veroi: Yes, if you want to use video and voice then they need to have portrait installed.

Basically, I tried using IM but found that as Marc said above it is just easier to call direct using the IP address. If you go to help about on the phone it will display the IP Address.

Once I reinstalled using the new installer package I got video! Too cool. Now I need to find someone with a G1000 who wants to try it phone to phone. I knew I should have bought my wife one too.

YO BLUE... you can always hit me up! ill try it with ya! pm me if you want to do it.

Man this prog seems buggy. It has locked up my G several times. I can not for the life of me get .net messenger to open. I have tried being connected to Vision first but I always get an error about checking my network settings when using msn buddy list. I can dial an ip and connect just fine.

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NCC1701-E: How much free ram do you have on your G? As someone said in another thread, ram issues are the biggest cause of instability in the G. It's why I wish that PC Techs had a memory upgrade.

Marc: I'll PM you tomorrow and we can play!

cool beans.. let me know...

yes make sure you have mor pgoram mamory! i habe not had mine to lick up but it did run slow one time because the slider went back to the middle position and that took my program memory down t like ~5 megs...

Mine is locking up also. I have talked to another g1000 user and he had no problems with lockups. I even tried to install to main memory thinking it would help. HAd about 13mb free program space and still locling up.

perhaps you are in areas with low coverage or you may have a couple of programs running in the background that are fighting for cpu space. i have not had the app do that to me and i have been using MP since november i think. also make sure you dont tap too many keys are that may cause it to slip up...

teevah, have you caled the other G user and him/her hook up to MP so you guys could chat?

also, why isnt your friend a member here?

Ever since I've installed MS Portrait, my battery use has gone thru the roof, even if i'm not using it (portrait) at all.

Something is up. I've uninstalled it now, going to confirm that's the culprit by makeing sure battery use comes back to standard.


DLD

Remember, Portrait likes to stay running even if you close it, make sure it's not showing in running programs. The only other reason I can think of for it to kill the battery is if it somehow leaves the camera in an on stated even when the program is completely closed. I haven't noticed any difference in batt. life since I've install portrait, I will say that it's quite buggy though and does have a tendency to lock up a lot, also a lot of times the image appears upside down and I have to do a soft reset to make everything work correctly...
Tom

yeah i have had MP since november and dont experience that. D2 could be on to something if you think MP is the culprit.

I NEVER had these problems with Portrait until the camera update, since then it has been quite buggy. I'm used to it though so I just soft reset a lot, however I know it does things to the camera if it doesn't close properly because if that happens and you try to open the camera app built into the G it says the camera hardware can't be accessed, I'm assuming because the camera is in use even though MP is closed. I would assume that if the camera was fired up for a while it'd drain the battery really quickly...
Tom

Perhaps that's what happened to me .. portrait crashed, left the camera open, draining battery quickly

Sounds reasonable



DLD

No way to know for sure but that's my guess...
Tom

The only problem I've been having is that when I connect to my desktop, the video box on the G just shows a blank green box. If on my desktop I change a camera setting - anything, such as fps, resolution, bandwidth, anything - then the video shows right up on my G.

It sucks because I want to see the video when I'm remote, and the only way it works right now is if I'm at my desktop to change a setting, then the G displays the video.

I'm going to test some stuff tonight when I get home. If I figure anything out, I'll post it here.

TomD.

do you have your home desktop set to show video automatically? do you have it set to answer anutomatically?

are you using huge fps or bandwidth settings?

also check the box on the G to show the stats for the receive info to see what if anything is being sent to the g.

that has happened to me once or twice where it would not show video so i did a terminal service call to the server to reboot the portrait program and all worked fine.

the g is cool!

Has anyone emailed the developers yet about these problems? My G1000 locked up pretty bad after I installed Portrait. I tried to make a call to my laptop, and my pocket pc locked up. It took about 10 soft resets before I could even get an Activesync going to uninstall Portrait. We really need a memory upgrade.

i have not emailed them because i dont have those problems. you need to make sure you have as much program memory as you can since it does take a lot of processor resources (you have a constant data connection and you are sending/receiving video and audio). i have mostly everything on my card and i keep about 14 MB free for program memory and ~3.50MB for storage and this works good.

also just make sure you dont have alot of programs running in the background or ones that may use the data connection. these are just some things to think about.

i also overclock my phone so that may also help me.

Also make sure you have a good strong signal. I really can't test it at home since I get a mediocre signal at best. If I knew I was going to stay in this apartment another three years I would invest in a repeater, which would benefit all my sprint using neighbors...

So what settings would you guys suggest? Like audio and video bandwidth, etc.

128 video
~5 sec fram interval
gsm 6.10

works for me. i have received more data than that...