So I just got the Mytouch 4G (rooted & left Stock) was a previous nexus one owner so I know all about the dev side of things but this is my first phone that allows web/video chat capabililties. Im a bit curious on what everyones thoughts and maybe some suggestions to utilize this feature. As of now im am unware of how Qik rele works and if there are any other major vchat apps out there worth looking into possibly even for the future. None of my friends rele have a vchat phone yet so im wondering how i can utilize that feature.
Thanks for the tips & suggestions!
i'm a big fan of the vid chat myself..i use yahoo messenger vid chat to chat with my gf who is on pc..
i think qik works best for mobile to mobile chat..both party needs to have the ap and a phone which supports vid chat..
be aware some roms do not support the front facing camera (yet). I am using iced glacier and have no problems..
lalab0y said:
i'm a big fan of the vid chat myself..i use yahoo messenger vid chat to chat with my gf who is on pc..
i think qik works best for mobile to mobile chat..both party needs to have the ap and a phone which supports vid chat..
be aware some roms do not support the front facing camera (yet). I am using iced glacier and have no problems..
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Is facetime for iphone an iphone exclusive app or can we get that app to vid chat with iphone peoples?
Hey my fellow former N1 owner. I like to use tango it is free and works well.
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Don't know about a face time app but my wife has a iphone 4 and tango works for us.
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uaguilar said:
Hey my fellow former N1 owner. I like to use tango it is free and works well.
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I'll look into tango =D
FWIW, Skype bought Qik last week. Look for the Qik app to either take off with more features or be rolled into the Skype app.
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Pretty sure facetime is iphone exclusive..but tango is the way to go if u are doing vid chat with iphone
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i typically use Tango, but i'm looking into ooVoo. It seems to be the quickest but for some reason my wife'e phone doesn't like it very much. She is using HTC MySense, and i am using AOSP.
Well, evidence of video chat was found in latest Gtalk app (misc references, icons, etc) so I'm hoping we will see VC capabilites officially supported by Google in the near future.
Skype rolled out VC for iPhone recently, I can't imagine it would take them long to introduce a similar future to Android.
Those are the two apps I'm looking forward to as they seem to be pretty universal across all of the platform, any other ones are just a niche apps to be honest (except for yahoo, but it's not for me)
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FWIW, Skype bought Qik last week. Look for the Qik app to either take off with more features or be rolled into the Skype app.
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Yayy i hope they get a good skype app with vchat i knw most of my friends have that or oovoo lol
I love the front camera but i think us, MyTouch 4G Users, are a little ahead of the game cause no one really has android front facing camera phone. But after all the CES phones drop im positive we would all have someone to video chat
nexus9988 said:
So I just got the Mytouch 4G (rooted & left Stock) was a previous nexus one owner so I know all about the dev side of things but this is my first phone that allows web/video chat capabililties. Im a bit curious on what everyones thoughts and maybe some suggestions to utilize this feature. As of now im am unware of how Qik rele works and if there are any other major vchat apps out there worth looking into possibly even for the future. None of my friends rele have a vchat phone yet so im wondering how i can utilize that feature.
Thanks for the tips & suggestions!
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What the hell is "rele" supposed to mean? That's not a word.
The beta yahoo video chat is pretty awesome too. It has video and voice chat. Audio for both has a hollow digital tone to it but works well enough. The video comes through pretty clear.
Use case: mytouch 4g to nexus one. Voice chat works. Video chat works but video capture is done from the nexus' rear camera. I have to flip the phone around. Haha
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Now that Fring has "banned" Skype (or the other way around), is there any way to leverage the EVO's front facing camera to call a PC (or any desktop environment)? Qik will do one way video to www.qik.com, but in my experience, it's pretty bad and only does one way video...
I can't believe Google hasn't implemented this in Froyo and or Google Talk??? WTF???
I found an app a while back called iMovicha. I tested it out from Evo to computer and it worked. It does need to be installed on both Evo and computer, but so do others such as Skype.
Thx... I'll give it a shot... any other options? I'm seriously wondering why google hasn't implemented this yet...
