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[Q] (Android) Skype on HD2 - Success/Fail stories ?

Recently Skype has made their app finally available to the world.
Now it can work over WiFi.
(Find on their website or market)
I've tried it on NexusOne and it seems to work. Signs in (when their servers are not overloaded) and even makes calls (for free between online skype users).
On HD2 Android builds the story is different:
App installed and signs in, but will force close immediately at any attempt to do more than scrolling the list of contacts.
What are your experiences?
Edit: Could it be related to LCD Density? Or compatibility Mode?

I couldn not even sign in.It says can not conect and will forse close

it works fine for me.. but that is because i use the app from 3 uk.. but yeah no problems at all.. as they have the Desire in their device portfolio i just browsed to their website from a desire build and installed it..

No problems for me.it works perfect. I have darkstone's v3.1 version.i have download it from market
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working well for me here, calls, chats everything flawless.
look at my signature

where did you guys download skype from?? i can't even download it to my HD2 (TMoUS).
***nevermind.. it was on the market.. thanks anyways

clio94 said:
No problems for me.it works perfect. I have darkstone's v3.1 version.i have download it from market
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nutmegy said:
it works fine for me.. but that is because i use the app from 3 uk.. but yeah no problems at all.. as they have the Desire in their device portfolio i just browsed to their website from a desire build and installed it..
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jigners said:
working well for me here, calls, chats everything flawless.
look at my signature
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Do you use the default 240 LCD Density?
Ever since it's possible to increase it I've been use 16 or 180.
I am at the moment with NexusHD2 (2.2.1) build and I will try playing with another build later today, possibly it's an issue with Android 2.2.1.

Skype's working fine for me with Froyostone 3.1 (Desire) with Hastarin 7.1. First time I tried to login it gave an error for login, but I noticed it had to do with my internet connection which was already unstable both via 3G as well as WiFi. I updated my radio from 2.12.50.02 to 2.14.50.04 and now it works fine.
Sound is very clear and all features like skype credits and online numbers work properly. No videocalling yet, but hopefully we can expect it soon...
Thumbs up for Skype!

I installed it and everything worked perfectly...I was a little peeved to find out that it did not work over 3G so I uninstalled it.
Then I decided to reinstall it and wait it out for an update when we can make calls over 3G...now it will not even sign in....any ideas?

No problems for me. It works perfect.
RReckless

Eventually got it to login today.
Keep getting force close messages, especially when selecting the Details tab!
Ho hum...

Works perfectly.

Sometimes i cant hear the people talking but they can hear me and if i want to reboot it it takes along time to exit the app and right after that i will get an error to force close the app.
But when it works i can hear everyone clearlly and without any LAG.

Just reverted to 240 and it got working.
But I hate such big density on the hd2. That's the reason I avoid sense builds to make the most from the big screen :-(
Better use nimbuzz.
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For more detail...
Skype works perfectly. I called my cousin overseas on Skype, he answered on his Nexus One. Sound was clear, with very little delay. Answering calls is a bit awkward because I was juggling it but in the end it was easy. being logged on to Skype increases battery drain, unfortunately. I went from 5mA standby to 45mA
Only one problem.
The screen was acting funny during the call when I held it to my ear. I'd move it back and forth to get it to turn off the screen. Sometimes it wouldn't, sometimes it would go dark but not turn off the backlight, sometimes it would.
Anyway, all of this is the app's problem, just need to wait for patches

I can't find it on market, and when i try downloading it from the skype website it says that it is not available for my device ??!? I'm using HyperDroid 1.5
I'm from Morocco, if there 's a restriction by country I do not see why it does not work from their website

agentaaron said:
I installed it and everything worked perfectly...I was a little peeved to find out that it did not work over 3G so I uninstalled it.
Then I decided to reinstall it and wait it out for an update when we can make calls over 3G...now it will not even sign in....any ideas?
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A hacked Skype was recently released, allowing you to use 3G. check Engadget for more info.

i'm running mattc's 1.8 with r7.2 kernal, 2.14 radio and energy wm rom. the app loads fine and setup ok. on my first and so far only call i could hear the other party but they could not hear me. the connection sounded very bad and i called back not using skype. that was over 3g so i don't know if i just had a not so strong signal or if it was something else. going to try on wifi and retry on 3g somewhere else. will update results.

