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issues with pebble watch

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.

Moto Assist no longer has custom auto reply options

Hi all.. Updated the Assist app a few days back and now it does not have custom auto reply options for Driving mode. (Accessed through the right arrow after 'Talk to me')
Contacted support and clearing app cache was their solution which obviously didn't work.
I have yet to test it while driving; whether it is now providing the options through voice control whether to send an auto reply or to dictate a reply or if it even offers to send a reply. It looks like they just removed the most helpful update since its initial release.
Has anyone else also noticed the same?

PunchsucKr said:
Hi all.. Updated the Assist app a few days back and now it does not have custom auto reply options for Driving mode. (Accessed through the right arrow after 'Talk to me')
Contacted support and clearing app cache was their solution which obviously didn't work.
I have yet to test it while driving; whether it is now providing the options through voice control whether to send an auto reply or to dictate a reply or if it even offers to send a reply. It looks like they just removed the most helpful update since its initial release.
Has anyone else also noticed the same?
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I've noticed this as well. I don't use auto reply, I use voice reply. But I could see how this could be useful to some people.

I noticed that, too it appears none of the settings for assist in driving mode (the arrow to the right) are there anymore, was wondering if it's an error on their part, or intended.
I was trying to recall, isn't it there, in the now missing settings where one can also opt for things like "read out the name of the incoming caller"?

M973 said:
I noticed that, too it appears none of the settings for assist in driving mode (the arrow to the right) are there anymore, was wondering if it's an error on their part, or intended.
I was trying to recall, isn't it there, in the now missing settings where one can also opt for things like "read out the name of the incoming caller"?
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Don't remember that setting... I even left a 1 star review after this update and they haven't responded which they normally do for such reviews. I think if it would have been a bug then they would've solved it out pretty quickly seeing how obvious it is, don't think it would've reached the Play Store.

Can't Turn Off Blue Light Filter

This is driving me nuts. I set up my new s10 by signing in to my Google account and choosing to restore my Pixel 3 XL backup. All the apps and everything downloaded just fine, but the blue light filter that I had scheduled for 10pm to 6am on the Pixel has apparently followed me to the S10. The only problem is that I have no way to disable it. It shows as off in the settings even though it clearly turns on at 10pm. If I manually change the clock to say 7pm, the filter turns off, but the whole time, the settings show that it's off. Enabling it in settings while it is already active results in a slightly more red blue light filter, that's it. Short of doing a factory reset and setting it up as a new device, I can't think of any way to fix it. I've even tried turning off the setting on my Pixel to no avail. Any ideas?

I had the same issue.
Download an application called Activity Launcher.
You will need to find the activity that is linked to night shift, I can't remember the name on the top of head but it will be pretty obvious when you will see it.
Samsung apparently decided to scratch away the stock feature by just creating their own one and removing the stock one's setting entry. However it's still there, and still working as long as you can manually launch the activity and it activate automatically if you had a schedule created on another device.
Funily enough that allows you to get even stronger effect by combining both features at the same time.

Check your nightlight settings in the Google Play Books App. Set that to 0 and it should fix the issue.

Abhilesh7 said:
Check your nightlight settings in the Google Play Books App. Set that to 0 and it should fix the issue.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't even have Google Play Books installed.
Paradoxxx said:
I had the same issue.
Download an application called Activity Launcher.
You will need to find the activity that is linked to night shift, I can't remember the name on the top of head but it will be pretty obvious when you will see it.
Samsung apparently decided to scratch away the stock feature by just creating their own one and removing the stock one's setting entry. However it's still there, and still working as long as you can manually launch the activity and it activate automatically if you had a schedule created on another device.
Funily enough that allows you to get even stronger effect by combining both features at the same time.
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Dude, thank you so much. It worked. I can't believe how annoying it was not to be able to turn that off. Much appreciated!

ccoulterjg1 said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't even have Google Play Books installed.
Dude, thank you so much. It worked. I can't believe how annoying it was not to be able to turn that off. Much appreciated!
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No problem, glad it worked !

