[Q] Who uses the Genius button? - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I had a MyTouch 3G never used the search button EVER for the 8+ months I had it. Now when I got the MyTouch4G I have yet to use the genius button except to try it out.
Does anyone use the button regularly or is it a gimmick that the phone really didn't need?

Jeffmeister said:
I had a MyTouch 3G never used the search button EVER for the 8+ months I had it. Now when I got the MyTouch4G I have yet to use the genius button except to try it out.
Does anyone use the button regularly or is it a gimmick that the phone really didn't need?
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from what i heard once you start using it, it comes in handy :/ i havent used it myself though

I never used the search button on my myTouch3G but I find the genius button pretty dang handy and use it. Don't know what the huge complaint is about. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

I find it amazing, I go hands free all day, its like having a secretary in your pocket .
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It's way better than I thought it would be. In the browser and want to turn the WiFi on? Push the Genius button and say "Turn WiFi on". Bang, it turns on. No need to go into settings. Same for bluetooth and GPS. Want to open an app? For the sake of example, push the Genius button and say "Show me Angry Birds". Bam, you're flinging and busting in seconds. The Genius button can do a lot more than the few little examples we've already seen. So handy.
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I tried to give the genius button a go. Every time I click on it I have to wait for it to sync my contacts. Takes to long for me, maybe there is a setting I missed. Been using Vlingo. Now that is an awesome app.

I thought it was a gimmick, but I use hands free mode every day! I love being able to hold text conversations without having to even look at my phone.
Also, since I learned I can open any app with it, I've been using it more.
I had played with the genius button on my gf's myTouch Slide and wasn't impressed, but the new version on the MT4G is sweet! You should give it a shot.
BTW, as far as activating your contacts every time you open it. Hit menu while you are in the genius app, go to phonebook updates, configure and select manual. That way it will never do that again. You just have to remember to update it whenever you add a new contact.

i used the search button on my n1 a lot, and the genius button just takes it to another level

CyberStorm98 said:
I thought it was a gimmick, but I use hands free mode every day! I love being able to hold text conversations without having to even look at my phone.
Also, since I learned I can open any app with it, I've been using it more.
I had played with the genius button on my gf's myTouch Slide and wasn't impressed, but the new version on the MT4G is sweet! You should give it a shot.
BTW, as far as activating your contacts every time you open it. Hit menu while you are in the genius app, go to phonebook updates, configure and select manual. That way it will never do that again. You just have to remember to update it whenever you add a new contact.
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This basically sums up my thoughts exactly. Once I started messing with it, I found the feature to be really useful. Using it in the car through a bluetooth headset is the best since I don't have to worry about texting while driving.

how do you actually get it to send a text through the genius button, i can get it to put in the recipients name and message but i actually have to press send, and cool didnt know it could do all the other functions like opening up apps and turning on wifi

You can tell it to turn on the flashlight too.

JagLau said:
It's way better than I thought it would be. In the browser and want to turn the WiFi on? Push the Genius button and say "Turn WiFi on". Bang, it turns on. No need to go into settings. Same for bluetooth and GPS. Want to open an app? For the sake of example, push the Genius button and say "Show me Angry Birds". Bam, you're flinging and busting in seconds. The Genius button can do a lot more than the few little examples we've already seen. So handy.
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Way cool! didn't know that! Just tried it...nice

Listen, fellas. Look at the 4 options on the screen when pressing Genius and just try to memorize them. Then, say 'more options' for the next 4 options and memorize them. Those 8 options make for a very powerful set of options. For instance, you can change to handsfree mode, in which case all calls and messages are read aloud. Very cool. Can Vlingo do all this, or even Google Search? It seems Genius is very integrated into the system.

