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App for controlling data usage.

Hi there,
I'm looking for a specific app for my rooted 2.1 G1. I'm on a Vodafone pay as you go thing, and internet/data usage is pricy on this. Is there an app which stops ALL data usage/internet/GPS(Does GPS use data usage?)/etc unless connected to WiFi, in which case it'll allow all that?
Thanks in advance

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/net.toeach.android.disconnect/

Oh fantastic! I think that might be perfect
One question though, if the APN is off will I still be able to make/recieve calls and texts?

You can also use droidwall. Its really useful and free on market

APN OnOff is no longer free from what I can tell from the Market, but DroidWall looks ideal.
Thanks!

[REVIEW] Choice Dialer - BT Dial/Command Entry

I recently purchased Choice Dialer, and thought I'd start a thread with somewhat af a review, and hopefully learn from others too about how to make it work well for us.
Ever since moving to Android, I have sorely missed Microsoft Voice Command. Choice Dialer is a start toward that direction. Of course, some will think of Vlingo, which in fact may be better now than when I last used it. Seems there is not one voice app that does everything.
Among features that it has are;
Of course, Dial by name, or number
Play/pause music; Next/Previous song; Play by artist; Play from album; Play songs by title
Send email
Send text
Set Facebook status
Create contact
Open App
Schedule an event on calendar
Enable/Disable WiFi, Blue Tooth, GPS and some more
Tell you the time
Add to calendar
I have only had the app for a few days, and this review will not be comprehensive.
Does it understand?
I am struggleing a bit having it understand me. I frequently have it say "Try again". Sometimes it does something completely different from what I asked.
I am finding that it has a learning curve for speaking so it understands, as it is getting a little better. Interestingly, it understands better if I speak faster. When talking to a voice recognition, I think people have a tendency to speak slow and enunciate clearly. Interestingly, i find that makes it worse...at least, speaking slow does, for me.
I also think the app needs to mature some. For example I had this conversation with it yesterday:
Me: Enable Blue Tooth
CD: Did you say Disable Blue Tooth?
Me: No
CD; Disabling Blue Tooth.
Uh...it should have understood NO.
Another thing, as all voice dialers need, it needs a fairly quite environment. Background noise, radios, etc. will really throw it off.
Playing Music
First off, the only music player it plays through at the moment is the native android music app. I use MixZing, so prefer that.
It is nice that it will play by Artist, Album, or Song. But a glaring omission is it will not play by Genre. I asked them about playing genres, and got this response:
As to your suggestion for genres, for now perhaps you can approximate the effect through playlists? I steer clear of genres, as Android does not support the concept in its data model (I cannot ask the phone to tell me which songs are "pop").
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Dialng
I find it to do fairly well at dialing when the person is in the contacts. Occasionally need to retry. I really like that it has voice confirmation.
Send Email
When I go to dictate an email, it uses Google Voice to hear the message. And often I get "Server problem Speak again" message in the Google App. I suppose it is a problem for the Google App, not Choice Dialer. But in the end, not too great. I attempted an email 7 times, and it worked twice. When it works, there is no way that I know of to have it use punctuation.
Open App
I can say Open <program name> and it works fairly well.
An interesting challenge for it is this one: "Open GPS Test". It never gets that. I presume because GPS is not a word.
Enable/Disable Functions
It works pretty good to enable Blue Tooth, and WiFi. Again, I sometimes need to repeat.
But, interestingly, enabling GPS is not what you expect. It launches the settings for you to click it, rather than just turning it on. I contacted them about it, and this is their response:
That is because that is all it CAN do.. nothing more direct is permitted a non-Google app.
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That one perplexes me. If you can directly enable Wifi, and Blue Tooth, I wonder why you couldn't do GPS. Certainly, there are apps that you can toggle it with.
Support
I find them VERY responsive. This is a good sign, and hopefully the app will mature and improve.
Wish List
If only this, or some app somewhere, could be as solid and capable as I found Microsoft Voice Command to be.
Would like to be able to : Play music by genre; Of course, have improved understanding and accuracy; tell me what is on my schedule today, and tomorrow. I'm sure there are others, but I'm running out of time for now on this post.
Conclusion
I may continue to use this for basic stuff, including dialing, and turning on BT when in car, opening apps etc. But for now, its too much effort repeating and so forth for the other features to be of much value to me.
So, are you using Choice Dialer? Better luck with it? Suggestions for use?

