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New skype release today!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/skype-for-android-now-support-video-calls-works-over-wifi-and-3g/
Not working on the transformer or the gtablet yet. But hopefully we'll get a working app soon either from microsoft or from the dev community.

I tried a patched version that took out the restriction. It force closes when trying to accept a call and enable video, but the settings and buttons show up...

gtab
Can some one upload the APK when they get the new video skype so we can try this on the gtablet.

Here's the issue, I think...
The support for video chat requires Gingerbread. If I understand correctly, this is because GB finally introduced a standard API to access the front camera.
Until Gingerbread did this, all apps that accessed the camera needed their own drivers to do so (there was no standard camera driver to access back then, which is why apps needed to have built in support for specific devices).
Skype is using this to their advantage by releasing an app that doesn't require much code change to support device almost any device (why they are only supporting specific devices at a time is mostly political AFAIK).
But here's the problem- There is no official Gingerbread for our hardware! All the GB roms we have are hacked together with peices of code with missing native hardware drivers since they don't exist! That means, I would guess, the new Gingerbread camera API is USELESS BECAUSE GINGERBREAD LACKS THE NATIVE HARDWARE SUPPORT!
Yes, this is awfully depressing. But without a real Official Gingerbread rom, unless Skype starts offering Froyo camera support (unlikely since they would go back to the old problem of suporting each camera hardware individually), this is just not going to happen.
Maybe if the rumors of official Honeycomb drivers turn out to be true, and Skype eventually supports video with HC (another *IF*), then maybe. But that's a long way off.
Very depressing- I was very excited about this working until I came to this realization.

Wrong thread.

How's that? Looks like the correct thread to me.

Dishe said:
How's that? Looks like the correct thread to me.
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I meant myself. I put a post here and then realized it was meant for elsewhere. Multiple windows openned.

Here's the apk for the new released skype vid app.

[Q] Nokia Lumia 625 Black File Manager?

Hello Everybody,
Recently i bought Nokia Lumia 625 Black, WP8.0, i was thinking Nokia 'll give me fab experience using their Lumia Windows phone but i am really disappointed using its restricted windows phone, the things which i don't like in Windows phone are,
1) Can't easily manage my files on SDCARD/exSdcard, i have download many pdf file in my lumia and i tried to copy them in my laptop but surprisingly i saw that there is no folder for downloaded file in phone storage or extSdcard.
2) Camera photo quality is not that good.
3) I Can't hide my application which i was used to in my Android Core mobile.
4) There is no much app in app store and moreover they are oldest and not updated, many of their app crashes, like whatsapp, truecaller, etc.
5) Can't easily manage your ringtones.
6) Third party call recording is not working.
7) NO DUAL SIM so what it makes you satisfied is its battery performance, thats it, really disappointed buying nokia lumia windows series phone.
8) No option for USB tethering for internet sharing.
my question is that is there any option to manage file on sdcard or extsdcard?

No official file manager right now, but on WP 8.1 there is an app called Pocket File Manager( http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/pocket-file-manager/56dd9c3d-fe0a-4ceb-84b0-043e58e55b19 or search for it on the app store ) that should be able to manage the sdcard files. Again, you have to be on WP 8.1 in order to use it.

Pocket File Manager works just fine on 8.0, and has full access to the SD card there too. The 8.1 version could add more capabilities, but you don't strictly need it.
Camera quality is one of those you-get-what-you-pay-for situations. You bought a budget phone, with relatively low specs aside from its screen size. What did you expect? It'll give better camera performance than almost any other phone in the same price range, but no, it's not going to match a iPhone 5S or Lumia 1020 that costs 4x as much.
Not sure what you mean by "hide my application"; can you be more specific? I've used Android but not extensively.
The third-most popular platform is going to be the third to get apps, or app updates. In my experiences the first-party stuff works extremely well and the stuff from close partners is close, but third-party is a crapshoot. You could try unofficial clients, if you want; it's not that uncommon for them to be better than the official ones.
How much easier ringtone management do you want?!? It's the top item in Settings, and you can add custom ringtones and message alerts to any contact anywhere you can tap their name (People hub, Phone hub, Messaging hub, etc.). Creating ringtones from media files isn't easy with built-in tools but there are plenty of apps which can do it.
Call recording requires hooks at a level of the OS that could also be easily abused by malware. Microsoft could make a special API for that feature, but they haven't done so yet. If this is a vital feature for you, you should have researched what phones support this feature before buying... Most people never need it.
Dual-SIM is supported in the latest WP version, which your phone is upgradable to (which, I should point out, Android phones often aren't...). However, your actual phone doesn't have dual-SIM. If you wanted dual-SIM, why didn't you buy a dual-SIM phone, like the 630?
USB tethering is possible on some phones - for example, I can do it on my Ativ S - but it's unofficial. Is there some reason the official WiFi tethering doesn't work for you? You can still plug the phone into USB to keep it charged while you do that...

