Does anyone know of a way to do texting on the A500? Is there an app that will work? I tried to install Google voice, but for some reason it never installs.
smsboodoo said:
Does anyone know of a way to do texting on the A500? Is there an app that will work? I tried to install Google voice, but for some reason it never installs.
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I just use the gogle voice website....sync sms is another app that wil do it tho...
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smsboodoo said:
Does anyone know of a way to do texting on the A500? Is there an app that will work? I tried to install Google voice, but for some reason it never installs.
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I use heywire from the market. It gives u ur own phone number too
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just posted this. go to the market and get SyncSms. Well worth the price of 3 bucks and you just need a free drop b0x account and an android phone, which i had already anyhow.
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smsboodoo said:
Does anyone know of a way to do texting on the A500? Is there an app that will work? I tried to install Google voice, but for some reason it never installs.
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also, google voice not on tablets yet officially i don't think
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I'm trying Heywire right now. Seems to work well. Thanks for the advice. I might try others, but really I'm hoping for Google Voice to be ported to the tablet. I also hope to use these tools outside of the US.
Easy sms installed and setup on your phone will sort this for u.
Doesnt seem to show up in hcomb market but will on phones market.
Worth a try i like it. Takes all contacts and texts of phone, even any contact plcs.
If u get a text on phone while on tab, refresh browser read and reply
Hope this helps...
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MJ-12 said:
Easy sms installed and setup on your phone will sort this for u.
Doesnt seem to show up in hcomb market but will on phones market.
Worth a try i like it. Takes all contacts and texts of phone, even any contact plcs.
If u get a text on phone while on tab, refresh browser read and reply
Hope this helps...
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Where does one find the phones market at?
Heywire
Heywire is easy and works great.
use the market app on your phone
SyncSMS is working very well between my OG Droid and the A500.
HeyWire works well for me. My son has textfree installed on his Ipod touch and HeyWire is much like that application. My only complaint is your allowable message length seems to be short and it doesn't seem to have the ability to just break up a longer message into 2 or more smaller parts to send.
There is a hacked version of Google voice available that works on tablets but it seems to be quirky at the moment and I had to tie it to my cell number. When I received a text I would get it on my cell then receive it on my tablet. Plus you had to manually refresh the app in order to see if you'd gotten a reply or not. Supposedly Google is working on a tablet specific version of voice. I'll just wait on that to be released before I install and try it again.
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I don't know may it's stupid request, but may could change somehow apk for Thunderbolt that it works on our XOOM devices? I tried to install apk of Skype with Video on my XOOM WiFi, but without success.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12822787&postcount=7
Hope that somebody will find a way how to install above-mention Skype on our XOOM
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I don't know may it's stupid request, but may could change somehow apk for Thunderbolt that it works on our XOOM devices? I tried to install apk of Skype with Video on my XOOM WiFi, but without success.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12822787&postcount=7
Hope that somebody will find a way how to install above-mention Skype on our XOOM
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I would LOVE to have this working on our Xooms!
Yeah! That will be pretty neat. I'm not a dev, but truly believe that this apk isn't just sighned for xoom, and that results in "app not installed" message
I tried to install it too, didnt work ;-(
There has to be something within the files that only allow it to work on the Thunderbolt. I opened the apk and searched through the files, but did not see any type of device ID or anything that read "thunderbolt" or HTC. I remember when I used to make BlackBerry hybrids, there were "device IDs" that could be modified. I am uncertain about Android.
I am going to try and install it on other model phones running Froyo and see what I can figure out.
The only other thing I could think is that it is just not written to be compatable with honeycomb as most apps arent.
It won't install on my Evo either
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Did you guys go into setting>applications>and check "unknown sources" first.
supremecream06 said:
Did you guys go into setting>applications>and check "unknown sources" first.
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Yes, at least I'm check it, but it doesn't help
Tried installing that APK on Nexus 1, Galaxy S and Xoom, none of them work. There seems to be a lot of buzz about this but not too much info beyond that.
Skype really needs to release a Honeycomb video chat client. With so many HC tablets in the works, it would really be a killer app.
