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i installed skype and was able to make a call to my phone but i ended the call now it won't boot up all the way. it starts to boot up then says shutting down and powers off. gonna try to restore a back up now
i would advise against using skype. gonna try fring next to see if it will work. surely theres a video chat app that works with this thing...otherwise why does it have a cam?
my backup cured the booting problems, tried fring with yahoo messenger and it says yahoo does not support video chatting. i also tried the yahoo messenger apk with video chat add on and they do not work either it seems. just sucks that we have a pretty much useless video camera....for now.

yeah I really want a video chat program for this thing that works. Fring displayed video but the audio was crackling. I would love to find something that works so I can chat with my family when I leave town.

wlawyer said:
yeah I really want a video chat program for this thing that works. Fring displayed video but the audio was crackling. I would love to find something that works so I can chat with my family when I leave town.
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how did you get it to display video?

Crimton said:
how did you get it to display video?
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With fring I just pulled up the test call contact then selected video. Not much to it as long as you use the test contact or any other contact with the fringe client.

wlawyer said:
With fring I just pulled up the test call contact then selected video. Not much to it as long as you use the test contact or any other contact with the fringe client.
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Can you post which apk you used and settings? I've tried a cooke and can't get it to work, needless to say when I try to pull from frings sure it doesn't recognize the device.
Will it work with skype clients?
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it2steve said:
Can you post which apk you used and settings? I've tried a cooke and can't get it to work, needless to say when I try to pull from frings sure it doesn't recognize the device.
Will it work with skype clients?
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I am pretty sure its this one, i messed my gtab up pretty good last night so i cant be for sure. This is the first time I have posted a file on here but hopefully I am not a total nub.
Edit: I think fring used to work with skype but they got a cute cease and desist letter so they pulled that out. This will only do video if you and the other contact have fring installed, that is why I used the convenient test call contact to test the video. Like i said it looks like the video is working but the audio is crackling terribly on mine. It may be that I dont have the latest apk or just a bad audio driver.

does skype need background data enabled?

Skype.apk
does anyone have the skpye.apk? The crippled market wont pull it.

wlawyer said:
I am pretty sure its this one, i messed my gtab up pretty good last night so i cant be for sure. This is the first time I have posted a file on here but hopefully I am not a total nub.
Edit: I think fring used to work with skype but they got a cute cease and desist letter so they pulled that out. This will only do video if you and the other contact have fring installed, that is why I used the convenient test call contact to test the video. Like i said it looks like the video is working but the audio is crackling terribly on mine. It may be that I dont have the latest apk or just a bad audio driver.
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thanks for that.. now I remember what I drama was with that. After installation when it's asking for ID and such, the koyboard wont pull up to type anything?
Anyone else have that issue? any workarounds?

it2steve said:
does anyone have the skpye.apk? The crippled market wont pull it.
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Skype screwed me up, wouldn't let me boot and I had to do a restore. I just downloaded it to my phone and sent it to my dropbox from there then downloaded on the g.
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Steve, are you on the Zpad bulid? I also had problems with the keyboard in that one, but the workaround would be to plug in a usb keyboard. However, Fring works with CM 6.1 Beta2.
Edit: The audio bites bigtime!

Skype works fine for me on full vanilla. Only voice though, it is not made for video. Fring no longer supports link to skype due to skype restrictions once skype licensed to cell providers. Fring works, but as was mentioned, audio crackle makes it useless for us.

I think this has already been posted somewhere and may not be what u r looking for but the yahoo messenger and video add on has voice call

I have the Zpad T2 and in order to make skype to work, I need to change the checkjni =0 in build.prop

pcmtse said:
I have the Zpad T2 and in order to make skype to work, I need to change the checkjni =0 in build.prop
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Im assuming that it's working with chatb but no video?

I am using Skype from the Toshiba folio apk and it works perfectly for voice calls.

it2steve said:
Im assuming that it's working with chatb but no video?
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Yes, I don't think Skype support Video yet right?
and Fring can't log onto Skype right?

On CM6.1 I have the yahoo messenger with video working. I can't type and video at the same time, limitation in the yahoo app, but I have video and sound working just fine going both ways.

