MS Voice Command stubbornly refuses to work properly.
It works fine for calling contacts, starting apps, querying calls and apponitments, checking battery life etc.
However it will not behave when I use the dial command.
If, for example, I say, "dial 0845 123 456"
It gets it wrong....and I mean EVERY TIME ! Normaly it will try to put a couple of ones in after the 0, so it will repeat back to me "011845 123 456" or it will drop the first zero. I have tried saying "zero" instead of "oh", leaving gaps, not leaving gaps etc.
I'm wondering if it's because it has some internal logic that says that 0845 is not a valid US dialling prefix or the number is the wrong length.
For instance it will not, in my experience, dial 448, the number for Orange Premier Customer Services, or any three digit number for that matter.
Anyone else come across this or found a way round it.
I have the exact same problem.
I'm wondering if maybe this is why it is not available in the UK as yet? Maybe we should speak with an American accent ? :lol:
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Have you tried the new v1.50? I had same problems since upgrade huge difference plus now has voice caller ID! Released not that long ago hope this helps
Yes, the logic was designed for US numbers only, which is why the product is not for sale outside US & Canada.
I'm using Fonix VoiceCentral 3, it dials all the numbers starting with 0* and it has a UK Voice pre-installed along with other US voices (Ursula, Paul, Rita ...).
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Have you tried the new v1.50? I had same problems since upgrade huge difference plus now has voice caller ID! Released not that long ago hope this helps
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Yes. I am using 1.5
Yes, the logic was designed for US numbers only, which is why the product is not for sale outside US & Canada.
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I thought as much
Try Fonix Voice Central
Try Using Fonix Voice Central 3.0 it supports UK english accent ! :wink:
To dial a UK number, if you want to dial 0845 123 456 then you need to say:
dial +44 845 123 456
ie, drop the first 0 off, then add +44.
Works a treat...
uk version is now available, hopefully you will be able to voice dial UK numbers properly now
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windowsmobile/products/pocketpcvoice/default.mspx
http://www.handango.co.uk/PlatformP...2&platformId=2&productType=2&productId=151270
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Is there a program out there that can recognise the area code of an incoming call (for a telephone number that isn't in your contacts list) and tell you where the call is coming from? I guess it would simply a matter of having a small database of all the UK (or whichever country you were interested in) area codes and taking the first five digits of the incoming call and matching it to the area code.
Such a program would be quite useful especially when you get a missed call from a number you don't recognise. If you new which town the call came from, you might be able to guess who it was (obviously this system wouldn't work for all calls, blocked or mobile numbers for example wouldn't work).
Any programs out there? If not anyone care to make one
good idea!
yeah that would be a great program!! Anyone??
Guys i am an ex-sx56 user moved off to treo (600 and then 650) and am back to the wizard... I had a phone dialer tool "TAKEPHONE" in the palm world that I used to use and was very handy for phone dialing.
I had a rue setup if there is any number starting with +44 it used to use one calling card and dial the 1800# and with for me to click another button then dial the Pin and the automatically dial the number. That way I never had to change my contacts so that when i am here in the US i use the calling card and when in am there un UK i disable calling card and all the numbers are workable and no updates needed...
I am missing this utility as I travel a lot and dial international a lot… I have looked and have not found any decent tool to do the same.
I looked at the long distance dialer but did not work well with WM5.
I am willing to write some tool if I can get some tapi API in MS.net I have written a utility to make the call now I need to get it to check the state of the line and dial extra digits which I cant figure out
In WM5 I managed to partially solve the problem where I create a new contact with 1800XXXXXXXppYYYY where x is the calling card # and Y is the pin after doing this my calling card service is looking for the actual # it also allows me to fins a number but when I click it it dials another call instead of keying in the digits on the first call….
Not sure if I am expressing this clear but I need help.
I will pay for this kind of app.
I am using long distance dialer , it works ok on my HTC wizard
but I would like to have the one you talking about
Hi,
in the old (and current I believe as well) Nokia phone - and most other pure mobile phones for that matter - you can dial a "p", typically by holding down the "*" for a while. The "p" makes the phone wait a little while before continuing to dial the rest of the number.
