New Skype on Android
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Skype decided to update itself to a vommit-inducing colourful squiggly shit and managed to fuck itself up in the process. I click on the app icon and get notified that the app is not installed. then what did I just click? Go to app store find Skype and install it again and it tells me it's installed. Well no shit Sherlock, that's what I tried to tell you in the first place. Opening from the store gives you the new all-improved vomit mentioned above. But it still wouldn't use the existing icon until I reinstalled it 😒
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sounds like you installed a completely separate App then...
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@homoBalkanus I don't really use Android myself but it sounds like your beef here is more with the Android store/software update system than with Skype.
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I've had a similarly awful experience.
No issues with the update process, I didn't even know it was updated until I saw this thread.
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I feel sorry for the clown who vomited on Skype. I hope she gets well soon.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in New Skype on Android:
sounds like you installed a completely separate App then...
It does, doesn't it? Except I didn't. I ran an update like with every other app. There were no extraneous Skype icons and the app store itself could open it correctly
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@LB_ said in New Skype on Android:
I've had a similarly awful experience.
That's either not Skype, or the folks at Microsoft have absolutely no concept of branding.
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Yeah same thing happened to me. It kept nagging me to choose a dann color theme even though I already did.
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@Maciejasjmj The latter. After all, MS have two completely different and incompatible chat systems, both called Skype. Also, two totally different and incompatible cloud storage systems, both called OneDrive.
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@RaceProUK said in New Skype on Android:
The latter. After all, MS have two completely different and incompatible chat systems, both called Skype. Also, two totally different and incompatible cloud storage systems, both called OneDrive.
I find it amusing that the versions “for Business” might as well be labelled “for and by morons who hate usable software”.
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@RaceProUK said in New Skype on Android:
@Maciejasjmj The latter. After all, MS have two completely different and incompatible chat systems, both called Skype. Also, two totally different and incompatible cloud storage systems, both called OneDrive.
Skype for Business looks more like Skype than Skype for Android, which is impressive considering the former is pretty much not Skype.
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@homoBalkanus said in New Skype on Android:
@Tsaukpaetra said in New Skype on Android:
sounds like you installed a completely separate App then...
It does, doesn't it? Except I didn't. I ran an update like with every other app. There were no extraneous Skype icons and the app store itself could open it correctly
It's happened to me with updates a few times. The shortcut on the launcher seems to get desynchronized from the installed app. You can normally fix it by deleting the home screen shortcut and re adding it from the app drawee
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@Jaloopa said in New Skype on Android:
@homoBalkanus said in New Skype on Android:
@Tsaukpaetra said in New Skype on Android:
sounds like you installed a completely separate App then...
It does, doesn't it? Except I didn't. I ran an update like with every other app. There were no extraneous Skype icons and the app store itself could open it correctly
It's happened to me with updates a few times. The shortcut on the launcher seems to get desynchronized from the installed app. You can normally fix it by deleting the home screen shortcut and re adding it from the app drawee
That usually indicates they changed the actual package name or activity though (com.skype.raider to com.skype.insiders for example)
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@Tsaukpaetra I figured it must be something like that. There was one app a few years back that was updating and breaking the shortcut about once a week for ages
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Trying to compete with Messenger and the like.
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@LB_ The "GOOD JOB! choose a different color" screen is the most condescending thing I've ever seen in a piece of software.
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@marczellm said in New Skype on Android:
I see the OS family clearly omitted at the bottom there.... What else is new.