ewingr said:
I recently purchased Choice Dialer, and thought I'd start a thread with somewhat af a review, and hopefully learn from others too about how to make it work well for us.
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Conclusion
I may continue to use this for basic stuff, including dialing, and turning on BT when in car, opening apps etc. But for now, its too much effort repeating and so forth for the other features to be of much value to me.
So, are you using Choice Dialer? Better luck with it? Suggestions for use?
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I tried the free version and really found it to be barely on par with the VoiceDailer.apk. Additionally, though there were lots of settings, it seemed overly complicated to me (I am a huge Voicedial fan from MS6.5).
I really only want the dial bit with confirmation (I never got that to work with the free version), and maybe reading/sending texts via voice.
I am not ready to step up and buy the app, and a 1 day trial is sort of silly. Give me 3-4 days. I did not realized there was a 1 day trial when I got the free version from the market, so I did not have an opportunity to test the paid version.
It is good to hear that their support is responsive. Let me know how you progress with this. I will let you know if I purchase the product.

I'll post back in a while.
I am still finding it a bit frustrating. I love the confirmation. But, I find it has a LOT of trouble understanding me. I think it is due to background noise.
Last night I tried it a bit driving home. I drive a Lexus, so road noise is not that bad, but with my Motorola T505 speaker phone unit, I had to scream at it for it to hear me.

Well, I'm about to give up on Choice Dialer. It just has way too high a percentage of not understanding.
I'm very disappointed. This is the only app I've found that has verification by voice.
I find Vlingo and Google Voice to have its share of misunderstanding, but not near as bad as Choice Dialer, but then they require hands on methods for verifications.

The major omission I found when switching from Windows Mobile to Android Eclair was voice dialling thru bluetooth. When I updated to Froyo I immediately tested the Voice Dialler with my Jawbone II - disappointed is an understatement. Recognition of contact names was abysmal, half the time it would dial the wrong contact without any confirmation. Other times I'd have to select an option on the screen - hardly hands free!
I tried Vlingo, but soon found it would only listen and speak thru the phone, not the bluetooth. Apparently a headset with A2DP profile is required.
So I tried Choice Dialer free, and found it better than the stock voice dialer because it offers voice confirmations thru bluetooth. That alone makes it worth using.
Recognition is good using the Jawbone, I haven't tried a built-in bluetooth or separate speaker phone yet. I'll report back when I've done so.
Anyway, I was impressed enough to purchase the Choice Dialer Plus. Can't say I've used the text and email capabilites for real yet, because although you can dictate a message thru bluetooth, you can't send it without pressing a button on the screen. Apparently the developer is working on making texting fully hands-free. He seems pretty active, judging by the change log on the site.
So I would recommend that those who are disappointed with stock Voice Dialler give Choice Dialer a try and see how the voice recognition works for you. Or if you have an A2DP headset, try Vlingo.

[Q] How about "Viber"?

This free calling/messaging app works great on my Droid Charge (well, the messaging is great, sound quality for calls is variable...VERY variable).
Recent versions on my tablet just crashed before opening but recent upgrade lets me launch the program which requests my phone number. I've tried my cell # and Google Voice # but each generates an error message. Anyone made this work?
Running Calkulin's 1.1

Rick in LA said:
This free calling/messaging app works great on my Droid Charge (well, the messaging is great, sound quality for calls is variable...VERY variable).
Recent versions on my tablet just crashed before opening but recent upgrade lets me launch the program which requests my phone number. I've tried my cell # and Google Voice # but each generates an error message. Anyone made this work?
Running Calkulin's 1.1
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Hi,
This is a member of the Viber Development Team.
First, about the network, I'm guessing the quality is variable when using Viber on 3G networks, right?
3G networks can sometimes be disrupted and not fully handle VoIP calls (some would say - intentionally). This naturally affects Viber and damages its quality, and unfortunately there is nothing much we (Viber) can do about it - it's in the hands of the cellular companies.
In the future we plan to add an option to manually "lower" the quality of Viber calls on 3G calls, thus "sacrificing" on quality in order to still be able to still make calls on low-reception 3G areas.
Anyway, a WiFi-WiFi call on Viber should sound clear and with no interruptions.
Second, about Tablets - Viber doesn't officially support Tablets yet (this is why you're not managing to complete the installation). It's in the works right now, and we'll announce once it's ready on our Facebook page, and in different forums.
If you have any more questions, please feel free

[BOUNTY] Restore Native SIP support for cash!

