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Does it work? Anyone use it?
Looking for something to use when I go on a trip to do video chat with my wife and her ipad2
yep, works fine.
timrock said:
yep, works fine.
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Awesome. Thanks.
Shot in the dark here. Do they make anything that will work with apples FaceTime?
lardo5150 said:
Awesome. Thanks.
Shot in the dark here. Do they make anything that will work with apples FaceTime?
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i doubt it. Not too sure about that. But for video chatting, you can also try Oovoo and Gtalk.
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i doubt it. Not too sure about that. But for video chatting, you can also try Oovoo and Gtalk.
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Thanks again I will check those out
Skype works for calls, but i can't get video to work. On Skype forums, other tablet users complain of the same.
Skype works 100% for me.
I video called with my girlfriend for about 2h.
Went really nice, but crashed once.
You can even switch between front and back camera. But this is a bit buggy.
Works really well but lags the device like crazy if you multitask.
Skype with video works fine, although outgoing video quality is mediocre at best (this applies to all android tablet/phones, it's skype's fault)
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fincan said:
Skype with video works fine, although outgoing video quality is mediocre at best (this applies to all android tablet/phones, it's skype's fault)
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I called my parents while I was on vacation (and will be calling them and other friends via my tablet while away at school), and it seemed to work pretty well. I think I looked better to my parents than they did to me, not sure if it's the phone or just the wifi at home (I came home to some pretty poor speeds and had to fiddle with the router a little). I had issues with my parents not coming through to me, but they can see me. I originally blamed it on my custom ROM on my phone, but then it happened on my PC and tablet...so I'm going to have to look at her phone to see what's happening. She has no idea how to use it, as I wasn't home when she received it. Took one look at it when I got home, and noticed that the homescreens were a mess, the dock had a bunch of strange Verizon apps on it, etc. So I'm going to blame her phone for now.
I've called almost every night to family. I have only noticed occasional camera glitches that lasted only moments.
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It's works, but last 2 days with problem. About after 1 hour on line when Skype not used, it go off line itself. After you open again, it necessary to put user name and password again or only password. Anybody have the same problem????
Thanks
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Works just fine. video 8/10 audio 9/10
I prefer Google+ Hangouts because I can have video with more than 1 users.
Used skype yesterday for 4 hours to remote someone in for a ffl draft. Medium quality. Sapped battery almost completely. Crashed twice. But when it worked it did good enough
alternatively you can use google hangouts or google talk with video.
skype mod
I recommend downloading this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25703019&postcount=2223 (better skype mod)
When it works it works for hours. In balanced mode it is sometimes unbelievable how low the drain is.
But sometimes it will just not work, no video.
But hard to tell if it is the app, the server or my partner that is the reason for it.
Tried skyping with the gf. But mid call, it crashes. Happened twice.
Not too long ago it got updated. I haven't experienced any problems since so hopefully it stays like that.
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Not too long ago it got updated. I haven't experienced any problems since so hopefully it stays like that.
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I use it from work (real slow connection) to skype with my wife at home. Have never had any issues to speak of.
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what's up with the gmail app always crashing on me after the last ASUS update? Whenever I open it there is a long pause and then closes down. It's useable! I updated the gmail app from the google play store but its still happening. Is anyone else experiencing this? I had the same issue on my prime and that's one of the reasons why I dumped it. This is absolutely unacceptable. An update shouldn't fix one thing and break another!
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ayman07 said:
what's up with the gmail app always crashing on me after the last ASUS update? Whenever I open it there is a long pause and then closes down. It's useable! I updated the gmail app from the google play store but its still happening. Is anyone else experiencing this? I had the same issue on my prime and that's one of the reasons why I dumped it. This is absolutely unacceptable. An update shouldn't fix one thing and break another!
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There is an update avaiable in Play Store for Gmail. see if this helps.
are you up to date on all your apps?
I use Gmail and the other mail client and I don't experience any crashing when going to Gmail and I did that manual ASUS firmware update too.
I have provlem with Gmail, too. Not everytime i open it, but it happens. After the ASUS update of course.
Before the update everything fast OK.
But the fun part is that after the update, the first few times i opened Gmail, it was actually must faster than before, and i was pretty surprised by that. After a day or two, went back to normal slow operation and sometimes it just goes black/blank, crashes basically.