Yeaa i agree ....google needs to make moves on this.
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Just tried movicha and it doesn't recognize my lenovo x301 integrated camera. So... I'm stuck. I guess I'll try my usb camera to see if it's the integrated camera or the software.
Update: I used my usb camera and it worked ok... not great... and there is no option for speaker on the evo side... so I guess you'd have to plug in a headset. By the time I take all these steps, it's not worth it.
Android needs facetime... or Google Video.
The facetime on the iphone 4 was pretty cool! Thats about it though! This evo is rid!!!
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bkfitz said:
Android needs facetime... or Google Video.
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Does facetime make videochats to computers?
ezkialrage said:
Does facetime make videochats to computers?
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There is a Facetime app for mac os x, but i don't know if it is available for windows pc
The yahoo app can do front facing to computers from all the posts I've read.
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The yahoo app can do front facing to computers from all the posts I've read.
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It does but it's pretty buggy and quality is on the low side.
I've tried Fring and had choppy results. I've also tried Tango with minimal success. What's the opinion of the board as to what the best video chat solution is? I have WiFi and 3G/4G available to me so take that into consideration in that bandwidth isn't a problem. Ideally I'd like to be able to chat with my buddy in Spain via my phone to him on his computer. Thanks in advance.
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I've tried Fring and had choppy results. I've also tried Tango with minimal success. What's the opinion of the board as to what the best video chat solution is? I have WiFi and 3G/4G available to me so take that into consideration in that bandwidth isn't a problem. Ideally I'd like to be able to chat with my buddy in Spain via my phone to him on his computer. Thanks in advance.
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2.2 and yahoo video worked flawless for me.
ooVoo works well for me. It has both desktop & phone apps, and is free. I'm on rooted stock DI18, but it should work on anything.
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ooVoo works well for me. It has both desktop & phone apps, and is free.
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I forgot to mention that free is the only option.
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I forgot to mention that free is the only option.
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Well use Yahoo messenger then, both desktop and mobile do video calling but only on froyo. Anyway from what i can figure Yahoo has the most bandwidth for it because it's been working great for me with low 3g
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Well use Yahoo messenger then, both desktop and mobile do video calling but only on froyo. Anyway from what i can figure Yahoo has the most bandwidth for it because it's been working great for me with low 3g
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Good looking out. I'll gve it a shot.
thyat was a good question cause ive tried tango, qik, and fring and they all suck. never tried yahoo messenger though
Got to second the ooVoo recommendation. Quality is great. I haven't tried an actual call with Yahoo, but did notice that the box showing your camera is sideways...
Facetime
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Facetime
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For the Samsung Epic...
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Facetime
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Way to be a douche
I wasn't being a douche I was just playing
Video callin isn't gonna be practical until its baked into the os. Even winmo 6.5 has a video call option! I hope 2.4 has it baked in...
My friends nokia that he bought from a european store downtown had a video calling feature in the call menu...and this was in '08 lol
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ooVoo works well for me. It has both desktop & phone apps, and is free. I'm on rooted stock DI18, but it should work on anything.
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Second for this one. It's a much smaller footprint and better, faster video than yahoo is. The FFC rotation works the way it should, too.
The biggest question for what video chat to use is what your friends and family are using. I've spent years trying to get my parents and siblings to figure skype out and am finally getting some progress. Trying to get them to switch to yahoo or some other jazz would be impossible.
Google talk really needs to come out with video support on desktop, browser and mobile. I think they would be comfortable with that.
So after using Cyanogen 6 & 7 here's a little review on what video chat apps work on froyo CM6 and Gingerbread CM7. I figured this would save some of you some time
Qik - works great on CM6 but it force closes on CM7. Video quality is good and audio is ok good enough to do the job
Tango - works great on CM7 with a mod where you can use front and back cameras. But on CM6 it only detects the back camera. Video quality is good but audio not so good
Fring - works on CM7 with out any mods but the video and audio quality is not so good. On CM6 it only detects the back camera.
