Well, as the title says. It's a weird one really. Whenever I get to the screen where it asks me to say "OK Google" I can say it a hundred times and it just won't register. Weirdly enough, the phrase works just fine to trigger search when I'm in the google app. Just won't let me train it to work with screen off.
same, the screen keep on flashing
Now I can only wake up google asssitant by pressing the power button for 0.5 sec.. (as set up)
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I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
Nobody? So everybody's unlock feature works like it should?
Then I think it's reset time for my Polaris....
I personally don't use, the device lock feature... Just the standby, whith the HW buttons off... and it works just fine for me
I have noticed that when you press the central button in the TC, what you describe is what exactly happens. But this happens to me only when I do that. If a tap the screen without touching the button, I have the normal behaviour.
Yes, exactly.
@gnick: if I use the standby with HW keys lock it works ok for me also.
The issue is only with the HTC Home lock feature and the central key
dtancu said:
I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
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Yes, but very rarely and even then when I press Cancel the normal lock screen resumes and I unlock in the normal way. I have "Do not lock all buttons" selected in the Key Lock settings. Don’t know if this is significant.
2 stages for screen lock?
I use my TC while riding motorcycle, so I want several apps (TomTom, gps tracking [gps.run]), music [was WMP, but now Coreplayer] and TellmeText) running and the screen off so as to save battery power.
If you press the power button when key lock is on it will turn the display completely off, and *most* programs will keep running. TomTom is a notable exception- it stops working, presumably because it can no longer access the gps?. But better behaved/next generation GPS apps such as run.gps continue to run. WMP, bless its pathetic cotton socks, seems to work sometimes!
Are these inconsistecies uinique to my unit, or known quirks?
Anyone suggest a app that will turn the screen off and allow ALL open apps to run, including TomTom?
Thanks
I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
hambola said:
I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
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anyone got anything more useful to add to what was a serious comment/Q
Man, the battery life sucks on this device So my quest on how to turn the screen completely off and lock the keys properly while running all software (especially GPS based such as TomTom) continues....
Anyone know of a 3rd party app that will do this?
I have not read all 200 pages, but it seems there are mixed results for running S2U2 on the Touch Cruise (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008) ? Anyone having success?
Thanks
I know its late but I just saw this and thought I would mention that I managed to over come using TomTom without the device being on. However it doesnt save much on power as the GPS device need power to work.
But I using a simple function I wrote in my application to lock the device using the standard device lock API calls and then rather than switchingthe device into sleep mode (off) I switched it into IDLE mode, which is basically just switching the screen off, the device lock prevents any unwanted button presses.
The power button would just return this back to normal.
I have not yet worked out how to stop the device brightness changing when the screen lock is enabled on the device... :/ Which is my next task.
Ramakin...
well that would be great because even saving having the screen dimmed during lock would help battery life. And, pressing the power button to resume would be MUCH easier than stabbing around at in the sun trying to unlock the screen. It would also make TomTom behave like all other 21C GPS applications, i.e. run on idle.
So, can you send details?
During a recent motorbike trip where I just used TomTom and tracking software (even turned the phone off) I was SHOCKED at how crap the battery life was
Had to use Google Nav to get across town tonight, after sunset. I usually drop the phone in my center console after it locks location and begins giving directions. On my old Moto Droid, I could turn the screen off and just listen to the voice directions.
On the Thunderbolt, it seems to keep the screen on, regardless of what the time out is set for. If I hit the power button, the screen turns off, then powers back on in a second.
This is just a complete waste of battery. If I was sitting the phone in a car dock, it'd be different, but this is a waste. Anyone experiencing this, or know how to get the screen to turn off when Navigation is active?
idk if this works but have you tried hitting the home button to get out of google nav (while it's still running) then hit the power button?
I have experienced the same feature. It doesn't bother me too much though cuz I have my phone plugged in.
I bet the above idea works.
this is not a signature I type it in every time maybe sent from my phone or my computer
Bateluer said:
Had to use Google Nav to get across town tonight, after sunset. I usually drop the phone in my center console after it locks location and begins giving directions. On my old Moto Droid, I could turn the screen off and just listen to the voice directions.
On the Thunderbolt, it seems to keep the screen on, regardless of what the time out is set for. If I hit the power button, the screen turns off, then powers back on in a second.
This is just a complete waste of battery. If I was sitting the phone in a car dock, it'd be different, but this is a waste. Anyone experiencing this, or know how to get the screen to turn off when Navigation is active?
