I'm having a bit of an issue. When I get a text during a call a female robotic voice starts reading out my texts. It makes it hard for me to stay focused during a call. Please tell me there's a way to shut that off!
I wasnt aware this was possible on the Sidekick. did you try opening the menu while in Messages? then setting?
sheek360 said:
I'm having a bit of an issue. When I get a text during a call a female robotic voice starts reading out my texts. It makes it hard for me to stay focused during a call. Please tell me there's a way to shut that off!
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My wife had the same problem. I can't recall the exact solution but check in your settings/ language & input settings/ text-to-speech (or whatever path it is) and search around to ensure that the read aloud settings are not checked. Hope this works. Report back so others can know...
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Looks like the setting you want to change is under Settings>Voice Input and Output> Text-to-speech settings. Sounds like Driving Mode is checked/enabled. uncheck it, and that problem should go away.
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Okay, this is a bit detailed this one, but for some reason it's comforting to me to get the SMS confirmation dialog window, but the sound it plays with it is LOUD and really annoying. I can't find an entry for that sound in the settings (though there is one for MMS sent). Any ideas?
Just had a look as I thought there was... but I can't see it, so I guess not. Strange.
Some smart cookie will probably jump on here in a minute and tell you a reg hack to straighten that out. Good luck!
I used the Advanced Configuration Tool to turn off that from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070
It turns off the noise and the visual message that the text has been sent.
magnumforce2000 said:
I used the Advanced Configuration Tool to turn off that from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070
It turns off the noise and the visual message that the text has been sent.
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Yes, problem is i just wanted the sound turned off, not the visual! I find all the alert sounds a bit jarring, frankly....
I lost my MMS when I changed this setting in the Advanced Config tool. anyone know why?
So I figured there are a few of us switching to Android from an iPhone, and for most of us it couldn't come soon enough! Figured it'd be nice to have a thread to post questions/answers we have on the migration.
Here are a few of mine:
1. No visual voice mail on AT&T--If you have google voice, enable Google voice mail on the phone in Google Voice>> Settings. I still need to tweak a couple of things, but looks like it will work pretty well. Dialing in to get your voice mail just seems so 2003.
2. Contacts--Google Contacts is what I synced with, however when you sync your contacts with google, you end up with anybody you have ever emailed as the phone doesn't have the option to just pull in 'My Contacts' as of yet. Simple fix is to click options in the Contacts app, Display Options, and click to display only contacts with phones. Not the but works for now until hopefully Samsung addresses this with a fix.
3. Silent toggle--Here is where I'd like some help. There is no hardware toggle for silent mode, and it's pretty annoying to turn on the phone and have to select the 'Silent" profile. Anyone know of an app that will let you use the volume rocker when the phone is locked and the screen is off? Ideally I want to be able to reach in my pocket, hold the volume down key and have the phone vibrate to let me know it's on vibrate mode.
Update!! Widget locker takes care of this perfectly. you can wake the screen with the volume key, and then adjust the ringer volume from the lockscreen.
the silent toggle is what i am wanting too.. i havent got the phone yet, but it will be one thing that is missed from my iphone.. hopefully something like you described will be made..
i dont know if the captivate has it or if it is just a droid thing, but i like the lockscreen for the droid where you can switch it to silent that way too..
Swipe down from the top status bar (the one with the battery indicator). You will then have easy access to toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Silent and Vibration.
There are widgets that you can place on your home screen to deal w/ turning the phone to silent mode.
No Visual Voicemail sucks. Come on, even Blackberrys have visual voicemail. What the hell? Oh well, I probably just will never check my messages again. Most people text if I don't answer anyway. I'll have to see if Google Voice handles it the way I like. I've been wanting to use Google Voice more anyway.
yeah no visual voice mail does suck but there are alternatives but i dont care cause ive never used visual voice mail
Visual voicemail its up to the carrier not android. All HTC sense UI have it. Anyways try Google voice its even better because it convert voicemail to visual text voicemail.
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Is visual voicemail something we could get with custom roms?
sansart said:
Is visual voicemail something we could get with custom roms?
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Seconded. If Sense UI has it, would hacked roms or the like, enable visual voice mail?
yes or no?