I need this feature!!!
I am using some prepaid phone cards for which this feature is really necessary.
So, anyone have a clue how to get a similar functionality on WM5? The "p" certainly does not work ...
Thanks in advance - Andy
if you're dialing live, you can dial only the connection number then open the keypad to dial the rest of the keycode manually. If you want to automate it, create a contact with the full number and you can enter in "p" there.
I have a contact for my voicemail which dials the voicemail and waits and the pin + #. this works great with voicecommand cause all I have to do is say "call voicemail" and it'll dial, enter in the password automatically and I don't have to touch the phone at all...
Interesting ... I did migrate all my number from my previous phone, where i had the "p" included in the number. The numbers also seemingly came up correctly on the PPC phone. However, when I tried to dial the number, it would not take the complete number with the "p" - I cannot remember exactly what it did, but it did not dial the whole thing. Thats why I thought/ hoped that there is another way. I guess, after what you are saying, I should give it another try ...
And yes, the application that you are describing is very similar to what I want to use. There is a prepaid international call provider, which has a local dial-in number and lets me call abroad for very little money. I call the local number - the service provider recognizes my account by the incoming phone number of my mobile - and then I dial the destination number. For the recognising part however, it is needed that the phone waits a little before it continues to dial the destination number.
Alright, alright .... works! Thx for the assurance! Tried it again and it just takes a lot longer - the pause is longer - than it used to be on my Nokia. Also, I do not hear the dialing tones after the "p" anymore, which probably put me off before.
Thanks! Thread closed
Try replacing the "p" with a "," . It will pause for a few seconds once the other side picks up the phone.
Hi all,
I am sure I am not the first one with this problem, but I could not find any posts via the search.
I recently moved to Japan, and of course took my european Touch Pro (GSM/UMTS).
My company provided me a Softbank USIM card (with a low end standard phone which is good for nothing other than making calls).
Of course I put the USIM into my TP, as I can sync my business contacts to it using active sync (which is obvuiously not possible with the low end phone with came with the USIm card).
Now I am facing the problem, that Softbank in Japan seems not to support "+" infront of country code, so if I dial a number sync with international format (e.g. +49 511 7788855), I end up getting some announcement from Softbank, that my call could not be progressed.
After playing around, I found out I need to dial 010 49 511 7788855 to get through.
Of course I have no interest in manually changing all my synced contacts to this format, especially as it will not work as soon as I leave Japan for a business trip.
The next problem is, that for dialing local Japanese numbers (contry code +81), not even the 010 prefix does the trick. In case of local numbers I really have to dial without any country code like:
080 3456789 works
010 81 80 3456789 does not work
+81 80 3456789 does not work
As you can imagine, this situation is everything else but satisfying.
No wI am looking for any kind of propper solution (which does not include entering three different formats of phone numbers for each of my contacts).
I hoped the would be a small program that can automatically replace "+" by "010" and "+81" by "0".
If I rember correctly, I had a similar option in one of my previous HTC phones, but can not rember, which software was offering it, and can not find any similar option in my current TP ROM.
Anyone has an idea how to solve this?
Thanks and regards,
Check under Start > Settings > Phone > Services and see if you have a Plus Code Dialing option. If so, you should be able to choose Get Settings and change the code accordingly.
010 is only for international dialing, so local numbers should be stored as local numbers without "+".
Thanks, but in settings -> phone -> services I only have:
call barring
caller id
call forwarding
call waiting
voice mail and text messages
Regarding local phone numbers:
The problem is, that I sync my phone with our company exchange address book. The phone number format is stadard with +country code local number, I can not change that.
I mean, in Europe it is no problem to dial a number with the country code of the country you are currently in. The call will still get through.
I can not understand why Japan (or at least Softbank) does not support the same.
SoftBank (or other japanese mobile companies) simply DO NOT support this, for the reasons only they know. Its too bad, i am also from europe, and that + dialing is really benri thing. wherever you go, you dail your contacts exactly the same way, but not in japan.
