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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)

Video calls?

Well, today I finally got my G2x.. The main thing I bought it for is the front cam so I can keep in touch with my family overseas. For some reason I cannot get GTalk 1.3 to make a video call. I've tried CN7, bionic, and eagleblood.. Nowhere I see the option to initiate the video call.. any ideas?
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Try Tango from the Market.

corrupt05 said:
Well, today I finally got my G2x.. The main thing I bought it for is the front cam so I can keep in touch with my family overseas. For some reason I cannot get GTalk 1.3 to make a video call. I've tried CN7, bionic, and eagleblood.. Nowhere I see the option to initiate the video call.. any ideas?
Thanks
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Gtalk will only work after the gingerbread update. With Tango you can make free video calls as well.

johnnyp500 said:
Gtalk will only work after the gingerbread update. With Tango you can make free video calls as well.
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Hi, thanks for the replies. I would like to be able to do video calls to computer with gtalk or any program... tango is only phone to phone.. so which rom has the bread update that makes it work?

You need 2.3.4 Gingerbread (CM7) and the correct updated version of GTalk that supports video. I've never used it but I've heard some people have success with it while others can't get it working. Video in GTalk is not yet released officially so your mileage may vary.
I was in the Tango beta which works well now. It is a free download from the Market.

Video Chat Force Closes

I keep getting a force closes or my front facing camera doesn't' seem to work when i try any of the video chat applications. Tango, Qik, and Fring all don't work for me. Fring and Qik get forces closes and Tango just doesn't show any video. I have a Verizon Xperia play.

Same here can't figure out what the problem is

digitalpirate said:
I keep getting a force closes or my front facing camera doesn't' seem to work when i try any of the video chat applications. Tango, Qik, and Fring all don't work for me. Fring and Qik get forces closes and Tango just doesn't show any video. I have a Verizon Xperia play.
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u know its funny i use yahoo and for some reason it uses my back camera. there is no option to use the front camera! so i guess i am suffering from the same pain! lol.
but yahoo video works as long as u use the back camera.

I have the same problems. I guess it's a verizon Xplay specific thing?

elinscheid said:
I have the same problems. I guess it's a verizon Xplay specific thing?
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Im from canada. With rogers. So its general
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Doesn't Verizon's Xperia Play has Skype with Video?

well i had read in some reviews that the front camera cannot be used for any kinds of videos calls it was in gsm arena i suppose

Yahoo Messenger or Vtok?
I tried Yahoo Messenger (with Video add-on from the market) from my Xplay to my sister's laptop and it would ring her and vice versa but would always give a message that she could not answer the call, neither video nor voice. The only video I could see is that from my Xplay's back facing camera and I could not change it to the front facing video. For a photo for my profile however the yahoo messenger took the snapshot from the front facing camera. I tried both over 3G and Wifi - if anyone had better experience please let me know so that I can see if it was some network issue or my sister's laptop issue.
Has anyone tried to use vtok from Xplay to Google video chat? Apparently it works and is free and does not require additional sign-in besides Google’s – I wonder if someone could confirm how well before I try to convince my sister to install gtalk on her laptop.

mamallica said:
u know its funny i use yahoo and for some reason it uses my back camera. there is no option to use the front camera! so i guess i am suffering from the same pain! lol.
but yahoo video works as long as u use the back camera.
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just noticed your post - had same thing with my video but also could not get the video or voice from the counterparty. Maybe a problem with my sister's yahoo messenger installation on her laptop? Did you do it over Wifi or 3g or both please? Thank for your help in advance

digitalpirate said:
I keep getting a force closes or my front facing camera doesn't' seem to work when i try any of the video chat applications. Tango, Qik, and Fring all don't work for me. Fring and Qik get forces closes and Tango just doesn't show any video. I have a Verizon Xperia play.
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There was a leaked Skype apk with Video for android exclusive for verizon back in April - I saw people tried to modify it for other handsets and networks - I hope one of those mods will work for you given that you are on Verizon.

fring seems to have been updated and works now but nobody really uses fring that I know ..

ps3taker said:
Doesn't Verizon's Xperia Play has Skype with Video?
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That is a big NO. Nobody on android has an official Skype with Video. There was a leak that was specifically for the Thunderbolt (4G-LTE phone, same CPU/GPU combo I think though), but didn't come stock and is not on the market.

