The app says that there are hardware limitation and that my phone can't use the video chat.
However... I'd like to push my limits. So does anyone know if it actually looks at my hardware or if it looks at the what kind of phone it is? Either way, can we trick the app into thinking that I'm using another phone or different hardware? Or any fix at all really to get video chat on the g1?
Thanks.
By default the application disables the video call option unless your hardware is on the list of supported devices. This doesn't mean you can't turn it back on yourself though.
In the options menu simply check the box to enable video calling and voila. Tested this theory myself on my G1 earlier this evening. Video worked without any problems on a skype call.
Sent from my HTC Dream using XDA App
wow, thanks for the reply... I just tried it again myself... yep it works.
For some odd reason, I clicked to enable video chat before and it wouldn't work. Oh well... it does now
Related
Hello,
What are the options to make a video conference over wifi (NOT 3G). ?
Thanks
*bump* anyone ?
i have search enough the only one
that promises that is AGILE MESSENGER but is not free
PS
if you find something more let me know ..PM
I'm unsure of Skype Mobile and, being that I have the Tilt, can't try it out, but Skype for PC/Mac allows video conference calling for free between skype users as well as iChat for Mac and AIM for Windows.
no options as of yet,some claim ms portraint but but no good since most of us don't have the 2nd camera on the front to be used for the conference anyways
Sorry to bug in but am I missing something here? The guy is asking for Video conference. I do have Skype but I don't have an option for Video... What am I missing?
Probably nothing. I didn't know if Skype Mobile had a video conference option or not (Skype for PC and Mac does). I guess it doesn't. Oh well, future version maybe.
soccernamlak said:
I'm unsure of Skype Mobile and, being that I have the Tilt, can't try it out, but Skype for PC/Mac allows video conference calling for free between skype users as well as iChat for Mac and AIM for Windows.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried Skype Mobile but it is not allowing to use the built-in camera of my Kaiser.
It won't. I checked on Skype's website. Video conferencing is not supported by Skype Mobile.
marek101 said:
Hello,
What are the options to make a video conference over wifi (NOT 3G). ?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How about this?
http://www.ivisit.com/download
not free.. but it should do the job...
I'm just wondering whether anyone else is as frustrated as I am with the YouTube app included on the captivate. I always click on "more" and change it to "watch in high quality" whenever I pull up a video.
Is there some sort of workaround that could fix this? And by fix of course I mean change the app to always pull videos down in high quality.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
thebigbluecheez said:
I'm just wondering whether anyone else is as frustrated as I am with the YouTube app included on the captivate. I always click on "more" and change it to "watch in high quality" whenever I pull up a video.
Is there some sort of workaround that could fix this? And by fix of course I mean change the app to always pull videos down in high quality.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can flash the JH2 or JH3 ROM and it has a HQ button right on the front so it is an easy 1 click to load the HQ video, Or you can connect to a wireless connection and it will always load the HQ version..
I installed the default Youtube app from the Droid X or something that allows for you to set the high quality setting as default and includes the HQ button on the screen as well. Been working fine for me; but as always, buyer beware.
question, did you delete the original youtube app before installing this?
I'm leaning toward this option of installing another version of youtube. I'm rooted, and running Titanium backup and have used droid explorer and all. I would also like to know whether I need to uninstall the default youtube, because I've backed up and deleted the AT&T apps as recommended in another thread, but I haven't seen or tried reinstalling something once uninstalling using titanium backup. (Is that a paid version benefit?)
I don't really like the idea of flashing my rom just yet. I've had the phone about a month now, and am still a little jumpy with my new toy. Maybe in 6 months I'll be running cyanogenmod or something, but not just yet.
As far as connecting to a wireless network or just telling it every time to download in HQ, my problem is this: I'm not always near wi-fi, and it seems really hypocritical of the nation's fastest 3g network purveyors to make us watch underwater vaseline-glasses youtube videos when their network speeds support HQ viewing.
