Working Pocket Skype for Trinity
After unpacking the Trinity from the box the first thing i was about to do was fulfilling my old dream - to perform a pure VoIP call from my PDA. Trinity looks strong enough with it’s ARM9 v4 400Mhz processor and Skype is the easiest choice. I will get back to the SIP and other IM clients in my future logs.
As my HTC is still brand new with absolutely no apps installed on it (except for the locale provided by the supplier that can be turned off) i expected the Skype app to work as a charm. The WiFi setup in my home WPA-PSK environment worked on the first try. I was really surprised. After that i went to the Skype download page and downloaded the latest version. It was Skype 2.2.0.36 from 11th June 2007 - the first gold release of the 2.2 branch. It worked really nicely. I loved the Skype menu on the Today screen. But when I was about to make a call, it always failed. Later on i realised that this officialy does not support Samsung based PDAs:
If you have a device with ARM 9 v4 Processor for example: 32bit Samsung: S3C2410, SC32442 and S3C2440, or IntelStrong ARM SA-1110, then calling is not supported by Skype for Windows Mobile in the 2.2 Gold Release. However, you will still be able to use chat to keep in touch with your contacts.
These includes, but are not limited to: E-TEN Glofiish X500, E-TEN M500, E-TEN M600, E-TEN M700, HP iPAQ rx5900, HP rx4000 Series, HP iPAQ rx3700 Series, HTC TyTN, HTC P3600, i-mate JASJAM, Qtek 9600, SPV M700, MDA Vario II / v1605, 8525 / M3100 / Trion, Dopod D810, Dopod 838, Dopod P100, Acer n311, Mio P550 Digi-Walker
Hope we will have official support in future versions. There’s still a chance to get Trinity to actually place/receive Skype calls and not just limit the functionality to chat: Get older version! While Skype does not offer older versions for download, you can find them with a Google search.
I personally collected this load of versions:
- SkypeForPocketPC-2.0.0.51-LowCPU.cab
- SkypeForPocketPC-2.1.0.65.exe
- SkypeForPocketPC-2.1.0.66.exe
- SkypeForPocketPC-2.2.0.18-Beta.cab - works with P3600!!!
- SkypeForPocketPC-2.2.0.20-Beta.exe
- SkypeForPocketPC-2.2.0.36.exe
While only the 2.2.0.18 and the 2.0.0.51 worked for me I’ve sticked with the 2.2.0.18 as it has neat feature of appearing in the “today” screen. See pic:
If you’ve never installed a CAB file on your PocketPC before just copy it to your PDA with ActiveSync Explorer and then locate the file with File Explorer on your PDA and click on it. The installation will run.
Hopefully the next version of Skype will support Trinity as well as other Samsung based PDAs. Until then use the Pocket Skype 2.2.0.18 Beta!
Jan08 Edit: Make sure you read on the follow up: Pocket Skype 2.2.0.37 vs Trinity
July 4th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Thanks a lot for this information.
I had same problems and now I can use Skype.
August 12th, 2007 at 4:17 am
works like a charm !!! Use the Pocket Skype 2.2.0.18 Beta! I have a Cingular 8525. Worked on it most of the day. Thanks, Skype works great now.
August 21st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Thank you very much!!
u helped me alot with Mio P550
August 24th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Great info and links. The folks at Skype worked hard to remove any links to versions prior to 2.2.0.36, which is frustrating because they could have left the version prior still available for Samsung-based users who would unkowingly update to 2.2.0.36 only to find out they needed to downgrade to restore Skype’s most critical functio… makin voice calls. What good is ‘chat only’???? Skype is about VOIP where the V is for voice, not text. geesh. BTW, I’m using 2.2.0.20 on my P3600 without any problems again now.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Nice… Was linked to here via the official Skype forums after I installed the latest build (2.2.0.220) and found that my Hermes (TyTn) was crashing out whenever I tried to make a voice call… Not very clever!
Thanks to you, I easily got the last latest working build for my phone and now I’m making calls over HSDPA 3G again. Nice one mate
August 29th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
i have an ipaq 5450, tried all the softwares on this site, no one works. too bad! thanx anyway.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Hi,
I was lost about functionality of Skype on E-TEN M700,
I’ve tried about 12 different versions (from various sources)
and couldn’t make it working.
It closed down on startup by itself, or only chat worked.
Then I installed
SkypeForPocketPC-2.0.0.51-LowCPU.cab
from this web and all works fine (finally).
