issues with pebble watch - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I guess I am going to be one of the few people with a pebble watch and htc one, but the pebble app seems to screw up the shortcut icons on the lock screen.
i can no longer drag the icons up, but instead tapping on the shirtcut icons will unlock to the app instead. this may seem more convenient but it also screws up the camera shortcut, which takes me to the screen to enter the password for a couple of seconds before loading the camera app (instead of directly loading it) and also the buttons for snoozing the alarm seems to act as unlocking the phone and also dismisses the alarm instead of snoozing.
i tested this, uninstalling the pebble app and issues go away. reinstalled and paired up my pebble and issues return.
bit bummed at the moment about this.

electric0ant said:
I guess I am going to be one of the few people with a pebble watch and htc one, but the pebble app seems to screw up the shortcut icons on the lock screen.
i can no longer drag the icons up, but instead tapping on the shirtcut icons will unlock to the app instead. this may seem more convenient but it also screws up the camera shortcut, which takes me to the screen to enter the password for a couple of seconds before loading the camera app (instead of directly loading it) and also the buttons for snoozing the alarm seems to act as unlocking the phone and also dismisses the alarm instead of snoozing.
i tested this, uninstalling the pebble app and issues go away. reinstalled and paired up my pebble and issues return.
bit bummed at the moment about this.
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Have you informed pebble about the problem with the app?

I'd love a Pebble!
I agree, get in touch with Pebble and see what they suggest.

Have you checked your accessibility settings? I know the Pebble app enables the Pebble service as an accessibility service. On the GS III, this leads to the phone reading out the number of the home page you are on - i.e. turns Talkback on in this case even if it is unchecked. This is actually a bug in the implementation of the Accessibility service by Samsung, but shows up because the Pebble enables it.

rajeshr said:
Have you checked your accessibility settings? I know the Pebble app enables the Pebble service as an accessibility service. On the GS III, this leads to the phone reading out the number of the home page you are on - i.e. turns Talkback on in this case even if it is unchecked. This is actually a bug in the implementation of the Accessibility service by Samsung, but shows up because the Pebble enables it.
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thanks, no talkback is not turned on. only the pebble app is.
I have just sent them an email, guess will have to wait to see what they say.
thanks for the replies.

I have done further testing and this seems to be an issue with HTC.
rajeshr seems to have been right about the accessibility settings. if i don't have pebble app installed and I just turn on talkback the same issues occur.
not sure if this is a bug or "feature"

I just got my Pebble today and have this same issue occurring on my AT&T One. Looks like it's definitely tied to the Accessibility service portion of the Pebble app. I know there were some weird issues in the past with the Lightflow app and the accessibility service on some Android phones as well. Sigh.
Not sure if this bug is from HTC's side or the Pebble's side. Guess I can try contacting both and see if I get any response.

Desktop notifications has same issue when Accessibility for that app is activated:S More likely to be a HTC bug then?

rajeshr said:
Have you checked your accessibility settings? I know the Pebble app enables the Pebble service as an accessibility service. On the GS III, this leads to the phone reading out the number of the home page you are on - i.e. turns Talkback on in this case even if it is unchecked. This is actually a bug in the implementation of the Accessibility service by Samsung, but shows up because the Pebble enables it.
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I'm having the same experience with my GS4. Turning on Pebble setting turns off a bunch of the GS4 new innovative features and also turns on Talkback (even though it's not checked off in settings). This is extremely frustrating especially since it took so long to get the Pebble watch in my hands.

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Weird things happening since Gear

