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Hello,
At the moment I'm working on a new version of SayMyName Dessert. It's my first app (but it's already on the Android Market for more than a year ) and I just can't stop developing it. Mostly, I blame my users for that. You send me feature-requests, bug-reports, good feedback, bad feedback... even donations!
Currently there are two versions of SayMyName available at the Android Market. One for Cupcakes, and one for Donuts and beyond.
With the upcoming version of SayMyName, I want to merge those versions, fix old, very annoying bugs and add some often requested features.
Why I'm telling you that? Because I need even more feedback, more testers, more contributers D) and some guys who translate my app into various languages.
So, if you want to help me, please download the attached .apk and give me some feedback / requests / whatever comes to your mind. Just leave a reply here at xda or send me a mail. (tomtasche AT gmail)
Thank you very much
Tom
P.S.: If you want to try the old, buggy version of SayMyName, feel free to search the Android Market for "SayMyName Dessert".
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I forgot to mention what this app is for.
Official market-description:
"Want to know who's calling you without looking at your phone? SayMyName reads out loud the name saved in your adressbook and tells you who's calling.
- reads SMS, GMail and K9-Mail too
- very customizable
- discreet mode
- Locale Plug-in
- open-source
- supports non-latin languages too
See website for changelog, etc."
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Changelog:
- reads nicknames!
- fixes, fixes, fixes.
- much more
- mute gestures
- read number-/mail-type (custom labels supported too!)
- auto translate messages (enable "translate")
- improved widget
- fixes
- pause music during speech on phones with Android 2.2
- sk, cs and de translations by David K. (thanks! )
- supports people who can't find TTS Extended in Android Market / don't have access to Android Market
Planned features in near future:
- more translations (any volunteers?)
- bluetooth (maybe I found somebody who can help me! )
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If you want to help translate, download this file and translate the text between the tags:
Code:
<string name="...">TRANSLATE THIS</string>
Return the translated file to me afterwards.
Thank you very much
Tom
PS: Please let me know if you want me to mention your name / mail-address / website.
Shall report back tomorrow. Used to love this app!
MillyMoo106 said:
Shall report back tomorrow. Used to love this app!
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Thanks! Tell me if you miss something.
I just tried the app for SMS notifications, but it gets interrupted by the notification. I'd like the notification to come first, followed by the announce and then the message. As it is now half the announcement gets killed by the notification.
I tried setting both Reading break and speech delay to 5 (seconds?), but the announcement started immediately anyway.
The app also seems to open a TTS-channel on start, causing noticeable hiss for a couple of seconds.
And the locale-plug-in, is it a separate download? Couldn't see it in Tasker even if I force-stopped it.
Your app seems to perform all the functions I want from TTS-notifications, now I only have to wait for the engine to not sound like a broken record in my language.
xdZKu7 said:
I just tried the app for SMS notifications, but it gets interrupted by the notification. I'd like the notification to come first, followed by the announce and then the message. As it is now half the announcement gets killed by the notification.
I tried setting both Reading break and speech delay to 5 (seconds?), but the announcement started immediately anyway.
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Nice, you found a bug! Little workaround until I upload the fix: set the speech delay in SayCaller Settings.
xdZKu7 said:
The app also seems to open a TTS-channel on start, causing noticeable hiss for a couple of seconds.
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Shouldn't happen in the next version too, thanks.
xdZKu7 said:
And the locale-plug-in, is it a separate download? Couldn't see it in Tasker even if I force-stopped it.
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Locale Plug-In is made for Locale 1.0 (beta). I didn't update it yet, because I thought nobody would use it.
I'll note that on my ToDo-list, thanks!
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Your app seems to perform all the functions I want from TTS-notifications, now I only have to wait for the engine to not sound like a broken record in my language.
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Which Android version performs on your phone? Everything under 1.6 has a REALLY bad voice:
TomTasche said:
Locale Plug-In is made for Locale 1.0 (beta). I didn't update it yet, because I thought nobody would use it.
I'll note that on my ToDo-list, thanks!
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Tasker has Locale plug-in support. I would like to use Tasker to enable and disable your program whenever I place my phone in the car dock.