Oovoo - is the new kid on the block working great both audio and video on CM6. I didn't test it on CM7 so if someone does let me know this app and Qik is the reason why I went back to CM6 from CM7.
I've tried them all too but unfortunately the battery drain from the apps is really poor... I just uninstalled and will reinstall when a friend wants to video chat.
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Battery life on cm6 is really good even with the video chat apps
Tango is still upside down for me on FFC using CM7. Changing manufacturer to Samsung in build.prop didn't fix it . Image is right side up using the back camera.
What about Yahoo? It's apparently the only one that works from phone to PC. Can anyone confirm on our devices?
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I have used Qik and Tango and Tango has worked best for me.
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What about Yahoo? It's apparently the only one that works from phone to PC. Can anyone confirm on our devices?
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Oovoo dose too I have tried with my girlfriend and it's of good quality. But I'm not sure if it works with any of the cm mods
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bump..i would like to find out too since i video chat with my girlfriend who's on a computer..
where do u get the oovoo app? didnt see it in the market and the website says your device is not supported..
Tango works great for my girl and I using the older version. The updated version has us looking at each other upside down. So if anyone having that problem just revert back to the older version.
Qik I have not tried since I flashed cm. I heard its working on the latest nightly build but have not tried it. I never liked the quality when I used to use it on the stock rom anyways.
Yahoo video chat still gotta be the best though. Video and sound quality are best. Better than qik and tango. And it does not work only from pc to device, it also works from device to device.
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Tango works great for my girl and I using the older version. The updated version has us looking at each other upside down. So if anyone having that problem just revert back to the older version.
Qik I have not tried since I flashed cm. I heard its working on the latest nightly build but have not tried it. I never liked the quality when I used to use it on the stock rom anyways.
Yahoo video chat still gotta be the best though. Video and sound quality are best. Better than qik and tango. And it does not work only from pc to device, it also works from device to device.
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but yahoo chat isnt working with CM..i think that's what most of us are facing
so what rom has all the video chats working properly?
i have all the roms downloaded to my sd card. i know im going to mainly use oovoo and yahoo since its phone to pc but i might use qik and tango here and there.
feedback thanks.
charlieb620 said:
so what rom has all the video chats working properly?
i have all the roms downloaded to my sd card. i know im going to mainly use oovoo and yahoo since its phone to pc but i might use qik and tango here and there.
feedback thanks.
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the Gingerbread ROMs are the only ones with goofy FFC working with Applications. All FroYo based ROMs should work fairly well. The app developers have no upped their apps to work with Ext4 style ROMs. It has nothing to do with the developers of the ROMs, but has everything to do with the App Developers.
charlieb620 said:
so what rom has all the video chats working properly?
i have all the roms downloaded to my sd card. i know im going to mainly use oovoo and yahoo since its phone to pc but i might use qik and tango here and there.
feedback thanks.
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I had no problems with any video chat app while I was running iced glacier or royal glacier
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lalab0y said:
but yahoo chat isnt working with CM..i think that's what most of us are facing
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Yes you're right. Is my bad I should've specified that. I meant in general yahoo is best when it comes to video calling. But is the reason I use tango now, because nothing else works properly.
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coupetastic-droid said:
Yes you're right. Is my bad I should've specified that. I meant in general yahoo is best when it comes to video calling. But is the reason I use tango now, because nothing else works properly.
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completely agree..i loved yahoo messenger when I was still using iced glacier..might switch back just for that
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I had read somewhere that Yahoo Chat wasn't working at all, on almost any phones, stock ROM or not.. it just "stopped working" one day. This was about a month ago I think
has anyone ever tried the vid on miui? i dont have anyone to try to
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I had read somewhere that Yahoo Chat wasn't working at all, on almost any phones, stock ROM or not.. it just "stopped working" one day. This was about a month ago I think
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Well I been running cm roms for a pretty long while now so I wouldn't know. But when I barely got my mt4g last year yahoo video chat was working flawlessly.
