How to use hands free alexa in oneplus nord2
Android phones including the OnePlus Nord2 come inbuilt Google Assistant, not Alexa. Android is owned by google, hence why Android phones use google services by default, such as the google play store and in this case, Google Assistant.
Set up google assistant. From the settings page, click the search icon top right, type in google assistant. It's also part of the phones setup process when you first unlock a factory reset/fresh phone.
If you however, MUST use Alexa instead, which is Amazon shopping's assistant, then you can consider buying an Alexa product such as the fairly popular Amazon Echo smart speaker, or download and install the Alexa app which might not work with all phones. If you download the app, you can then go into android setting and set Alexa as your default assistant, replacing Google Assistant.
Personally, I think Alexa is pretty terrible unless you're always using it to buy things off of Amazon, or using it to control some of the Amazon specific smart lighting systems and already have a lot of Amazonecossytem gadgets.
If you're simply looking to do simple searches, google for simple questions, and simple phones tasks like handsfree calling and texting, I would recommend sticking with Google Assistant; But opinoins may vary.
Either way, setting up one of the assistants should be very easy to do. It's legit in the setup process for the first time you start up the phone.
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Hello everyone,
I just got a Nook Tablet I have never had any smart phone or tablet before, and I have never purchased an app. My question is about DRM on apps.
If I buy an app from the B&N store, will I only be able to use it on my Nook Tablet? For example, if I get an Android phone in the future, will I be able to use my Nook Tablet apps on it?
I know that there are other marketplaces such as the Android marketplace and the Amazon app store. Are there similar issues with those as well?
Where is the best place to buy an app to ensure I won't have to buy it a second time?
fr3dw0rth said:
Hello everyone,
I just got a Nook Tablet I have never had any smart phone or tablet before, and I have never purchased an app. My question is about DRM on apps.
If I buy an app from the B&N store, will I only be able to use it on my Nook Tablet? For example, if I get an Android phone in the future, will I be able to use my Nook Tablet apps on it?
I know that there are other marketplaces such as the Android marketplace and the Amazon app store. Are there similar issues with those as well?
Where is the best place to buy an app to ensure I won't have to buy it a second time?
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Buy from the google market if you want to use it in the future for android phone/tablet.
Does that mean that if I buy from the Google market, I can copy the app to a new device and install it again? Would the new device also have to have the Google market installed?
What it is about buying an app from B&N that would restrict me from transferring and installing my app on a new device?
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fr3dw0rth said:
Does that mean that if I buy from the Google market, I can copy the app to a new device and install it again? Would the new device also have to have the Google market installed?
What it is about buying an app from B&N that would restrict me from transferring and installing my app on a new device?
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Yes, you can copy it and install it anywhere regardless where you buy the app - manually copy it or use a backup program like Titanium backup. If you want to tie the program to the market, so you can get updates for it, you can redownload it from the android market, or use a program to tie it to the market so it recognizes it (but your account will have to have purchased the program if it's not a free one).
The android market is tied to devices - you cannot use it without a device registered to the account, which is different than the other markets/stores where an account is enough (currently). There is no issue installing the Amazon market, the B&N Market, etc on different devices and regrabbing programs. (But the external B&N market app doesn't run on nook tablets, only odd part.) Since the android market is by far the biggest one, it's probably the best place to buy things, but no you shouldnt' have issues with the other markets and transferring stuff around.
Anything you purchase through Google Market or Amazon App Store can be used and downloaded on any device as long as you use the same account (gmail for google, login for Amazon). I have three devices that all share the same apps. When you login to either for the first time, it will list all your purchased apps under "my apps" and you can download directly from there. I have no experience with the B&N market yet.
I keep a second family gmail account and make purchases through that on Google market so my family can all share the same purchased apps and our own seperate gmail accounts for email, calendar, etc.
There's no definitive answer, since a) it depends on the vendor's permission, b) the "app store" scheme is still in a state of flux, both conceptually and in implementation.
In theory, whatever "app store" you buy an app from will allow authorization for any devices linked to that store. Since Google's uses Gmail, then any device linked to a particular Gmail acct should be authorized.
Presently, buying from Google allows the widest reach, assuming all your devices are linked to Gmail. Buying from B&N, in theory, would allow any B&N-linked devices (NC and NT for now) to be authorized. Ditto for Amazon's.
This is a problem, assuming you buy apps from different app stores. This will be addressed over time, by user demands of vendors to establish a commonal authorization system. Realize that we're still in the beta testing stage, not only of mobile devices and OS'es, but also their ecosystems.
