OK,so I believe I have everything setup right. Even have trusted voice. Hey galaxy works with screen off but OK google does not. It just does nothing unless screen is on. On another note, my wife's note 4 works fine but says it can't unlock the screen for texts and such. Anyway to fix these two issues?
You can't use OK Google with the screen off unless the device is plugged in
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That sucks huh. Wonder why the note 4 was capable of it. I guess google just plans to remove that feature. Makes me miss the Motorola assist always listening
S voice works with the screen off. It's not quite as good as moto voice but it works great for me
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I would like to get a cheap phone for just listening to music and using running apps. I do not need to use it for phone calls, sms or anything, just wifi and gps.
I was leaning towards the Nexus one, S, but am open to other things. I am in Canada, so I don't know if getting US based carrier specific phones would work or not.
I would prefer to pay less than $100
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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I would like to get a cheap phone for just listening to music and using running apps. I do not need to use it for phone calls, sms or anything, just wifi and gps.
I was leaning towards the Nexus one, S, but am open to other things. I am in Canada, so I don't know if getting US based carrier specific phones would work or not.
I would prefer to pay less than $100
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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What's the point of caring about if it's specifically on a network? Lol your using it only for GPS and WiFi. By the way how are you gonna get the GPS to work without data?
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Gps doesn't need data to work
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Gps doesn't need data to work
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What about Google maps?
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That's a good point, is GPS part of data/sim or is it part of the phone regardless of sim cards?
My primary app I use for running is run keeper which utilizes GPS. If I can't do GPS then I wouldn't bother getting a second phone. I already have a great phone, but I really want to avoid using it for running.
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GPS always works no matter if you have a sim card in your phone or not. It is not dependent of it. You can try it yourself take your sim card out of your phone and turn on Gps. You will see it works just fine. I have a galaxy tab myself and it also has Gps support even without a sim card in it.
So to answer your question; it's part of the phone regardless of using a sim card or not.
About Google maps, it will be able to show your location and even give you a route description. The only thing that won't work without a data connection is navigation.
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I would like to get a cheap phone for just listening to music and using running apps. I do not need to use it for phone calls, sms or anything, just wifi and gps.
I was leaning towards the Nexus one, S, but am open to other things. I am in Canada, so I don't know if getting US based carrier specific phones would work or not.
I would prefer to pay less than $100
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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I say try E-Bay, and pick a seller with a good return policy.... I recently went through a couple phones, one of which was $50 and easy to repair.
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GPS always works no matter if you have a sim card in your phone or not. It is not dependent of it. You can try it yourself take your sim card out of your phone and turn on Gps. You will see it works just fine. I have a galaxy tab myself and it also has Gps support even without a sim card in it.
So to answer your question; it's part of the phone regardless of using a sim card or not.
About Google maps, it will be able to show your location and even give you a route description. The only thing that won't work without a data connection is navigation.
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Navigation is what I was trying to pin point lol. Though as long as your around a WiFi band or even use your current phone as a hotspot host, then any phone should be good for you! The nexus s is still kicking but if I was you I would at least aim for something with a 1ghz snapdragon processor, and 4.0 inches.
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Navigation is what I was trying to pin point lol. Though as long as your around a WiFi band or even use your current phone as a hotspot host, then any phone should be good for you! The nexus s is still kicking but if I was you I would at least aim for something with a 1ghz snapdragon processor, and 4.0 inches.
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I see, but for those running apps there is no need for any navigation whatsoever. They just check how much you ran and so on, and to check that a Gps connection is enough.
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GPS always works no matter if you have a sim card in your phone or not. It is not dependent of it. You can try it yourself take your sim card out of your phone and turn on Gps. You will see it works just fine. I have a galaxy tab myself and it also has Gps support even without a sim card in it.
So to answer your question; it's part of the phone regardless of using a sim card or not.
About Google maps, it will be able to show your location and even give you a route description. The only thing that won't work without a data connection is navigation.
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To further explain, you can get apps like this free one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navfree.android.OSM.USA that will let you download the maps when you are connected to Wi-Fi, and then use them without a sim or carrier connectivity.. Doing this, you can turn any Android with a working GPS into a personal GPS unit. I occasionally buy them off e-bay for $20-30, install that app, and give them away to people who suck at driving...