Which Android version performs on your phone? Everything under 1.6 has a REALLY bad voice:
[ YOUTUBE ]
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Yup, that's the voice.... Froyo (CM6) on Nexus. Truth be told I don't really like the english voice either, it's just far too synthetic compared to some of the other TTS-engines out there:
AT&T Natural Voices
xdZKu7 said:
Tasker has Locale plug-in support. I would like to use Tasker to enable and disable your program whenever I place my phone in the car dock.
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I'll try to add Tasker-support on Friday. Thanks for the hint.
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Yup, that's the voice.... Froyo (CM6) on Nexus. Truth be told I don't really like the english voice either, it's just far too synthetic compared to some of the other TTS-engines out there:
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Unfortunately I'm not responsible for the voice. It comes from Android, but the AT&T sample is very impressive!
I've uploaded another update at the first post, which fixes speech-delay.
Thanks
Tom
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By the way, you can change the voice in "Speech settings" (linked in SayMyName). Change the "Engine" to "Pico TTS" and you'll get a female voice.
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Unfortunately I'm not responsible for the voice. It comes from Android,
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I do realise that. I'll just have to sit still and wait until either google, or someone else grants us a more pleasant engine.
I've uploaded another update at the first post, which fixes speech-delay.
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Excellent.
A slightly more convoluted feature request: Do you think it would be possible to change the TTS-language based on which contact a text message comes from? Say for instance if the contacts had TTS=en_US or TTS=sv_SE or any other preferred language in the notes-section?
The reason for this request is of course that I receive messages in different languages depending on the contact, so if I just decide on a language half the time it'll sound even worse than necessary.
TomTasche said:
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By the way, you can change the voice in "Speech settings" (linked in SayMyName). Change the "Engine" to "Pico TTS" and you'll get a female voice.
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Thanks for the hint, but it doesn't seem to work. Probably because I don't use EN/FR/DE/ES.
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I do realise that. I'll just have to sit still and wait until either google, or someone else grants us a more pleasant engine.
Excellent.
A slightly more convoluted feature request: Do you think it would be possible to change the TTS-language based on which contact a text message comes from? Say for instance if the contacts had TTS=en_US or TTS=sv_SE or any other preferred language in the notes-section?
The reason for this request is of course that I receive messages in different languages depending on the contact, so if I just decide on a language half the time it'll sound even worse than necessary.
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Let's see what I can do for you. I'll try on Friday.
Now I'm off till Friday. Thanks for testing! Keep reporting.
When I tried the old version from the market the notifications didn't pause the music or podcasts so the text reading was down out by the audio. Using btunes for music and google listen for podcasts. Any progress on this?
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d11dog11 said:
When I tried the old version from the market the notifications didn't pause the music or podcasts so the text reading was down out by the audio. Using btunes for music and google listen for podcasts. Any progress on this?
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Android should pause your music automatically if there's a notification-sound. But I'll see if I can pause music too. Thanks.
so is the 6.5 file the donut version
dsMA said:
so is the 6.5 file the donut version
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Yes and no. Both uploaded files are for every Android version above 1.1.
Download the 2.2.6.5 file if you want to try SayMyName.
Thanks
Tom
thanks
thanks man, lets see if it works on my nexus one
Looks cool !!
Good job man
Feel free to ask if you have any questions.
Tattoo
Dont works on my HTC Tattoo..
TattooHtc said:
Dont works on my HTC Tattoo..
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Would you be so kind and provide some further information?
What happens? Force close? If so, please follow this instructions. Thanks!
Can't get any of these to work on my x10 mini (Android 1.6). Old version from Market works fine but when I install these and try to open them I get a popup saying "The requested item could not be found".
Any idea what's going on Tom?
EDIT: Tried the earlier .6.3 and it seems the app is trying to search the Market for "pname:com.google.tts" doesn't find anything matching that though and just sticks on that screen
EDIT 2: Couldn't find the files on Market but the newest version of it is here:
code.google.com/p/eyes-free/downloads/detail?name=tts_3.0_rc05.apk&can=2&q=
Sorry for the rambling post lol
For some reason the voice recorder app was corrupt, so I and looking for the stock 2.2 apk to use. Thanks
Is this it?
I hope this is the one?!
this should be it
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Is this it?
