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Skype 2.2 Beta Obervations

Hello all
I have been using it with the Pocket PC version of Skype on my Orbit without any major problems. The general running of the app is sometimes slow due to its minimum requirement of a 400mhz processor, and the Orbit running at 186mhz as reported my omapclock (or 200mhz as O2 claim -what is the deal with that?). However, audio quality is fine, and calls can be made without problem. In short, it works.
However, I actually noticed a degredation in performance after installing this BETA version until I overclocked my Orbit to 264mhz (again using omapclock). Prior to this, the interface would often hang and stall, resulting in me getting fed up and resetting! It's strange that a version optimised for 200mhz would work at a lower level of performance on 186mhz than something designed for 400mhz.
Another observation is that I can't get audio to route to the ear speaker, only the rear speaker on the telephone...perhaps this issue isn't as model specific as first thought, so let's hope this is addressed.
Have any other O2 XDA Orbit users had similar experiences?

Yes - I also have the problem that only the rear hands-free speaker works with Skype (O2 XDA Orbit) . Tried the new Beta and the one from the day before (2.1?).
The new beta worked ok - but had some dropouts. No overclocking.
The version before worked fine without overclocking, after disabling 3 codecs in the registry.
@ Osussat: Did your "normal" speaker worked with the version you used before this beta?

StiflersMom: I always assumed it did...However, I'm now unsure...Maybe I should reinstall to see...Perhaps it's always been routed through the rear speaker. Does your Orbit run at 200mhz or 186mhz like mine reports?

This is by design. there is no way to route sound to phone speaker on this platforms. You can use wired headset to overcome this issue.
StiflersMom said:
Yes - I also have the problem that only the rear hands-free speaker works with Skype (O2 XDA Orbit)....
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No! Really? Surely that's a major flaw that should be addressed?

In a german PPC-Forum a user told me he installed the new skype version on his Orbit and can talk "normal" - not through the hands-free speaker.
And he said he didn't change something during or after installation.
That says the Skype Forum about that issue:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=71801

Right.. I wish that was the case..
please see this page for details:
http://www.securegsm.com/pages.php?pageid=89
StiflersMom said:
In a german PPC-Forum a user told me he installed the new skype version on his Orbit and can talk "normal" - not through the hands-free speaker.
And he said he didn't change something during or after installation.
That says the Skype Forum about that issue:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=71801
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Can we use the Skype on Touch pro / att fuse ?
will we be able to use on 3g (unlimited plan) or wifi ?
both way there shouldnt be any charge correct ?
cos we talking to other person whos on skype too
Please let me know

Someone got VOIP working on his Artemis?

I flashed my phone with the WM6 PDAMobiz rom.
I installed the apps I need, and right now I'm pretty satisfy with this rom and my Orbit.
But one of the main reasons why I flash the phone to WM6, was cause on WM6 it should be able to get VOIP working on the phone.
I tried several things, but I just can't get VOIP working on the Orbit.
Whatever I do or try it always says "VoipBuster" searching
Any ideas?
Thanks

What data plan do you have on your account?

Gajet said:
What data plan do you have on your account?
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Ok, I finally manage to get this working ;-)
Now my Orbit looks more and more the perfect device to me.
My next thing on the whishlist for the Orbit is SDHC support, so I can put a 4 gig card in my Orbit
@Gajet, euh what dataplan? I'm using VoipBusterPro for a several months now, in the beginning I was using it with my Nokia N80 and now finally with my Orbit.
The countries I need to call to is free (not really free, cause they charge you a connection fee of 3.9 eurocents for every call you make!)

Skype works just fine!
CoolGadget said:
Ok, I finally manage to get this working ;-)
Now my Orbit looks more and more the perfect device to me.
My next thing on the whishlist for the Orbit is SDHC support, so I can put a 4 gig card in my Orbit
@Gajet, euh what dataplan? I'm using VoipBusterPro for a several months now, in the beginning I was using it with my Nokia N80 and now finally with my Orbit.
The countries I need to call to is free (not really free, cause they charge you a connection fee of 3.9 eurocents for every call you make!)
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Hey guys!
Skype works just fine on my newly upgraded HTC P3300 but I must say that "Battery Status" (overclocked at 247 Mhz) does the trick!
While talking with Skype my battery reaches up to 42 Celsius... Hope I will not FRY my device... A couple of minutes after then talk it drops down to the average 34 Celsius.
On an other account I must say that on the WM6 rom I just flashed, WMP does not play MP4 (very strange!) and in the Start/Settings I am missing some items (Voice Commands for example!)... Any idea how to fix that?
Thanx,
SiperX

