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SKYPE at last!!

Skype finally made it to Android and Legend in particular. Haven't tested it with voice calls yet. Now, maybe GTalk will follow?

I've tested it a bit and it even works on EDGE. I couldn't believe that myself but it does.
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Hmm... Just seeing the list of permissions it requires confirms I'll stay away from this one as I did from the PC version.
Oh well I lived without it so far without any problem, this won't change
edit: and for a 2.1 stock legend, that's also a pretty big app to install!

Now, maybe GTalk will follow?
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Gtalk is a stock app on Android. Or i'm missing your point?
Tested Skype for few mins, seems to work fine. Great sound quality, but... It's so heavyweight and there is no option to shut it down COMPLETELY. Lastly, my phone went offline (which newer happened before) so i just uninstalled it and already forgot. Bloatware.
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It froze my phone twice, had to reboot several times... This release of Skype makes Legend unusable, at least my Legend.

skype.apk file
Can someone please post the Skype.apk file.
The Skype download for Android link doesn't work.
Thanks,

AllWin said:
Gtalk is a stock app on Android. Or i'm missing your point?
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I am hoping for gTALK to finally fulfil the promise of its name - enable voice talk

magedhk said:
Can someone please post the Skype.apk file.
The Skype download for Android link doesn't work.
Thanks,
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If you use Market Access, you can gain entry to it.
I did this and downloaded the app, however, i keeps crashing within seconds of me running it. Any idea why?

When I try to sign in, it instantly says try again later, seems like it doesn't even try to sign me in. Any earthlings having the same problem?

Works fine on my phone.
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Skype works on my phone so far. However I do see a lot of comments that say the login fails after a while.
EDIT: Spoke too soon... Skype just crashed, and now I can't sign in either
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Kanzie said:
Skype works on my phone so far. However I do see a lot of comments that say the login fails after a while.
EDIT: Spoke too soon... Skype just crashed, and now I can't sign in either
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just wondering how much data it uses?

Don't know about data yet, but it seems to be sucking quite a bit of battery though.
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and it ain't possible to disable the app. only by going to settings - active services

In "my info" tab, press menu and there's an Sign Out option.
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Disappointed.
It stays on all the time which sucks.
Guess ill stick with nimbuzz until they update.
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deerxmoose said:
In "my info" tab, press menu and there's an Sign Out option.
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We are looking for "Shut that f**k off COMPLETELY" option, no just to sign out. Even when you are signed out it uses quite a lot of resources.

AllWin said:
We are looking for "Shut that f**k off COMPLETELY" option, no just to sign out. Even when you are signed out it uses quite a lot of resources.
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I loled
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DL30 and Facebook Notifications

Has anyone been able to get Facebook push notifications to work with the leak? They are supposed to be working worth 2.2 and higher. I also am aware that the Facebook app its less than perfect.
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jerkules said:
Has anyone been able to get Facebook push notifications to work with the leak? They are supposed to be working worth 2.2 and higher. I also am aware that the Facebook app its less than perfect.
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They seem to be working for me. But then again, I'm not a total fb whore.

mexiken said:
They seem to be working for me. But then again, I'm not a total fb whore.
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You, sir, are quite lucky then.
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jerkules said:
Has anyone been able to get Facebook push notifications to work with the leak? They are supposed to be working worth 2.2 and higher. I also am aware that the Facebook app its less than perfect.
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Mine are hit or miss. To be more direct, for the 15 or so notifications I had today, only once did they get pushed to my phone

I was thinking the same thing. I haven't received one push notification yet.

yeah im not getting any either

how do you set notifications to push? only setting i see is 30 - 1hr - 2hrs - 3hrs - 4hrs

scriz said:
how do you set notifications to push? only setting i see is 30 - 1hr - 2hrs - 3hrs - 4hrs
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Good point, I'm not sure. I see the same things.
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scriz said:
how do you set notifications to push? only setting i see is 30 - 1hr - 2hrs - 3hrs - 4hrs
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The whole point of push is instant. I know that they only work for certain things. Trying to find out exactly what they are at the moment. This would be the only thing I miss from my BB

I think the only things that get pushed is whatever is listed in the settings which are: messages, friend requests, and event invites. There's no option to turn wall post on and off so Im assuming it doesnt get pushed

On my wifes droid 2 there is a "Push" option listed where you have the 30 minute, 4 hour, etc choices. I have tried 3 different roms, Kaos, aosp, and several of the dl30's roms and this option never shows up on this phone. I do not restore my FB settings each time either, but totally reinstall it.
From reading around on facebook it seems that all the Galaxy S phones, even those with offical froyo, do not have the push option. It seems that overall the support for the push notification on FB is not very good and that tey do not work on a lot of phones currently.