Edit: nvm I found it

Same issue. What was the name of the activity? Thanks in advance!

jmill75 said:
Same issue. What was the name of the activity? Thanks in advance!
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Something night shift ? Just go through settings activities,you'll see it there IIRC

jmill75 said:
Same issue. What was the name of the activity? Thanks in advance!
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At the top, select "All activities"
then scroll down to Settings > Night Light

Finally fixed!
This solution finally worked for me. What a bull**** bug it was pissing me off
Check your nightlight settings in the Google Play Books App. Set that to 0 and it should fix the issue.

Blue light filter on off
Hi my blue light fliter is getting on and off. Specially on chrome and cnet website. And even when keyboard pops up on chrome.
Updated android 11. Still same. Keep changing sometimes while just scrolling.

Paradoxxx said:
I had the same issue.
Download an application called Activity Launcher.
You will need to find the activity that is linked to night shift, I can't remember the name on the top of head but it will be pretty obvious when you will see it.
Samsung apparently decided to scratch away the stock feature by just creating their own one and removing the stock one's setting entry. However it's still there, and still working as long as you can manually launch the activity and it activate automatically if you had a schedule created on another device.
Funily enough that allows you to get even stronger effect by combining both features at the same time.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This was driving me crazy when I upgraded to the OneUI 3.0 Beta on my S10+

Fantarrific said:
At the top, select "All activities"
then scroll down to Settings > Night Light
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Can confirm this worked for me on S20 with info transferred from a Pixel 2 XL. The color shift was so subtle I thought I was imagining it at first! Thanks for the fix.

Paradoxxx said:
I had the same issue.
Download an application called Activity Launcher.
You will need to find the activity that is linked to night shift, I can't remember the name on the top of head but it will be pretty obvious when you will see it.
Samsung apparently decided to scratch away the stock feature by just creating their own one and removing the stock one's setting entry. However it's still there, and still working as long as you can manually launch the activity and it activate automatically if you had a schedule created on another device.
Funily enough that allows you to get even stronger effect by combining both features at the same time.
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I am having the same issue with my newly bought 2 days old Xiaomi 11T. I transferred everything from my previous phone Xiaomi Mi A1 and I had Night Light scheduled to turn on at 11:30 p.m. and off at 7:00 a.m. But now there is no NIGHT LIGHT feature on Xiaomi 11T but the screen automatically turns yellow when the schedule starts and turns back to normal at 7 a.m. Please help me with this. I tried installing Activity Launcher, but I couldn't find the setting you are talking about. I also have both, schedule and reading mode turned off in the settings, but this still happens due to settings brought from the old phone.
Please help me out.

Abhilesh7 said:
Check your nightlight settings in the Google Play Books App. Set that to 0 and it should fix the issue.
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Think that's the same app that boned me. It alters a hidden user setting that remains after you uninstall it.
Unclean uninstall... Gookill sucks.
The way I fixed it was to reinstall it, change that setting, uninstall. Over a year later still on that same OS load, A-ok.
OP: don't use SmartSwitch when migrating to a different device especially for apps. Do a clean load... more *surprises* are likely waiting for you.
Do not trust SmartSwitch with critical data... I use it for homepage settings only where if it fails it's no big deal.

I have a Galaxy s21 ultra and I spent the last month so furious that I couldn't get the blue light filter to stop coming on at sunset until I saw this post and downloaded activity launcher and found the night light setting
Thank you so much to everybody who responded here

God am I happy I wasn't the only one with this problem. Thank you guys so much for finding a fix, I just got a z fold 3 and updated from the Pixel 3XL so I had the exact same issue.

Cannot activate accessibility services

I have this problem that when I want to activate an accessibility service, I get a pop up message that says if there is an overlapping app blocking the options I should drag it away or close the app, as in the screenshot attached. I have no idea what is causing this but I have not been able to activate any accessibility services since upgrading to MIUI version 10.2. The device is rooted with magisk. Any help will be appreciated to get this sorted out. I get the Pop-Up each time I tap ok.

