Hey guys!
Just wondering if anyone has played around with DeskSMS....
I was interested in learning more about texting from your nook. I know theres other programs out there that are like this but Desktop, which i think is out of beta now seems simple. Just want to know how it works and to set it up. Its kinda confusing to me...ive been trying to use it through google talk.
Dont know if anyone has used this app or could help me set it up??
Thanks! Bobby
I use google voice for all of my texting. Works great.
I've been using it the past few days. To do it:
1) Install DeskSMS on your phone
2) install a chat client with google talk support on the nook, i'm currently using Trillian and have tried almost all of them
***Be sure you use the same google account in both applications with you set them up.***
The DeskSMS app is pretty straight forward but if you need it detailed, i can try.
If you use GO SMS or Handscent, make sure you follow the notes in the app description for DeskSMS.
aeturnus77 said:
I've been using it the past few days. To do it:
1) Install DeskSMS on your phone
2) install a chat client with google talk support on the nook, i'm currently using Trillian and have tried almost all of them
***Be sure you use the same google account in both applications with you set them up.***
The DeskSMS app is pretty straight forward but if you need it detailed, i can try.
If you use GO SMS or Handscent, make sure you follow the notes in the app description for DeskSMS.
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Thanks for letting me know about trillian...i downloaded it from amazon apps free of the day a while ago but never used it....so glad i downloaded it heheh. That works great. I set it up using my gmail account thats linked to DeskSKS.
Question though....when your in DeskSKS....does gmail account or google talk need to be checked box? Wasnt sure if they needed to be since im not using either, just trillian. I was using google talk, but it doesnt work all the time and is pretty confusing. Trillian seems like the best.
Also your first thanks is on the way....happy to give it to ya!
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Thanks for letting me know about trillian...i downloaded it from amazon apps free of the day a while ago but never used it....so glad i downloaded it heheh. That works great. I set it up using my gmail account thats linked to DeskSKS.
Question though....when your in DeskSKS....does gmail account or google talk need to be checked box? Wasnt sure if they needed to be since im not using either, just trillian. I was using google talk, but it doesnt work all the time and is pretty confusing. Trillian seems like the best.
Also your first thanks is on the way....happy to give it to ya!
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happy to help!
From my understanding of DeskSMS, checking off Gmail or GTalk in the app is what triggers the texts to be forwarded to the Nook. I have Google Talk checked off so that when my text messages come in, they forward to my Google Talk connection, wherever I'm signed into that at (...which is Trillian for my Nook, or the actual Google Talk app on the PC when I'm at work - easier to text through a computer than a phone when I'm supposed to be programming ;] ).
I imagine the same would be true for Gmail, only it'd go to your email inbox instead and you could use Gmail to do your texting.
Or you can do both of those things at the same time by having both checked off.
Good luck, Cubs fan!
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happy to help!
From my understanding of DeskSMS, checking off Gmail or GTalk in the app is what triggers the texts to be forwarded to the Nook. I have Google Talk checked off so that when my text messages come in, they forward to my Google Talk connection, wherever I'm signed into that at (...which is Trillian for my Nook, or the actual Google Talk app on the PC when I'm at work - easier to text through a computer than a phone when I'm supposed to be programming ;] ).
I imagine the same would be true for Gmail, only it'd go to your email inbox instead and you could use Gmail to do your texting.
Or you can do both of those things at the same time by having both checked off.
Good luck, Cubs fan!
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Yeah i understand the google thing....Trillian is connected to google talk which is how your able to send and recieve messages So far everything is working great, and Trillian has great fbook chat as well which i thought wasnt working last time i used it....sooo glad i have that to heheh
Thanks for the help...goooooo cubbies haha!
AEBobby912 said:
Hey guys!
Just wondering if anyone has played around with DeskSMS....
I was interested in learning more about texting from your nook. I know theres other programs out there that are like this but Desktop, which i think is out of beta now seems simple. Just want to know how it works and to set it up. Its kinda confusing to me...ive been trying to use it through google talk.
Dont know if anyone has used this app or could help me set it up??
Thanks! Bobby
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Wow..thanks to u for posting this...didn't even know that was possible...gonna give it a go now...'
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Wow..thanks to u for posting this...didn't even know that was possible...gonna give it a go now...'
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Yeah its awesome...works flawless for me....im really suprised at how great the fbook chat is for Trillian which is good. Let me know if you need any help with DeskSMS! Should be pretty simple to set it up and they give you all the info you need in the description in the market.
