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Because the Samsung Firmware is crap (my opinion), Skype do not recommend installing Skype 1.0 on SGS i9000, 2.1 device.
http://blogs.skype.com/garage/2010/10/skype_for_android.html
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/10/android.html
You can't even login using SGS. it's pretty bull****.
It says on the download page they are aware of issues with the SGS.give it time.
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At least they released something. It´s just a matter of time that it will run on our SGS. I hope
The problem is solved with Froyo.
Skype can't fix it for Eclair...
I can not write more about this problem, because I am under NDA.
This is crazy, the Galaxy S is probably the biggest selling Android phone and it doesn't work. Knowing Skype it will take them another year to release any updates or even fix it.
Skype broken on Galaxy S it seems!
This morning I was greeted with the most awesome news that Skype for Android is finally available, only to be completely shot down to find that Galaxy S owners cannot log in.
Any ideas why this problem is plaguing only the SGS!? I hope there's an easy fix!
So after intentionally holding off a release for Android because of their deal with US carriers, and preventing us from making Skype video calls on our phones by blocking Fring, they finally release a crappy buggy version for us? How nice of them
This app can't do video calls either from what I can see.
Hopefully the new CEO is going to improve things and get Skype out of this hole they've dug themselves into. For now I'd rather use another app like Nimbuzz for VOIP.
Skype is a flop, their app can't even do video calls. Use Nimbuzz or something.
Skype is working hard to bring you a nice Skype App for Android.
I see it every day.
The bug is caused by Samsung modifications, this bug does not exists on other devices. (Can't tell you more, because NDA)
GAda said:
Skype is working hard to bring you a nice Skype App for Android.
I see it every day.
The bug is caused by Samsung modifications, this bug does not exists on other devices.
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hahha. AS USUAL! **** samsung. this is my last samsung phone! not even galaxy tab or whatever!
i buy a phone to use it out of the box n get nice custom roms, but it seems devs here a fixing prob rather than making nice customs roms like nexus one. zzzzzzz go die samsung
Wau, this sucks donkey balls. Epic fail, why they cant just use the god damn stock android is just amazing. No no, lets screw tjings over with crappy ui's and useless software so nothing works.. unbelievable!
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Has anyone got the Skype .apk file that we can download ? Unable to download app for my FroYo SGS.
Thanks
it says in the description that it doesn't currently work with SGS. give them a few days, it'll be fixed.
someone posted a comment on skype saying it works on Froyo Galaxy S. there may be hope.....
signing in fine for me with XXJPK
psp888 said:
someone posted a comment on skype saying it works on Froyo Galaxy S. there may be hope.....
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It works with JPK
works great with JPK here also, also calling works with the earspeaker
Working only on unofficial leaked firmware.. This is just getting better and better...
Hmm.. anyone have the apk? pls backup the apk n post here. we all wanna try!
Is it even possible to do that on our g2's just curious wish I knew how anybody mind explaining.? Thanks.!
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would also like to know.
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well i know a browser called skyfire allows you to watch hulu on flash enabled devices pretty well but as far as netflix, i've never been a subscriber so i have no idea.
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well i know a browser called skyfire allows you to watch hulu on flash enabled devices pretty well but as far as netflix, i've never been a subscriber so i have no idea.
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Nope, no netflix. Netflix claims they can't because the content providers require DRM and there just isn't any on Android.
Ahh the price of freedom
Netflix said there will be a app coming after the new year, they said that a little while ago
I remember trying skyfire but it didn't work. Well Netflix doesn't work tryed that. Hopefully Netflix pulls it together I was watching it on my friends iPhone 4 and it looked good. Hopefully we will have it after new years late Christmas present haha.
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Netflix is slated to release for our phones in the coming months i believe. Hulu can be played on our phones via a modified browser.apk i remember seeing these floating around in the nexus one forums. I'm sure you could find it there or somewhere here. However using the modified browser.apk will not allow you to play netflix because the desktop netflix client is based off of microsoft silverlight and not flash.
Hope this helped.
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Netflix is slated to release for our phones in the coming months i believe. Hulu can be played on our phones via a modified browser.apk i remember seeing these floating around in the nexus one forums. I'm sure you could find it there or somewhere here. However using the modified browser.apk will not allow you to play netflix because the desktop netflix client is based off of microsoft silverlight and not flash.
