I've had my Tilt for a couple of weeks and like it a lot. One thing I haven't figured out yet is the fastest way to initiate a voice dialed call. Other phones I have used let you push an external button to kick it into voice mode, but I'm hunting for the combination that works for the Tilt. Headset controls (Bluetooth and USB) do it just fine, but most of the time I've just got the phone.
There are several threads in this forum that address the ability to reassign buttons to different applications. A search will yield you solutions to your quest.
Hmmm, I guess that means I'm not stupidly overlooking the right button. I did see talk about reassigning the PTT button, but I was hoping to avoid registry edits... Thanks.
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Been trying to solve this problem for a while, noone seems to have the answer.
i have recently installed MS voice commander (wonderfull software btw), but i find it useless since i cant use it when i most need it and that's when the phone is in the pocket and i have handsfree plugged in (the cable).
the button can do only 3 things by default. pick/hang up calls and redial last number.
is there any way to map a program to it? so when i either press and hold or better yet, press it once i get voice commander running?
I use Bluetooth and I hold the button down and MS command comes up.
What brand of headset are you using?
i use the standard hands-free that comes with the phone. I've tried a number of solutions for Bluetooth devices but none of them worked.
this headset connects through the usb port at the bottom of the device. cant find any way to even detect that button from inside the device.
what you have on your BT looks like exactly what i'm after. with voice commander it's possible to use most functions of the phone without touching it, but it's pointless if you need to get it out to start VC in the first place.
I may not be of any help here as I have not used Voice Commander but..
If you go to 'Settings' 'Voice Speed Dial' you will see a tab at the bottom for Application.
I just use this as it responds to a single press from any headset.
Soz if I'm intruding.
not quite what i need. i want to call voice commander directly with the button.
it would've been easier if i could already run voicedialer or any other program from the headset. but nothing works.
Hi all,
Great forum, great phone. I've read through the various threads regarding not being able to initiate a voice dial using bluetooth, however, my phone worked fine out of the box. I could push the button on my bluetooth headset and call using voicedial.
BUT, that wasn't enough, I decided to install Microsoft Voice Commander (prior to reading these threads). The voice dial (via bluetooth died instantly).
I have since uninstalled MVC but still cannot use the voice dial without first pushing the button on the phone.
Anyone got any suggestions to remedy this problem.
Thank you all for you time
un-pair the bluetooth and then pair again, then soft reset, see if that works
thanks, good point, I haven't tried that...yet
I've had the same problem. I've tried re-pairing and soft resets but to no avail. Is there a registry setting affected? I can use the voice button on the phone to activate the built-in cyberon voice dialler but the bluetooth headset won't.
Found the solution
Need to edit registry: HKLM/Software/OEM/VoiceCommand
And if not present, add string value called "Path" = "\Windows\SDDialer.exe"
Works again now! Phew!
Alright, I'm probably going to get flamed to high-hell for this one, but I know someone must do this, and I did a search but it matched on a whole crapload of posts, and I didn't want to go through every single page, so sorry.
Anyway, I have a bluetooth headset and MS VoiceCommand 1.6. I'm trying to make it so that I can give voice commands (such as calling someone) over the headset, and possible hear the announcer over the headset as well. Can someone PLEASE steer me in the right direction.
TIA
Not sure what you need. Install it, make sure your headset is paired, either activate voice command on the phone itself and give instructions (I have mine mapped to "hold PTT - Button 6") OR when I push my multi function button (Blue Ant Z9), the voice command beeps...I then state "Call John Smith" - Voice command responds with either "Call John Smith?" (If I have only one number for Smith) or "Call John Smith Mobile or Business". Then answer the question either 1) yes or 2) mobile. Voice Command dials. You can find all the available instructions in your documentation or at the Voice Command site. Let me know if you have any other issues. I'm a total newbie and it was pretty easy to get used to it and I love the program now.
yeah you would think it would be that easy, but I just cannot get it to work. The BT works, and VoiceCommand works, but they don't work together....strange.
