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[Request] Quick Compose SMS for Google Voice

i am not sure if you all will agree with my idea, but its something that I would like to see. if you use handcent SMS you know that one of the features is quick compose. this allows you to send an SMS from almost any app without needing to switch apps. this is very convenient! i know we are able to do multitasking and switching between apps is not that hard, but there are some apps that, if you press the home button, the app will stop working, you cant resume or the app will crash. An example is Ex Zeus. so just wondering if anyone knows an app similar to what i am asking for or knows if its being designed? i wish i could reroute handcent sms quick compose feature to use google voice instead but thats not possible. i dont think it would be too difficult to design, but i have no idea! let me know what you guys think.

Sms popup on the market.

AbsoluteDesignz said:
Sms popup on the market.
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i didnt see a quick compose option. only a quick reply. am i overlooking it?

Nevermind this is about Google voice. It doesn't work with voice. But the quick reply option is in additional settings

CM6 dialer

I'm wondering what is everyone using since the cm6 dialer doesn't search contacts as you type their name in T9 format. Or is there a setting I'm missing.

obsanity said:
I'm wondering what is everyone using since the cm6 dialer doesn't search contacts as you type their name in T9 format. Or is there a setting I'm missing.
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Dialer one off the market has all of those sense features

Yeah, I've tried it but it's slow and doesn't have any of the tabs on top like call log, contacts, favorites.
I'm not sure why the developer didn't choose to replace the default dialer with his and instead added a dialer. This creates a problem because after dialing and conversation is over the default dialer is shown.
I started this thread thinking the CM6 developer responsible for dialer app would take this as a request to the default dialer if anything.

Can we install the old sense dialer if we have the apk or will it not work since it isn't a sense rom?

I usually just hit the search button once I open the dialer to find the contact I'm looking for.
And as for returning to the dialer after a call, there is a setting in the preferences for this. There's also a setting in the main call settings for returning to the call log after a call.

azr6 said:
Can we install the old sense dialer if we have the apk or will it not work since it isn't a sense rom?
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It won't work: no sense apps will work on AOSP since there's not HTC framework.

obsanity said:
Yeah, I've tried it but it's slow and doesn't have any of the tabs on top like call log, contacts, favorites.
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turn off the "Display contacts photo" setting and that should take care of the slowness. it doesn't have tabs at the top, but you can swipe left and right on the list to change views.

hotaru said:
turn off the "Display contacts photo" setting and that should take care of the slowness. it doesn't have tabs at the top, but you can swipe left and right on the list to change views.
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Thanks, that helped with the speed I didn't know about the swiping either.
What about the buttons. Don't you guys find them to be too much against each other? I like the default dialer better. It "seems" like you are less likely to hot the wrong key.

[APP] Youlou Address Book (Not My App)

http://androinica.com/2010/11/02/yo...-new-favorite-dialercontacts-app-app-reviews/
Check the market for it. It's all kinds of awesome. Ignore the fact that the market description is in Chinese, it's very cool.

Been using Youlou since upgrading to 2.1 a few weeks ago. I must say it's a really slick address book.

this is way faster then stock froyo address book ...just missing option to create shortcut for direct dialer

looks good. i think i will try this one

How can I use this app as default dialer? I need it because I want to see the counter for missed calls?

I love this app too. The widget shows missed calls BTW the widget is awesome.
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It's frustrating, this app.
It's rad, the UI looks awesome. It pretends to be so functional... But it's so far from it.
No * or # key, really? I get that it's chinese, but come on. How many users have to request it in the comments before you just add the damn things?
I don't want to have to add a widget to homescreen. There isn't room for it. Make the app fully functional without it (aka show missed calls).
Doesn't sync with facebook.
Doesn't thread together contacts (like say if you had a regular phone and a google voice phone already in your contacts... in the default I can just thread the two together, in Youlu I have to delete one and then add the other to the contact manually)
Pictures are sometimes there for my favs, sometimes not. I even re add a picture or change the picture. It sometimes takes the app opening closing like 5 times before it appears, and then it can leave just as easily.
After all that I'm still struggling to remove it from my phone, but being realistic, this thing isn't a dialer. It's just not. It's a cool UI that pretends to be one, while missing a half a dozen key components.
Sometimes I wonder if the stock dialer was something that was actually ****ty, and then the current stock dialer came out with a hip name and was third party, how crazy would people go for that? It has everything.