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Thanks it helped a lot I'm going to look in the nexus forums. Yea Netflix runs off silverlight. Well hopefully Netflix gets there grove on soon.
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So, my first android phone was a droidx..and I just upgraded to the GN on Verizon. I am just now starting to learn what things on my droidx were "extra" stuf with "blur" apparently, and not baked into android...since I have never had a vanilla android device to compare it with until now.
So my issue. Apparently Blur had something added that would autoconvert video that you record to an acceptable size/resolution to go through as an mms message. Example: I take a 45 second clip at 720p of something. When i go to send it MMS, droidx would say you have to cut the video down to 30 seconds (which it would let me pick with a slider), then it would auto-shrink it, then attach to MMS, and send though just fine.
Sooooo....apparently vanilla android doesn't have this capability baked in? If I do the same thing as above, it simpyl says the video is beyond the limit...can't find any option to ACTUALLY edit it to make it within the limit.
so it appears I would have to know ahead of time when I go to take a video that I will want to MMS it at some point, and make sure and take that video at the lowest video settings and manually make sure I keep it short???? Or am I missing something?
If this is correct, can anyone point to an app that can take the place of what my droidx did...basically let me convert existing video on the fly so I can send as MMS...without hurting the original video of course??
I looked around, tried handcent (I like the stock texting app and really don't want to replace it)...but same thing, it wants me to retake the video using crap settings...not send an existing one recorded at 720p+
I CAN'T be the only person that actually does MMS video a lot?? And please, no suggestions on dropbox, etc. etc. I have people that aren't going to deal with that...they want a damn MMS video fast and quick for certain projects and I can't believe Android 4.0 might still lack a feature that other phones have been able to do since 2008??
Thanks.
Try using Movie Studio in ICS to edit the video to a sendable size.
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Try using Movie Studio in ICS to edit the video to a sendable size.
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I actually did not know that app existed lol. However, no..doesn't appear to help. I selected the lowest resolution (something like 860X480) and "low" quality...and it still produced a file size of 2MB for a 26 second clip and I got a "video can not be added" message when i tried to MMS it.
Thanks though, nice to know that app is built in.
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easiest way is to go into messaging app and click attach at the top. choose capture video. this will give you a countdown (1 min) for your size restriction so you don't have to think about it. also, you might have to turn off wifi to get it to send properly.
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artvandelay440 said:
easiest way is to go into messaging app and click attach at the top. choose capture video. this will give you a countdown (1 min) for your size restriction so you don't have to think about it. also, you might have to turn off wifi to get it to send properly.
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Thank you...that at least tells me how to make sure i am capturing a video in the proper format for MMS.
This still leaves a GAPING hole. I have to decide before I video something whether i want quality...or MMS...something I never had to have a trade-off on with my droidx, or my wife's iphone for that matter!!! I want to be able to record something my daughter does in 1080p...and then MMS it, or part of it, to a family memeber....just like i did EVERY OTHER DAY on my droidx.
Really? millions of cell phone users and I am the only one that uses MMS video?
i didnt think it was possible to send 1080p mms. that would put a big strain on vz infrastructure loads. it was possibly converting your droidx videos for mms without explicitly saying so, but i could be mistaken.
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artvandelay440 said:
i didnt think it was possible to send 1080p mms. that would put a big strain on vz infrastructure loads. it was possibly converting your droidx videos for mms without explicitly saying so, but i could be mistaken.
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It DEFINITELY was..that's my point, this phone doesn't and I need to find a way to do that.
Otherwise I would need to record everything twice...once in HD to store for keeping and once again in crap-mode to MMS to someone.
If my daughter is taking her first steps, do I record in **** mode so I can MMS it...or 1080p to keep and then it's stuck on my phone until i can physically go drive to another state to show her grandparents who can't even spell dropbox or youtube.
EDIT: I realized my first sentence wasn't clear. when I say it "definitely was", I am agreeing with the statement "maybe the droidx was converting the videos first"...and was NOT implying that my droidx was in fact SENDING 1080p MMS video.
I'm sure there are sending limitations with this as well but larger than the MMS limitations, but is attaching the video to an email instead of MMS'ing it an option? I know this doesn't answer your MMS question, but perhaps it's an alternative until you find something acceptable for your use.
Not saying you're wrong, but I would be really surprised if the DX was sending HD videos over MMS without some handwaving (ie, transcoding to smaller size/quality) being done. The limitation isn't time, it's size and regardless of what medium you use to record HD video with (be it an actual camera, DX or the gnex), HD video isn't small and subsequently isn't meant to be sent over MMS in all honesty.