However, I think I can understand Skype's hesitation. Can you fellas imagine the massive amounts of traffic that would hit Skype's datacenters?
I just tried G-Chat Video chat, and it works amazingly well if you guys haven't tried it. At least as a temporary alternative.
Why don't google hurry up and update talk with video like when using gmail you can video chat?
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Google's video-chat already works on the Xoom.
Is that a tablet only thing as it's missing from galaxy s?
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Google talk video was released only for Honeycomb.
It cross platform Google solution because it works with PC and mac running Google talk.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing for Froyo.
Is there a way to use Google Talk for calls with Skype users?
FYI this program works on XOOM and available for Android and iOs system.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sgiggle.production&feature=search_result
Kozdoba said:
FYI this program works on XOOM and available for Android and iOs system.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sgiggle.production&feature=search_result
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Not with video
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jvs60 said:
Not with video
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Did you tried it, they claim that his program works with XOOM, unfortunately I couldn't check it right now. Just found it in the market
Kozdoba said:
Did you tried it, they claim that his program works with XOOM, unfortunately I couldn't check it right now. Just found it in the market
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Works for outgoing not incoming
I recently ran across the NetTalk app in the market. It seems like it could be a useful app (especially with our BT capabilities), but every time I attempt to make a call, the app force closes on me. It actually compleats the call to my cell, and then immediate FC.
Has anyone else been able to successfully use this app? Or is there something I could try to get the app not to FC?
I'm running CM7 nightly 39 with Dalingrin's OC kernal.
Thanks in advance and thank you to the CyanogenMod Encore Dev team.
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So, has anyone had any luck??
the nook does not currently support voice/mic so the app is useless at the moment
klaiii said:
Bump.
So, has anyone had any luck??
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i tried this out and it does indeed make a call! It seems like this could become very useful to us. It works now on the motorola xoom according to droid-life.com so perhaps it might work with the nook on honeycomb once AOSP is out? we can always hope! but it does seem to be rather important to get calls working over wifi!
As I said currently no mic on the nook so regardless of the app working you can't talk
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Not sure about the nook but I have been using this app on my win mo 6.5 , iphone and android and it works brilliant.
Sometimes it does have connectivity issues like all apps, but close and reopen and all is good. Hey a little bit of trouble is worth when it's completely free.
The fact that it actually made a call is what got me excited to begin with, but after some research and reading around the xda nook color forums, I realized that it didn't have mic/voice input drivers as animatechnica pointed out...
Do we know if/when that might be a possibility?
Can we not pair to a bt headset and make calls that way?
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Although a by headset will pair, without a mic/voice input driver, it will only play audio out of it. Same with any other computer. If one of the awesome devs on here were able to create one, this little "tablet" of ours wouldn't be lacking much of anything...
We're getting closer to getting a native GV client, y'all- as outlined here, if you side-load the latest GV update, it's got the HC layout and more importantly, it supports the push-data syncing of the handset versions (no more "GV update check frequency" dialog like before). As GV is my main text/VM client, this is welcome news!
I don't know why this one isn't marked as HC compatible so we can load it directly, but the rumours are that Google is building for ICS, not HC right now anyway.
It has an awesome new re-sizable widget also.
Cool! Clearly it is now more optimized for the HC tablets. Looking good so far on my Xoom. It seems perfectly natural to assume that they will fully release Google Voice for tablets with the ICS release. I expect that as well, as it makes perfect sense.
Thanks! I had to uninstall the previous version to install but works like a champ!
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metatron723 said:
Thanks! I had to uninstall the previous version to install but works like a champ!
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Yes it is fantastic!
Does it support multiple accounts?
I'll install later when I get home, but it would be nice as my wife and I share the tablet (thanks google for half assing multi user support).
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Does it support multiple accounts?
I'll install later when I get home, but it would be nice as my wife and I share the tablet (thanks google for half assing multi user support).
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The answer is no. Next version hopefully, but this is a definite improvement.
This is the new market rolled out for the zoom the other day.
Enjoy
Post - is it any better?
MJ-12
Thanks for posting. I find it much better and much faster. The old market was very slow for me
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Works great for me an dit can be used in portrait mode
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Finally, portrait mode. I like this version thx
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Does this require root? Can someone post some screenshots? I am at work and won't have the tablet for a couple hours.