I use it all the time when I'm driving.. the hands free mode is awesome.. now only if there was a app that can drive my car to work in the morning while i sit back and chill.. this phone would be awesomer !! but till this magic app comes available then the phone is just awesome.

iGoOsE76 said:
I use it all the time when I'm driving.. the hands free mode is awesome.. now only if there was a app that can drive my car to work in the morning while i sit back and chill.. this phone would be awesomer !! but till this magic app comes available then the phone is just awesome.
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I saw the widget for "hands free mode", when i turned it on it just gives me a notification that its on but im not too sure how to use it... mind explaning?
I figured it would be that you could just talk without hiting the G button but that doesnt seem to be right... thanks...
btw your sig is getting a bit long maybe its time you stop upgrading before you take out a whole thread with that thing lol

Used the widget and turn it on and have someone text you and the rest will promp you. Try it out its pretty handy
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CyberStorm98 said:
I love being able to hold text conversations without having to even look at my phone.
Also, since I learned I can open any app with it, I've been using it more.
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Oh damn, I didn't know we could do that! I'll have to start using my GB more often!

Genius button is going to come in handy this winter when I have gloves on outside waiting for the train. Can do stuff you'd otherwise need touch screen for like launching apps, changing settings. (Espresso doesn't let you use optical trackpad to select icons on home screens, tho LauncherPro does.)

CyberStorm98 said:
I thought it was a gimmick, but I use hands free mode every day! I love being able to hold text conversations without having to even look at my phone.
Also, since I learned I can open any app with it, I've been using it more.
I had played with the genius button on my gf's myTouch Slide and wasn't impressed, but the new version on the MT4G is sweet! You should give it a shot.
BTW, as far as activating your contacts every time you open it. Hit menu while you are in the genius app, go to phonebook updates, configure and select manual. That way it will never do that again. You just have to remember to update it whenever you add a new contact.
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Hey thanks for the tip on manual contact voice activation. Didn't think to hit menu in the Genius app.

Related

Auto stop prog

Does anyone know of a program that will automatically end running programs after a set time of not being used.
I don't have the facility of touchscreen buttons now like with my old xda's, etc and would like to set the Snap to end stuff after a few mins of not being used instead of going through talk manager every time.
Cheers.
The HTC Dash 3G has a nice little feature that if you hit the back key 3 times it will end any running programs that have been sent to the background.. dont know if yours will do that or not but worth trying.
Nope tried that and that didn't work...
Would also like to know if this can be done ?
Bupahs said:
The HTC Dash 3G has a nice little feature that if you hit the back key 3 times it will end any running programs that have been sent to the background.. dont know if yours will do that or not but worth trying.
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Wow, I didn't know that!
Hmm...doesn't work with SmartToolkit installed due to the back key being assigned to bring up a "quick" menu.
Just as well, since there is a "Task" button right next to it, lol!
-GoJ

