They should certainly make it configurable.įor now the only way to disconnect is to manually 'sign out'. Make Skype presence indicator be meaningful in these scenarios as well. In these occasions you are right now still shown online and we are working to you've disconnected from the internet (e.g. They admit that certain scenarios need fixing: Now we've identified a few scenarios where this is simply misleading: (.) we are showing you as online to your contact even when you left orįorce killed the app on your mobile phone (.) OMG, I have found the following posting: Īccording to above the 'always on' concept was a deliberate decision by Microsoft: (.) we have changed the way online status presence works: the problem is back and it's even worse:Įven though I'm manually signing out, terminating the app and shutting down the Android device I'm still being shown as being 'online'!!Īll of the above tested Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (WiFi only) / GT-P3110 (at least I'm now showing as being 'Away' - instead of 'Online') You must switch to Skype, tap on your profile, at the very bottom manually do 'sign out'.

shutting down the Android device also is not influencing the online status.

quitting the Skype app is not properly terminating / signing off.

no heartbeat feature implemented in Skype.

I'm not transitioning to 'offline' state. So it means: even though Skype no longer appears in the task manager it seems to be running as a secret, invisible background task!?Īnd after step 4 the behaviour is the same as in Scenario A. When a contact sends me a chat message it pops up. Heres what we did: We both removed each other from our contacts. So i was searching for an answer how to configure Skype to automatically log off / quit when the Android device is shutting down?īut now it turned out the situation is even worse:Īfter step 3 I'm still listed as being 'online'.

Initially I thought this symptom would occur in case i forgot to manually quit the Skype app before shutting down the device. So even after 1 day my contacts are trying to call me - even though the device is powered off. Strangely enough there seems to be no heartbeat feature implemented in Skype.

My contacts are still seeing me as being 'online'.

Skype showing everyone offline