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This is the same one that I had on the phone, but even after re installing it it gives me problems. The app icon is the generic one and when I click it, a different looking program comes up. Is there another program that I need to run? The htc one didn't download an my voice search is working fine.
I just want an an app that I can record with, for done reason switching from inc does mash up rom back to a nandroid with full wipes completely messed with my phone. I had to reinstall m radio because the internet wasn't working, also the stock email kept force closing no matter what I did, so un installing it and putting on a fresh copy seemed to work. Just weird all of this happened
Any info on this?
i don't have the stock one but the htc one above.
i am positive VoiceSearch.apk is NOT it. that is probably googles voice search app.
patchnauty said:
this should be it
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Which of them can record what the radio with?
Hi.
Does the hotword "Google" work for you in the newest stock OTA for Google Now? For me it does not... Is there a way to enable it?
(if you don't know what I'm talking about check out this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU )
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Hi.
Does the hotword "Google" work for you in the newest stock OTA for Google Now? For me it does not... Is there a way to enable it?
(if you don't know what I'm talking about check out this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU )
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change language to us english
rrohanjs said:
change language to us english
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I have changed the language to US everywhere (in the phone, in Google Now, in Voice input) and it still does not work This works for you?
er453r said:
I have changed the language to US everywhere (in the phone, in Google Now, in Voice input) and it still does not work This works for you?
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certain things do, like the prime miniter and president of india etc
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certain things do, like the prime miniter and president of india etc
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Ok - I think you misundestood me. Google Now works fine for me, with pictures and everything. Only the hotword search does not work for me. (So you can use it hands free, only say e.g. "google, who is the president of united states?", without touching the screen and/or buttons)
er453r said:
Ok - I think you misundestood me. Google Now works fine for me, with pictures and everything. Only the hotword search does not work for me. (So you can use it hands free, only say e.g. "google, who is the president of united states?", without touching the screen and/or buttons)
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ok, that surely works with english us for me, i tried it on my brothers phone now, it works on his also with english us
er453r said:
Hi.
Does the hotword "Google" work for you in the newest stock OTA for Google Now? For me it does not... Is there a way to enable it?
(if you don't know what I'm talking about check out this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU )
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It was working on AOSP roms but not on OTA so probably CM10 will have everything working.
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ok, that surely works with english us for me, i tried it on my brothers phone now, it works on his also with english us
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And you are on stock OTA? (rooted?)
Same issue.
I have OTA Jelly Bean on my Nexus S.
Voice Search works fine with the exception of the hotword.
So when I say "Google" on the Google Now screen nothing happens.
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Hi.
Does the hotword "Google" work for you in the newest stock OTA for Google Now? For me it does not... Is there a way to enable it?
(if you don't know what I'm talking about check out this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU )
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It doesn't work for me on HP420's port either
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And you are on stock OTA? (rooted?)
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my bro is on stock rom unrooted and my phone is on adams jb
I'm pretty sure this hot word feature was removed due to Apple's lawsuit, too similar in functionality to Siri.
I know you're talking about the OTA update, and I'm running hp420's rom on my NS4G, so there are likely differences, but when you open up Google Now, what does the search bar say? Does it just say "Search" or does it say (as mine does) "Search, or say Google"??
Yeah, I had it in the first 4.1 builds, then once the official 4.1.1's started appearing it was gone. This was after the incident where they had to stop selling Galaxy Nexii for a week. It looks like that feature was dumped to get the injunction lifted.
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Yeah, I had it in the first 4.1 builds, then once the official 4.1.1's started appearing it was gone. This was after the incident where they had to stop selling Galaxy Nexii for a week. It looks like that feature was dumped to get the injunction lifted.
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AHHHH that explains it. Thought I was going crazy. :laugh:
I'm sure you could flash an older version of Google Now taken from one of the ROMs where it is functional.
Hmm, I thought the lawsuit with Siri is regarding the result of the search, nothing to do with how the search is triggered right? There's no like "siri" hotword or something.
However, I don't really get the purpose of this hotword, as I will still need to unlock the phone and press the Search button anyway, might as well just press the "mic" icon on the top right at the google search "widget"?