September 17th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Gr8 work getting all the older versions and offering them here! Bravo!
Used to “play” with the v 2.1.0.65 on my Mio P550 and worked fine! Tried the 2.2.0.18 which also works just fine but seems a bit “heavier” for my device butt I’ll probably keep on using it until Skype decides to resolve this frustrating voice encoder incompatibility so that we can also benefit from faster and better audio.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Can someone post a link or email me the exe [zip it first] or cab file for version 2.2.0.20 for SMARTPHONE…. Please!!
The PPC versions posted here won’t work with my iPAQ 510 Smartphone v6. The gold release v2.2.0.36 for smartphone also doesnt work with the 510, but the .20 version does [I’m told].
Thanks,
Brett
ramblin66 at hotmail dot com
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Thank you, it was great!
My ETEN Glofiish X500+ can work with Skype now.
I installed file”SkypeForPocketPC-2.2.0.18-Beta.cab”
September 26th, 2007 at 9:14 am
2.2.0.18 cab works great on O2 xda mini & execs
Great help, thanks
Paul
September 30th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Hi,
SkypeForPocketPC-2.2.0.36 + Pocket Skype 2.2.0.18 Beta on HP Ipaq rx5710
voice working using USB activesync connection with desktop PC. I hope that work with wlan sdio card too(I must buy one).
Thanks for files.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Hi,
I have HP Ipaq rx5945 which is off the list from the newest version of Skype Mobile (sic!). Thanks to YOUR link to the version 2.2.0.18 my new ‘baby’ has the amazing functionality of calling everywhere at almost the lowest rates
YOU are the BEST!!!
October 5th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
You’re a saver, I was looking for the 2.2.0.20 Beta everywhere and here it is. this version works for me on Treo 750 WM5 and WM6 works great w/AT&T
October 6th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Thank you for sharing!
October 6th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Like others with a Trinity now I can use Skype. Is sucks they don´t arrive to meke a new version without loosing features!~
What we stil need is to have video!!
October 8th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Thanks so much for the post on this. Just got it working on my 8525. Not sure why Skype is so unresponsive in getting their latest version for Windows Mobile working on theARM 9 v4 or at least pointing us toward a version that does work. It doesn’t seem like it should be that hard.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
thanks for this,
for those that are curious, it seems to work also with the HTC P3600i, which is the asia-pacific upgraded model of the trinity essentially.
so this asks the question, what changed from beta .18 to .20 to break skype for this processor?
November 4th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Thank you. It works perfect on my htc tytn.
November 14th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
You are turely a lifesaver… I looked everywhere for a version that would work on my Toshiba E750… both the .18 and .20 versions work… I was headed to Europe and thought I would have to be without calling ability for my short visit, but you have enabled me to ’skype’ anyone world wide when I travel… The latest (.37) hotfix version of 2.2 does not work with any processor that uses the ARM v4 instruction set… but the beta versions I have mentioned DO.
For other owners of this equipment I have found that a standard 2.5mm plug cell phone headset works GREAT with this PDA using a $3.99 stereo adapter that makes the standard cell phone plug work in the unusual 3.5mm jack on this excellent, but discontinued Toshiba…
Thanks so much for your help.
November 18th, 2007 at 1:18 am
thank you very much for you help.I have an trinyty and now it work very good with your version beta.
Thank you very much!!!
Bye
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 am
Ipaq H5550 - Skype 2.2.0.18 works perfectly when the latest version doesn’t - also worth knowing you need a later version of activesync (4.5) to install skype on older versions of windows mobile than 5.0
Thanks to this page I’ve ended hours of frustration - trying to get the damn thing to work!!
December 1st, 2007 at 6:37 am
.18… works great on Sprint Touch. Thanks
December 19th, 2007 at 8:24 am
I had given up on using Skype on Eten X500+ until I came across this from a google search. Happy to say that the Pocket Skype 2.2.0.18 Beta works with the X500+. Very grateful for this post and tip. Thank you!
