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hey,
i downloaded this freeware app from a site; it's called "ok birth control" and claims to be able to calculate / determine when a woman is fertile (dates when pregnancy is high). i downloaded it since my wife and i are trying to have little robsons and little karens running around the house. when i turned on the app; it was looking for a program plug-in; which i also found on the same site when i went back looking for it. finally; installing the b.c. app is 75kb; but the plug-in was around 1-plus meg. it worked fine; it was rather accurate and my wife was impressed. however; i found out that the plug-in screwed up the alarm notifications; my alarm wouldn't sound and would activate only after going to the clock settings. weird. :roll: but the worse part is that it screwed up my bluetooth connection with my headset; bonding /rebonding would indicate that the headset was recognized but making/receiving calls wouldn't be transferred. :roll:
so, should you run into this program "ok birth control"; please don't use it and spare yourselves the trouble of doing a hard reset. removing the program/app didn't help; a hard reset was called for.
cheers
robson
Robson said:
hey,
i downloaded this freeware app from a site; it's called "ok birth control" and claims to be able to calculate / determine when a woman is fertile (dates when pregnancy is high). i downloaded it since my wife and i are trying to have little robsons and little karens running around the house. when i turned on the app; it was looking for a program plug-in; which i also found on the same site when i went back looking for it. finally; installing the b.c. app is 75kb; but the plug-in was around 1-plus meg. it worked fine; it was rather accurate and my wife was impressed. however; i found out that the plug-in screwed up the alarm notifications; my alarm wouldn't sound and would activate only after going to the clock settings. weird. :roll: but the worse part is that it screwed up my bluetooth connection with my headset; bonding /rebonding would indicate that the headset was recognized but making/receiving calls wouldn't be transferred. :roll:
so, should you run into this program "ok birth control"; please don't use it and spare yourselves the trouble of doing a hard reset. removing the program/app didn't help; a hard reset was called for.
cheers
robson
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so tell us did it work? I mean did your wife fall pregnant?
Maybe it was so smart it screwed up your PDA so you would have even more time to spend with Karen.
Screwing the pda will not result in a pregnancy. Screwing often does though.
to: cruisin-thru and peter poelman
-point taken
however the reason why we have to closely monitor her ovulation period is because we've been having difficulty for 3 years now. we've had ourselves checked quite a number of times and everything is normal. a couple of weeks ago she underwent an operation which we hope will increase our chances. keeping our fingers crossed...
to: jgadallah
yes, the software is relatively easy to use and quite straightforward. you just have to input 3 or 4 things for it to calculate the dates when the fertility period is.
unfortunately, as i've said it screws around with the alarm and thus makes it not sound. it also advances your calendar alarm / reminder times by around 3 hours. and lastly it screws up the bluetooth such that the device can recognize the headset but refuses to transfer the call. even after so many bonding and rebonding configurations.
cheers
robson
My Xda2 is a transvestite I think. Can it still have babies????
Will your program tell me when it Ovulates???
Robson, I wish you all the best, sometimes life cannot be planned as we want it, relax, enjoy your life and maybe in time it will happen.
Wrong time of the month. No mating allowed with my Xda for a few days. Ho Hum.
Which plug-in does it ask? I havent noticed such problems on PPC 2002 platform?
:?
Girls best friend
You might wanna forget the whole thing (the software, that is), and perhaps look at "Girls best friend" instead?
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=12454
Did not cause any problems with my Himalaya..
And I wish you the best of luck! :wink:
I want some toddlers too, but I'm a bit too young..
Just a few more years..
Don't worry, when you have the sproglets, you won't need your alarms anymore (well, not for waking up, that's for sure).
Good luck,
Alex.
When I had a smart (Nokia 6600), used answering machine "Smart Answer".
Now PDA XDA IIi (WM 2003SE).
It is necessary for me, that the program " Hangs Up " at an entering call, reproduced the text, and finished conversation.
