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Remove wait time?

You know when you hold down the search magnifying glass, and the voice search thingy pops up. Then you are allowed to say "navigate to", or "call whomever".. then, sadly, a little bubble comes up delaying what you wanted to do.
Well, to me, this is rather annoying - and so I wish for it for be gone. I have seen a thread similar like this comparing the feature to what the iPhone does (it doesn't delay anything) and I kinda want that for myself.. as I said before.
Personally, I think this is a stupid questions; as I don't really see how it can be done - I was thinking, though, someone had some way to delude the delay :/

Are you talking about the pop-up box that displays that the N1 is processing your request?
If so, then I don't think there's much that can be done as the way Google has implemeted voice recognition on the N1, it sends all voice input to a Google server to process, and then provides you with the results.
Unless there is an app or either Cyanogen or Modoco integrate offline voice recognition into the ROM, you're stuck with Google's implementation.

Eclair~ said:
You know when you hold down the search magnifying glass, and the voice search thingy pops up. Then you are allowed to say "navigate to", or "call whomever".. then, sadly, a little bubble comes up delaying what you wanted to do.
Well, to me, this is rather annoying - and so I wish for it for be gone. I have seen a thread similar like this comparing the feature to what the iPhone does (it doesn't delay anything) and I kinda want that for myself.. as I said before.
Personally, I think this is a stupid questions; as I don't really see how it can be done - I was thinking, though, someone had some way to delude the delay :/
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Do you want to remove the "processing" time, or remove the time between you putting your finger on the button and Voice Search coming up?
Not very clear...

Oh, I thought I was pretty clear, here is a pic:
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I want to remove that.

Eclair~ said:
Oh, I thought I was pretty clear, here is a pic:
I want to remove that.
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as long as you don't mind navigating to booger thing once in a while.

Brownbay said:
Are you talking about the pop-up box that displays that the N1 is processing your request?
If so, then I don't think there's much that can be done as the way Google has implemeted voice recognition on the N1, it sends all voice input to a Google server to process, and then provides you with the results.
Unless there is an app or either Cyanogen or Modoco integrate offline voice recognition into the ROM, you're stuck with Google's implementation.
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You can use some voice commands offline... yeah, navigation may not work... but commands like Call xyz do work...

Eclair~ said:
Oh, I thought I was pretty clear, here is a pic:
I want to remove that.
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A) It's part of the Google Voice Search app, and you can't modify Google apps because they're closed source.
B) That box pops up so that you can see if what the app understood is what you really wanted to say. Without the pop up, it would just auto-search for whatever it understood, which might frequently be wrong. It'd basically be like clicking "I'm feeling lucky" every time.
C) When you click accept ("Go"), your voice data and the accepted search term gets sent to Google. When you hit cancel, your voice data and the declined search term gets sent to Google. In this way, they use the voice data and the incorrect / correct matches to refine their voice search. Bypassing this screen would give them no data whether the voice input transcription was correct or not.

attn1 said:
as long as you don't mind navigating to booger thing once in a while.
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LoL! Oh, tears out my eyes! LoL!

Paul22000 said:
A)
B) That box pops up so that you can see if what the app understood is what you really wanted to say. Without the pop up, it would just auto-search for whatever it understood, which might frequently be wrong. It'd basically be like clicking "I'm feeling lucky"
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Yea I figured as such. Nevermind this thread..

[APK] Bluetooth Launch v2.0.1 Beta (11/19/2010)

