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I work on a trading floor which is admittedly fairly noisy, but my wife says the HTC Fuze is picking up a huge amount of the background noise, to the point where I sound like I'm competing with it. I never had this from my iPhone, so think it must be something on the phone. I'm running RomEOS 1.4.
Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity of the built in mic?
Under settings/system there is "microphone AGC" which allows you to disable the auto gain on the mike. That should help.
STraver, sir, my wife and I thank you!
Interesting...I always thought that setting was only for recording...
Thanks though
i am having the same problem with mine. it never used to do it until recently. and i believe "microphone agc" is used for your voice command/recording NOT the microphone level of in a call. either way it does nothing for me.
It's possible that my wife was mistaken when she said it seemed better then. I'll leave it 'off' for now and continue to watch.
I too have the same problem! I'm about to return this phone, every business client complains about every noise. They can hear me pick up a pencil! I looked @ AGC and it was already disabled. Any programs or registry settings I can use?
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For those (like myself) that have been less than satisfied with the Bluetooth voice dialing in Froyo on our Captivates there may be a pretty good solution for you.
Not sure how long its been out but Vlingo includes a beta version of a feature called "Vlingo In Car" that actually supports bluetooth dialing among other things.
Tried it out the other day and...it works! And pretty good too.
I had tried "Choice Dialer" which claims that it supports bluetooth dialing but I was never successful at getting it to work...even a little.
So, if you have Froyo on your Cappy, and want to be able to bluetooth voice dial, then give Vlingo a try. It's available, for free, in the Marketplace.
I saw that earlier tonight, and was disappointed to find it requires Froyo.
I'm holding off for a beta that seems less buggy. Seems like a lot of varying issues on it.
Of course, maybe the real release is not far off.
But I'll be keeping this Vlingo option in mind. It may just motivate me to try the 2.2 again.
I downloaded it onto my Cog 2.2 B6 and it doesn't work at all. Won't recognize any input from the bluetooth headset. Even the built-in Google search dialer is better than this. My headset works fine during calls, and will even play media. And I could initiate voice calls on Windows Mobile (Voice Command) without touching the phone.
Any tips on how I can get Vlingo working?
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For those (like myself) that have been less than satisfied with the Bluetooth voice dialing in Froyo on our Captivates there may be a pretty good solution for you.
Not sure how long its been out but Vlingo includes a beta version of a feature called "Vlingo In Car" that actually supports bluetooth dialing among other things.
Tried it out the other day and...it works! And pretty good too.
I had tried "Choice Dialer" which claims that it supports bluetooth dialing but I was never successful at getting it to work...even a little.
So, if you have Froyo on your Cappy, and want to be able to bluetooth voice dial, then give Vlingo a try. It's available, for free, in the Marketplace.
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Hey Ozone...you there? Still working for you?
I just installed the Cognition 2.2B8.1 specifically for this. This is what I am finding:
It will launch the Vlingo wiht the button, IF the phone is not asleep. Well, maybe it is launching if not asleep, but I don't know, as I get no audible, and the screen does not come on.
The other problem I have, which is not related to Vlingo, is that it seems that the phone does not hear me over BT. That's likely a rom problem.
Also, I find it does not dial automatically if I have more than 1 phone numbrer for someone, which for most I do. It just brings up the contact and the phone list and I have to choose one.
Is it working like that for you?
And, what Froyo build are you using?
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Hey Ozone...you there? Still working for you?
I just installed the Cognition 2.2B8.1 specifically for this. This is what I am finding:
It will launch the Vlingo wiht the button, IF the phone is not asleep. Well, maybe it is launching if not asleep, but I don't know, as I get no audible, and the screen does not come on.
The other problem I have, which is not related to Vlingo, is that it seems that the phone does not hear me over BT. That's likely a rom problem.
Also, I find it does not dial automatically if I have more than 1 phone numbrer for someone, which for most I do. It just brings up the contact and the phone list and I have to choose one.
Is it working like that for you?
And, what Froyo build are you using?
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Remember, its still a beta product but some of your problems are most likely related to the ROM.
I tried Cog Beta 8, briefly, and went back to beta 7 after bluetooth was totally screwed up.
As far as the list of numbers is concerned, it gives you the list when it's not sure of what type of number you requested ("Work"; "Home"; "Mobile"). Or, if you request a number type that a contact has multiples of (like more than one "Mobile" like I have).
While not perfect, over all it has worked pretty well...at least better than any other Bluetooth dialing solution that I have tried. YMMV.
Here is an update:
I re-flashed my phone and now Vlingo In Car doesn't work at all.
I'm still at Cog Beta 7 but now it does not respond to me through the headset.
I'm going to try a couple things and let you know what I find.
