Bluetooth Voice Dialing is in the Froyo feature set.
I can't see this feature anywhere on the Desire after the 2.2 update. Anyone else?
I can't find it either...
really really annoyed about this!! when i bought the phone it was something I really needed! Was told it would be on the phone with 2.2 in a couple of months but now nothing!!! Grrrr!!!
I read somewhere that you can use the voice search do dial someone, and it actually works, but there are two problems:
1) Since the main objective of voice search is to search using google, you need to be on wireless or 3G to start using voice search, even if you don't want to use google at all. So if you don't leave your 3G active all the time, you'll have to activate it before launching voice search.
2) You can't launch voice search by pressing the action button on the bluetooth headset, so you still have to pull the phone out of the pocket to activate it and then give the command.
Those two problems pretty much makes voice search unusable as a replacement to a dedicated voice dialing dialog, because you always have to take the phone out of pocket and interact a lot with it to finally call someone. It's easier to just tap your contact's shortcut to call it.
It was in the leaked ROM that was floating around a couple of weeks ago too! My guess this will be coming in another update around the time that HTC release their car dock. Bloody gits.
in the prerelease 2.2 (LeeDroid) I am using if I press the talk button on the steering wheel it requests a voice command and then searches for whoever you said "call". But it its true that 3G MUST be activated.
Can anyone recommend a 2.2 ROM with HTC sense that has this feature? Is it a good idea for me to reflash do you think?
This was the one thing i was waiting for with the froyo release and it appears to be missing.
Im not seriously considering rooting my phone just to get this feature.
Can anybody recommend me a rom with this feature enabled?
I'm in the same boat, wasn't really bothered about rooting but now it looks like I'm going to have to!
I've emailed HTC on their support page, does anyone think I'm going to get a response?
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HTC replied to me saying "we can decide what parts of the system are used and which are not".
Removing this from the release is ridiculous. It's so common now for use of hands-free kits to be compulsory, if not the only legal option.
It was my main reason to debrand and upgrade, only to find that it's been omitted.
Maybe some kind soul can manage to knock up an APK from a release where it was included (fingers crossed)
Well here's the response from HTC!
Not good really!
Hi Dave, Voice to text is only available in North America due to the limitations of the voice recognition software database that our phone uses. We are researching the possibility of expanding the coverage of the Voice-To-Text feature but we are still analyzing
the feasibility and currently have no schedule to relay this to you now. We have your contact information on our system and will contact you when we have a solution. Kind regards, Tom HTC
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Don't tell me that HTC is not going to include this feature in Froyo! I bought my desire AFTER the announcement of Bluetooth voice dialing, and I thought I could wait for this to come in 2.2 update, and now they say they won't include it???? Are they crazy enough to omit one of the main features in Froyo??? What on earth are they thinking?!?!
Correct - they are NOT going to include it in Froyo 2.2
I have the official HTC version of Froyo that doesn't have it, and am rather upset as i would have rooted my phone to get this feature, but I was under the impression I didn't have to.
Now that I've updated to HTC's version not only do I still not have Bluetooth voice dialing, but I also don't have the option to root my phone anymore to get it.
Nice to see that they spent time on real things like a new android graphic, the way the lock displays and other useless but blingy stuff instead of items that were lacking that almost every other phone on the market has for granted.
The_real_dj said:
Well here's the response from HTC!
Not good really!
Hi Dave, Voice to text is only available in North America due to the limitations of the voice recognition software database that our phone uses. We are researching the possibility of expanding the coverage of the Voice-To-Text feature but we are still analyzing
the feasibility and currently have no schedule to relay this to you now. We have your contact information on our system and will contact you when we have a solution. Kind regards, Tom HTC
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If voice to text doesn't work, how does Google Voice search operate?
This is complete arse.
I thought that in the announcement Google said they were expanding it to work with different accents and languages?
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might have a little ray of hope....
Search on the market for choice dialer plus
Ive tested it with out my hands free and it recognises my voice really well, apparently it works with bluetooth headsets hands free!
Ill give it a test and post back!!
cheers for that.. let us know..
The_real_dj said:
might have a little ray of hope....
