Hey guys,
Using every video conference app I can find, it defaults to the rear camera.
I recently upgraded gtalk to the new version with video conference - tried it using a test account on my laptop (camera conference between phone account and laptop account) and again, defaults to the rear camera.
Would anyone know of any fix to this? None of the apps I've found so far provide even the option to switch, which would seem like the most obvious thing to do!
Cheers
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I'm experiencing the same problem.
I just installed Yahoo Messenger for Android (official app) which has now support for video calling, but again it uses only the rear camera.
Maybe there's a tweak/hack to make the apps "think" that the front camera is the rear camera?
Ive tried yahoo, tango, fring and gtalk it ain't working lol
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has any one of the lucky owners of the phone tried to use Skype on it? Is there video chat support? Surely the hardware is up to the task.
How bout OooVoo?
cynop said:
has any one of the lucky owners of the phone tried to use Skype on it? Is there video chat support? Surely the hardware is up to the task.
How bout OooVoo?
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I tried with Yahoo Messenger and that worked.
Havn't tried Skype.
Skype doesn't support video chat, and I can't even log in, it crashes every time I start it (2.2.1)
I have tried skype. It works perfectly! Excellent sound quality using either 3G/H or wifi.
Sadly no video support yet. There are some other apps that do have video like Tango or Fring. Downside is that the other party needs the same app too. ( correct me if im wrong )
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gyerelufy said:
Skype doesn't support video chat, and I can't even log in, it crashes every time I start it (2.2.1)
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How come you are running 2.2.1 iso 2.2.2 ?
Here Skype just runs beautiful, and stable.
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Tango doesn't work on 2.2.2 it crashes every time i try to call.
Any update is Tango or Fring are working with the FFC on thus phone?
Does Yahoo messenger works with the FFC on this phone?
clubtech said:
Any update is Tango or Fring are working with the FFC on thus phone?
Does Yahoo messenger works with the FFC on this phone?
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Tango works, but the front cam is not supported.
Beta fring 2.4.5.9 can work with the FFC just fine.
Download it here http://reg.fring.com/app/versions/Fring2459.apk
Note this is NOT the market version, it is a later version which is beta testing.
I admit it. I'm an idiot. I sold my Nook Color and bought the wi-fi Tab because I wanted a front facing camera. I got it, set it up, rooted it, tweaked the build.prop file so the icons aren't so freaking huge, added Zeam, and installed the apps I wanted/needed.
So, I'm all good to go now I think except for video calling. This I can't get to work. I need to do video calling from the Tab to a PC and possibly to an iOS device as well. The Tab to PC is what is critical though. I can't find oovoo in the market, but I found an APK posted here and tried it out. It didn't work. It used my rear facing camera instead of my front facing camera and video from the Tab never made it to the PC I was calling. I checked and the tick box is checked to use the front facing camera. No matter what I check, it goes to rear facing though. Plus, Oovoo never picked up my BT headset as a microphone. (Tested the headset with google voice search and confirmed it was working later.) Qik is pre-installed on the Tab, but when I click it I get a message that says, "service coming soon." I don't think that lets me call PCs anyway. Yahoo Messenger has been suggested to me, but I don't see it in the market for my device. Any ideas?
Oovoo seems to work for everybody on here
Maybe your Res is to low I know below 182 the camera forcloses try putting it above 182
I changed my build.prop back to 240 just to test if that was the problem. It made no difference so I set it back to 190. My phone and my Tab are on the same wifi network. I have no camera on my computer, but I don't see that as causing the problem. When I call my computer, or vice versa, this is what happens. On my Tab, I see a blank avatar for my computer caller. This is to be expected of course. On the upper left of the screen, I see an image of what my rear facing camera is seeing. This appears whether I check the box for front or rear facing camera. Doesn't matter, I still see the rear facing camera. On my computer I see a completely black screen on the left and a blank avatar on the right. The video from the Tab never ever gets to the computer. The BT headset I'm using doesn't get picked up as an audio source. I here just noise over my computer speakers. When I mute the microphone on my Tab, the noise on the computer speakers goes away so I know this is the problem with the audio.
Edit: Are there any apps I can use just to confirm the front facing camera is working?
A. Nonymous, i see you downloaded the oovoo.apk from here, is it the new mobile version that was released Wed. 27th April ?