I've got Skype installed on my ViewSonic GTablet and can make calls, but I get no audio?? any ideas? People can hear me fine, but I can't hear them at all.

odd
I have used both skype voice calling and yahoo video chat successfully on my tab. (currently running TnT lite 2.2)

[Q] Videoconferencing on the GTablet

So, here I am asking about this.
Okay, first, I'm not sure if this is in the right forum (maybe I should've put it in Apps?).
Please move it, okay, if it isn't.
So, as we know our GTablets have that camera on the top of the screen. So, can that be used for videoconferencing?
What app do you use and how did you get it (if it isn't on the Market)?
Does Skype work this way, maybe with it's computer version or at all?
I have zero friends at the moment who have a Skype account with a camera-toting laptop/other device (I'm basically the only one who has a laptop and the GTablet with a camera on it included into the main hardware).

XANAVirus said:
So, here I am asking about this.
Okay, first, I'm not sure if this is in the right forum (maybe I should've put it in Apps?).
Please move it, okay, if it isn't.
So, as we know our GTablets have that camera on the top of the screen. So, can that be used for videoconferencing?
What app do you use and how did you get it (if it isn't on the Market)?
Does Skype work this way, maybe with it's computer version or at all?
I have zero friends at the moment who have a Skype account with a camera-toting laptop/other device (I'm basically the only one who has a laptop and the GTablet with a camera on it included into the main hardware).
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You'd want to search for Fring and g tablet to see the problems people are having with video conferencing on this device. I think only Yahoo Messenger work right now.

Skype will release their video chat this year, right now I believe qik and yahoo messenger work.
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Skype has not released the video for the android as of yet. They did release the Iphone 4 version but not for the Android yet. That just Sucks
Justin
G Tab Rom Tnt Lite 2.2 it rocks

Nospin said:
Skype will release their video chat this year, right now I believe qik and yahoo messenger work.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
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dont think you can actually call someone with qik can you? i used it all the time on my droid but it was just to stream things to people. havent heard of qik being used for video conferencing other than maybe on the htc phones. someone correct me if im wrong.

See the other thread under Apps. Yahoo messenger works, but on Gtab-to-PC connection, the video on the PC end is rotated 90 degrees.
Jim

BBC iPlayer App

Just testing this on the Tab on WiFi.
The quality is superb. Works perfectly so far
Top Job BBC !!

Will have to try it here on the USA, i am running JME European rom. Lets see if i get denied access sin i am not in the UK.

Hopefully it will work for you.
Def gonna be one of my most used apps

Well what do you know, i can't find it on the market. Can you share the .apk with us?
EDIT: i have tried using market enabler but still can't find it on the market, i need a UK provider or the .apk

darrenjdoc said:
Just testing this on the Tab on WiFi.
The quality is superb. Works perfectly so far
Top Job BBC !!
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I have to disagree - it's a massive fail in the scheme of things!
The iPad streams are better quality than the Flash streams we have to put up with, and the BBC could easily make them compatible with all Android devices.
In addition, not being able to use the app over 3G is poor when you consider that you can from the "web" client.
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
I have to disagree - it's a massive fail in the scheme of things!
The iPad streams are better quality than the Flash streams we have to put up with, and the BBC could easily make them compatible with all Android devices.
In addition, not being able to use the app over 3G is poor when you consider that you can from the "web" client.
Regards,
Dave
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i agree with you in regards to only having it on wifi, they should update it to be able to use it via 3g but then again if you are trying to view videos they would work better on wifi than 3g but but its early on Android so we will have to wait and see..

