I am curious what IM app people are having success with on their Sensation. I have used Trillian in the past but even with C2DM active I am loosing about 9% of battery per hour. I never had this issue with other phones. This I am curious what IM apps you have been successfully using that do not eat battery life. It needs to support AIM and Facebook.
Thanks!
Try Ebuddy.... i havent used it on Sensation as of yet... but on my DHD, it worked perfectly...and about draining battery... well the smartphones have oversmart batteries.... it used to drain everytime.. dont know if it was ebuddy or Whats App... but for sure it was HTC HUB and Friend's stream
I use the IM+ free and work great, dont have the battery problem, because you have the notification mode and when you go out of IM+ you have still the mesage....
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imo.im - Doesn't drain battery to me, and no silly account registrations.
Trillian!! have used it for computer for years, great on android as well.
I say imo. Very stable and battery drain is minimal
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beejive is pricey, but it's great and uses push notifications to save juice.
Hey, for those who uses trillian, any idea how to "reset" the groups? It seems that it is not following the groups i have within msn, and using its own contacts grouping system.
Use Trillian. It's IMHO best on Android.
Silvina said:
Hey, for those who uses trillian, any idea how to "reset" the groups? It seems that it is not following the groups i have within msn, and using its own contacts grouping system.
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I'm not sure, but maybe you need to delete your contacts in Astra (I'm taking no guarantee in this). They should reload.
imo is great, but which one you have decided to use?
Trillian best bar none.
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Im+ for me
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Im+ for me
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For me too. I only need MSN. Tried Mercury, but it didn't really convince me. IM+ looks way more professional. Stay away from that eBuddy bull**** - I gave it a chance, but first thing it does, asks you to register an account with them. Holy ****!
Im+ for me too
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Also using IM+.
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I use Trillian, and I don't have any battery drain issues. Actually today my battery went 5 hours at 100% battery lol, I thought it was broken until it finally start decreasing.
Trillian also works very well for me!
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I find the official AIM app to be a huge battery drain!
Is Meebo or anything else better with battery consumption?
Trillian uses push notifications.
Anything free or is trillian worth it??
I beta tested Trillian on Android and loved it. Been a PC user of Trillian for about a decade as well.
eBuddy, Trillian, BeeJiveIM, Meebo
i use to use beejive on blackberry and loved it. anyone tried on android? its $5 to get it. IMO
I just want to reiterate that Trillian has push! hehe
Bought Trillian finally getting rid of my beta version. Works awesome.
I find trillian to be really buggy. Some times my contacts do not show up until an app restart id done, connectivity issues and a few minor things.
My favorite IM to use is meebo.
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ogh417 said:
I find trillian to be really buggy. Some times my contacts do not show up until an app restart id done, connectivity issues and a few minor things.
My favorite IM to use is meebo.
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mine is running just fine. i know they had connectivity issues on NS release having to do with changes in Gingerbread, but those have been fixed (and rather quickly too)
Google Talk
I use BeeJive both on iPhone and here and I love it. Very nice, looks great and works well.
I always find Trillian to have disconnected itself or shut down after a while. Been using eBuddy and like it. It's easy on the battery and free.
Ebuddy is good for me
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i like ebuddy but it drains the battery quick and sets your profile pic as their logo. i use it at home when plugged in
I've used Trillian since the beta, and it's always been great.
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Imo.im doesn't seem to drain battery for me. Give it a try.
imo.im is the best
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Trillian has always worked for me. Before that I used Hi AIM.
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I use Trillian and like it, but I've never tried the alternatives, so I can't fairly say I think it's the best. Good enough that I haven't had cause to switch, anyway. Black theme, so that's a bit of a battery saver on a SAMOLED device. And since it suspends in the background and relies on C2DM push notifications, it uses close to zero battery when it's not the active application. (Note that you have to check battery saving mode in the settings for this to work, though.)
Im curious but as an example if I have twitter, plume, tweetcaster, and Seesmic all on my phone, and they all check twitter do they drain battery more then if I just had one twitter app.