I'm looking for something on the smallish side. I legitimately will only use it for running and listening music. Something that is easy to hold in your hand is the ideal.
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I'm looking for something on the smallish side. I legitimately will only use it for running and listening music. Something that is easy to hold in your hand is the ideal.
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Probably an HTC one v because of the beats and I'm pretty sure you might can find it on eBay for a good price. Beats + acid= sweet love in your ears lol.
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I'm looking for something on the smallish side. I legitimately will only use it for running and listening music. Something that is easy to hold in your hand is the ideal.
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I don't exactly know how expensive a galaxy Y is as of now.(I bought it for 100 euros a year ago) But that might just be the solution for you. It is a small phone, easy on your hands and the Gps works great.
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That is exactly what I am now looking for. Thank you
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Probably an HTC one v because of the beats and I'm pretty sure you might can find it on eBay for a good price. Beats + acid= sweet love in your ears lol.
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This only seems to happen when I'm on a call with my fiance. We both have T-mobile and when we talk to each other it sounds like we are in a tunnel. It doesn't happen any other time it just seems like a T-mobile to T-mobile call. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I'm experiencing this as well.
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I'm experiencing this as well.
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I'm on the phone with a Tmo representative right now. I'd give them a call as well to see what's going on. I've had this issues since switching to Tmo last month.
Any update? As to what's causing this.
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Any update? As to what's causing this.
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He passed it on to the engineers and said he would call me back this weekend to check up. The only problem is where I am now I have to use my work cell phone since I get a bad Tmo reception. He said everything that he could see looked fine. If it's widespread more people should call in to hopefully get it resolved.
I believe is that HD voice service. I notice it right away when my wife and I got our N5's.
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I believe is that HD voice service. I notice it right away when my wife and I got our N5's.
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Really?? It doesn't sound very clear. It sounds very airy.
Its prolly hd voice as mentioned where you are used to crappy voice and now you have better fidelity.
http://how-to.t-mobile.com/callquality/
That is unless it's not working right.
HD voice 2 months ago sounded like this for us in Hawaii, T-mobile CEO John.. after 1 week it was fixed
I could definitely hear the difference when I got my N5. It's only with other T-mobile user. It must be the HD Voice deal from T-mo. I think it sounds fantastic. Seems to be really clear and much better than normal calls. Normal calls sound just fine, but the Tmo to Tmo calls are great.
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Is there any icon that is located on the screen when HD voice is activated? I have researched HD voice and it seems like on other phones there would be something on the call screen that let them know it's on. I haven't noticed anything on the N5.
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Is there any icon that is located on the screen when HD voice is activated? I have researched HD voice and it seems like on other phones there would be something on the call screen that let them know it's on. I haven't noticed anything on the N5.
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the HD voice icon is i think T-Mobiles part Bloatware with icons
the nexus 5 is pure google so i wont have it.,
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This only seems to happen when I'm on a call with my fiance. We both have T-mobile and when we talk to each other it sounds like we are in a tunnel. It doesn't happen any other time it just seems like a T-mobile to T-mobile call. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I just got phone and its happened on every call. Its annoying. I can only make out every few words and they hear tunneling or echo sounds.
Yeah, I am not a fan of HD voice on my Nexus 5. I notice it when I talk to my wife and I have to turn the volume way down. It's like the treble is set way too high so the "S" sound especially is way overblown. Not sure if this is the same issue or not but I thought my phone was defective until I did more searching. I wish we could turn it off easily.
I got a Gear 2 yesterday. Using it with a GS6. My only gripe so far is how long it takes to initialize or use S Voice. It was fairly snappy at first, but now it won't initialize. I tried restarting both devices and unpairing/repairing them. No improvement.
Any tips?
40 views of the thread and no help, so I guess S Voice sucks on the watch as bad as it does on the phone.
natefish said:
40 views of the thread and no help, so I guess S Voice sucks on the watch as bad as it does on the phone.
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Wish I had an answer. I had noticed the same thing from time to time. I tried showing it to my girlfriends brother today to talk him out of getting the iWatch. He asked me how to send text messages and I tried sending one as a test. At first it said that it was not able to connect but then it connected but it said that it couldn't hear me. Really annoying!