I have had my Gear for 3 days. For the most parti have been enjoying it. But there have been some aggravating problems.
1. I can no longer put my Note 3 in One-handed mode for all screens using the gesture. I've checked the songs and everything, and it is still activated. This was a feature that I used constantly! Now ever since linking with the watch it doesn't work anymore. Even after un-linking the watch from the phone, no luck. Very frustrating. Please help
2. Secondly, every time I go into my browser (stock) it talks to me. As if the accessibility option is on for blinds people. It says stuff like "page loading". The crazy thing is, this feature is turned off in the accessibility options! Someone please help as I don't know what to do. I haven't found any thing on Google web searches on this topic. It's surprising that is only me.
Please help!
melvnx said:
I have hag my Gear for 3 days. For the most parti have been enjoying it. But there have been some aggravating problems.
1. I can no longer put my Note 3 in One-handed mode for all screens using the gesture. I've checked the songs and everything, and it is still activated. This was a feature that I used constantly! Now ever since linking with the watch it doesn't work anymore. Even after un-linking the watch from the phone, no luck. Very frustrating. Please help
2. Secondly, every time I go into my browser (stock) it talks to me. As if the accessibility option is on for blinds people. It says stuff like "page loading". The crazy thing is, this feature is turned off in the accessibility options! Someone please help as I don't know what to do. I haven't found any thing on Google web searches on this topic. It's surprising that is only me.
Please help!
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have you granted an app permissions in the accessability settings? Samsung have a serious bug with this - do a search for samsung talkback issues. Also look here
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boardName=GeneralB&messageId=229161
Suggest you do not use any apps that needs the accessability service.
ardsar said:
have you granted an app permissions in the accessability settings? Samsung have a serious bug with this - do a search for samsung talkback issues. Also look here
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boardName=GeneralB&messageId=229161
Suggest you do not use any apps that needs the accessability service.
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Thank you! I had given the Face book app for the gear rights. That app is not really that good anyway. That fixed both problems. That's a weird bug. Thanks for your quick response.
Glad it sorted both problems. Allowing an app accessibility access not only causes talkback issues but limits the functionality of additional features provided by samsung - such as air view etc.
I posted feedback on the facebook app - they should not need to use accessibility now that we have android 4.3 - instead that should use the android notification service.
ardsar said:
Glad it sorted both problems. Allowing an app accessibility access not only causes talkback issues but limits the functionality of additional features provided by samsung - such as air view etc.
I posted feedback on the facebook app - they should not need to use accessibility now that we have android 4.3 - instead that should use the android notification service.
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Off topic. Do u foresee bluetooth tether to allow Internet access for apps on the gear happening pretty soon if at all?
I don't know but are you aware you have 3 duplicate threads open.
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melvnx said:
I have had my Gear for 3 days. For the most parti have been enjoying it. But there have been some aggravating problems.
1. I can no longer put my Note 3 in One-handed mode for all screens using the gesture. I've checked the songs and everything, and it is still activated. This was a feature that I used constantly! Now ever since linking with the watch it doesn't work anymore. Even after un-linking the watch from the phone, no luck. Very frustrating. Please help
2. Secondly, every time I go into my browser (stock) it talks to me. As if the accessibility option is on for blinds people. It says stuff like "page loading". The crazy thing is, this feature is turned off in the accessibility options! Someone please help as I don't know what to do. I haven't found any thing on Google web searches on this topic. It's surprising that is only me.
Please help!
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the talking is annoying it doesn't happen if you use a different browser. I use dolphin
Press thx if i help you

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What would you like for the gear (Keep in mind its a Smart Watch not a Smart Phone)
My first pic is
Stolen Watch, if someone nicks it you can get it back
Whatsapp! Just want to share pics to contacts
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I want to get offline GPS navigation. Sygic unfortunately does not work..
hurdlejade said:
I want to get offline GPS navigation. Sygic unfortunately does not work..
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using the phone for the gps sensor?
1)Shake to wake, like the pebble. The current wake up makes my watch turn on way too often.
2)Expanded notifications without first tapping on the notification like how it is currently. I don't understand why I need to tap on it first before I can read the whole message. Just make them expanded/full notifications always, or at least make it an option.
3)There is too much of a delay for the media controller app. There's about a 1 second delay between pressing a button in the media controller app and having my phone actually change the song. The pebble does the song switch almost instantly. If this is due to the lower bandwidth of Bluetooth Low Energy, make it an option to turn off BLE and use only BT Classic. I would gladly give up battery life for faster notifications/control over my phone. This brings me to #4
4) Faster notifications. Sometimes I have a 1 second wait before a notification shows up on my watch after having already shown up on my phone. Again, if this is due to the limited bandwidth of BLE, make it an option to only work on BT classic.
Edit: Oh I misread the topic. I thought this was about changes to the Gear. I'll just leave this here anyways.
Me too, i would like a GPS guidance for walking.
An extention of Sygic will be really great.
I can honestly say I couldn't ask for much more from my watch.
I would like a keyboard to reply to msgs (from anything that shows up in notification center - email, text, hangouts, etc) - without having to bake in a whole new rom etc
NZ_Nitro said:
using the phone for the gps sensor?
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yup.
Something like Rain Alarm pro does on the sony smart watch. Yes you can get the alert when the app sees rain but the ability to see weather radar on the watch would be awesome!