irish22022 said:
It's frustrating, this app.
It's rad, the UI looks awesome. It pretends to be so functional... But it's so far from it.
No * or # key, really? I get that it's chinese, but come on. How many users have to request it in the comments before you just add the damn things?
I don't want to have to add a widget to homescreen. There isn't room for it. Make the app fully functional without it (aka show missed calls).
Doesn't sync with facebook.
Doesn't thread together contacts (like say if you had a regular phone and a google voice phone already in your contacts... in the default I can just thread the two together, in Youlu I have to delete one and then add the other to the contact manually)
Pictures are sometimes there for my favs, sometimes not. I even re add a picture or change the picture. It sometimes takes the app opening closing like 5 times before it appears, and then it can leave just as easily.
After all that I'm still struggling to remove it from my phone, but being realistic, this thing isn't a dialer. It's just not. It's a cool UI that pretends to be one, while missing a half a dozen key components.
Sometimes I wonder if the stock dialer was something that was actually ****ty, and then the current stock dialer came out with a hip name and was third party, how crazy would people go for that? It has everything.
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I have no choice but to completely agree irish22022 it's a very nice looking UI and I enjoyed it quite a lot until I was trying to get in touch with customer service (*611) or check the balance on my phone (#BAL) it's extremely frustrating to be missing these two key digits, almost a showstopper however I keep using it hoping they will eventually add what we need. As far as for only allowing one account that doesn't bother me so much because I have all of my contacts backed up to one Google account which only made sense to me, so that doesn't bother me so much. However the * and # issue really needs to be corrected.

has the inter-grated sms thing still there, i can t get rid of it!

ballubas said:
has the inter-grated sms thing still there, i can t get rid of it!
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you can open the sms client in the app drawer that appears after installation, go to settings, and disable everything.
It's still ridiculous that they install that on your computer along with the address book. Should definitely be a seperate app.

Just update is now acceptinf # &*

It has been the fastest smart dialer for me-even faster than dialer one. I would still like it if you could search within the call log and/or the contact list as well.
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Unfortunately the last version also installs a default SMS app which is worse than Handcent....

whipping said:
Unfortunately the last version also installs a default SMS app which is worse than Handcent....
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Agreed. I don't like the fact it installs an SMS client, as I already have and prefer Handcent. At least you can disable it.

saltorio said:
Agreed. I don't like the fact it installs an SMS client, as I already have and prefer Handcent. At least you can disable it.
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Can you explain me how?? I didn't find any option!

Doesnt work for me on my x10!:-(
irish22022 said:
you can open the sms client in the app drawer that appears after installation, go to settings, and disable everything.
It's still ridiculous that they install that on your computer along with the address book. Should definitely be a seperate app.
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ballubas said:
Doesnt work for me on my x10!:-(
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are you at least in the sms client? it looks nothing like the phone book. If it's not in your app drawer, open up the dialer, go to contacts, click on a contact, and click the envelope rather then the dialer (if you don't see the envelope, then go to settings and look for the option to include a text shortcut for your contacts). This defaults to youlu's sms client. From there, hit the menu button, click settings and disable notifications.
You can't uninstall the sms app, but you can silence it so you don't know it's there. And you also can't change the default sms app within youlu phone book, it will always open up their sms app.

irish22022 said:
are you at least in the sms client? it looks nothing like the phone book. If it's not in your app drawer, open up the dialer, go to contacts, click on a contact, and click the envelope rather then the dialer (if you don't see the envelope, then go to settings and look for the option to include a text shortcut for your contacts). This defaults to youlu's sms client. From there, hit the menu button, click settings and disable notifications.
You can't uninstall the sms app, but you can silence it so you don't know it's there. And you also can't change the default sms app within youlu phone book, it will always open up their sms app.
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isnt work step by steb but is no such a menu

[Q] Ok Google hot word disabled?