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Wish I had an answer. I had noticed the same thing from time to time. I tried showing it to my girlfriends brother today to talk him out of getting the iWatch. He asked me how to send text messages and I tried sending one as a test. At first it said that it was not able to connect but then it connected but it said that it couldn't hear me. Really annoying!
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Thank you for the affirmation. I guess I have to just decide if it's worth keeping if it can't do one of the major reasons I got it. I guess I would like to know if people's experiences with Google Now on Android Wear is any better. I honestly don't get why Samsung keeps pushing S Voice. Even on my Galaxy S6, it's still rubbish.
S voice is crappy but works for the basic things. I've got similar connect issues too. Resets help me, but it's frustrating
I checked out the motor 360 with Google wear and it was slow, and I found the interface clunky.
So I think we have the better device right now. Jumping to another phone will not get u the best... I think they all suck in their own way because all this is new. Imo
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Thank you for the affirmation. I guess I have to just decide if it's worth keeping if it can't do one of the major reasons I got it. I guess I would like to know if people's experiences with Google Now on Android Wear is any better. I honestly don't get why Samsung keeps pushing S Voice. Even on my Galaxy S6, it's still rubbish.
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So what did you decide, keeping it? I'm hours away of return this as well, getting frustrating. Seems like it works 30% of the time, but it's the only watch with a camera and I like taking quick snaps while I'm out traveling or family parties.
If I can get faster s voice I'd be happy!
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having the same issue galaxy 6 edge 6.0.1 s voice won't work on gear 2 neo. Keeps saying "NO RESPONSE FROM SERVER, try again later". I don't see any answers anywhere.
Rayray5520 said:
having the same issue galaxy 6 edge 6.0.1 s voice won't work on gear 2 neo. Keeps saying "NO RESPONSE FROM SERVER, try again later". I don't see any answers anywhere.
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I had that for the longest with MM using my Note 5. I sent the watch into Samsung twice for this issue and they replaced it twice. Once I got the 2nd watch S Voice has worked without issue. There were a couple times where it said it sent texts but never did. It could have been a connection issue but 99% of the time it works flawlessly.
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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Jammol said:
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.
So I had a situation the other day when my girlfriend needed me in the middle of the night and my phone was on silent.....forgot to take it off of that from a meeting earlier that evening. Wasn't good that I couldn't help her till i randomly woke up to a lot of missed calls.
Made a fast simple app to help her get in touch if my phone isn't turned up. It allows her to text me a specific word, phrase, etc....and when i receive that specific body of text my volumes on my phone turn to max. That way when she needs me she can make my phone ring if i forget again :S
Called Emergency Volume I'm sure others might find a use for it so i put it in the play store for $1.42 (30% of $1.42-30% since Google takes 30%) at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.venturealpha.emergencyvolume refund within 14 min per Google if it doesn't work.
Should work on any android 4.4 and up maybe even 4.3.
*IT IS CASE SENSITIVE* so what you set the body to be is exactly what has to be typed for now.
I will also make it so you can say from any contact or a specific contact(s) it will take some time to figure out but the base is working and tested on all NEW samsung devices.
Says $1.29
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Says $1.29
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Edited this post twice so far. Don't know why it isn't staying was changed from the start . I moved it to that whe I put it there because Google takes 30% so it comes out to 99 and would be a direct reflection of the number of downloads.
Should actually be $1.42 for the calculation.
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Btw, can I make the volume up to lock the screen and unlock the screen to? Thanks
Don't think it will let me toggle that I can see if it will. Are you using a pin or password or is it just a swipe to unlock
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Jacob11701 said:
Don't think it will let me toggle that I can see if it will. Are you using a pin or password or is it just a swipe to unlock
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I using fingerprint to unlock my phone. So no way to wake up the screen with volume button?
It should still turn the volume up when the screen is locked. I have a fingerprint on my Note 5. Let me test it.
Update: yes just had my screen off and kicked with a fingerprint. Girlfriend texted me the words "Volume up" because I set it for that command. And it beeped and upped all volumes. And it had to of worked because she used it to wake me up at 8am a week ago lol...
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