Who can help me to find such program?
answering machine is absolutely impossible on your device
why impossible for this device?
try doing a search for answering mashine or something why it's not possible with wm pda phones is described many times in the forum
try doing a search for answering mashine or something why it's not possible with wm pda phones is described many times in the forum
Probably, there are answering machines which work by such principle?:
it is necessary for me only, that:
-phone automatically " Hangs Up " (well if would be possible to set an autorespond by the certain quantity of hooters)
-... And through certain time (5-6min) - " finished conversation "
Can someone tell me about it?
I think he means he just wants to controll the answering and hanging up. Thats relitively simple.
I am working on something now that will have that functionality incorporated in its settings. I can't give a definite time but if you dont find anything else try here again in a couple of months.
OdeeanRDeathshead
Very well! I am very glad, that there are people who can really help.
I with impatience shall wait on the program as in a network I can not find such with similar functions.
If it will be necessary to pay your diligence, I shall be glad to help!
All the same can somebody help me?
OdeeanRDeathshead said:
I think he means he just wants to controll the answering and hanging up. Thats relitively simple.
I am working on something now that will have that functionality incorporated in its settings. I can't give a definite time but if you dont find anything else try here again in a couple of months.
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Dear OdeeanRDeathshead,
how at you business with programming the program are?
Sorry, but I just can't understand that :lol: .
If you want my progress then.... What I am doing dose something else as its main thing, so that will take a while. For me the auto hangup is more of a safegaurd against never hanging up which would be expensive. I have read your posts again and it just becomes more un-clear. (No offence but) Please get someone to help you ask more clearly what you want and I may be able to add it in my product.
OdeeanRDeathshead
Thanks for so prompt replies!
Means, if it is possible, I shall describe procedure for what the program with such functions is necessary to me:
I live in Ukraine. As a matter of fact we have two largest operators of cellular communication who are monopolists. I, being the subscriber at both, use their services. The first operator - Ukraine Mobile Communication (UMC), the second Kyivstar.
At first operator UMC at me a subscription is unlimited (it the company in which I work pays), that is I talk, not worrying about spent time.
And the second package deal - at operator Kyivstar. My children use them.
Kyivstar represents such kind of services - as a payment of money for my account for entrance calls, that is to me pay money that someone dials my number and talks. But me charge money...
And so, it is necessary for me, that I could dial the number from time to time Kyivstar from the unlimited UMC, and for it to me will charge money for my account.
And for automation of process as to have to dial the number automatically each 5 minutes, and accordingly, it is necessary for someone to lift a tube(Hang Up) on other end, and the program for autorise is necessary to me.
That is it is necessary, that on XDA IIi the program at an entering call automatically accepted a call, and through set time (5-6 minutes) - laid down a tube(Hang Down).
Earlier when at the daughter was Nokia 6600, there were no problems (used Smart Answer). But now, when to it is necessary for work with PDA, I do not find programs in which there are such functions.
It is necessary:
The program on PDA at an entrance call automatically lifted a tube(hangup), and through the set time interval finished conversation.
In advance I am sorry for my bad English.
OdeeanRDeathshead said:
Sorry, but I just can't understand that :lol: .
... Please get someone to help you ask more clearly what you want and I may be able to add it in my product.
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OdeeanRDeathshead,
Do You add this function to your product?
I am still having a little trouble clearly understanding. Here is what it seems like....
either:
1)you want a program to answer a call then some time later hang up.
or
2)you just want a program to hang up calls after 5 minutes.
or
3)you want two programs, 1 to dial every 5 minutes and one to answer then hang up after 5 minutes.(at different ends)
Well I spent a couple of hours tonight modifying some stuff to help with some of this. I did two versions
version 1.
http://odeean.veritel.com.au/ORDTapiUser/ORDcallKill.exe
will just hang up automatically after just under 5 minutes (280000 milliseconds actually).
version 2.
http://odeean.veritel.com.au/ORDTapiUser/ORDcallKill2.exe
will wait 8 seconds then answer the call. It will then wait about 5 minutes then hang up.
These have NO interface. When you run them there will be no ongoing sign that they are there. Please remember that you may only run one of these at a time. The coding is just the bare bones of what was needed to do its thing, if you run it twice it will not check if it is running and a second instance will go. This will give unpredictable results. To stop them you must soft reset your device. Sorry about that, but I just did not want to spend much time on this. when you run them a warning will pop up followed by a message asking what device to use, only press yes to the phone (normally cellular line).