So this started in the Cognition thread, but I figure it probably is useful for other ROMs and people.
So are you like me? You've hooked up your bluetooth mic, and pressed the voice action button and your phone looks at you stupidly? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way you could start Google Voice Actions or possibly Vlingo's Recognize and Execute?
Here's the thing, currently Google Voice Actions and Vlingo can't hear over the bluetooth mic. Still, this will launch the voice app, and allow you to speak through your phone's mic.
I've considered creating a version where you can select any app; however, unless there's some demand for a feature like that I don't want to go through that kind of pain and suffering.
Feedback is appreciated.
Oh and finally, this is a very early version, so you won't find it on the app market or such. If I have time, I'll polish it up, but for now, this is good enough to fix the issue for most people.
If you find this useful, please let me know. There's no reason to polish something no one needs/uses.
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1.5 Beta
So this is a little rough around the edges but it is functional. The first load will be slow, but application names are cached after that load. Still need to indicate what the user has selected in the past as well as sort the list.
2.0 Beta
Fixed the rough edges, nice radio buttons in the list. Sorted alphabetically. Oh and TheYar suggested waking up the phone to run the action. Not only is it doing that, but it'll bypass the screen lock.
Now some are saying, but wait isn't that a bad thing? Well yes and no. First the screen lock comes back when the action is complete, or bluetooth launch closes. Second, bluetooth headsets must be paired first to get access, so a thief would have to know to grab your headset and phone to get into your phone. The risk is low but not 0, so in the next version, you'll have a way to turn that feature on or off.
2.0.1 Beta
As TheYar pointed out, there's a bug where you may have to hit the bluetooth button twice. This is a bug in the underlying framework and there's nothing my app can do about that. That said, I added a vibrate on launch feature to this new version. No other changes were made.
Change Log:
11/19/10: 2.0.1 Beta Vibrate on launch
11/18/10: 2.0 Beta Choices shown, remembered in the list, sorted alphabetically (so learn your ABC's) and phone wake, lock screen disable.
11/17/10: 1.5 Beta Select any activity, better icon
11/12/10: 1.1.1 Updated some text, added icon
11/11/10: 1.1 Added Settings and Vlingo
11/10/10: 1.0 Initial Revision

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Sweet!
Unfortunately it doesn't do anything for me, running Cog 2.3.3. I've turned my headset on/off, BT on/off, no response to button.
Pressing "Confirm Selection" doesn't do anything either, should it?
Update - Rebooting makes it work, stupid me...THANKS!

pkley said:
Sweet!
Unfortunately it doesn't do anything for me, running Cog 2.3.3. I've turned my headset on/off, BT on/off, no response to button.
Pressing "Confirm Selection" doesn't do anything either, should it?
Update - Rebooting makes it work, stupid me...THANKS!
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Confirm selection saves the settings. I should change the name, thanks.
It shouldn't require a reboot, but there may have been something subtle going on that a reboot fixed.

Updated!
Added some polish. Launcher icon + text changes to make things more clear.

I think it would be handy if there was some text to confirm that the settings were set.
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ggonzalez7777 said:
I think it would be handy if there was some text to confirm that the settings were set.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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If I understand what you're asking for, I think the text at the bottom is just that. I'll see if I can re-word it to be more clear.

Coming Soon
So I had some time to play with things over the weekend, I'll be releasing a new versions soon.
Features will include:
Selecting the activity you want to launch
Better icon (not washed out)

This app works very well. You did a great job man.

Teaser
Got this working today, takes way too long to load right now, and only shows the names right now.

Hooray. I am happy to report that I can now use my BlueAnt T1 to control the Google Voice Commands. Awesome! Even though it passes the audio to the phone my headset still thinks my phone does not support it. But it works well enough for now till I can get an updated firware on my T1 headset.
I'm using Cognition.v2.2.Beta7.UCJI6 at the moment.

Beta Version Up
New version up, calling it beta because of the rough edges.
Enjoy!

Updated to the new 1.5 BETA. I switched back to my Plantronics Voyager 855 until I can update the firmware on my T1. The beta works. Thanks again for releasing this.

Wow this is great. I've been wanting to voice dial on my Captivate ever since I got it and this is the first time I've been able to do it.
I've noticed that often it doesn't respond until the second time I try to activate it. Maybe this is just a delay, not sure.
Any thoughts on how this could function when the screen is locked? Google voice actions are pretty powerful, so I doubt that full voice action functionality would be possible from a locked device. But maybe someone has some 2.2 source from another platform that includes how a call might be initiated over BT even when the screen is locked?
Thanks for this app. Loving it.