Search on the market for choice dialer plus
Ive tested it with out my hands free and it recognises my voice really well, apparently it works with bluetooth headsets hands free!
Ill give it a test and post back!!
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I tried it a few days ago and thought it was terrible.
I've tried it and seems to work well, I've emailed the dev as well about the last comment but he said it uses the in built speech to text library so it will be as good / bad as any other android dialer
Hope that helps!
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First of all I apologise if this issue has been covered in the past, I couldn't find anything specifically on this issue by searching.
I have 2 HTC Desires A8183, both Telstra branded handsets with Android 2.1.
As I unboxed them (unboxed, brand new, no HTC IME mods or any other third party installed), I noticed one of them had mic icon to allow Voice to text on the keyboard, while the other one only had the settings icon.
I cannot get my head around this issue. Why is this?
I tried to install the stock Telstra ROM 2.1 from HTC website but it's still missing the mic icon.
Anyone has any comments about this?
I think there is an option in the settings which is connected to the S-T-T. When you click it, it points you out that you need to download an app from the market and then it enables the feature. Its on the bottom of the settings list named "Voice input and output"
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I have a motorolla defy and upgraded to cyanogen 7 and really need this feature too.... it is gone
Chichoko is right, I had Telstra branded handset (now running CyanogenMod 7.1), you need to download Speech To Text from the market to enable this feature
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I just recently purchased the Desire and the same night I rooted my phone with unrevoked. Since then I have been unable to send and receive MMS. Some of my coworkers who got new phones the same day and didn't touch them are able to receive MMS. My question is, do you think that this is because I rooted it, or chance it is a problem with my phone? If it is a problem with the phone, do I have to unroot it before bringing it in to my service provider or do you think they wouldn't notice?
Prob be something to do with the root. Just flash a stock Froyo rom and it should be alright. Just make sure you do a nandroid backup first just to be safe
I had the same issue with my Desire, but managed to fix it just yesterday.
Find the homepage for your provider and they normally have a guide for setting up MMS, which is, normally in the case of HTC Desire, automatic. But if you try see the manual set-up for non-supported phones and you enter those values/data, it's all gravy again
Sounds like a pretty common problem with small providers. I tried looking around and was unable to find any settings on the website...
Try see if you can Google it. I noticed that there are sites which are dedicated to collecting all the settings of different providers (definitely here in DK) and making them accessible in tables.
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Man...I've been trying to find it but I can't....I have cellcom (usa-Wisconsin) maybe someone else can help me locate something.
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Okay, I also tried seeing if I could find the settings for cellcom in the States and no luck: just Israel. Also not a very informative webpage for cellcom either.
If you don't want to unroot your phone etc. I would think contacting the company by mail and asking for the manual settings might pay off. I'm pretty sure this is the issue as mms and internet settings are automatically set-up for each phone model in some providers and rooting might have removed the settings from identifying it as an HTC Desire, though I have no way to be sure.
So you should receive a reply with the MMS proxy and port, the MMSC and APN.
It definitely worked for me.
Hope it all works out!
Hi,
this might be a stupid question, but I miss a feature on my HTC Desire after i changed ROMs. (Previously LeeDroiD 3.08 or so, I tried various JB ROMs recently).
When I used Bluetooth voice dial on the old ROM, I got feedback from the phone, as in the application read back to me "Calling John on mobile now".
None of the new ROMs i tried have this anymore and I really liked this. See on a motorbike it can be difficult to read the display, especially when you have the phone in the pocket of the jacket. Now I only know that my phone picked the wrong contact when the other person picks up.
Can someone tell me what the functionality is called and maybe point me to the right apk that i need to extract from any HTC ROM to enable this again?
Thanks lads!
Yeah so my mother went shopping on eBay for an HTC One M8 and ended up buying an HTC One M8w which seems to be the chinese variant of the phone. Most stuff works but I have a few very annoying problems.
The google account doesn't sync properly (had to manually import contacts/calendars)
Apps don't seem to properly detect the GPS (keeps asking user to enable location , however Maps does
Everytime you send a text it nags about data roaming
Ideally I'd like to flash UK stock lollipop onto the device but I'm not sure whether this is possible. If there's nothing I can do then it's getting sent straight back.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.