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Texting for free?

Hello Everyone,
Is there a way to text for free on a g1. I cant afford a texting plan so I need a free alternative for the phone. I know google voice is one but they still haven't started the service for free. Its only by invites. Like on the iphone there is a way but I dont know for g1. Are we charged to use google talk on the g1 with wifi connected? Please let me know.
Thank You

OF COURSE!!!!
Not MANY use it, but I used to before I got GOOGLE VOICE.
its called EMAIL!!! its almost just as quick to receive as a text...
For A List Of Carrier email addresses do a google search or go to the carriers website.
EXAMPLE:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

yup, the only tricky thing about using the email method is you have to know exactly which network all of your contacts are on. it's good because they can still text and reply to you and you can receive it later in email archives.
you can also text through IM apps. put all of your contact numbers in as buddies into a mobile group. then just send texts that way. the downside is, if u are not connected to the IM service you wil not get any texts.
both good alternatives with pros/cons. but free assuming you have wifi or unlimted data.

NguyenHuu said:
yup, the only tricky thing about using the email method is you have to know exactly which network all of your contacts are on. it's good because they can still text and reply to you and you can receive it later in email archives.
you can also text through IM apps. put all of your contact numbers in as buddies into a mobile group. then just send texts that way. the downside is, if u are not connected to the IM service you wil not get any texts.
both good alternatives with pros/cons. but free assuming you have wifi or unlimted data.
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Yea I used AIM before I used GMAIL and now Google Voice to text mobile lines...Im surprised ALOT of people dont use either (AIM or GMAIL)...

Also if you wanted to send them you can use websites like text4free.com. I don't know how you would recieve em tho.

You know, you COULD just send an email to THEIR EMAIL address rather than to their carrier's email-to-sms address....

lbcoder said:
You know, you COULD just send an email to THEIR EMAIL address rather than to their carrier's email-to-sms address....
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not everyone has a smart phone.....
the point of texting is to contact someone whereever they are.....

B-man007 said:
not everyone has a smart phone.....
the point of texting is to contact someone whereever they are.....
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Actually you can email to text without them having a smartphone you just have to know who the carrier is and the address.

supremeteam256 said:
Actually you can email to text without them having a smartphone you just have to know who the carrier is and the address.
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i know this....i was responding to lbcoder lol i even quoted him. ive been emailing texts since i got my phone lol. i dont have a texting plan either. (google voice makes it 10x easier though)

B-man007 said:
i know this....i was responding to lbcoder lol i even quoted him. ive been emailing texts since i got my phone lol. i dont have a texting plan either. (google voice makes it 10x easier though)
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Aawwhhh, I see now. It's been to long of a week and it's only tuesday. My brain is fried.
This is my brain on XDA
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Am I the only one having issues with GMAIL?

Since yesterday I have to go and manualy press refresh to retrieve the emails, before it was instant like a blackberry that everytime an email was sent to me it was received by my Nexus.
Account is the same and no changes have been made.
Any ideas?

i had those same problems this weekend, i did a reboot and it works fine since.
eric b

On the same note, this past week or so my favorite sports teams keep clearing themselves everytime close the window. Its fixed now but I'll tell you that it should correct itself over time like my problem.

Good to hear that let's see if it solves by itself, did the reboot twice and that didn't help.

Try checking your syncing preferences, my gmail stopped syncing and later I realized that I accidentally hit the sync on/off button on the homescreen power control widget. Its easy to hit when you have your brightness on low and are trying to turn it up.

Common problem that occurs, albeit rarely, on our phones. Go to settings, applications, manage applications, hit menu, filter, select "all", and clear the cache in gmail and gmail storage. Takes a little time for your emails to populate again, but syncing should work again.

swgbex said:
Try checking your syncing preferences, my gmail stopped syncing and later I realized that I accidentally hit the sync on/off button on the homescreen power control widget. Its easy to hit when you have your brightness on low and are trying to turn it up.
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@ swgbex you sir are great!
That was the issue, seems like I turn off the syncing by mistake. LOL!
Thanks !

I deleted Gmail, i found it to be to simple and disapointing. I found regular Email app to be equally as good as Gmail besides i can have other mail accounts in there.