Thanks for the quick replies! XDA's great!
nammyczc said:
question, did you delete the original youtube app before installing this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just installed it right without removing the original since I figured it was just like updating the application. I think it prompts you that the older version will be removed and replaced by that one anyways.
thebigbluecheez said:
I'm just wondering whether anyone else is as frustrated as I am with the YouTube app included on the captivate. I always click on "more" and change it to "watch in high quality" whenever I pull up a video.
Is there some sort of workaround that could fix this? And by fix of course I mean change the app to always pull videos down in high quality.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Interesting, I just have the stock Youtube app and whenever I pull up a video and go to Menu, it shows "Watch in Normal Quality," which I assume means I'm already watching in HQ. I don't remember changing anything though...
wildkarrde21 said:
Interesting, I just have the stock Youtube app and whenever I pull up a video and go to Menu, it shows "Watch in Normal Quality," which I assume means I'm already watching in HQ. I don't remember changing anything though...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When you are connected to wifi, it will default to the high quality setting. When you are connected to 3g, however, it will switch to normal/low quality mode. I'm assuming this is the case right now.
sometimes the buttons on the widget don't work properly :T.. and i have JH3 @[email protected]
thebigbluecheez said:
I'm leaning toward this option of installing another version of youtube. I'm rooted, and running Titanium backup and have used droid explorer and all. I would also like to know whether I need to uninstall the default youtube, because I've backed up and deleted the AT&T apps as recommended in another thread, but I haven't seen or tried reinstalling something once uninstalling using titanium backup. (Is that a paid version benefit?)
I don't really like the idea of flashing my rom just yet. I've had the phone about a month now, and am still a little jumpy with my new toy. Maybe in 6 months I'll be running cyanogenmod or something, but not just yet.
As far as connecting to a wireless network or just telling it every time to download in HQ, my problem is this: I'm not always near wi-fi, and it seems really hypocritical of the nation's fastest 3g network purveyors to make us watch underwater vaseline-glasses youtube videos when their network speeds support HQ viewing.
Thanks for the quick replies! XDA's great!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Regarding restoring an app after uninstalling it, I have been trying to do the same thing. It seems as if it wont restore simply from a backup. I am running the free version also so maybe it is a paid benefit.
tysj said:
I installed the default Youtube app from the Droid X or something that allows for you to set the high quality setting as default and includes the HQ button on the screen as well. Been working fine for me; but as always, buyer beware.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks so much for the download, it's soo nice to have the hq button in plain sight
Thanks
Does video calling work? if so, how?
what apps?
I know Skype doesn't work. What about the other ones? Fring? Fango? etc.
Funkadelick said:
Does video calling work? if so, how?
what apps?
I know Skype doesn't work. What about the other ones? Fring? Fango? etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
?????????????????????????????
the build in phone dial pad has video chat
you can phone anyone with another video chat capable cell phone
???????????????????????????????
Pretty sure with bell they have a different package for video calling I don't know how it all works you'll have to visit your providers website - just google it I can't post links yet.
As for third party apps there is a few I believe, I use Tango it works the best for me for the very little video calling I do, its still not the greatest yet. You can video call other galaxy users, iphoners, and I'm sure other people who's phones are good enough.
I'm sure skype will have something and google will also just don't know timelines or stuff like that, google it
you forgot to mention Fring
AllGamer said:
you forgot to mention Fring
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's the thing im just wondering if Canadian Bell users specifically can video phone.
So far I know Tango works.
I saw mention of a few people getting the Netflix app from the revolution system dump working on the fascinate. Did any of you have any luck? If so, what ROM are you using? I had no luck on AOSP.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA Premium App
Yes I had great luck and it even installed perfectly on the fascinate. Only thing it doesn't do is stream video. Apparently it doesn't on any phone as of yet but you can at the moment check your instant and dvd selections perfectly.
I've got it installed and working fine. Streaming does get an error but I saw it may have something to do with current drm setup.
sent from my Super Clean 2.9 - Voodoo - Fascinate via Tapatalk Pro
Nothing is corrupt. It's just not fully finished yet and wasn't supposed to be leaked.