setting up the Droid X for my blind sister

edit: I called Verizon earlier and ordered the Droid 2, sending the Droid X back. Reason being, the Android Eyes Free Shell and the Talking Dialer make use of either a trackball or a directional pad. The Droid X has neither. This should also solve the answering/hanging up problem, as im pretty sure on the Droid 2 you can slide it open to answer and slide it closed to hang up. I'm starting a new thread in the Droid 2 General section, but i'll still be watching this one if anyone has anything to add
Ok guys, the Droid X I ordered for my sister arrived yesterday. I personally have an EVO, but I gotta say the Droid X is pretty sweet. Much better designed phone then the EVO, but it is lacking 4g and a front cam (although honestly I dont use those 2 features much anyways). I cannot believe how light it is! My phone feels like a brick compared to the X!
Anyways, this post is not about comparing the X and the EVO, it's about setting up the Droid X for a blind person. My 25 year old sister lost her vision last year from diabetes. I'm hoping to setup this phone so she can use it on her own to make/receive calls and text messages, use the TiKL push to talk app, compose/read emails, have facebook updates read to her, pandora, that kind of thing.
First thing I'll need to do is get rid of the lock screen, not ideally made for a blind person thats for sure! I'll probably try and set it up with a "shake to unlock" app.
Secondly, the first thing I want her to be able to do obviously is make and receive calls. Problem is right now she cant slide to answer a call. I'll need to replace that somehow so she can answer the phone more easily. Any ideas?
SOLVED (double tap home) Next of course is dialing a call. The Motorola Voice Dialing thats built into the dialer is pretty awesome, we don't have something like that in HTC Sense. I need her to be able to press a button on the phone and start the voice dialer. The only way I know how to do that right now is using the search button which launches the google voice search. That's not what I want, I want her to be able to use the one that Motorola built into the dialer, as it's much better designed for a blind person. It re-reads your command and asks for confirmations that that is indeed the right person, and if it's not it goes down the list of the next closest match. The google voice search feature does none of that. If you say "Call OneStepAhead on Mobile" it just starts dialing, it doesn't ask for a confirmation. Any devs out there that could figure out how to remap the camera button on the side of the Droid X to launch the Moto voice dialer? It's for a good cause!
Once I get these things resolved I'll move on to things like facebook. A 25 year old girl with over 1000 facebook friends not being able to use facebook anymore, well, its practically the end of the world to her!
Thanks in advance to anyone that is willing to help with this task, it's very much appreciated.
By default you can press the home button 2 times to get voice command to dial. This should help with your voice dialing.
A phone with no keys is probably not the best for a blind person.
Get her a basic phone that accepts voice commands
Don't mean to be rude, but its not like she's gonna be browsing the web or looking at the big screen.
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Double pressing home auto launches the voice command function. You can do almost anything from there.
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One way I can think to allow her to answer a phone call without having to know where to touch on the screen id to have her use a BT headset. Then all she needs do is press the button on the headset to answer.
sp1kez said:
A phone with no keys is probably not the best for a blind person.
Get her a basic phone that accepts voice commands
Don't mean to be rude, but its not like she's gonna be browsing the web or looking at the big screen.
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umm, actually thats exactly what she'll be doing. maybe your just ignorant to disabilities, but blind people DO use the web, facebook, twitter, youtube (yes youtube), and everything else. and actually touch screens are ideal for blind people, you can use gestures with your fingers, and the bigger screen the better. it's very difficult for a blind person to use tiny little keys on a phone. are you even familiar with the Android Eyes Free project? I fail to see the point in your post, I'm not asking you which phone I should buy, i already bought one.
crashdau said:
One way I can think to allow her to answer a phone call without having to know where to touch on the screen id to have her use a BT headset. Then all she needs do is press the button on the headset to answer.
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yup, thought of that. i ordered one last week, should be here soon. the problem with a bluetooth headset though is it can be an easy thing to lose if your blind! im hoping she'll use the headset a majority of the time, but we still want a way to answer the phone without one.
I called Verizon earlier and ordered the Droid 2, sending the Droid X back. Reason being, the Android Eyes Free Shell and the Talking Dialer make use of either a trackball or a directional pad. The Droid X has neither. This should also solve the answering/hanging up problem, as im pretty sure on the Droid 2 you can slide it open to answer and slide it closed to hang up.
michael_bolton said:
Double pressing home auto launches the voice command function. You can do almost anything from there.
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THANK YOU!! That was a big help, now she can pretty much do anything on it! I'm assuming the Droid 2 will work the same way. Awesome!!
I saw you had the evo, grate phone, I am working for sprint, and a girl from work and I both whent out and bought the epic, very nice phone, and if your sister is looking for a good phone she can use, the epic has the slide out keyboard, and eyes free shell now takes advantage of the touch screen, i've been completely blind all my life, and have used talks on nokia phones, mobile speak on windows mobile phones, the iphone and now the epic, the only thing i don't like about the epic is there isn't a quick way to use the talkback feature by turnning it off and on, though now that i've rootted my phone i might be able to figure out a way to rute a key to the talkback software both activating it and deactivating it, not sure though.
anyways, hope your sister's phone is working fine for her, have you found a good app that works for twitter for her? The built in fb app is crap, removed it with titainum backup, so i don'th ave to have that crap on my phone, do most fb work via sms and sutch.
anyways if you want to chat with a blind person using android since start of oct for questions and sutch, send me a pm
michael!!
--Sprint, epic user.
With a Droid X it might be a good idea to go in to Settings > Accessibility > Power Button and check the checkbox (it allows you to end calls by pressing the power / unlock button on the top of the phone. I use it my self as I have a fondness for physical end call buttons...