ps3taker said:
There was a leaked Skype apk with Video for android exclusive for verizon back in April - I saw people tried to modify it for other handsets and networks - I hope one of those mods will work for you given that you are on Verizon.
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From my knowledge, the most prominent threads I've found on that... It was leaked for the Thunderbolt (same CPU/GPU as far as I know as Xperia Play) but it was never officially released. The modded one removed a few things that were causing device specific checks, but the app still FC'd upon launch or sign-on.

ryocoon said:
From my knowledge, the most prominent threads I've found on that... It was leaked for the Thunderbolt (same CPU/GPU as far as I know as Xperia Play) but it was never officially released. The modded one removed a few things that were causing device specific checks, but the app still FC'd upon launch or sign-on.
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Thanks - I looked into it more now too - and saw all the problems which maybe hard to fix - just not sure if people who were trying to mod it were on Verizon or not - was hoping that if someone on Verizon could get it to work on Xplay first then it would be easier for other developers to remove network lock too. Hope Verizon is still planing to issues Skype Video for Xplay themselves soon. Or maybe Sony will be unhappy with supporting Skype now that Microsoft bought it

ps3taker said:
just noticed your post - had same thing with my video but also could not get the video or voice from the counterparty. Maybe a problem with my sister's yahoo messenger installation on her laptop? Did you do it over Wifi or 3g or both please? Thank for your help in advance
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Hi. I used both wifi and 3g. Works perfectly. ItsbCtually amazing! I tried it more than five six times already with ppl using yahoo on pc. Worked fine. If u see ur pic on the bak and u can call her, then ur part works fine. She must reinstall orbupdate her yahoo. Try it on other computer and u should see the result
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Skype, Hacked for Thunderbolt

I tried this out on my phone today, running the CM7 RC1, and it did not work. After entering my credentials for login, the app window minimized, then after several seconds came back up asking for the credentials again. I tried several times, making sure I was entering everything correctly. Oh well, no surprise here, nothing seems to work with this phone.

devitek said:
I tried this out on my phone today, running the CM7 RC1, and it did not work. After entering my credentials for login, the app window minimized, then after several seconds came back up asking for the credentials again. I tried several times, making sure I was entering everything correctly. Oh well, no surprise here, nothing seems to work with this phone.
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maybe if you tried it on a thunderbolt,it might have worked? just a thought.

crazythunder said:
maybe if you tried it on a thunderbolt,it might have worked? just a thought.
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The hacked version was reported to be working with a few phones other than the Thunderbolt, which is why I tried it out.

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Is anyone else actually interested in this? I'd love to be able to actually use the front-facing camera, but I know absolutely no one that uses Qik. Everyone I know uses Skype or Google Talk, but neither of these are doing video calls on our phones. What gives?

devitek said:
Is anyone else actually interested in this? I'd love to be able to actually use the front-facing camera, but I know absolutely no one that uses Qik. Everyone I know uses Skype or Google Talk, but neither of these are doing video calls on our phones. What gives?
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Gtalk via Vtok, YM, Tango and oovoo(with nexus s info) works for me both back and front facing camera.
Sent from my Calculator with Android.

jose makalolot said:
Gtalk via Vtok, YM, Tango and oovoo(with nexus s info) works for me both back and front facing camera.
Sent from my Calculator with Android.
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Vtok, out of the box, does not work at all for me. It gets to the contacts screen and displays all of nothing. As I understand it, those apps all require some sort of package file renaming that I am quickly growing weary of.
I appreciate the info. I'm really looking for a solid phone-to-desktop video chat client that has NOTHING to do with Yahoo--I abandoned them some time ago, and none of my contacts use them, either.
It just feels like the Google and Skype devs don't care whatsoever about our devices. I understand that the Tegra chips are sort of new in the Android world, but it feels like they are just being ignored when it comes to apps that utilize the hardware.

doesn't fring work sans hack?

btate0121 said:
doesn't fring work sans hack?
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Unless I'm missing something here, the GTalk part of Fring doesn't allow video calls. I am completely not interested in phone-to-phone video calls, as no one I know has a phone with a front-facing camera. I'm looking for phone-to-desktop solutions, and I don't see a desktop Fring client--not that I'd accept that option because Google and Skype are fully capable of video calls. If my contacts have to sign up and install some new service then this is still a failure.

