Hi Sieghard. Thanks for this. I was able to get my outgoing call to choose the speakerphone. I am wondering if there is a way to have the speakerphone chosen by default instead of the earpiece.
Thanks Jay . From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Skype problems Hello, I haven't had a reason to use Skype since the last update, but I did try it tonight after I read your message and had none of the problems you describe. Here is an explanation about how to switch to speakerphone, this works as it has for at least the last several versions and it still works perfectly well on my 4S: Establish your call, once you are connected you have to find a button along the bottom (above the home key) called Earpiece. This indicates the call is currently coming through the earpiece. The button is I think the second from the left, just above and a bit to the left of the home key (about 10 o'clock). Double tap on that button and a little bit above and about in the middle of the screen (straight up from the Home Key) it a couple of new buttons will pop up, one of them is Speakerphone. Double tap on it and the call will switch to Speakerphone. I recommend you practice this first with the headset since you do of course have to take the phone away from your ear far enough to activate the touch screen. Without a headset you have to hold it close enough to hear what you are doing yet far enough so you can touch and tap. This works the same for a video call and switching from front facing to backfacing camera also works in the same way. If you are on a video call, the very first button on the left will bring up buttons above for front facing, back facing and no video which allows you turn off the camera if you started a call as a video call and want to stop the camera, but not end the call. On a normal Skype-to-Skype or Skype-to-Phone Call the first button on the left is Mute, then I believe comes the earpiece button. Then there is another one or 2 buttons and last on the very right is always your End Call button. If you do use a headset the button will I believe say Headset and not Earpiece and once you switch to Speakerphone it will say Speakerphone. If you want to switch the call back to the earpiece or headset, double tap again on Speakerphone and then find the earpiece/headset button above. Now as far as calls dropping after 10 minutes I also don't seem to have that issue. I have 2 Skype Id's and signed in with on on the computer and then called my other one on the iPhone. The first call did drop after only about 20 seconds, at first I heard the sounds Skype makes when it tries to reconnect a call, but after about 20 seconds it dropped the call. I then did 2 other calls and each time I placed my headset microphone next to my computer's speaker where I started playing music just so that Skype didn't think nothing was going on and disconnect, then I switched Skype on the iPhone to Speakerphone and went to the kitchen to make dinner listening to the music playing via my Skype connection. I let the music play for about 15 minutes each time and there was no sign of the call having connection difficulties. Maybe it just so happened that your WiFi connection was flaky or Skype was exceptionally busy. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Exracer Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Skype problems Hi all, I have put skype on my phone and I have 2 problems with it that I can't figure out. 1 is that I can't get the call to come up on the speaker phone in either voice call or video call. Both ways I have to hold the phone up to my ear to hear the conversation. The other problem is that it seems to drop the call after about 10 minutes of calling. Any fix for this? I am making free skype to skype calls and not paid skype to phone calls when both these problems occur and don't think that makes a difference as the person I am talking to can talk on speaker phone. The calls are being done over y Fi as well. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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