Hey there.
I'm from Portugal and here we have some accentuated letters like "à á é ç ã õ".
When the system language is set to English and we insert one of these letters the SMS limit falls down from 160 charachters to 70 because it changes the encoding of the SMS .
What I would like to know is if it's possible to come with an hack to force the system to encode the SMS in a particular way so these kind of letters don't cut us 90 characters off the message please.
Actually this is a problem in a lot of countries. Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and the list goes on... Any country that speeks a latin language really.
So, can anyone help us out?
PS: I own a Samsung Galaxy S at the moment
Same problem here
Got a Magic 32A from Portuguese operator TMN
I'm running CyanogenMod 6.0.0 RC3
What happens is that if i set Android in Portuguese language the SMS's work as expected.
If you change the language to English, when writing an SMS, if a character like "á" "é" is used you end having only 70 characters available.
My interest was to use Android in English but send SMS's with latin characters whithout having only 70 characters available per SMS.
In Windows Mobile 5/6 there was an option to disable unicode.
Any help? Thanks in advance
This problem also happens with CyanogenMod 5.0.8
anyone? please?
Samsung Galaxy has the problem solved.
I guess that they solved it by themselves. Neither Google nor HTC give a $hit about it. For instance, HTC still has this problem on all android devices.
I owned a Legend with Android 2.2, and the problem persisted. As it was still in warranty, I returned it to the store, got refunded, and bought a Samsung Galaxy
you should feel fortunate that at least you can send the unicoded characters here in the US, most carriers do not properly send unicoded characters, and instead they arrive as BLOCKS on the recipient phone. So imagine wanting to send an SMS with a foreign language that contains accents or unicoded characters when living in the US. You really can't.
To that end, it'd be nice if one of the SMS programs had an option to convert all Unicoded text messages to ASCII prior to sending. This way you can continue to use your foreign language keyboard and dictionaries with accents and unicoded characters and be confident that the message will not be corrupted when sent. And it'd allow a 160 character ASCII message as well.
this is native issue of the SMS, not the phone or OS issue
if you want to force encoding without Unicode, characters like à á é ç ã õ will convert to a a a c a o accordingly.
Still have the same issue. This is stupid really
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Anyone? I have the same problem in runnymede.
Samsung Galaxy 3 on Froyo has solved that...
EDITI've heard also about Samsung Galaxy Ace, both in Poland.)
Use Handcent SMS app
I had the same problem. I am a spanish native speaker, hence my SMS are sent in spanish. Due to autocorrection, some words automatically add the accent in some words. I had not found any solution to the native application for SMS, however I noticed that using "Hancent SMS" app, although the accents are added, the number of characters are still 160!
some temporary solution
Some letters are included in english character set, which you can use without the automatic change of the character set, so the sms will remain 160 chars, instead of 60 or something like that.
these characters are definitely included:
(à,ä,æ,å,é,è,ü,ú,ö,ò,ß,...)
You can try out when you start writing an sms, and turn on the "remaining characters counter" and try it for your self which characters you could use.
for example you can use "à" instead of "á" it still stays 160 chars.
The feature "Strip Unicode" for CM http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/19381 solves the problem. Well, not quite like in Nokia and many other phones (they let you write diacritics but strip them only after you click "send" – and they send pure GSM chars) but it changes every char right at the moment of input:
– if you type letter by letter: when you type the diacritic (e.g. "ć" or "Ü") it instantly changes into its GSM alternative ("c" or "U");
- if you use dictionary: you type in letters, dictionary shows you propositions but when you choose the proposition(word) (by tapping it or typing space) it inserts the word with Unicode chars changed into their GSM alternatives.
Does anyone know of an app that can speak the name of the caller that actually works on the atrix?
I have tried "voice caller id" but it doesn't work.
That option is built into the Atrix!!
Settings> Call> Caller ID readout.
I like Grace from SVOX, I dumped Pico for her.
Oops. Just tested and it works. But why does it speak the name of the contact in both spanish and english? I would like spanish only and to customize the prefix that gets spoken before the contact
franciscojavierleon said:
Oops. Just tested and it works. But why does it speak the name of the contact in both spanish and english? I would like spanish only and to customize the prefix that gets spoken before the contact
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Uhm, mine only speaks English. I would turn my phone off if it spoke Spanish to me. Sorry I cant help you there.
Maybe it's because i have morelocale 2 installed and customized my locale to English (Venezuela) (en_VE). I did this because on english the dialer stores numbers as xxx-xxx-xxxx while on my country numbers are xxxx-xxx-xxxx
Settings>voice input & output>text-to-speech settings
Have you you played with those settings to try and make it work?
yup, it's funny to hear "incoming call from xxxx" in a spanish robotic voice and then hearing the same in the english robotic voice.
i will try removing my custom locale. it's too bad you can't configure anything regarding the readout.
on voice caller id, you can configure the prefix (the "incoming call from" text), also you can configure the "unknown caller" message, the volume, position and repeats of the speech, also if it should respect silent mode or not and a bunch of other stuff. sad it just doesn't work
I use an app called Call Announcer. It works for me. Not sure about the language issue though. I've only used english.
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hello, I hope this is the right section.
I just installed switkey x keyboard and it works very well, I love it. I have only one problem. Sometimes I need to dictate an sms or an email using different languages and the voice input language changed based on the keyboard language. Since in the last version of swiftkey there is no language change (it automatically regognize the language when you type), I can't choose another language for the voice input...
hope somebody can help!
I use text to speech to remind me of my appointments in my Calendar Snooze app. It'll say things like "upcoming event.. meet friend, starting in 20 minutes" then repeat it a few times until I dismiss it.
Anyone know how I can get the UK female voice back for text to speech that I had on gingerbread before I updated to android 4.0.3 ICS? It's a dreary voice but one I got used to. I'm pretty sure it's the same voice that I'm still getting in Google satnav. If I could get the satnav voice into text to speech it would be great.
In language and input under text to speech output, I can choose either Google text to speech or Samsung TTS to read out my text. Google has one american female who sounds more phillipino and one english male whose voice sounds shaky. And in Samsung TTS, there's just one english voice, another female who sounds phillipino. Is that all the options I have for text to speech voices, have they taken away the voice I used to have? I read about Ivona text to speech on android market to add more voices but it says it's incompatible with my device so I didn't download it.
Yes I did post this in Q&A yesterday and it's now on page 5 with no replies, so I thought I'd try in here. Hope you don't mind.
So is this really difficult to answer? xdadevelopers, the forum that is first in all things android can't answer a basic question about text to speech? Honestly, what is the world coming to
Is there any way to add question tags/commas/etc when you are dictating the reply via voice to sms or whatsapp messages to the g watch?
binlalo said:
Is there any way to add question tags/commas/etc when you are dictating the reply via voice to sms or whatsapp messages to the g watch?
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Just say what you want it to enter. For example, to have it write "Hello there, this is a test!" you would say "hello there comma this is a test exclamation point".
It must be the language then because I tried to say that in spanish and didn't work.