Recently me and my friend got kicked out of the house and into the garage so our wives could talk freely... About us pretty much, and while normally we love getting away from them for a while I was wondering if an app could be made to turn on airplane mode (so the phone doesnt start making noise), activate the recorder (so they cant say I didnt say that) and reroute all noise picked up by the mic to the bluetooth headset (for instant gratification). And while some may say THIS IS AN INVASION OF PRIVACY! , I say they have an eavesdropping machine they sell on tv every day I see commercials for it all the time. Any one else interested in this?
Then make it so you can relay the camera to a computer so you can watch it also on your laptop. LOLOL
not a bad idea but real time uploading is hard to get in non 3g areas...lol, this can be done I just dont know how, wish I did.
Why not just install a voice recorder and listen back afterwards? That's already available.
Also, Bluetooth may not have the range for the headset to work properly.
I have voice recorder, I was thinking this could be used in a few different situations besides mine of course and its not life or death just giving an idea to a bored programmer. well my bluetooth actually works from 30 feet or about 22 with 2 walls in between, it gets crackly after that.
You know i alway wanted to make a program that could enable 2 devices to make video conferencing using Bluetooth, (main purpose was real time cheating in exams) Lol.
I started it as j2me learning project, .. but eventually dumbed it cuz i found that studying is much easier and less time consuming Lol.
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Hiya Group!
Been lurking for two weeks know.
I'm a semi old geezer who decided to get myself a Tytn.
Checked out the BT620 on various places and everyone seemed happy with it, that is until I got myself a pair.
Problems started right out of the box. Skipping madly. You all know that story. Strange, I didn't see anything about that before I got my pair.
Anyway, I was major disappointed and turned my focus to my fresh 2GB mSD card. Installed an insane amount of apps (not my normal standard) and fiddled around in the settings etc. I came to a point where I realized I probably have to start fresh and be a bit more careful about what to install. 5-6 resets a day is just silly. Agree?
So, just a few minutes ago I decided to try out a simple phone call with the Jabras to Girlfriend (you'll know that has to be done every night or else....) Voice call works. Sound is fine and BT keeps working even with two walls (Swedish sturdy brick ones) between phone and headpiece.
..and just for fun, with no real expectations of having a good experience I fire up PocketMusic with a rather good Anthems of House collection in the playlist. AND IT IS WORKING!!!!
I figger I've ****ed up pretty much everything when it comes to having a usable system and i honestly cant tell you why the hell it is working know.
(Right know one hour of listening and just two short skips)
I'm old enough to realize these things happens now and then. The older I get the more now than then actually.
So what now? The Big Reset probably pushes me back to where I started. I reckon that, as long as I have the two devices connected they will stay put and in a good working order.
For now, I am a happy customer.
This became a rather lengthy report of nothing really.
Cheers
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Was one of the gazillion apps you installed the ITaskmgr by any chance?
WOW, maybe it was the hypno amd grey goose keeping me afloat through this one I dont know. Anyways, i have the jabra bt800 which I use for normal everyday calls and then when at work I use the plantronics 590a to switch between music and phone calls, now although I use the the bluetooth adapter that is included with the headset with my sirius unit more than I do with mp3's on my tytn I have used my tytns A2DP flawlessly so I dont know if there is a difference between the htc and dopod models or not but I kinda hope i left you as clueless about my answer as you left your question!
Nope, no ITaskmgr.
"...I kinda hope i left you as clueless about my answer as you left your question!"
Anyway, everything seems to back to normal now. Head phones don't even connect properly. And that I can, in a way, understand.
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I dont know why I asumed you haad a dopod model but none the less I would not settle for stereo headsets not working properly. Like I mentioned before, the plantronics work great for me and worked right out the box on voice and music. Pricegrabber normally finds these items at 30-50% off MSRP.
I'm having some situation here... This Hermes is causing TV Interference... not only on my TV, but also with my TV input card on my PC. It just happens at data transfer.
Weird? Any suggestions?
I had radio 1.48 and now 1.51... and always the same issue...
HELP!
All mobile phone causes interference on the TV signal, and most analog signals. There is nothing you can do about it.
But this are not some little lines on the TV... i'm talking about a high pitched noise on the TV or computer... the whole screen flickers...
