Hey I'm thinking about upgrading and getting the mytouch 4g for me and my girlfriend but Ive read initial reviews about the video chatting being a little choppy even on wifi (these were reviews when the phone first came out). Any experiences would be helpful. Thanks!
I live in one of the 2-3MB 4G areas not the 6+ ones. I know more speed is always more better, but honestly I find the 2-3 good enough for everything I need.
I suppose it does depend on what you mean by "a little choppy". If you were expecting to come across like ESPN you will be heartbroken. But as for freezing up / bursting every few seconds, I haven't seen anything like that. This is 4G. I haven't tried it on wifi.
I don't find QIK to be the best server ever conceived and thought that before MT4G. I believe a lot of the problems people have seen is shortcomings in QIK. I tried the Yahoo one and rather than shortcomings it was barely functional at all. If it were 500% better it would still be unusable. I forget the name of the one the i-fans use, starts with a T. I haven't tried that one at all.
I tried using QIK to talk to someone with an EVO (Sprint). It was a miserable experience! Nothing like TMOB to TMOB. So that's another thing to consider.
Tango works well..
Qik works great for me... only time it's a little choppy is if someone has an Edge connection...
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Qik, Tango, Yahoo Messenger
I Use Qik, Tango & Yahoo Messenger to do my video chatting with.
So far Qik is the best, it is built into the phone specifically for video chatting. However, Qik seems to work best when your over wifi.
When your over 4g use Tango. It does get a little Choppy but it serves its purpose. One problem i have with Tango is, you will need to have your headphones in or be in a quiet area in order to hear the other person well. Once when Wifi'ing using Tango, i was able to have a clear video call with someone for around 45mins. They were using an EVO if that matters.
Lastly Yahoo messenger i rarely use but ive started using it these last few days since the update came out. It works oooooook. But i would only use it to video chat with people who were on there pic.
Also Oovoo is currently in its beta stage, if you use ooVoo. But it has ALOT of bugs still.
Hope this helped you.
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ok I have an evo and a mytouch 4g I have a few friends that have evos as well. Im guessing that since its a new feature that not many people have messed with it but there is a bug in the video chat app im guessing for the mytouch 4g. you can video call people and it works great far better than the one for the evo but the problem is that when you are talking to them you cant hear them unless you hit the mute button its really annoying I let the qik support know and they said they are working on it but has anyone else had this issue??/
I do all the time so I used tango instead
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I just thought qik used 'push to talk' on their non-tmobile version...
Same happenends to me Can BARELY here the other person...
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ok I have an evo and a mytouch 4g I have a few friends that have evos as well. Im guessing that since its a new feature that not many people have messed with it but there is a bug in the video chat app im guessing for the mytouch 4g. you can video call people and it works great far better than the one for the evo but the problem is that when you are talking to them you cant hear them unless you hit the mute button its really annoying I let the qik support know and they said they are working on it but has anyone else had this issue??/
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Doesn't belong in development, next time please post in general. Now that we have perm-root, the development section is gonna get a lot busier. Let's try not to clutter it up with misposted threads.
Yea I have notice alot of bugs in this phone. It defanatly needs an update of some sorts. Overall its nice but buggy anyone else notice this?
Yep qik doesnt work good at all. So I tired fring and it doesn't use my front camara. Ughh
I wonder which will come first.... Qik update to fix this or 2.3 which supposedly has video chat built into gchat...
I was trying to figure out why my wife couldn't hear me when i called her from my EVO! Thanks for the tip about holding the mute button.
The MT4G qik app is a lot better. It actually shows you if people are online or if they have a FFC to chat with. A lot better than the EVO's where you just call out having to know who has a compatible phone.
I use qik and works fine with another MT4G no need to hit the mute button. But when I called my cousin that was using a epic from sprint we had to do the mute button thing for one another to hear each other
i absolutly cannot get qik to list my contacts with ffc and qik... i can video call someone by tapping their name in recent chats or manually inputting their qik id, but it wont sync into my contacts...
when i try to vid chat with a friend, i click his name in qik phonebook and it tells me, he doesnt have qik and i can send video email... but i can turn around and call him from recent chats...
any ideas?
I submited the bug to qik's support team they just wrote me back saying that they are working on it as fast as they can so i dontknow.
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Qik Support, Nov 09 16:00 (PST):
Hi,
Thanks for writing back to us.
We are still working on it and it should be solved in a next update.
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any updates???/
Hey,
I just got a samsung tab at vzw, wa adv wondering if anyone know of a way of way to video chat over wifi to a computer or other tabs.
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
Hey,
I just got a samsung tab at vzw, wa adv wondering if anyone know of a way of way to video chat over wifi to a computer or other tabs.
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either use the built in software "Qik - video chat" or download from teh market place "tango".
I prefer tango as they seem to do better with lower network speeds. BTW, 3g speeds are slow but manageable for video chat (well i guess depends on how strong your 3g is..) and the person your calling has to have tango installed (i don't know if tango bypasses the need for a specific video chat enabled phone)
did this answer your question?