Can you guys quit skype or stop it from running? seems to be leeching my battery power..

omigosh said:
Can you guys quit skype or stop it from running? seems to be leeching my battery power..
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Seems like there is no way/ button to exit Skype, it pissed me off so I uninstalled it
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i9000 MIUI installed on Captivate

Ok let me start off by saying I am NOT a dev. I am just a normal guy who can ocasionally follow instructions off the internet. I was able to get MIUI for the i9000 booted on my Captivate. This MIUI rom is ported over from the Nexus.
All I did was followed the instructions from the MIUI thread in the i9000 forums:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992251
Just subsitute the captivate equivalent files from CM7. After you do these steps and Flash MIUI Beta 3 it will install a i9000 kernel and modem. You will have to go after the initial steps and install a captivate CM7 Kernel and Modem.
I wont be updating this thread, because I don't have the time. If a Dev wants to streamline this more for the captivate please do. I just wanted to share some info on how I got the MIUI from the i9000 thread running on my captivate. Fill free to use this thread for any MIUI related banter that can further help this Rom run smoother on our phones.

what are the bugs?

like I said I wont be updating this thread at all. I just wanted to let some know that it is possible to get it working on the captivate. to get a full bug list you will either have to install the rom yourself and figure out or wait for someone to report a list. what I have seen so far though is ringtones, and autorotation. I haven't played with it too much, but I was able to fix the ringtone issue be using a rintone app from the market download a ringtone. Also I believe the i9000 thread has a what is and what isn't working list also.

For people who where begging for MIUI this looks to have allot more promise. And it is gingerbread. Have not tried it out yet
CM7

I installed it on my Captivate and its actually running pretty smoothly, in fact its actually pretty fast I haven't even seen any lag. I'm on beta 4.
Here is what works:
-Texting
-Wi-fi
-Browser
-SD cards
Not working:
-I'm having problems downloading apps from the market, they don't seem to be downloading but if download the app you want then reboot the phone the app will be successfully installed.
-The sound only works if you plug the headphones into the phone and when you do that the sound comes from the speaker and not the headphones, however if you plug the headphones only about half way in then the sound will come out of the headphones.
-The sound problem does have an effect with the phone calls because the person on the other line can hear you but you can't hear them on the account of the headphones not being plugged in.
-The back key and search key are not working I guess because its made for another phone but idk. The home key acts as a back key. The menu key works fine.
-If you want to auto-rotate the screen then you'll have to go to the notification bar and tap the auto-rotate icon to turn it on, it does not automatically do it when you turn your phone over.
That's all I got, idk if there is a setting for the sound problem or something but I can't get it to work properly.
Just wanted to tell you guys how much Miui was working on our cappys and hopefully it can be fully working rom in some time.

mossination said:
I installed it on my Captivate and its actually running pretty smoothly, in fact its actually pretty fast I haven't even seen any lag. I'm on beta 4.
Here is what works:
-Texting
-Wi-fi
-Browser
-SD cards
Not working:
-I'm having problems downloading apps from the market, they don't seem to be downloading but if download the app you want then reboot the phone the app will be successfully installed.
-The sound only works if you plug the headphones into the phone and when you do that the sound comes from the speaker and not the headphones, however if you plug the headphones only about half way in then the sound will come out of the headphones.
-The sound problem does have an effect with the phone calls because the person on the other line can hear you but you can't hear them on the account of the headphones not being plugged in.
-The back key and search key are not working I guess because its made for another phone but idk. The home key acts as a back key. The menu key works fine.
-If you want to auto-rotate the screen then you'll have to go to the notification bar and tap the auto-rotate icon to turn it on, it does not automatically do it when you turn your phone over.
That's all I got, idk if there is a setting for the sound problem or something but I can't get it to work properly.
Just wanted to tell you guys how much Miui was working on our cappys and hopefully it can be fully working rom in some time.
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This looks promising. Don't most i9000 ROMs have these issues when installed as-is onto a Captivate? Seems like it could be ported over just like most other i9000 ROMs.
But then again I'm no dev, and I could be completely and terribly wrong.

Did you install the CM7 cappy kernel?
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are you talking about the cm7-captivate-initial-kernel? or something else?

Cappy kernel needs to be reflashed.
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mossination said:
are you talking about the cm7-captivate-initial-kernel? or something else?
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Any CM7 kernel should work as long as it is for the captivate.

Ok so ill reflash that...Ill also have to flash a cm7 modem right? know where I can find that?