Also, on Market i can't see any updates, yet (hope so).
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I have provlem with Gmail, too. Not everytime i open it, but it happens. After the ASUS update of course.
Before the update everything fast OK.
But the fun part is that after the update, the first few times i opened Gmail, it was actually must faster than before, and i was pretty surprised by that. After a day or two, went back to normal slow operation and sometimes it just goes black/blank, crashes basically.
Also, on Market i can't see any updates, yet (hope so).
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Gmail pushed another update last night for that very reason. He heard your assistance yelling broo:victory:
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are you up to date on all your apps?
I use Gmail and the other mail client and I don't experience any crashing when going to Gmail and I did that manual ASUS firmware update too.
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Gmail pushed another update last night for that very reason. He heard your assistance yelling broo:victory:
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Yes this is even after the updated from the play store.
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I told her not to. I told her not to waste her money. She saw the pain I went through with my Prime. I only used it for about an hour. Feels just like the old one, the Prime. I tried 3 different web browsers and all 3 were not smooth. They were choppy and lagged big time. If I went to move the page up or down with my finger it would pause for like half second then jump up real quick to catch up. User experience is pretty lame. The sound is awful coming from that thing they call a speaker in the back. It did perform a firmware update along with a camera update. What browser does everyone use? I tried Firefox Beta, ICS+, Dolphin. She has a couple of weeks to return it, which I'll probably make her do it. I guess she doesn't know about my Samsung! Ooops.
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I told her not to. I told her not to waste her money. She saw the pain I went through with my Prime. I only used it for about an hour. Feels just like the old one, the Prime. I tried 3 different web browsers and all 3 were not smooth. They were choppy and lagged big time. If I went to move the page up or down with my finger it would pause for like half second then jump up real quick to catch up. User experience is pretty lame. The sound is awful coming from that thing they call a speaker in the back. It did perform a firmware update along with a camera update. What browser does everyone use? I tried Firefox Beta, ICS+, Dolphin. She has a couple of weeks to return it, which I'll probably make her do it. I guess she doesn't know about my Samsung! Ooops.
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Is there a point to this post? If you have issues with the Infinity and you want help we're here for that. If you want to vent that you hate the device, please do it somewhere else. I'm sure there's a Samsung Galaxy Tab or note forum that would love to hear it.
Anyways, to answer the question, if you look through the threads and do some research, most people use Chrome, Browser (stock), Firefox beta, and Boat Browser (there are plenty of threads on it).
I use ICS+ but my only problem is that everything takes so long to load. But it's pretty smooth for me.
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I told her not to. I told her not to waste her money. She saw the pain I went through with my Prime. I only used it for about an hour. Feels just like the old one, the Prime. I tried 3 different web browsers and all 3 were not smooth. They were choppy and lagged big time. If I went to move the page up or down with my finger it would pause for like half second then jump up real quick to catch up. User experience is pretty lame. The sound is awful coming from that thing they call a speaker in the back. It did perform a firmware update along with a camera update. What browser does everyone use? I tried Firefox Beta, ICS+, Dolphin. She has a couple of weeks to return it, which I'll probably make her do it. I guess she doesn't know about my Samsung! Ooops.
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Well, I don't have those issues on my Infinity, so either it's a user issue, you are a troll or you have faulty hardware.
Either way, do us a favor and just return it - coming here to complain isn't going to help.
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opentoe said:
I told her not to. I told her not to waste her money. She saw the pain I went through with my Prime. I only used it for about an hour. Feels just like the old one, the Prime. I tried 3 different web browsers and all 3 were not smooth. They were choppy and lagged big time. If I went to move the page up or down with my finger it would pause for like half second then jump up real quick to catch up. User experience is pretty lame. The sound is awful coming from that thing they call a speaker in the back. It did perform a firmware update along with a camera update. What browser does everyone use? I tried Firefox Beta, ICS+, Dolphin. She has a couple of weeks to return it, which I'll probably make her do it. I guess she doesn't know about my Samsung! Ooops.
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The issues are nearly the same for me. Browsing is too slow and laggy. I tried hard reset and updating firmware but no go...
Anyone has ideas?
