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From: Harry Stottle on 29 Dec 2009 11:58 "Ian Smith" <news0807REMOVECAPS(a)orrery.e4ward.com> wrote in message news:R5adnTNuz9JKb6TWnZ2dnUVZ8oydnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk... > Harry Stottle wrote: > >> >> I think you should have a play with the phone a bit more. To refresh >> Skype contacts on the S2 you just open the Skype contacts list, then >> click 'Options', and the first option is 'Refresh Now'. > > Not on mine it isn't. > > I've updated the Skype application and this option appears to have been > removed, although I did see it before. > My version with the Refresh Now option is 2.9.12
From: CJB on 29 Dec 2009 19:00 On Dec 29, 12:21 pm, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...(a)orrery.e4ward.com> wrote: > CJB wrote: > > > And your contacts will not be able to intitate a call to your S2 > > either. You'll have to call them - every time. > > Not true - incoming Skype calls ring like any other incoming call. > Actually my brother found it impossible to call me using his non-'3'mobile with Skype installed. Likewise I could not call him using my S2. At the same time I could call him via my laptop without any problems. And unfortunately - as pointed out in another thread - if you have Skype running on a PC and a call comes in the S2 grabs it and diverts it to '3's voicemail before allowing the PC version to respond. CJB.
From: CJB on 29 Dec 2009 19:06 On Dec 29, 11:10 am, "Harry Stottle" <thiswontw...(a)nowhere.co.uk> wrote: > "CJB" <chrisjbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:421202b0-b804-47bd-93f9-dd3c620a74ed(a)f5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > > And you will find that once loaded Skype on your PC will keep being > refreshed as contacts come online or go offline. On the S2 you will > frequently find that your contacts seem to be offline or away (small > grey cross icon or orange icon); whereas on the PC they may well be > flagged as being online (small green tick icon). Apparently the S2 > does not keep refreshing the list of contacts with each one's > availability status. > > Irritatingly if a contact on the S2 is flagged as offline (or away) > then it refuses to connect to it, even if on the PC that same contact > is flagged as being online. > > The only way I've found of refreshing the status of the contacts on > the S2 is to turn the phone off and then on again so as to have to re- > sign into Skype. This makes using Skype on the S2 an irritation rather > than being really user-friendly. So much for being a smart phone - so > smart it has to be switched off and then on again to update the list > of Skype contacts!! > > I think you should have a play with the phone a bit more. To refresh Skype > contacts on the S2 you just open the Skype contacts list, then click > 'Options', and the first option is 'Refresh Now'. Also, you can't expect a > mobile phone running Skype, with varying signal strengths, to be as reliable > as a computer connected to the Internet, and if your signal drops, of course > your contacts available are going to change as you are not available to > them, and they are not available to you. My signal strength should be the same for my laptop using a '3' dongle and '3' S2 side by side. However whereas Skype on the PC always refreshes automatically on the S2 this has to be done manually. And the two listings of the statuses of contacts are not commensurate. For example on my laptop my brother's Skype id was shown greyed out (i.e. unobtainable), yet on my laptop the icon was a green tick. Then I could connect with Skype and speak with him via my laptop, but the S2 still considered his id as offline and refused to connect. CJB
From: CJB on 29 Dec 2009 19:09 On Dec 29, 12:15 pm, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...(a)orrery.e4ward.com> wrote: > Harry Stottle wrote: > > > I think you should have a play with the phone a bit more. To refresh > > Skype contacts on the S2 you just open the Skype contacts list, then > > click 'Options', and the first option is 'Refresh Now'. > > Not on mine it isn't. > > I've updated the Skype application and this option appears to have > been removed, although I did see it before. > > regards, Ian Same situation with my set up. No 'refresh now' option - hence the need to switch the S2 off and then on again. And I downloaded the latest version of Skype as one of the first things tha I did when I got the thing home. CJB.
From: Harry Stottle on 29 Dec 2009 19:38
"CJB" <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:46ac888e-6331-42a2-a3b8-d33b31e976c4(a)k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... On Dec 29, 12:21 pm, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...(a)orrery.e4ward.com> wrote: > CJB wrote: > > > And your contacts will not be able to intitate a call to your S2 > > either. You'll have to call them - every time. > > Not true - incoming Skype calls ring like any other incoming call. > Actually my brother found it impossible to call me using his non-'3'mobile with Skype installed. Likewise I could not call him using my S2. At the same time I could call him via my laptop without any problems. And unfortunately - as pointed out in another thread - if you have Skype running on a PC and a call comes in the S2 grabs it and diverts it to '3's voicemail before allowing the PC version to respond. CJB. When I first got my S2, I set up a separate Skype account just for the phone as I thought it might cause conflicts with the computer, and I named it HarrysSkypeMobile in my contacts list so others could distinguish between accounts, this also has the added advantage of allowing test calls to be made between phone and computer. |