced phone settings (##3282#), and that is not working. I’ve heard mention of the need to change or delete certain apk or codex files – or to do something with the apn – but there were no clearly defined instructions on how to do that... and to be honest, I’m still learning what those terms really mean.
And finally – if someone could point me towards a thread that provides some very introductory information about custom ROM’s for the Evo Shift – such as how they are used, what enhancements they bring to the Evo Shift – and what are the inherent risks or downsides from using them… that would really be appreciated. I’m assuming that is the next subject for me to start exploring now that I’ve successfully perm-rooted my phone. I've been browsing the development forum, but much of it is over my head.
Many thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=7IT2viSqQ6g
This looks legit based on the comments if there real.
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alher591 said:
This looks legit based on the comments if there real.
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Are you talking about the 4:25 mark where he goes in and retrieves the MMS he sent to himself?
I hate to say it.. but I think that might be a little slight-of-hand... it looks to me like he is just viewing the original sent message, not one he received. As I mentioned before - there is no issue with sending MMS, you just can't receive it.
If you look at the messages below the one he sent to himself... it's the "9000" text from Boost Mobile directing him to the media mail website.
I'll post a comment on his video, see if I can get a response.
thanks!

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Are you talking about the 4:25 mark where he goes in and retrieves the MMS he sent to himself?
I hate to say it.. but I think that might be a little slight-of-hand... it looks to me like he is just viewing the original sent message, not one he received. As I mentioned before - there is no issue with sending MMS, you just can't receive it.
If you look at the messages below the one he sent to himself... it's the "9000" text from Boost Mobile directing him to the media mail website.
I'll post a comment on his video, see if I can get a response.
thanks!
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i just talked to sean's partner on the phone (hes local to me) and assures me they have that kink worked out.
hate to say it but the kids pretty damned good despite the legality issues of some of his work.
anyways ive recently switched a sprint evo shift to boost via a pick-a-choose process i collected from scouring the internet for days... some of it from XDA actually...
im considering packing it into a solution... anyways the only feature lost was visual voicemail.

oceanxblake said:
i just talked to sean's partner on the phone (hes local to me) and assures me they have that kink worked out.
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Oh, that's great! Thanks for confirming this.
So - the question now is how did they do it. Not sure I can justify mailing my phone down to them and paying whatever $ to get it fixed, but it sure would be nice to have a solution for the MMS problem.
At least we know its possible though. Someone on another forum is saying it has to do with what "donor phone" was used to activate the Boost account... if the donor phone had true MMS capability, then the new phone will too. If not, then you're stuck with Boost media mail.
I handed my phone off to a local cellular repair shop to set it up for Boost service, and god only knows what they used to activate it. I should probably start with them if I want answers.

If anyone could PM me or post a link to a step-by-step guide to using my Evo 4G on boost mobile. Thanks.

I have a Evo shift on Boost fully functional! if you are on a stock htc sense rom, you can go into the epst settings by dialing##3282#, then select edit, go to the MMSC, and change that to mm.myboostmobile.com, that should fix your MMS, as far as voicemail goes, you cannot get notifications on the stock sprint rom, but you can if you switch to Cyanogen mod 7... if you switch, which i reccomend, especially because battery life is a million times better, then you will have to download APN manager to change MMS settings to get MMS to work on that ROM... let me know if you have any questions, it took me a month to get all of this figured out, so I would be glad to save someone the headache

I made a post of this but thought it wouldn't be harmful to include it here...
I'm having troubles with my 3G speed, I think the person that flashed my phone skipped some steps or wasnt too experienced...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15324202#post15324202
Hope you guys can help me

More than likely he did, download speed test from the market and tell me what your are getting!

I recently flashed a shift over to boost mobile, but I think some of the EPST settings are messed up. Can anyone that has a working shift on boost mobile post the EPST settings?

I flashed my wives shift to boost. I'm not sure where you guys are getting your information but your should always check your an/aaa authorization when having your phone flashed and they don't provide a donor. To check if you are on 3g do this
##debug#>EVDO Engineering>AN/AAA Authentication
Should say 1 = Authenticated
Anything else is not 3g its 1x
For voicemails just download voice mail notifier or something similar from market.
This is easy stuff. The guides around the internet make it seem like its harder than it is to do these things.
I'm not sure if I addressed all the questions but I'll check back later if not
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anyone have the guide to swap HTC EVO SHIFT with sanyo incognito?
I have conflicting reports of people telling me that it is the same as the HTC EVO and not.
I also need meid locations on the shift i have 2.2......
any help would be nice, thanks

spooky187 said:
anyone have the guide to swap HTC EVO SHIFT with sanyo incognito?
I have conflicting reports of people telling me that it is the same as the HTC EVO and not.
I also need meid locations on the shift i have 2.2......
any help would be nice, thanks
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Samsung-HTC should have told you they are NOT the same phone
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strapped365 said:
Samsung-HTC should have told you they are NOT the same phone
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Uh yea? they are different phones. I was talking about the process of the phone esn swaping.
Got to love the people that make unhelpful posts just to be smart asses. I hope your day went well because of it.