That's my best guess on the issue, it makes sense. It appears that this as the only thing that changed for the official 4.1.1 release. Or maybe google deemed it not worthy of the Nexus S, like Face Unlock... Wonder if Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus might still have this feature.
How come when I search our doesn't show up like in the video and directs me to browser searches?
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How come when I search our doesn't show up like in the video and directs me to browser searches?
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To have results like in the video you have to change Google Now language to English US and force searching on google.com (in google now settings).
The hotword is only a "cool" feature, with practically no use (unless it would work globally, not only with the google now screen) but I would like to test it out
I take NO credit for this! I found this here on XDA and thought I would post a link to it on here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vp7hoo11sqt3k4b
alt link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4dsqvow4bqad6g/Mikey6_Offline.zip
I flashed it earlier and it works great, no double take and works with voice (on or offline) - I'm stock rooted.
I do not have where I got it on here, since I found it on my phone and I am writing this thread on my computer. I will add credit to where I got it when I find the link again! Until then enjoy!
FYI - This is said to work with any ARMv7 chip.
EDIT: Here is the link to where I found it so credit can be had by all who made it happen!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29756226&postcount=2856
<---- Feel free to press thanks if you find this useful!
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I take NO credit for this! I found this here on XDA and thought I would post a link to it on here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vp7hoo11sqt3k4b
alt link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4dsqvow4bqad6g/Mikey6_Offline.zip
I flashed it earlier and it works great, no double take and works with voice (on or offline) - I'm stock rooted.
I do not have where I got it on here, since I found it on my phone and I am writing this thread on my computer. I will add credit to where I got it when I find the link again! Until then enjoy!
FYI - This is said to work with any ARMv7 chip.
EDIT: Here is the link to where I found it so credit can be had by all who made it happen!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29756226&postcount=2856
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thanks trying this out now
WOW Thanks. I just cant wait for the official Jelly bean, but this makes the wait more tolerable. Works great!
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Is there a method to uninstall? I'm suddenly getting a "Sorry, didn't catch that" error. Immediately closes out once I open it.
Check on the link to the thread scroll down there's a return to stock Google search zip. I had to revert also because it wasn't working for me
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cell128 said:
Check on the link to the thread scroll down there's a return to stock Google search zip. I had to revert also because it wasn't working for me
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You on stock rooted? I have not changed any of my files (other then framework.apk - to bypass verizon charging me to use the built in tether ). I flashed this and works great, from the google search on the main screen i just click on the mic and it brings it right up...
Voice Dialer is messed up
I originally posted this in the Apps forum; but it is probably more appropriate here:
I installed Google Now and the search works fine. However, when I initiate the voice dialer via my BT headset, I hear very fast, unintelligible gibberish. When I say "Call Bill Johnson" it returns totally inaccurate results and the voice is at 4X speed. S Voice, while somewhat inaccurate, worked 80-90% of the time via BT.
Does anyone else who has done this on their S3 have a working BT initiated voice dialer?
Are you having issues with having GN send text to contacts or sending "note to self"? I am having issue with both. I tried to do the work around using Calendar as a contact and then having GN send a sms to it so that it will post but most of the time it ends up doing a google search on "text calendar....ect". "note to self..." gives me a black screen and then an FC shortly after. I'm using the M6 zip file.
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Are you having issues with having GN send text to contacts or sending "note to self"? I am having issue with both. I tried to do the work around using Calendar as a contact and then having GN send a sms to it so that it will post but most of the time it ends up doing a google search on "text calendar....ect". "note to self..." gives me a black screen and then an FC shortly after. I'm using the M6 zip file.
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I cant get it to send any text messages, i think it might be since i have the software with the phone search removed? - might need to let the original developer know using the link in my original threat.
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I cant get it to send any text messages, i think it might be since i have the software with the phone search removed? - might need to let the original developer know using the link in my original threat.
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I sending a text message is hit or miss i guess, however i never got it to actually do it for me automatically. if i say "text mike hey whats up" it will pull up mike (sometimes/not consistently) and have my message "hey whats up" ready for sending but i have to actually go again and finalize the send. It's not like with S voice or Vlingo where it will send it for you if there is high confidence or if you tell it to send. I guess we'll just have to wait until proper version of Jellybean come out for our phones (GS3 VZW in my case). Till then we'll just have to deal with not so perfect Google Now.