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I had read somewhere that Yahoo Chat wasn't working at all, on almost any phones, stock ROM or not.. it just "stopped working" one day. This was about a month ago I think
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Is it even possible for the app to just stop working suddenly without changing anything?
When I was running iced glacier 2 weeks ago it was still working fine..
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lalab0y said:
bump..i would like to find out too since i video chat with my girlfriend who's on a computer..
where do u get the oovoo app? didnt see it in the market and the website says your device is not supported..
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It's not in the cm7 market for some reason. But on the stock rom and iced glacier
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Dear all!
I have just bought a My Touch 4G, but I don't know how to make a video call from this divice, please help me.
I stay in Vietnam, I offten work far away from my home, video call is the only way that I could see my daughter.
Again, please help me
Thanks and many thanks.
P/s: if forum have any topic about this available, please sent me there
You have to have qik fring or some other video chat app installed that the other party does and then there's usually tutorials in the app
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Nicgraner said:
You have to have qik fring or some other video chat app installed that the other party does and then there's usually tutorials in the app
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Dear Nicgra!
I have found the qik app on home screen of the My Touch 4G, but it asked me to sign in to make a video call, I follow the instruction to sign in, and the result is the phone of my wife could not receive the call.
I try to make avideo call from my touch 4G to another device such as Nokia or Sony.
Please help
Thanks alot
orbite said:
Dear Nicgra!
I have found the qik app on home screen of the My Touch 4G, but it asked me to sign in to make a video call, I follow the instruction to sign in, and the result is the phone of my wife could not receive the call.
I try to make avideo call from my touch 4G to another device such as Nokia or Sony.
Please help
Thanks alot
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The phone you make the video call to must be running the same software as the phone initiating the call. For example, both phones must be signed into Qik. You can't place a video call using Qik on your MT4G to a Nokia phone running different software. Hope that helps.
Try Tango for video calls. I have had the best luck with that app so far.
i use yahoo, tango, and oovoo. all have good quality.
tango is the best
Is tango supported on android 2.3 (cm7)?
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colbyrainey said:
Is tango supported on android 2.3 (cm7)?
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Yes it is.
i love tango! qik is okay at best
If you are still running stock mt4g, use yahoo video calling. Its the best.
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Nice! So does Tango have a PC capabilities also, or is it only mobile to mobile?
I used to use whatsapp to text with my wife for free when I'm out of the country. But our one year is up and can't really justify paying twice for it for the amount we use it. Is there an alternative to whatsapp that doesn't slaughter battery life? I was going to go with kik messenger but it was causing massive drain in my testing..just running in the background. Also tried IMSY and I think its garbage.
Would love others opinions were also looking to video chat if we can since I now have a ffc. But she will be on the PC. Are skype and tango the best choices?
Wish there was an all in one app that could text/call/video call over wifi with android users as well as pc...does it exist?
Btw I'm looking for something to use on my acer iconia A100 for video chat, I would also like to use some sort of messaging/call app on my DZ, the biggest problem I've seen is most of the apps require u to register with your phone number thus locking the app to just my DZ as my tab is wifi only...no way to register and use the same profile..
Hope this makes sense guys.. thanks for any input
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I used to use whatsapp to text with my wife for free when I'm out of the country. But our one year is up and can't really justify paying twice for it for the amount we use it.
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interesting, i didnt even notice i cant use it any more after a year without paying..
ptesmoke said:
Would love others opinions were also looking to video chat if we can since I now have a ffc. But she will be on the PC. Are skype and tango the best choices?
Wish there was an all in one app that could text/call/video call over wifi with android users as well as pc...does it exist?
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well, next to whatsapp im using IM+ as "all in one app" for texting icq, msn, jabber, facebookchat (skype can be used too if original skype installed)
i dont do video calls but one time when i tried that i had to do that directly within the skype app because IM+ didnt support video..
a quick look in the market for free video-call apps: tango, qik, kakaotalk
Hmmm thanks for the suggestions....the search is on!
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In case someone else is looking for the same apps, i going with tango for voice and video calling (free) and live profile (free) for messaging
Check them out! Cheers!
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