Love the big buttons in car mode, and voice recognition is a big improvement over trying to get Google search.
One problem I have is when the phone is turned so that the top faces to the right in car mode. The basic interface shows with the correct orientation no matter which way the phone is turned, top to the right, left or up. But in car mode, when the phone is turned so the usb connection faces right, hitting any button results in the next interface being upside down. Works just fine if usb faces left or the phone is upright.
I'm on cog 2.2 beta 6. I have a blueant s4 and voice dialing is working well. It took a few tries and I'm not sure what caused it to start working, but it is. This is using the vlingo incar app. It works for calls, messaging, and searches (all I've tried so far).
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The latest update for me: out works part time. It of not near as accurate on finding contacts as Google Voice Search.
One thing that I miss compared to MS V pice Command is the capability got it to work even if not in car mode.
I've tried Vlingo multiple times on my Captivate running Perception with a BlueAnt T1, not only does the T1 keep saying it isn't supported if I have it set to Vlingo, but the application itself is as close to useless as possible. No matter which number I tell it to call my mom at, it ALWAYS dials her cell. Additionally, I tried to follow some of the commands under the What Can I Say? area and they all opened a web browser.
Unfortunately, I paid for this worthless junk.
Voice Dialing under Perception 10.x and above works fine with my Jawbone Icon and I am trying to see if I can get Voice Dialing to work with my Alpine kce-400BT unit in my truck. Otherwise I have not had any issues with it at all.
HTH,
Charlie
I am using the Bluetooth voice dialing on Paragon RC5.1 with my Pioneer FH-P800BT car stereo and it works perfectly.
So what software works perfectly for you?
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blueant + vlingo + firefly = working bluetooth dialing.
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blueant + vlingo + firefly = working bluetooth dialing.
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Does Vlingo give you consistently accurate dialing? If it does, I'm glad for you
While I can get it to dial via blue tooth, I find it doesn't do so consistently accurately, based on useing on 3 different BTooth devices, and even if just using without blue tooth.
Also, it has no validation. Must either trust it to dial right, or press from a list it pulls up.
Choice Dialer would ideal, if only it worked. It is 10 times worse than Vlingo, for me.
Nothing I've tried works anything near as good as Microsoft Voice Command did.
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Nothing I've tried works anything near as good as Microsoft Voice Command did.
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I hear that! I never had any problems with voice dialing with VC. Too bad nothing I've seen on Android comes close.
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Does Vlingo give you consistently accurate dialing? If it does, I'm glad for you
While I can get it to dial via blue tooth, I find it doesn't do so consistently accurately, based on useing on 3 different BTooth devices, and even if just using without blue tooth.
Also, it has no validation. Must either trust it to dial right, or press from a list it pulls up.
Choice Dialer would ideal, if only it worked. It is 10 times worse than Vlingo, for me.
Nothing I've tried works anything near as good as Microsoft Voice Command did.
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vlingo def superior in recognition. I don't use the feature but set it up for my dad on his new captivate.
I did 10 test dials with it with only hiccup in which is it choose a very similar sounding name rather than what i was trying to dial.
Did Vlingo work via Bluetooth? I can't get mine to recognize any devices. Called Samsung and they basically told me too bad.
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Did Vlingo work via Bluetooth? I can't get mine to recognize any devices. Called Samsung and they basically told me too bad.
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Depending on what ROM you use, you may need to use Blue Tooth Launch.
It may be that Vlingo works fairly well with direct voice on the phone, but poor on blue tooth. At least it is quite poor for me. The times it does find the right person to call, it brings up a list of all phones to choose, instead of dialing "Mobile" if that is what I ask for.
Vlingo doesnt recognize many of my contacts. like I have Marko in my phonebook...and when i say Call Marko or Call Marko mobile or Dial Marko mobile, or whatever...it doesn't find it, instead it finds marco with a C. And i don't have any Marcos in my address book. WTH. I wont even talk about other names it doesn't even recognize at all, it just launches the browser and searches for a completely different thing. FOr some names i have last names as well, and i clearly say the last name and it doesn't work. Beh. I was hoping this app will do better. at least be smart enough to recognize marko from marco, its darn too easy. beh lol.
I just finished installing all the stereo parts in my car only to find out that my Captivate won't work with the voice dialing of the stereo. I guess it's the phone's fault as my wife's Focus works just fine as did my old HTC Pure. She won't trade phones with me so I'm stuck trying to find a ROM that has this.
With Samsung stating it will be fixed (added) in 2.2.1; does that mean only the 2.2.1 ROMS will have this feature? I'm currently running Cognition 4.3.1 and it does not have it; but would like to only try new ROMS that have it. What ROMS do have the feature?
Thank you for your input.
Firefly supports voice dialing. You have to start the Voice Dialling app and then say the command.