It's super random with me.
Half the time my Nexus One gets email quicker than my iMac, but then there's times when my iMac gets it way quicker than the Nexus One. Either way, push email rocks

The Gmail app is a big pile of ****. You can't get to your outbox, it doesn't let you download some attachments, no copy/paste... I could go on and on. I pretty much just use the mobile gmail website now.

bradsh1 said:
The Gmail app is a big pile of ****. You can't get to your outbox, it doesn't let you download some attachments, no copy/paste... I could go on and on. I pretty much just use the mobile gmail website now.
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Yeah, and does anybody have the problem where only the first message in a conversation had live web links? All of my subsequent messages in a given conversation have non-clickable http links... sucks.

bradsh1 said:
The Gmail app is a big pile of ****. You can't get to your outbox, it doesn't let you download some attachments, no copy/paste... I could go on and on. I pretty much just use the mobile gmail website now.
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Menu - View labels - Outbox (am I missing something, or are you?)
The attachments are due to Android limitations (as far as I know) not really the Gmail app. Copy/paste, yeah that sure sucks that it is missing.
Djmcnz - I just opened a discussion with a few messages, and the very first (oldest) had a link, it worked. The newer messages had links that work as well.

Hmm, so does anyone get this:
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The first image is the last email in a conversation, the second image is the first email in the same conversation. In every conversation in my gmail, only the first message has live links... (e.g. the blue hyperlink, the purple coloured one can not be clicked on).
PITA!

In mine all links remain active and usable.

i've got djmcnz's issue almost in every mail i send form the Mail app on my Mac (and only in sent mails).. but i guess that is not related to the links.. in these mails there wasn't any link!..
as you can see it cuts out some paragraph of the mail, and i can't understand the sense of that!
it is really annoying since i can't read my mail from my phone!

Okay, so it's a crap app... what are the alternatives for Gmail? Suggestions please?
Does the built in email app do gmail? Is it any good?
It shocks me that the two utter fails for Android are Market searches and Gmail... go figure...

djmcnz said:
Hmm, so does anyone get this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/djmcnz/first.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/djmcnz/second.png
The first image is the last email in a conversation, the second image is the first email in the same conversation. In every conversation in my gmail, only the first message has live links... (e.g. the blue hyperlink, the purple coloured one can not be clicked on).
PITA!
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Hehe, I thought this was obvious but maybe not:
Text in purple = quoted text from a previous email.
Links in quoted text / previous emails are not clickable. To click the link, open the email in the conversation that first had the link.
Yes, this can be annoying, but I just wanted to explain the behavior for people since it may not be obvious.
5ne1ke said:
i've got djmcnz's issue almost in every mail i send form the Mail app on my Mac (and only in sent mails).. but i guess that is not related to the links.. in these mails there wasn't any link!..
as you can see it cuts out some paragraph of the mail, and i can't understand the sense of that!
it is really annoying since i can't read my mail from my phone!
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It's cut off because it's quoted text from a previous email. The Gmail app only shows the first 100 characters of a quoted passage to cut down on redundancy. There's no point in having the same passage over and over and over again in every single email of a thread. For long conversation emails, that would get extremely annoying fast. The creators of the Gmail app are going for a 'clean' interface, and rightly so.
If you want to see the full message, they're expecting you to look at the corresponding email in the conversation, since it's only a single click away:
Yes, it can be improved. And hopefully it will be in FroYo -- next month
Ideally, links in quoted passages WOULD be clickable, and the length of quoted passages would be user-configurable (100 characters, 200, 500, etc). (Most likely, there's probably a feature request about these issues on the official Android developer site already anyway.)
[Edit]: Here are a few I found:
Issue 1494: Gmail should allow seeing the entire email (headers, quotes text) - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1494
Issue 1136: Gmail should allow editing text of quoted/forwarded emails - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1136
Among others.
Go ahead and star them to show your support!​
However, keep in mind: most other phones do not have threaded emails like we do. Imagine if every email in email chains/conversations were separate.
So to see previous replies you had to:
- exit the email
- scroll around
- find the date/time it was received
- open that corresponding email
- and hope it was the right one that you wanted.
This is how the iPhone operates, webOS etc, and various other phones.
Don't take threaded emails for granted Learn to use them.
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thanks paul for the answers..
i already knew how quoted text is handled by gmail app, and i like it, because, as you say, it doesn't matter to show me the whole quoted text since i can just open the previous mail..
the problem is that in the mail of this screenshot, the first paragraph was NOT a quoted text, and was written by me as part of that mail that you can see..
that is the problem.. why does the gmail app recognize that part of text as quoted text?
in the web app it dosn't happen, and neither using gmail from the browser of my desktop computer..
i hope i explained it better..

