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Best Video Chat Solution

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.

Beezer80 said:
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.

knyque said:
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.

Beezer80 said:
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

apatcas said:
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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A_Flying_Fox said:
Facetime
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For the Samsung Epic...

A_Flying_Fox said:
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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knyque said:
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.

Qik and cm7

Has this always force closed? Need help getting it to work
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Blitzpwnage said:
Has this always force closed? Need help getting it to work
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For me it has, qik is a piece of ish, on all the cm7's I've had nothing but bad luck it might not be gingerbread compatible yet(it only worked on sense for me). Try tango its better and it just works. This is the only video chat app that I use. I've heard success with the yahoo video chat but never tried it.
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dirkyd3rk said:
For me it has, qik is a piece of ish, on all the cm7's I've had nothing but bad luck it might not be gingerbread compatible yet(it only worked on sense for me). Try tango its better and it just works. This is the only video chat app that I use. I've heard success with the yahoo video chat but never tried it.
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Check out this thread....you'll be happy to know that it no longer FCs on CM7 or any gingerbread rom for that matter!

The Front-Facing Camera is pretty much broken for everything except the stock camera app in CM 7.0.
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=2929

Tango is working.
I was doing a tango chat with my friend last night on CM7. worked fine.

They just updated works good now
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matt2053 said:
The Front-Facing Camera is pretty much broken for everything except the stock camera app in CM 7.0.
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=2929
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I was video chatting on QIK last night with my cousin and the front facing camera works just fine. I don't know if you've try CM7 but I wouldn't go on an issue that was reported in mid February....Cyanogen updates regularly and although there's bugs still to be fix, is way better then the sense roms running around here.....just my personal opinion!

Within the last 2 days someone posted a compatable version for CM7.
Here you go from my dropbox.
http://db.tt/fkoVmzD
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Doesn't work. Once you install and run on an Evo, it forces an update to the Qik version from the market and that one is broken (FFC sends upside-down video).

whats the best video chat app qik, tango, fring or oovoo

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.

TJBunch1228 said:
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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coupetastic-droid said:
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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$pitacular1 said:
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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How well does skype work on our phones

just want to know how well does skype work on our phones.
anyone here uses skype? any good feedback?
thanx

The app sucks especially since there's no video. Otherwise it works ok for chat and voice
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its ok, i dont think my friend has a phone able to use video chat...

App suggestions?

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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ptesmoke said:
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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