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Will someone send me the skype.apk?

For some reason I can't see it in my Canadian 1.6 donut market on my G1
I want to be able to use skype to talk to people over data.

search google for "android market enabler". Use it to set your properties to tmobileUS.

I did. It's not showing skype. I see other apps that were not there but Skype's not one of them.

Macmee said:
For some reason I can't see it in my Canadian 1.6 donut market on my G1
I want to be able to use skype to talk to people over data.
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You can't talk through data with skype, it's useless app.

I think that app has been taken down because I can't find it on the market either.
Here is skype. I found it on 4shared:
http://www.4shared.com/file/105990852/26d36c9c/Skype__BETA_.html?s=1

aahhhh. Is there any way I can use skype for voice? and sms? I need to text international and Skype is the only way I think

Macmee said:
aahhhh. Is there any way I can use skype for voice? and sms? I need to text international and Skype is the only way I think
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Skype will be releasing a true data client shortly, just wait for it.
If you absolutely need to use Skype right now and you already have a Gizmo5 account, you can install Sipdroid and use Gizmo5's Skype connector service. Obviously this is not as practical a solution as a native Skype client.

Is there any way to do international texting relatively cheap / free other than skype too?

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I want to be able to use skype to talk to people over data.
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Try Fring. It supports Skype with Voip. Can make Skype and Skype-out calls.
http://www.fring.com/default.php

Macmee said:
Is there any way to do international texting relatively cheap / free other than skype too?
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for text try voipcheap.com and eventually using it with and after use the sbmessj as a software on your android phone to manage everything. Of course you need a connection data too.

Macrophage001 said:
I think that app has been taken down because I can't find it on the market either.
Here is skype. I found it on 4shared:
http://www.4shared.com/file/105990852/26d36c9c/Skype__BETA_.html?s=1
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Thank you so much for finding and posting this apk. Im using HTCclay SuperBad rom and it works perfectly. Thanks.

Yo.
Macmee said:
Is there any way to do international texting relatively cheap / free other than skype too?
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I dont have a tmobile acct, but I have a G1 & use textPLUS over wifi; its worked swimmingly for me so far & its 100% free too.
Tazer

Try using Nimbuzz, so far the best IM client that i found. And it is free.
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Macmee said:
Is there any way to do international texting relatively cheap / free other than skype too?
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for SMS purposes try ChompSMS, its a pretty neat SMS client and has international support.

Google talk or call

How to get Google talk or call to work in other places apart from the US?
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I think you mean google voice? there's no such thing as 'call', and Gtalk is their IM service which is available world-wide. There are some methods available, but judging by people's comments they are extremely unreliable. I'd like to think that when someone contacts me via phone or SMS, *they will be able to contact me*, for me it's not worth messing with even though I'd really like to use GV.

Well if the a person studies abroad and has to call back home its gonna be pretty expensive. I installed skype but it has. Horrible voice quality.
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There was an app in the market place via which one can make video caller rather phone calls for free via ggoogle voice. But they mentioned that its available only to US customrrs

I think this is only available to US customers, you can only call through gtalk to gtalk just like Skype. Gtalk call is very limited.

mixxx18 said:
I think this is only available to US customers, you can only call through gtalk to gtalk just like Skype. Gtalk call is very limited.
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So I guess its crap then :|
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maybe soon Gtalk will release a better version but right now we have to deal with it. You can just use Skype for the meantime.

<AdY> said:
So I guess its crap then :|
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Hardly, I've using video calling on Gtalk via iChat, it works very well.
You can't call a service crap just because it doesn't offer a feature that you want (which it never advertised).

Well Google voice only runs in America.
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Horrible voice quality.
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Huh? I have perfect call quality with both google talk voice, and skype. You prob had bad internet at that moment. Maybe something updating.

If it's a girl, calling would be the classical way of doing it, but video chatting might be a little better... I don't know.

Yeah I guess
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[Q] Tablet friendly IM App?

One week for today I'll be getting my gTab and I am new to Android in general. Are there any IM clients that play well with the gTab?
Scott

Honestly... I have yet to find an IM app that doesn't play well. I should also state: that is if you're looking to chat only. Getting into video is a whole other can of worms.

jpmi23 said:
Honestly... I have yet to find an IM app that doesn't play well. I should also state: that is if you're looking to chat only. Getting into video is a whole other can of worms.
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Just straight up IM, no need for video at the moment. New to android so I don't know the popular IM apps at the moment, should probably just search the market and see what is well rated.
Scott

For chat they all seem to work well.
I like imo.im the most.
It just looks better to me,
Its one of the newer im apps.