5ne1ke said:
the problem is that in the mail of this screenshot, the first paragraph was NOT a quoted text, and was written by me as part of that mail that you can see..
that is the problem.. why does the gmail app recognize that part of text as quoted text?
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I think this is a result of the way Gmail guesses what is and isn't quoted text. There's no one standard way of formatting or markup for quoted text, so the Gmail app has to try and guess what is part of your message and what is quoted text. Sometimes it gets it wrong and the web version of Gmail probably uses a more accurate detection scheme.
I notice this problem a lot when emailing Outlook and Blackberry users as both of those email clients use unusual formating for quoted text, and Outlook uses some horrible HTML markup. It gets worse when people include massive signatures in their emails.

can someone say if the problems pointed out in the latest posts are still present in froyo?
thanks
DNL

[app] Forget and Forward (Call, SMS) - Forget your phone at home?

Forget and Forward (Call, SMS)
Forgot your mobile phone at home? You can remotely forward calls / forward SMS and lock your phone with this app.
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FEATURES:
- Remotely forward / unforward all calls and / or SMS, if you forgot your phone at home.
- Forward calls and SMS to separate numbers. E.g. you can forward calls to your office phone and forward SMS to another hand phone.
- Remotely lock your phone.
- You can change password remotely. Get hint if you forgot the password.
- Notify you if your phone is running out of power.
NOTE: You may have to register call forwarding service with your mobile service provider.
COMMAND SYNTAX:
Code:
*#HELP#
*#HINT#
*#LOCK*password#
*#FWD*password*[address]#
*#FWDSMS*password*[address]#
*#FWDCALL*password*[address]#
*#UNFWD*password#
*#UNFWDSMS*password#
*#UNFWDCALL*password#
*#PASS*old_password*new_password*new_password#
Where:
[address] = phone number, ME (current number) or leave blank (Default Forwarded-To Number)
DOWNLOAD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.forgetnforward

Command Example:
- To forward both calls and SMS to phone number 0123456789:
*#FWD*password*0123456789#
- To forward only calls to the current phone number (the number you are using to send SMS command): use ME keyword.
*#FWDCALL*password*ME#
- To forward only SMS to the Default Forwarded-To Number (that has been set in the Settings): leave the address field empty.
*#FWDSMS*password#
- To clear forwarding:
*#UNFWD*password# - clear both call and SMS forwarding.
*#UNFWDSMS*password# - clear only SMS forwarding.
*#UNFWDCALL*password# - clear only call forwarding.
- To lock the device remotely (you should remember the password to unlock it later):
*#LOCK*password#
- To change the password remotely:
*#PASS*current_password*new_password*new_password#
- To get the password hint (if you forgot the password):
*#HINT#
- To get help (if you forgot the command syntax):
*#HELP#
.

Tips:
The command syntax is case-insensitive, while the password is case-sensitive.

Tips:
You can set the Default Forwarded-To Number separately for call and SMS forwarding.

If you forgot the command syntax, just need to send *#HELP# to your phone.

If you forgot the password, just send *#HINT# to your phone.

To lock the phone remotely: send *#LOCK*password# to your phone.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Hello, let me ask, to forward my calls using sms command I need to purchase the paid version? I want to try if work. Thank you.
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You can try the free (lite) version. The Lite version can also forward a call using SMS commands.
The paid version has the following features:
- Remotely lock your phone.
- You can change password remotely. Get hint if you forgot the password.
- Notify you if your phone is running out of power.
Thank you.

cool, nice.

Hello,
Sorry, i need some help!
How can i add thread on "Paid Software Announcement and Discussion"?
When i try to add new thread it says to me "Sorry, in order to create a new post in the Paid Apps Forum you must have been a XDA member for more than 1 year and have more than 50 posts."
And already i have more 50 posts and I have been a XDA member for more than 1 year!
Could you tell me please how can i get this privilege?
Thanks in advance

Sorry I don't know, you can ask the forum's admin for more help.

Interesting idea.
I guess app author have been forgotten his phone not once )))

Yes, anyone may forget his phone sometime in his life

The app is now renamed to "Remote Call/SMS Forward & Lock" to describe more functionality of it.