Ah I didn't know it was out for 8.0 also. Thanks for the clarification GDTD

[Q] Jailbreaking Lumia 520 ?

Hi all.
I'm an android user switching to windows phone..
I'm getting the Lumia 520 soon ..
I just wanted to get a general idea of how jailbreaking works with windows phone..
is it like android just download the apk (or whatever extension windows phone uses) to the sd card .. install it and voila ?
or is it complicated ?
any guides/tutorials for this ?
Thanks.

Please use search before posting...
You can enable sideloading on WP8, but it's more complex than on Android; you need to use a PC to enable it and to install the sideloaded apps.
More importantly, though, sideloaded apps are very limited. For one thing, you can't install more than a few of them - the typical range is 2-10, depending on what unlock method you use - unless you uninstall some first. They are also restricted to very low permissions. There is no widely-usable "root" hack for any WP8 phone right now, either. I'm working on it... but the Samsung phones will probably be the first ones.
Despite Windows' long reputation for poor security, Microsoft has put serious effort into WP8 security and lockdown (not the same thing... security keeps others from controlling your device, lockdown keeps you from controlling it) and the result is pretty solid. There's a few holes we've been able to attack thus far, but most of them have had such minimal privileges we couldn't use them to *do* anything meaningful.

[Q] Is there a way to pull a XAP file off WP8?

Hello - I am doing a pen test for a customer. They are not giving me the xap files like they did last time. Is there a way to pull the xap file off the phone and on to your PC? I have a dev unlocked phone which I can sideload apps using power tools. I have done some research and it doesn't sound like this option is available, but I wanted to ask.
Thanks in advance.

First of all, the phone doesn't store the XAP files (PLEASE search before posting! This question gets asked a lot). I assume all you really care about is the app binaries and manifest file, though. (You can rebuild an installable XAP from these if needed.)
There's a complicated series of hacks for doing it on 8.1 via the ability to install apps to the SD card. If you don't have 8.1, don't have an SD card, can't install the relevant versions of specific apps, or if the app is marked to not allow installation to SD, then that method won't work for you.
The other approach, which in my experience is standard in the pentesting world (which is my field as well), is to use a hacked/jailbroken/unlocked phone. Samsung (unless it has the very newest firmware versions) and Huawei phones can be unlocked by flashing modified ROMs. The unlock lets you sideload apps with vastly more privileges, such as the ability to read and write the install directory of any app. Using that, it's pretty easy to get the files you want. Such unlocks are also possible with some Nokia phones via JTAG, and possibly some other models too, but the Samsung unlock (which I and -W_O_L_F- found) and the ability to flash customized ROMs for Huawei are the easiest approaches.
On the offhand chance you're part of NCC group, PM me and I'll send you my work email address. If you're with one of our competitors... well, I actually don't mind helping a competitor that much either; some Deja Vu folks gave me a good tip lately though, and I've got friends at SI as well.

GoodDayToDie said:
First of all, the phone doesn't store the XAP files (PLEASE search before posting! This question gets asked a lot). I assume all you really care about is the app binaries and manifest file, though. (You can rebuild an installable XAP from these if needed.)
There's a complicated series of hacks for doing it on 8.1 via the ability to install apps to the SD card. If you don't have 8.1, don't have an SD card, can't install the relevant versions of specific apps, or if the app is marked to not allow installation to SD, then that method won't work for you.
The other approach, which in my experience is standard in the pentesting world (which is my field as well), is to use a hacked/jailbroken/unlocked phone. Samsung (unless it has the very newest firmware versions) and Huawei phones can be unlocked by flashing modified ROMs. The unlock lets you sideload apps with vastly more privileges, such as the ability to read and write the install directory of any app. Using that, it's pretty easy to get the files you want. Such unlocks are also possible with some Nokia phones via JTAG, and possibly some other models too, but the Samsung unlock (which I and -W_O_L_F- found) and the ability to flash customized ROMs for Huawei are the easiest approaches.
On the offhand chance you're part of NCC group, PM me and I'll send you my work email address. If you're with one of our competitors... well, I actually don't mind helping a competitor that much either; some Deja Vu folks gave me a good tip lately though, and I've got friends at SI as well.
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Thanks again for all your help. So my situation is this: I am doing pen testing for a client (and I'm sure we are competitors some what). The have provided me a Nokia Lumia phone running 8.0 and another Lumia running 8.1. The app is installed by their dev team (app is not avail from the store). They are reluctant to provide my the XAP file as they consider it proprietary info. I have done a dev unlock on the phone, but my primary goal is to view the isolated storage/dlls for the app to make sure they are not storing sensitive data. I am using the standard tools for viewing the isolated storage, but for these to work (best of my knowledge) they require you to sideload the application which I cannot due (not XAP file). I am proxying the traffic, but without looking at the file system there is not much I can do. As an aside, they are using MDM with jailbreak detection.

