I would like to keep Skype Mobile installed but get rid of its icons from contacts **AND/OR** from being asked whether I want to make a call to the contact through Skype or other similarly annoying application. Is there any facility in Android that allows me to keep the control of that? Uncle Google isn't much helpful in that matter. Moreover I have two Skype icons per contact on my phone. And that the thing that hits my taste. Phone details: Sony Xperia S, Android 4.1.2

Skype itself is full screen on my Samsung Galaxy S5e tablet but when I click on a contact the chat is only half screen, vertically split and for example the start call button is not visible. The app is unusable. What has happened??

I'd like to know what Skype does with all the permissions it asks for. Is there any page where Skype (the company) justifies the various permissions? Does it make any difference, whether I'm a paying customer or not? The permissions are as following: * Your accounts - act as an account authenticator - Allows an application to use the account authenticator capabilities of the AccountManager, including creating accounts and getting and setting their passwords. - manage the accounts list - Allows an application to perform operations like adding, and removing accounts and deleting their password. - use the authentication credentials of an account - Allows an application to request authentication tokens. * Hardware controls - change your audio settings - Allows application to modify global audio settings such as volume and routing. - record audio - Allows application to access the audio record path. * Your location - coarse (network-based) location - Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate device location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are. * Network communication - full Internet access - Allows an application to create network sockets. * Your personal information - read contact data - Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people. - write contact data - Allows an application to modify the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your contact data. * Phone calls - read phone state and identity - Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like. * Storage - modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents - Allows an application to write to the USB storage. Allows an application to write to the SD card. * System tools - disable keylock - Allows an application to disable the keylock and any associated password security. A legitimate example of this is the phone disabling the keylock when receiving an incoming phone call, then re-enabling the keylock when the call is finished. - prevent device from sleeping - Allows an application to prevent the device from going to sleep. - retrieve running applications - Allows application to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. May allow malicious applications to discover private information about other applications. - write sync settings - Allows an application to modify the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for Contacts. - modify global system settings - Allows an application to modify the system's settings data. Malicious applications can corrupt your system's configuration. More: * Your accounts - discover known accounts - Allows an application to get the list of accounts known by the device. * Hardware controls - control vibrator - Allows the application to control the vibrator. * Network communication - view Wi-Fi state - Allows an application to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi. - view network state - Allows an application to view the state of all networks. * System tools - read sync settings - Allows an application to read the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for Contacts. - read sync statistics - Allows an application to read the sync stats; e.g., the history of syncs that have occurred. * Default - modify secure system settings - Allows an application to modify the system's secure settings data. Not for use by normal applications.

**Making Skype calls through Amazon Fire TV Stick** I have a Samsung Smart TV which does not use Android; I thought all smart TVs were Android and the return date had passed. To get around this, what I propose is to use an Amazon Fire TV Stick. Amazon Fire TV Stick has a power USB port which I link to something [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jycuEMm2k) where a USB hub could be used to add a camera and microphone. I was wondering if this system would work to make video calls with Skype on Fire TV Stick. I understand that even if my TV was an Android TV, Skype has discontinued its services on smart TVs. However, I really want to know if this system would work because then I could also use it on other conferencing software like Zoom.

So, I just spent 30 minutes trying to find out where to send a text message (SMS) to a phone number using the latest version of Skype on Android. Does anyone know if it's still possible to do this or has this feature been removed? Please make sure it applies to this rather new version of Skype for Android.

I am having a problem with my Skype Lite notifications on Android 11 and would like to know if this is a common problem with Skype Lite on Xiaomi phones. The notifications on the phone don't disappear even after I tap and go inside the app, and even when I have replied to the messages. Is there a way to solve this problem? Thank you!

Can anyone explain me how to use Skype app on Android 2.3.5, because it is no longer available on Play Store for this Android version? Thankful in advance

I have temporarily moved to a new university for a research project, and I'm now using their wifi Internet connection. While everything seems to work fine with the Windows 10 laptop, the Skype app on my Android phone keeps "freezing". What I mean is that although I seem to be connected and I can see my contacts, I cannot make nor receive any calls. Even if I turn off the wifi and use the mobile connection on the phone, the situation does not change. After many attempts, I have found out that if I logoff from the app and I login again using the mobile connection, the app starts working again. At this point I can even restore the wifi connection and everything works for a while. But eventually it freezes again... The weird thing is that this trick doesn't always work. Sometimes after I logoff from the Skype app I cannot login back even if I'm connected with the mobile data. I keep getting the error message "unable to sign in. Please check your internet connection". Also, if I try to login to my Skype account using Chrome for Android I cannot reach the page and get the message "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN". But everything else seems to work fine and I can browse other websites or use different apps. I understand that this might be due to some strange settings of my host university. While this is annoying, I can live with that. But what I really would like to understand, though, is why my phone behaves so strangely even when I'm switch off from the university wifi and I'm using my private mobile data connection...

I have installed Skype on both my device and my PC. Is it possible to call or accept call from both.For example I want to talk from my phone and at the same time watch the same video call from my PC.

I'm using http://www.midoblesim.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=483 and i can't install skype.It says that it's not matching, but still it is downloading it from the market. I gived you that link becouse this isn't an original, android phone, it's some Chinese stuff. But however, how can i solve the problem and install skype and run it correctly ?

