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[Q] BBM for Androids? Maybe

Hello, Newbie to Android world here - receiving my HTC Desire, hopefully, next week.
Just wanted to share some information regarding an application called "LiveProfile" which will soon be released that incorporates BBM for Androids, if im not mistaken.
Anyone heard of it?

Just looked it up and from what I can see its a replacement for bbm. It will work across iPhone, blackberry and android. Basically MSN messenger for phones.
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I've been using a BlackBerry for practically 2 years now and I have to say perhaps the only application that has the BB stand out among its rivals is the BlackBerry Messenger - now with LiveProfile, I'm very excited for the upcoming release of this app.

What's the advantage of this over WhatsApp or PingChat? Those are both multi-platform already, and with WhatsApp there's no need for a user name as it uses your phone number, so anyone in your contacts with the application is automatically in your friend list.

Yeah, why another one? ... PingChat is OK.
I know, competition is good.
But for this kind of app, I just want ONE ...
It seems impossible.
Wait until someone created multi of multi IM of multi IM ...

PingChat is a good one.

MJwitter: well, quite frankly, i believe there is one prime advantage over iphone's Whatsapp in terms of privacy. With "whatsapp" you do not necessarily have to have the contact on your list, just as long as he has your number he is able to send you msgs - which a lot of people would find annoying (you could probably ignore them, im not sure, but its a terrible feature initially)
gogol + lukehluke: i have never heard of ping chat before. i'll have to google it. However, as i have mentioned earlier i believe this application is intended to merge bbm, whatsapp and so on all under one roof - again I am uncertain of this information; however, hopefully this turns out to be the advantage of LiveProfile.
Nonetheless, thank you for sharing that information.
I just checked it out; however it seems to display an error when i clicked on "Join Now." Is this application not yet released?

there are quite a few BBM replacements available. They will never connect to BBM Contacts but provide the same functionality.
1. PingChat
2. Cnectd
3. LucidMessenger
4. Pmessenger
those are all i know of atm.

I'll try ping chat on HTC, just as soon as I get it by next week.
I heard about Pmessenger, but the reviews weren't very good.

Is WhatsApp ever coning out for android?, ive tried to convert a few people over to ping chat but they all use whatsapp
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I'm confused. Help me. What is the differences between pingchat,whatsapp and IM messenger such ebuddy, fringe, and nimbuzz?

LOL try to be patient, my friend.
Ive been trying to do that for the past 24 hrs too. fortunately, a few ppl installed it.
however,they dont need to "convert" to pingchat, ask them to install it and they could use both ;D

antu_pogroms said:
I'm confused. Help me. What is the differences between pingchat,whatsapp and IM messenger such ebuddy, fringe, and nimbuzz?
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Pingchat and Whatsapp? call themselves 'SMS Replacement' apps. Wherein they act like BBM so you can send a message whether a person is online or offline. These apps can only be used between their respective clients i.e. Pingchat-to-Pingchat, Whatsapp?-to-Whatsapp?
IM clients connect through AIM, MSN, Facebook &c.

Whatsapp Beta works. Google up Whatsapp android beta and youll find a download link on a facebook page. Install it and then you may get authorization error just wait like 1 day and try again and it will work. Been working well cant find any bugs with it yet.

I tried what you said but only info seems to say the beta is only available for people living in san fansisco and whatsapp put the app on your phone from there office?, cant seem to find a download link or apk file, if you have a link can you post it or reply to me with a pm to the link please, thanks.
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Ok i found it
http://beta.whatsapp.com/WhatsApp.apk
It installs fine but doesnt seem to work as you need to register to be a beta tester.
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yea like i said install it it will fail just wait and try again tommorow and it will start working. lots of people have reported success after waiting a while