I have tested these and they work for me. I would like to know if they work for you. The version that dose not auto accept a call but still hangs it up relies on a strange behaviour in tapi on ppc that in my opinion is a bug. For this reason the life of this code may be short (i have not tested it on wm2005 and do not expect it to work on it. I dose work with previous versions).
If you want a program to do the auto dialling it is easy enough, but I did not want to spend time making a gui and I was still a bit unclear on what you want anyway.
Hello all . . . need I say it? But, I'm new. Not just to this forum, but also to pda/smart phones.
I got an O2 XDA Mini S yesterday and began playing. Firstly, quick basic question, are all these the same thing:- i-mate, K-JAM, HTC Wizard and O2 XDA Mini S?
OK, next, I've been reading some sites today and one of the most repetitive things I've found is the recommendation to remove the O2 software from my device - on the basis that it is causing it to run slowly. But, I haven't found that to be the case, but remember I'm new to these toys.
I also came across Magic Button for closing apps properly, not just hiding them.
Lastly, before I move on to the subject of this post - can someone clarify the difference between a hard reset and a soft reset. In particular, if I do a hard reset, do I loose eveyone from my Contacts?
But, here is the question that relates to the subject:-
I turned on bluetooth and tried to send a picture from a Samsung D500 to the XDA Mini, but no luck. I also tried with a Samsung E720, no luck there either. Lastly, I also tried with an Apple PowerBook G4 and it was unsuccessful also - but it was more informative - it basically suggested that the capability didn't appear to be there.
I did turn on bluetooth on all the devices and I also made the XDA Mini discoverable. The two phones could scan and find the XDA, as could the Apple, but neither of the phones could retain the name of the XDA in the list of previously identified devices (I hope that is clear what I mean). The Apple could retain the name, but still can't interact with it.
I have tried changing the COM ports round - ie COM 7 incoming COM 6 outgoing AND COM 6 incoming and COM 7 outgoing, but that didn't make any difference.
The most bizzare thing (not really all that bizzare I suppose) is that Infra-Red works, so I could transfer stuff (albeit awkwardly) from my old phone to the XDA.
I was wondering (probably stupidly) if the 02 software could be limiting the functionality associated with the bluetooth, or if Windows has restricted it to only be used with ActiveSync [I just can't think of any other reason for it not to work].
Any light that could be shed on this would be appreciated.
Cheers.
1. Yes they are all the same things.
2. The o2 software tends to be quite animated, this slows down the device a little, it also masks the way the phone was intended to be used. Its not really necessary which is why its best to remove it. Plus, it free's up memory for other stuff.
3. There is a lot of talk on these forums about different programs that can "really" close an app as opposed to "minimising" to the background. There are "for's" and "against" arguments regarding this. It is true that programs only minimise when you press the "x" button but it does state, er, somewhere, i think it was in one of the help files in the device, that memory is managed automatically by windows and that programs are shut automatically to make room for new ones if memory becomes low. So you shouldn't have to worry about running out of memory, also when minimised the programs appear quicker than if they had been shut down, usually from where you last were too. This can be a good or bad thing depending on the point of view of the user. However, from my point of view and i think i share this with many other users, i "feel better" knowing that a program shuts when i've finished with it and it will start from a common point when i next open it. I think this is more down to the fact that people are used to this than anything else.
The program i use for this purpose is called SmartSkey, made by one of the people on this forum,it can do either and you can have an exception list of apps that minimise only, which is quite useful. Also it makes navigating the device easier with one hand, which is REALLY handy, it may be worth looking into.
4. A hard reset will make your device appear exactly how it did when you first switched it on. Anything at all that was on there will be gone, so yes you will lose your contacts. There are 3rd party applications you can use that can back up the whole device though. A soft reset just restarts the device and nothing is lost. Its equivelent to restarting a windows PC as opposed to Re-formatting one.