Is there anyway to turn s voice back on when double clicking the home button? Google voice dialer calls all kinds of random people.. thanks in advance!
mrgixxer6 said:
Is there anyway to turn s voice back on when double clicking the home button? Google voice dialer calls all kinds of random people.. thanks in advance!
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Should be able to go into the applications and clear the cache for Google search/voice - so when you double click home it will ask which you want to use? not 100% sure, but usually that's how you reset options like that.
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Should be able to go into the applications and clear the cache for Google search/voice - so when you double click home it will ask which you want to use? not 100% sure, but usually that's how you reset options like that.
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You don't press clear cache there's a desperate button that says clear defaults you should click on that
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Dovigoldberger said:
You don't press clear cache there's a desperate button that says clear defaults you should click on that
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Yeah that button! :highfive: i was at work when i posted that response and got a call and had to rush the response.
Tried that already with no success. I apologize I should have included that in my post. I however cannot find voice dialer in the app list. Is it named something else? I ask because when double clicking home, it doesn't launch the google now search, it launches a desperate google voice dialer. Thanks
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Tried that already with no success. I apologize I should have included that in my post. I however cannot find voice dialer in the app list. Is it named something else? I ask because when double clicking home, it doesn't launch the google now search, it launches a desperate google voice dialer. Thanks
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Should just be the Google search one, if you haven't already tried that one. also, check the original threat I posted i belive they have an "uninstall" option? that would be the only other option i can think of. I don't use voice dial. sorry.
So to install this, you just need to download the zip file and flash in recovery? I read through the other link and its seems confusing. I'm not sure if I need 6 or 7. And the warning stated if I don't know what one I need I shouldn't be attempting it. So I'm nervous.
Do the mikey7 version. To get offline and online dload the biggest file. On an s3 you should be Ok doing the big file. Just download put on root of your sd card and on recovery flash the zip file. I've been using it but I don't use the cards to save battery. I just use the voice search. It's much better than s voice or the voice search of ics. Check on howbibused home2shortcut to assign it to the home button by clicking my name to see my posts. You will enjoy it.
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I am guessing we can flash v.7 right over v. 6?
I flashed over six and had no issues as of now.
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Hi there,
today I bought a new headphone for travelling and such, a Sony MDR-ZX750BN (sorry cant link because new user). Now this model has its own volume control and also a previous, next and a play/stop buttons, which picks up calls as well (built in mic). So I searched some forums and google for a way to change button actions, as it would be pretty great to launch google now with a long press etc. But all the apps I've tried have failed to recognize the headphone. Can someone point me to a tool which does things like this? Is it very complicated? I am not an expert in deeper andriod modifications but not a beginner either. Running a Nexus 5 with L release.
Thanks in advance
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Hi there,
today I bought a new headphone for travelling and such, a Sony MDR-ZX750BN (sorry cant link because new user). Now this model has its own volume control and also a previous, next and a play/stop buttons, which picks up calls as well (built in mic). So I searched some forums and google for a way to change button actions, as it would be pretty great to launch google now with a long press etc. But all the apps I've tried have failed to recognize the headphone. Can someone point me to a tool which does things like this? Is it very complicated? I am not an expert in deeper andriod modifications but not a beginner either. Running a Nexus 5 with L release.
Thanks in advance
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try this Im not sure,did iI understand you, sorry for my bad english
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.jays.headsetcontrol
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Paget96 said:
try this Im not sure,did iI understand you, sorry for my bad english
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thanks for the reply, unfortunately ive tried all these apps in the store, but they dont recognize my headphone's buttons. and I dont know why. I would need something that can monitor hardware input and then do it with tasker or something. well thanks anyway
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thanks for the reply, unfortunately ive tried all these apps in the store, but they dont recognize my headphone's buttons. and I dont know why. I would need something that can monitor hardware input and then do it with tasker or something. well thanks anyway
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did you try to find on sony site ?
Paget96 said:
did you try to find on sony site ?
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yeah but no luck
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yeah but no luck
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I dont know, maybe your rom doesnt support this. :/ try to update to cm 11 for your device, I dont know.