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I'm sure there are sending limitations with this as well but larger than the MMS limitations, but is attaching the video to an email instead of MMS'ing it an option? I know this doesn't answer your MMS question, but perhaps it's an alternative until you find something acceptable for your use.
Not saying you're wrong, but I would be really surprised if the DX was sending HD videos over MMS without some handwaving (ie, transcoding to smaller size/quality) being done. The limitation isn't time, it's size and regardless of what medium you use to record HD video with (be it an actual camera, DX or the gnex), HD video isn't small and subsequently isn't meant to be sent over MMS in all honesty.
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Maybe I should clarify since it sounds like i have come across wrong. my droidx DID NOT send HD video in MMS...what it did was allow me to SHRINK ON THE FLY video i took at 720p so that I COULD send it MMS. Obviously the MMS message it sent was of standard MMS quality/size.
With the nexus I appear to have no option to transcode automatically to fit MMS limitations like I did on the Droidx....that is my issue. Even If I could find a 3rd party app that handled this seamlessly...which I can't find...I would be okay.
As far as emailing, I have a 30 second clip at 720p and it is 28 MB...so the email app says the clip is too big as well...again, with no option to shrink it for me (which I wouldn't expect since I never had that on my droidx either).
My friends Incredible performs the same as my droidx did, so clearly HTC/Motorola are either adding this in and it STILL isn't part of vanilla android, or it's broken in ICS...or it was removed between gingerbread and ICS (most likely being that the blur/sense/etc. add it)
Either way, I can't believe nobody has written an app to do this functionality, since I assume ROMS based off AOSP also don't have this....and the fact that cleary it is possible to do since phones with skins have been doing it for years.
Yeah this is an annoyance of mine as well, thanks for making this thread
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Yeah this is an annoyance of mine as well, thanks for making this thread
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LOL...doesn't seem to be much of an answer for us though.
Looks like you have been through many more android phones than me. has the nexus been the only one that doesn't seem to have this feature for you?
maybe your best bet is to link a dropbox folder between you and the other person (if you primarily get/send mms with one person, like a spouse) then upload your HD video and tell the other person to watch it. that's how my wife and i do HD video of our young kids.
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maybe your best bet is to link a dropbox folder between you and the other person (if you primarily get/send mms with one person, like a spouse) then upload your HD video and tell the other person to watch it. that's how my wife and i do HD video of our young kids.
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Thanks, but this is a little stupid to have to do...and doesn't work very well when you just want to randomly send a video to a friend or to someone at work when I am on a project.
just a suggestion.
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As I recall, this was a MotoBlur function on the DroidX, and wasn't in AOSP ROMs... For the GNex, unfortunately, I don't see any free apps that will shrink video on the market... but if recording the video at SD (480) is still too large and it means that much to you, I guess you could buy one of the apps on the market that shrinks video (some specifically for MMS).
Examples:
Video Compressor
Video Message Shrinker
VidTrim Pro
sephtin said:
As I recall, this was a MotoBlur function on the DroidX, and wasn't in AOSP ROMs... For the GNex, unfortunately, I don't see any free apps that will shrink video on the market... but if recording the video at SD (480) is still too large and it means that much to you, I guess you could buy one of the apps on the market that shrinks video (some specifically for MMS).
Examples:
Video Compressor
Video Message Shrinker
VidTrim Pro
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THANK YOU!
This is what I was looking for, some options! I agree that this function appears to have been a motoblur add-in, but since that was my first android it REALLY spoiled me.
Everything Else, I love the unskinned GN MUCH better.
I will look at those apps, I don't care if I have to buy an app...just as long as it would allow me to accomplish this goal...since sending MMS video like this is almost a daily routine now at work, and at home.
Anyone else with some app options...pay or not..let me know. Looking for something as easy as possible...a 1-click sort of solution.
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LOL...doesn't seem to be much of an answer for us though.
Looks like you have been through many more android phones than me. has the nexus been the only one that doesn't seem to have this feature for you?
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Yeah, it was a bump with words...
Um, I got it to work briefly on the G1 just after cupcake and on Cyanogenmod, but it would default to slideshows with audio when the people finally did receive the file (yet still show as a perfectly fine video on my end); then Google "fixed" the issue by removing the feature for an update or two, and I don't think auto-video-cropping for MMS ever was present, the G1 had only a 3MP camera- and it was the same "too large" story on my N1 and beyond. I haven't had it able to send since, although I never really tried it with my Atrix (which should have had the Blur functionality). I will keep searching for a usable app though...