5. As regards you bluetooth problem, the only thing i can think of is that i have noticed that the device needs to actually be "ON", not in "sleep mode" or obviously "OFF", in order to successfully receive files via bluetooth. If it is in sleep mode then devices can see it but can't connect. I can honestly say i've had no problems as you describe with bluetooth names and stuff on mine.
Sorry i can't help you more with the bluetooth, but i hope the other info was of help to you. Enjoy your new toy, they are very customisable and as a result of which can be very annoying too. :wink:
Be prepared for late nights and hair loss, else, ignorance is bliss
Thanks for the reply Clivectmob. Very informative.
I've been playing again. This time I sent a picture from the XDA to the Samsung E720 and I was successful, but it doesn't seem to want to work the other way around . . . very strange.
I might bring it back and see if they can figure it out.
If anyone else fancies a shot at a solution, just fire away, I'll take any suggestions.
Again, thanks Clivectmob
Last question.
If I take the O2 software off of this, can I return it to factory settings by doing a hard reset?
Yes you can, as I said, it will be as it was when you first switched it on.
All that software is stored on a hidden ROM on the device, when you hard reset it goes through a customization sequence afterwards where it puts it all back on. One trick is to wait until it displays the customization message, then pull out the battery. Switch back on and it will not customize it, but then you need to manually configure all your conection settings and so on, so you need to be reasonably up on the use of them for that.
I certainly didn't buy the phone for S-Voice, but it was definitely a sweetener in the deal. The idea of snoozing an alarm without even opening my eyes or having to move was a lazy man's dream.
After a week of practical usage, I am now resigned to the fact that the implementation is simply too flakey and inconsistent to be useful.
For a start, the literature seemed to promise that you could wake the phone into S-Voice mode by saying "Hi Galaxy". This isn't quite true. You can UNLOCK the phone by saying it (or another preset voice command), but (unless I am missing something obvious) you can't wake it. You have to press the Home or Power button to wake the phone, then you can use a voice command to unlock it. But to be honest, this is completely redundant. If you've gone to the trouble of retrieving the phone (think: while driving) and pressing a physical button, the additional effort required to simply drag your finger across the screen is negligible.
Then there's the lack of consistency in the phone's ability to listen. Sometimes it responds instantly and positively. Other times it has selective deafness. The first morning I tried the "snooze" command, a lesuirely, tired utterance was all it took to snooze the phone (which I was very pleased with). The next morning, it was a case of: "snooze.... snooze.... SNOOZE!!" before an elbow in the face from my wife told me that this wasn't going to work, and I had to drag myself out of my pit to physically turn off the alarm.
It's same in the music player. Sometimes a gentle and casual "Next" has the desired effect. Other times, after the 10th attempt of screaming "NEXT!!" at the phone, you realise it just isn't going to work. There's no pattern. It simply listens sometimes, and not other times.
Finally, there's the odd inconsistency in the way the other phone software responds to an S-Voice command. There are times when S-Voice understands exactly what you are saying, but when it switches to another application to carry out the command, something gets lost in translation.
The music player is a perfect example. When attempting to show off the new found features to my wife, I instructed the phone to: "Play artist Adele". Which S-Voice understood. Music player then started.... playing Kelly Clarkson songs. Cue a derisory snort from the wife.
I've tried this dozens of times, variations of "Play song [x]", "Play songs by [x]", "Play artist [x]", "Play song [x] by [x]". Some times it works, as expected, instantly. Other times it will switch to the music player and play whichever song was last played (regardless of what you ask). Other times it will just play something completely unrelated to anything. Switching back to S-Voice always confirms that the phone had correctly understood the request.
All in all, it's just not quite there as a viable mechanism for controlling the phone. You simply can't rely on it. Which, unfortunately, resigns it to the "gimmick" bin.
In terms of comparisons to Siri, I would say the vocal "hit rate" is similar, the list of integration to phone features is better, but it lacks the personality and humour - which shouldn't be completely overlooked.
I second this. After seeing Siri being shown off by a colleague, then when they announced S-Voice for SGS3 I thought finally Samsung can kick apple in jewels and improve it massively. Hmmmm....