Just wanted to give a shout out an say thanks. This works excellent. It solved my questions.
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Texting u mean like chatting?
For this I recommend Ebuddy and Nimbuzz
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ndinfla said:
Just wanted to give a shout out an say thanks. This works excellent. It solved my questions.
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No problem! thats what were here for! thanks for checking out the thread
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i tryed linking my aim account to my google talk account but the contacts still dont show up on my phone anyone have any luck getting this to work?
Just use Hi Aim Beta from market. works great.
Freedomcaller said:
i tryed linking my aim account to my google talk account but the contacts still dont show up on my phone anyone have any luck getting this to work?
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That only works on the full GMail web client. Use an AIM client from the Market.
im well aware of the aim clients in the market, but the gtalk app looks really nice. but meebo just updated so im kinda happy for now
I've been using blackberry for a while and the facebook application on it is perfect. Now after switching to Leo, I've noticed that the FB app on that one is weak.. I just would like to know if there is a better app out there. The most important function I'm after is the push notification; I would like to get a notification on my phone(either on Home or maybe a specific tab), each time I get a notification on FB. I came across Babbler for Android, I believe what I'm looking for is something like that...
Thanks in advance for the help
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I've been using blackberry for a while and the facebook application on it is perfect. Now after switching to Leo, I've noticed that the FB app on that one is weak.. I just would like to know if there is a better app out there. The most important function I'm after is the push notification; I would like to get a notification on my phone(either on Home or maybe a specific tab), each time I get a notification on FB. I came across Babbler for Android, I believe what I'm looking for is something like that...
Thanks in advance for the help
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What He Said...
not at this time. Get use to using the browser with the full site.
Jamison904 said:
not at this time.
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booo, a shame
Jamison904 said:
not at this time. Get use to using the browser with the full site.
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The site (especially http://touch.facebook.com ) is not bad but the option I'm missing from blackberry is the push notification. The only I managed to get notifications now is via email
you can get texts from facebook whenever you get messages or posts or whatever. unless your trying to not use texts of course it wont help
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you can get texts from facebook whenever you get messages or posts or whatever. unless your trying to not use texts of course it wont help
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I'm familiar with this option; however, I'm looking for a more "integrated" application (with the OS I mean) such as the one for Blackberry.. I really hope people at Facebook or Microsoft will develop something similar..
That's the ONLY reason I'm hanging onto my blackberry. WinMo's FB app SUCKS. I was just trying this morning different apps which claim they can sync up. So far I haven't found anything that remotely compares to BB's interface. *sigh*
Try this: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-fim-facebook-instant-messenger.html
It has a mode that integrates with the web, and seems to cache your credentials so that you don't have to manually log on. It does have some ads but it's free.
Oh, and of course it lets you do FB IM messages.
Marc
Facebook Apps!
If you do some forum thread searching you will find a couple of interesting items regarding this issue...
1) There is a thread from the writers of the Microsoft Facebook APP, who ARE aware of the limitations of the standard app, and are working on an improved version for WM!
2) There is also a team of equally pi$$ed off WM users who want a decent FB app, that have start writing their own! At present they are assembling a coding team, but SAMPLE images are available and they are making mighty efforts to accomplish what we all want!
Used to love Palringo for WinMo but with Android, there are TONs.. have heard Meebo is pretty good, what do you all use?
primarily interested in: MSN, Yahoo, GChat, Facebook
I came from a blackberry where bbm ran the show, not I use gtalk. Makes it easy for me since I can monitor email and talk on my pc while at work.
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but can you add contacts from other services like msn and such?
I use eBuddy. Great program. Its free in the market
I use nimbuz also free in the market. Good app i cant send files and even do a voice chat on YM.
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I like Trillian, it's not free though [$4.99]
Yeah, I am not against paying for one.. I instant message quite a bit, for personal and for work. What I really liked about my old MSN IM client for my last WinMo phone (TP2) was that you could send voice clips as messages. Palringo did the same thing except the audio clips came through as 3rd party links which was kind of a nuisance.
