[Q] TTs Help - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone know how to disable TTS for sms? Don't like it reading out my txt messages. Im using Trigger v2.7 rom. Any help would be great appreciated.

Usually in Settings->Voice input and output .

I tired that, but there's no option for me to do it. Been stuck on this for days.

Do you have Vlingo? If so, turn Safe Reader off. If not, try freezing tts service with TiBu. They are enough voices in my phone; I don't need it talking to me too!
Sent from my rough sketch of a smart phone on a brick!

You could always remove or rename the TTSservice.apk, but that will affect Bluetooth Dialing, and maybe other functions that would seemingly be unrelated, but the BT dialing is all I know for sure.

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[Q] How can I stop the Beep when plugging in a charger/usb cable?

I've searched around here and the web and can't find an answer to this - There have been various posts and suggestions on how to stop the beep once a battery is fully charged (I use a free app 'Battery Charged' to stop this).
However what I can't find is a way to stop the beep when I connect the phone to a charger/pc USB cable. This is very irritating not only me but others when at work and I want to stop it.
Anybody know of a setting/app that stops it - Just have a vanilla rom and have no intention of rooting it.
Thanks
Edit: Sorry should be in the Q&A section
Looking through the files, I would start with trying to rename/delete/replace /system/media/audio/ui/Charger_Connection.ogg but that would probably require root.
uh on the iphone you put the phone in silent mode with the flick of a switch. are you meaning to say you can't do this with android? And people wonder why people would rather go the iphone route for usability?
Ignore the guy above & download an app called 'Tasker'. it costs about £4 from the market but it is AWESOME.
Tasker will allow you to set up 'rules' for example so when you plug in a charger/usb cable etc you can individually mute the volumne but still allow texts, emails, calls etc to sound & ring (unlike iPhone which is a global mute).
Job done.
Sure, buy an app to get basic functionality. That's the android answer for everything, isn't it
root and delete the file, job done.
Oh and dont feed the troll above!
madmaximillian said:
Sure, buy an app to get basic functionality. That's the android answer for everything, isn't it
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What the heck are you doing at xda dev? Get out idiot.
/troll
Sent from BlackICE.
im all for modding to get more functionality, but for stuff like this? I'd love to be able to have friends with androids without them constantly calling me to ask how/if they can do a certain thing w/ their phone.
Still sorry for being trolly I didn't mean to be
Just put the phone on silent using the quick panel, this stops it fine if your not wanting to use modded themes or buying 3rd party apps.
If your only wanting to stop the charging notification then whats the point if any other sounds will disturb other colleges, pointless trying to disable one sound when others are going to irritate the same.
pepxl said:
Just put the phone on silent using the quick panel, this stops it fine if your not wanting to use modded themes or buying 3rd party apps.
If your only wanting to stop the charging notification then whats the point if any other sounds will disturb other colleges, pointless trying to disable one sound when others are going to irritate the same.
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Agreed + valid point but I have profile set up for example that mutes all notification sounds (charging beep, texts & emails) during the night while on charge. If someone needs to call me cause of an emergeny etc the phone still rings though.
That's the beauty of the Tasker app.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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eris as mp3 player