Hi folks,
I'm looking for someone who can either provide a guide for replacing existing BlurPhone.apk with .apks that work with the native gingerbread SIP stack OR someone who successfully hacks BlurPhone.apk so mIsSIPSupported is not hard-coded to false.
I personally will provide $20 Paypal payment to anyone who is the first to do either of these two things. I've been patiently waiting for ROM releases on this phone only to find out that all the options we currently have still utilize the stock BlurPhone app...
Anyone else who would like to offer bounties for this accomplishment please chime in here.
Thanks!

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This is actually a HUGE thing for me - so I'll toss in $20 too.

Dumb question: Would this just be standard SIP support that I remember Google talking about 12 months ago, or would this also include the ability to use Google Voice right in the OS?
Google Video Chat works ridiculously well so I can only imagine how well Google Voice calls would sound (requires less bandwidth) if it was built right into the OS. As it stands, I use GrooveIP and it is always very frustrating to the recipient of my call.

this request is specifically about the functionality disabled by motorola in blurphone.apk

bump...
anyone? anyone?

Very much needed
I will also be willing to put in money if this gets done. What was Motorola thinking taking it out?

good news...new ICS CM9 has working built-in sip ..whoot

PSA: Android Pie restriction will render SMS backup, call recording apps useless

Do you use Tasker? Do you use IFTTT? Do you use call recording apps? Do you use SMS backup apps? If yes then you will be shocked to know that a stupid policy change Google is implementing in Android Pie will make all of these app unusable.
Google is turning into Apple and restricting usage of call recording and SMS backup apps on Android Pie. Apps like SMS backup & restore, Tasker, Skvalex call recorder, ACR will no longer work on Pie unless Google changes this policy.
I highly recommend you guys go to this policy exception link and click on the star to indicate you are affected by this issue and hope Google reverses this policy. This maybe posted elsewhere but I wanted to be sure our Note9 community is aware of this issue since it doesn't have much media coverage. Link below to star this issue:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/117486314

VICosPhi said:
Do you use Tasker? Do you use IFTTT? Do you use call recording apps? Do you use SMS backup apps? If yes then you will be shocked to know that a stupid policy change Google is implementing in Android Pie will make all of these app unusable.
Google is turning into Apple and restricting usage of call recording and SMS backup apps on Android Pie. Apps like SMS backup & restore, Tasker, Skvalex call recorder, ACR will no longer work on Pie unless Google changes this policy.
I highly recommend you guys go to this policy exception link and click on the star to indicate you are affected by this issue and hope Google reverses this policy. This maybe posted elsewhere but I wanted to be sure our Note9 community is aware of this issue since it doesn't have much media coverage. Link below to star this issue:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/117486314
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Didn't the Tasker dev already come out and state he was whitelisted by google?
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/17/tasker-lose-sms-call-functionality-google-security-changes/

Yeah but I think it is not confirmed yet and also they haven't said if all the permissions the Tasker dev requested will be granted yet. The other issues are even bigger like IFTTT, SMS backup and call recording.

boldbeast is working fine with pie beta.

Boldbeast dev is amazing. Is it working without root though?

VICosPhi said:
Link below to star this issue:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/117486314
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I opened that link but cannot find the way to "star" it.
Care to quickly explain? I wanna help.

Sure, here is a link with screenshot that shows how you star it:
https://imgur.com/a/j8i2Ch6

VICosPhi said:
Sure, here is a link with screenshot that shows how you star it:
https://imgur.com/a/j8i2Ch6
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Thanks! That is quite subtle in my opinion. Starred it.

Google at their best, lol...