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One week for today I'll be getting my gTab and I am new to Android in general. Are there any IM clients that play well with the gTab?
Scott
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Personally i use ebuddy which incorporates all my gmail accounts yahoo accounts facebook chat accounts and etc.

I forgot about ebuddy. I tried it before when I was running stock with enhancement pack and it wouldn't work for me. Now im on tnt lite 4.2 and haven't tried it again.

I went with Trillian; I'd been using the PC version for ages, and love the elegance of what they have on Android. YMMV.

I just use google voice. Click on your contact's cell phone number (the smiley face to the right) and text away. You have to set up google voice once and you are good to go. Do a search on this forum for the thread on this topic

theindependent said:
I went with Trillian; I'd been using the PC version for ages, and love the elegance of what they have on Android. YMMV.
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seconded.
i've tried ebuddy, im+ and a few others and Trillian seems to offer the cleanest UI in my opinion.

How can we get Google to develop a Honeycomb Google Voice app?

One of the main reasons I went with an Android Honeycomb tablet versus the iPad 2 is the deep level of Google account integration with Honeycomb. I was willing to overlook the lack of Honeycomb-based apps, knowing that Google would push it as they did O.G. Android (and that certainly paid off).
Oddly enough -- one of the few apps that you cannot even download for Honeycomb even though there is a pre-3.0 counterpart, is Google Voice. GV users on HC have to download an old, hacked version of the APK (to give you an idea of how out-dated, it is from before the GV app had push notifications).
How do we go about pushing Google to get HC users a working GV app, one that we can download from the Market??
I hate starting things like this, but the situation is dire (okay, not really, but still!). My plan is to tweet "Please @googlevoice push out a #Honeycomb compatible #googlevoice TODAY!" or "What does #Honeycomb and #iOS have in common? No native @googlevoice app!"

ralexand said:
One of the main reasons I went with an Android Honeycomb tablet versus the iPad 2 is the deep level of Google account integration with Honeycomb. I was willing to overlook the lack of Honeycomb-based apps, knowing that Google would push it as they did O.G. Android (and that certainly paid off).
Oddly enough -- one of the few apps that you cannot even download for Honeycomb even though there is a pre-3.0 counterpart, is Google Voice. GV users on HC have to download an old, hacked version of the APK (to give you an idea of how out-dated, it is from before the GV app had push notifications).
How do we go about pushing Google to get HC users a working GV app, one that we can download from the Market??
I hate starting things like this, but the situation is dire (okay, not really, but still!). My plan is to tweet "Please @googlevoice push out a #Honeycomb compatible #googlevoice TODAY!" or "What does #Honeycomb and #iOS have in common? No native @googlevoice app!"
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Well, the latest version in the market works fine on the xoom with out [email protected] anything. You have to download it on your phone, then move it - or I can post it for you if you want. Then side load it. No big deal.
Second, I don't think we can really complain, its a free service and a free app. They'll release it when its ready. I don't want a big pile of crap software because they released it to early, it's what got the Xoom into a lot of its mess in the first place.

Kcarpenter said:
Well, the latest version in the market works fine on the xoom with out [email protected] anything. You have to download it on your phone, then move it - or I can post it for you if you want. Then side load it. No big deal.
Second, I don't think we can really complain, its a free service and a free app. They'll release it when its ready. I don't want a big pile of crap software because they released it to early, it's what got the Xoom into a lot of its mess in the first place.
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I agree, and I use GV on my Xoom with no problem by doing what you described above.

ralexand said:
One of the main reasons I went with an Android Honeycomb tablet versus the iPad 2 is the deep level of Google account integration with Honeycomb. I was willing to overlook the lack of Honeycomb-based apps, knowing that Google would push it as they did O.G. Android (and that certainly paid off).
Oddly enough -- one of the few apps that you cannot even download for Honeycomb even though there is a pre-3.0 counterpart, is Google Voice. GV users on HC have to download an old, hacked version of the APK (to give you an idea of how out-dated, it is from before the GV app had push notifications).
How do we go about pushing Google to get HC users a working GV app, one that we can download from the Market??
I hate starting things like this, but the situation is dire (okay, not really, but still!). My plan is to tweet "Please @googlevoice push out a #Honeycomb compatible #googlevoice TODAY!" or "What does #Honeycomb and #iOS have in common? No native @googlevoice app!"
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I agree with you. It's shameful that the ipad has a Google voice app and we don't.
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Yeah, while I support your efforts, I just gave in myself and pulled the APK from a rooted phone. It's here, if you want it, too.