No--I believe visual voicemail is on the carriers end of things. For the iPhone AT&T has it set up but not yet for android phones. Hopefully that changes at some point.
Google Voice
Use Google Voice. It can transcribe your voice mails to text.
Free alternative
Just use YouMail its free from the market place. Been using for quite a while now. Works great even on the iPhone.
jromney said:
Use Google Voice. It can transcribe your voice mails to text.
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I Don't know why people are complaining about no visual voicemail, its almost like they are ignoring your post!
Google = Android = Google voice, and its much better than the iphone voicemail. Google voice LOOKS just like the iphone version when you open it up, but it will transcribe what they said into text if you don't feel like listening to the voicemail. It also sends you an e-mail notification that you have a voicemail, and you can also read/hear it through that email on your computer.
For the love of god, why is this a visual voicemail thread... on an Android device...
Sign up for Google Voice. Set it to take over your carrier voicemail. Enjoy superior voicemail experience.
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3. Silent toggle--Here is where I'd like some help. There is no hardware toggle for silent mode, and it's pretty annoying to turn on the phone and have to select the 'Silent" profile. Anyone know of an app that will let you use the volume rocker when the phone is locked and the screen is off? Ideally I want to be able to reach in my pocket, hold the volume down key and have the phone vibrate to let me know it's on vibrate mode.
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On the demo unit I just played with at the store, I could hold down the volume key and mute the ringer if the screen was unlocked. I'm not sure if that put it in "silent mode" or not. Also, you have to have a pretty big pocket to fit both hand and device and still have room to swipe the screen...
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getting tired of at&t
I came to AT&T in 2007 because verizons customer service and
billing was so bad. Now AT&T making me feel like I may have to switch again. They keep cripling phones and trying to manipulate the buyer towards the iphone. They're as bad as Steve Jobs in their limitation of chooses for their own agendas. Android is here, and they need to quit dragging their feet and cripling phones that compete with the iphone.
I like google voice, but the transcribing sux. I got a message today that said "A death please call me back" when the person was just saying my name and to call them back. And yesterday my wife called and she said this is Val, but it transcribed This is Dan lol.
Get "No Lock" to get rid of the lock screen. When you press the power or volume buttons it just unlocks the phone. Still requires swipe to pickup call.
The neat thing about that is that you can depress the volume down button until its silent even when its in your pocket
Laaf2005 said:
I like google voice, but the transcribing sux. I got a message today that said "A death please call me back" when the person was just saying my name and to call them back. And yesterday my wife called and she said this is Val, but it transcribed This is Dan lol.
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Bad transcribing is better than no transcribing There are cases where it is very useful (like being able to search)
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Get "No Lock" to get rid of the lock screen. When you press the power or volume buttons it just unlocks the phone. Still requires swipe to pickup call.
The neat thing about that is that you can depress the volume down button until its silent even when its in your pocket
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I downloaded No Lock but didn't have a chance to use it as Widget Locker ($.99) does exactly what I want it to. I downloaded Widget Locker for the widgets on the lockscreen and it also has the option to allow the use of the volume keys at the lockscreen. Just started using it but so far I'm a big fan.
This is very annoying to me and a few other people that have the captivate but during a call and you get a txt the phone vibrates. Is there anyway/trick to turn this off and have it beep during a call?
If you get Locale and a plug-in for determining if the phone is on a call or not, you can have it automatically disable vibration when on a call and then re-enable it when the call is ended.
Why would you want to turn it off? I am pretty sure you do not get more than 1 or 2 text while on the phone. I think its a very useful feature. Well back to your question as far as I know there is no way to do this unless you want to dig around your database folder and see what you can find??
Go to settings-call settings-all calls-alerts on call Off
you can turn it off, but every phone does this...i mean how else are you supposed to know if you got a text if you're on a call?
V DidDy 210 said:
you can turn it off, but every phone does this...i mean how else are you supposed to know if you got a text if you're on a call?
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My point exactly. I would just put my phone down and never notice the missed message/call/whatever since we do not have LED notifications.
My Blackberry would give me a little audio indicator in my ear if I received a text while speaking on the phone, even if my phone was set to vibrate. It was a nice feature. I wish this phone would do the same because it vibrates so loudly I can't hear what person I'm speaking to is saying.
if you're using the headset, it gives an audible sound.