Yep, was 'automatic' for me too. as soon as i recorded voice tags for my contacts i just hit the command button on the headset, wait for the prompt and say the name. it is played back and then the number dialled.
sweeeeet.
quote from another post here:
"Here is what I did:
1. Open BT Voice Command Config from Programs. Uncheck XCSdm
2. I put in 2 strings under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\VoiceCommand
Default = "\Program Files\Voice Command\voicecmd.exe"
Path = "\Program Files\Voice Command\voicecmd.exe"
I put "" around the strings - and the voicecmd.exe is SMALL case voicecmd not VoiceCmd.exe
3. Deleted the other keys under VoiceCommand
4. deleted the BT headset pairing - the paired jawbone headset again... perfect.
;-)
Don't know if you need both reg entries... but it is 5 am here... i have been up all night trying to fix this... Happy now."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333260&page=15
schwags said:
yeah you would think it would be that easy, but I just cannot get it to work. The BT works, and VoiceCommand works, but they don't work together....strange.
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Sorry for the totally simplistic answer. Thought you just didn't get how to work it (been working with someone who is totally clueless on this locally). I think the above thread should provide the help for you. Also, try a reinstall. Mine wasn't automatic at first. When I reinstalled after I flashed my first ROM, worked fine.
I had some problems at first getting voice command to work with my bluetooth headset. If you paired your headset before installing voice command, unpair and re-pair the headset with the phone. Hopefully that will work. Also, make sure your phone isn't set to vibrate or mute. This may cause voice command to work, but you can't hear the voice prompts.
Try the Bluetooth extensions from JetWare. I have seen that take what I considered to be a useless headset into one that works quite well.
I have been thru MANY dozens of headsets and I have come to the conclusion that in this case more than most...you get when you pay for.
Hence, I have the Jawbone and the Sony Ericsson HBH DS980. Both work great.
Brad
Brad- I am also have a ds980. It works fine with voice command. However I have problems in that it often seems to drop the bluetooth connection after a call or as I am initiating a call. I can press the play button and it eventually reconnects. It works fine for listening to music and never just drops the connection. Have you had any issue with this? If so what did you do to resolve it?
Alright, just got it working guys! The post above from kaluzu doesn't fully work, however it contains the original post where I found the full fix. First I did what was in the kaluzu post.
And then I did this:
Originally Posted by Edvard_Greig
Hallelujah! I finally figured it out- so it did have to do with the XCSDM setting I believe... so here is what I did for anyone else that is wondering:
1. Installed MSVC 1.6 (from the link in the TNT ROM posted earlier)
2. Soft Reset
3a. Made registry change to set Path = \Program Files\Voice Command\voicecmd.exe (no quotes)
3b. Change button assignment (assigned to Button 6/PTT in my case)
4. Soft Reset
5. Enable XCSDM
6. Soft Reset
7. Disable XCSDM
8. Soft Reset
9. Pair Bluetooth Headset
It seems to be working...the best I can figure is that when it initially gets installed the XCSDM doesn't have any value at all, but by enabling it, and then disabling it, it actually turns it off as opposed to having a null value. Also note that since I am using Alex's 'UltraClean' ROM, there were never any Cyberon installation traces, and therefore I ignored those sections.
In any case it seems to be working great and I'm very happy.
Thank you everyone for all your help, and hopefully what I listed above will help someone else.
One annoyance I've found with my Fuze's call status screen is I would have to go to the menu to turn hands-free on/off.
The fuze's got a long menu thanks to AT&T's PTT craps, so i would have to click menu -> scroll up -> click hands-free to transfer call between handset and my headset.
My wife's got an iphone and the Speaker Phone icon turns into a select source (forgot the exact name and can't find screenshot online) button when bluetooth is detected, clicking the button brings up a list to select "Speaker", "Phone" or "Bluetooth" which easily transfer call to any of the 3 places.
Anybody know similar solutions for WM6 or anything at all that would transfer call to/from bluetooth with button clicks?