Did Verizon disable this for some reason? Or did HTC? When I open the Google Search app (where you can usually say "Ok Google" to jump into voice commands), the settings say it's enabled, however it doesn't say "ok google" next to the microphone icon in the search bar, like it usually does
It's especially weird because I vaguely remember using the Ok Google a few days after I got it, but I could be mistaken (quite often this is the case)
No matter how loud I've screamed at it, it's not working. Anybody else having this?

Lol. The m8 isn't "always listening"
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Ok Google works with this phone. There is a setting that enables hot word detection in Google now, check there.
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I know it's not always listening. However you usually can say OK Google from the Google now app to go to voice commands
And I already have it on in the settings, but it's not working.
Oh and also when I installed the Google now launcher to see if it would work on the home screen there, it didn't.

GideonMouth said:
Ok Google works with this phone. There is a setting that enables hot word detection in Google now, check there.
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I enabled hot word detection but wasn't able to get it to work either.

Rugged96 said:
I enabled hot word detection but wasn't able to get it to work either.
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Is your app out of date perhaps? It works fine for me, but it is limited to the Google Now app. I can't do it on the homescreen, but it works perfectly fine from the Google Now app (swipe up from home).
If you are totally up to date, maybe try going with a factory reset.

tdnookhd said:
Is your app out of date perhaps? It works fine for me, but it is limited to the Google Now app. I can't do it on the homescreen, but it works perfectly fine from the Google Now app (swipe up from home).
If you are totally up to date, maybe try going with a factory reset.
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actually, this is how it works for me as well. I was hoping to get it from the home screen but swiping up is ok...not totally hands free but close.

Rugged96 said:
actually, this is how it works for me as well. I was hoping to get it from the home screen but swiping up is ok...not totally hands free but close.
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If you want it on the homescreen, you'll have to sideload the Google Now Launcher APK and use that instead of BlinkFeed. You do lose access to HTC's widgets, but other than that there's not much difference.
If you want to do that, here's the XDA thread to get the APK:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506488

tdnookhd said:
If you want it on the homescreen, you'll have to sideload the Google Now Launcher APK and use that instead of BlinkFeed. You do lose access to HTC's widgets, but other than that there's not much difference.
If you want to do that, here's the XDA thread to get the APK:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506488
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thanks for that option. i installed Nova because i didn't like the square app folders..I know, picky...so now i need to decide pro/con.

Rugged96 said:
thanks for that option. i installed Nova because i didn't like the square app folders..I know, picky...so now i need to decide pro/con.
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Now Launcher's folders are a white circle background with the "stack" icon effect. You can simulate this in Nova and see how you like it before installing.
Nova Settings > Folders > Background > White Circle
Nova Settings > Folders > Style > Stack

tdnookhd said:
Now Launcher's folders are a white circle background with the "stack" icon effect. You can simulate this in Nova and see how you like it before installing.
Nova Settings > Folders > Background > White Circle
Nova Settings > Folders > Style > Stack
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that's exactly what i did...so much nicer! imo

[Q] Question about dot view mod

Not sure if I am phrasing my question well enough for search to work, but I looked and didn't find anything. Is there a way to make the swipe down launch a google now search rather than the HTC voice dialer?

richiewrt said:
Not sure if I am phrasing my question well enough for search to work, but I looked and didn't find anything. Is there a way to make the swipe down launch a google now search rather than the HTC voice dialer?
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If you are rooted and running Dalvik (not ART) you can install the Xposed Framework and run Sense 6.0 toolbox which permits altering the gestures. There certainly may be an easier way, but I know that way works.
And btw has nothing to do with dotview.

Maybe I am changing the wrong thing, but under wake gestures I changed it to Google. It works if the phone is off and I don't close the case. When the dot view car is closed it still launches the HTC voice control app.

richiewrt said:
Maybe I am changing the wrong thing, but under wake gestures I changed it to Google. It works if the phone is off and I don't close the case. When the dot view car is closed it still launches the HTC voice control app.
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Try Settings --> Display & Gestures --> Motion Launch Gestures --> uncheck "quick call" and see how you make out.