I've received them for those mentioned by jepr0x11, but not for other notifications.

I don't believe android supports a true push like blackberry does, although I think 2.2 does somewhat implement push...pretty sure fb just polls the server at a time interval set by the user tho
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Yup Perfectly
Yeah the Facebook push notifications have been working for me perfectly! On eclair (2.1) they would never go through and i would have to manually go check if i had new messages or things like that but now with this Froyo it works perfectly! But at least for me its the same as what "jepr0x11" said.

I wish our fb app was as good as the one for Iowa but judging on how facebook and google have been bumping heads, I don't think facebook is in a rush to upgrade their android app. Is that a run on sentence? Haha
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Its not an issue with DL30 rather the FB app that doesn't support wall post notifications. Had the same problems on OG through DL09. All other notifications work as normal. All we can do is turn on email notifications and hope for am FB app update.
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Mail apps

Hi aside from maildroid anyone gpt suggestions of any mail apps.. im missing my sense one to be fair... maildroids ok but white as you like!
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It depends what functions you want I use gmail and always have even when i had sense. The only thing gmail doesn't let you do is create a new label
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snowpatrol1702 said:
Hi aside from maildroid anyone gpt suggestions of any mail apps.. im missing my sense one to be fair... maildroids ok but white as you like!
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try to uninstall and reinstall new version.

Gmail is only good for basic text mail, as it doesn't have pinch to zoom. You can't read html mail with images comfortably with this. Until they fix this it's totally rubbish on a smartphone if you ask me. It's time google wakes up; how many years will this take? The issue was reported 2 years ago on the tracker with countless users complaining... but google doesn't listen to users.
The funny thing is that on the iphone it does have pinch to zoom, so we have the lesser google app on android
K9-Mail is better. Due to its many options it takes a little time to configure right if you are using gmail with several labels etc..., but it does support gmail with multi label and push notification for all of the labels. It has pinch to zoom, email encryption with gpg,...

No pinch to zoom?
Are you sure?
Because I'm using gmail since November 2010 and I never noticed such issue, and I do receive some html-mails

Hasimir said:
No pinch to zoom?
Are you sure?
Because I'm using gmail since November 2010 and I never noticed such issue, and I do receive some html-mails
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Yes I'm sure. Tried it yesterday again. Still not fixed.
Here:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15745
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18418
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10959
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18181
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20796
There's many more.

I use K9 Mail. Am really satisfied with it.

"Better" email app?

Ok, This isn't so much SGSIII specific, but it'll be a major use for my new toy, err, phone once it arrives. The standard google email app in ICS isn't all that great (based on my CM9 usage on a tablet), and it completely sucks if you happen to be off-line, despite having tons of storage space available.
So, does anyone have some recommendations? Primary desire is support for:
1. Exchange (2010). Ideally the ability to go out and search for older emails not stored locally, actually download attachments ahead of time and store them (WinMobile 6.5 could do this, why not Android), search (localy cached) emails while off-line.
2. Support for imap with similar off-line search and attachment downloading
The current email app works ok except for search. I know I'm tained by some of the easy features in the WinMobile email app (can you tell I'm upgrading from a Touch Pro2 ) Of course, the benefits of Android have had me running Gingerbread on the TP2, but that doesn't mean I find all the apps great.

Check out touchdown exchange in the playstore.

Maildroid handles exchange. Not sure about all of the other stuff you are looking for.

I briefly used the HTC One XL email app and that was far superior to the one that comes with the S3. The biggest issue for me is that I am unable to select what folders to sync to my phone.

mrhaley30705 said:
Maildroid handles exchange. Not sure about all of the other stuff you are looking for.
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Maildroid only does WebDAV, it doesn't use ActiveSync which is the one most Exhange Servers use.

Touchdown or Moxier will be your best bet.