Whoa, somebody actually got around to writing jailbreak detection for WP8? Crazy. I wish I could see that; I'm sure it's trivial to bypass (at least for interop-unlock, the difference between locked and unlocked is changing a registry value and it would be easily possible to re-lock it, launch the app while keeping the editor app open in the background, switch back to the editor, and unlock/jailbreak again) but I'm amused that anybody even bothered trying. Also, the APIs you would need to do the detection aren't even available on 8.0, officially; you're in violation of the store rules if you use them. Then again, maybe this is an internal, "Enterprise" app; those have permissions to do stuff that typical third-party apps do not. Are you sure they don't just mean they have jailbreak detection for iOS? I see something about Office365 MDM offering JB detection, but while I suppose they could have written something for WP8.x as well I feel like I probably would have heard of it?
If the app was sideloaded by the dev team, then you can see its isostore using the official tools or using Windows Phone Power Tools. If it's an enterprise app and the app was installed that way, then things get more difficult (especially if the phone they gave you doesn't have an SD slot). Not giving a pentester access to the binary they're testing is silly on a number of levels; if you succeed in breaking in then you'll get it anyhow, and an attacker will have a lot more than a week or two to poke at it so they're wasting your presumably-paid-by-the-hour time if they want you to see how good their security is without actually examining the app. I bet they used obfuscation, too... Some people just don't get it. "Security" by obscurity... isn't. Sorry, end of mini-rant. Anyhow, there's a guy on the forum who claims to have a non-JTAG unlock for Lumias, but no idea when or if it'll see the light of day.

Anyone find a GCAM Port that works?

It's taken some doing but I've been able to unlock and root my Bold N1. (bricked it 3 times before I figured it out, luckily I found all the tools/files I need to flash back to stock).
For Now I have it on the stock rom but rooted via Magisk.
My only issue is I NEED to replace the camera app. The phone is AMAZING for the price point (the screen alone is worth the price) but the camera is total garbage.
I was Hoping GCAM could salvage some of that for me.
So far I hear some folks have had luck with GCAM 6.1.20 but I haven't been able to. I can get it to install but the app crashes a few minutes after I load it up. And once crashes it won't start up again until I delete cache/data on the app.
I've been searching the net for a few weeks now looking for the best GCAM Port for Mediatek Helio P70 phones but so far no real luck.
I've tried using Magisk modules to force it (bricked my device and had to wipe to stock) tried to modify the build.prop (even though the phone is already camera2api enabled) needless to say that didn't work either.
Anyone find a good GCAM Port yet? I mean the phone is camera2api enabled out of the box so it shouldn't be so hard to find a good Port. The P70 is a popular SoC and with all those GCAM devs out there Im surprised this is so hard to find. Ive tried ports that say they're for a phone with the same SoC but they fail as well. (the realme 3 has the same SoC and a working GCAM Port but I can't get it running on my bold)
At this point the camera is the only thing stopping me from putting my iPhone x in a drawer and making this my daily driver.

Only real version I've found that work is this one...
Fairly old version.

Try Open Camera
kcasante said:
My only issue is I NEED to replace the camera app. The phone is AMAZING for the price point (the screen alone is worth the price) but the camera is total garbage.
I was Hoping GCAM could salvage some of that for me.
At this point the camera is the only thing stopping me from putting my iPhone x in a drawer and making this my daily driver.
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I don't know if you found a working gCam app for the Bold N1, but if not, try using Open Camera (free with no ads in the Google Play store). For me, it totally has saved the Bold N1's photography and I actually prefer it over to gCam (which I used on an Essential Phone) due to all the different options and manual control.
One thing Open Camera cannot do, however, is make artifical bokeh ("portrait mode" on many phones). So I use Google Camera (also free with no ads in the Google Play Store; not to be confused with gCam, which is ported from the Pixel) and its Lens Blur function for that purpose. Otherwise I use Open Camera for everything else.