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A. Nonymous, i see you downloaded the oovoo.apk from here, is it the new mobile version that was released Wed. 27th April ?
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No idea. I'm looking at it now, where do I need to go in the app to look?
You must be in a different country then the USA. I tried everything you complained about and everything works. GST Sprint 3g
I'm in the US and I'm using the wifi Tab.
To test the front facing camera, you can simply turn on the camera and then set it to self portrait... There's a white blob in the top left corner when you hold the tab wide ways. Clicking on it will give you camera options - including self portrait.
Sometimes the camera gets stuck and I find that you need to clear soom Ram...
Hope this helps
T
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To test the front facing camera, you can simply turn on the camera and then set it to self portrait... There's a white blob in the top left corner when you hold the tab wide ways. Clicking on it will give you camera options - including self portrait.
Sometimes the camera gets stuck and I find that you need to clear soom Ram...
Hope this helps
T
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Yes. That is a huge help. Let's me confirm that the front facing camera is indeed working. So to summarize:
Rear camera works.
Front camera works.
ooVoo can't be found in the market and sideloaded APK doesn't work. Doesn't recognize my BT headset for audio. Doesn't recognize the front facing camera for video. I don't know what version of the app it is.
Yahoo Messenger can't be found in the market.
Any other ideas to do video calling from the Tab to a PC?
this is the ooVoo 27th April release app
there are things i use
Kik
qik
oovoo
tango
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this is the ooVoo 27th April release app
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Thanks for the APK. When I run it, I get the message "Sorry, your device is not supported yet." But their website says it is. I guess I'm left to contact their tech support.
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there are things i use
Kik - Doesn't seem to support video chat
qik - Can't call computers.
oovoo - Doesn't work as documented earlier
tango - Can't call computers, just other mobile devices.
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I sideloaded Yahoo Messenger (loaded it to my phone, backed it up, restored on my Tab). It doesn't pick up audio either. This may be because I'm in so close proximity to the computer I'm calling. I may simply be picking up feedback from my computer's microphone. It also picked up the video from my rear facing camera and not the front facing one. I couldn't find any settings to change that.
received the same message on my Verizon SGT-I800
"Sorry, your device is not supported yet."
Tango works for me as I have 3g, but I'm trying to get this to work on my step fathers I800, it's a Verizon tab but doesn't have 3g service. Was hoping WiFi video calling would work! Ugh...
I think if I was doing calling to another Android device or another iOS device, things like Qik (sideloaded probably) or Tango might work. You'd think they would have some program pre-loaded on the Tab that would do video calling. I can't believe they don't.
If it helps anyone, I contacted ooVoo tech support and got the following response, "Thanks for the info. Currently this model -Galaxy Tab GT-P1010 is not on our supported list of units and I'll escalate to engineering to research and get it added to the list."
install skype and qik which is from skype and you have a perfect working video chat application which I use to see my grandchilds in philipinnes from the netherlands in almost perfect video quality
Second possiblity is using a cobinnation of voip with video
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Hi. I have a new SGT (wifi & cellphone) which I bought in Australia & using in Philippines. I am using both YSM & ooVoo successfully. YSM only uses rear camera. ooVoo uses rear & front. I set ooVoo to front camera in settings but first few times I ran the app, it used rear camera! This confused me for a while but after manually switching to front camera (you touch the screen over camera image) it stayed using front camera. Manually switching back to rear camera again usually results in the avatar you mention for the PC viewer... only occasionally does the rear camera actually work and then it's in the wrong orientation for the person you are talking to on PC. Strangely, rotating the SGT does not rotate the image on the PC! It must be using the motion sensor to "correct" orientation. I'm also using SGT & PC on same network.
One more thing that may be of significance is that sometimes when I've viewed an AVI video (can't tell you if encoding format matters) both the cameras stop working. The "viewfinder" only shows a corrupted image of the last frame of the video that I viewed?! The only thing I can do is power off/on to fix this.
I hope this info helps & doesn't add to your confusion! By the way, every time I start ooVoo it tells me my device (SGT-P1000T) is not supported, so it's no surprise that there are a couple of glitches but it works pretty well.
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I just picked up my tab today.......US here.....tried fring firstand that works fine......just a fyi....
Does Oovoo allow Oovoo to PC (skype) connections by chance?
- is there an application that allows for tab - skype or tab to google video chat connectivity as well?