Enhanced Email. Well worth the $
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Duffman14 said:
Enhanced Email. Well worth the $
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Thanks all. Taking a look at Enhanced email (there's a 7 day trial version). Looks pretty similar to the base app, so still feeling out the differences.
Any others? Another feature I've been hunting is a calendar viewer that will grab the attachments that people put into meeting invitations

Another vote for touchdown. I think it's unbeatable for exchange email.
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Touch Down!!
Get touchdown, it comes with a trial period also.

Duffman14 said:
Enhanced Email. Well worth the $
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Another vote for EE here... I have been suing it for over a year with great success.

What's wrong with the stock mail app on the GS3? While not quite as good as the one on the HTC One X, it's up there and everything works the way you expect. You can even set it to show images by default, unlike the stock ICS app. It's similar to the Samsung e-mail app in Gingerbread with a few subtle changes and has a way better interface than Touchdown.
I have never had issues with Samsung's email app.

greyhulk said:
What's wrong with the stock mail app on the GS3? While not quite as good as the one on the HTC One X, it's up there and everything works the way you expect. You can even set it to show images by default, unlike the stock ICS app. It's similar to the Samsung e-mail app in Gingerbread with a few subtle changes and has a way better interface than Touchdown.
I have never had issues with Samsung's email app.
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One thing I noticed today was that mail that has already been deleted from the server is still retained by the email app. The app on the Nexus would delete those automatically.

I just tested this. I deleted 2 emails from my Gmail account through my PC Web browser and watched them disappear off of my GS3, right in front of my eyes. We're talking not even 1 second.
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greyhulk said:
I just tested this. I deleted 2 emails from my Gmail account through my PC Web browser and watched them disappear off of my GS3, right in front of my eyes. We're talking not even 1 second.
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Not the gmail app, the email app.
My only issue with the email app is how slow it is compared to many others - including the GS2 email app. Not only that, but every time I hit the home button from the email, everything has to refresh on my home screen. Gets old to watch everything refresh.

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Not the gmail app, the email app.
My only issue with the email app is how slow it is compared to many others - including the GS2 email app. Not only that, but every time I hit the home button from the email, everything has to refresh on my home screen. Gets old to watch everything refresh.
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I'm talking about the email app. I have Gmail set up as an activesync exchange account, so all of my mail is in one place. My work email account behaves the same. No issues.
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lopezpm said:
Get touchdown, it comes with a trial period also.
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I hate all of these. I am an extensive Exhange user and tried all but went back to stock. Each has it's strength and weaknes but the way Touchdown stores contacts and the outdated interface didn't work for me. I wish we had the Htc One email client and spell checker because it is far superior.
Is this an app than can be separated from Sense?

Aqua mail is nice
I think it has the exchange stuff you're looking for
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[Q] Best Multi Account Mail Client for Samsung s4 ?

[Q] hey guys
whats the Best Multi Account Mail Client for Samsung s4 ?

gremlininthesystem said:
[Q] hey guys
whats the Best Multi Account Mail Client for Samsung s4 ?
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gmail app? lol
no seriously i only use gmail for email

K9 Mail. Free and open source, no ads.
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9&hl=en (old version)
More recent updates: http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/

Actually gmail is a good multi account app.

Gmail is best!
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I am using the one that came with the phone. It seems to work great.

Aquamail pro has been working great for me on my previous device and S4 so far.
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LOL. K9 mail? The best mail app is the one that comes with the phone, period. Can't stand Gmail's fascination with conversation view, other than that the app is great.

mactruck said:
LOL. K9 mail? The best mail app is the one that comes with the phone, period. Can't stand Gmail's fascination with conversation view, other than that the app is great.
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thanks guys =] thanks given =]

I dont think so
mactruck said:
LOL. K9 mail? The best mail app is the one that comes with the phone, period. Can't stand Gmail's fascination with conversation view, other than that the app is great.
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I set up my S4 with 4 email accounts using the stock email program. I reboot my phone, soft reboot, and 3 of the 4 email accounts disappear. I have to set them up again. If I reboot again, they disappear again, and I have to set them up again. Definitely messed up.
I am using POP3, 1 go-daddy email, and 3 verizon.net accounts with my fios account
Anyone have ideas?

Maildroid
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Kaiten Mail, imo the best and been using it for a long time.