Some questions about the gear

Thinking of getting either the Galaxy gear or pebble smartwatch for my note 3 and I hope someone can clarify some questions I have:
1. You have to swipe left and right to toggle through the app selection right? Is there a way to disable some of the apps to make them not appear when you're swiping? I don't normally use voice memo, svoice or gallery.
2. When playing music and the display of the gear turns off and you activate it again, will music toggle show on the home page / lock screen or do you have to swipe left/right a few times again to get to music control?
3. I understand the gear syncs with your phone, does that mean all read sms via the gear will also be marked as read on the phone? After you read the sms on your gear does it disappear or can you still access everything through the watch?
4. Is it annoying to have to flick your wrist everytime you wanna check the time?
5. Can you customize which apps you want sound / vibrate notifications from? Like sound only when getting sms and vibrate only when receiving phone calls?
I'm planning on using the gear while out jogging to easily switch music tracks, do you think it can withstand heavy sweat and a little shock?
Thanks
kingofthebraves said:
Thinking of getting either the Galaxy gear or pebble smartwatch for my note 3 and I hope someone can clarify some questions I have:
1. You have to swipe left and right to toggle through the app selection right? Is there a way to disable some of the apps to make them not appear when you're swiping? I don't normally use voice memo, svoice or gallery.
2. When playing music and the display of the gear turns off and you activate it again, will music toggle show on the home page / lock screen or do you have to swipe left/right a few times again to get to music control?
3. I understand the gear syncs with your phone, does that mean all read sms via the gear will also be marked as read on the phone? After you read the sms on your gear does it disappear or can you still access everything through the watch?
4. Is it annoying to have to flick your wrist everytime you wanna check the time?
5. Can you customize which apps you want sound / vibrate notifications from? Like sound only when getting sms and vibrate only when receiving phone calls?
I'm planning on using the gear while out jogging to easily switch music tracks, do you think it can withstand heavy sweat and a little shock?
Thanks
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1. Yes. You can use the gear manager to disable/enable which app you wanna show/hide
2. you have to swipe back again since the screen will turn on with default watch face
3. I use Chomp SMS so I can't comment on this. With Chomp, it won't dismiss on the phone even after you read on the watch or vice versa it won't dismiss on the watch even after you read on the phone.
4. Nope. it becomes second nature for me.
5. no you can't specify individual app control notification. You can choose sound, vibrate, both or silent.
Shock shouldn't be a problem. But sweat is the problem. What other members have done is wear a wrist sweat band and then wear the watch on top of it to protect.
Hope this helps.
kingofthebraves said:
Thinking of getting either the Galaxy gear or pebble smartwatch for my note 3 and I hope someone can clarify some questions I have:
1. You have to swipe left and right to toggle through the app selection right? Is there a way to disable some of the apps to make them not appear when you're swiping? I don't normally use voice memo, svoice or gallery.
2. When playing music and the display of the gear turns off and you activate it again, will music toggle show on the home page / lock screen or do you have to swipe left/right a few times again to get to music control?
3. I understand the gear syncs with your phone, does that mean all read sms via the gear will also be marked as read on the phone? After you read the sms on your gear does it disappear or can you still access everything through the watch?
4. Is it annoying to have to flick your wrist everytime you wanna check the time?
5. Can you customize which apps you want sound / vibrate notifications from? Like sound only when getting sms and vibrate only when receiving phone calls?
I'm planning on using the gear while out jogging to easily switch music tracks, do you think it can withstand heavy sweat and a little shock?
Thanks
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1. Yes, the apps you see are favourites and you can configure in Gear Manager
2. There is a music control app on the Gear. You would need to change option in settings to display last viewed screen (instead of main screen)
3. Can't remember as currently using unsupported phone. I think the answer is yes though for some notifications
4. It comes naturally
5. No
I've found sweat doesn't affect mine, but others say it can get in the little hole behind the camera and fog up lens (it goes away and doesn't affect the physical camera)
Thank you for responding to my queries.
So there's no way to incorporate music control while playing music on the home screen /watch face?
I plan on getting the gear primarily to answer phone calls while driving and controlling media while working out. Very disappointing
Are you satisfied with yours?
kingofthebraves said:
Thank you for responding to my queries.
So there's no way to incorporate music control while playing music on the home screen /watch face?
I plan on getting the gear primarily to answer phone calls while driving and controlling media while working out. Very disappointing
Are you satisfied with yours?
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What do you mean? It works the way it seems you want it to
http://ukm.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/...amsung-Galaxy-Gear-Black-Media-Controller.jpg
(but when playing/paused; background is cover and song title/artist appear at top of screen)
It is a million times better (and useful) than my Pebble - apart from the fact I need phone/rom with TouchWiz for full use (notifications, weather)
I want to be able to control my music instantly when I flick my wrist while something is playing, is this possible? Similar to the music control on our phones lock screen
kingofthebraves said:
I want to be able to control my music instantly when I flick my wrist while something is playing, is this possible? Similar to the music control on our phones lock screen
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Well, mine is set so that when I use motion to turn on (flick wrist) the last used screen comes on - just need to make sure that I opened media control initially
Can't do anything with playlists
You can try setting up Tasker profiles for anything more advanced
Brendo said:
Well, mine is set so that when I use motion to turn on (flick wrist) the last used screen comes on - just need to make sure that I opened media control initially
Can't do anything with playlists
You can try setting up Tasker profiles for anything more advanced
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Yeah I won't be needing the players. Just the basics
Thank you for the input guys, seems like I haven't met anyone who didn't enjoy their gears.
Are SMS and call logs stored on the watch or are they instantly deleted once you dismiss the notification
kingofthebraves said:
Are SMS and call logs stored on the watch or are they instantly deleted once you dismiss the notification
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As long as the phone is connected to the gear, any notifications it receives are archived (ie if you receive messages while not connected, the gear knows nothing about them). You can manually delete from archive
I think that notifications delete themselves after a while, as far as I can see they only seem to stay for around 2 days, which is fine
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I think that notifications delete themselves after a while, as far as I can see they only seem to stay for around 2 days, which is fine
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I know emails will be marked read when they are viewed on the gear, not sure about SMS messages, cant rememeber.
Also a nice thing is when you get a message and you are looking at it on the gear, if you pick up your phone it automatically goes right to that message without having to do anything on the phone.
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I know emails will be marked read when they are viewed on the gear, not sure about SMS messages, cant rememeber.
Also a nice thing is when you get a message and you are looking at it on the gear, if you pick up your phone it automatically goes right to that message without having to do anything on the phone.
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Is this the smart relay feature? I can't seem to get it to work. The only way I can do it is to hit 'show on device' on the gear.
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But if you read an SMS from your gear it automatically gets marked as read on ur note right?