I am looking to turn my eris into a pure mp3 player for my daughter. she uses it now for that reason, but it doesn't need the dialer, phone book or anything else like that on it. to me its just wasted space. i am open to suggestions. is there a rom out there that i can use that will do this? i have searched and found nothing.
I'm not 100% sure you can remove phone and dialer stuff without getting force closes on that process. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure those can't be removed.
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phrite said:
I am looking to turn my eris into a pure mp3 player for my daughter. she uses it now for that reason, but it doesn't need the dialer, phone book or anything else like that on it. to me its just wasted space. i am open to suggestions. is there a rom out there that i can use that will do this? i have searched and found nothing.
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this might be what you're looking for...?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216571
you don't need to remove the dialer, contacts, phone .apk's, but with most launchers giving the option to hide certain programs, you could hide them and those apps would only be accessible when going into Titanium Backup or Manage Apps within the settings. at least that's what i did, just in case i need to activate the old eris in an emergency and need the phone functionality, since all phones can make 911 emergency calls even after deactivation.
EDIT: just happened to be browsing that thread, and saw a few posts from you, so maybe this is old news to you! lol, anyway, hope this helps if not, cheers!
Ya know removing the dialer and stuff wouldn't help you free space anyway because that is stored on the system and your mp3s are on the SD card.
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ecs1984 said:
this might be what you're looking for...?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216571
you don't need to remove the dialer, contacts, phone .apk's, but with most launchers giving the option to hide certain programs, you could hide them and those apps would only be accessible when going into Titanium Backup or Manage Apps within the settings. at least that's what i did, just in case i need to activate the old eris in an emergency and need the phone functionality, since all phones can make 911 emergency calls even after deactivation.
EDIT: just happened to be browsing that thread, and saw a few posts from you, so maybe this is old news to you! lol, anyway, hope this helps if not, cheers!
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That works perfectly, thank you very much. and you guys are all correct on the removal of the phone book and dialer. and everything is already on the sd card, i was just trying to clean / speed things up a bit. i appreciate the response from everyone.
I've been wanting the same thing. But I've decided to make it a home phone that is relatively always plugged in and use sipdroid to set it for inbound and outbound calls. I occasionally use it as an example mp3 player. I may try breaking the ROM apart, but honestly just use a startup disabling app like systemtuner productos or autostarts.. That can literally disable everything from turning on at boot. And other trigger points. Freezing sometimes breaks the ROM depending on what it is.
Sent from my android touchpad.
I've been asking if workshed wants to make one last ROM for the Eris which encorporates that script into it as well as removing every system app not necessary to making it a wifi enabled music player, but he seems to be busy with his other ROM development. I think I'll be making a thread about it, that way if a dev is interested in making it, they can take it from there. Sort of a dev-shopping thread. I've been meaning to for a little while.

[Q] S Voice - use third party TTS Ivona?

I want S Voice to talk back to me using Ivona TTS. I can't see a setting to make it do this.
Menu - Settings - Language & Input - Speech - Text-to-speech output is set to use Ivona, but S Voice ignores this setting. Any way to get it to use Ivona?
Bumping this up as I still haven't managed to sort it. Any ideas, peeps?
Bump.
I would also like to know how to get this to work. Everything I've tried just uses the stock speak n' spell voice.
can't do it
I think Samsung does not make this possible, Sorry buddy you just have to stick with S-voice or you could try Google Now.
IVONA-less S-Voice
Beastify said:
I think Samsung does not make this possible, Sorry buddy you just have to stick with S-voice or you could try Google Now.
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IVONA Voice did work with S-Voice before jellybean, most of the time anyway. Hasn't worked at all since, and I've tried all the recommended fixes on the Ivona FAQ page for upgrade complications (first, switching away from Ivona, testing voice, switching back, and second, uninstalling, deleting files and reinstalling). Samsung helpline was no help - dude had no clue what TTS even is. Haven't heard back from Ivona on this.

