Viber

Atomic Pineapple · 09-02-2012 7:24pm

bilalp wrote: »

. Viber works on ics? It doesn't crash?

Yoyos issue was the contact resolution on DHD

bilalp · 09-02-2012 7:30pm

Yoyos issue was the contact resolution on DHD

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Ahh got excited there for a minute

lol

yoyo83 · 14-02-2012 9:32pm

haha sorry

G1032 · 14-02-2012 10:07pm

bilalp wrote: »

yoyo83 wrote: »

well it works anyway! got in contact!! viber is the best!!

. Viber works on ics? It doesn't crash?

Use Line instead. It's free in the market. Viber have had long enough now to get it working for ICS. No updates since October.....

CricketDude · 14-02-2012 10:13pm

G1032 wrote: »

Use Line instead. It's free in the market. Viber have had long enough now to get it working for ICS. No updates since October.....

whats line?

_Kaiser_ · 15-02-2012 12:02am

Downloaded this again tonight (having removed it about 4/5 months back for the battery drain issue) and I see nothing has changed, despite me having a new phone (GS2) and a new ROM setup (Android 2.3.6 , CheckROM RevoHD v4 and Kernel 2.6.35.7)

Shame, but no good if it's eating my battery - uninstalled..

G1032 · 15-02-2012 12:08am

CricketDude wrote: »

G1032 wrote: »

Use Line instead. It's free in the market. Viber have had long enough now to get it working for ICS. No updates since October.....

whats line?

https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.naver.line.android&hl=en

Same kind of thing as Viber except it works on ICS and gets updated more than once every 4 months......

Viber · 15-02-2012 6:20pm

Actually,
We've made some serious progress with the development of Viber for ICS, and if all goes as planned, it should be released over the next 2 weeks (probably less). News soon

Nolimits · 15-02-2012 6:26pm

Viber wrote: »

Actually,
We've made some serious progress with the development of Viber for ICS, and if all goes as planned, it should be released over the next 2 weeks (probably less). News soon

Well it was just a "couple of weeks" at the end of December, so now it's the middle of February its nice to know it's only 2 weels away :rolleyes:

Viber wrote: »

Regarding ICS - we could ask Market to remove it, but our hopes is that within the next couple of weeks Viber should already be compatible with ICS. As I said, we're doing our best, and we hope to release our new version very soon.

Red Silurian · 15-02-2012 6:47pm

Viber wrote: »

Actually,
We've made some serious progress with the development of Viber for ICS, and if all goes as planned, it should be released over the next 2 weeks (probably less). News soon

And it only took 3 months

CyberGhost · 15-02-2012 7:43pm

Viber wrote: »

Actually,
We've made some serious progress with the development of Viber for ICS, and if all goes as planned, it should be released over the next 2 weeks (probably less). News soon

Sweet!

What about the iPhone version?

And come on guys, it's a free app. They're obviously working on it. I like Viber, I like it's purple theme and they seem to be listening to suggestions, etc... but I think they're a bit too ambitious and spread too thin with the version for Symbian(I want it on Symbian!), Blackberry, etc... I wonder how many people are there working on Viber?

LINE looks good, but IMO Viber is a better organized(Menus, etc...) app with more features, LINE Line doesn't have a version for WP7 either, neither does Viber, so they're even there.

EDIT: Actually on a second viewing LINE has a pretty nice UI too, at least on the iPhone.

Viber · 16-02-2012 10:10am

Viber for Blackberry is almost ready (will be released soon).
We're working on a Symbian version these days, but not entirely sure when it will be ready.
Same with Windows Phone.

About ICS - this time the timeframe seems much more concrete, sinc we've finally overcome the main obstacle we encountered 2 months back. Be sure - the only reason we delay releases is to make sure we don't release a half-baked up to Market

seanybiker · 16-02-2012 10:42am

Viber wrote: »

Viber for Blackberry is almost ready (will be released soon).
We're working on a Symbian version these days, but not entirely sure when it will be ready.
Same with Windows Phone.

About ICS - this time the timeframe seems much more concrete, sinc we've finally overcome the main obstacle we encountered 2 months back. Be sure - the only reason we delay releases is to make sure we don't release a half-baked up to Market

Jaysus I forgot about symbian.

Keep up the great work viber. Love the app.
Your right to not to be releasing apps that are not ready. Don't mind the impatient people.