Line for Gear

Has anyone been successful using this app? It is the messaging app I use the most, but in its current state it appears quite useless. It claims it can be used for making calls and sending stickers, but the only option available is to turn the alarm off and on.
If you have figured out how to get this app working, please let me know.
LaDamian said:
Has anyone been successful using this app? It is the messaging app I use the most, but in its current state it appears quite useless. It claims it can be used for making calls and sending stickers, but the only option available is to turn the alarm off and on.
If you have figured out how to get this app working, please let me know.
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It used to work! I love Line and you could reply with a sticker right from the Gear. But now it doesn´t work...
Alarm off or on refers to the alerts of the Line messages, but no...doesn´t work.
Every time theres an update for GM, I dont restore data from the last GM, this has solve my problems with line. or do a fresh install of line on your gear. you can also try to have notifications on when screen is off.
allendj81 said:
Every time theres an update for GM, I dont restore data from the last GM, this has solve my problems with line. or do a fresh install of line on your gear. you can also try to have notifications on when screen is off.
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Do you use Null or the stock rom?
LaDamian said:
Do you use Null or the stock rom?
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stock rooted only
Ok. One more question. Do you have notifications turned on in gear manager for line, or do you let the line for gear app handle them?
Thanks
I finally figured it out after reading through reviews. You have to have pop up notifications turned on in the line app on your phone for the program on the gear to work properly. You can use either the "simple" or "default" setting. This pretty much just makes me not want to use the app.
Thats what I meant when I recommended to have notifications on when the screen is off. you have to play with the notifications settings on the phone. Ive also notice that sometimes notifications dont get send out to the gear when you have a screen lock. How do you like it now? its pretty cool huh, I just wish they included more stickers for the gear
The app requiring pop up notifications was a deal breaker for me. Half the reason I wanted the watch was so I didn't have to turn my screen on as often as I do. I also don't want people just seeing random pop ups. I deleted it in favor of the regular notifications until it gets better.