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either use the built in software "Qik - video chat" or download from teh market place "tango".
I prefer tango as they seem to do better with lower network speeds. BTW, 3g speeds are slow but manageable for video chat (well i guess depends on how strong your 3g is..) and the person your calling has to have tango installed (i don't know if tango bypasses the need for a specific video chat enabled phone)
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Thanks a lot, but i cant find qik in here on my tab, does the vzw version comes with it qik built in?
Im also going to try tango as well. Thanks
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Tango is so much better I think , better video quality and performance.
You can also video chat with Apple products like iphone or ipod touch people.
Best as I can tell QIK doesn't come on Verizon's version of the Tab. Very odd. I suspect it's a reluctance to offer the service but you'll see if you browse their site they simple never mention that they've removed QIK from their Tab and their support people aren't even aware of it at all.
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What about Fring? I am currently Androidless so I don't have a chance to see what Tango is all about as a comparison to Fring, which is better than Qik.
I like Fring as well but it's not working for the Tab. When I do the test call it shows the image from the FFC but nothing records for playback.
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I am also using Tango on my Tab but I haven't tried the Yahoo messenger video chat yet so that might be a good one.
Tango is pretty cool, saw it in action yesterday on an Evo that was chatting with an iPhone 4, I'm like, "She has an Evo?" "An iPhone 4? Is she on wifi?" The quality was just astounding compared to Fring and obviously compared to Qik, since Qik SUCKS.
So they were both on 3G, and it looked perfect. Tango it is.
well im am new to the android and i have many questions lol, i think im going to have to read the book on the phone
the sprint lady said i could video chat? where do i go and which one to use?
This should be in q&a section
To put it simply they all suck but I like yahoo
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i use oovoo beta and tang video calling...i like tango the best..tango is for android to android video calling and oovoo is for phone to phone/pc video calling.. the thing about oovoo is the person using a pc to video calling must have the new beta version installed on their pc which every person i know doesnt want to download a beta just to video chat with me...but it work...
I'm holding out for a Skype app.
k0nane said:
I'm holding out for a Skype app.
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Seems like their agreement with Verizon was an exclusive.
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Seems like their agreement with Verizon was an exclusive.
Texted while driving
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It is most unfortunate - but I'm betting someone will come out with a "compatible" app in due time, if Skype doesn't wake up.
Alternately, I'd take an official Google Talk video chat solution.
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It is most unfortunate - but I'm betting someone will come out with a "compatible" app in due time, if Skype doesn't wake up.
Alternately, I'd take an official Google Talk video chat solution.
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Which surprises me as to why we don't have one yet. It's Google. Where's our video chat?! WHAR!?!
Fring is pretty good, but I'm going to try that "oovoo"
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Fring is pretty good, but I'm going to try that "oovoo"
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I have found that ooVoo works really well.
Hopefully Skype will do something with Qik to get around their exclusivity with Verizon.
Or even better, Google get off their asses and start using the video call framework that's been in the API since at least 2.1. They bought Gizmo5, who was doing SIP video calling using h.264 on my Nokia n810 back in '07. It was essentially what Apple's FaceTime is now.
I've been using Yahoo Messagings video chat because my wife doesn't have a smart phone that does video, so being able to connect with a computeri s a must for me, but the video is sideways. Does OOVOO not have this problem?
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I've been using Yahoo Messagings video chat because my wife doesn't have a smart phone that does video, so being able to connect with a computeri s a must for me, but the video is sideways. Does OOVOO not have this problem?
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ooVoo is the best around. It has a small footprint, displays correctly and works (when it does) flawlessly.
My only problem with it is it's inconsistency making calls. Sometimes it will show the user online; sometimes it won't.
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Which surprises me as to why we don't have one yet. It's Google. Where's our video chat?! WHAR!?!
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Not surprising to me really. While I like a lot of things about Google their 'statup' operation strategy with lots of independently operating teams leads to this.
I say the same thing all the time with official Google apps for Android. Where's my official Google Analytics/AdWords/Docs/Talk app? I know all of these can be addressed in various ways by 3rd party apps or tertiary functionality in other apps. But I'd like to see some official Google apps for some as their official apps usually tend to be good quality.
More than likely video chat on google will be release at Honeycomb and hopefully with some devs help we'll have it for our froyo devices.
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I also prefer yahoo over tango n qik free voip calls on there is also a nice feature
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i've tried a few and like Tango the most. it's just the easiest to use and most streamlined and just works.
+1 Tango! Simple to use, and it streams extremely well on either 3G or 4G (best). I've use Yahoo, Qik, etc. and found those apps can be quirky and probably worked best on Wifi.
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ooVoo is the best around. It has a small footprint, displays correctly and works (when it does) flawlessly.
My only problem with it is it's inconsistency making calls. Sometimes it will show the user online; sometimes it won't.
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My problem with ooVoo was a perpetual attempt to sync, draining my battery. Their support said they'll be removing that from the next release but until then it's staying off my device.
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My problem with ooVoo was a perpetual attempt to sync, draining my battery. Their support said they'll be removing that from the next release but until then it's staying off my device.