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Do you use the all? Unless your using them all at the same time for some reason it seems unnecessary to have them all running. It's ok if they are all installed and you pick and choose which one you use depending on whatever but its when they all are tying to access resources that you will run into batter issues.
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Do you use the all? Unless your using them all at the same time for some reason it seems unnecessary to have them all running. It's ok if they are all installed and you pick and choose which one you use depending on whatever but its when they all are tying to access resources that you will run into batter issues.
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I use them due to the different layout looks and feels and am trying to figure which one has the best functionality.
I know they all do the same thing, but it wasn't until now that it hit me, they all devour battery everytime they update themselves
I don't know why but I had this assumption that since they all dip into twitter they would kinda share the gathered info
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ironlood said:
Im curious but as an example if I have twitter, plume, tweetcaster, and Seesmic all on my phone, and they all check twitter do they drain battery more then if I just had one twitter app.
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Hi,
It depends on the app which you are installing. If you will install more animation based apps and more images based app then the battery will drain soon.
I did that at first too. I guess I was always good about removing the unnecessary apps before battery drainage was a problem. As far as a Twitter app goes I've been using twidroyd pro for quite a while now and I love it. The widget really pulls my home screen together. I switched to seesmic when Twitter banned twidroyd but I didn't like the widget. Is that a weird reason not to use an app?
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Does anyone know if this works and I am just not seeing the video icons in my friends list, or if this is prohibited with the Gtalk pre-installed on the sensation.
IF the latter is there an open APK that will allow this from another forum perhaps?
RW
Official app only works in 2.3.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103988
Got it Thanks!
Would be nice to get that update soon;-)
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Hi, jz thought that I ask .. is there another video call app that you guys use other than QIK .. also tried Yahoo but they both equally suck
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qdochemistry said:
Hi, jz thought that I ask .. is there another video call app that you guys use other than QIK .. also tried Yahoo but they both equally suck
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skymobius.vtok
FRING
Try using fring, it has 4 way video conference!!
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skymobius.vtok
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only bad thing about VTOK is when I had it installed it never shut off & drained by battery quickly. Even with the screen off, it was always using the CPU & keeping wifi on. Signing out of your google account didn't shut it down either
I've emailed the developer but still haven't heard back after a week.
On my galaxy tab I am running the Overcome 2.0.1 ROM which is a Gingerbread 2.3.3. The version of Google talk pre-installed with it does video chat. Perhaps there it a way to extract the APK from the galaxy Tab and use it with our 2.3.3 phones?
I could be completely wrong on this, but...
I believe that the Talk app is installed into the system folder and therefore we'd have to push the replacement file into the system folder, which we can't do right now?
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only bad thing about VTOK is when I had it installed it never shut off & drained by battery quickly. Even with the screen off, it was always using the CPU & keeping wifi on. Signing out of your google account didn't shut it down either
I've emailed the developer but still haven't heard back after a week.
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Thanks, i uninstalled it right away when i checked my running services
tango works for the sensation https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sgiggle.production&feature=search_result
and you cannot change the gtalk app without root
Is there any current app that let's you have video call from computer to the Sensation? My wife has Skype on her laptop but for android doesn't show and available.
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side357 said:
Is there any current app that let's you have video call from computer to the Sensation? My wife has Skype on her laptop but for android doesn't show and available.
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+1
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Sorry don't understand if +1 is an app or just stating there is one.
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side357 said:
Sorry don't understand if +1 is an app or just stating there is one.
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Basically upping your question.
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Hi guys,
What version of Talk actually works on the Sensation then? I have insertcoin 3.3.9 which gives me android 2.3.5 with 3.5 sense but i cannot for the life of me work out how to get the video icons on my contacts. I have tried everything and still nothing as even tapping on my avatar does not give me an option to enable / disable video.
Anyone know what i need to do?
So far it's been working for me with most of the versions of InsertCoin. Just make sure that the contacts on the side has enabled their option to receive video calls.
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Hi,
Do you know what i need to do if i want to use the back camera during video chat? There is no rotate funciton in gtalk like there is in Honeycomb
Hi All,
First, I wanna say that you guys are so freakin awesome! I've been an xda lurker for a while, but figured it's time for me to join and interact with my fellow HTC Sensation-ers.