Go to the cm7 thread, and go to teamhacksungs website. Should be a full list of modems.
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mossination said:
Ok so ill reflash that...Ill also have to flash a cm7 modem right? know where I can find that?
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Yes, you can find it all from the CM7 download site. you can find the link in the CM7 thread.

so is anyone else trying this? The rom I mean

mossination said:
so is anyone else trying this? The rom I mean
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I tried it yesterday, hence the reason for this thread lol, but didn't really like it. Went back to CM7 with launcherpro plus. I missed my LP Plus widgets too much.

lol im just suprised how this thread isnt that popular

It'll get more popular as things get sorted out with the ROM itself. I've been running it for the last couple days (since beta 2), and if you install the CM7 Captivate kernel and a compatible modem (I like JL3), it's really pretty stable. The apps don't see media files, and afaik there are still some SD card issues, but if you can get past those it's not that hard to use as a daily.

KCutrer1 said:
It'll get more popular as things get sorted out with the ROM itself. I've been running it for the last couple days (since beta 2), and if you install the CM7 Captivate kernel and a compatible modem (I like JL3), it's really pretty stable. The apps don't see media files, and afaik there are still some SD card issues, but if you can get past those it's not that hard to use as a daily.
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It was/is very much a daily driver since data/phone/wifi all work, I just didn't like the feel of it. It took me back to my iPhone days which started to scare me a bit. lol

Yep I think jl3 works the best, I now have the rom pretty much fully functional and I just installed another media player app so it could find my music. MIUI is really amazing looking
Eh it does look like the iphone kind of but I was just getting tired of all the same "looking" roms and wanted something different

Interesting. CM7 has been without a nightly for a few days, I'm up for something new
So once we get the i9000 version running, just go into odin and flash a CM7 captivate kernel/modem? That should fix all the i9000->captivate issues, correct?

Most annoying glitch issue in my phone

Wtf is wrong with the youtube app it always ssays problen with network and only thing to fix it is to reboot phone?
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Side note u have to reboot this bitcj all tje time recently ____?ec05.
sent using my cup phone nukka

deisel said:
Side note u have to reboot this bitcj all tje time recently ____?ec05.
sent using my cup phone nukka
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If you are having problems, boot into CWM and reflash the rom right over what you are running. It will backup the apps and everything for you and you will be back up and running in under a half hour.
You might want to try this before doing that though:
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All
Scroll down to Youtube and select it. Hit "Clear Data" and then exit out and try Youtube again.

Are you running stock or a custom ROM? It has been so long since I have run stock that I wouldn't be able to help you out with that. I am currently running SyndicateROM Frozen. It's sold as a rock, fast, and I can go days without rebooting.

Getting the same EXACT issue as the OP. Running stock and rooted EC05. I think it started recently with the latest YouTube update. It didn't do that when I first got EC05.

Yes, me too. Stock EC05. I also noticed that the video camera and stock video player stop working when the youtube app fails.

elrey75 said:
Yes, me too. Stock EC05. I also noticed that the video camera and stock video player stop working when the youtube app fails.
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Have you considered trying a custom ROM? I tried the scenario you described and didn't have a problem. I am running SyndicateROM Frozen, but there are others to choose from.
Just a thought.

Thanks, I'm sure that would help but I don't want to root.

I read the reviews in the Market for our current version of YouTube and apparently a lot of other users on different phones are getting the same problem. Many 1 star reviews lately because of it. As I stated earlier, this didn't start occurring until recently, which I attribute to the latest upgrade of the app.

Mine is the inability for the phone to roam on the PCS band. Really Samsung? Fix the bug!

Yes, this happened a lot to me when I was running EC05. So annoying.

Sounds like it's an EC05 bug. I refuse to power cycle 3 times a day for luxurious mutimedia. My Flash works, that's all I need. But wait, now the same error occurs when checking Voicemail, taking video, using the stock player... what's next? But I will not power cycle.
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I think the Youtube glitch was due to a problem Google was having. If you've noticed, Gmail also had an insane lag and fail to send rate during that time too. Might actually just be Google servers.
I had the same issue but it stopped after so long and I'm back to normal.

I tried a fix I read in another thread and it seems to work. Uninstall the official twitter app and use another like tweetcaster. I have power cycled and haven't had that youtube problem anymore. Don't know why that worked.
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Unmount your SD card and Mount it back again and that will fix the youtube app. I don't know why it fixes this problem for me. Let me know if it worked for you.