Curious! said:
The issues are nearly the same for me. Browsing is too slow and laggy. I tried hard reset and updating firmware but no go...
Anyone has ideas?
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What browser are you using? Try Boat Browser, it is extremely fast.
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Agreed, complaining never helped anything in life. You should look around for solutions for the issues you're having.
I use the stock browser, Dolphin and Chrome; depending on the site I may switch from one to another for best performance. Stock works fine for me on most sites though.
I would recommend Volume+, really helps with the low volume!!
BTW, you're girlfriend is obviously totally rad, getting you a brand-spankin'-new Asus Transformer Infinity!!! Hopefully you're not being completely ungrateful for the awesome gift she got you. Now go get her some flowers!
AspenMan said:
BTW, you're girlfriend is obviously totally rad, getting you a brand-spankin'-new Asus Transformer Infinity!!! Hopefully you're not being completely ungrateful for the awesome gift she got you. Now go get her some flowers!
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+9001
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tell her to return it.
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Do a factory reset, because something is wrong with your software. The install dolphin. Many people here consider it the smoothest browser for the Infinity by far.
Complaining here will get you nothing. Many of us would rather have rock solid hardware with a great dev community to make up for the manufacture's software shortcomings than the creaky plastic and low res screens present in Samsung's sorry excuses for tablets.
Background processes limit to 4! (Developer options in settings) good luck.
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wolfman87 said:
Is there a point to this post? If you have issues with the Infinity and you want help we're here for that. If you want to vent that you hate the device, please do it somewhere else. I'm sure there's a Samsung Galaxy Tab or note forum that would love to hear it.
Anyways, to answer the question, if you look through the threads and do some research, most people use Chrome, Browser (stock), Firefox beta, and Boat Browser (there are plenty of threads on it).
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Opentoe is well known in the Prime forum. I think he likes attention. Looks like he is carrying it over here as well. He's pretty good at stirring things up. Don't believe me look at his posts. He is the equivalent to "Downer Debbie" from Saturday night live!!
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Troll thread? Troll thread.
Apple shills everywhere ~uguu
OP's girlfriend has god tier taste. She deserves better.
~desu
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Complaining here will get you nothing. Many of us would rather have rock solid hardware with a great dev community to make up for the manufacture's software shortcomings than the creaky plastic and low res screens present in Samsung's sorry excuses for tablets.
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I'm still using Boat Browser and it's nice and smooth. Beats Dolphin for me. I'd like Chrome if it had hardware acceleration.
Boat
I vote for Boat!
It was suggested to me in a different tf700 thread.
As a new user I recommend it...fast and stable.
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I told her not to. I told her not to waste her money. She saw the pain I went through with my Prime. I only used it for about an hour. Feels just like the old one, the Prime. I tried 3 different web browsers and all 3 were not smooth. They were choppy and lagged big time. If I went to move the page up or down with my finger it would pause for like half second then jump up real quick to catch up. User experience is pretty lame. The sound is awful coming from that thing they call a speaker in the back. It did perform a firmware update along with a camera update. What browser does everyone use? I tried Firefox Beta, ICS+, Dolphin. She has a couple of weeks to return it, which I'll probably make her do it. I guess she doesn't know about my Samsung! Ooops.
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Cool story bro.
jdeoxys said:
Troll thread? Troll thread.
Apple shills everywhere ~uguu
OP's girlfriend has god tier taste. She deserves better.
~desu
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Complete troll.
Look at his other posts, nothing but wha.
Need to call the Whaaabulance.
dbtorreliob said:
Background processes limit to 4! (Developer options in settings) good luck.
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So does this just force close apps then? I'll try it but this tablet is so fast compared to my Razr Maxx by far. Love the tablet and had it rooted within minutes of starting it up.
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marry her
Im now on 5th day with my TF700T.
So far it have been mixed feelings about it.
I love the keyboard, dont think i can have a tab without a keyboard in the future.
There is also no other tablet out there that have what I want.
The thing that worries me a bit is the lag on the device. Sometimes I must wait several seconds before it responds. And this is not the touch screen, becouse when I just wait, it will do what i wanted. This is not fun when you are sufring a simple webpage.
Will Asus fix this lag in the Jelly Bean 4.1 update?