I got mine yesterday and tried to make an appointment booking, turn on blue tooth, set an alarm, do a simple addition and navigate. I tried speaking slow and clearly and normal and clear.
The appointment booking totally useless! I even tried to be a yank and do things backwards i.e MM/DD/YY. It even got the title wrong. Epic FAIL!
Setting the alarm clock. Worked like a treat
Navigation using post code was rubbish, it kept mistaking G for J and added un wanted spaces. FAIL!
I asked the phone what is 2+2 it gave me an answer of 4 after about 30 seconds, I then said what is 2+2x2, it showed (2+2)x4 on screen but gave me an answer of 2+2^4?
Turning on Bluetooth kept returning an network error despite being able to immediately set the alarm after.
I found when testing quite a few features showed in the list for S-Voice some took absolutely ages to respond. I had it connected to WiFi as well. Its a good concept but needs improving a lot.
When I watched the unveiling, the guy with the french accent somehow managed to get the phone to understand him. How come nothing works for me? I dont have any accents I have a straight forward english accent.
Hmm "Turn Bluetooth On" works here. Obviously 2 + 2 * 2 is ambiguous. I tried "whats two plus two multiplied by two" and it replied 6.
As far as having it wake the phone from sleep that would mean constantly have the voice recognition on, which will probably drain your battery really quickly.
True, I imagine even a passive microphone listener would be battery consuming, though the microphone does currently listen passively when the phone is in applications such as the music player.
I think it would just be nice to have the option of genuine voice powered wake up, or at least have it as part of a "smart" profile, e.g. it is enabled when I am in the car.
I share the OP's pain, in the fact that sometimes it works perfect then the next time not at all, quite frustrating I must say.
what Samsung should have done is label it "beta" and then everyone would lower their expectations and be totally impressed by the little that it can do..
it worked for Apple and Siri
Isn't that something that can be corrected with software update though?
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Yeah, I swore it would have passive listening to wake it
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Yeah, I swore it would have passive listening to wake it
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Yeah that's what I took from the French bloke's presentation at the unveiling event.
It's a work in progress and I am sure it will be updated soon.
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The S3 isn't available here yet so I haven't gotten to try it out, but can someone who has S-Voice say the following and tell me how it responds..
"remind me to call my brother when I leave here"
I tried this in speaktoit and it did a useless web search. Tried it on Siri in the store and it did exactly what I expected. I haven't been able to find anything on Android that actually works for real life tasks as well as Siri seems to, and if S-Voice will then that would be a phone-seller for me.
Thinking back now, I'm betting the French Bloke was bricking it wouldn't work , he did look rather relived when it did
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Vcize said:
The S3 isn't available here yet so I haven't gotten to try it out, but can someone who has S-Voice say the following and tell me how it responds..
"remind me to call my brother when I leave here"
I tried this in speaktoit and it did a useless web search. Tried it on Siri in the store and it did exactly what I expected. I haven't been able to find anything on Android that actually works for real life tasks as well as Siri seems to, and if S-Voice will then that would be a phone-seller for me.
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I did this for you, surprisingly it worked first time and saved it as task, not sure how it would know when I leave though
I never expected S-voice to be anything but patchy, however I've been pleasantly surprised by its accuracy.
Sure it's not 100% but it's in the 90's for me. I've used it for...
Navigate to...
Call...
Text...
Facebook status...
Twitter status...
Alarm...
& reminder.
The wake unlock is a big let down as I thought it would do exactly what everyone else thought. Still, I'm sure this can be corrected with an update.
After over a week of using my S3 and Android for the first time I'm addicted! I love it!
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From further testing am I correct to say for example I want to create a task. I must tell the phone to "create a task" then the phone responds then you tell it more information? I thought I could just say creat task lunch with mum on june 25th at 1pm? If I try that it completely messes up.
In regards to waking up the phone by voice, I found when you are close to the phone the screen comes on prompting you to unlock with s-voice. Or are people wanting to operate the phone like half way across your living room?