I've had mobiles for the last 15 years and this is the first time I've seen something like this. And like I said, it's just when sending or receiving data.
I think this is weird... I'm gonna check with a Mogul that my g/f has to see if the same thing happens...
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But this are not some little lines on the TV... i'm talking about a high pitched noise on the TV or computer... the whole screen flickers...
I've had mobiles for the last 15 years and this is the first time I've seen something like this. And like I said, it's just when sending or receiving data.
I think this is weird... I'm gonna check with a Mogul that my g/f has to see if the same thing happens...
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It probably wont happen with the Mogul since that's on Sprint's network which is PCS - the Hermes is a GSM phone which is associated with the analog signal interference (It almost sounds like a galloping drum beat right before an incoming call de-dadade-dadade) - you will note though, if the phone is connected to a 3G signal, you will not have this problem! Your best bet is to place the phone with good distance away from speakers and such to avoid. I also find that for some reason, it's slightly less prone to happen with my phone if I put it screen down.
yeah, i'm hoping for a solution to this annoying problem too.
I've had the same thing going on with the last 5 Cingular/AT&T phones I've had. I kinda like it, I know when the phone is ringing before it actually rings.
heh, yeah, i also did find that beneficial. it kinda gave me a feeling of clairvoyancy -but i still hate it and need a fix. i have to turn off my comp speakers at night and my port speakers in my car that i use for my podcasts when im in a call or in a data session.
on a friend's tv, interferences happens when we enable the blutooth and they stops when we disable it.
mine is a m3100 and his is a m3000. both cause this problem on HIS TV but not on mine or other tv we tested. bad luck
Hey everyone. So I find I have an annoying issue that is kind of pissing me off. I guess a majority of car makers have this wonderful "feature" that sends a "play" signal to the phone while connecting. This would be nice IF I could pick the app it would play with but the epic and other phones like to pick the defauly music player.
The downside is that I tend to stream pandora or slacker while on the road so each morning I get 2 songs playing at once lol.... rather annoying. I then need to load the music player and stop it. There are some good parts to what the cars do....like if an incoming call is answered it pauses the active player (usually slacker for me) while on the call.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to change any of this behavior? I guess that would have to be a kernel change or possibly a bluetooth apk if there is one? I would love to try to find a way to leave the pause portion there for calls but maybe like a check if there is a active player on top then play or pause is OK, but if in background, dont do anything.
I have searched a lot on this and it seems to be a common issue. But I just wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. I tried the app "autostarts" but it complains about not having root access even though the phone is rooted so that isnt an option it seems. It's probably wishful thinking, but was hoping maybe someone has an idea.
Or is there something I could use to kill Music Player for example "if" it was auto started and not run by me directly?
I suppose you could use a task killer and set it to kill the music player whenever it starts up. You could always disable it when your not using it. I wouldn't use it for anything else besides the music player that you wish to kill.
The problem I see with that is with most task killers they use a timer... unless I am missing one that will kill it automatically when it opens? The downside to that is if I use another app to monitor that app I have a feeling I am going to kill my battery life if it constantly monitoring.
You may be able to do this using tasker. It's not free (five bucks) and it's a bit complicated, but there is a week's trial on the developer's website.
I'm not allowed to post links, but just google tasker for android. The version in the market doesn't have the trial, though.The one on the developer's website is a buck cheaper and offers a trial.
If you aren't familiar with it, you can basically use it to take any input the phone uses (phone, sms, location data, gesture, bluetooth data, whatever) and make it output any event, so you could have it give a media all stop command every time you connect it to bluetooth. You could even have it automatically bring up a little menu with pandora, music player, last FM.. whatever media players you use.. after that. You could probably even get it to perform different behaviors depending on which bluetooth radio you connected to (so you could have it do something different in your car than in your friend's car for instance).
It's really a lifesaver of a program, well worth the five bucks I dropped on it, it's replace multiple other apps in my life. Not trying to sound too much like a commercial, but I have every reason to think it would do what you want. It is a bit complicated until you get the hang of it, though.
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You may be able to do this using tasker. It's not free (five bucks) and it's a bit complicated, but there is a week's trial on the developer's website.