FreeTextSMS Web SMS Solution can forward your SMS to web browser. Just similar idea as this topic.
You can try FreeTextSMS.net Web SMS App, which can forward your Android's every SMS/Text Message in time to your Web browser.
For example, you can just leave your Android phone at home, and read/write your SMS on any web browser anywhere.
It is a kind of Online bulk SMS/group SMS solution on your desktop web browsers through your phone and virtual SMS vendor.
Send and receive SMS text messages on your desktop Windows/Mac/Linux with web browsers, such as Chrome/FireFox/Safari, through your Android phone and virtual Online SMS provider. Move your native SMS application of Android phone to desktop web browsers for convenient reading and writing. Supports Group SMS/Bulk SMS through your mobile phone and/or virtual online SMS vendors in very cheap price.
After installing this app, just visit https://freetextsms.net to pair it with your web browser. No need to install desktop application on your Windows/Mac/Linux, etc,.
You can download and try it from XLabs: https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.joege.freetextsms
vndnguyen said:
Forget and Forward (Call, SMS)
Forgot your mobile phone at home? You can remotely forward calls / forward SMS and lock your phone with this app.
FEATURES:
- Remotely forward / unforward all calls and / or SMS, if you forgot your phone at home.
- Forward calls and SMS to separate numbers. E.g. you can forward calls to your office phone and forward SMS to another hand phone.
- Remotely lock your phone.
- You can change password remotely. Get hint if you forgot the password.
- Notify you if your phone is running out of power.
NOTE: You may have to register call forwarding service with your mobile service provider.
COMMAND SYNTAX:
Code:
*#HELP#
*#HINT#
*#LOCK*password#
*#FWD*password*[address]#
*#FWDSMS*password*[address]#
*#FWDCALL*password*[address]#
*#UNFWD*password#
*#UNFWDSMS*password#
*#UNFWDCALL*password#
*#PASS*old_password*new_password*new_password#
Where:
[address] = phone number, ME (current number) or leave blank (Default Forwarded-To Number)
DOWNLOAD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.forgetnforward
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vndnguyen said:
The app is now renamed to "Remote Call/SMS Forward & Lock" to describe more functionality of it.
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Hey my friend.
Hope you still reading these threads. I LOVE the app, tested it with the LITE version and it's perfect. So good that i was prepared to pay 5€ for it.
So i've bought it couple days ago, installed it and try to run it. LITE version worked without a problem(even on my very old phone Xiperia ARC), but the FULL one keeps telling me: "License error ..." and it closes itself immediately.
How can there be a LICESNSE error when i bought it legaly, trough Play Store and installed it trough it also.
Can you help me maybe? I need the FULL version function that sends message when my phone has low battery. That is why i bought it!
Thanky you my friend.

[Q] Group messaging

I cannot receive group messages. They come as individual text messages and when i check the settings on the default messaging app, there's no settings for group messaging. Anybody knows how to fix this?

Make Hangouts your default messaging app.

I'll try out hangouts but is there any way to get it working with the default messaging app?

rcobourn said:
Make Hangouts your default messaging app.
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Same thing on Hangouts. When i send a group message, I only receive individual text messages back.

You're right, I just did some testing and it is a mess... MightyText having problems too.

i got this problem but i managed it to fix it by editing sim card phone number.
if you go to settings - about device - status, is it showing unknown under my phone number?
if yes then you'll need a rooted phone to fix this (at least that's how i did it). download app call simeditor on play store. follow the instructions then reboot.

dn3g3l said:
i got this problem but i managed it to fix it by editing sim card phone number.
if you go to settings - about device - status, is it showing unknown under my phone number?
if yes then you'll need a rooted phone to fix this (at least that's how i did it). download app call simeditor on play store. follow the instructions then reboot.
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I checked and my number appears under my phone number. So should i still edit the sim?

da infamous said:
I checked and my number appears under my phone number. So should i still edit the sim?
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no, i think you might have a different problem then.

Is your Wi-Fi on while doing group messaging? If yes, try turning it off.

In regards to making Hangouts your default messaging is there a way to define which number the text is being sent from if you have a Google # and your own cell phone number tied to your account? Had this problem on my Note 3 and not sure want to use Hangouts if I can't change my sending # to my cell phone number.
Tried going into settings but couldn't find anything.....
Any help would be greatly appreciate.