HTCSense.com Fast Boot Announcement

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/15/htcsense-com-will-backup-and-remotely-locate-wipe-htc-devices/
HTCSense.com
With the new HTCSense.com service, people can simply manage their mobile phone experience from their HTC phone or personal computer. For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map. If the phone's been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it. HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser. People can also customize their phones with exclusive HTC content like wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins.
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...the new HTC Fast Boot that enables people to quickly make a call or check emails by shortening the time taken to complete the power-up sequence.
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So will we be seeing this on our incredibles?
I hope so. Did you see the video for the Desire Z w/ the boot "sequence"? WOW.
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"I Hate Web Video Version": You see the "Engadget" logo screen for ~1 sec, fades to phone starting bootup sequence. You see the presenter pull his hand away from the top of the phone where the power button presumably is and the screen go from black to the white background w/ green "HTC" & black "quietly brilliant" text. At the same time he says "I've turned it on... and literally it's ready." Presenter proceeds to unlock the phone ***less than 5 seconds*** into the video.
I really hope they add this sort of function to ours.. The short boot time seems sort of hardware related though. :/
JetBomber117 said:
I really hope they add this sort of function to ours.. The short boot time seems sort of hardware related though. :/
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not necessarily, if you change the boot sequence, and disable a lot of the services that initialize during the boot sequence, and put them at the end so they are setting up in the background.
i didn't watch the video, did it show sense starting after he unlocked or was it ready to go right after unlock?
I'm pretty sure we'll get this on the Dinc and every phone that's running Sense...this is XDA Devs after all, nothing escapes the Devs.
I think we have a good chance of seeing this legitly as well... well at least the first part, it reminds me a bit of Apple's MobileMe.
I'd be more worried about VZW taking forever to approve this update.
I want landscape sense like the desire z. ****ing retarded my incredible can't do it.
Wow that bootup time was almost unnoticable. I can do without the droid eye animation if it would just go right to my home screen.
I completely agree with Honestly77. I would love to be able to view the home screen in landscape.
patches152 said:
i didn't watch the video, did it show sense starting after he unlocked or was it ready to go right after unlock?
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Sense is up and ready to go after approximately 4 seconds from pressing the power.
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rkaplins said:
I completely agree with Honestly77. I would love to be able to view the home screen in landscape.
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Get an app called LauncherPro. Allows you to customize the home screen and landscape mode.
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Get an app called LauncherPro. Allows you to customize the home screen and landscape mode.
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+1. I hate how when your in landscape mode and go into an app it doesnt force the app to change in to landscape. But whatev.
Back on topic I dont think HTC will give us the sence 2.0 or the quick boot. They prob will come out on new phones and we will have to take to XDA for those new goodies. But hopefully HTC lets the newest HTC models they have already released get that update.
jager420 said:
+1. I hate how when your in landscape mode and go into an app it doesnt force the app to change in to landscape. But whatev.
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Are you talking about LauncherPro? Apps come up for me in Landscape if they support it.
Back on topic I dont think HTC will give us the sence 2.0 or the quick boot.
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I'm just hoping that it's even possible on our phones -- there might be very low level changes required to pull off such quick booting.
I bet we see this. Even though their demo boots literally 10 times faster, we know the hardware is not 10x faster... Although we may aquire it via unofficial rom...
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Genius Button....Anyone Actually Use It ?

