My Skype on Windows Phone is not working

My windows phone Skype is not working

Hello,
Skype for Windows Phone 7 has been discontinued and stopped working. Please read this:
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34489/is-skype-for-windows-phone-7-being-discontinued
Skype für Windows Desktop: v7.4.x.102
Skype für Mac OSX: v7.7.335
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Skype for Windows Phone idea: Make it work

[Topic title updated by moderator to be more descriptive. Original topic title was: "Re: Submit: Great Skype for Windows Phone ideas"]
Oh, here's a brilliant idea - make it work. Simple enough?
Fix resuming the app. Make it fast enough so I can actually pick up a call.
Decrease battery drain. Currently when using skype my battery usage sometimes reaches 65% per hour. It's not even ridiculous anymore.
I'm not asking much, I don't need calling skype-skype a pleasant experience. Just make it work without requiring 1Gb/s bandwidth and quad-core processor with 8GB RAM.
Last but not least - make SkypeOut not a theoretical feature to lure people into paying subscription but something that actually works at least half the time.
I'm really not asking anything fancy like deleting some old messages or other things people mention. Just the basics of a communication app.
The funny thing is that we all know you don't give a s* about what we are putting here. Nobody's gonna read it anyway.
It's sad. I used to like skype, before the mobile revolution. Now... Just keep it going the way it's going and in two, three years you'll be a history like Blackberry or AOL

As for those "smaller improvements" I think everyone will agree with me that they are way too small, and they take much too long. I mean, seriously, 65% per hour battery drain! I am yet to find an app, ANY app that would be even remotely close to your "achievements". With improvements that small and slow I guess in 5 years skype will be using only 30% battery every hour. If I'm not expecting to be next to a power outlet within an hour or two I'm not even trying to use skype anymore. Exactly the same applies to resuming the app. I understand that there are some improvements but honestly improving by 50 ms is not an improvement that any user would appreciate. Again, in this matter skype is probably the worst or one of the worst among all communication apps in WP store. And it's not like it's a new app. Those "improvements" (exactly the same) have been announced from the very beginning and yet they are virtually unnoticable for an average user. Like I said before, sometimes it's impossible to answer a call because it takes too long to resume skype. And any improvement that doesn't make it possible is not really an improvement, from a user's point of view.
I really hope this changes and next fixes will be dramatic.
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1. I'm calling the same people from desktop app, from metro app on my tablets and from my phone. Desktop - no problems whatsoever, Metro - pretty much good as well, Windows Phone - unusable most times.
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3. I'm calling landlines and all cellular carriers in Poland. Problems are with ALL of them using Windows Phone, and there are no problems using any other platform while calling exactly the same phone numbers. So, unless you have a problem with Poland in general, it wouldn't make any sense to blame the carriers.
4. For some reason, sometimes it actually works on the phone. But only sometimes.
Also, I noticed this behavior on Windows Phone:
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2. Video calls quality is very poor also on both - wifi and cellular.
3. Voice calls are actually not that bad. Assuming that I can start the app before they hang up
I'm using Lumia 920 so I hope this phone is not too weak for your app. If it is - you're killing yourself limiting only to owners of the very newest phones packed with the best hardware available.

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Idea Submission Guidelines
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MetalHead22 wrote:
How does this work with multiple accounts?
"This is a link between one Microsoft account and one Skype account. We recommend you link the Microsoft account you use on your Windows Phone with the Skype account you want to use on that device."
Does the above quote mean you can only use one skype account on your windows phone if I link my skype account that was set up with yahoo mail to my windows phone Microsoft account which is the same for logging in to my laptop that has windows 8.1 installed on it.
What i would like to do is to be able to sign in with either which I could do before the app update. The Microsoft one Is for personal use and the yahoo one is for work. I would like to keep them separate and does it mean nobody else can sign into their skype accounts on my phone if its not linked to my Microsoft account.
Hope this makes sense.
You can still use several Skype accounts on your phone, but you can link one Skype account to one Microsoft account.
If the Microsoft account you have for personal use is already linked to a personal Skype account, then you can simply use the Microsoft accont to log into the phone.
I understand your work Skype account is not yet linked to a Microsoft account? If you do not have a second Microsoft account to link to this work Skype account, then you can create a new Microsoft account and link to your work Skype account to be able to log into the phone with this account.
You can sign into Skype with any Microsoft account, does not have to be the one that is used to set up the phone.

TS3694 I performed an iOS 7 software update on my iPhone yesterday, and now the phone is not working at all. The iPhone screen shows to connect to iTunes to restore. I've have done this, and still the iPhone is not working. What going on?

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Help us improve Skype for Windows Phone

[Update Jan 20th 2015]
Thank you for taking part in the survey. We've now closed it and will evaluate the responses and share the results with you here once we have them.
Original announcement below:
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It will take about 25 minutes to complete the survey. It will be open until the end of second week of January. We’ll make sure to share the results with you once we have them.
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Is it ok to reply to this topic? There isn't a warning against it...
But I wanted to complain about all the stupid questions in the survey. You keep repeating the same "is this too polite?" stuff. I don't care about any of this. What I care about is how terribly laggy and unresponsive this app is on my Lumia.
Oh, and the fact that it is constantly online even when I'm not using it is also terrible.
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http://www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-was-not-suppose-get-lte-till-apollo
Once again, VZW - help us understand your line in the sand with taking on some new Windows Phone? "Oh, we are still waiting for Apollo?!?" Every day on any given WP Forum I see more and more Verizon customers leaving for Pink or AT&T. The AT&T Stores are having a field day with this information, too!

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i updated my 4s yesterday, but my phone will not work at all now, and will not turn off. It has a itunes image on the screen with an arrow underneath and what looks like the charger lead. i've had it on charge! is there anything else i can do?

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