Crap that sucks. I haven't tested it but the settings doesn't have group messaging option either so for sure there is no way to enable it. In comparison the image below is from my note 3. There's no such option in the note 3 messaging setting.
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Make Hangouts your default messaging app.
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Hangouts has limited attachment options. You can only send photos and location.
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OK I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT! CAN YOU GUYS TEST.
Add 2 or more recipient
Then hit the menu options (3 dots on top right)
Click "Add subject"
A subject line will show up
Type a subject. In my example as soon as I typed "Q"
I saw a pop up that says "converting to multimedia message"
Finish your subject line
Now send the message
Now if you delete the text in the subject line you will see a pop up that says "converting to text message". This way will only send as individual texts. So a subject line seems necessary to make it an mms group text.
Somewhat similarly on my note 3, if I add 2 recipients, automatically the convert to mms shows up. No extra step.
And when I remove one of the two so I'm only left with 1 recipient, then it goes back to regular text.
Sent from my SM-N900T using Tapatalk

I finally got to put my Sim and restore my phone and fully test it and this is now what I get when I have 2 or more recipients. I'm not sure why I didn't have this option when I didn't have the Sim card in.
Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk

it's an easy fix.
Go to settings. Check the group message box under mms messages.

aznmode said:
I finally got to put my Sim and restore my phone and fully test it and this is now what I get when I have 2 or more recipients. I'm not sure why I didn't have this option when I didn't have the Sim card in.
Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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for whatever reason android group mms option is connected to sim.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/mms-thread-setting-t2007775/page5

p_synthesis said:
Is your Wi-Fi on while doing group messaging? If yes, try turning it off.
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Quite strange, when connected to WiFi I'm not able to send nor receive mms messages, once I disconnect from WiFi they go through.

THIS !
James62370 said:
Quite strange, when connected to WiFi I'm not able to send nor receive mms messages, once I disconnect from WiFi they go through.
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Is your Wi-Fi on while doing group messaging? If yes, try turning it off.
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I have this exact Issue. Was just going to make a new thread. If Wi-Fi is on it wont work. As soon as you turn it off it goes through. Its supposed to toggle 4g to download the messages. Weird. Anyone else having this issue ?

Only way I was able to solve this was to install Textra. In the settings section, there is a section that is especially for T-Mobile users, I.e. temporarily turn off Wi-Fi when an mms arrives.

I was using adblock plus with the proxy server settings on my WiFi connection, since uninstalling adblock everything is working properly.

aznmode said:
I finally got to put my Sim and restore my phone and fully test it and this is now what I get when I have 2 or more recipients. I'm not sure why I didn't have this option when I didn't have the Sim card in.
Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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I decided to use the new ISIS ready SIM card and I'm back to the other way where I have to add a subject to make it a group MMS. So if you are planning to use the new one just keep this in mind. I don't need ISIS payment and luckily I had an older unactivated sim card and once I activated it and used it, the "Group conversation" box was there again.
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dn3g3l said:
for whatever reason android group mms option is connected to sim.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/help/mms-thread-setting-t2007775/page5
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Yup that's what it seems like....

murphdsurf said:
In regards to making Hangouts your default messaging is there a way to define which number the text is being sent from if you have a Google # and your own cell phone number tied to your account? Had this problem on my Note 3 and not sure want to use Hangouts if I can't change my sending # to my cell phone number.
Tried going into settings but couldn't find anything.....
Any help would be greatly appreciate.
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When Hangouts is enabled for SMS, you should see a menu appear in the same settings area when you enable SMS. Send SMS from. You can change the default number there.

[GUIDE] Read SMS Aloud & Respond by Voice When Connected to Car Bluetooth

I saw the other thread on reading aloud the SMS when connected to your vehicles Bluetooth and though I'd share mine for those who want to be able to respond by voice commands. I'm not trying to upstage that author, but giving other options.
Steps:
1. Wait 2.5 seconds to allow your text message tone to complete
2. Read sender and message body
3. Wait 1 second
4. Ask if you would like to reply
5. If "yes", it will ask you what you want to reply
6. Send message recorded by voice
I've uploaded the profile which includes the Task required for this to function.
You will need to edit the Profile "State" section to select the Bluetooth name in your vehicle. To do this, tap on the Profile and select the "State" that says "Connected to _____". Once in here, delete the one I've got selected and select the Bluetooth you want to activate this part of the Profile.
Hopefully this is useful to someone. Let me know if you have questions.