Thanks in advance
lemon103 said:
One annoyance I've found with my Fuze's call status screen is I would have to go to the menu to turn hands-free on/off.
The fuze's got a long menu thanks to AT&T's PTT craps, so i would have to click menu -> scroll up -> click hands-free to transfer call between handset and my headset.
My wife's got an iphone and the Speaker Phone icon turns into a select source (forgot the exact name and can't find screenshot online) button when bluetooth is detected, clicking the button brings up a list to select "Speaker", "Phone" or "Bluetooth" which easily transfer call to any of the 3 places.
Anybody know similar solutions for WM6 or anything at all that would transfer call to/from bluetooth with button clicks?
Thanks in advance
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Search for the diamond dialer skin, install it and it will do what you are wishing.
Thanks for the reply
I've found these skins and will try it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403484
But I don't find mention of the "Hands-Free" button?
Try this .cab I think its more of what your looking for.
It's very pretty skin but it's just a skin.
To move the call to/from bluetooth headset i still need to click menu, find "Turn hands-free on/off" and click on it.
On the iphone, this is readily available via 2 button clicks.
So if you're headset is connected (via bluetooth) it doesn't automatically answer with the headset? I've only had my fuze for 2 days so I'm still getting the hang of it. But I do have a bluetooth hands-free stereo in my car, and if I get a call it picks up automatically with the car's hands-free. But I guess it would be nice to be able to quickly switch back to the handset during certain calls so that passengers don't have to hear the conversation.
There is nothing I've seen that will give you the connection options on a big button on the screen while in a call, only speaker phone. You already know that you can route it back to the phone with the menu option, but you can also route it back to the headset just by touching the answer button on said headset. I realize that won't help you if you want to go from headset to speakerphone, but if you hold the answer button on the phone with an incoming call, it should put you straight to speakerphone even if there is a headset attached.
But again, there is no app I've seen that gives you a button to switch the call to any source you choose.
Thanks, I think this is the answer I need - using the right hardware buttons the right way at the right time.
It's not as convenient as having one button to switch calls to different places imho but I guess it doesn't bother many people since I don't find this feature request anywhere.
Hi all
I've searched the forum and couldn't find a solution to this.
I need to be able to activate voice dialing through the bluetoth headset call button so that i can call someone while i'm driving without having to look at my x1.
in my old tytn, i installed voice commander 1.2 and assigned it to the left side memo button. when i pressed the Bluetooth headset button once, it would open the voice commander and route the mic through the headset, so i was able to say the name into the heasdset.
but in my x1, a single click on my BT headset doesn't do anything and a long press only redials the last number.
i couldn't find any simple way to...
1-click on the headset button
2-voice commander activates and routes the mic to the headset
3-the voice commander takes my command and dials the number.
the closest i came to is to assign voice commander to a hw key on x1 not the headset buttn and when i press it, i must say the commande in the x1 mic not the headset.
so. to cut it short....any body was able to dial using the bluetooth headset?
I use Voice Command, that allows voice dialling through my Jawbone Headset.
fmohiy said:
Hi all
I've searched the forum and couldn't find a solution to this.
I need to be able to activate voice dialing through the bluetoth headset call button so that i can call someone while i'm driving without having to look at my x1.
in my old tytn, i installed voice commander 1.2 and assigned it to the left side memo button. when i pressed the Bluetooth headset button once, it would open the voice commander and route the mic through the headset, so i was able to say the name into the heasdset.
but in my x1, a single click on my BT headset doesn't do anything and a long press only redials the last number.
i couldn't find any simple way to...
1-click on the headset button
2-voice commander activates and routes the mic to the headset
3-the voice commander takes my command and dials the number.
the closest i came to is to assign voice commander to a hw key on x1 not the headset buttn and when i press it, i must say the commande in the x1 mic not the headset.
so. to cut it short....any body was able to dial using the bluetooth headset?
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MSVC does by replacing the the dll with it's own.
My rom also does by replacing dll from HD.