How about people that have rooted (custom rom) their devices, do they have the same issues?
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ummm, i dont think anyone on here can answer that question. JB is a google OS update.
Try resetting
Then check the firmware version.
The only delays I see after tapping are when web browsing.
Everything else is snappy as far as snappy can be under Android.
Are you running in the balanced mode?
First thing I did was root mine and freeze all of the useless crap they preinstall. Havent ever had any lag issues.
I'm in the same boat as the OP. Have had the tablet just less then a week. I very surprised at just how poor the performance is on this. Here are some of the issues I'm having:
-If I leave the web browser app for other apps and then come back to it, my web pages reload. It's like the multitasking fail that is present on the HTC EVO 4G LTE or HTC One series only not as pronounced.
-Some Flash heavy websites are so choppy and laggy. Scrolling is very choppy.
-The Netflix app is almost unusable. Scrolling through my queue seems like it's getting about 5 frames per second. Oddly enough, actually watching movies plays perfectly if I can manage to scroll to select the right movie
-Some games, even ones that are promoted through the Tegra Zone are very laggy.
I really want to love this tab. It's so great for me in so many other ways but I can't live with it if this is what I can expect
I'm rooted, not unlocked, stock ROM. I've been running in performance mode. I've tried with and without Nova Launcer. I've removed or frozen everything I dare to using TB. I've looked through this and other forums for tips on improving performance but so far nothing has helped. Do I have a lemon? Are these problems common? Is this what this tab is? Please help, really want to get this thing running like I'm pretty sure it can.
im going to go ahead and assume that asus had a bad batch of tf700t's go out. i had one with the same problem and i returned it, got a new and havent experienced the same problem again. so fast and snappy that jellybean will just make this tablet crazy.
Because of some problems i have with my pad i have decided to factory reset it a week ago.
Since than the experience is sooo much better. Didn't solve my problem though
flyhighx said:
I'm in the same boat as the OP.
Do I have a lemon? Are these problems common? Is this what this tab is? Please help, really want to get this thing running like I'm pretty sure it can.
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Not sure what to tell you...
I don't have any really bad slowness.
Kind of sounds like a bad processor or gpu core or other hardware bug like maybe ram errors.
IMO wouldn't say these are common problems.
*Just curious does your serial# on the bottom of the tablet start with a C6 or is it C7?
No problems here, either. I haven't rooted or done anything to mine except install updates and some apps I like - nothing that alters it really. Super happy with mine. Sorry you're having problems, but maybe you should exchange it, as previously suggested.
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*Just curious does your serial# on the bottom of the tablet start with a C6 or is it C7?
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C6. From Amazon maybe 4 days ago. Is that older or more known to have issues. I'm still well within my return period from Amazon. If C7 is known to be better it would be worth it to me to return it and buy it from a store where I can look at the serial number on the box first. Thanks for the replies... Didn't mean to hijack the thread but it seems the op and I are having the same issue.
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C6. From Amazon maybe 4 days ago. Is that older or more known to have issues. I'm still well within my return period from Amazon. If C7 is known to be better it would be worth it to me to return it and buy it from a store where I can look at the serial number on the box first. Thanks for the replies... Didn't mean to hijack the thread but it seems the op and I are having the same issue.
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i have a c7 that i bought from amazon on 8/10 with similar issues
AnakiMana said:
No problems here, either. I haven't rooted or done anything to mine except install updates and some apps I like - nothing that alters it really. Super happy with mine. Sorry you're having problems, but maybe you should exchange it, as previously suggested.
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Maybe i should exchange mine then.
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flyhighx said:
C6. From Amazon maybe 4 days ago. Is that older or more known to have issues. I'm still well within my return period from Amazon. If C7 is known to be better it would be worth it to me to return it and buy it from a store where I can look at the serial number on the box first. Thanks for the replies... Didn't mean to hijack the thread but it seems the op and I are having the same issue.
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Ah...
You might want to return for a replacement.
I have a C7 serial and have no bugs with the tablet I received from Amazon.
No guarantees yet it might be worth shot. Amazon will treat you right.
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whats the difference between c6 and c7?
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Where do you find the serial number?
on the dock?
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The tablet serial number can be found on the box the tablet came in and on the bottom of the tablet itself on a sticker (on the part of the tablet that would go into the dock if you use one).