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Hey guys!
Skype works just fine on my newly upgraded HTC P3300 but I must say that "Battery Status" (overclocked at 247 Mhz) does the trick!
While talking with Skype my battery reaches up to 42 Celsius... Hope I will not FRY my device... A couple of minutes after then talk it drops down to the average 34 Celsius.
On an other account I must say that on the WM6 rom I just flashed, WMP does not play MP4 (very strange!) and in the Start/Settings I am missing some items (Voice Commands for example!)... Any idea how to fix that?
Thanx,
SiperX
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SiperX
I have Voice Speed Dial under programs. Is that what you looking for?
What else are you missing?
cheers
CoolGadget

Missing in Settings
CoolGadget said:
SiperX
I have Voice Speed Dial under programs. Is that what you looking for?
What else are you missing?
cheers
CoolGadget
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Hi CG,
Normally Voice Speed Dial should be in Settings and not in Programs.
I have used Voice Speed Dial quite a lot in WM5 as I controlled almost totally by voice commands (calls to contacts, applications/utilities) my device.
With this rom (not having it in Settings) you open it in Programs (so you can access its function but not the configuration/options), you save some voice tags and once you have closed it you cannot open it any more to add/remove/edit voce tags....
I hope I made myself understood... Try it on your device and you will see what I mean...
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
SiperX

SiperX said:
Hi CG,
Normally Voice Speed Dial should be in Settings and not in Programs.
I have used Voice Speed Dial quite a lot in WM5 as I controlled almost totally by voice commands (calls to contacts, applications/utilities) my device.
With this rom (not having it in Settings) you open it in Programs (so you can access its function but not the configuration/options), you save some voice tags and once you have closed it you cannot open it any more to add/remove/edit voce tags....
I hope I made myself understood... Try it on your device and you will see what I mean...
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
SiperX
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Totally clear mate ;-)
Never realisez this "bug" till you mentioned it...
I'm wondering if they can solve this... :s

LG KS20 NAVIGATION-BUG SOLVED(partially)

Guys,
For those that you bought the LG-KS20,propably you have noticed that there is a bug concerning voice announcements of Destinator or TOMTOM.
The voice announcements are cut off most of time.
But if you run in the background a windows media file (f.e an mp3 with no sound) you will see that the voice announcements are fully heard.
I was wondering if a kind developers can help us a bit and explain us why this is happening.
Best Regards

At least I made a small script to start the playback, then start TomTom and after closing TomTom stop the playback.
Maybe someone finds it useful.
Regards
Helmut

Thanks for you soft
i supposed it doesn't resolve the microphone probleme?
Is it possible to resolve the micro problem by the same kind of utilities?

Mouse007
I am the same one who has post post in the french <forummobile> which i was asking the sollution with the microphone.
The thing is that i test my phone yesterday through my office for 1 hour kai 15 minutes in GSM and 1 hour an 35 minutes with 3G.My Microphone did not turned off.
What can i say

moyse007 said:
Thanks for you soft
i supposed it doesn't resolve the microphone probleme?
Is it possible to resolve the micro problem by the same kind of utilities?
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I'm sorry this has nothing to do with your microphone bug, but since I remember having similar problems with my old SDA smartphone, which were caused by bad hardware design, I would suggest to send your phone to the service center. Maybe some KS20 phones are having similar defects, too. I'm afraid there will be no software solution for this bug.
Regards
Helmut

Thanks a lot , but the problem affects all the ks20 when we're calling outside 3G reception
I'm sure the problem could be solved by the same kind of software ...

I had also this problem occasionally and my favorite PDA reseller / SFR (Vodafone France) representative explained that the same problem occured with Nokia 3G+ phone using SFR networks.
Actually the problem would not lie with LG nor the ROM but with the SFR 3G+ network when the phone is switching between 3G+ and GPRS. The solution - as recommended by Nokia France in an official note further to this problem - is actually simply to block the phone to GPRS (or 3G+ if always available) network (instead of letting it switch automatically) until SFR fixed their network problem. Of course, if blocked to GPRS, you will need to change this everytime you want to use 3G+.

giannis123 said:
Guys,
For those that you bought the LG-KS20,propably you have noticed that there is a bug concerning voice announcements of Destinator or TOMTOM.
The voice announcements are cut off most of time.
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Maybe it cannot set the Audio buffer size properly... this bug involves not only Tomtom or Destinator but many other GPS navigation software too!!! This phone is FULL of BUGS!!!!! I've also try Miopap (iGo) software but it can't run in fullscreen mode because of top menu bar that cannot be hidden; then...this phone can't run any software using directDraw, so there's no 3D acceleration, no PointUI interface, no games, no iGo8...; I cannot use Skype and this due to the Qualcomm processor architecture...
hope a new rom is coming...now this phone (as is) sucks...

