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2012-04-17
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#452
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Originally Posted by recluse
Do you even have an N9?
Skype is integrated in to the accounts system, comes with the phone, is always on with push messaging (so doesn't drain battery much). And yes, when a push message is received, it notifies you just like a normal SMS (in fact I believe it's the same app).
i have only n900, but skype didnt alert me of new skype message coming
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2012-04-17
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@ Bilbao (Basque Country [Spain])
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#453
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Spot bros ( http://www.spotbros.com ) (web in spanish) is better than whatsapp (better privacy and more functions) but is in beta and only for android and iOS. Other platforms and computer are planed.
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2012-04-17
, 08:51
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#454
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i think i betr buy an android phone..
as i think whatsapp will come in ages for n900 or may be not !
as i think whatsapp will come in ages for n900 or may be not !
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2012-04-17
, 09:04
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@ Hong Kong
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Originally Posted by nokix
Jerex,
From what I understand you run WhatsApp on an Android emulator on a PC? How do you manage to get the SIM/phone no. to work on the emulator?
Hi nokix,
Really sorry for the late reply, haven't been on TMO recently.
To answer your question, I'm not using an emulator per se, but a build of Android converted for x86 processors. The project's site is www.android-x86.org and I believe it has some official support from Google. I used the stable release of 2.2 Froyo (newer builds are still beta or release candidates).
The PC I'm using is actually a small VAIO P mini laptop (netbook) running Windows 7. I first installed Oracle's VirtualBox software (it's free) before running the Android x86 ISO build within VirtualBox and creating a Virtual Hard Disk partition to install the files directly.
As you know, WhatsApp is very particular about the SIM/Phone No. etc. It won't even let you install if it detects your device doesn't have a SIM/3G module (hence it not being available for tablets). To get around this, I found that a combination of an older version of WA (v2.6.7722), installed on the official Android SDK could get around this.
Once installed you just needed to select the 'activate by phone' option, enter your phone number and WhatsApp would place an automated call to give you the activation code which you proceed to enter into the app and that's it!
WA then actually works within the Android SDK, but since it's slow as hell, I used Titanium Backup Pro to backup the app and restore it on my Android x86 build which is much much faster.
Lastly, using VNC (and OpenSSH for security), I leave my PC running Android x86 on at home and access it from my N900 to use WhatsApp. As I said before, it is by no means perfect (a bit slow and unwieldy to control) but it does work and I've been using it successfully since January.
Hope this is clear for all those who are curious about an alternative solution and apologies in advance for the long, off-topic post in this development thread.
My continued best wishes to tgalal and others for their porting project! And a further appeal for everyone to be patient and calm. If you really can't wait, instead of whining on TMO why not use your energy and try the remote alternative I've described above?
Last edited by Jerex; 2012-04-17 at 09:34.
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2012-04-17
, 15:30
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#456
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Originally Posted by Jerex
This is VERY similar to how I run android apps except I encode the stream using VLC to h.264 and send it through the network to a little program I have written that send the input as mouseclicks back to the computer... this is currently the most hassle-less way I know of running android apps on maemo (hassle-less, not best, I know you can dual-boot and whatnot but having to dualboot to run a simple app and go back... not really)
Hi nokix,
Really sorry for the late reply, haven't been on TMO recently.
To answer your question, I'm not using an emulator per se, but a build of Android converted for x86 processors. The project's site is www.android-x86.org and I believe it has some official support from Google. I used the stable release of 2.2 Froyo (newer builds are still beta or release candidates).
The PC I'm using is actually a small VAIO P mini laptop (netbook) running Windows 7. I first installed Oracle's VirtualBox software (it's free) before running the Android x86 ISO build within VirtualBox and creating a Virtual Hard Disk partition to install the files directly.
As you know, WhatsApp is very particular about the SIM/Phone No. etc. It won't even let you install if it detects your device doesn't have a SIM/3G module (hence it not being available for tablets). To get around this, I found that a combination of an older version of WA (v2.6.7722), installed on the official Android SDK could get around this.
Once installed you just needed to select the 'activate by phone' option, enter your phone number and WhatsApp would place an automated call to give you the activation code which you proceed to enter into the app and that's it!
WA then actually works within the Android SDK, but since it's slow as hell, I used Titanium Backup Pro to backup the app and restore it on my Android x86 build which is much much faster.
Lastly, using VNC (and OpenSSH for security), I leave my PC running Android x86 on at home and access it from my N900 to use WhatsApp. As I said before, it is by no means perfect (a bit slow and unwieldy to control) but it does work and I've been using it successfully since January.
Hope this is clear for all those who are curious about an alternative solution and apologies in advance for the long, off-topic post in this development thread.
My continued best wishes to tgalal and others for their porting project! And a further appeal for everyone to be patient and calm. If you really can't wait, instead of whining on TMO why not use your energy and try the remote alternative I've described above?
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2012-04-17
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@ Trinidad
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#458
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Originally Posted by youmeego
All you need to do, is enable skype in your accounts. It will run in the background and alert you once a message is received
i have only n900, but skype didnt alert me of new skype message coming
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2012-04-17
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@ maemo
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#459
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Originally Posted by G.One
buy android just for whatsapp this is insane
i think i betr buy an android phone..
as i think whatsapp will come in ages for n900 or may be not !
n900 great with or w/o whatsapp
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2012-04-17
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#460
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Originally Posted by don_falcone
Yes, when I got the phone I wanted to try wierd stuff, qemu+wine which is pretty useless :P or any other wierd software patchy thing that ran and this is the way I ran android before I heard about nitdroid which I still have not installed hehe
You do WHAT?This whole mess just for running... Android apps?
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LINE also have PC version. It offers browser version for tablet and iPad as well. I tried to use it from browser (only Firefox with iPad agent works) in N9 but it's too buggy it's not use-able.
Honestly I hope LINE could be ported to N9 account system.