Anyone actually use the Genius button on a regular basis ?
Anyone else find it to be a stupid useless waste of space like I do ?
Discuss/your thoughts on it.
we have a Genius Button??? i havent even touch it once! USELESS for me, would love to find a way to remove the function and put something else that is usefull.
There is a thread in the dev section IIRC on how to remap it. I've tried it a few times, but it does not seem entirely useful or time saving.
I used it in the car when running stock. At the moment I'm using cm7 and it's mapped to Google Voice Search, which is similar in capability.
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Never used it while I was stock. In CM I have it remaped.
going_home said:
Anyone actually use the Genius button on a regular basis ?
Anyone else find it to be a stupid useless waste of space like I do ?
Discuss/your thoughts on it.
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I used it to quickly while in the car call someone over bluetooth...but since i switched roms too desire HD rom I dont have that luxury anymore =_(
I use it in CM7 for Google Search.
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I use the hands free mode all the time. Since I learned you can use it to open apps, change settings and more, I've used it a lot more, I just wish it wasn't so slow. It would be my favorite app if it was faster!
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Anyone actually use the Genius button on a regular basis ?
Anyone else find it to be a stupid useless waste of space like I do ?
Discuss/your thoughts on it.
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I use the Genius button fairly often and allthough you are entitled to your opinion, it is not a stupid useless waste of space. It is a nice app with alot of function.
msong06 said:
we have a Genius Button??? i havent even touch it once! USELESS for me, would love to find a way to remove the function and put something else that is usefull.
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There are plenty of ways to remove it and you can actually use that button to open any app you want. Interested in how? Check out the button mod thread in my signature.
Genocaust said:
There is a thread in the dev section IIRC on how to remap it. I've tried it a few times, but it does not seem entirely useful or time saving.
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There are threads in the dev section and app section here in the MT4G forum that tell you how to do it or do it for you. Remapping the button can be extremely usefull and time saving. Interested how? See the button mod thread in my sig.
nexus9988 said:
I used it to quickly while in the car call someone over bluetooth...but since i switched roms too desire HD rom I dont have that luxury anymore =_(
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You can add Genius to any Desire HD rom and most other roms by visiting my thread HERE or HERE
CyberStorm98 said:
I use the hands free mode all the time. Since I learned you can use it to open apps, change settings and more, I've used it a lot more, I just wish it wasn't so slow. It would be my favorite app if it was faster!
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If you are having a problem with it verifying your contact list often try this:
When it activates and asks you to speak push the menu button. It will pull up the Settings and from there you can turn off the contact verification by going into Phonebook Updates and selecting manual. Or make some other adjustments to help speed it up a little.
I tried it and it worked well, but it takes 20 seconds for it to startup initially, and isn't very fast even after that.
So I remapped the keys so a press gives me search and a press-hold gives me voice search instead of the Genius Button app. Now I use it and find it useful. I'm tempted to see if I can turn it into a dialer button so I can always get to the phone app, since this is a phone....
using it to activate google voice search is better for me.
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I tried it and it worked well, but it takes 20 seconds for it to startup initially, and isn't very fast even after that.
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Dude, what are you talking about? It dont take more than one second to open. I press the button and it opens just as fast as google voice search would. You need to go into Settings/Phonebook Updates and set it to manual. Then it wont try to update your contacts every few times you use it.
TrueBlue_Drew said:
There are threads in the dev section and app section here in the MT4G forum that tell you how to do it or do it for you. Remapping the button can be extremely usefull and time saving. Interested how? See the button mod thread in my sig.
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To clarify: I did not mean to infer the threads on how to remap the button were not helpful or time saving, but rather that I do not find the button very helpful or time saving for my own use.
I always use google voice in the car. Works great!!!!
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Dude, what are you talking about? It dont take more than one second to open. I press the button and it opens just as fast as google voice search would. You need to go into Settings/Phonebook Updates and set it to manual. Then it wont try to update your contacts every few times you use it.
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When we mentioned it taking forever to open, we weren't talking about the contact list updates. Mine has been on manual since I bought the phone. The app opens right away, but it doesn't actually start listening for commands, for at least 30 seconds, if not sometimes more. It isn't scanning or doing anything else you can turn off, it's just VERY laggy to start listening.
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When we mentioned it taking forever to open, we weren't talking about the contact list updates. Mine has been on manual since I bought the phone. The app opens right away, but it doesn't actually start listening for commands, for at least 30 seconds, if not sometimes more. It isn't scanning or doing anything else you can turn off, it's just VERY laggy to start listening.
