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Skype for Captivate

I am about ready to pull the trigger on a captivate, but was wondering if there is a skype app available for it?
I need to have it... WHen I checked the skype website under android phones there is a skype app but only for Verizon Phones.
Am I screwed?? no skype for Captivate

the skype people said it was coming this year.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/skype-mobile-with-video-support-coming-to-android-market-later-t/

I found a beta app which works fine
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I've been using iSkoot from the market. No video, but great for audio (uses cellular voice for voice chat).

masterofthebass said:
I've been using iSkoot from the market. No video, but great for audio (uses cellular voice for voice chat).
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So to verify, iskoot will run on the Captivate and I can make skype calls with it? I don't care about video..
Also where could I get the beta version of skype?
Thanks

anilkuj said:
I found a beta app which works fine
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where at? (link?)

I've tried Nimbuzz but no one can hear me
Just tried calling echo and it was unable to play back my voice but did play back the touchtone. Tried speakerphone as well.

kuau said:
So to verify, iskoot will run on the Captivate and I can make skype calls with it? I don't care about video..
Also where could I get the beta version of skype?
Thanks
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Skype Beta; here it is.

alphadog00 said:
Skype Beta; here it is.
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Does the beta allow use of wifi? I read the official skype program only works with verizon 3g (it doesn't run with wifi).

INeedYourHelp said:
Does the beta allow use of wifi? I read the official skype program only works with verizon 3g (it doesn't run with wifi).
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Installs fine through the SDK...
Chat works fine with wifi.
But if you make a call, it always wants to dial through (813) 527-2000 regardless if you dialed a phone number or skype contact. So it always needs your cellphone voice service.
FYI, I was able to complete the call to an 800 number, and I'm on AT&T.
I didn't finish the test of calling a skype contact.

You can alos install Skyp through the market if you use Market Enabler and change to VZW ID. I am not sure if it is the same as the beta or not.
EDIT, the VZW one exits with message "Can only be used on VZW phones"

I downloaded Nimbuzz and Iskoot and they suck BIG TIME. Recently, I was looking around and I found Skype Lite Beta and It works great. It's not in the MARKET! I guess, if you have a rooted phone, you can download it...I don't! But you can remove the SIM card, turn on your wifi connection and scan the application right here androlib.com
Like I said earlier, it works just fine on my non rooted Samsung Captivate. Give it a try!

Skype for Captivate
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/xeudoxus/78843-apks-unlocked-apps.html
Calls tested on Samsung Captivate using 3G/Wifi

Actually there is a official version on Market
By the way.. Very old thread )

I tried the official version from the market and voice calls work fine but I want to use video chat. Has anyone got a confirmed version of Skype that works with video chat. The market version just gives me a black screen even when set to use the back camera

Has anyone tried adding chat to Facebook app?

Why does android not have Facebook with chat. Android has been out for some time now but still nothing.
There latest update is by far the best and performance wise it actually works better than previous versions.
I don't know if its possible but has someone tried to insert chat. There is so much rom development so there must be people capable of modifying this app.
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The Facebook app isn't open source.

Is there no way to modify it. Everything is possible these days
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I use Pairing. Works flawlessly and also ties all other chat programs in.
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adry1988 said:
Why does android not have Facebook with chat. Android has been out for some time now but still nothing.
There latest update is by far the best and performance wise it actually works better than previous versions.
I don't know if its possible but has someone tried to insert chat. There is so much rom development so there must be people capable of modifying this app.
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go! chat on the market works well

There's a version of bloo that has chat enabled that's floating around. It doesn't have the fancy new photoscroller or inbox features, but it DOES have chat if that's what you want.

Was supposed to say Palringo. It's free in the market and works awesome.
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The AIM app works really well too. Can check FB updates from within the app as well.

if you use ninjamorph you can alter the .xml files in .apk's. can't someone create a .xml file that adds chat support? Or can't someone take the facebook app piece for piece via astro and add chat support and add an icon in one of the blanks on the main homepage? that seems do-able.

Can XOOM 3G make Voice call like a mobile phone

Can any one advise this as its not listen in the 3G Specs..

