I have used Ivona Kendra TTS for a number of years to read ebooks. Amazon apparently has bought them and now wants to charge for TTS at a rate of $4 per million characters, but requires data to use. I am often out of cell service.
Ivona Kendra was working perfectly on my phone but I reset it to try to get another app to work. Then I restored a backup and got all my apps back, but Kendra no longer works. I don't know if this is due to the restored backup or if something else changed. I have the Kendra .apk file, the Ivona TTS apk and the .obb files, but no matter what I have tried, I can't get the voice to read in the proper Kendra voice. When I choose the Kendra voice, it uses the UK Amy voice instead. UK Amy is still available through Ivona.
I would really like to get this voice back. Since it worked before, I am hoping that there is a way to get it to work again. I am using a HTC M8. I also have a Samsung S5 and the voice is still working as it used to on the S5, but it was always a bit buggy on the s5.
What did you end up doing? Aptoide is where I got ivona Kendra but even titanium backup is giving me please update to New version Everytime. So, I am buying new voices from cereproc maybe Acapella will till I find one. This sucks. It worked on oxygen os 7.1.2 but not on lineage 14.1 OnePlus 3. Stupid reason to revert back but might.
Madhawk1995 said:
What did you end up doing? Aptoide is where I got ivona Kendra but even titanium backup is giving me please update to New version Everytime. So, I am buying new voices from cereproc maybe Acapella will till I find one. This sucks. It worked on oxygen os 7.1.2 but not on lineage 14.1 OnePlus 3. Stupid reason to revert back but might.
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What I found that works is to get the Ivona 1.6 APK. Install it. Then go to the app store and find your apps. Find the Kendra voice you had in the app store and and re- download it. You might have to delete the old Kendra ogg? or rename the folder the original was in. I have done this a couple of times and it has worked.
I can confirm success. I downloaded the APK from
https://www.apk20.com/search/app/?text=ivona+1.6
and installed it. The voice files I already had worked immediately.
For background apparently Ivona is deprecated and replaced by Amazon Polly.
See https://www.ivona.com/
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I can confirm success.
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Thanks for that, you are a star, works perfectly
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I installed the pre-rooted stock kernel from k0nane. I don't know if it was working prior to this. Anyway, I noticed that Google navigation was not speaking street names, and thought it was the problem that a lot of users were having. But when I go to Settings...Voice Input and Output...Text-to-Speech I get a force close every time. Clearly TTS is not working in ANY app. How to fix?
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I installed the pre-rooted stock kernel from k0nane. I don't know if it was working prior to this. Anyway, I noticed that Google navigation was not speaking street names, and thought it was the problem that a lot of users were having. But when I go to Settings...Voice Input and Output...Text-to-Speech I get a force close every time. Clearly TTS is not working in ANY app. How to fix?
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Stock non-rooted and stock rooted are the same minus superuser.... but you can try to wipe davlik/cache.
Problem solved - 1) I'm an idiot and 2) Never use My Backup Pro to freeze apps (though it was nice to move stuff between phones). I had frozen some TTS-related stuff that I shouldn't have, and they wouldn't defrost despite repeated attempts. Will stick with Titanium from now on.
On a related note if you change the speech engine to the Samsung one and tell it to override app settings, you get some interesting results in google nav. It reads out a bunch of XML and then gives you the direction, a couple minutes late.
I recently upgraded from a samsung droid charge that I had rooted regularly to keep up with new ROMs and such and picked up a samsung s3 via a craigslist deal and got a phone in fantastic condition that was already rooted with synergyrom on it. I'm loving the phone but I have had a major issue with it! I cannot access the google play store and there are several other strange things that lead me to believe that there is a bigger underlying issue. I'll try and be as descriptive as possible as I have searched the internet for several days trying to find answers before resorting to asking you guys (the experts).
Events from the beginning:
1. Picked up the phone. It is unlocked and rooted to synergyrom. When I picked it up it had a tmobile sim card in it. I went to verizon the first night and had them put in a new sim card so that I could activate the phone. I activated my google account to the phone and it sync'd my contacts, emails, etc. no problem.
2. Noticed the first night that the google play store wouldn't open up. Tried wiping cache and dalvik in recovery. Still no go. Got error code RH-01. Googled error code and found several ways of potentially clearing it involving clearing data/disabling google play store and google framework services. Still no go.
3. Installed Synergyrom from my external sd card with a full system wife. Also installed titanium backup pro from the rom package. Titanium backup pro would not recognize that I had purchased a full version and it wouldn't restore any of my previous information.
4. Tried installing cleanrom via external sd card and doing a full wipe on the system memory. Still no access to google play store
5. Flashed the phone back to stock (still no play store: Server Error) and took it to Verizon to see if there was anything they could do about it. Associate tried downloading google play store from the internet as well as several other apps. It would let me click to download the apps but they were not downloaded to my phone. I can't even install anything from the internet google play store.