Using the above app on my wifi only xoom I can text, but I can't make calls. Has anyone figured out a way to make calls with their GV number on a wifi xoom?
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Eh. Couldn't care less about calls, only texting (when I'm outside the US, for example).
You can't do it with GV as it stands anyway; the way it works now is it makes a standard voice-call to a Google number.

kcrudup said:
Eh. Couldn't care less about calls, only texting (when I'm outside the US, for example).
You can't do it with GV as it stands anyway; the way it works now is it makes a standard voice-call to a Google number.
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Groove ip in the market allows for voice calls, I'm pretty sure but not positive it works on wifi xooms

I've updated the APK in my Dropbox link above to reflect the new GV released today (0.4.2.32).

Sorry if this has been asked and answered before but how come the refresh options for google voice on our xoom tablets is different than the same version on a non tablet android device?
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nexusonemeover said:
but how come the refresh options for google voice on our xoom tablets is different than the same version on a non tablet android device?
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It's been asked, but that's OK- there's no reason for it, and I'd like to know the rationale for this as well. It's the only thing really lacking in GV right now.

kcrudup said:
I've updated the APK in my Dropbox link above to reflect the new GV released today (0.4.2.32).
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Thanks for this. Works like a charm on my iconia.and btw groove IP works great with gv

blcklab said:
Thanks for this. Works like a charm on my iconia.and btw groove IP works great with gv
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Oh, don't **** around with THAT old version! They just made a new one with HC enhancements- see here.

Google Allo on OnePlus 3

As many of you already know, Google released Allo. I have seen several versions released but can confirm that this version works on my stock-rooted ROM:
Google Allo 1.0.006_RC18 (arm64-v8a_xxhdpi) (400-480dpi) (Android 4.1+)
I downloaded from apkmirror.

Its available on play store

samnaction said:
Its available on play store
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When I checked 1/2hr ago it was still accepting registration. Maybe geo-location restrictions. Anyhow, thanks for update.

singlebyte said:
When I checked 1/2hr ago it was still accepting registration. Maybe geo-location restrictions. Anyhow, thanks for update.
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Same here...
Anyone with feedback? It's good or another messanger?
Seems like a nice option with Google answers and hints. But you know,....
...truly can't wait to have half of my friends trying huge fonts, new emojis, stickers and whatever else ON ME.

Implementation was garbage.. If I text someone from the app it'll nag them to download it to continue the convo, the texts come from a short code number (worse), and if you don't want allo and accidentally dismiss the notification well you have to download it to get the message (waaat?!)
So nope, I'll stick to what I got

The way the media and how Google advertised it before release they made it seem like it was going to be a texting, and hangouts replacement. Now that it's out it feels like a whatsapp replacement which is already piss poor because people who adopted whatsapp have already brought everyone in that ecosystem.
I feel a bit disappointed because it seemed like it was going to be an answer to imessage. =/ I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the final product is going to be.

I have uninstalled it . IT seems to be replacement for Whats app. It's not SMS/Texting app.

try that google allo ah this is smart messenger we can chat using phone number seems like whatsapp but i don't have friend to talk with me using allo right now hahaha already try the google assistant it's quitely good, but if i try to find the near hotel they send me barcelona hotel ==" so far hahaha

i cant understand what google is trying to do with messenger, hangouts, duo and allo. Its extremely foolish instead they should have implemented all these features in the same app and should have implemented something like imessage which would have been a brilliant move and a great answer to imessage and facetime. and since google apps are cross platform it would have been great instead they are making several half baked apps.

samnaction said:
Its available on play store
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not available need pre-register

erv99 said:
not available need pre-register
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It's a staged rollout, give it a day or a few.

Someone create an Allo group!
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If they ever get it to work like sms and implement it as the native messaging app on android OS it will be the biggest thing out as all the android users will have it. And somehow integrate Duo in it as well (something the other apps cant do yet)

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It's a staged rollout, give it a day or a few.
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If you guys go back to the 1st post you will see where you can get it.

Google Allo records all of your chats, then can give them to the authorities as per their request.
Running Android since 1.5..... Boosted OP3

superbrowndude said:
Google Allo records all of your chats, then can give them to the authorities as per their request.
Running Android since 1.5..... Boosted OP3
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Just read that as well....now deleting...
https://news.fastcompany.com/no-mat...llo-messenger-app-says-edward-snowden-4019786

Been using it myself, works pretty great
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superbrowndude said:
Google Allo records all of your chats, then can give them to the authorities as per their request.
Running Android since 1.5..... Boosted OP3
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No different from hangouts or Facebook messenger (unless you use the encrypted option)
And SMS isn't even secure, much less encrypted