What I'm looking for is what the Droid Incredible has. I paired it to my stereo and when I hit the call button on the stereo; it launched what appeared to be a bluetooth voice dialer application that allowed me to speak into the stereo.
I just tried firefly and it did have that app, but it crashed as soon as I tried it. It also crashed the music app, failed to mount the storage drives, crashed when trying to put it in debugging mode and pretty much was unstable since it booted. I then tried to use one click odin and it went to a blue screen half way through the process. It'll be a fun night.
Probably not what you want to hear, but my BT in the car works great on my 'stock' set up. I think it has more to do with the kernel/ modem configuration than the ROM though.
dragon has this. many people are pairing it with choice dialer.
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dragon has this. many people are pairing it with choice dialer.
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I can't get Choice Dialer to work well at all. ONe example: "CAll Tom Jones", it says "CAll Tom Jones?", I say "Yes", it says "Try again". Argh...
ANd most of th time it just doesn't understand me at all.
I believe this is the apk you need. I know cog doesn't come with it. This is an old one so I don't know if there is a newer version available but when you pair your bluetooth and hit the voice command on your stereo or bluetooth set, make this the default app when the prompt shows up. It won't give you a voice prompt but if you wait 2 secs and then speak it should dial for you. Only problem is that your phone has to be awake but at least you can use voice commands from your bluetooth set. Just leave your phone plugged in and awake while your in the car. This is the only option I have found.
That worked.
Thank you for the apk. That works.
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I can't get Choice Dialer to work well at all. ONe example: "CAll Tom Jones", it says "CAll Tom Jones?", I say "Yes", it says "Try again". Argh...
ANd most of th time it just doesn't understand me at all.
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It's not unusual to be called by anyone
It's not unusual to have a text from anyone
but when I try to use voice dial for anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
Roflmfao!
studacris said:
It's not unusual to be called by anyone
It's not unusual to have a text from anyone
but when I try to use voice dial for anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry
Roflmfao!
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Boy, ain't that the truth. It really chaps me that the one thing that should be solid on a Cell now-a-days is voice dial. Can't believe that OLD OLD technology from Microsoft on Winmo SHINES so much better than Android. Maybe that's the only thing that does, but in my opinion, one of the most important things for a cell phone...at least if you anticipate wanting to use it while driving.
That was a tom jones joke ...
I'm glad the Voice Dialer apk worked. I couldn't get it to work on any Captivate ROMs. Most reoriented i9000 ROMs have a working version, but I find all of the i9000 ROMs to be severely lacking in performance compared to KB1 ROMs.
My preferred solution in either case is to use Bluetooth Launch and Voice Search. Bluetooth Launch can be found here. Run it from the app drawer, it brings up a full list of installed apps and available activities. Choose Voice Search, and then the "VoiceRecognition" activity (must have Google's Voice Search installed first of course). Then, hit your call button, and set Bluetooth Launch as the default activity when it asks. From then on, your call button will launch Voice Actions, which support not only "call <contact>" but also a ton of other commands, including controlling music, text msgs, etc. I love sending texts without touching my phone, and it works flawlessly for me so far.
Hey guys,
I upgraded my wife to the SkyRocket for Christmas, but I'm having a problem using the Bluetooth with our motorcycle helmet headsets.
Everything pairs just fine, but once connected a push of the BT button on the headset should initiate Voice Dial (at least that's what happens with my DINC2). However her SR will go straight in to the dialer, and dial one of her contacts. Its always the same contact too (and not even someone she really wants to talk too lol)
Is there anyway to change/set the default BT Action on the SR??
Unrooted - completely stock ROM.
Thanks
Ed
Hey Ed,
I am working on the same thing. I have a Cardo Scala Rider G4 that I used with my iPhone. I was quite disappointed in the BT performance. I have gotten some voice dialing to work on it. It's not 100%, but it's certainly better than what is going on.
Get the Galaxy S2 voice 2 go (from the orig GS2 - check this thread) - It's basically a rebranded Vlingo, but has a couple more commands (like play music).
The Dial button still didn't work with it, but now does with the Bluetooth Launch app. Thankfully it's free. Make sure you reboot the app after installing it. It seems like the app just needs to be there, and you don't have to configure it to run the Galaxy Voice 2 go / vlingo.
Some things still not great for bikers like us:
- Can't initiate voice dialing / actions with screen locked (there is a bypass setting from what I read in other threads, but it doesn't seem to be in our ROM)
- haven't tested voice initiated answer, but I am not holding my breath.
Let me know how you make out!
-- Steve
radon222 said:
Hey guys,
I upgraded my wife to the SkyRocket for Christmas, but I'm having a problem using the Bluetooth with our motorcycle helmet headsets.