The only rom this happens to me on is ec05 plus.
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ICS Passion v10

Awesome ROM! I don't have enough posts yet (long time reader, I hardly ever post...) to post in the official thread....so I thought I'd post one here.
Passion v10 (BETA) has been one of the best custom ROMS i've flashed. This only comes (a very very close second) to Simply Honey. I'm sure v11 will surpass it though.
Yeah! ICS on my Vibrant....lovely!

Camera - works whith lag
Bear with balalaika From Russia

I tried v9.2, and it had some definite issues. I went back to Bionix. Then I flashed ICS Passion v10, and it's great for a lot of functions, but it rebooted twice when I received a phone call and tried to call...this is while I was travelling, so I wasn't too happy.
Hopefully all the bugs will iron out soon. I do like ICS.

GPS Lock issue
I just upgraded my t-mobile vibrant to Passion 10.6 and the GPS works but sometimes it doesn't. I'm experimenting with it to figure out the problem.
I found at least one case that if the GPS doesn't work enabling/disabling the GPS didnt see to fix the problem. I rebooted the phone with GPS enabled and then it locked immediately when the phone booted up.

dancer810 said:
Camera - works whith lag
Bear with balalaika From Russia
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Don't know if you're using GPS Test or NBAngryGPS to test but for hahas I just used GPS without running/fiddling with those two apps and only using the Maps app and GPS works anytime.
Just my observation.
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SGH-T959 ICS Passion 10.6 (using stock, not Eugenes' kernel)
Working FFC

I'm also in the same boat I am always reading and never posting. Well I need to be able to post now. I'm running 10.6 and all is well I get GPS as good or better then I ever did and my phone is so much faster.
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I'm running 10.5 and it works great. I don't use GPS so I don't know if it works well. But I bought a bigger battery just so I could enjoy it for the whole day without any battery drain. Can't wait for v11.
ics passion v10.5
18000mah battery

My previous rom was froyo and it didnt lock as quickly at ICS Passion 10.6. I was quite impressed actually at how quickly it found 11 satellites and locked on to 8-10 of the in use. In a matter of seconds ICS Passion locked on via a fresh boot of the phone.
I always used GPS test on froyo and ICS Passion 10.6 and it worked fine. I even use google maps and it works too. On boot up of the phone ICS Passion 10.6 works worked beautifully.
If the phone sits idle for a while maybe 30 minutes or so and you try gpstest or google maps it never finds a single satellite. I have to reboot the phone in order to get it to find and lock on.
I don't know if any of you have tried that case but that is definitely what is happening on my vibrant. Again with froyo I never had this issue. I could disable the gps and then later enable it and it would lock on after 1-2 minutes with no problem.
I will try a few more things to see if I can isolate it more but its pretty clear at least on my end that it doesn't acquire a lock after being idle for some time.
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I just confirm this. If the vibrant goes into power saving mode where the screen black out after its idle, I can not get a lock on the gps without rebooting the phone.
Both gpstest/google maps and angrygps cant get a single sat

Awesome
ICS Passion v10 is awesome. It's, by far, the best ROM I've ever used... coming from Stock to CM7 to ICS Passion (after a long drought). NeoBuddy89 has resurrected my PASSION for my phone again! Haha... simply awesome.

I'm running v10.6 , no extra mods, running Eugene's v10.6_update kernal and it is so smooth and fast, I don't care about the vibrant GPS, but all else is great, best combo I've found with passion. 2099 score on quadrant with 200-1300mhz and smartassv2.

Yeah running 10.6 Eugene's ed
My only long standing issue with this from as a whole is the low storage message and when I reboot it gets stuck on boot splash finally fixed it with a combination of restore app only in TB with killing fb auto sync and Gmail sync but besides that completely amazing
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Sweet!
This ROM is amazing! My only issue is the screen seems to not be as responsive to touch so I have to press a little harder to get things to work. I installed Touch Screen Booster from the market and it seems to be better, still trying different configs. GPS is flawless! Locks in 15 seconds INSIDE my house. I never had that happen on any FROYO ROM.
PASSION for the FTW! This ROM has restored my interest and my faith in my Vibrant, and saved me some $ too. I almost picked up a GS2 last week but held off. I am amazed at how smooth and fluid this ROM is and that my Vibrant is running an OS that is not even available on the GS2 !
Passion 10.6 = Very happy Vibrant owner!

