1) Is there any video chat app that is comparable in quality to facetime? I've tried Skype, and .. it works but the video quality is atrocious comparably. Doing a facetime chat from my iphone to another iphone/ipad/etc was almost HD in quality, virtually no artifacts smooth motion etc. This is not the case at all on a S4 with Skype. Suggestions ?
2) My parents have an ipad without cellular, so they don't have straight texting, they've been imessaging me for the past 2 years and now they can't. What options do we have? They can't even use Whatsapp being even that requires a phone number to tie to.
Loving the phone, screen and load of features .. just rrying to find solutions to some of my 'use' scenarios
1) you should use Google's new hangout app, loom at number 2 for reason
2) Google hangout is your best solution. It will allow you to message your parents on their iPad and will let you videochat all from the same application. You won't need a phone number to make the app work.
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2) WhatsApp Messenger will work
I would say hangouts would be your best choice
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First of all, sorry if I have not asked this in the right place, but couldn't see a section better suited to post this.
I am currently designing some packaging for a new budget 7" Android tablet that will be released soon.
Does anybody know if there is any legal problem with using app icons from well known apps on packaging design?
I wanted to use a large image of the front of the device on the box front and feature a screen showing Mail, Angry Birds, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Android Market. However I am not sure if this will cause legal problems with these companies and am guessing that trying to contact them direct to ask will not be a quick option (if they indeed answer at all).
Hope somebody can help.
Andy
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So guys. We have a gigantic screen to use watching media when we're not at home but we still want to watch our favorite shows and movies.
I've tried everything, Emit, bubble UPnP with xbmc, among a ton of others. I want so hard for this to work, but the best I've found over 4g was airplay it, which is not supported by Android versions later than gingerbread.
Everything I've tried seems to lag randomly every couple of minutes or so for 5 to 10 seconds at a time.
I know a bunch of you probably have a similar set up with newsgroups and xbmc etc, and was wondering if anyone of you has found a solution that works without hiccups.
I should also let you know that I have the fastest Internet provided by my cable provider and unlimited 4g.
Thanks in advance guys!
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I think you want to stream content from a machine at home while you're out, over 4g right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RJjDUe-NH0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Hello,
I'm still testing out the S4. With the Svoice it always confirms the person I want to call even when it has it right. I can't figure out how to disable voice confirmation as it seems to NOT understand when I say yes on the confirmation.
I installed VLINGO which on my old android and it automatically became the default but I can't figure out how to make it the default voice interpretation app when I click on my BT headset.
I ONLY use voice from BT to make calls from my existing contacts, I don't want to know the weather, I don't need it to search the web for people's contact info, I really just would love reliable and simple voice dial.
Thanks
Did you clear defaults from S Voice?
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Did you clear defaults from S Voice?
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I've given up on VLINGO - I checked and it isn't BT activated currently. I tried a few other items and they don't seem to work properly on the S4 - possibly a newer version of Android issue.
I just have to find out if there is a way to disable the confirm on dial in S voice.
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I am about to root my VZW S4. I just wanted to make sure nobody knew of lost functionality like netflix or hulu not working on rooted S4s. I have searched the forums and google, but have not come across anything about rooted S4s losing content access.
I don't want to lose google play movies, netflix, hulu, or other apps by rooting.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
thanks
Works fine
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Nope, this is not like an iPhone where they know you jailbroke your phone and won't let you run certain apps (Ie. DirecTV) ... Everything works fine!
I've tested Netflix, and it totally works. Don't use Hulu or Google Play movies, but I assume they'll work as well. There's no reason for them not to.
Netflix, Hulu Plus, Play Movies all work on rooted devices, no problem!
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It has been never easier for unrooted users to take full backups of their Galaxy S4 or any android smartphones until now. One has always suggested to install Titanium Backup but unfortunately its available for only users with root...
I am going straight to the point. We are not helping the devs. We only have very few devs compared to other phones.
Whenever a dev come online, people starts to eta and starts to blame them of not keeping up to date and sticking with deadlines. They are not robots. They also have a personal life.
Don't say that without X feature the ROM is not good. If so just use stock touchwiz OS which can't even keep my whatsapp app not killed due to no free ram
And please use dedicated question and answer post to solve any problem that you are facing. And only post on the official thread to report problems that are unknown to the the dev. Check by searching. Confirm that the problem is not sure to something you had done like installing unofficial packages,etc
And don't post like "my music player force closes" or my video is not recording". Post with logcat pinpointing to the exact location of bug. If you don't know how to take a log. Just search in Google or XDA, there's like a thousand tutorial.
Overall don't irritate our devs without them our grand 2 will be nothing but a piece of ****
And I am going to create a new whatsapp group. I will help users to my max extent. And all users in the group will be group admin. So don't worry. If you want to join this group please leave your numbers this thread. I will create it tomorrow including numbers in the other whatsapp thread whose admin is nowhere to be found.
So please, behave well to our devs and love them. They are doing this for us without expecting nothing in return
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