December 25th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
always wondered why skype wouldn’t work on my trinity, but never looked into properly. thank you for the info and the downloads - calling from abroad is now much cheaper
January 1st, 2008 at 3:25 am
I have downloaded the CAB for version 2.2.0.37 on my HTC Trinity. It seems to work adequately with voice and chat. Still no video… Not really holding my breath.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
[…] As aquion, my fellow reader mentioned in his comment, there’s a new version 2.2.0.37 available for quite a long time on skype.com webpage (actually it’s almost two months now). I just downloaded it and gave it a try. […]
January 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
this solved my issues. working with a sprint HTC mogul. thank you for taking the time to publish this.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
[…] Here’s the origional post where the download of 2.2.0.18 is. There are more downloads available if this particula version doesn’t work on your phone. Remember, most of this is beta software, so install at your own risk. […]
February 9th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Skype 2.2.0.18 will work on the htc p3600, but you have to use the wired headset which is really lame. I have tried 3 stereo a2dp headsets with Skype and all of them will not work. I recently got the Jabra BT8040 also will not work. I wish someone would fix this so that I can use the p3600 with Skype on a Bluetooth headset and not have to have all the wires. If anyone knows a real fix please e-mail me iterateit@gmail.com and let me know. And yes I have tried all the sound redirect stuff out there and none of them work not even the stuff on xda developers site.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Wow!, Finally found it!!!! thank you sooo much , i have been looking for 2.1.0.66 for ages, UR THE BEST!!
February 12th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
hi, I have the HP ipaq 514, and I install the “fring” software (and it works this skype and MSN at the same time), is very useful. see you. (writing from spain).
February 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
skype on the HTC P3600 will not work with an A2DP blutooth headset, or a standard blutooth headset. I am looking at the New Golfiish x800, any one know if skype and the Golfiish x800 wroks with a blutooth headset?
February 16th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Thinks, it works on HTC Mogul 6800!
March 14th, 2008 at 6:55 am
How are you guys installing the 2.2.0.18-Beta.cab on you phones? I can only download the link as a text file.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
It seems that SkypeForPocketPC version 2.2.0.37 will work (with voice/audio support) on these PocketPCs. In my case, I am using a Mio P550.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
HI i will like to know if skype will work in the htc touch ?thanks
April 4th, 2008 at 4:40 am
You literally saved me by posting this article. At the excact momment i needed it. Really thanks for for the files and the description above.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:52 am
damn i get htc tytn only for skype and i can’t find anything
can anyone help me please :’(
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for god sake
April 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I have an HTC Touch and the problem I’m experiencing is the sound coming out of the rear speaker (loudspeaker). I have tried the following versions but nothing has worked:- SkypeforPocketPC 2.1.0.66; 2.2.0.18-Beta and 2.2.0.37 (latest).
Does anyone have any idea which, if any, versions of Skype Mobile actually work on the HTC Touch?
As I say it’s only a sound out of the rear speaker not the microphone and earpiece which is a problem - everything else seems to be OK.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Thank You.
Now I can use my HTC Touch (Bell Canada) for VoIP Skype calls.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:44 am
I install cab ver 2.2.0.18 on my HTC touch. I can’t sign in? Did i download the wrong version?
May 14th, 2008 at 6:32 am
2.2.0.18 working great with my new HTC 6800. Latest version didn’t work
May 29th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Hi - I copied a download of 2.2.0.18 to my Samsung SPH-i325 Smartphone and launched it via file explorer to receive the message: “Installation was unsuccessful. The program or setting cannot be installed because it does not ahve sufficient system permissions.” Any ideas why this happened and ways around it. The reason I was trying to install this version of Skype is because it seems it would work with Windows Mobile 6.0.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Eten X600 wm6 fr , skype work well just with 2.0.0.51 …
Thanks for the link
June 9th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
iPAQ hx2110:
Windows Mobile 2003SE, Version 4.21.1088
Tried Pocket Skype 2.2.0.18 Beta! Seems to work fine!
Thx to all, it was a hard ride to find it!
Greetz
Florian
June 10th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! This is the way to fix problems with Skype Mobile and Sprint Phones. Been trying to resolve the issue for sometime. Working with registry edit to find hidden file blocks and sound muting which Sprint may be (purposefully or inadvertently) doing with its “proprietary” software. Will post any results if successful. THANKS FOR ARCHIVE POSTING THESE!!!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Didn’t include in above post, but used the SkypeForPocketPC-2.2.0.18-Beta.cab (Posted above) with Sprint Mogul on 06-09-2008. ROM v. 3.35.651.2 ROM date 02/22/08 and Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro CE OS 5.2.1629 (Build 18136.0.4.8). Tested and Confirmed.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Did theSprint Mogul and Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro to skype over wi-fi only or both wi-fi and the Sprint network also? Either way, that’s pretty fantastic!