By default no, but there has been talks about possibly getting it to work and a lot of people have success getting Line2 (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.toktumi.line2&feature=search_result) to work on it but requires you to even find the APK somewhere or download it on another android phone and copy the APK file off it.

I am looking for a core 2 Andriod 3.0 with at least a 7.1 or 10.1 screen...
Have to be able to make call.
Any recommendations..

I don't think you're going to find that anywhere.

Good luck with that, last I checked there were no tablets out there (at least in terms of Android 3.0+) that will allow you to make phone calls with them unless you use Skype (or mod it to allow making phone calls nativity.
I have heard that Samsung Galaxy Tab does allow you to make phone calls but I haven't tested myself and don't know if the newer Tab 10.1 (not sure if it's out yet or not) will support the phone features either since the Tab 10.1 will have 3.0.
I'm sure other members on this forums will step in to correct me if I'm wrong at anything I've said here but this is what I've saw so far.

I had some limited success with nettalk and my Google Talk phone number. Could connect with my home phone but my husband said it was very echo-y. I'm wifi only so it can be done. I'm going to try Line 2.

GrooVe IP works
i downloaded groove IP from the market tonite and it seems to work fine, it uses your Google voice number. No monthly fee like Line 2

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i downloaded groove IP from the market tonite and it seems to work fine, it uses your Google voice number. No monthly fee like Line 2
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I got groove IP from market and it works good enough. Thanks for the tip. I haven't been able to figure out how to receive calls with it though. Does it work for you? Anyone have any ideas?
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receiving calls
you have to be logged out of Google talk on your xoom. Also, make sure that in your gv settings you have it set to google chat rather than your mobile number. Not sure if that made any sense, but they explain it step by step in the help section.

is that video calling or just voice?

mbrought4 said:
you have to be logged out of Google talk on your xoom. Also, make sure that in your gv settings you have it set to google chat rather than your mobile number. Not sure if that made any sense, but they explain it step by step in the help section.
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That did the trick! Thanks!
This is for voice calls.
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mbrought4 said:
you have to be logged out of Google talk on your xoom. Also, make sure that in your gv settings you have it set to google chat rather than your mobile number. Not sure if that made any sense, but they explain it step by step in the help section.
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How can I get the google chat to show up rather then the mobile number because I do not have that option. The only options I see are my mobile number and add this phone, nothing else. I can make calls with excellent quality on both ends but cannot get any calls on my Xoom because of this. What am I doing wrong?

diablo2224 said:
How can I get the google chat to show up rather then the mobile number because I do not have that option. The only options I see are my mobile number and add this phone, nothing else. I can make calls with excellent quality on both ends but cannot get any calls on my Xoom because of this. What am I doing wrong?
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That's the same problem that I was having. You have to log on to google voice settings using your web browser for the log in to chat settings.
My problem was that I was logged into google talk on my xoom.
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kyoteqwik said:
That's the same problem that I was having. You have to log on to google voice settings using your web browser for the log in to chat settings.
My problem was that I was logged into google talk on my xoom.
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I forgot about that. Well I am there on the web browser version of voice and I am a bit confused as to what I need to do exactly. Am I setting up a new number? I still don't see anything about google chat. I'm not a noob to technology by any means but never tried to set up calling on my Xoom until now because I never had the need for it. I do appreciate the help a lot.

diablo2224 said:
I forgot about that. Well I am there on the web browser version of voice and I am a bit confused as to what I need to do exactly. Am I setting up a new number? I still don't see anything about google chat. I'm not a noob to technology by any means but never tried to set up calling on my Xoom until now because I never had the need for it. I do appreciate the help a lot.
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Not really sure. When I go to google voice on my browser and then click on the setting tab in upper right corner and then choose voice settings, I can then click on the phones tab, that is where I am able to choose google chat.
Hope that helps, that's about all I got.
I will add that my calls work a lot better for the other party when I use bluetooth.
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kyoteqwik said:
Not really sure. When I go to google voice on my browser and then click on the setting tab in upper right corner and then choose voice settings, I can then click on the phones tab, that is where I am able to choose google chat.
Hope that helps, that's about all I got.
I will add that my calls work a lot better for the other party when I use bluetooth.
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Dang... I just remembered a long time ago I deleted the google chat from my registered phones list because I didn't think I would ever need to use it. So that would mean I would have to add it back, but... yeah. If I try to add another phone it gives me the name to choose and I need to set a number for it, and I have no idea what the number would be for google chat. Thanks for the quick responses though! I'll try and figure out what to do next. And I have 2 nice bluetooth headsets and they do work great!

