How do I stop the screen from turning on on text messages? - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

This is driving me crazy. I don't own a damn iPhone.

wtf does the iphone have to do with this?

drksilenc said:
wtf does the iphone have to do with this?
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The iPhone does the same thing, but because it doesn't have an LED notifcation. The S III does, so it's curious why the screen lights up anyway.

I use gosms and disabled it in the settings.

possible Workaround
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28777772 here you will find a temporary solution through the app SMS Pop up.

Omg this is the 5th one of these threads. Come on guys really?

LMAO Tokedup well said!
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Text messages being read out loud.. help

Help. So I was playing robo defense. Got a text and it automatically read it out loud.
Was using handcent. Deleted robo defense and handcent and its still reading them out loud with stock messaging app. Phone on vibrate or loud. Doesn't matter...
I get text it says out loud number and message..
Update: when someone sends me a text it no longer automatically pops up. I have to turn phone on for notification of text and it to be read out loud...
How do I make it stop?? Please. Thanks.
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Try the accessibility menu in settings.
What am I looming for?
Says no accesibility apps.
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possibly a setting under 'voice input & output / text-to-speech settings'
I looked there. Don't really see any options. Is there a way to.turn it off completely?
It just turned on at random. Thinking bout putting it in some other language so no one understands it.
Holding off on factory reset. Until nexus comes out.
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Not sure... not seen this before.
Sucks. I'm drunk and its pissing me off.
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civicsisedan said:
Sucks. I'm drunk and its pissing me off.
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I think I found the problem.
Try again when your sober.
Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
I think I found the problem.
Try again when your sober.
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Hahaha. I wish!!!! Still happening
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There's an app for that!
Did you install it?
This has got to be the most incriminating bug ever! If my texts got read aloud every time I got them, I would not be alive to post this here today... lol
I think you have some shady friend who downloaded an app on your phone to make this happen.
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Defintiely did not install any app or let anyone install anything on my phone.
Again, it happened while I was playing robo defense, I received a text and it read it out loud while i was playing. It then started to read them no matter what.
Just did a factory reset. Hopefully that fixed it.
civicsisedan said:
Defintiely did not install any app or let anyone install anything on my phone.
Again, it happened while I was playing robo defense, I received a text and it read it out loud while i was playing. It then started to read them no matter what.
Just did a factory reset. Hopefully that fixed it.
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I was going to say, uninstall handcent. There is probably a feature in it that does that
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pkopalek said:
I was going to say, uninstall handcent. There is probably a feature in it that does that
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Factory reset fixed it..
I deleted handcent thinking that was the problem but it continued on stock messaging app. So I dunno.
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civicsisedan said:
Sucks. I'm drunk and its pissing me off.
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lmao... I can imagine the messages from my drunk friends being read out loud!!! Hahahaha... Hell, texts from my sober friends would be bad enough.
Glad you got it fixed, but also glad you posted this thread. It really made me laugh.
Same here!
I have this same issue myself, it must be a bug. Luckily it always stays on vibrate. It started out of nowhere and I don't feel like doing a hard reset yet. I looked at every single possible option and none were selected. Hope the next MR update will fix it! HTC and VZW are normally very timely and effective at updating their phones so I'm not too worried. I must say, I don't have a single other bug in this phone which is impressive for such new hardware these days.
yianni64 said:
I have this same issue myself, it must be a bug. Luckily it always stays on vibrate. It started out of nowhere and I don't feel like doing a hard reset yet. I looked at every single possible option and none were selected. Hope the next MR update will fix it! HTC and VZW are normally very timely and effective at updating their phones so I'm not too worried. I must say, I don't have a single other bug in this phone which is impressive for such new hardware these days.
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I remember this happening on my hd2 on winmo. I think voice cmd had accidentally been turned on.
I hope you weren't sexting.

Disable charging led

Hey.
I'm so annoyed by the charging LED. Both the orange while charging and the green when fully charged! It's charging at my nightstand and can't sleep because of that light
Any app or hack I can apply to disable the charging indicator?
Try lightflow from market.
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Face your fone the other way
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electrash said:
Try lightflow from market.
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Thanks will try
Ben36 said:
Face your fone the other way
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Don't like laying my precious phone on the screen
I've tried Lightflow, unfortunately it does not work on the XPeria S. The charging LED drives me crazy an night.
Sharky444 said:
I've tried Lightflow, unfortunately it does not work on the XPeria S. The charging LED drives me crazy an night.
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Turn the phone upside down
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Not Working
electrash said:
Try lightflow from market.
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TI Have Tried Lightflow But It Did Not Work. Is There Any other Way To Disable Charging Light?
You can try putting a stub lights.semc to kill all LEDs.
The problem is I would still like to use the LED for notifications. I only want to disable it during night or/and while charching, Lightflow gives options for both, but is not able to control the LED on this phone.
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I only want to disable it during night or/and while charching
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:silly:
Put a sock on it.
The LED shines thru.
Little bit of blutac/tape over the led at night?
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Yeah! Playing around with tape at evening and in the morning sounds like THE solution! You may wanna to patent that idea!
Sharky444 said:
Yeah! Playing around with tape at evening and in the morning sounds like THE solution! You may wanna to patent that idea!
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Well he tried to but now he is being sued. Unfortunately Apple had already patented that.
Just turn it around... Tadaaa
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The ultimate solution - don't look your phone while it is being charged....
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Why dont you just use the leather cover that was given along with the phone. That should help.
I have the same problem, I wan't to disable the led during charging.
When I bought my phone, no leather cover were given with it. And I can't turn it around because at night it's charging on a dock...
Put a sock on it.
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Just turn it around... Tadaaa
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The ultimate solution - don't look your phone while it is being charged....
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Face the other way in bed?
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Why is it that people love to give retarded suggestions on this site? Is it to increase the post count of some sort? The guy asks for a way to disable the led, NOT how to turn around the phone. It's NOT what he asked for so why would you pester his thread with stupid replies? It's so annoying thinking that you've found a thread where the 'issue' you are looking to solve, are being discussed, but then it's just a bunch of people with mockingly stupid answers.
It's either that or "why would you wanna do that?" replies, on this damn website. If you can't help addressing the issue, why make the OP think that someone gave him a useful reply in his thread?
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In an attempt to help anyone else who might stumble upon this thread: If LightFlow works on your phone you should just set the flashrate on the "charging" part to have a humongous "off" time. You can't disable the LED completely but I've found that you can make it flash extremely slow for like 10 ms every 1 hour or something. It helps.

