S3 speaking on its own - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys,
Just wanted some help from you guys. Suddenly i noticed that my s3 has started speaking on its own. Like when i zoom out my homescreens, it says
"Workspace 2 of 3"
When i open a folder,it says
"Folder opened "
I dont know what happened. I didnt tweak any settings and updated to the latest firmware about a week back. Until yesterday there were no voice feedbacks but all of a sudden they have started. Couldnt find any setting to turn them off either.
It is very annonying and any help would be greatly appreciated!
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That sounds like TalkBack. Disable it under Settings -> Accessibility -> TalkBack

Already disabled, still it speaks!
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Have you got Light Flow installed? There is a bug with it due to Samsung/ICS kernel

Yes i did have that app installed and i guess it has happened due to that app only. However, i just uninstalled the app but it still speaks. Will try restarting the phone once and will get back to you. Thank u so much anyways.
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Thank u sooo much bro!
No more annoying voices
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Did you switch the car mode on in the notification drawer??

Appreciate it but problem already solved!
Thanks.
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Is there a way that I can get rid of the pop-up that shows every time that someone on my Auto Reject list calls me? Its really bothersome, and if they keep calling it wakes your phone each time and can drain the battery PDQ. BTW, I'm talking about the built in auto reject in settings. Thanks in advance to any and everyone that may have some advice or insight.
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+1 on the question, it is exremely annoying when this pops up, would be perfect if any of the vibrant experts can solve this issue. Would make the phone experience that much more pleasant!
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Hmmm.... Blocking the blocker...
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also would be nice if it did not flood your call log with them either.
Moved to Q&A
Bumped...
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Did you found any solution until now?
I have the same problem.
BlackElvis79 said:
Bumped...
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Sorry for the bump, but also looking into this for a friend.
Anyone figure something out yet or an app for that matter?
I never tried any since GS2 doesn't have a pop up.

Ongoing Notification problem

Hi. I started downloading a picture from my gmail but due to low battery. It switched off. I'm not able to get ride of that thing. Please help me. SS attached
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Hi. I started downloading a picture from my gmail but due to low battery. It switched off. I'm not able to get ride of that thing. Please help me. SS attached
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go to downloads and delete it from there
Not working bro.
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clear data of downloads in applications under settings

[Q] profiles constantly changing

Hey guys, I am currently running a gs2 with cm9 rom, and the cm9 kernel, however if I have my phone on any of the profiles I.e silent vibrate or loud etc, I constantly switches between the profiles automatically, roughly every ten seconds .
Things I have done:
Flashed a newer nightly
Crashed system UI and restarted it.
Done all the wipes when flashing roms.
Changed between themes and icon packs.
Any other options for me guys? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advanced guys
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Try to set Profile to default (hold Power key) and then switch sound mode.
Thanks for quick response, just checked that and it is on default, I wish I could record a video of the screen to show you what's happening
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Use screencast app
Will download now and then post, thanks
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OK recorded the screen, please bare in mind I have visual feedback on so you know I'm not pressing the icons myself. Will upload in an edit
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How do I upload video? :L
Edit: video uploaded to YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duo9FgnPo64&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Set it to non-public or give me access (same nick on YT). I can't watch it.
This is frustrating me :L it now won't upload for whatever reason!
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OK non public link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duo9FgnPo64&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Strange thing.
Try to:
1. flash RC (http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/jenkins/3457/cm-9.0.0-RC1-galaxys2.zip)
2. make Nandroid backup, format system, flash CM9 again
3. change kernel
4. make logcat (aLogcat form GPlay or through adb on PC)
I have no more ideas right now.
OK thanks mate will do that when I have a PC available, thanks for the help well give feedback later
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Well strangely enough it fixed itself over night, however thank you for the help anyway
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Is anyone else having keyboard issues after the update?

Hello everyone! I upgraded to ICS today, and noticed that the notification to chose a keyboard keeps popping up. It also says that Google Voice is chosen when I've disabled it. Can anyone help me with this? I really appreciate it!
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Hi,
After the ics update you will have to press the imput method to change the keyboards you want to use. That's normal ;-)
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Thank you for replying! I chose the Android keyboard, and the prompt to choose a keyboard still pops up. I tried restarting and rebooting my phone and nothing is making this notification go away. As you can see in the pic I attached, the only option it will check off when I touch it is Google Voice. It's making me nuts.
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It's always there.
So the notification to choose a keyboard will always pop up when I go to type?
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We all have that same screen with google voice so don't drive yourself to nuts over that. Its the default keyboard that needs to be set which it looks like you did so I'm not sure why it keeps prompting you to choose.
Edit: I notice you have google voice unchecked. Recheck it, set default keyboard to whatever you want and report back
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Okay, I did what you suggested and have included screen caps. For some reason the notification to choose the keyboard isn't going away. I can ignore it if it's not a fixable problem, I'm just a little OCD about my notifications being cleared.
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Reflash the ROM bud
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Can you please tell me how to do that?
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It will always be up there with a keyboard open.
Cm9 has an option to turn off that notification, otherwise it'll be there.
If you wanna reflash...Just do exactly what you did in the first place...
I don't think he flashed a ROM before if he got the ota . There is a tutorial stickied in the general page as to going about flashing and rooting
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Contacts not opening

I have the galaxy S2 but, it's the SCH-R760. What happens is when I tap the contacts app my screen goes black, then pops up the message android process acore has stopped working. My phone is rooted. It's been rooted for a few months now, and this issue just started last week. Anybody have any ideas on the problem, and a fix?
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Did you flash a ROM? Or tried flashing one and coming back to stock?
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I have not flashed since there is no recovery that I can find for my phone. So I wouldn't know how without that.
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I had skype installed, and once I removed it my contacts work again. Why would skype cause that problem?
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Stricken66 said:
I had skype installed, and once I removed it my contacts work again. Why would skype cause that problem?
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As Skype does request to access your contact list it is proably related to that.
You might have to try setting your contacts as a default.
I noticed in the past that sometimes it would ask me if I wanted to call contacts using Skype or Phone so my assumption is that somthing with the defaults is causing it to check Skype but it is also causing it to crash
So you're guess is the default contact app got changed to skype right? That makes sense. Whenever I dailed out it asked if I wanted to use skype or the dailer. Thanks
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This happened to me once. I had no choice but to delete contacts data from settings and then restore from old backups....
Everything was OK then.
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I've deleted skype and all us right in the world again.
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