Some devs in the hacking forum seem to have tracked to a drm issue. I know in some of the later superclean roms there was an issue with battery drain from the drm service always running so Adrynalyne dropped it from the framework but created a patch to put it back if there was any issue. I'm on sc2.9v & I've got the netflix app installed & logged in to my acct. but can't connect to stream. Anyone not on superclean try the app with any success?
Ran the Netflix app under 2.9 and 2.9.1 successfully but with no video stream. All we can do for now is check DVD and instant queues.
It requires hardware DRM, and checks the cpu. No bueno.
adrynalyne said:
It requires hardware DRM, and checks the cpu. No bueno.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Too bad. Thanks for looking into it.
Doesnt netflix instant require windows silverlight...
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
I'm guessing beyond the DRM issue, Netflix simply hasn't activated the service on their servers yet for this app. So even right now on the appropriate hardware, it still wouldn't work.
Installed it on mine with rooted, personally cleaned out, stock rom - same result. Hoping that devs can get ahold of this and hack it up. Has anyone tried the playon sevice that is supposed to make hulu and netflix work?
I've tried the playon mobile but it definitely needs an upgrade do to it not having a wide range for working with routers. Believe me if anyone knows anything about networking it's me and mine is setup perfectly to run playon mobile. It has never connected for me at all. Which is a bummer because playon is on all my consoles in the house and it works great! I would try it out for sure because it is actually working for others on there router setups with playon mobile. I'm really looking forward to this netflix app though. I've been using it now for a couple of days and it works amazing except of course the "no streaming" not working right now. I've unpacked the netflix.apk and have looked at the coding and there's nothing we can do to make it work the way it should. In a sense netflix needs to click the "go" button if you will on there end to make it finally work.
I remember hearing that some new Android phones that will use the new (Qualcomm?) dual core chip will have something built in that will allow Netflix DRM to function and those that don't have it won't get that capability. I think it was from This Week in Google.
I use PlayOn for netflix.
I like it because it works but its a little slow.
Video Quality: 8
but being able to get netflix now:10
lambi1982 said:
I use PlayOn for netflix.
I like it because it works but its a little slow.
Video Quality: 8
but being able to get netflix now:10
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does this convert the videos to flash I'm confused? I too witness silver light loading screens every time I'm watching nfx. How might this be possible
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
I assume you have PlayOn installed on both you phone and PC, right?
I am pretty sure it is converting on the fly to flv or something.
When I select netflix and choose a movie I get a screen that says "buffering" for about 10 sec and then the movie plays just fine.
sound is a 9/10 and video 8/10
hope you get it working, if you like I can post a vid of it working
Can't wait to get a full netflix ported to this phone. Is this a codec issue?
Google has released an update for the Google+ app so that you can now join (but not create) hangouts.
The cool part? This means that there is a fairly good video chat option for gTablet owners! I tried it with myself and it seemed to work ok... my connection can't handle streaming both video streams, so the quality had issues, but I'm pretty sure it was just my connection and not the gtablet.
The only downside is that you can't start a hangout... which means that someone would still have to be using a computer.
But the camera and mic all worked.
I'm using VeganTab Ginger edition (based on 2.3.5). I think the new Hangouts app feature will only work on 2.3+.
Sideways Video
I tried it just now, and my video appears on its side the other computer. This is exactly what happened a couple months ago when I was hopeful about Google Talk with video...or was it Yahoo! Messenger. Actually, I think both sent sideways video. Oh well. I used G-Harmony Gingerbread 2.3.5 to test this.
Interesting. Mine doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Orientation changes also work.
paulewog said:
Interesting. Mine doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Orientation changes also work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you sure that the orientation is correct on the other computer? The preview of my video looks fine on my screen, but is sideways on the laptop receiving my video.
If it is fine, what ROM are you using? (Oops. Nevermind that question - I just reread your original post)
I tried it with my wife on a laptop running Windows 7. I'm not sure if the orientation changed worked on her end or not, but when I was holding my gtablet horizontally with the hard buttons at the top right, the video on her laptop seemed to be fine/my head was upright. I would have to try it again to be certain...