I read that some phones can somehow lose their IMEI or their ERI, but both of those fields have values in my phone settings and it identifies that it is activated on verizon. Any ideas? I will check back regularly so if there is anything that you need from me on my end just let me know.
Thank you for any suggestions/Help
I'm going to try and re-root the phone and then change the radio. I am thinking maybe the issue had something to do with it being used on tmobile prior to me purchasing it...
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I'm going to try and re-root the phone and then change the radio. I am thinking maybe the issue had something to do with it being used on tmobile prior to me purchasing it...
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Are you sure the phone is a Verizon phone? SCH-I535 in the about phone menu? As you said it had a T Mobile Sim in it, that would lead me to believe it's a GSM phone.
Sent from my slightly modded........... phone.
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Are you sure the phone is a Verizon phone? SCH-I535 in the about phone menu? As you said it had a T Mobile Sim in it, that would lead me to believe it's a GSM phone.
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Yeah it's a SCH-I535. I'm currently running:
- android 4.1.2
- kernel 3.0.31-86
- ERI version 5
- IMEI is 990001150832830
- Network: Verizon Wireless
I have no idea. I am willing to pay for someone to help me out but don't know if I can trust craigslist modders to not waste my time. Everything with the phone checked out at Verizon so I'm sure it has to have something to do with the software. It was ulocked and rooted when I got it and I was a bit hesitant because of that but everything checked out until I got it activated and can't get access to the play store.
When the associate was downloading the playstore, were they using your data or wifi? Was it stock browser?
I have had trouble downloading anything from the internet with the stock browser, it will always fail. Try a different browser. I'm sure you can find a browser apk or even the playstore apk, download it to your comp and then move it to your sd card.
I am on synergy right now, just tried download an apk and it will not even start. I don't mind, I don't use the stock browser.
Try a different browser and see if that helps.
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When the associate was downloading the playstore, were they using your data or wifi? Was it stock browser?
I have had trouble downloading anything from the internet with the stock browser, it will always fail. Try a different browser. I'm sure you can find a browser apk or even the playstore apk, download it to your comp and then move it to your sd card.
I am on synergy right now, just tried download an apk and it will not even start. I don't mind, I don't use the stock browser.
Try a different browser and see if that helps.
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Thanks Bob,
I'll try the putting on a different browser and see if that works. That would be a good enough work around for my purposes. I was using data connection when the associate was trying to download from the playstore from the browser.
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I was able to install a different browser using the apk process and was able to install netflix on my phone by downloading an apk as well. That could be a decent workaround in the meantime but it sucks that it doesn't fully recognize my google account. Right now my biggest gripe is that apps that I paid money for like titanium backup pro and several games won't show up as purchased even if I do download and install through apk. It's really strange because all of my contacts import from my google account but the apps don't and the licences don't show up. Still no access to downloading through the google play store no matter what browser I use.
SUCCESS!!!
I was able to get the play store to come up and get everything to update!!!
I fixed it by downloading and installing a different radio through odin. After I installed it, I went through and did a trick I had googled and tried previously with no success where I basically cleared data and cash on google play store, google services framework, and then restarted the play store. This time I also cleared data and force stopped google play services, not sure if that had any effect on it though. Finally! Now it's time to reinstall synergyrom on this phone and enjoy it like it's meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for the suggestions and replies guys
Just posting for future users who might experience my problem. I recreated the issue and the fix was to install a different radio which allowed the phone to access the google play store and my information. Hope this helps somebody because I know that they last week sucked trying to figure out what was wrong with my phone.
Superfizzo said:
SUCCESS!!!
I was able to get the play store to come up and get everything to update!!!
I fixed it by downloading and installing a different radio through odin. After I installed it, I went through and did a trick I had googled and tried previously with no success where I basically cleared data and cash on google play store, google services framework, and then restarted the play store. This time I also cleared data and force stopped google play services, not sure if that had any effect on it though. Finally! Now it's time to reinstall synergyrom on this phone and enjoy it like it's meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for the suggestions and replies guys
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Maybe you should flash the phone back to latest stock via Odin or Other methods layed out in Dev section. Sounds like when you first got it, it was a franken phone. So who knows what software, images, radios, ect.. you have flashed in there. I was gonna say revert it to latest stock [AS LONG AS YOU ARE SURE YOU HAVE THE VERIZON MODEL AND THE APPROPRIATE SOFTWARE THAT GOES WITH IT]. Then unlock, root, change rom yourself. It's not complicated at all. Just a thought. Enjoy your new toy.
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Just posting for future users who might experience my problem. I recreated the issue and the fix was to install a different radio which allowed the phone to access the google play store and my information. Hope this helps somebody because I know that they last week sucked trying to figure out what was wrong with my phone.
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It it ok to provide links to the correct (latest) radios?