Was using stock 2.2 and it worked fine but I guess that I try out ICS since Samsung won't do ICS for this phone. First I had to flash back to Stock Froyo because Heimdall suite won't work. Rooted the phone, but won't go to clockwork mod. Have to install the rom manager manually then was able to install clockwork mod. After I was able to get into clockwork mod, try to install cm 7.1, but it reboot looping, so I had to pull out the battery and try again and was successful. Then I try to install this ICS, and again, loop reboots and had to re-install again. I guess it is just bad luck of me to try to install ICS.
I try to play some divx movies that worked fine in stock 2.2 but couldn't play the same files in ICS. Anybody know how to fix this? Thanks.

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Was using stock 2.2 and it worked fine but I guess that I try out ICS since Samsung won't do ICS for this phone. First I had to flash back to Stock Froyo because Heimdall suite won't work. Rooted the phone, but won't go to clockwork mod. Have to install the rom manager manually then was able to install clockwork mod. After I was able to get into clockwork mod, try to install cm 7.1, but it reboot looping, so I had to pull out the battery and try again and was successful. Then I try to install this ICS, and again, loop reboots and had to re-install again. I guess it is just bad luck of me to try to install ICS.
I try to play some divx movies that worked fine in stock 2.2 but couldn't play the same files in ICS. Anybody know how to fix this? Thanks.
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What player are you using? Try Mobo player, it's free on the Android market.

iynfynity said:
What player are you using? Try Mobo player, it's free on the Android market.
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Thanks. BTW, I can't see the contents of the sd card from the phone. It thinks the internal memory is my sd card. Second, how do I configure a lockscreen? Third, how do I configure wifi access after I enable it? And finally, how do you configure and resize a widget?

pug_ster said:
Thanks. BTW, I can't see the contents of the sd card from the phone. It thinks the internal memory is my sd card. Second, how do I configure a lockscreen? Third, how do I configure wifi access after I enable it? And finally, how do you configure and resize a widget?
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Which ICS are you using?
1. Let the moboplayer scan the folder "emmc". It's in the very root of your phone
2. Not all roms have a built in option for this, again, which ICS rom are you using? So if the rom you're using doesn't have it the only way is to use a 3rd party app(not sure if we have this kind of app in the market.)
3. Settings / Wireless & network / wifi settings
4. hold the widget for a few seconds while it's still on the homescreen, there you can resize your widgets.

iynfynity said:
Which ICS are you using?
1. Let the moboplayer scan the folder "emmc". It's in the very root of your phone
2. Not all roms have a built in option for this, again, which ICS rom are you using? So if the rom you're using doesn't have it the only way is to use a 3rd party app(not sure if we have this kind of app in the market.)
3. Settings / Wireless & network / wifi settings
4. hold the widget for a few seconds while it's still on the homescreen, there you can resize your widgets.
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Thanks. I am using this ICS Passion rom 10.6. Downloaded moboplayer and it seems to work. I am trying to find the lockscreen using the 9 dot swiping unlock screen, but I don't know where to download it. I managed to figure the wifi settings.
The main question about the widgets is that I am trying to add another custom widget where I can add and remove whatever button (cm7 like) but I can't do it. Thanks.

[Q] HBO Go

Anyone had any luck getting HBO Go to work? I'm not rooted and I get the "This device is not compatible with HBO Go" after the load screen. Getting that to work would float my boat.
I attached the .apk if someone is rooted and wants to try it, but I'm suspecting that Go lets the HBO servers see what device I have and waves the "uh uh" finger.
Thank you for your time.

Gives me the same deal. I'm on CM7 and rooted.
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Wow, I'm kind of surprised to see that question here
Over on the Amazon forums someone discovered that it seems to do some sort of compatibility check over the network when it starts, so if you turn wireless off when you first start it, then enable it when it says you need to connect to the internet to access content, it is able to skip the check and it will work.
Of course, there are issues actually using it once it starts that HBO will have to fix. For example, when I adjust the volume while a video is playing it stops and either goes back to the beginning or back to the menu.

il Stalk3r li said:
Gives me the same deal. I'm on CM7 and rooted.
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CM7 and rooted and it works for me, although video is pretty chunky... seems like I get a higher quality feed on my iphone + ipad... (doesn't seem to do the "optimizing video quality" screen on the kf)

Wow, yes that works albeit poorly. Thanks all.

It works! http://youtu.be/05T2O_I6bOo

For those on Stock rom and any problem related to streaming video not working on rooted ROM-s, use Voodoo OTA rootkeeper.
First you need to do backup in it, than activate Temporary unroot and app's should work.