@gregnapola: Look into other posts - there IS a already a new row out for the KS20.
Greetings,
Pax

paxman said:
@gregnapola: Look into other posts - there IS a already a new row out for the KS20.
Greetings,
Pax
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Thank you paxman, I've already seen it, but they're only SFR or German...I'm waiting for an English one at least(10e or better 10f)...so the only thing I can do now is playing (crying ) with my 10c italian ROM...

Here is the dutch version of the *Fix* for the LG KS20.
I also changed the dummy.asx a little. Instead of calling dummy.mp3 times 40. I've now made that script to call dummy.mp3 one time and then it will call dummy.asx again.
This means the loop is continuous instead of having it end after 40 times (20 hrs).
Hope it's useful.
I want to thank lindih for the original fix.

This is a cool looking phone.
Who is the maker of this phone? Quanta, the maker of O2 Atom?

CWKJ said:
This is a cool looking phone.
Who is the maker of this phone? Quanta, the maker of O2 Atom?
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I don't know exactly where all the hardware pieces are from, but the phone is sold by LG and caries the LG logo. So I suspect it could be made by LG.

lindih said:
At least I made a small script to start the playback, then start TomTom and after closing TomTom stop the playback.
Maybe someone finds it useful.
Regards
Helmut
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Hi I have downloaded the file and see the folders and files inside can you please confirm the steps required to install.
I assumed copying the files into the relevent folders on the device is this correct?. and where do i put the "MortScript-4.1-PPC.cab" file and what do i do with it? do i just install it?
Cheers
Darren (NEWBE)

I780 and Skype

Hey guys,
Some people are claiming that Skype works properly on their I780... For me it doesn't... I can use it with a headset or the handsfree but the internal speaker (the one for normal phone calls) doesn't work. I've tried several Roms to check if there is one which makes Skype work but nothing worked...
So, I was just wondering if you could tell me about your experience with Skype. Is it working properly for you? If so, please let me know what you did to make it work.
Thanks guys!

no comments about skype on the I780? Does nobody wanna use it?

realtnt said:
Hey guys,
Some people are claiming that Skype works properly on their I780... For me it doesn't... I can use it with a headset or the handsfree but the internal speaker (the one for normal phone calls) doesn't work. I've tried several Roms to check if there is one which makes Skype work but nothing worked...
So, I was just wondering if you could tell me about your experience with Skype. Is it working properly for you? If so, please let me know what you did to make it work.
Thanks guys!
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As far as I know, Skype, or any other software, can't use the speaker that you would normally use for phone calls on Windows Mobile devices. Only the internal phone- and VoIP-application of Windows Mobile is allowed to use the speaker of the phone. All other applications must use the speaker on the back.
So there is no way to get this to work, unless Microsoft adds access to this speaker through their API.

I use Skype sometimese and it's really driving me mad that I can't use it with built-in phone speaker or BT headset.
It also seems not using all available bandwidth so the quality is only acceptable.

skype works on my i780.
one day i was in samsung service centre to upgrade my rom, the samsung service personel noticed my i780 had skype installed. he asked how i managed to get it works. lol
i told him i dont know, i just download and install

tirza said:
skype works on my i780.
one day i was in samsung service centre to upgrade my rom, the samsung service personel noticed my i780 had skype installed. he asked how i managed to get it works. lol
i told him i dont know, i just download and install
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So you are saying that your skype is working properly? You can use the earpiece of the phone to call people? Sorry man, but I think you are confusing something. I found out that some people thought their earpiece would be working but what they heard came from the handsfree speaker. If you turn down the volume of the handsfree speaker, it kind of sounds like the internal earpiece speaker... Can you check again please?

the phone would be just perfect with skype functionality but it cant use the normal earpiece...
Did anyone find a solution?

Maybe Skype Mobile 3 Beta is worth of checking out.

for my skye works (even trough normal built in speaker), but only wifi. Is it posible my provider (t-mobile nl) has disabled the port or something?