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+1, same here, drains battery fast.
I've had that same issue with Oovoo, it's literally killed my battery extremely fast to reach and sync with nothing. But other than that it's the only logical choice for Video chatting until Skype and Verizon stop screwing everyone over with Exclusiveness.
I know they're a lot of people wondering like myself.. What do you guys think is the best video chat app currently out that works best for our phones... I use to love Tango but it stopped working for me and my Wife's Epic.. of course its been a few months since I used it.. But which do you think is the best? I figured I would ask before throwing another 10 apps on my phone for testing. Also what roms are you running with it?
Thanks
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I know they're a lot of people wondering like myself.. What do you guys think is the best video chat app currently out that works best for our phones... I use to love Tango but it stopped working for me and my Wife's Epic.. of course its been a few months since I used it.. But which do you think is the best? I figured I would ask before throwing another 10 apps on my phone for testing. Also what roms are you running with it?
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Let me break it down:
Here is a list of the video call apps that I know to be available. If i'm missing one, let me know. I'd love to try it out:
Tango (Android/iPoop) - I'm going to assume this is the most popular. Video quality seems to be pretty good. I do have some occasional feedback issues with audio, but that comes and goes. The latest version of Tango FC'd everytime I opened it, but luckily for me, I had the version right before the update backed up, so I'm still in business.
Fring (Android/iPoop) - This was the first app I used for video calls. It did the job. I haven't used it in a while, and I know they've improved on it. I switched to Tango because everyone I knew was using it.
Qik (Android/iPoop) - I've never used Qik. At first it didn't support iPoop, and that was the only people I had to talk to via video call. Friends i've spoken with that use it don't seem to prefer it over any of the other solutions, so I haven't really had the urge to try it myself.
Yahoo Messenger (Android/iPoop/PC) - I've had mixed results with Yahoo. It seems to work pretty well for the most part, and is useful when chatting phone to PC as it's simple and alot of people already have a yahoo ID. The only issue I had with it was the video was always tilted sideways no matter which way I held my phone...
Google Talk (Android/PC) - I went down this road when I tried the leaked Gingerbread ROM. I had high hopes, but this was pretty much unuseable for me. I was able to connect, but video was too choppy at best. I'm positive this will improve in the future, but as of today, I don't recommend it.
ooVoo (Android/iPoop/PC) - This is an interesting app. It allows conference calling, so you can actually carry on video calls simultaneously with more than one user. I used this shortly and tested it for a phone to PC call and it seemed to be pretty decent. I'd have to give it a little more time and testing, but my first impression was that it did the job pretty well.
Skype (Android/iPoop/PC) - I know this one is new. I think there's a thread if you want to try to get this to work on your phone. Haven't tried it... can't really speak on it. I would check out the thread if you're interested. I'm sure there's feedback there.
As with everything on this community, YMMV. And keep in mind, all of my opinions are based on using the app with a wi-fi connection, so if you're going with 3g or 4g, you'll just have to test what's out there and see what gives you the best quality call. I hope this helps at least a little bit.
If nothing else, it'll at least give you some options to try.
I just used a modded skype for froyo over 4g and it worked beautifully except for the fact that I was sideways on my friends comp.
It was mad clear! He also said I was laggy a bit but I blame that on the 4g. I haven't tried wifi.
You can try it. When you go to the thread about skype 2.0 in the themes and app section, click the link that talks about the sgs2 or w/e and then there will be another link where the author says "TRY THIS ONE FOR FROYO"
That's the one ^_^
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Well, Skype owns QIK so hopefully there will be some crossover pretty soon. Trouble is, even if it's the best program in the world it doesn't matter if your friends aren't using it. Skype is the one everyone else in the PC world seems to use, so now that it'll work on android, that's the one for me.
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Well, Skype owns QIK so hopefully there will be some crossover pretty soon. Trouble is, even if it's the best program in the world it doesn't matter if your friends aren't using it. Skype is the one everyone else in the PC world seems to use, so now that it'll work on android, that's the one for me.
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That was my exact outlook and why I went with skype lol
Before that I used tango which was excellent...but not everyone knew of it...but it was always fun to see the random people in my contact list who had it lol
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I've been using Skype and even 3G, which all I have, was way better than QIK, Tango, or anything else that I have tried
hey guys...........i'm aware that a lot of you probably use skype on your Evos or did before fring got blocked...anyway...i was bumped as to why skype has just a few devices supported on android and the Evo is still left out with no video..well i am guessing a lot of you found a way to run skype video on your evo already...for those who hasn't yet...well i googled around and some guys at the Evo4gforum.net got it working...you can find a skype2_0_47_patched.apk and get it from there...i am in no way connected to the project and i want no thanks for the developer's job...i just wanted to let people know that there is video and it is working as i just tested it...
not a big fan of skype on the EVO very slugish.
It is 100 times smoother than QIK, that's for sure.
yeah...i love it...i video called my brother in bulgaria today...it works fine over 3g but wifi is better...
I use Tango app and it will be on the PC's soon to.