I have watched 2 programmes and they have worked flawlessly.
I am well happy.
The apk is attached

adinis78 said:
i agree with you in regards to only having it on wifi, they should update it to be able to use it via 3g but then again if you are trying to view videos they would work better on wifi than 3g but but its early on Android so we will have to wait and see..
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Yes, but I'd rather have the option of watching a slightly lower quality stream over 3G, than no stream at all when you're not near a WiFi hotspot.
The irony is that there were 2 perfectly good 3rd party iPlayer solutions (BeebPlayer and myPlayer) that did (and still do!) work over both 3G and WiFi using the 3GP streams intended for Nokia phones, but the BBC had them removed from the Market.
What they have replaced them with is a Flash based solution which only works on ARM7 class devices thus shutting off a good percentage of Android users.
Regards,
Dave

darrenjdoc said:
I have watched 2 programmes and they have worked flawlessly.
I am well happy.
The apk is attached
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Thanks....
Well as i imagined it did not work, it installs and all but the i get the dreaded message "BBC iPlayer is only available within the United Kingdom". Oh well it was worth a try.

Just tested it with a MiFi and it plays fine. I can only get 3G where i live but there didnt seem to be any problems.

Anyone else having formatting problems?
The video thumbnails overlay the text on some pages.

kikuratab said:
Anyone else having formatting problems?
The video thumbnails overlay the text on some pages.
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Yep It all goes wrong when you change video quality and rotate when not in full screen

outside uk
is there anyway to get this working outside the uk?
we can trick the market app with marketenabler, can we do the same with this?
can anyone send me there uk service provider id number, the thing that gets changed in the market enabler, so i can try it out?

puccaso said:
is there anyway to get this working outside the uk?
we can trick the market app with marketenabler, can we do the same with this?
can anyone send me there uk service provider id number, the thing that gets changed in the market enabler, so i can try it out?
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There is a way, it's called VPN, but it's hard to find a free UK VPN. Most of them are paid VPNs.

and do these vpns work over 3g?
http://puccaso.com ¦ @puccaso

You could try the free trial and watch it through this site - http://www.watchuktv.co.uk/

darrenjdoc said:
You could try the free trial and watch it through this site - http://www.watchuktv.co.uk/
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They have stopped free accounts. Anyone know any others
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I agree that the ipad version stream is higher quality than the Android. Bit pissed off with the beeb for that... also as mentioned there are some oddities with presentation when using it on the tab. Hopefully these things will be addressed soon. Not a bad first effort though, and useful for the live tv feed if nothing else.
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can anyone help with keeping the iplayer app running?
On my 10.1, it opens a web browser. When i play something like a radio program, you need to keep on that page. If you navigate away from the page or even lock the tablet, the iplayer stops. This means you have to just leave the tablet displaying the page your listening too. This will obviously run down the powqer quicker. Surely you can multitask on the 10.1?

Video Call

So,
One of the reasons I picked up the transformer was the hope that I could make video calls of some sort with it. I remember some youtube of the TF101 doing it at CES and now that I own one, I'd like to see it work.
Can anyone step me through how they have done it, or if it's not workable or ....
Cheers,
gpearson1968

Dunno about other apps but I know Google talk video chat works great.

You do this in Google Talk, find one of your Gtalk contacts that has a little camera icon beside their name, and click on Video call.
If you dont have any, pm and you can add me as a Google Chat friend, and test a video call.
R.

I tried out fring today and it worked amazing!

There's always Skype too of course.

stuntdouble said:
There's always Skype too of course.
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No video on Skype at the moment.
Does anyone want to try out Fring's group video chat with a few members?

EP2008 said:
No video on Skype at the moment.
Does anyone want to try out Fring's group video chat with a few members?
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My mistake.

You can install Tango, this one allows video call cross platform i.e. iPhone users too.
The quality is excellent if you have a strong WiFi connection ( and the person your calling) also works from 3g if used from a handset or tab that uses it.

Also try qik.
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acomiskey said:
Also try qik.
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The qik app force closes whenever I try doing a video chat on the transformer. Anyone else have any luck?

raerae28 said:
You do this in Google Talk, find one of your Gtalk contacts that has a little camera icon beside their name, and click on Video call.
If you dont have any, pm and you can add me as a Google Chat friend, and test a video call.
R.
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Google Video Talk worked EXCELLENTLY. I showed it to my kids and they ran with it for the last few days. Then, they wound up teaching their mother how to do it.
Thanks for your help folks !
Cheers,
gpearson1968

very new in the android world so can someone list the steps for this to work.