It'd be a good chance for me to contribute to these forums, as well as getting some help for my Sensation problems. Glad to be a part of you guys now
Question: Why doesn't Facebook for Android push notifications work on my Sensation 4G?
Background Info: Private Messages in Facebook get pushed, but regular notifications (e.g. wall posts, comments, likes) do not get pushed to my device.
Went into facebook settings, and everything it's at its default values (never touched a thing). Notifications are on.
Other information pertaining to situation: Background data is ON. Always-On mobile data has been tried on and off. Same results both ways.
Can you help a brotha out?
Thanks, guys! I look forward to being a part of your community.
I read that if you sign in on a blackberry it fixes that for android due to a permission that Facebook for bb gives. I don't know if its true but worth a try I guess
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I read that if you sign in on a blackberry it fixes that for android due to a permission that Facebook for bb gives. I don't know if its true but worth a try I guess
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Hi fr0zenblood75,
Thanks for the response.
I also have read that before. I actually went far enough to borrow my friends Bold 9780 without him knowing
Alas, it did not work
Does every Sensation user have this issue? Or am I in the minority with this?
Also, I've restarted my phone, factory reset, uninstall and reinstall app....nothing works.
Facebook kinda sucks. You try another app like friendcaster?
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Hi fr0zenblood75,
Thanks for the response.
I also have read that before. I actually went far enough to borrow my friends Bold 9780 without him knowing
Alas, it did not work
Does every Sensation user have this issue? Or am I in the minority with this?
Also, I've restarted my phone, factory reset, uninstall and reinstall app....nothing works.
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Your welcome. Ohh that sucks well I sometimes get notifications and sometimes I don't its random they should fix .
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Facebook kinda sucks. You try another app like friendcaster?
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Thanks for your suggestion, newter55!
I'm not familiar with friendcaster. Is it a facebook for android alternative and does it do push notifications? Thanks.
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Your welcome. Ohh that sucks well I sometimes get notifications and sometimes I don't its random they should fix .
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So at least it's not just me
Anyways, I appreciate the help fr0zenblood75! Nice to meet you
Yes its an alternative that works much better. Afaik, the only thing it doesn't do is chat.
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I noticed push notifications randomly work, Right now they seem to be working great for me..... i used to have a blackberry also....
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Yes its an alternative that works much better. Afaik, the only thing it doesn't do is chat.
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Interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks again, newter55
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I noticed push notifications randomly work, Right now they seem to be working great for me..... i used to have a blackberry also....
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It sucks that the Facebook app is garbage
I guess the developer has no incentive to get the app working properly for everybody, seeing that it's not ad-supported.
Does anyone else share in my frustration?
Often, I am notified to link contacts between my People list and my Facebook (official app) contacts as well as my Whatsapp contacts. This happens at least once a week, and at times, every other day.
I'll go into the Facebook app and all of the sudden will need to enter my password again. Within the hour, I'm notified of Facebook contacts that could potentially be linked with my people list. I link them all then save. You'd think that would be it, right? A couple days later, same password prompt, same contact link suggestions. The same thing occurs for Whatsapp, too. Both occur update app from the Play market or not and on stock and MikTouch 0.7.
It's a minor inconvenience but so annoying, as it seems like it's never really saving the link. Anyone else seeing this?
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I remember months ago the facebook app threw phones into a constant sync, they would never stop syncing and never actually do so.
I don't use facebook, but had to troubleshoot for a user of my rom.
Facebook app is the most worthlessly coded POS app I've ever crawled through the code of, it makes little sense and has less coherency.
Using the app means subjecting yourself to it's problems, sorry for your troubles.
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Use FastforFacebook. It's amazing.
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Use FastforFacebook. It's amazing.
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I always used friendcaster pro for my facebook needs. Because as blue stated the actual facebook app SUCKS lol
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strapped365 said:
I always used friendcaster pro for my facebook needs. Because as blue stated the actual facebook app SUCKS lol
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Me too but I have two Facebook accounts. Have to use two different apps to get my content.
I flashed a nice ICS ROM and it seems to be okay for the time being...
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