The only difference between a C6 serial number and a C7 serial number is that one was manufactured in June and one in July (the number after the C is the month it was manufactured in)....
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Then mine is c80ka
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Maybe we should start a new thread and track the serial #s and their defects. Good way to compare range of serials with defects and spot unfixed junk that might be sold as refurbished later
For my limited use, the lag and freezing was driving me nuts. Of course, I've been down this road before with the Prime. Eventually the Prime community found the tweaks and mods to make it fly, and I admit it was part of the fun to experiment and find ways to squeeze more performance and stability from the tablet.
My problems with the Infinity seem to exacerbate when RAM goes below 200k. I can see this from the Cool Tool widget. When I get below this level, the browser is generally unusable. I use a tool called startup cleaner to minimize what launches and tried to keep widgets to a minimum but my RAM seemed to always run low. Based on this same experience with the Prime, I changed the setting in developer options to limit background processes to 2. This does a good job keeping RAM above 400K, and when I do this it runs very well. No lag or ANRs, and everything seems very fluid.
This was an early temp fix with the Prime until other mods caught up, so I don't expect this to be required long term. However, the results are really are dramatic so far and enough to keep me from going the Note 10.1 route.
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clenz said:
For my limited use, the lag and freezing was driving me nuts. Of course, I've been down this road before with the Prime. Eventually the Prime community found the tweaks and mods to make it fly, and I admit it was part of the fun to experiment and find ways to squeeze more performance and stability from the tablet.
My problems with the Infinity seem to exacerbate when RAM goes below 200k. I can see this from the Cool Tool widget. When I get below this level, the browser is generally unusable. I use a tool called startup cleaner to minimize what launches and tried to keep widgets to a minimum but my RAM seemed to always run low. Based on this same experience with the Prime, I changed the setting in developer options to limit background processes to 2. This does a good job keeping RAM above 400K, and when I do this it runs very well. No lag or ANRs, and everything seems very fluid.
This was an early temp fix with the Prime until other mods caught up, so I don't expect this to be required long term. However, the results are really are dramatic so far and enough to keep me from going the Note 10.1 route.
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That's a good tweak, and one I hadn't tried before, so thanks!
If you're unlocked, I would advise you to run...don't walk, and flash TWRP recovery and then the Zeus rom v 4.0. This is a totally different machine on that rom.
There is also the trick of turning off animations in Developer Options or set the scale to .5. That helps with smoothness, too.
My advice is not to exchange over simple lagginess if all other hardware issue are ok. There is so much more that can and will be done on the software side, but if you exchange, what if you get a tab with a major hw problem?
Can I just say that I love a couple of the Samsung Apps? Sure S Finder is pointless (to me) and S Voice needs to get WAY better for me to use it, the voice is far too robotic (unless people know something I'm doing wrong? High quality voices?) and it lacks some grammar understanding. But S Health, S Note and a couple others are actually damn good. To date I haven't found an app that is as accurate as S Health is for mo I to ring my activity. It does struggle when GPS is weak to maintain an accurate speed (I walk faster than 2 S Health, we both know this, haha), but my word is it good..just could it stop using the really awful robotic Samsung voice? S Note is another good one, it does things incredibly well, scrapbook isn't bad, I use it from time to time, and the camera app is closing in on the LG idea. Though LG still has far better manual control, and it STAYS IN MANUAL MODE IF YOU PUT IT THERE...SAMSUNG..I WANT RAW, NOT JPG. I digress, I still love some of their apps. They really have come a long way!
There are higher quality voices, but I still prefer to use Google Now, but definitely agree with S Health and S Note. Can't find anything like em on the store
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I've migrated to S Voice because Google Now is no longer working correctly for me. Anytime I tell it to call or text someone, it pulls up a freaking search page.
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I've migrated to S Voice because Google Now is no longer working correctly for me. Anytime I tell it to call or text someone, it pulls up a freaking search page.
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Yeah..I'm going to give S-Voice a try, Google Now has decided it wants to never let me use "ok google". I can set it up a million times and it just never works. Sad, I'll miss that. It was working two days ago too, it's confusing. Also! So Voice can READ MY MESSAGES TO ME, haha.