[Q] Prevent S Voice from starting when car docked? - TWO Workarounds Found

whenever I mount the phone to my car dock, S Voice comes on first! When it wasn't working on my Skyrocket, I just froze it and said screw this thing, but now that it works just fine on the SIII, every time I mount it to the car dock, I have to close out of it first before I can get Music up and running.... is there a work around for this to prevent it from coming on when mounted to the car dock I haven't thought of yet?
I quit using Tasker, it got to be too damn much on the phone, so I just use A2DP Volume to automate the connection - when I connect my car dock, it loads Music and adjusts BT volume for me, but it won't close an app on connection.... How can you prevent S Voice from coming up in the first place?
EDIT - I found these steps for turning off Voice Talk, the older version of Google's Voice Commands, and I'm going to give this a try. The motion part isn't applicable though, I think....
Try turning off DOUBLE TAP under Voice Talk settings.
Click on and bring up Voice Talk, then hit the bottom left button and click SETTINGS.
On the SETTINGS page, scroll down to the VOICE TALK section and click VOICE TALK SETTINGS.
On the next page, click on MOTION.
Next page, under MOTION ACTIVATION SERVICES, uncheck DOUBLE TAP.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...140779-infuse-car-dock-users.html#post1486669
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WORKAROUNDS - We now have two workarounds to solve this problem.... Here they are:
If you like S Voice and just want to prevent it from starting up when car docked, use the Dock Nothingness app and select it by default the next time you car dock
If you don't like S Voice and want to block it completely, just freeze it with Titanium Backup and it won't run at all (PRO key must be installed for you to freeze and defrost apps)
Did you get anywhere with this problem - I'm in the same boat. What I'd really like is the old default car home to launch, but not getting s-voice (useless in my little convertible!) would be a great start!
RikF said:
Did you get anywhere with this problem - I'm in the same boat. What I'd really like is the old default car home to launch, but not getting s-voice (useless in my little convertible!) would be a great start!
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Nope, but I think your issue would be easier to overcome since you can just download Car Home Ultra or something similar, I don't want any car home to launch at all, just the A2DP Volume app which will launch Google Music for me....
I have everything set like they said on the S Voice settings page, so it doesn't activate with a double tap home input, but it still comes up! Now that I have Tasker running as well, it asks if I want to use S Voice or Tasker, or either of them by default, and I don't want any of them, really! If I say Tasker, I believe it will do nothing, but that might interfere with A2DP Volume, and then I have to set Tasker to run A2DP Volume when it is car docked..... that's straight up going around in circles now!!!
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
baublitz said:
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
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Nothing I can do about it, I'm definitely not a dev....
I selected Tasker by default when car docked and it seems to work just fine right now, I don't have any task set when the car is docked, but at least it recognizes Tasker will take priority when car docked instead of S Voice! That's the best work around I know of so far....
Sorry if I'm mentioning the obvious, but if you go into s voice in the applications manager is anything set in its 'launch by default' section? I don't have anything in there now, but that may be because I set my car-launcher as default on docking. I don't know if 'on dock' was in there before.
RikF said:
Sorry if I'm mentioning the obvious, but if you go into s voice in the applications manager is anything set in its 'launch by default' section? I don't have anything in there now, but that may be because I set my car-launcher as default on docking. I don't know if 'on dock' was in there before.
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That's a good thought, but no, there are no defaults set on my phone either under that setting - it was worth a look though! I'm sure it's got to be something as easy as that though....
baublitz said:
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
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If you are rooted, why don't you just freeze svoice? I didn't like it so I froze it when I was freezing all of the carrier installed crapware (didn't want to uninstall it in case I actually get some of the features enabled).. freeze it and you will never see it again.. (I don't think I would risk deleting it since if it breaks something else it is easy enough to unfreeze/thaw the application)... this of course requires you to have titanium backup and pay for the elite license which gives you these features..
Double Home doesn't launch anything anymore.. although I never had a problem with it launching when going into car-mode.. I had turned that feature off...
I am still a noob with the andriod phone.. I had an iphone before this.. but am finding that I really like the flexibility of andriod over iphone..
It looks like we have a decent work around, posted by zen0s on the Infuse car dock thread:
zen0s said:
I just tried this and it works great. To get rid of that annoying "S Voice" pop up everytime when phone is docked. Go to play store and download "Dock Nothingness". After you install it dock your phone and make "Dock Nothingness" as your default app. Now you won't be bother with those s-voice launching.
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I froze it using TiBU on my Skyrocket and that worked just fine because S Voice wasn't really working well with the phone, but now that I have an SIII, I want to use it when it is appropriate for me, not every time I dock the phone! So the two options stand, freeze it or run Dock Nothingness to prevent S Voice from starting up every time it is car docked!

Disable Samsung Stickers

Does anyone know a way to disable or remove this stupid sticker button or app? I don't want it, don't use it, it's in my way, it's always getting accidentally triggered while I'm trying to type a message. I've been digging non stop for a way to just turn it off but Samsung apparently thinks everyone should have it no matter what. I've removed StickerProvider and StickerService using adb but it's still there. It's on every keyboard - Google, Samsung, SwiftKey and Swype. Driving me INSANE!
Yea I would love to know as well. You would think Samsung would learn it's lesson with these stupid things... Thank god they took them out of the phone app
1. Disable the entire toolbar from keyboard settings.
2. Using package disabler I can disable stickercenter, but the button still exist. Blank if clicked.

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