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Yeah, it was a bump with words...
Um, I got it to work briefly on the G1 just after cupcake and on Cyanogenmod, but it would default to slideshows with audio when the people finally did receive the file (yet still show as a perfectly fine video on my end); then Google "fixed" the issue by removing the feature for an update or two, and I don't think auto-video-cropping for MMS ever was present, the G1 had only a 3MP camera- and it was the same "too large" story on my N1 and beyond. I haven't had it able to send since, although I never really tried it with my Atrix (which should have had the Blur functionality). I will keep searching for a usable app though...
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I downloaded video trim pro, and it looks like it could accomplish this, but during the transcoding it just stops before 100% and leaves you with a corrupt file.
The developer has a comment in there saying that the operating system might close the app for using too many resources, I have emailed him to see if there is a way to get around that...cause if so it looks like this is the best option I will have.
Anyone have luck with a call recording app? I've tried TONS (free ones so far) and none work. As a matter of fact, the error on one said this device is not built such that the voice of the person on the other line can be recorded (up link, down link, or something like that).
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Anyone have luck with a call recording app? I've tried TONS (free ones so far) and none work. As a matter of fact, the error on one said this device is not built such that the voice of the person on the other line can be recorded (up link, down link, or something like that).
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I'm not sure where you're from but the ROM of your smartphone may have something specifically restricted to disallow conversational recording. This is by law in some countries so the OS is restricted by the manufacturer - at least this was the way many S60 devices where restricted back in the day before fully rooting/unlocking them; which I think the same may be required for Android. I cannot say for certain as I'm still learning and this is one particular feature I'd love to have.
Total Recall was famous on S60; but this is Android we're after.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=call+recorder&c=apps
^ that shows a large list in a PlayStore search ... does anyone have particular solid recommendation please?
I use this for my divorce stuff, works on both audio streams. In my state, call recording is legal as long as one party on the call is aware. Your locale may vary. You've been re-cautioned.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appstar.callrecorder
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I think Optimus G has built in record calls app? At least the korean version?
this one very good working on f180l in russian
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I use this for my divorce stuff, works on both audio streams. In my state, call recording is legal as long as one party on the call is aware. Your locale may vary. You've been re-cautioned.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appstar.callrecorder
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This app sounds interesting. The other party you are speaking with over the phone in your state doesn't need to know they are being tape recorded for it to be legal?
I am going through a divorce. I need to look that up for my state.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...nced-messaging-to-make-texting-more-powerful/
T-Mobile announced today that they are releasing the new Advanced Messaging capabilities to about a dozen devices, presumably the G3 is one of them. The features would include read receipts, seeing when others are typing, sharing high-res photos and videos, near real-time chat, and support across any device and network.
I haven't looked at anything about it yet, but I assume that it shouldn't be too difficult to port it over to the G3. It is likely just some APN modifications and a couple APKs and files.
I cant wait
Subscribing just in case the apk magically appears here, I've hunted high and low for it even on Galaxy Grand Prime T-Mobile demo phones and trying to update them and still see nothing but messages app.
Just a update...
lobo4806 said:
it's not an app. its a technology. the SMS app devs are the ones who need to add the feature. t-mobile wont have an app for this. do you even read bro?
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http://www.xda-developers.com/t-mobile-brings-messenger-like-features-to-sms/
Which makes sense why an app hasnt shown up yet.
Ohh yea Falcon SMS is already supporting RCS,.
n1nj4Lo said:
Ohh yea Falcon SMS is already supporting RCS,.
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Does it really? Just downloaded the app and don't see any of the features..
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Does it really? Just downloaded the app and don't see any of the features..
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Some other user said that on the XDA Article just paraphrasing them, I believe Falcon has intentions of doing so, but right now it's still just a newborn baby it hasn't even gotten wide spread yet, RCS that is but it's barely even on one major phone right now. So we still got a good way to go first.
I really do hope RCS-SMS Messaging takes lead, for my friends who don't use messengers like FBIM or Kik and WhatsApp, I honestly hate using the painfully slow old and outdated sms, waiting nearly 30 mins sometimes for one sms to get delivered is ridiculous to me and due for a change.