I dunno I guess I don't mind as much, if I notice anything then I will defiinitely pass it along
Open the Messaging App.
Hit the Menu Button.
Go to Settings.
Scroll Down.
Uncheck Vibrate.
Hey guys.. your getting a misunderstanding... I want it to vibrate when im not talking on the phone but when im talking on the phone like was said above... it vibrates so loud when your talking. I was asking if there was a way to turn the vibrate off during the call and get a beep sound instead like the dudes blackberry does.
Ok, I'm sure it's obviously simple but how do I get the text to speech to work when I get an incoming message and have it connected to a Bluetooth headset? Do I need an app or is it built in?
Iguana775 said:
Ok, I'm sure it's obviously simple but how do I get the text to speech to work when I get an incoming message and have it connected to a Bluetooth headset? Do I need an app or is it built in?
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If your wanting it to read the text to you I know Handcent SMS will do so. Once you install it , get a message and just press and hold on the message and there should be an option to read. I do not believe the stock app does not have that option.
hmmmm....ok. thanks.
Select swype as your method of input, there is a button on the keyboard that looks like a microphone. You can use that for text-to-talk. I was doing it earlier through my stereo bluetooth headset talking to phidelt.
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Select swype as your method of input, there is a button on the keyboard that looks like a microphone. You can use that for text-to-talk. I was doing it earlier through my stereo bluetooth headset talking to phidelt.
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They were asking for TEXT to SPEECH, not SPEECH to TEXT.
yea, I figured out the speech to text but not the text to speech
i4get75 said:
They were asking for TEXT to SPEECH, not SPEECH to TEXT.
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Wow, I'm fully retarded and unable to read.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, I just thought everyone was stupid except for me. Turns out I'm the stupid one...
Iguana775 said:
Ok, I'm sure it's obviously simple but how do I get the text to speech to work when I get an incoming message and have it connected to a Bluetooth headset? Do I need an app or is it built in?
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check out the free app vlingo. it has safereader that can read both your sms and email messages. it has a whole lot of other features also including (speech to text). so best of both worlds.
cool. thanks durango
Safereader and Handcent
Hi
Did you ever get Safereader to work with Handcent. I've had no success and the developer does not answer my emails.
Has anyone else experienced this? when I have my phone hooked up to my car stereo aux jack to listen to music.. I get a text and then no sound, until I receive another text!! its like to txt notification is muting the music and then not un-mutting after the notification is complete. this was happening on stock un-rooted phone and on all other roms too!!! its the reason why i rooted it.. and im still stuck with this problem, I have to send texts to myself to get the sound working again.
oh and how in the heck do you keep it from announcing the person that is messaging you? it is quite annoying, i just want a simple notification.. not a name or a number being called out for every one to hear.
well I take it im the only one with this problem???!!
cant say...i play music all the time in my car and once notif is done the music comes back on. are you using stock music player, stock sms and stock notifier?
i changed to handcent to see if that would help and yes I have changed player and neither of those help.. how do you keep it from reading peoples name outloud when a text comes in without putting the phone on silent?
It's never happened to my on stock or on a rom.
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deltawye said:
Has anyone else experienced this? when I have my phone hooked up to my car stereo aux jack to listen to music.. I get a text and then no sound, until I receive another text!! its like to txt notification is muting the music and then not un-mutting after the notification is complete. this was happening on stock un-rooted phone and on all other roms too!!! its the reason why i rooted it.. and im still stuck with this problem, I have to send texts to myself to get the sound working again.
oh and how in the heck do you keep it from announcing the person that is messaging you? it is quite annoying, i just want a simple notification.. not a name or a number being called out for every one to hear.
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To answer your question, I have the same problem too. Never tried sending myself a text to get it working. I just boot into recovery and then clear cache and reboot.
As for the phone telling you who's texting you here's your fix to that.
1. Go to Settings
2. Go into Voice input and output
3. Go into text-to-speech settings
4. Check to see if Driving mode is checked.
If it is this is what makes your phone talk to you.
5. Go into Driving mode settings
6. Now uncheck what you don't want your phone to say out loud.