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Hmmm...wierd, I dont have that problem at all. It starts listening as soon as I hit the button and the app opens. I even just tested it again and timed it with my stop watch.. From the time I longpress my button and it vibrates to open Genius it took 3.7 seconds for it to open and say "listening", me say "open rom manager" and it repeated it back to me and opened it. That is total time from the button press to when Rom Manager was actually open.
I am not sure what rom you guys are running or if you are rooted or not but if it is taking 5, 10, or 20 seconds for it to accept a command from you, then u got something going on. I am on CM7.
I am not here to argue with anyone over the opinion of a app. To each his own. But what I dont like to see is someone calling a app a useless waste of space, when it isn't. It is just like any other app, some people use and like it and some dont.
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Hmmm...wierd
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"weird", not "wierd".
...it took 3.7 seconds...total time
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Mine took:
20 seconds the first time, 4 seconds the second time (I found the shorter time didn't last all that long in actual use). Yes, I had it on the default setting of updating contacts automatically. I don't see why I should have to change a default and give up the functionality for it to work. Still, I changed the setting, since I don't care about it, and rebooted my phone. 2 seconds to prompt me. I tried to open "Timer" and it kept opening "Camera" but that's a different topic. Nice to know it can be reasonably fast (thank you for the tip!), but the Google voice search is faster still and lets me call all contacts, even new ones.
I am not sure what rom you guys are running or if you are rooted or not but if it is taking 5, 10, or 20 seconds for it to accept a command from you, then u got something going on. I am on CM7.
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No, *I* don't have something going on, the phone does. It did this from stock, it did this on several phones (I kept trying til I got a good screen), it does this rooted.
If the automatic update of contacts is so tough for it, it was a poorly chosen default, but it hardly constitutes my having something going on.
I am not here to argue with anyone over the opinion of a app. To each his own. But what I dont like to see is someone calling a app a useless waste of space, when it isn't. It is just like any other app, some people use and like it and some dont.
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You are getting way too worked up over this. He didn't say it is a "useless waste of space", he asked if anyone else found it to be a "useless waste of space like I do", which is quite different. Even so, it would clearly be his opinion.
I generally find the Genius Button app to be accurate, not withstanding the above, but the Google voice search does nearly as much and works out of the box. It isn't worth my time to re-edit the keys to bring the app back.
Please note, I said "my time", not "your time" or "everyone's time"
Anyone, I don't suppose there is a way to make the physical "genius" button a general 'Find' like it is on my wife's Droid X?
Google voice search seems too be more intuitive, less intrusive, and launches much faster in my opinion. I've remapped genius button to launch google voice search.
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hey excarnate,
1st...thanks for correcting my spelling
2nd...dont assume that I am worked up over something so trivial as if you or anyone else likes, wants to use or doesn't want to use a app. I could really care less and was only trying to let people know there are settings that can be adjusted to make it faster.
3rd...While I think that Google voice search works great I don't think it has all of the capabilities that Genius does but Genius has all of the ones that Voice search does. So to compare the two is a little harder than just saying that Google voice search is better because it is faster. Genius wins hands down when it comes to the amount of things it does in comparison to Google Voice search. Try telling Google voice search to "turn on wifi", "Open Settings", "turn of GPS"
4th...I am not sure what the "find" feature is on the droid phone but since you have taken the time to remap your genius button you can use the app called Button Shortcut (free in market) or Launchkey (free on xda) to open any other app with the long press of Genius/Search button.
Not sure why you decided to try and pick apart my post, but its all good.
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Heh, I have smilies adblocked so didn't notice til I hit reply. I'm just glad you didn't use "lol" as punctuation.
4th...I am not sure what the "find" feature is on the droid phone but since you have taken the time to remap your genius button you can use the app called Button Shortcut (free in market) or Launchkey (free on xda) to open any other app with the long press of Genius/Search button.
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Originally I used Button Shortcut to launch the Genius Button app, but after rooting my current phone (with a good screen!) I gave up on Genius Button. If I knew I could have turned off one of the defaults to make it perform acceptably, I would have made it the long press default. Maybe I still will, if I remap the button for any other reason.
Find, is simply find within the current app. If I'm in contacts, the find button lets you find something in contacts. If I'm in a webpage, I believe it lets one search in the webpage (I don't use her phone much so I'm not sure about this).
[mini rant about the contacts app on the MT4G deleted]
So my new take on the Genius Button is: it is worthless out-of-the-box. If your contacts are stable, disable automatic updates and only remap the long press (if desired). If your contacts aren't stable and are important, dump it for the Google search & voice search.
[New information: Even with manual updates of contacts it is very slow to start when on hands free (hands free mode or not). I plan to freeze it in Titanium Pro.]