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Maybe you should flash the phone back to latest stock via Odin or Other methods layed out in Dev section. Sounds like when you first got it, it was a franken phone. So who knows what software, images, radios, ect.. you have flashed in there. I was gonna say revert it to latest stock [AS LONG AS YOU ARE SURE YOU HAVE THE VERIZON MODEL AND THE APPROPRIATE SOFTWARE THAT GOES WITH IT]. Then unlock, root, change rom yourself. It's not complicated at all. Just a thought. Enjoy your new toy.
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John,
I actually went all the way back to stock and still was not able to get the google play store to work. I had the device working great until I tried to flash a different kernel and got a message from verizon telling me unauthorized software was on my phone. I had to flash back to stock once again and my google play store wouldn't connect once again. After installing the correct that I linked below, the play store came back up. I don't know if it has something to do with how it was unlocked previously, but I had thought that just returning everything to stock via odin would fix it and was surprised when it didn't.
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Here is where I got my download from. I used I535VRLHE. Installed and it solved the problem.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-modems-vrbma2-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535-recovery-flashable/
Is it possible to get the VVM verizon app on a CM installation?.
And if so does anyone have a current APK they could link to?.
I have some stock roms but i cant actually get my way into them to pull some app packages out.
if anyone has played around with this or experimented at all please let me know cause I'd like to get something rather than google voice on my phone for Voicemail. Im not a fan of all my texts being stored online when i do google voice.
I managed to get the VVM apk but it doesnt install.
There used to be an old hacked version floating around, but I haven't seen it in a while. You can't just sideload the apk because the framework is different.
Thats what I figured, I know when I was on Sprint on my Epic i had to use a hacked VVM that hardly worked at all.
So earlier today I switched to the T-Mobile $30/month prepaid plan and ported my number from AT&T. The voice and data are both working just fine. I'm just having one small problem, that being T-Mobile Visual Voicemail. I want to install T-Mobile Visual Voicemail so I don't have to use up minutes calling the voicemail system, however when I navigate to T-Mobile Visual Voicemail in the Google Play Store, it says "This app is incompatible with your device." Why does it say its incompatible? I checked under my Google Play Account, it has my device listed as T-Mobile, and I tried signing out and signing back in on my phone just in case but to no avail. Are other Nexus owners having this problem? Could it be that T-Mobile Visual Voicemail is incompatible with Android 4.4.2 (I just received the update this afternoon)? I noticed on GP that a new version of T-Mobile VV was released just today, so I would think it would have support for the latest version of Android. Does anyone have any ideas? If anyone else has had this problem have you figured out a way around it? Thanks a lot for your help.
Tmobile is saying they haven't updated the app yet to be compatible with KK. However, if you search around on this forum the apk is available and works swell. GL!
NX5
Weird, I've had VVM on my Nexus 5 ever since I got it, and it's always worked.. can't remember if I installed it from Play or from Helium, though.
Here is the link for the VM apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541207
Use the above post's link to download the APK and transfer to the Nexus 5, then use ES File Explorer (or similar) to install - and you should be good.
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Here is the link for the VM apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541207
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Thanks, I just sideloaded it and it works perfectly. I don't know why they're blocking it on Google Play. I don't think the one Rykochet put on Dropbox is even the latest version and yet it works. Come on T-Mobile, get your act together, I dumped AT&T for you.
Weird
I installed it directly from Google play and it's worked fine since the first day I got my nexus.
I'm not rooted and haven't sideloaded anything.
I downloaded it from Google Play the first day i got the phone. Two weeks later i rooted it and by then it was blocked on Play. I just downloaded the APK right on to the phone and opened it. The phone asked me if I wanted to install, said yes and it's been fine ever since
Has anybody been able to install the Google Phone app?
I've been using it for years on Nexus/Pixel devices and I can't stand the OnePlus app. Especially having a separate voicemail app.
I've tried downloading a bunch of different versions from apkmirror, but none of them will install. They all end with "app not installed".
I'm on a totally stock T-Mobile OP7 pro. I didn't think I'd need to unlock the bootloader or root it just to install a phone app, but I could be wrong.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-phone-v14-0-175904292-bubble-t3708218
Tried this?
Hm. I only want the Google dialer if I can get call screening.
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Tried this?
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Nope, didn't think to search the entire forum. Just searched the OP7 forum, lol. My bad.
Thanks!
Jetfire, apparently there is a way, it's mentioned in the thread. I'm still reading up on it but it looks like it's possible to have everything working except voicemail.
You can install the framework from magisk, and then download and install the latest apk from the web. It works fine (I tried it but like stock better).
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Has anybody been able to install the Google Phone app?
I've been using it for years on Nexus/Pixel devices and I can't stand the OnePlus app. Especially having a separate voicemail app.
I've tried downloading a bunch of different versions from apkmirror, but none of them will install. They all end with "app not installed".
I'm on a totally stock T-Mobile OP7 pro. I didn't think I'd need to unlock the bootloader or root it just to install a phone app, but I could be wrong.
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Separate voicemail is a Tmobile issue. Verizon for instance has voicemail in the 1+ dialer and it's not even certified for Verizon. The Google Dialer VM doesn't work though. It might if I made it a system app.