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It only keeps the screen active if you are in the navigation program. Just back out, or go to any other screen and it will turn the screen off normally. Working as intended.
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It only keeps the screen active if you are in the navigation program. Just back out, or go to any other screen and it will turn the screen off normally. Working as intended.
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Have to test this. Thanks.
I have experienced the same issue with the thunderbolt. The screen stays on weather I have the phone plugged in or not.
I see hitting the home button as more of a workaround than a solution here. It's easier for me while driving to turn the display on and off with one physical button.
I'm hoping that cyanogenmod will fix the issue when it's released but I feel like there should still be a way to set the screen to stay off when the power button is pressed in navigation.
I think its a feature, keep screen alive. As mentioned, going to home screen allows you to put it to sleep, but you cannot while navigation is active.
I can see your point though, keep it off, then a quick on shows you where you are without the need to open the app from the tray.
So I just bought a Bluetooth kit of my car and long pressing the play button is supposed to access Google Now voice prompt. Google Now turns on once I press the button however it doesn't wake my screen or open on google now on the screen.
It's pretty irritating because I can do voice commands but nothing shows on the screen while I'm doing it.
For a side issue, I've had problems getting the kit to auto connect with my phone once I turn my car on. I have to manually go into the settings and connect to the device everytime I'm in my car which is also mildly irritating.
Now I don't know if these issues are TouchWiz, lollipop, or device related but I could do some things to try to find out like try other phones on the kit, try other voice command kits with my phone etc.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered these issues and if you were able fix them. Or if you have any suggestions for me.
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So I just bought a Bluetooth kit of my car and long pressing the play button is supposed to access Google Now voice prompt. Google Now turns on once I press the button however it doesn't wake my screen or open on google now on the screen.
It's pretty irritating because I can do voice commands but nothing shows on the screen while I'm doing it.
For a side issue, I've had problems getting the kit to auto connect with my phone once I turn my car on. I have to manually go into the settings and connect to the device everytime I'm in my car which is also mildly irritating.
Now I don't know if these issues are TouchWiz, lollipop, or device related but I could do some things to try to find out like try other phones on the kit, try other voice command kits with my phone etc.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered these issues and if you were able fix them. Or if you have any suggestions for me.
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I think that you have to allow google now to launch using the "ok google" hot word from any screen in the settings of google now.
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I think that you have to allow google now to launch using the "ok google" hot word from any screen in the settings of google now.
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Yeah I've already done that
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Yeah I've already done that
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I just tried this out without a bluetooth headset. I can't get my device to search with the screen off. but i can get it to search with the screen on, even if i haven't unlocked it.
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I just tried this out without a bluetooth headset. I can't get my device to search with the screen off. but i can get it to search with the screen on, even if i haven't unlocked it.
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Yeah mine searches with the screen off but the screen doesn't wake and the device doesn't unlock which is a problem
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Yeah mine searches with the screen off but the screen doesn't wake and the device doesn't unlock which is a problem
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Did you train your voice?
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I think this is actually a feature that OP is describing. When you press the bluetooth button or long press the headset button and the device is locked, it activates a hands-free all-audio search so that if your phone is in your pocket you can still give it voice commands without having to touch the screen. The "OK Google" voice command is different, it wakes the device and goes to the voice command screen (which sounds like is what OP wants).
In regards to this I can't get the long press on the headset button to activate voice search. I have google now installed and the settings set to activate with headset, where it warns that this will allow commands to be given while the device is locked. I'm on cleanROM Lite 1.1, but I've tried on my wife's non-rooted phone and also on my galaxy s4 running a touchwiz lollipop rom with no luck. It did work fine on cyanogenmod on my s4.
Assistant was coming on all the time. It was always "looking things up" even if, from the TV. It was driving me nuts, so I turned it off. Well now, the f#$% thing ask me to turn it on every time I unlock the phone. Please help. I want the guy that decided this to fall down a well; It's insane.
The phone became unusable. The pop-up asking me to turn on came up constantly, sometimes not even visible, but it has focus, and prevented me from using the phone. I was able to fix this by stopping and disabling the google app, but now I can't even use voice when using Android auto, which I was able to do with just the assistant off. Google may be making Android unusable without assistant.
You may press assistant button by accident
You can turn the button off in System >>> gesture
In addition, you can cut the button on the case to flat to avoid misoperation
I suggest disabling assisant entirely, along with Google app.
As the title says, is there a way to say "ok google" and wake up the phone when the screen is turned off ?
It works when it's locked but not when the screen is off.
I've tried to search all over the internet and the forum and i couldn't find a solution.