Can you walk me through on how to import this into tasker

Long press the "Profiles" tab. The option will appear when you let go.

galaxy s4 nutjob said:
Can you walk me through on how to import this into tasker
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You'll want t export the .zip file to /sdcard/tasker/profiles
Then you can launcher tasker and tap the "Profiles" tab. You should see this menu show up.
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Now select the .xml file and import it.

Awesome thanks

does it work for all android devices?

fireattack7 said:
I saw the other thread on reading aloud the SMS when connected to your vehicles Bluetooth and though I'd share mine for those who want to be able to respond by voice commands. I'm not trying to upstage that author, but giving other options.
Steps:
1. Wait 2.5 seconds to allow your text message tone to complete
2. Read sender and message body
3. Wait 1 second
4. Ask if you would like to reply
5. If "yes", it will ask you what you want to reply
6. Send message recorded by voice
I've uploaded the profile which includes the Task required for this to function.
You will need to edit the Profile "State" section to select the Bluetooth name in your vehicle. To do this, tap on the Profile and select the "State" that says "Connected to _____". Once in here, delete the one I've got selected and select the Bluetooth you want to activate this part of the Profile.
Hopefully this is useful to someone. Let me know if you have questions.
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Is this the place where I change the Bluetooth?

cqdiep said:
Is this the place where I change the Bluetooth?
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Never mind, I figured it out. Does anyone have problems with voice recognition over the car's Bluetooth?

cqdiep said:
Never mind, I figured it out. Does anyone have problems with voice recognition over the car's Bluetooth?
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Sadly...yes.

MT2-User said:
Sadly...yes.
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I'm having that problem too. I just tested it out in my car and I love this task but when it ask me do you want to reply I say yes but I'm looking at my phone and it says could not recognize. Is there anyway to fix this?
Also I had my music playing from my phone when I was testing the text. Does the text when read come from the phone speakers or the car speakers because it sounds really soft. Is there a way to make the voice text louder?

fireattack7 said:
I saw the other thread on reading aloud the SMS when connected to your vehicles Bluetooth and though I'd share mine for those who want to be able to respond by voice commands. I'm not trying to upstage that author, but giving other options.
Steps:
1. Wait 2.5 seconds to allow your text message tone to complete
2. Read sender and message body
3. Wait 1 second
4. Ask if you would like to reply
5. If "yes", it will ask you what you want to reply
6. Send message recorded by voice
I've uploaded the profile which includes the Task required for this to function.
You will need to edit the Profile "State" section to select the Bluetooth name in your vehicle. To do this, tap on the Profile and select the "State" that says "Connected to _____". Once in here, delete the one I've got selected and select the Bluetooth you want to activate this part of the Profile.
Hopefully this is useful to someone. Let me know if you have questions.
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How can I modify this to speak other notifications, like from Google Voice or Hangouts messages? And not through BT, just when the phone is used normally.

cqdiep said:
How can I modify this to speak other notifications, like from Google Voice or Hangouts messages? And not through BT, just when the phone is used normally.
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Never mind, figured it out.

Thank you for this! I will give it a try....I missed the reading of txt messages function from Cortana coming from a windows phone.

Is there any way to get the this task to listen for a response from my android wear watch? If my phone is in my pocket I can't reply and that defeats the purpose..

Apparently it only reads SMS. Is it possible to have it read WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc?

Toontje123 said:
Apparently it only reads SMS. Is it possible to have it read WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc?
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Try this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CALWGiG0wJo
It worked for me for the Google Voice app.

I like this task, but I can't get it to listen to my responses. So it reads each text that I receive only, but then when the prompt comes up to say "do you want to reply" it doesn't recognize anything I say.

cqdiep said:
Try this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CALWGiG0wJo
It worked for me for the Google Voice app.
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Nice one! Thanks!!

Reply Review
I love this!
I do have a question, is there a way to have the reply message read back to me to confirm the dictation is correct before sending and if it's incorrect to ask to create a new reply?

Wont read through bluetooh
my car wont read this through my bluetooth even though im connected. Is it because my honda doesnt support A2dp?