I'm not allowed to post links, but just google tasker for android. The version in the market doesn't have the trial, though.The one on the developer's website is a buck cheaper and offers a trial.
If you aren't familiar with it, you can basically use it to take any input the phone uses (phone, sms, location data, gesture, bluetooth data, whatever) and make it output any event, so you could have it give a media all stop command every time you connect it to bluetooth. You could even have it automatically bring up a little menu with pandora, music player, last FM.. whatever media players you use.. after that. You could probably even get it to perform different behaviors depending on which bluetooth radio you connected to (so you could have it do something different in your car than in your friend's car for instance).
It's really a lifesaver of a program, well worth the five bucks I dropped on it, it's replace multiple other apps in my life. Not trying to sound too much like a commercial, but I have every reason to think it would do what you want. It is a bit complicated until you get the hang of it, though.
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+1... was just about to say, Tasker can do it. Tasker has been the best $5 I've spent in a loonnnng time.
I got tired of getting up in the morning for my 1.5 hour morning commute (gotta drop the kid off to daycare in another county) and getting to work late because it had been rainy and terrible. Setting the alarm crazy early just to check and see if the weather was any good was not a pleasant prospect, and with winter on the way, I needed a solution.
So I spent an evening with Tasker. I had it perform an HTTP GET at Accuweather.com after passing my zip code to the website. I then had it search the returned text for words such as "rain", "snow" and storm". It runs this search at about 5:00 AM, and dependent upon the result, sets an alarm (with a snooze function that I programmed in). After the initial alarm, since I knew I'd be too tired to pay much attention to WHY it had woken me up early, I have it speak out loud "Good morning, you have been woken early today because it is [X weather] and [X degrees, after performing a Celcius to Farenheit conversion]. It is currently [time].
I plan on posting the Tasker profile to my blog in a couple days after I'm sure it contains no bugs (it'll probably snow in the morning so I'll be able to test that scenario).
Anyhow, this just gives a taste of what Tasker can do. I have it launch a list of apps when I plug into the headset jack, silence my phone if I get within 300 meters of work, or sound an alarm, vibrate, flash an LED, take pictures, and redirect outgoing calls to my girlfriend's phone if I send it a certain text message, to name a few very useful profiles I've got set up.
Tasker does everything without forcing you to learn any syntax or do any coding at all. It would be a matter of minutes to set up a scenario where, if you connect via Bluetooth, it waits a moment and terminates the default video player application and then launches the other application you want to use. One of the profiles I've forgotten to mention is one that, when I launch Navigation with the GPS off, closes Navigation, enables GPS, and loads Navigation back up. When I'm in the car I just want to touch Navigation, not screw with GPS settings.
Anyhow, enough of my gushing about Tasker. Seriously, best $5 app you'll ever buy. Trust me.
That might be pretty nice... wonder if it can tell the difference between a bluetooth headset and AD2P. I'll have to try it. Wonder if it could start my car with its application too like 30 min after my alarm hehe.
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I've been playing with Tasker and it will do what I need Thanks! I ended up setting up a profile that when it connects to my vehicle only, it will kill music player, wait 3 seconds and then kill it again... it took that due to the fact the car doesnt send the play signal for a few seconds.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
I have a friend that is 95 years old who suffers from Dementia. She broke her hip this last weekend and is in the hospital an soon will transfer to a rehab care place. Dementia is ****ed. You get to watch a person slowly disappear. I don't get to see her as often as I would like and sadly only one other person goes to occasionally visit her. So my idea is to limit the N7 to just basically a simple 1 step procedure for her to be able to alert me to start a video chat or where a nurse could easily start it up for her. I thought i was going to write a camera program but reality and my lack of skills hit real quick. I have about 4 hours to make this happen and I was hoping yall would help with what apps and/or tweaks i could quickly setup to make this possible. I have aosp_grouper-7.1.2-ota-20201107.eng.ds.zip that I just installed.
main thing i need to be able to do is for her or a nurse to push a icon that'd alert me to call her back. Also iI'd like to be able to lock the screen on her so no accidently app closures. remoting in would be nice so i can continue to update and improve the tablets functionality. Please help. Thanks.
first this rom sucks..
You should be able to set a video chat app as the kiosk app to lock it down and disable screen lock so pressing the power button unlocks instantly