Cool, i'll update in a day or 2 if its working, did you email them to request to be a beta tester or just try it after a few days and it worked without emailing them?
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Didn't send an email
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Cool, its started working.
Ok, my quick review - pingchat vs whatsapp
Its alot faster than pingchat in terms of messages being delivered, sometimes pingchat lags a very long time and also pingtchat soelmetimes doesnt give notifications unless you open the app, so whatsapp wins on those two.
But pingchat has a MUCH better look and feet to it, and it works on phone numbers & ID's so you can use either, but whatsapp only works over phone numbers, so unless i have the persons phone number i cant message them on whatsapp, but on pingchat you can just use there id and dont need there phone number so pingchat wins on that.
So both have goods & bads, ping chat is free though which is a plus, if you check in the account info in the whatsapp beta, it says it expires in November 2010, so i asume thats when it goes live in the android marketplace, it also has an upgrade option so it will definatly be a paid app when its released and have a limeted free use period
More people use whatsapp so its better "at the moment", but pingchat has a much better feel to it, so hopfully more people start using pingchat.
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Devices by OS or Manufacturer

The "Devices by OS or Manufacturer" button at the top of the page doesn't work anymore, for the last few weeks. I've tried it using Chrome, Firefox and IE.
It doesn't work on my laptop either. Is it working for anybody else?
I searched to see if it's been asked before but didn't find anything.

Sledutah said:
The "Devices by OS or Manufacturer" button at the top of the page doesn't work anymore, for the last few weeks. I've tried it using Chrome, Firefox and IE.
It doesn't work on my laptop either. Is it working for anybody else?
I searched to see if it's been asked before but didn't find anything.
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Can you be more specific? Does it show a blank page, redirect to another site, etc?
What template are you using? 2010 or classic? It's working fine on this end...

svetius said:
Can you be more specific? Does it show a blank page, redirect to another site, etc?
What template are you using? 2010 or classic? It's working fine on this end...
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He's right. I'm using SRWare's Iron browser (version 13.0.800.0), which is Chrome minus Google's grubby little fingers, and it does not even drop down. This is in Windows 7 x64 Pro. It is the same thing in Firefox 5.0 and 6 Beta as well in Windows 7 x64 Pro.
In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Chromium and Firefox both exhibit the same behavior (not working at all) with that drop down menu.
Using XDA 2010 layout all around.

not working here either (google chrome)

Not working here either.
Google Chrome (14.0.835.35 beta-m)
Windows 7 x32

svetius said:
Can you be more specific? Does it show a blank page, redirect to another site, etc?
What template are you using? 2010 or classic? It's working fine on this end...
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I've always left the template to the default (XDA 2010), clicking the button/down arrow there is no response. When I change to the XDA classic the pull down works.
I'm using Vista on both my desktop and laptop. Desktop is 64bit, laptop is 32bit. I've also noticed that I have the same problem using the default browser on my Acer Iconia (3.1).

It also doesn't work for me: Win 7 Firefox 5

Cool
that make sense

Same problem for me too...

same here. i was going to ask about this yesterday but i forgot
I've had to scroll down to find my device.

same here...

XDA 2010 - Problems with Device Drop down
All,
I switched to XDA classic and the drop down worked but is not working in the XDA2010 style (nothing happens)....so my guess is it is a CSS problem but have not looked that closely
Another thing with the drop down in XDA classic when you choose "all Android devices" it is not the complete list. I looked for the ASUS transformer and it was not shown.
Also I have tried with firefox 6 and IE and receive the same results
Hope this helps the team trouble shoot the problem.

Still not working. I've been using the classic, but hate the colors compared to the 2010 theme.

Can't log in Social Hub

Can't log in Social Hub
Either twitter or facebook.
Says that login failed.
Anyone have success?
.: sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch :.

This has been discussed already on other threads.
Seems like a Samsung error.. ? This bug need addressed.
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yea. same here, been trying all day

I know this has been an issue with facebook on other phones, can't speak for twitter. Apparently, if you add your current work info to your facebook account it'll fix it, but that's coming from a friend who had the issue on the evo 3d and it worked after she did that, so take this with a grain of salt. Good luck
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Same issue here, cannot log into social hub.. but its OK FB apps is way better now, for twitter I always use tweetdeck.. any other advantages using S hub?