I'll try out these options, just curious, thank you,
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install skype and qik which is from skype and you have a perfect working video chat application which I use to see my grandchilds in philipinnes from the netherlands in almost perfect video quality
Second possiblity is using a cobinnation of voip with video
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Everything I've read about Skype says they don't support the front facing camera on the Galaxy Tab. You're saying this is incorrect? Qik doesn't let you call computers.
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I just picked up my tab today.......US here.....tried fring firstand that works fine......just a fyi....
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Fring doesn't let you call computers.
I had a question, is there any working video calling app for Black wich is using the front facing camera?
don't find yet...
So we must wait for 2.3...
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Skype last update works with our Black, but i dosen't very well (for me). Try, and please tell me how does it work. Bye
This version worked on my Nova (never tried on the stock ROM).
"Use Preview Surface" Should Be Checked for the front cam.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16618967&postcount=452
Tango should also work now.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sgiggle.production&feature=search_result
Hi all..I have a GN 7000 w/ XXLRQ. and the Speedmod kernel.
I want to take and send mms using the front camera.
The stock messaging app won't allot it.
Handcent messaging won't allow it either.Although. Handcent will allow the front camera use, but NOT allow 'limit for mms video", so you cannot send for too large of a file.
Has anyone been able to use your front camera for mms sending?
And if so... what app and *how to* do you do it?
Thanks for reading. All replies are welcomed and encouraged.
thanks again
oops.. i meant to say "Video" mms.... not a regular still photo pic, but a Video mms using the front camera... sorry for the mistake
Use kicksend......
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Why don't you just take a picture using the camera app and then attach it to your mms? Why so complicated?
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altae said:
Why don't you just take a picture using the camera app and then attach it to your mms? Why so complicated?
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you are so right. Thank you for bringing that to my attention... In fact, I DID ERROR in stating my question. I wanted to ask.....
" I want to shoot a VIDEO mms using my front camera..
the stock mms wont allow it, neither will Handcent.
i did look into Kicksend briefly, but it doesn't appear to be a messaging type app,,
Does anyone know how to, or know of a messaging app that allows VIDEO mms using the front camera of out GN7000.. using XLRG.? thanks...
The app camera jb+ lets you shoot videos using the front cam.
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The app camera jb+ lets you shoot videos using the front cam.
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but.... can you use that front cam to shoot and send video mms?
sure you can shoot video with the front cam... save its file ....
just cannot send it via mms...
can you link us to this app JB+ .. we'll give it a go to see if we can use the front cam to shoot and send video mms.
thanks
You can send every video stored on your phone as a mma. There is no need to have an app with that functionality built in. And the camera jb+ app is available on google play.
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You can send every video stored on your phone as a mma. There is no need to have an app with that functionality built in. And the camera jb+ app is available on google play.
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I can send an 'mma' as an attachment on a txt message??? mms??
Please explain how todo that?? thanks.....
Sorry mma was a typo, I wanted to write mms of course
Simply start writing a sms, click on the attachmet symbol in the bottom left corner and select video. The gallery opens and you can choose the video you want to send. Of course if the video is too big it won't work so I suggest you use the lowest possible resolution to record your video.
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The OP's point appears to be being missed here.
They want to make a short video message using the Limit For MMS function (295KB max file size) AND Self Recording using the front facing camera simultaneously.
This to me appears one of the most obvious of uses for sending video via MMS yet the SGS2/ICS does not allow this.
you are correct sir.... cannot be done with stock or hand cent , go mms... sure wish you could... using the rear.. you have to hope that. your shot is framed right.. and spin the phone around twice while recording.. does not look good....
any other suggestions????
Tried JB+ ... Needs More Work
I tried JB+ (spent £1.49)
JB+ does not appear to offer the Limit For MMS function (295KB max file size) AND Self Recording using the front facing camera simultaneously.
Neither does JB+ appear to do Macro Focus unlike the Camera app on ICS
JB+ appears more user friendly/dumbed down perhaps but apart from the Panoramic View function, an amusing novelty, I think this style is a backwards step.
If they restored Macro Focus and enabled Front Facing MMS then I would think better of them.
Would it be possible to make a videocall with our 4x, but without the use off an extra app, iff i want to look at my face i wil look in the mirror, so why do we have the front camera
Unfortunately we can't make video call from the dialler
I also try some dialler apps from play store but video call not works
Only video chat can possibly like Skype
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