Everything pairs just fine, but once connected a push of the BT button on the headset should initiate Voice Dial (at least that's what happens with my DINC2). However her SR will go straight in to the dialer, and dial one of her contacts. Its always the same contact too (and not even someone she really wants to talk too lol)
Is there anyway to change/set the default BT Action on the SR??
Unrooted - completely stock ROM.
Thanks
Ed
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You upgraded your Wife, to a skyrocket?? Just sounds unnatural..
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Hey Ed,
I am working on the same thing. I have a Cardo Scala Rider G4 that I used with my iPhone. I was quite disappointed in the BT performance. I have gotten some voice dialing to work on it. It's not 100%, but it's certainly better than what is going on.
Get the Galaxy S2 voice 2 go (from the orig GS2 - check this thread) - It's basically a rebranded Vlingo, but has a couple more commands (like play music).
The Dial button still didn't work with it, but now does with the Bluetooth Launch app. Thankfully it's free. Make sure you reboot the app after installing it. It seems like the app just needs to be there, and you don't have to configure it to run the Galaxy Voice 2 go / vlingo.
Some things still not great for bikers like us:
- Can't initiate voice dialing / actions with screen locked (there is a bypass setting from what I read in other threads, but it doesn't seem to be in our ROM)
- haven't tested voice initiated answer, but I am not holding my breath.
Let me know how you make out!
-- Steve
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Thanks for the suggestions Steve!
We're using the Sena SMH10 headsets and have pretty happy with them, even with my wife's old Iphone 3GS. I'd just like to avoid the odd behavior that she's had with the SR.
Voice dial with my DINC2 works ok as long as I'm stopped. Once I get moving however, the helmet/wind noise confuses the voice dialer and I never know who I'm going to get lol
You upgraded your Wife, to a skyrocket?? Just sounds unnatural..
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If only!!
We're using the Sena SMH10 headsets and have pretty happy with them, even with my wife's old Iphone 3GS. I'd just like to avoid the odd behavior that she's had with the SR.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I find the Scala performs better when moving. The noise cancellation is pretty good. I usually use the voice command to play a play list or an album, not really to take calls. Are you using an open face helmet or full face? Mine is a full face, which might be the difference.
I'm hoping that once some official CM ROM or something else comes out, that this gets fixed. I can say that even though I like Droid better for everything else, the 3GS voice control worked really well.
We both use Modular Helmets (me a Shoei Multitec and her a Shark Evoline) so they are bit noisier than a standard full face. Neither of us are organized for things like play lists... that's what Shuffle All is for!!
Actually I have a Zumo 550 with XM and I control my tunes through the GPS. Unfortunately the Zumo doesn't do BT stereo...so I'm hardwired to it.
Oh and I just loaded her up with VtoG and Bluetooth Launch....so far it looks promising. At least she's not calling Phil anymore . It's going to be a few days until we field test it.
We both use Modular Helmets (me a Shoei Multitec and her a Shark Evoline) so they are bit noisier than a standard full face. Neither of us are organized for things like play lists... that's what Shuffle All is for!!
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I use a Fulmer modular. It's not terribly noisy, but then again the ventilation is horrible. I am not super organized about playlists, but I found that my iPod incremented playcount only when a song ended. I travel a lot for business, so on the plane I would shuffle all songs and then skip ones I didn't like. I then built a smart playlist in iTunes where all songs with a playcount >1 where in it.
I'll have to do a field test at some point, but it's damn cold right now. It might be high 40's by Friday, so I might get out.
BTW - I did find the the Scala's A2DP play/pause function works well with the stock music player and winamp, even when locked. I can probably live with setting music on before leaving and just using the controls if I want to stop it.
I have considered wiring in my Sirius radio, but that's one of many projects I am working on
This seemed to only recently have come up.. but the handset microphone does not pick up sound nearly as well. It is maybe 1/10th the amplitutde. I've tested phone calls to myself (to GVoice headphones, other phones, etc.) and the speaker mic works great. When you take it off speaker mode it barely picks up sound at all.
When I use Evernote voice note recorder or a simply voice recorder I get similar results of extremely attenuated sound.
I do not _believe it is a CM10/custom ROM issue as this new behavior seems to have only started recently (past 2 days?) and was running the same stable ROM the whole time. I haven't yet isolated, but it could be a bluetooth problem (doubtful) - as I recently paired with two devices sometime in the past 3 days, or maybe some App has taken control over the amplification of the handset microphone.. but I install/uninstall so many apps to test throughout any given day this would be hard to isolate.
Has anyone had this issue before??
I'll go ahead and reset to a clean ROM, stock ROM, etc. and see what results I get, but I wanted to post a Q first to see if anyone ran into the same issue. Thanks in advance!
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