sofene said:
I have this problem that when I want to activate an accessibility service, I get a pop up message that says if there is an overlapping app blocking the options I should drag it away or close the app, as in the screenshot attached. I have no idea what is causing this but I have not been able to activate any accessibility services since upgrading to MIUI version 10.2. The device is rooted with magisk. Any help will be appreciated to get this sorted out. I get the Pop-Up each time I tap ok.
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Turn off full screen gestures, this is blocking the Accessibility settings.
After you have enabled the Accessibility stuff, I believe you can turn on full screen gestures again.

cobben said:
Turn off full screen gestures, this is blocking the Accessibility settings.
After you have enabled the Accessibility stuff, I believe you can turn on full screen gestures again.
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Wow! You are a miracle worker, thank you so much. Worked like a charm.

sofene said:
Wow! You are a miracle worker, thank you so much. Worked like a charm.
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You're welcome.
Actually I had the same problem in Februari on my Mi Note 2 (I have a Mix1 also, they are very closely related as to firmware).
After trying everything I could think of, and nothing helped, I sat back and thought "what else draws over other apps"?
Bingo! Gestures.
And it worked.

disable OK google listening

Ok I was able disable the OK google and it only listen when I press the mic icon. Now no matter what I do in the google app settings it's always listening. My only current option is to disable microphone permissions which isn't what I want since I can't press the mic icon and speak.
I had it setup on the note8 with android 9 to only listen when the mic icon is pressed. Got the note 9 did the same settings and it still responds when I say OK or hey google.
Currently have the microphone permissions disabled since my phone does NOT need to listen all the time. Is there a setting I am missing?

I had to remove the Google search widget to stop it from always listening. It is stupid that they removed the option to simply turn it off.

ChodaBoyUSA said:
I had to remove the Google search widget to stop it from always listening. It is stupid that they removed the option to simply turn it off.
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Exactly. Disable the "Google" app improve the memory and battery usage, imo

Interesting, I disabled the Google app for about 30 minutes and could not use voice with chrome so turned it back on. The mic permissions are enabled but OK google is now disabled yet I can push the mic icon and use voice for searching again.
So its exactly how I want it but a very strange way to get there. I have no clue how this worked but it did.

Well after a restart and about 20 minutes it went back to listening.

That's odd - it's definitely off on mine, but I can't find where I deactivated it! I use Nova Launcher, and there is an option in the Settings under 'Gestures and Inputs' to disable 'OK Google hotword' - maybe that's how I did it? But 'OK Google' doesn't work anywhere on my Note 9 (did this to save battery and because I have a Google Home & Mini).
EDIT: And I do have the Google App installed.

Not sure what's going on. Google runs me around when I tired to ask them. I know exactly where the setting is and its disabled but still listens for the "OK google "
Personally I would love someone with influence to get attention to this but it seems a little hit or miss on setups so not sure. I have the mic disabled.
I did do a really stupid test if my device was listening and used let's say red flag words to see if anyone was listening. Ironically the words I used are related to an event happening in my city which was horrible timing on my part but semi proved to me no one heard it.

macgyver40 said:
Not sure what's going on. Google runs me around when I tired to ask them. I know exactly where the setting is and its disabled but still listens for the "OK google "
Personally I would love someone with influence to get attention to this but it seems a little hit or miss on setups so not sure. I have the mic disabled.
I did do a really stupid test if my device was listening and used let's say red flag words to see if anyone was listening. Ironically the words I used are related to an event happening in my city which was horrible timing on my part but semi proved to me no one heard it.
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Early days.... maybe someone listened and now the search is on! Lol...
Also isnt it the same if I just turn off microphone assess under Settings >Apps> permissions? I just did and hey Google, or voice search etc all now dont respond....

william-johnson said:
Early days.... maybe someone listened and now the search is on! Lol...
Also isnt it the same if I just turn off microphone assess under Settings >Apps> permissions? I just did and hey Google, or voice search etc all now dont respond....
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Yes that works. The only thing I don't want is it to disable voice in chrome app which this does.
The settings to disable OK Google are there but don't function and google themselves either don't understand what I am saying or don't want to admit the setting doesn't function as it should.