Me too, I use MS Voice Command with SonyEricsson HBH sets and all work by pressing the button on headset which brings up the mic from voice command to command-the-phone
fmohiy said:
so. to cut it short....any body was able to dial using the bluetooth headset?
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MS Voice Command 1.6 here. It works about 75% of the time. Sometimes it doesn't work. No idea why.
Of course, I also have no idea why the Bluetooth disconnects randomly, for no apparent reason.
The same Parrot CK3100 works 100% of the time with a Nokia E71-2, and it works 100% of the time with an old Motorola Q9h.
No idea what the freak is wrong w/the Xperia.
Both the Voice Command issue (25% failure) and the Bluetooth disconnection happens with both the X1a and the X1i that I just sold.
Yes of course, if the bluetooth doesn't work then the bluetooth voice command cannot work. There was this bluetooth disconnect issue with the fw R1A but should be better with the fw update to R2A.
Did you update your phone yet?
As long as my headset is connected, voice command works 99.9%.
did you just install MS voice commander and it worked straight away? or did you change any settings or do any button assignments?
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Yes of course, if the bluetooth doesn't work then the bluetooth voice command cannot work. There was this bluetooth disconnect issue with the fw R1A but should be better with the fw update to R2A.
Did you update your phone yet?
As long as my headset is connected, voice command works 99.9%.
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I'm on the UK R2A that was dated 20 Feb 2009. Bluetooth is still buggy.
There still seems to be some occasion that the phone goes into some kind of standby mode that causes Bluetooth not to be instantly available, and no doubt this affects the performance of Voice Command.
But, having said that: There are still times that you know the phone's not in standby, and Bluetooth + Voice Command is still buggy. Sometimes the phone responds with the Xperia speaker, and sometimes the phone responds w/the car speakers, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.
fmohiy said:
did you just install MS voice commander and it worked straight away? or did you change any settings or do any button assignments?
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I did not have to do anything special to get it to work the way that I wanted, except to assign the right silver button to Voice Command.
Can anyone tell how to make voice command or voice2go work with bluetooth headset?
Can you use all the available commands of MSVC?
Hi all, I have also installed the MSVC on my Xperia and the voice dial feature works fine, but I have tried to use other voice commands (just say "help" for a list of available commands) like "What time is it?" and it doesn't work.
Has anyone else tried it?
Update: I figured it out: you have to enable the "Status" option in MSVC settings!
MS VC R3AA013 & Jawbone Prime
Hi All
Had MSVC 1.6 on my x1 (R2a), all working fine, just been given a Jawbone Prime (thought result), BT linked up no worries. Tried to use MSVC over BT & not a thing. Can make a call manually n Jawbone picks it up, can use VC on my phone n Jawbone will pick it up, but picking up my phone with a BT sort of defeats the object of the exercise. Have looked all over XDA, and get a mixed impression, does a BT headset work with an X1 & MSVC?
Tried a couple of registry tweaks & nothin & I've now updated to R3 to see if that makes a difference but no joy.
Have I missed something here? Or am I just special?
I missed something!
I was using the wrong button, gotta use the assassin button & not the talk button. D'oh.
Having same issue as original post. WM6.5 w/ voice command loaded. Can't get bluetooth headset to initate voice command prompt. I have had to attach it to one of the buttons on the phone - but not ideal b/c of the incoming handsfree laws here.
Any suggestions?
Ok so I'm having a similar problem here. I have the X1a with WM 6.1 and MS Voice command 1.6 and my bluetooth is a Nokia BH-212. My blue tooth has a volume rocker and one master button for all functions. My issue is that yes I can answer with my bluetooth by pressing once, I can hang up the same way. If I press twice quickly it redials the last number. However when I hold the function button for the right amount of time (you get a long tone) it is supposed to activate the voice command prompt but instead i simply get the dialer on my screen. No prompt, nothing.
I have looked into the phone as much as I can to try and find something with no luck. I am a newbie so please be gentle. I just want that feature to work and my phone will do almost everything I want it to. Thanks all