diablo2224 said:
Dang... I just remembered a long time ago I deleted the google chat from my registered phones list because I didn't think I would ever need to use it. So that would mean I would have to add it back, but... yeah. If I try to add another phone it gives me the name to choose and I need to set a number for it, and I have no idea what the number would be for google chat. Thanks for the quick responses though! I'll try and figure out what to do next. And I have 2 nice bluetooth headsets and they do work great!
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No problem.
I would just try to add a new phone and call it google talk, that seems to be the only settings on mine.
Good luck.
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scsa20 said:
Good luck with that, last I checked there were no tablets out there (at least in terms of Android 3.0+) that will allow you to make phone calls with them unless you use Skype (or mod it to allow making phone calls nativity.
I have heard that Samsung Galaxy Tab does allow you to make phone calls but I haven't tested myself
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The legacy Galaxy Tab does let you use a GSM sim card and allow one to make phone calls as well as access EDGE/3G data...i helped a friend set up his tab a couple of weeks ago and can confirm this....im located in Mumbai, India...and the versions available here do allow the ability to also use it as a phone..
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i believe its the kernel that is stopping it from possible.
at the momenet, honeycomb is designed to be a tablet OS, hence it didn't include the Phone's feature in the system.
for galaxy tab, (the older one), it running on Gingerbread which a Phone OS, hence it can be easily enable the phone feature.
i believe we need to wait till Ice Cream where it unite Gingerbread and Honeycomb, so that it has the phone's feature in the system and can be enabled easily.

Hey All
Just thought I'd add to this old topic. I have an Australian 3G Xoom, on the American 3.1 update, with my settings pushed back for 3G etc.
Tonight I installed the UAString/SMS mod, so that I could send SMSes (which work perfectly with Handcent, over the Telstra 3G network - just like any mobile phone would do). Then I tried calling my tablet. This also worked perfectly! The call came up, it connected, etc. I answered and this is where we hit trouble. No sound. Either way. So the Xoom doesn't have a microphone/speaker set up for sound during a call. I even tried setting the Xoom on speaker phone, but still nothing.
Any ideas? Not sure if this has been posted about before, and I thought it was pretty exciting, to be making normal calls, and SMSes (there is all this talk about Google Voice, which is useless outside of the US) on the Xoom, and this was very exciting for me.

[Q] Iphone group text possible?

Does anyone know if its possible for us android users to respond "to all" when iphone users send us a group text? Or even see who's involved in the group text? I've searched and searched and don't think there is a way so I figured Id ask here in case someone knew of a way.
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trdsnow said:
Does anyone know if its possible for us android users to respond "to all" when iphone users send us a group text? Or even see who's involved in the group text? I've searched and searched and don't think there is a way so I figured Id ask here in case someone knew of a way.
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Whatsapp.. That should work. Dunno. Don't use official texting. Whatsapp should work though.
And tell them to get Android. Make fun of them. Show the beautiful widgets. Then tell them to show you a beautiful weather animation on their homescreen. In they pull down the Android rip off pull down tell them it's weak, full screen. It should be easy, you know. On your little dinky screen.
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Erik_T said:
Whatsapp.. That should work. Dunno. Don't use official texting. Whatsapp should work though.
And tell them to get Android. Make fun of them. Show the beautiful widgets. Then tell them to show you a beautiful weather animation on their homescreen. In they pull down the Android rip off pull down tell them it's weak, full screen. It should be easy, you know. On your little dinky screen.
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Trust me. I've done literally everything you just listed. I've been an Apple user since the first gen Iphone up until the Iphone 4. Whatapp does work but the Apple user has to download it as well. I'm trying to see if I can connect with their native group text. I guess that's impossible at this point since we cant cross platforms yet. Similar to BBM on blackberries. If there is anyone with any ideas, please share.
Currently we are using Voxer which is pretty neat. However, the iphone user still needs to download it.