One solution I suggested in another forum that worked was to download the twitter and Facebook app from the market and login via those apps. Hope this works for some of you

I came to this forum hoping to find an answer for this issue and was so glad to see this thread and vindicate myself as being the issue. One would think that during the testing of the device on Sprint's network that they would have made sure that this actually worked before releasing it out in to the wild.

And hows pornhub on this device ?
Is it vivid, crisp... loading speed ?
This will be a huge game changer for my decision.

iSaint said:
And hows pornhub on this device ?
Is it vivid, crisp... loading speed ?
This will be a huge game changer for my decision.
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Works and looks flawlessly

What is PornHub and I still cannot log in to the Social Hub today. Any ideas?

EMail App like HTC

I've come from owning an EVO 3D and the email client on that phone was second to none it did exactly what i needed out of an email client.
I've tried every single email client out there and notthing comes close to it besides the stock email client on JB but even that is lack luster if terms of features.
K-9 - won't work with exchange 2010
EE - works great to a point but with Push email on my phone heats up and drains my battery in like 5 hours, and i need instant email.
TD - Won't allow me to use 2 profiles at the same time.
Anything else i've tried doesn't have the features i need like the HTC client did.
Porting the email client over i realize is probably not gonna happen so.....I really like the nexus but I'm not sure what i can use.
Bit of an email background how i use it.
2 Exchange accounts, both have multipul folders i need synced and seen in the combined view area. 7 folder on one and 2 on the other.
I also have a support email i send from and when replying to an email need to select that email account to send from. (just used for sending email doen't come to this mailbox it comes to my main one.)
WHAT TO DO!!!!!

i absolutely love touchdown for my work exchange email, lets me sync specific folders and i can use push or set my refesh times as well as it has a nice widget for showing my next upcoming meeting and what meeting room it is in.
nvm, just saw u said td didnt work for what you wanted >.<

Have you tried maildroid? I don't know if it will do what you want, but it's worth a shot!

Yeah tried mail droid also. That didn't do what I wanted either.
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For sure you looked in all the settings? I find it hard to believe that not one of those programs can do what the stock HTC app can.

I've looked in all settings in all programs. EE was the closest to what i wanted but couldn't bare with the battery drain.
I've been at this for 2 weeks. Installed every email app out there. And I did have an X10 a bit ago. But I did use TD then but only had 1 exchange email, now I have 2.
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It's been a couple months of searching and barring with the stock asop email client.
I am now at the point of asking for the help of a dev to please help me and port the HTC email client to be used on asop.
There has to be some way of doing so... So that the sense framework will not be needed.
any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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jclick555 said:
It's been a couple months of searching and barring with the stock asop email client.
I am now at the point of asking for the help of a dev to please help me and port the HTC email client to be used on asop.
There has to be some way of doing so... So that the sense framework will not be needed.
any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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any ideas on this? Just got the Nexus 7 2013 and can totally understand your pain. What app do you use? Or is there a way of rooting the Nexus and putting a sense rom on it?

kongo09 said:
any ideas on this? Just got the Nexus 7 2013 and can totally understand your pain. What app do you use? Or is there a way of rooting the Nexus and putting a sense rom on it?
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I've come to the conclusion we most likely won't get anywhere with with trying to port an app over. But the closest I've gotten to the HTC email is Enhanced Email.
I've also contributed some suggestions there to help make it as close to HTC email as it will be. Good Dev there too. Making good progress on updating the app.

syncing links between devices

hi guys, im sure a lot, if not all of you have been in this situation.
your sent a youtube link on whatsapp or via text, and instead of watching it on your phone, you want to watch it on your tablet. But wait, the link's on your phone!!
is there an easy way to send the link to my nexus, like via an app? i know chrome can share open tabs, but still seems a bit too long winded.
at the moment, im copying the link and emailing it to myself which i open on my nexus :l

I'd you use Chrome sync it will do it automatically
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