Red Silurian · 16-02-2012 10:46am

seanybiker wrote: »

Jaysus I forgot about symbian.

So did nokia lol

About ICS - this time the timeframe seems much more concrete, sinc we've finally overcome the main obstacle we encountered 2 months back. Be sure - the only reason we delay releases is to make sure we don't release a half-baked up to Market

Nice to see a company who does that!

Atomic Pineapple · 16-02-2012 11:24am

Symbian is dead, I admire Viber's ambition to cover all platforms but developing a Symbian version now is some waste of resources.

CyberGhost · 16-02-2012 1:02pm

draffodx wrote: »

Symbian is dead, I admire Viber's ambition to cover all platforms but developing a Symbian version now is some waste of resources.

I agree, Symbian is dead, but so is Blackberry, and the whole RIM in fact.

However both still have millions of active users around the world.

Viber, Tango, LINE, etc... all these apps are in a competition to spread to as many platforms as possible, the more platforms they cover the better. And offer as many features as possible.

Tango is the most widely spread right now, iOS, Android, WP7, PC and it supports video calls, however it does not have what is IMO more important than video calls, messages. And it's PC app looks like an iPhone FFS, what were they thinking?

If Viber comes to Symbian and BB, it'll still get a lot of use on those platforms. What I'm surprised about is the lack of news for WP7 version, now granted, WP7 isn't really doing great, neither did the first XBOX, but Microsoft seems to be very firmly committed to the platform to make it the third relevant one.

madmoe · 16-02-2012 1:17pm

Viber wrote: »

Viber for Blackberry is almost ready (will be released soon).
We're working on a Symbian version these days, but not entirely sure when it will be ready.
Same with Windows Phone.

About ICS - this time the timeframe seems much more concrete, sinc we've finally overcome the main obstacle we encountered 2 months back. Be sure - the only reason we delay releases is to make sure we don't release a half-baked up to Market

Great news! Have you guys any plans in the future to add video calls as well guys??

Viber · 17-02-2012 11:40am

madmoe wrote: »

Great news! Have you guys any plans in the future to add video calls as well guys??

Yep,
It's under development, and we've made some progress lately, but we still don't have any estimation for a release date. As always, if we have any concrete news, I'll share it here

By the way, about Blackberry and Symbian - the numbers show that there are still millions and millions of BB and Symbian users across the world. We don't see it as a waste of time developing Viber for both these platforms - on the contrary. Our goal is to allow as many people as possible connect through Viber, so the least people possible are left out.

madmoe · 17-02-2012 1:59pm

Viber wrote: »

Yep,
It's under development, and we've made some progress lately, but we still don't have any estimation for a release date. As always, if we have any concrete news, I'll share it here

By the way, about Blackberry and Symbian - the numbers show that there are still millions and millions of BB and Symbian users across the world. We don't see it as a waste of time developing Viber for both these platforms - on the contrary. Our goal is to allow as many people as possible connect through Viber, so the least people possible are left out.

Great to hear video is in the works guys!!

cookie1977 · 17-02-2012 11:04pm

Viber wrote: »

Yep,
It's under development, and we've made some progress lately, but we still don't have any estimation for a release date. As always, if we have any concrete news, I'll share it here

By the way, about Blackberry and Symbian - the numbers show that there are still millions and millions of BB and Symbian users across the world. We don't see it as a waste of time developing Viber for both these platforms - on the contrary. Our goal is to allow as many people as possible connect through Viber, so the least people possible are left out.

Sure is. And great to hear you're still working on the BlackBerry version. You should also look at developing for the BlackBerry Playbook. Or port the android app to the Playbook.

Viber · 20-02-2012 7:03pm

Hi all,
I'm excited to announce the Viber 2.1.3 is finally available for download on Market.
First and foremost, this new version is compatible with ICS (Android 4) - so the long anticipation is finally over

In addition, the new version contains bug fixes and small new features for your convenience.

Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any special problems.

Best regards,
the Viber Team

Viber · 20-02-2012 7:03pm

Hi all,
I'm excited to announce the Viber 2.1.3 is finally available for download on Market.
First and foremost, this new version is compatible with ICS (Android 4) - so the long anticipation is finally over

In addition, the new version contains bug fixes and small new features for your convenience.

Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any special problems.

Best regards,
the Viber Team

JTMan · 20-02-2012 7:05pm

Viber wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm excited to announce the Viber 2.1.3 is finally available for download on Market.
First and foremost, this new version is compatible with ICS (Android 4) - so the long anticipation is finally over

In addition, the new version contains bug fixes and small new features for your convenience.

Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any special problems.

Best regards,
the Viber Team

Excellent. Great news. Just about to download it

Goog to see that you are now supporting ICS.

bilalp · 20-02-2012 7:10pm

Viber wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm excited to announce the Viber 2.1.3 is finally available for download on Market.
First and foremost, this new version is compatible with ICS (Android 4) - so the long anticipation is finally over

In addition, the new version contains bug fixes and small new features for your convenience.

Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any special problems.

Best regards,
the Viber Team

While I am pleased I did think that you would update the ui somehow and try to follow the ics design guidelines, at least let us slide between the panes like other ics Apps. I mean with how long it took I'm quite surprised that it does look almost exactly the same.... Well anyway its a free app so I can't really complain. Thanks for the ics support!

Viber · 20-02-2012 7:55pm

We must admit that the GUI wasn't in our minds as a first priority. As I explained previously in this thread, ICS holds many profound changes, in addition to the new cool graphic designs, and that was mainly what caused the delay.

We plan to improve Viber's UI altogether in the future, but we still don't know when that will happen

von Smallhausen · 21-02-2012 1:17am

Viber wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm excited to announce the Viber 2.1.3 is finally available for download on Market.
First and foremost, this new version is compatible with ICS (Android 4) - so the long anticipation is finally over

In addition, the new version contains bug fixes and small new features for your convenience.

Please try it out and let us know if you encounter any special problems.

Best regards,
the Viber Team

Thats brilliant, I can now finally make the jump to the long awaited ICS

:D

htcocacola · 21-02-2012 1:39am

great news

The_B_Man · 21-02-2012 2:31am

@Viber

In "Settings" there's an option that says "Facebook Connect". What does that actually do? Post a status every time I make a call or what?

evolutionqy7 · 21-02-2012 9:57am

The_B_Man wrote: »

@Viber

In "Settings" there's an option that says "Facebook Connect". What does that actually do? Post a status every time I make a call or what?

Contacts?

Viber · 21-02-2012 10:18am

The_B_Man wrote: »

@Viber

In "Settings" there's an option that says "Facebook Connect". What does that actually do? Post a status every time I make a call or what?

It connects your Viber with Facebook, mainly for posting photos you receive on your Wall, for example.
In the future we will expand this feature and allow to share more things that are happening inside Viber on your Facebook (all is optional, of course).

harpstilidie · 21-02-2012 3:47pm

I re-downloaded Viber there and now everytime I try to call someone a few seconds into the call my phone freezes completely and have to remove the battery to use it again.

Any ideas why this could be? Running 2.2.

Viber · 21-02-2012 4:36pm

@harpstilidie -
What device are you using?

harpstilidie · 21-02-2012 5:02pm

Viber wrote: »

@harpstilidie -
What device are you using?

ZTE Blade/Orange San Fran. Had no issues before. Could it be down to lack of memory or anything?

Viber · 21-02-2012 5:09pm

harpstilidie wrote: »

ZTE Blade/Orange San Fran. Had no issues before. Could it be down to lack of memory or anything?

Very possibly.

Please note that Viber does not officially support ZTE Blade yet, and that may be the reason for the problems you are experiencing. Here is the full list of officially supported devices: http://bit.ly/rqbZEw

We are continuously working to adapt Viber to more and more devices, and we hope to attend to the problems with your device soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Zascar · 21-02-2012 5:11pm

Viber, remember some months ago you released this snippet of a screenshot of what looked to be a Windows Application. The assumption was there would be a windows app like skype has. Is this the case - and what is the update on it? This would be a killer app - and if you had this you would crust WhatsApp - which is currently beating you in messaging.

Any update on this at all? I really wish these teasers were not released until you are actually close to having a product to release.

Viber · 21-02-2012 5:13pm

@Zascar -
Viber for Dekstop is still under development. We might have been too early to release the screenshot - the app is not close to release, but we've definitely made some significant progress since.

Once we have news, I will keep you posted.

Zascar · 21-02-2012 5:18pm

Ok great thanks - at least its confirmed you are working on a windows app

Any further info as to how it will work? I would just really love a desktop/mobile messaging app. Will it be this year yes?

Red Silurian · 21-02-2012 6:30pm

@Viber

Any chance there are plans to release a text-only app to android... Many android handsets are budget ones and therefore your current 8MB application takes up a lot of space.