Kinsman-UK said:
That's odd - it's definitely off on mine, but I can't find where I deactivated it! I use Nova Launcher, and there is an option in the Settings under 'Gestures and Inputs' to disable 'OK Google hotword' - maybe that's how I did it? But 'OK Google' doesn't work anywhere on my Note 9 (did this to save battery and because I have a Google Home & Mini).
EDIT: And I do have the Google App installed.
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macgyver40 said:
Ok I was able disable the OK google and it only listen when I press the mic icon. Now no matter what I do in the google app settings it's always listening. My only current option is to disable microphone permissions which isn't what I want since I can't press the mic icon and speak.
I had it setup on the note8 with android 9 to only listen when the mic icon is pressed. Got the note 9 did the same settings and it still responds when I say OK or hey google.
Currently have the microphone permissions disabled since my phone does NOT need to listen all the time. Is there a setting I am missing?
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william-johnson said:
Early days.... maybe someone listened and now the search is on! Lol...
Also isnt it the same if I just turn off microphone assess under Settings >Apps> permissions? I just did and hey Google, or voice search etc all now dont respond....
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Kinsman-UK said:
That's odd - it's definitely off on mine, but I can't find where I deactivated it! I use Nova Launcher, and there is an option in the Settings under 'Gestures and Inputs' to disable 'OK Google hotword' - maybe that's how I did it? But 'OK Google' doesn't work anywhere on my Note 9 (did this to save battery and because I have a Google Home & Mini).
EDIT: And I do have the Google App installed.
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macgyver40 said:
Ok I was able disable the OK google and it only listen when I press the mic icon. Now no matter what I do in the google app settings it's always listening. My only current option is to disable microphone permissions which isn't what I want since I can't press the mic icon and speak.
I had it setup on the note8 with android 9 to only listen when the mic icon is pressed. Got the note 9 did the same settings and it still responds when I say OK or hey google.
Currently have the microphone permissions disabled since my phone does NOT need to listen all the time. Is there a setting I am missing?
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william-johnson said:
Early days.... maybe someone listened and now the search is on! Lol...
Also isnt it the same if I just turn off microphone assess under Settings >Apps> permissions? I just did and hey Google, or voice search etc all now dont respond....
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It's not easy to find the option to turn off the Google assistant, but it's there.
Settings > apps > (three dots menu) default apps > device assistance app
You'll want to change "device assistance app" to "none" and then "voice input" to "Google". The you should be all set.
To go a step further, you can disable the Google assistant from running at all on your device.
Google app > "more" (lower right hand corner) > settings > Google assistant > assistant
Then, at the bottom you should see "assistant devices" with "phone" listed. Select phone and then toggle Google assistant off.
This should do the trick.

Bober_is_a_troll said:
It's not easy to find the option to turn off the Google assistant, but it's there.
Settings > apps > (three dots menu) default apps > device assistance app
You'll want to change "device assistance app" to "none" and then "voice input" to "Google". The you should be all set.
To go a step further, you can disable the Google assistant from running at all on your device.
Google app > "more" (lower right hand corner) > settings > Google assistant > assistant
Then, at the bottom you should see "assistant devices" with "phone" listed. Select phone and then toggle Google assistant off.
This should do the trick.
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I was able to do the first part of device assistant app to none. The voice input option doesn't allow me to pick just google option.
Either way this has solved my issue and is now working they I want it to. Going to try a restart and see if it persists unlike my previous attempt.
Thanks again for finding this.
I like having the search widget and be able to type or voice input my search if I don't know how to spell something. With all the news of companies admitting they listen and record voice stuff having my device always listening is very unsettling. I guess it's a little paranoid but I live in a bad part of my city and I really don't want to be red flag because I walked by a drug deal which happens all to often.

That's strange, because that exactly what it should do when you disable Voice Match, since it is said that's it's actually the "anywhere OK Google listening".
Try deleting your voice imprint on the same setting page too maybe.
I wonder why is working fine on my phone and not on others.

Nastrahl said:
That's strange, because that exactly what it should do when you disable Voice Match, since it is said that's it's actually the "anywhere OK Google listening".
Try deleting your voice imprint on the same setting page too maybe.
I wonder why is working fine on my phone and not on others.
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I have no saved voice imprint saved. At least someone was able to find a work around that was a to do what I wanted.