Can't believe this happened lol

I just got my s4 a few days ago. I love it. Well the other day I was calling this girl I met for the very first time. I wanted everything to go perfect. She ended up not answering so I go to end the call and this thing pops up saying messaging app froze or something and it wouldn't let me push ok to close it. The phone was totally frozen. I couldn't hang up, push mute or anything. At this point her Voicemail is recording everything while I try to figure out how to hang up. I sort of awkwardly said "my phones frozen and idk what to do" lol. I then started to take off my case and finally got the battery out. Total freak accident. Unfortunately, I haven't heard back from her..
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I have to say I lol'd at this story.
This type of stuff used to happen with my Droid Charge before this phone. It was massively frustrating. It started dropping texts and I totally missed out on hanging out with a girl I had a thing for. Oh well, if it was meant to be then it will still happen.
This story is awesome. However. Who calls other humans now of days. Isn't that what flip phones were for? Cellular devices
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hahaha good story.
also sigh at one of your first experiences with the GS4 is having force closes....yeah i've been getting A LOT of them lol
Force closes aren't funny, but the epitome of Evil! Sounds like a buzz kill for luv in this case.
The exact same thing happened to me twice yesterday.
I think it was the Facebook messenger app so I uninstalled it.
Haven't had anymore lockups or freezes since.
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klabit87 said:
The exact same thing happened to me twice yesterday.
I think it was the Facebook messenger app so I uninstalled it.
Haven't had anymore lockups or freezes since.
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Yeah man that's use have been it bcuz it said "messanger".
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I definitely don't miss my charge freezing to call and at times tapping the call button 50 tomes before it would call.
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Yeah man that's use have been it bcuz it said "messanger".
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facebook is usually the cause of all of life's problems.
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jayochs said:
facebook is usually the cause of all of life's problems.
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+1
Cool Story Bro.
jayochs said:
facebook is usually the cause of all of life's problems.
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I agree! :good:

Random beeping sound during calls.

Been having this random beep lately and mentioned it to my GF who found the below thread. Are any of you guys having the same problem?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41711377
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Maybe the FBI is listening in on your conversations. I only get beeps when the other person on the line hangs up and also when I receive text messages. Other than that, I haven't noticed random beeps.
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Jeez... I'd hope the FBI would be more discreet.
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BillTheCat said:
Jeez... I'd hope the FBI would be more discreet.
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20 times out of 10 its that your getting new texts or alerts. check your notification after you end a call next time this happens. see if anythings there,
Toxicoblivion said:
20 times out of 10 its that your getting new texts or alerts. check your notification after you end a call next time this happens. see if anythings there,
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Nope. Wish it was that simple, but unfortunately not. I'm not the only user that's observed the problem, it seems to exist on the S4 also.
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BillTheCat said:
Been having this random beep lately and mentioned it to my GF who found the below thread. Are any of you guys having the same problem?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41711377
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I have facing some beep sound problem during call, listeing music, camera on, mobile on etc etc....any kind of sound create beep low frequency sound. please can anyone tell me how to resolve this kind of problem then please post solution.

Notification light after wifi calling

Does anyone have the same annoying issue, after making a wifi call the notification light comes on as soon as you hang up.... It's rather annoying.
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shook187 said:
Does anyone have the same annoying issue, after making a wifi call the notification light comes on as soon as you hang up.... It's rather annoying.
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yep...and I agree, it's annoying!
muzicman0 said:
yep...and I agree, it's annoying!
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Wow I was actually thinking I was the only one.
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Yep, you're definitely not the only one. I also experience this.
yea at first i use to think i had a message or miss call. Then after that i was like ah its it wifi calling. I dont know why it does it but i have not found a way to turn it off.
xile6 said:
yea at first i use to think i had a message or miss call. Then after that i was like ah its it wifi calling. I dont know why it does it but i have not found a way to turn it off.
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i tend to restart my phone at that point because its that annoying.
cromo8 said:
i tend to restart my phone at that point because its that annoying.
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What I do is lower my notification bar and then the light will go away.
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