Also as myself and harpstilidie are using technically unsupported phones (Wildfire and Blade) and while the voice option does not work so well the messaging (for me anyway) works flawlessely. This would make a "viber messaging only" app a convenient alternative.

I know I'm making a lot of assumptions but it's just an idea

Sledgejammer · 21-02-2012 11:47pm

Not that I want to try and advertise other products in the Viber thread, but would Whatsapp not be exactly what you're after?

Red Silurian · 22-02-2012 12:18am

Sledgejammer wrote: »

Not that I want to try and advertise other products in the Viber thread, but would Whatsapp not be exactly what you're after?

It would be but some of my friends use whatsapp and some viber... I've a feeling most of the whatsapp ones will move to viber as well in the next few months when their "12 month free trial" ends...

I know I wont be using WhatsApp on my phone in a few months time when I'm asked to pay lol

Viber · 22-02-2012 9:26am

colmtheperson wrote: »

@Viber

Any chance there are plans to release a text-only app to android... Many android handsets are budget ones and therefore your current 8MB application takes up a lot of space.

Also as myself and harpstilidie are using technically unsupported phones (Wildfire and Blade) and while the voice option does not work so well the messaging (for me anyway) works flawlessely. This would make a "viber messaging only" app a convenient alternative.

I know I'm making a lot of assumptions but it's just an idea

This suggestion has been raised in the past, and today we are considering adding an option that disables calling inside Viber, however this would also require a whole new mechanism that also alerts the other side of this issue, and so it is a little complex. If we end up deciding adding this option, I will let you know.

However, in the meanwhile, you can simply decline incoming calls

Redsoxfan · 24-02-2012 12:13am

Any known issues with Viber lately?

I was getting a force close error earlier this evening and am still getting it after an upgrade and reboot.

Galaxy S running stock 2.3

CricketDude · 24-02-2012 8:31pm

I have an iphone 4 that password locks when im not using it.
If someone calls me on viber and i slide to unlock then it doesnt go to viber.
I have to enter the passcode So I miss the call.

Red Silurian · 24-02-2012 10:14pm

CricketDude wrote: »

I have an iphone 4 that password locks when im not using it.
If someone calls me on viber and i slide to unlock then it doesnt go to viber.
I have to enter the passcode So I miss the call.

How did you get Android on your iPhone?

CricketDude · 24-02-2012 11:22pm

colmtheperson wrote: »

How did you get Android on your iPhone?

oops. wrong thread

Viber · 25-02-2012 1:49pm

@Redsoxfan -
Have you made sure to update Viber to the latest version from Market?
There was a problem for version 2.1.3 users that should be fixed on 2.1.4. Unfortunately, sometimes it might require uninstall + reinstall

@CricketDude -
Since Viber is a 3rd-party app (not the phone's native calling app), iPhone restrictions obligate the user to manually unlock the phone upon an even of such app. That's why Viber doesn't behave like your regular phone app. Not much we can do to help $:\$

CricketDude · 25-02-2012 8:38pm

Viber wrote: »

@CricketDude -
Since Viber is a 3rd-party app (not the phone's native calling app), iPhone restrictions obligate the user to manually unlock the phone upon an even of such app. That's why Viber doesn't behave like your regular phone app. Not much we can do to help $:\$

Why not handle the notification of a call more gracefully.
Try a few other apps that notify you of calls to see how its done.

donspeekinglesh · 25-02-2012 10:54pm

I've noticed notifications don't automatically clear any more. In the past xing out of the popup, or replying to the message would clear the status bar notification, and widget.

Redsoxfan · 26-02-2012 12:44pm

Viber wrote: »

@Redsoxfan -
Have you made sure to update Viber to the latest version from Market?
There was a problem for version 2.1.3 users that should be fixed on 2.1.4. Unfortunately, sometimes it might require uninstall + reinstall

The un-install and re-install seems to have done the trick, cheers.

Viber · 28-02-2012 9:43am

@donspeekinglesh -
That is a known issue that we hope to resolve soon. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience

@CricketDude -
I'm not quite sure I fully understand your meaning... you were talking about the fact that the iPhone needs to be manually unlocked in order to answer the call.. right?
If so, then as I explained, there is nothing we can do technologically (in the current versions of iOS) in order to "force" the phone to unlock itself upon a Viber call or an incoming text.

Viber

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