devitek said:
Vtok, out of the box, does not work at all for me. It gets to the contacts screen and displays all of nothing. As I understand it, those apps all require some sort of package file renaming that I am quickly growing weary of.
I appreciate the info. I'm really looking for a solid phone-to-desktop video chat client that has NOTHING to do with Yahoo--I abandoned them some time ago, and none of my contacts use them, either.
It just feels like the Google and Skype devs don't care whatsoever about our devices. I understand that the Tegra chips are sort of new in the Android world, but it feels like they are just being ignored when it comes to apps that utilize the hardware.
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Nope. They don't need file renaming. You just need one file to be put in the framework folder and that's it.
Fyi, more phones and tablets are coming out with tegra 2 chips so what you are saying about "ignore" is a myth.
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jose makalolot said:
Gtalk via Vtok, YM, Tango and oovoo(with nexus s info) works for me both back and front facing camera.
Sent from my Calculator with Android.
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So all four of these work with the front facing camera with the nexus s info?
If I remember correctly, there is a file you have to copy somewhere to put in the nexus s info - you have a copy of that file and know which folder it goes in?
Heck I'll give it a try!

TechnoHippie said:
So all four of these work with the front facing camera with the nexus s info?
If I remember correctly, there is a file you have to copy somewhere to put in the nexus s info - you have a copy of that file and know which folder it goes in?
Heck I'll give it a try!
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Only oovoo needs nexus s info. The rest works without editing build.prop.
The file needed goes to framework folder.
Sent from my Calculator with Android.

jose makalolot said:
Only oovoo needs nexus s info. The rest works without editing build.prop.
The file needed goes to framework folder.
Sent from my Calculator with Android.
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What's the file that's needed?
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Vtok FFC working by using the FFC hack from the Atrix forum? Made it sound like it natively supports it now.

google talk with cm10

I have searched the forums and haven't found anything about being able to use google talk (video chat) with cm10. I haven't posted enough to put this question into the cm10 forum. So if someone wants to put this question into that forum I would appreciate that.
Thanks

ef-civic said:
I have searched the forums and haven't found anything about being able to use google talk (video chat) with cm10. I haven't posted enough to put this question into the cm10 forum. So if someone wants to put this question into that forum I would appreciate that.
Thanks
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I just came across this issue while trying to do a phone to phone (over LTE4g) Gtalk video chat (i did a google search and found your post). Once we finally got video chat to connect the person on the other end (galaxy nexus running CM10 M1build) could not hear me, I was able to hear them. We repeated the process 2 or 3 times but I was not able to get them to hear me until i switch to my desktop. I have the VZW SGS3 running CM10 9/17build. Sorry i cant be of more help, but maybe this will bring light to any Gtalk video chat issues that might exist.

bobbysworld1 said:
I just came across this issue while trying to do a phone to phone (over LTE4g) Gtalk video chat (i did a google search and found your post). Once we finally got video chat to connect the person on the other end (galaxy nexus running CM10 M1build) could not hear me, I was able to hear them. We repeated the process 2 or 3 times but I was not able to get them to hear me until i switch to my desktop. I have the VZW SGS3 running CM10 9/17build. Sorry i cant be of more help, but maybe this will bring light to any Gtalk video chat issues that might exist.
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I have the same problem with CM10 9/20.
Also... The voice dial app does not hear me either. Google Now does. I wonder if there is a problem with the way these programs are initializing the microphone. This is also making it impossible to call using only a bluetooth headset.

I could receive the call but camera could never connect. Was a little frustrating.
I did find something about talk working in cm but not in cm10 yet. I'm sure that this will be fixed soon.
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One thing that I didn't try was fixing permissions. not sure if that would fix the problem that I have with google chat

I have the same problem CM10 M1 and 9/23 d2spr
Bender00 said:
I have the same problem with CM10 9/20 d2spr.
Also... The voice dial app does not hear me either. Google Now does. I wonder if there is a problem with the way these programs are initializing the microphone. This is also making it impossible to call using only a bluetooth headset.
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I couldn't find any CM10 builds older than M1, but I am also experiencing a low mic gain/volume when using the walkie-talkie app Voxer. This was first noticed on Euroskank builds after 09/17. 09/17 is the last Euroskank build that performs normally pertaining to the mic gain problem. I also factory/devlik wiped and loaded CM10 M1 and CM10 09/23 and am experiencing the same issue. This also occurs in Miui's 2.9.21 BETA (CM10 9/23 based) rom.

ef-civic said:
I could receive the call but camera could never connect. Was a little frustrating.
I did find something about talk working in cm but not in cm10 yet. I'm sure that this will be fixed soon.
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That would be unlikely to help. Permissions effect the filesystem and read/write access. If you can install apps then it is probable that your permissions are fine.