Has anyone managed to get the leaked Skype Mobile with Video apk installed?
When I try it just says "Not Installed" - restoring with TB also fails.

Can someone tell me how to get the video chat to work between my transformer and a windows account using the Google Talk/Chat.
I was able to install the software on the windows machine butr not on my transformer. The google chat software said it was for windows (i.e. xp, win7 etc) only. Android was not mentioned. I also checked Android market and was unable to find anything related.
Thanks

jeffs99 said:
Can someone tell me how to get the video chat to work between my transformer and a windows account using the Google Talk/Chat.
I was able to install the software on the windows machine butr not on my transformer. The google chat software said it was for windows (i.e. xp, win7 etc) only. Android was not mentioned. I also checked Android market and was unable to find anything related.
Thanks
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Google talk is already installed on the transformer, the app icon is named "Talk"

HasC said:
You can install Tango, this one allows video call cross platform i.e. iPhone users too.
The quality is excellent if you have a strong WiFi connection ( and the person your calling) also works from 3g if used from a handset or tab that uses it.
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I also tried Tango on my TF to my wife's Iphone 4. I noticed that the image was up side down. Did you experience this when you are using Tango? I also tried Fring and the image was also upside down. I tried turning the tablet and still doesn't work.

I was getting an upside down video on fring as well.. what a shame
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Finally today managed to make a video call through Gtalk. Very fast and good image quality I would say. The app FC in the beginning, I can't say why... but a quick restart of the TF fixed it.
rio

Do you know if Skype is working with transformer. I have no luck.

mikewong27 said:
I also tried Tango on my TF to my wife's Iphone 4. I noticed that the image was up side down. Did you experience this when you are using Tango? I also tried Fring and the image was also upside down. I tried turning the tablet and still doesn't work.
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I had the same issue with tango and it kept FC'ing if I was connected to my bluetooth headset.

Olympics live stream on infinity

Boohoo, the nbc streaming app is not infinity compatible. Anyone find another app to get the live on this tablet. Or have the apk for the nbc app?
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2

ricardo-droid said:
Boohoo, the nbc streaming app is not infinity compatible. Anyone find another app to get the live on this tablet. Or have the apk for the nbc app?
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I would email the developers and ask about it. And I'll look it up on my phone real quick
EDIT: But in the meantime...have at it: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3NObuszHotlZElDakhCQWJOd0k/edit
EDIT2: Sharing permissions fixed
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Here's a direct download link for the NBC apk. I'll put it on mediafire or something in a bit, but this will do for now.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ib58i9dgbxzcn74/nbc.portal_143.apk
I just tested it on my Infinity and it works fine although it was definitely meant for a smaller screen.
Enjoy!

Yahoo Messanger = also DONT WORK on Infinity
Can someone install and do Voice+ Video chat using YAHOO MESSANGER on Infinity....
Seems when I install , the BASE yahoo ( without abiltiy to do video chats ) works ok
then when I try to install the " YAHOO VIDEO ADD_ON" , i get error = " not compatable with this version of hardware and or software"
its weird = as i have a Samsung Note with ICS = and yahoo works well even with video and voice
seems SKYPE works GREAT = all ther features , and functions ....................
can anyone help ?? any dev's ?
thanks in advance

Awesome app KillerG! Can anyone get the APK for the NBC Live Extra App? That app will have ALL the videos available for streaming video for the Olympics. Over 3500 hours worth when all said and done.
Lastly, anyone getting slow motion audio in the video section?

This is what I did: (jankey I know)
1) Install the app you want on your phone
2) Use ES File Manager (or similar) to back up the application (ES stores it in /sdcard/backups
3) Share that file (Google Drive, gMail, etc)
4) Download and install to your tablet.
Took me under 5 minutes once I figured it out. A lot less time than waiting for the developer to do something about it!