It looks like some of you don't pay atenttion to what is written here, and keeps asking the same question.
As Ralph said, there is no way to get around it. It's not just a Skype problem, It doesn't work with all the others third party applications.
The same thing happends with the front camera in all the Instant Messengers. It just doens't work.
Ralph Smeets said:
As far as I know, Skype, or any other software, can't use the speaker that you would normally use for phone calls on Windows Mobile devices. Only the internal phone- and VoIP-application of Windows Mobile is allowed to use the speaker of the phone. All other applications must use the speaker on the back.
So there is no way to get this to work, unless Microsoft adds access to this speaker through their API.
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lli said:
for my skye works (even trough normal built in speaker), but only wifi. Is it posible my provider (t-mobile nl) has disabled the port or something?
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I have the same problem but I found a trick!!
Launch Skype with no wifi.
Switch Wifi on (it is fine even if u are in an area with protected only or no access point at all).
You'll notice that your status will become available (green).
Switch Wifi off.
Don't ask me why.....but it seems to work!!

lli said:
for my skye works (even trough normal built in speaker), but only wifi. Is it posible my provider (t-mobile nl) has disabled the port or something?
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Do you mean that you can hear Skype call via earpiece?? Are u sure? It is not supported by skype it self!! In my opinion you are confusing the sound source. I'll be more than happy to be wrong.
Can u post your i780 ROM ans Skype version?

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Maybe Skype Mobile 3 Beta is worth of checking out.
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As far as audio routing is concerned.....Skype 3 beta is not working like previous build.

Does the HTC Wildfire S work with Skype?

I would like to buy this wonderful phone but first i need to ensure that skype works..Has anyone tried it yet?
I have searched all over the internet and i have found that due to cpu freq skype does not work smoothly, especially when the screen goes blank(proximity sensor) and the OS drops the cpu freq. But that answer was 6 months old So i hope for a bit advancement in skype development..
I would be grateful if anyone that has tested skype in that phone could give me a more accurate answer!

I can confirm it works without any doubt , plus you have possibility to add voip accounts without installing any extra app

Thanx man! Btw not so important but does the front cam work with skype ?

F i L said:
Thanx man! Btw not so important but does the front cam work with skype ?
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It doesn't have a front camera
but, Skype is working Perfectly (Y)

@koki-tytnII
which version do you have runing on it? coz on mine it just make problems when I speak, and exactly when skype is running on background, that means when the display is turning off
thanks

you can find skype app at market.

So my own experience with Skype and that "****ty", but cheap, cellphone (Wildfire S, by the way, I used the official HTC ROM)... So that's just impossible to handle the calls with Skype. I tried Skype, Skype lite, Skype on 3 (a special version of Skype which allows just the chats, so NO CALLS)...
So I installed Viber. The calls are pretty good even if the sound is quite low... But compare to Skype (desktop software version) that's not the same quality/rapidity!
To sum up : Skype doesn't work well for the calls! Okay you can use it to chat with your friends but some better applications exist (like WhatsApp).

A buddy of mine used tasker to setup a profile to keep the screen ON when i'm on a skypecall, so skype has benefit of the max cpu produced.. I've got crystal clear skypecalls over 3G here

I use Skype_on_3 without any problems: audio cristal clear.
With normal skype instead, I have the famous choppy sound that make it useless (3G or wi-fi is the same).
I tried to use headphones to leave the screen on, but the problem is still there.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
(Wildfire S, Stock ROM, S-OFF, last skype updated yesterday from the market.)

Skype works perfectly normal, and its very good to use with head set, and there is no lag. tho` there is no front camera for video calls ... and i think the 600mhz wouldnt handle video calls

skype doesn't work for me either (Wildfire S, Vodafone Ireland, Standard ROM, S-ON).
I think it works when the phone is flat and I use a headset, but that's pretty limited!
I tried downgrading to an older version (Skype 1.0.0.984 and Skype 1.0.0.983), no success either. Any suggestion?

I had the same problem, i uninstalled the new version and installed the old v1 and works just fine, no problems whatsoever

dznutzuk said:
I had the same problem, i uninstalled the new version and installed the old v1 and works just fine, no problems whatsoever
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Where can you find an old version? The market only has the latest. I wanted to use skype over wifi and the sound is to bad it's useless. I thought it was a bandwidth issue but I tested and got about 10 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up so I know it's not that - glad to see that others are having this issue also not just me. But I'd be even happier if I could get a fix
I found skype 1.03 and it works without the new versions chopped-up sound - works just FINE!!! Found it here

Hi,
I agree about using an old version. I do it as well and speaking works very very good, and sometime better then my old notebook.
Just one thing that I really dont like, with such old version skype doesnt support sending sms, which means, when I need to speak I use the old one, for sending sms the new one.
Perhaps there is a stable version from skype which allows sending sms? Or is there a way to install two version of skype?
thanks