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Originally Posted by stevesr0
I am an old perennial nooby I am afraid, Tarvoke. I have chat and talk with voice and video on my Linux computer, so I assumed that talk was a telephone service available on android as well. Looking around, I see that it is available on some 2.3.3 devices only.
One of the old posts (in the archive did mention using google voice to make calls; it sounded very complex involving a pbx program (this was posted by cheyennedonna).
Others have mentioned Nettalk (mokkel 22 back in July of this year), and fring.
Sorry for confusion.
I would be happy with any working phone program. I wondered if the Allmine fix would facilitate/support telephone function. But I don't know that there is any reason it would impact on that.
Thanks for reply.
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Unfortunately Allmine won't help you with telephony support on your PE.
Google Voice, when used to make calls on an android phone, actually works via making a regular phone call to google, and then google calls your target for you. It just doesn't look like a phone call in the UI. If you try using google voice to make a phone call on a device without a cellular radio (tablets, PE), it just won't work at all.
So what we need here is VOIP (Voice over IP, i.e. calling via data connection). And you are right that it requires a newer version of android.
Right now, I'm working on getting a kernel to compile for my PE. Once I can confirm that, I will try to make patches of entourage's additions to the kernel so they can be applied to newer kernel source.
Once my serial cable components arrive and I can dive into u-boot I'm going to start hacking on porting ClockworkMod recovery over. That will make ROM development so much easier.
Eventually, I hope to put out a bona fide ROM for the PE.
Until then, Allmine is just a collection of half-assed hacks.
Stay tuned!