Anyone else?
zanix said:
I like Trillian, it's not free though [$4.99]
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+1, caught it when they were giving out the free beta and free updates, i love it besides everyone should know it can be found on the internet fringe somewhere floating around for the taking lol
I used newborn for a while, then switched to ebuddy. More relyable
so basically i want to use two google voice accounts to text from on my phone. I've tried editing the .apk but the recompiled apk force closes. Can anyone help me try to get this to work? Anytips? I'm just trying to basically install the same app twice and have it use diff. db files.
redyns said:
so basically i want to use two google voice accounts to text from on my phone. I've tried editing the .apk but the recompiled apk force closes. Can anyone help me try to get this to work? Anytips? I'm just trying to basically install the same app twice and have it use diff. db files.
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I'd be very interested in that as well.
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You'd have to do more than installing it twice. It would have to be re-written.
Well yeah I know that. You can't install the same app twice with out modifications to it. Then It would have to use a diff.Db for the account info. This is my first time messing with an apk so I have no idea how to make this work
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Doesn't Google Voice integrate its' number into your Sprint line?
decayer177 said:
Doesn't Google Voice integrate its' number into your Sprint line?
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It can if you want it to but you don't have to
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It can if you want it to but you don't have to
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How do you make it not? I tried using Google Voice, but it did it automatically and it took forever to revert.
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Titanium Backup (paid version only maybe?) has profiles to load different user data files for an app. You'd have to switch back and forth though. It would probably be easiest to try keeping a web browser logged into Google Voice your second account, setting the user agent to a desktop.
Or just use a second browser app only for this. You won't get instant notifications of incoming texts, but that's about all you can do for now. I don't see Google adding anything like this to the service, honestly.
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Titanium Backup (paid version only maybe?) has profiles to load different user data files for an app. You'd have to switch back and forth though. It would probably be easiest to try keeping a web browser logged into Google Voice your second account, setting the user agent to a desktop.
Or just use a second browser app only for this. You won't get instant notifications of incoming texts, but that's about all you can do for now. I don't see Google adding anything like this to the service, honestly.
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i think the idea is to have the instant notifications. I too have been looking for a solution to this problem for some time. i use multiple voice lines for work, one for hiring/recruiting and one for customers that i tell them is my "personal cell"
i thought the best solution would be to have two voice apks installed but i'm not finding a way to do that.
cowboyaryk said:
i think the idea is to have the instant notifications. I too have been looking for a solution to this problem for some time. i use multiple voice lines for work, one for hiring/recruiting and one for customers that i tell them is my "personal cell"
i thought the best solution would be to have two voice apks installed but i'm not finding a way to do that.
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Couldn't you just set up the separate account to forward to your phone account? You could also go into your GMail settings and set filters to forward all notifications to one account as well.
This would be much easier than hacking the apk...am I wrong?
Hi all,
This the new news today. And installed the update.
Is there a way to combine text messages with the hangout so its all in one?
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icrzymonkey said:
Hi all,
This the new news today. And installed the update.
Is there a way to combine text messages with the hangout so its all in one?
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Hangouts is pretty much just a Google Talk replacement at the moment. It doesn't unify anything.
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DirgeExtinction said:
Hangouts is pretty much just a Google Talk replacement at the moment. It doesn't unify anything.
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Thanks... Fingers crossed it does do
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Well, it totally screws up the easy way of cross compatible situation that Gtalk provided with XMPP. So many Messengers on various Computer Systems, incl. Android and iOS could connect to a Gtalk account. Now thats all over. What has that to do with unifying ? Sounds more to me like "limiting".
I suppose, since Gtalk was a major part in Android, one that I believe cannot/could not be uninstalled (please correct me if I am wrong here), we can't uninstall Google Hangout now. Right ? Since if it replaces Talk, it must be a part of the System that can't be uninstalled. Or please tell me that its no problem to uninstall it ?
Any info is appreciated.
Thank you.
Wolfseye
I don't like the fact that we can't see the online/offline status of the people in our friend lists anymore!
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Well, it totally screws up the easy way of cross compatible situation that Gtalk provided with XMPP. So many Messengers on various Computer Systems, incl. Android and iOS could connect to a Gtalk account. Now thats all over. What has that to do with unifying ? Sounds more to me like "limiting".
I suppose, since Gtalk was a major part in Android, one that I believe cannot/could not be uninstalled (please correct me if I am wrong here), we can't uninstall Google Hangout now. Right ? Since if it replaces Talk, it must be a part of the System that can't be uninstalled. Or please tell me that its no problem to uninstall it ?
Any info is appreciated.
Thank you.