Over time, one'd expect more vendors to eschew "per user" for a more granular "per device" or "per X devices." For one, it avoids the abuse of having a "communal" Gmail account--mentioned in the previous post--to share between different users. Since the latter requires additional infrastructural work, you only see this from a few large, established vendors for now. But all vendors are loathe to let a third-party control their vendor-client relationship, and will have their own proprietary authorization at some point.
I'm using a Nexus 4 and trying to get rid of all the Google tracking services and their built-in Android background communications with Google servers. I have already searched the internet and found a few articles about this, however most of them were outdated or didn't answer my questions.
I do like the look and feel of stock Android, which is why I would probably go for CyanogenMod for this. In an optimal world, it would retain its current look and feel, but without communicating with Google.
My questions that I currently have pretty much are as follows (when using CyanogenMod):
- is it possible to keep using SOME Play store / stock apps but taking their permission to send information to Google? For example, I still want to use whatsapp and I doubt I can find it in the F-Droid store, or perhaps i like the Google camera app, and so on
- is it possible to turn off all Google tracking services (obvious things such as Google Now, but also the less obvious, like the constant hidden communications with Google servers) using CyanogenMod?
Is there any app that can inherit Smart Phone Lite, which was abandoned by its developer years ago? This means:
Free (or at least freemium)
Simple, not a bloatware
Has no extra plugins/add-ons to install
"Once a profile no longer applies, the previous settings get restored." which spares the need to manually define a "Normal" profile
Thanks!
llama?
i think llama is dead.
IFTTT? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifttt.ifttt
E=Robot
Are you sure it answers all 4 conditions?
1) It's freemium indeed.
2) What do you think?
3) No plugins in Google Play Store, so that's good.
4) That's a crucial part - is it like this?
Unlike Ilama above, it's still available in Google Play Store but seems to be abandoned nonetheless (last updated at 2019).
I don't know if people already saw this... If didn't, it worths the time spent reading now:
Google will remove Play Store apps that use Accessibility Services for anything except helping disabled users:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/1...vices-anything-except-helping-disabled-users/
I need to know if Greenfy developer will "fork" the app and host an unmodified version outside the Play Store to us. I mean, a version with accessibility function (with the donation app at Play Store nothing would change to Greenify's Dev, except having to upload the version with accessibility to APKMIRROR for example). I'm not rooted and without accessibility the app is useless.
I'm so pissed of that, for real, if the people from Google behind this decision was brave enough to identify him/herself by real name instead of Google brand I would beat the sh*t out of them. For real. For me it is like Google going "Oh, you are having a great experience at your device today? Your bad, I'll remove functions from your phone, that will make it worse and I don't care about your opinion"
I think it is time to ask refunds from anything related to Google that I spent money on because it is becoming the same d-bag as Apple. Couple years from now and I'm not be surprised with Android being so restricted as IOS...
Veronezzi said:
I don't know if people already saw this... If didn't, it worths the time spent reading now:
Google will remove Play Store apps that use Accessibility Services for anything except helping disabled users:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/1...vices-anything-except-helping-disabled-users/
I need to know if Greenfy developer will "fork" the app and host an unmodified version outside the Play Store to us. I mean, a version with accessibility function (with the donation app at Play Store nothing would change to Greenify's Dev, except having to upload the version with accessibility to APKMIRROR for example). I'm not rooted and without accessibility the app is useless.
I'm so pissed of that, for real, if the people from Google behind this decision was brave enough to identify him/herself by real name instead of Google brand I would beat the sh*t out of them. For real. For me it is like Google going "Oh, you are having a great experience at your device today? Your bad, I'll remove functions from your phone, that will make it worse and I don't care about your opinion"
I think it is time to ask refunds from anything related to Google that I spent money on because it is becoming the same d-bag as Apple. Couple years from now and I'm not be surprised with Android being so restricted as IOS...
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I am sure the developer of Greenify and many other apps will be considering options once Google's intentions become clear.
Can someone point me to a thread/blog for guiding me to completely de-google an android phone(except the OS itself of course)? Basically I have a Samsung S8+ \ that I don't use anymore and I would like to give to a relative in China. With my past experience, I had no problem by-passing the GFW for getting the phones up to date when I visit, but for an average user and long term use inside mainland China, an android phone with default google services installed makes it almost unusable since all the google services are blocked within China.
If can be done without root, that would be ideal(adb?). If it must rooted, then that's OK too. thank you for your input!
I don't know if it's still allowed to do that,
but considered disabling the google service. Google, Youtube, Google +, Hangouts, Photos, Drive, etc...