Hey I have an Evo on Boost Mobile, I was wondering if flashing a custom rom from XDA can possibly change the flash and put me back to Sprint? I dont wanna loose my boost flash so i am asking before i do it...Thanks in advance for the help

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Got to love the people that make unhelpful posts just to be smart asses. I hope your day went well because of it.
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No but it sure did once I seen this
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hey did anyone posted a step y step guide for Evo Shift to boost? , i have my account with boost using a incognito but i want to flash my evo **** to it and i've been searching for three days now and i can find for the evo and he epic but nothing for the shift, would the evo tutorial work for the shift ?
thanks in advanced

evo shift on boost
i have an evo shift on boost for the last 4 months. just recently it started going haywire. everytime i turn it on, it starts clicking on random stuff. any thoughts? i cant post any specifics cause it wont allow me to navigate at all. its a paperweight that accepts incoming calls. halp me, iz not a cheezburger!

The EVO shift is confirmed not to work right for boost. It's best to stick with the EVO 4G or the new boost slider the Transform Ultra.
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(q) video call

Anybody can help me how to make video call on my infuse?thx

Qik is only program I found that worked properly with infuse. It worked good doing a video call with an iPhone 4.

There is an app called Clearsea in the market that is free for now that works very well. We use it on IPads for video conferencing to our video conference system in the office. But I think it can also do device to device video calls as well. Just has to be a SIP or H323 compliant device for it to function properly.

when we get gingerbread we can use google talk to make video calls. skype was working on a video chat release for android and was waiting verizon to give the ok until microsoft bought it. i think we will now have to wait until skype is fully working on windows phone 7 for a few months before they even consider releasing it.

Try Tango. They just updated to work with the infuse 4g. Me personally I like tango better they use Push Notification unlike other that have a process running synchronizing every X time killing battery. With tango I could completely shut it down and still get notified.
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ill have to remove my foot from my mouth as it seems the first thing microsoft did with skpe was release video chat for android. its even been hacked to work with galaxy s and galaxy s2 phones with gingerbread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708 prolly would work on our phones too, and is yet another reason we need gingerbread!

**** as if I didn't want gb before. Does skype work device to computer too?

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**** as if I didn't want gb before. Does skype work device to computer too?
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yes. thats part of the point. seeing as everyone i know now has a phone with a front facing camera and a skype account, and iphones's facetime and android's google talk dont run on each others platforms, itd be really nice to have skype up and running now.

Video Calls work through Tango now

The Tango devs updated their the app and now video calls work. The audio issue has been fixed for the Droid Charge. Used it to make a call to an iphone friend and it worked flawlessly. Just thought I would spread the word.

Thanks for the heads-up.
I actually downloaded the tango app two days ago and uninstalled it and now i can't find it on the market.
Anyone else unable to find it? Has the icon changed?
Thanks,
Rick

I'll have to check this out.... it's funny, I bought a phone with a front-facing camera and never bothered using it, I guess I'll try this app out and see what the quality is like.
Few questions(dumb as they may be )
1: Can I call people who are on Skype with this app? I'm assuming I would have to wait for Skype to release a version for the Charge.
2: Does this app call other people with the app or does it just do a regular call..?
thanks :]

I tested it last night with the gf, pretty neat. It wouldn't connect at 3g (my area gets spotty between 3g/4g) but connected just fine over WiFi. From my experience, using a set of headphones is essentially mandatory for AT LEAST one party, if not both. With no headphones there was a significant amount of feedback on both ends, to the point where conversation was impossible. Perhaps this is just my experience though.

Finally, audio didnt work for the longest time

Sweet! Hopefully this will work between my charge and my wife's moto droid while she's out of town

blarrick said:
I'll have to check this out.... it's funny, I bought a phone with a front-facing camera and never bothered using it, I guess I'll try this app out and see what the quality is like.
Few questions(dumb as they may be )
1: Can I call people who are on Skype with this app? I'm assuming I would have to wait for Skype to release a version for the Charge.
2: Does this app call other people with the app or does it just do a regular call..?
thanks :]
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1. No from what I have seen it looks as if the other party needs Tango as well. There is a contacts list from within and it automatically had some contacts in my list that already had Tango.
2. I think i answered #2 with #1.
Also I used it with speaker on and had no feedback . It was absolutely flawless that one time I used it. I was on 4G. It sucked battery hard though.