Wolfseye
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It's no problem to uninstall it. You can uninstall with titanium backup.
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Thank you, that worked.
Does anyone know if Google will also disable the Gtalk Servers with the use for Gtalk compatible XMPP apps on for example PC or if that is still running a while ?
Wolfseye
wpkwolfseye said:
Well, it totally screws up the easy way of cross compatible situation that Gtalk provided with XMPP. So many Messengers on various Computer Systems, incl. Android and iOS could connect to a Gtalk account. Now thats all over. What has that to do with unifying ? Sounds more to me like "limiting".
I suppose, since Gtalk was a major part in Android, one that I believe cannot/could not be uninstalled (please correct me if I am wrong here), we can't uninstall Google Hangout now. Right ? Since if it replaces Talk, it must be a part of the System that can't be uninstalled. Or please tell me that its no problem to uninstall it ?
Any info is appreciated.
Thank you.
Wolfseye
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I move the file which named talk.apk from system/app,and then open google play,hangouts can be installed.
But I put the file back,and reboot device.Gtalk is back again, hangouts is missing.
Now I am back to gtalk
youngcn said:
I move the file which named talk.apk from system/app,and then open google play,hangouts can be installed.
But I put the file back,and reboot device.Gtalk is back again, hangouts is missing.
Now I am back to gtalk
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I uninstalled it with Titanium Backups. Now its gone. Can I go back to Gtalk again and if, will it next time be automatically updated with Hangouts again since Google wants to get rid of Gtalk ? Does anyone know if Gtalk (in general) still works as for the Servers, so I could use it on a PC with some alternate Messenger.
Any info on that is appreciated.
Wolfseye
wpkwolfseye said:
I uninstalled it with Titanium Backups. Now its gone. Can I go back to Gtalk again and if, will it next time be automatically updated with Hangouts again since Google wants to get rid of Gtalk ? Does anyone know if Gtalk (in general) still works as for the Servers, so I could use it on a PC with some alternate Messenger.
Any info on that is appreciated.
Wolfseye
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You can go back to gtalk,put the file back to the path,and reboot
When I updated gtalk to hangouts, PC termination had worked as usual.
I think automatically update of gtalk will be successful next time.
youngcn said:
You can go back to gtalk,put the file back to the path,and reboot
When I updated gtalk to hangouts, PC termination had worked as usual.
I think automatically update of gtalk will be successful next time.
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If I understand you correct, I could put in TALK again but next time (or soon) it will be updated automatically to Hangout again, since that is what Google will force on everyone. So there is no point in putting Talk back I suppose. I just hope they keep the XMPP Servers running for Talk to be used on other Systems like PC. So many nice apps that can be used with Gtalk. Pidgin, Miranda etc.
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If I understand you correct, I could put in TALK again but next time (or soon) it will be updated automatically to Hangout again, since that is what Google will force on everyone. So there is no point in putting Talk back I suppose. I just hope they keep the XMPP Servers running for Talk to be used on other Systems like PC. So many nice apps that can be used with Gtalk. Pidgin, Miranda etc.
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yes, you are right.
I also like XMPP Servers, but talk combine with google+ message, what a pity.
If you're on a computer, go to Google plus page and turn hangouts on, there is a green line under the picture of contacts who are online. My list of contacts that show are just frequently used ones though. I know this isn't the same but maybe it will show up in the app soon.
ya its a great design but really missing the simple facts.
GOOGLE if you're reading this, combine all the servers into one.
it is still called talk and still looks the same, however apparently I already have the hangout update... what can I do? I rebooted my nexus twice and talk is still there.
It doesnt look the same at all actually. Lol. if it looks the Same for you, it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. there is a phandroid article with a link to the app itself and you can just install it manually.
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well it still says talk up left... thanks, I might do it manually, can't wait even tough I never used google talk :laugh:
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finally, looks completely different. love it.
according to phandroid it will support sms in a future update.
I removed it completely. If I can't have Google Talk, I dont want that Hangout stuff at all. Google totally screwed up something great XMPP cross-platform stuff which no Google+ or Google Hangout can replace. Not everything wants to be done on a phone, tablet or Browser.
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I removed it completely. If I can't have Google Talk, I dont want that Hangout stuff at all. Google totally screwed up something great XMPP cross-platform stuff which no Google+ or Google Hangout can replace. Not everything wants to be done on a phone, tablet or Browser.
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