Camera app problem

Hey,
Every time when I open the camera app this screen appears.
In save mode this doesn't happen.
I can't found a app called talkback.
The message is:
"Turn on Voice control?
To enchance Talkback in Camera, Voice Control will be enabled.
Cancel Turn On"
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spartan117701 said:
Hey,
Every time when I open the camera app this screen appears.
In save mode this doesn't happen.
I can't found a app called talkback.
The message is:
"Turn on Voice control?
To enchance Talkback in Camera, Voice Control will be enabled.
Cancel Turn On"
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In the camera settings under shooting methods is voice control on or off.
Voice control is off. When I turn it on the message don't appear. But I don't need voice control
I have the same problem. Every time I open the camera this notification appears to turn on voice control. It's frustrating
Have the same issue. Just updated my S10+ to Android 10 this morning. Met my friend and she also updated today and has the same issue on her phone.
Talked with Samsung support and they have no idea. After a bit of back and forth I convinced them to escalate.
This should be the Ref # for this specific escalation: 2222899743
Please contact their support to submit examples.
As for now I'm just going to use Tasker to dismiss that notice every time I open Camera.
Samsung said to me I have to hard reset my phone this is no option
Also have this issue, S10e. Don't use voice control for anything so it's all switched off. Only appeared with the Android 10 update as well.
Same problem here. Galaxy S10. Happend after upgrading from OneUI 1 to 2.
Same problem here as well, S10e. Just got the phone so don't know if it is caused by the upgrade or not. Fact is that I managed to disable most of the Bixby and other samsung apps - but this pop keeps coming up. I have tried Gcam, but that one crashes quite often.
I-TensE-I said:
Have the same issue. Just updated my S10+ to Android 10 this morning. Met my friend and she also updated today and has the same issue on her phone.
Talked with Samsung support and they have no idea. After a bit of back and forth I convinced them to escalate.
This should be the Ref # for this specific escalation: 2222899743
Please contact their support to submit examples.
As for now I'm just going to use Tasker to dismiss that notice every time I open Camera.
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Thanks for doing this! This is probably a really dumb question, but how do I even contact them to report the issue? I am also having the same problem and this forum is the only place I've seen anything about it.
Hello All,
I discovered the prompt to turn on TalkBack stopped after I disabled an app I was using called Holey Light. Holey Light needed extra permissions so it could give me a notification light around the front camera. Don't know why, but after turning it off via the Accessibility > Installed Services setting, the prompt stopped happening.
avacadont said:
Hello All,
I discovered the prompt to turn on TalkBack stopped after I disabled an app I was using called Holey Light. Holey Light needed extra permissions so it could give me a notification light around the front camera. Don't know why, but after turning it off via the Accessibility > Installed Services setting, the prompt stopped happening.
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Interesting, I also have Holey Light. I disabled it and the pop-up in the camera disappeared, but I quite like Holey Light so that's a bit of a pain. HL also seemed to need to change the Text-to-Speech language from English (UK) to English (US), although I'm not sure that is necessarily relevant.
Anyway, looks like maybe you've found the cause, nice one :good: . Hopefully Chainfire might be able to work out if it's anything he can fix.
slapdatass said:
Interesting, I also have Holey Light. I disabled it and the pop-up in the camera disappeared, but I quite like Holey Light so that's a bit of a pain. HL also seemed to need to change the Text-to-Speech language from English (UK) to English (US), although I'm not sure that is necessarily relevant.
Anyway, looks like maybe you've found the cause, nice one :good: . Hopefully Chainfire might be able to work out if it's anything he can fix.
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Good to know. I'll see if I can reach out to this Chainfire fella and let him know. I'm from the US, so my language was already set to English (US). Like you say, maybe not relevant but another similarity in our settings anyhow. :highfive:
avacadont said:
Hello All,
I discovered the prompt to turn on TalkBack stopped after I disabled an app I was using called Holey Light. Holey Light needed extra permissions so it could give me a notification light around the front camera. Don't know why, but after turning it off via the Accessibility > Installed Services setting, the prompt stopped happening.
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I have tested this an it works ?but i want to use holey light it's nice ?
Accessibility Service could be the Cause
Go to Settings -> Accessibility-> Installed Services, and turn off Installed services one at a time. Check if the prompt disappears. For me, it was the "Select to speak" service that caused it. Other folks found Holey Light to be the cause.
avacadont said:
Hello All,
I discovered the prompt to turn on TalkBack stopped after I disabled an app I was using called Holey Light. Holey Light needed extra permissions so it could give me a notification light around the front camera. Don't know why, but after turning it off via the Accessibility > Installed Services setting, the prompt stopped happening.
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Great find, I was scratching my head trying to figure out what was causing this. I use Holey Light although it does not work all the time, its better than nothing having one. Guess ill have to concede to samsung listening
Try aodNotify.
I had this problem as well, was good to find these posts. It looks to be solved in the latest update of Holey Light
Yes, not sure if it was a HL update (don't recall one) or the February security update (more likely), but I was able to turn the Voice Activation off on my camera and the pop-up hasn't come back.

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