Anyone using Google's new buggy Navigation app?

The original Navigation (The blue arrow) app was awesome. It had live traffic updates and would re-route automatically and never dropped signal!
Now Google forced this new app on us, Navigation is no more but has now merged into Google Maps (it's a good thing but it's in beta)
Why the hell would I want to use a beta app?
BUGS ENCOUNTERED:
- If you manually press the power button to turn off the screen (whilst using the navigation), the route guidance will reset back to 'Select Destination' when you turn the screen back on!
That's so annoying and dangerous for me especially when you're on the motorway doing 70mph!!!
- Once you enter your destination and select 'Start' on the bottom right, there's a 50% chance the app will force the shutdown of the app.
This has happened often to me 50/50. Worst thing about it is, you can't just re-open the app or disable/enable GPS to fix this bug, you have to reboot your bloody phone!
- Map Orientation view messes up
Even though the original Navigation app had this bug, it was not as common as it is now. Also, there's a bigger delay in automated view change (when you turn direction, etc) This causes problems which forces you to zoom out of the route guide just to see ahead because the app is so stupidly slow to change direction at your pace.
- Stupid places of interest that you don't give a @~!* about!
Why can't I choose what I want to see on my map! I don't care about the best bars and shops in town when I'm on a mission!
Orientation bug is the worst and most annoying for me. Its never the constant behind the back POV... which is ANNOYING!
However, when I press the power button (while in navigation) so I can turn off the screen, and subsequently turn back on the screen, Maps FCs. Always. Once again, ANNOYING.
I felt like Google took 2 steps forward and 3 steps back with this one (while trying to hard to compete with Apple Maps).
Powering off the screen whilst navigating doesn't FC for me, but when I turn the screen back on, I have to click on maps to get navigation back, annoying
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So I guess all you guys have provided feedback to Google?!........
slaphead20 said:
So I guess all you guys have provided feedback to Google?!........
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I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
Remove new version and search for the old apk and don't update it .
jje
MazingerZed said:
I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
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That's very helpful feedback. They can take that right there and use it to improve the app. Not that stuff in the first post. That's useless information. Nope. The most useful information you can give them is a good whinge and a demand the old stuff back. Pfft, feedback, what's that?
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
MazingerZed said:
I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
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slaphead20 said:
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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But Slappy, do you really think someone who gave this as feedback on how to improve the app has the intelligence to know that?
Also the app will have passed Google's in house testing, they however don't have every single Android device, and every single stock and custom rom in existence therefore there could be device specific problems, have you asked people using other devices if they see the same problems?
After a large scale update most apps have teething problems, but they will fix them very soon.
slaphead20 said:
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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That's how I did it. Then used Titanium backup to detach maps from the market. No more updates
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