This new Market version looks exactly like the phone version.
Why have they changed the interface.
The previous one looked great.
Previous version - 1.0.27
this looks just like the new market on the android phones. i dont really like how it looks..... i wish there was a way to hide the movies/books from the market because i doubt i will ever buy/rent a book or a movie from the app store. i noticed no difference in performance. im sticking with the old market for now, but thanks for the download
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this looks just like the new market on the android phones. i dont really like how it looks..... i wish there was a way to hide the movies/books from the market because i doubt i will ever buy/rent a book or a movie from the app store. i noticed no difference in performance. im sticking with the old market for now, but thanks for the download
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I too hate the phone market app.they are pushing crap in your face that you did not ask for.When you do a search it brings up two also and a link to movies and books.as if your going to buy them.grrrrrrr.
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I too hate the phone market app.they are pushing crap in your face that you did not ask for.When you do a search it brings up two also and a link to movies and books.as if your going to buy them.grrrrrrr.
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Precisely the reason I renamed marketupdater on my phone, and will probably be doing it on my tab too.
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I tried out the new Market app but had to remove it. It caused Earth and Legend to crash on load and I read a report that it causes Dungeon Defenders to crash too. I'm guessing these apps may have some type of protection that calls the Market app?
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I'm now running this new market on my a500. I must say that the old market feels cumbersome and clumsy.this is way more suited to hc and is feels streamlined...
I love it on my DInc2 it took a while to get used to but I can't stand the old market anymore.
I haven't run into any problems with crashing apps. Earth runs fine. I'm using honeyvillain's rom.
Does this improve any problems with the Honeycomb Market, like reviewing apps direct from the tablet?
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Portrait mode is sweet although the market is really crying out for a customized view, wierdly though the old market is still available alongside the new market on my tab 10.1(overcome rom). Accessing app details is not very intuitive, clicking the icon for the selected app shows details but there is no visual prompt to suggest this(could be a BOB issue). No issues launching any apps so far.
What's the best way to install this? I would think to remove Vending.apk from system/apps, rename this file to vending.apk and put it into the apps folder...is that right?
Update: Nope, don't need to do all that. Just download and install
Update: I LIKE! Portrait mode, FINALLY able to click a screen shot for a larger image, everything flows very well, seems like this market version is even better suited for a tablet than a phone. Thumbs up!
Thanks for the download MJ-12!
3.1.6 is over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284647
Do you need to have the 3.2 OTA to make the new market work? Because I have 3.1 still and it does not work on my Iconia
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Do you need to have the 3.2 OTA to make the new market work? Because I have 3.1 still and it does not work on my Iconia
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3.1.6 is working on 3.1 for me.
Need to work on upgrading one day. lol
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Does this improve any problems with the Honeycomb Market, like reviewing apps direct from the tablet?
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yeah you can review apps from that tablet now
Definitely a better market than what was built in. It is a lot faster than the old one, which is especially impressive considering the very limited internet I have access to right now.
Havn't ran in to any problems with it so far.
Downloaded this And I still have old market and new market. 2 different icons.
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Is there a confirmation that this works for the a500? I know it's shown as incompatible in the market, but we all know how spotty that prediction usually is... Also, anyone care to post the .apk?
Here it is. I haven't tried it on my A500, but have installed it on my Infuse. It is definitely a beta.
Thete is a better spp that I use on my evo. Its called vlingo. So much better then iris.
I think the point of Iris is just to make fun of siri
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Is there a confirmation that this works for the a500? I know it's shown as incompatible in the market, but we all know how spotty that prediction usually is... Also, anyone care to post the .apk?
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I just checked on the web market and it shows as being compatible with my A500. I'm stock unrooted 3.2 at the moment. I'm gonna download it and see if it works.
EDIT: It works, both on my A500 and on my HTC Inspire, but its pretty buggy. After about 20 uses, it messed up and stopped working. When it was working, it worked well though. Get some bugs worked out and it may be a pretty cool little app. Sort of like voice dialer and cleverbot rolled into one.