I am having a weird issue. I am on Android 10 on my LG G6 and I haven't installed any doze control app or greenify type apps etc on my phone but whenever I receive any message on 3rd party apps like Whatsapp or Skype etc, many of notifications arrive on time but some of the messages arrive with no vibration and no sound like silent notifications. I haven't set any DND or anything. It's just clean install rom and I have also faced this issue at my official stock ROM Android 9. Same behaviour recorded in that as well. For testing I captured notifications and what I saw is some of the messages comes via silent channelID which is very strange for me as no settings applied. It's all random messages and same behaviour when I am using my phone so I believe it's not doze level thing. I am attaching screenshots of notifications log, please guide me what's wrong going on here. Thanks. **Screenshots:** https://postimg.cc/gallery/G3Tbjcg

I just bought a Samsung Galaxy S7, bound it to my car's Bluetooth and able to make/accept regular calls. However I cannot figure out how to make calls from Skype through car's Bluetooth. When phone is connected to bluetooth and I make a Skype call - call goes through phone's speaker, not through Bluetooth. Any advice on how to do it? P.S. I was able to it with my old Windows Phone, so I believe it should be possible with Android 6

I've just updated to the new Skype 4 on my Nexus 4. I regularly use Skype to call numbers saved in my phone's address book contacts, but can't find where to do this in the new version. The previous version of Skype 3.2 had an address book icon at the top right () but this is missing in the new Skype 4 (). Is there no longer a way to call my phone's address book contacts without adding them as a Skype contact as well? I'd rather not set Skype to sync my contacts as I regularly jump back and forth between personal & work accounts.

I have a Chromebook with an ARM processor. I have installed Ubuntu on that Chromebook. However, since there is no Skype-binary for ARM Linux, is it possible to use the version of Skype of the android APK, and run that on my ARM Linux ? Is there some kind of Dalvik enviroment or converter for ARM Ubuntu ?
What would be the minimal emulation environment, if I wanted to emulate android ?

On my Samsung Galaxy SIII when I view my contacts list in the Contacts application each contact entry has a list of small icons on the lower-right hand side corresponding to accounts where that contact is listed such as Skype, Google, WhatsApp, etc... as shown on the following screenshot (contact pictures and names have been scribbled out for privacy reasons, click to enlarge): Above the list of account icons, for some contacts either a green circle with a white circumference or an orange circle with two white clock hands and a white circumference appears in the upper-right hand corner of the contact entry in the list. Obviously green means available, and orange means away, but I am unable to figure out which of the three applications Google, Skype, WhatsApp, other, or whichever this dot corresponds to. First I thought that if the green dot was above the skype icon, then the contact was available on skype, but the last time I checked one of my contacts was associated with only one account, namely skype, but when I logged into skype the contact was offline. Can someone please help me figure out what the green or orange dots in the upper-right hand corner of contact entries in the Contact application mean? Thanks.

My Skype is not showing new messages or Skype call until I open it. I have a Samsung J6+. It night be my fault due to changing many settings at once now causing Skype to behave this way. So it was with other chat messengers such as Wire and Whatsapp. But I got Whatsapp working fine now, when i disable "data saver" feature under "data usage". However Skype and Wire are not working as they should. Can anybody please help by provide a list of possible settings and solutions ? Thanks.

I'm using Skype on Android 7. I have stored a video locally on the phone on the location /storage/emulated/0/myvideo.mp4. How can I send a skype message (from another device) so that on the above mentioned device the video is opened? That means I would like to send a message containing a hyperlink to /storage/emulated/0/myvideo.mp4 and when clicked on it the video should open.

I have Skype on my Android phone, and I'm logged into the same account from both the phone and my PC, but it's annoying that when I'm chatting from my PC, the phone constantly vibrates and beeps with every message. I'm on my computer, not on my phone. Is there a way to make Skype realize that if I'm typing from my computer, it means I'm sitting in front of it (or how else I'm typing there), so it doesn't make noises from the phone?

**Scenario A:** 1. start Skype 2. do some other work 3. shut down the Android device **Problem:** My contacts are still seeing me as being "online". Strangely enough there seems to be no heartbeat feature implemented in Skype. So even after 1 day my contacts are trying to call me - even though the device is powered off. Initially I thought this symptom would occur in case i forgot to manually quit the Skype app before shutting down the device. So i was searching for an answer how to configure Skype to *automatically* log off / quit when the Android device is *shutting down*? But now it turned out the situation is even worse: ***Scenario B:*** 1. start Skype 2. do some other work 3. quit the Skype app 4. shut down the Android device After step 3 I'm still listed as being "online". When a contact sends me a chat message it pops up. So it means: even though Skype no longer appears in the task manager it seems to be running as a secret, invisible background task!? And after step 4 the behaviour is the same as in Scenario A. I'm not transitioning to "offline" state. **Summary:** There seem to be 3 problems: - no heartbeat feature implemented in Skype - quitting the Skype app is not properly terminating / signing off - shutting down the Android device also is not influencing the online status **The only thing that works for me so far: You must switch to Skype, tap on your profile, at the very bottom *manually* do "sign out".** That's just not bearable. This is: **Android 4.1.2** **Skype 4.9.0.45564** **Skype 5.0.0.49715** **Skype 5.1.0.56619** **Skype 5.1.0.58677** **Skype 5.4.0.5871** (at least I'm now showing as being "Away" - instead of "Online") 2015-08-15 - the problem is back and it's even worse: **Android 5.1.1** **Skype 5.9.0.14047** Even though I'm manually signing out, terminating the app and shutting down the Android device I'm still being shown as being "online"!! -- All of the above tested @ Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (WiFi only) / GT-P3110

The latest version of Android is painfully slow - on my Sony Z3 it is nearly impossible to use. The previous version were also annoyingly slow and took up a lot of space. Is there an alternative version of Skype that is more convenient to use?