Video and text chatting on Skype?

I really want to use Skype to video chat on my iPhone 4S but my mic is seriously messed up and doesn't really work properly so I need to use text chat whilst video calling but I don't know how to on the iPhone. Any help is much appreciated!

I don't think you can, i can't on my iphone… :/

There's a small microphone right next to the headphone jack, it sounds stupid but suck it to get anything out of it. I had the problem of my mic not working before and that was the problem, happens every week or so for me.

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