trdsnow said:
Trust me. I've done literally everything you just listed. I've been an Apple user since the first gen Iphone up until the Iphone 4. Whatapp does work but the Apple user has to download it as well. I'm trying to see if I can connect with their native group text. I guess that's impossible at this point since we cant cross platforms yet. Similar to BBM on blackberries. If there is anyone with any ideas, please share.
Currently we are using Voxer which is pretty neat. However, the iphone user still needs to download it.
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Hm. I make my iphone user friend use a Google talk extention. I like it.. He's going android with his next update.. Apple fanboy! I used to be... Woops...
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I'm looking for the same solution. Does anyone know of an app that allows android phones to see iphone group chats as group chats rather than breaking everything down into individual text messages that way we can do a reply all rather than having to send the same message to everyone that is in the group? Thanks.

There's plenty of apps that do this. 8sms is my favorite.
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omar71693 said:
There's plenty of apps that do this. 8sms is my favorite.
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Thanks for your help. I've installed the app and it looks nice. I still need to test it out to make sure it works with group text messages with iphones. But I'll update this post once I'm able to confirm that it does or does not work. Thanks

NoClemency said:
Thanks for your help. I've installed the app and it looks nice. I still need to test it out to make sure it works with group text messages with iphones. But I'll update this post once I'm able to confirm that it does or does not work. Thanks
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Android 4.2 messaging app does it natively now. And there's also the new Hangouts which allows for group messaging.
Android 2.3.6- 4.0.4 I've used NinjaSMS and can can confirm it works with group messaging. Again, there's also the new Hangouts app.

UnhoIy said:
Android 4.2 messaging app does it natively now. And there's also the new Hangouts which allows for group messaging.
Android 2.3.6- 4.0.4 I've used NinjaSMS and can can confirm it works with group messaging. Again, there's also the new Hangouts app.
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I'm currently trying NinjaSMS. Hangouts didn't work for my phone. I couldn't send or receive MMS which appears to be a known problem with a few phones. In addition, the 8sms app which was suggest to me also didn't work. It broke up their iphone group text to an indiviual text from each person. Therefore I still had to reply individually to everyone in the group. I'll let you know if NinjaSMS works for me.

Advance call manager like app which can record greetings !!

I live in India so I don't have voice mail on my mobile like carrier. I would like an app like the Symbian Advanced call manager which after some time of not picking up the phone plays a recorded message and records the message the other person has given. Like an Answer machine. Free apps are preferred.
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-hifiadi

hifiadi said:
I live in India so I don't have voice mail on my mobile like carrier. I would like an app like the Symbian Advanced call manager which after some time of not picking up the phone plays a recorded message and records the message the other person has given. Like an Answer machine. Free apps are preferred.
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i don't think there is one mate..... the old symbian Nokias did...
that was because they were able to send sound directly to the caller ... i dunno if its a hardware limitation ... i really hope someone can figure that out... :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

Afaik it is not available on android, there is some limitation on Android for this.
If i missing one and only thing from my Nokia then this is same.
Even i have used interactive voice call Master, the best and most configurable call manager.
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I always used to believe Android is open source and there are no limitations but this thing falsified all assumption.
I badly miss it.

Yeah... I was thinking If We have a answering call app kicking in when We rejected a call. So the app takes over with a greeting message and records the callers message into the memory card?
Nope? Nothing of that sort?
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I too tried to work my work using tasker
But the problem is the phone calls are played from a different channel, and media content like ringtone and notification are played through different channel
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The only Symbian feature that I miss

Sorry to bump into this really old thread but recently Google implemented AI calling and Xiaomi too which not just plays a recorded message to the caller, instead it actually 'talks' to the caller based on the input we give which makes me wonder if this is possible via an app now