Live Extra apk link
I tried several of the Live Extra apk files, but most of them once installed still said they needed to be updated. Well, once I clicked "update" it went straight to the Play store and said it was not compatible.
I did some searching and found a apk file. I have successfully downloaded, installed and tried the app. It works fine on my Infinity tablet.
I can't post a link, so pm me for it.
Hope I did this right and you can download it from my dropbox folder.
Cheers!
Go USA!
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I tried several of the Live Extra apk files, but most of them once installed still said they needed to be updated. Well, once I clicked "update" it went straight to the Play store and said it was not compatible.
I did some searching and found a apk file. I have successfully downloaded, installed and tried the app. It works fine on my Infinity tablet.
I can't post a link, so you will have to pm me for it.
Cheers!
Go USA!
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xRevilatioNx, I had issue with sound when I first installed app. I closed the app, went to my task manager and found some "musicfx" running... well, I ended that particular app, musicfx... reopened the live extra app and video and audio were working fine. May work for you as well.

Sent! Thanks

Olympics on TF700 Infinity
I just logged into my Xfinitytv.comcast.com account and went to nbcolympics.com and watch the Olympics. I don't think you need any sort of special application. I've watched various TV shows on my Infinity and other Android apps as well as my wife's iPad and my PC. It just works.

R2N2 said:
I just logged into my Xfinitytv.comcast.com account and went to nbcolympics.com and watch the Olympics. I don't think you need any sort of special application. I've watched various TV shows on my Infinity and other Android apps as well as my wife's iPad and my PC. It just works.
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I've trued all the apks including the one off my og transformer. Each stream plays correctly for 5 sec then goes slow mo. Anykne else?

dfree71 said:
I tried several of the Live Extra apk files, but most of them once installed still said they needed to be updated. Well, once I clicked "update" it went straight to the Play store and said it was not compatible.
I did some searching and found a apk file. I have successfully downloaded, installed and tried the app. It works fine on my Infinity tablet.
I can't post a link, so pm me for it.
Hope I did this right and you can download it from my dropbox folder.
Cheers!
Go USA!
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xRevilatioNx, I had issue with sound when I first installed app. I closed the app, went to my task manager and found some "musicfx" running... well, I ended that particular app, musicfx... reopened the live extra app and video and audio were working fine. May work for you as well.
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Where did you go? I sent you a PM yesterday

gottahavit said:
I've trued all the apks including the one off my og transformer. Each stream plays correctly for 5 sec then goes slow mo. Anykne else?
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This is exactly what happens to me with every version I try, including pulling the .APK off my galaxy nexus, which works fine on the phone. No matter what I try, I get about five second of video, and the slow motion video and sound. Very frustrating.

Look at running apps
gottahavit said:
I've trued all the apks including the one off my og transformer. Each stream plays correctly for 5 sec then goes slow mo. Anykne else?
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When I installed the app on my infinity tablet, it was in slow mo.. at first. But I found an app called musicfx or something like that running in the background. Once I disabled that, the app worked fine. audio and video worked great. Been watching olympics since 4 a.m. this morning.

How do you disable it? I pm'd you for the NBC Live Extra APK. I know everyone heard back from you my friend.

gottahavit said:
I've trued all the apks including the one off my og transformer. Each stream plays correctly for 5 sec then goes slow mo. Anykne else?
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I had this same issue on the Acer A700 the fix is to have the Olympic app running and when it slows down go into the square task manager on the bottom left, select something else and once that loads go back into task manager and select Olympic app and it will be normal speed.
You have to do this whenever you switch channels, a pain but a temporary fix.

Just turned on the app this morning. A "update" popped up and said goto Play store to get newer version. Obviously we can't because it tells us it's not compatible.
Can anyone get the updated APK? I'm hoping the update fixes the video feed.
UPDATE: without the newer version it won't let us in the app! So we definitely need the APK to continue enjoying the app... Ugh

Check your Pm's Killer G ;D

xRevilatioNx said:
Just turned on the app this morning. A "update" popped up and said goto Play store to get newer version. Obviously we can't because it tells us it's not compatible.
Can anyone get the updated APK? I'm hoping the update fixes the video feed.
UPDATE: without the newer version it won't let us in the app! So we definitely need the APK to continue enjoying the app... Ugh
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I have the latest, still does same thing

How did you get the latest!?

xRevilatioNx said:
How did you get the latest!?
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I downloaded it on my tf101 and then pulled the apk