Things like call, text, navigate, setting alarms etc work perfectly well with Google voice actions, Vlingo or the other voice apps. What was different about SVoice was its integration into the OS, waking the phone, snooze etc. But it sounds like those features don't really work
Things like those shouldn't even need a data connection or server support. The phone has enough power to understand a simple command like 'snooze'.
Just to clear, it does snooze... Sometimes. That's one of the key annoyances. Sometimes the "in-app" Voice control just doesn't seem to be listening, and other times it does.
Vcize said:
The S3 isn't available here yet so I haven't gotten to try it out, but can someone who has S-Voice say the following and tell me how it responds..
"remind me to call my brother when I leave here"
I tried this in speaktoit and it did a useless web search. Tried it on Siri in the store and it did exactly what I expected. I haven't been able to find anything on Android that actually works for real life tasks as well as Siri seems to, and if S-Voice will then that would be a phone-seller for me.
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It creates a task with "call my brother when I leave here" as a title. But no reminder, and there's no intelligence behind it. Doesn't know who my brother is and doesn't know where I am or whether I have left there. Useful if you check your task list often, but probably not what you were hoping for.
I agree. I'm impressed if I say 'text Kerry that I couldn't get the tickets' it would text Kerry 'I couldn't get tickets'.
I wish this was an Google app I guess we would see constant updates.
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When the first car came out it was nowhere near the Bentleys' and Rolls Royces' we have today. Gotta start somewhere, right?
I have another glitch with it, I can ask it something like 'what is the time in dubai' it recognizes it but then it just give me the local time where I am.
Running into a common problem where some voice commands that interact with the watch, such as "Play some music" or "play [artist]" or "Start [app]" will sometimes get recognized as Google searches and pull up results instead of activating the command. It's random, and sometimes doing the exact same voice command immediately will work, other times it will continually pull up search results until I restart my phone.
I feel like this started after a Google Search app update that came shortly after the Android Wear release, as it was working perfectly before then, but that might just be how long it took me to notice the problem. But it happens a LOT now, and it makes it to the point where I can't trust voice commands.
Anyone else experiencing similar? Any ideas, workarounds, known Google support group thread?
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I have the same problem.
I installed the microsoft bing torque app, which does not have that problem. ..
I've only had my G Watch R for a week or so and all of a sudden I'm having this problem as well.
'Show me my steps' and 'show me my heart rate'; these commands used to work perfectly, but now they all result in a google search instead of performing the action
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I've only had my G Watch R for a week or so and all of a sudden I'm having this problem as well.
'Show me my steps' and 'show me my heart rate'; these commands used to work perfectly, but now they all result in a google search instead of performing the action
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Yep, I face the same problems.
I suspect it's a server-side issue as it suddenly happened to a lot of us (though seemingly not all) around the same time. It's similar to how voice dictation of location-based reminders stopped working for some people for a few days a couple of months ago. I do find it alarming, though, that the primary and intended method of interacting with the watch can simply go offline for days on end without a word for Google.
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I believe this is due to poor WiFI/cell coverage. It happens to me also, and always in low coverage areas. What's annoying is the same voice command works just fine on my phone directly. Sometimes a reset of the watch helps, but I'm guessing it just delays things until coverage gets better.
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I believe this is due to poor WiFI/cell coverage. It happens to me also, and always in low coverage areas. What's annoying is the same voice command works just fine on my phone directly. Sometimes a reset of the watch helps, but I'm guessing it just delays things until coverage gets better.
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Normally when that happens I get the dreaded "disconnected" message with the crossed-out cloud. In this case it clearly has a connection since it's pulling Google results.
Anyway, I will say this has been far less frequent since recent updates. I'd say it now works a good 80+% of the time now.
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Anyway, I will say this has been far less frequent since recent updates. I'd say it now works a good 80+% of the time now.
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For me as well. I pre-ordered both (kept the LG) and for a while it was CLEARLY a Beta product. Every day it's getting better and more mature, and really is quite a great product. For $70 for the LG G Watch how could any Android user not try it out...BTW you're right about the "Disconnected" vs "Search results". I may be forgetting which happens when, but the search results were definitely helped by a reboot (and are much less frequent).