Its plain STUPID if you ask me.
of course it is stupid, but I doubt the japanese mobile phone provider will change it when I complain to them.
It should be easier to find a work around.
As I said, there was an option or software in one of my previous HTC devices, where I could choose to replace + by 00.
That makes me think the + could also be replaced by 010, no?
The solution is called MagiCall.
Works perfectly.
Hi,
I bought a T-Mobile HTC 8X in the US, unlocked it and brought it back with me to Israel. Now, when Israeli contacts call me, their numbers appear as (for example) 050 555 5555. When they text me, the number shows up as +97250 555 5555. For some reason the phone isn't able to tell that those two are the same number. I couldn't find anything while looking through the settings. I tried playing around with regions and all and came up with nothing. My old AT&T Focus had no issues and my dad's British 8S is working fine as well.
If I remember correctly, In WP7 deivces there's a registry setting which allows to control how many digits from the right identify the number as unique. However, I couldn't find a registry editor for the 8X (is there any?) so that information won't help me right now.
So now, my caller ID function sucks and the only way to actually ID contacts is to save 2 numbers for each one... really frustrating.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!
Eyal
HTC support emailed back
And after sending them my IMEI they said that unfortunately there's nothing they can do and T-Mobile phones show that symptom in places like Israel and Europe.
So, it's either selling it on ebay or waiting for a registry editor or flashing it with a new ROM somehow. Option #1 seems like the most realistic one at the moment. This really sux.
Eyal
eyal453 said:
Hi,
I bought a T-Mobile HTC 8X in the US, unlocked it and brought it back with me to Israel. Now, when Israeli contacts call me, their numbers appear as (for example) 050 555 5555. When they text me, the number shows up as +97250 555 5555. For some reason the phone isn't able to tell that those two are the same number. I couldn't find anything while looking through the settings. I tried playing around with regions and all and came up with nothing. My old AT&T Focus had no issues and my dad's British 8S is working fine as well.
If I remember correctly, In WP7 deivces there's a registry setting which allows to control how many digits from the right identify the number as unique. However, I couldn't find a registry editor for the 8X (is there any?) so that information won't help me right now.
So now, my caller ID function sucks and the only way to actually ID contacts is to save 2 numbers for each one... really frustrating.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!
Eyal
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Actually, if I remember correctly from my previous experience with unlocked phones, most true Caller-ID (where the phone can identify who is calling even if they AREN'T in your Contacts list) requires XML code embedded in the phone (somewhere, don't ask me where) by the provider. Some providers use the same frameworks, so it's possible to get it working from network to network, but in most cases no.
I've never seen a situation tho, where it couldn't pick up the name from the Contacts list, based on the number coming in. I seem to remember you can turn on a feature called "International Dialing Help" that might bring them both together. OR put the entire phone number in your contacts. (As it is displayed when it comes in on Text).
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Actually, if I remember correctly from my previous experience with unlocked phones, most true Caller-ID (where the phone can identify who is calling even if they AREN'T in your Contacts list) requires XML code embedded in the phone (somewhere, don't ask me where) by the provider. Some providers use the same frameworks, so it's possible to get it working from network to network, but in most cases no.
I've never seen a situation tho, where it couldn't pick up the name from the Contacts list, based on the number coming in. I seem to remember you can turn on a feature called "International Dialing Help" that might bring them both together. OR put the entire phone number in your contacts. (As it is displayed when it comes in on Text).
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I tried saving the entire number, but because local Israeli numbers get an extra "0" the phone is not able to ID them. Local call comes in as 050-5555555. SMS, like an intl. call, comes in as +97250-5555555. The "International Dialing Help" really helps when you're dialing. I thought it would fix the caller-id issue but it doesn't.
I spoke with HTC and with WP8 support on twitter. It's a known issue for T-mo phones and according to WP8 support, it has been forwarded to the appropriate team which probably means it'll be fixed in months to come. Until then, the only option is to get the phone flashed by one of the Israeli carriers with the Israeli version of the OS.