TheYar said:
Wow this is great. I've been wanting to voice dial on my Captivate ever since I got it and this is the first time I've been able to do it.
I've noticed that often it doesn't respond until the second time I try to activate it. Maybe this is just a delay, not sure.
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It appears to be a bug in the handling of bluetooth with the system, I can reproduce it without my app. Basically it appears that the system isn't releasing the bluetooth handle in a reasonable way, as my headphones that do bluetooth to both an iPod and a phone at the same time won't start playing again. I wish I could fix this.
TheYar said:
Any thoughts on how this could function when the screen is locked? Google voice actions are pretty powerful, so I doubt that full voice action functionality would be possible from a locked device. But maybe someone has some 2.2 source from another platform that includes how a call might be initiated over BT even when the screen is locked?
Thanks for this app. Loving it.
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This is a good idea. Look for it in a few minutes.

I just got done adding 1.5 to another DG ROM zip and decided to check here before flashing it. I'm am so psyched!!
Since you seem to be greased lightning on feedback and improvements, I'll throw another one out there - voice feedback into the headset speaker to let you know it is ready. I know that this functionality might better sit with the launched app (and sometimes does), but perhaps a configurable option to detect when the launched app has launched at least, and then react by saying "ready" or such in my ear. Then I'd care even less than I already do about the handle release problem with the bluetooth stack.
As for the lock screen bypass... yeah. I'm a security pro myself, but I agree that the risk there is low and acceptable, compared to the risk I face trying to security-unlock my screen while driving. Watch out though, people tend to freak out on this issue. The press went wild when the Droid opted for default Voice Action access through the lock screen, referring to it as a major security bug and design flaw. Of course, in that case it was accessible even without a headset, just a long-press of the search.
Let me know when this hits market and charge money for it, or at least offer a donation. Gladly pay. Considering this is the first time I've been able to accurately bluetooth dial since 6 years and three phones ago, you are officially a genius.

TheYar said:
I just got done adding 1.5 to another DG ROM zip and decided to check here before flashing it. I'm am so psyched!!
Since you seem to be greased lightning on feedback and improvements, I'll throw another one out there - voice feedback into the headset speaker to let you know it is ready. I know that this functionality might better sit with the launched app (and sometimes does), but perhaps a configurable option to detect when the launched app has launched at least, and then react by saying "ready" or such in my ear. Then I'd care even less than I already do about the handle release problem with the bluetooth stack.
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Your previous comment came in at just the right time to add an extra piece to the development cycle. The feature was easy, so I got it in. That said, playing through the bluetooth device appears to be a hard thing, I'll see what I can do about this. The easier thing to do, which I'm going to put in place soon, is to simply vibrate the phone, so that'll be the first step.
TheYar said:
As for the lock screen bypass... yeah. I'm a security pro myself, but I agree that the risk there is low and acceptable, compared to the risk I face trying to security-unlock my screen while driving. Watch out though, people tend to freak out on this issue. The press went wild when the Droid opted for default Voice Action access through the lock screen, referring to it as a major security bug and design flaw. Of course, in that case it was accessible even without a headset, just a long-press of the search.
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This is why I want the user to explicitly configure if they want this behavior. I'll look at adding a menu with settings. I want to get that done before I add in playing though the headset.
TheYar said:
Let me know when this hits market and charge money for it, or at least offer a donation. Gladly pay. Considering this is the first time I've been able to accurately bluetooth dial since 6 years and three phones ago, you are officially a genius.
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Actually, this is my first app, so I haven't paid the fee for developers to the app store. This is relatively simple, but I may put in a paypal link for development supplies. You know the standard: sex, drugs (beer), rock and roll.
I don't want to tip my hand for the other ideas I'm going to work on, but once this is mostly complete, I'm going to start on my next couple of apps, which I'm affectionately calling "Ring Rules" and "When I Get Home" right now. Those will likely have free and paid versions in the app store. (Assuming I get enough time to write them.)

Word, vibrate on launch. Dug. My handset is usually in a cradle or empty seat or sliding around the floorboard somewhere, so I might not get to use it much. But definitely a worthy X.X.1 enhancement. Looking forward to the other two apps you tease there; if my guesses are correct then they would both be of value to me.
On the lock-screen bypass: definitely, making it configurable would be preferable and snazzy. But on the old Windows Mobile Voice Command, this was configurable and disabled by default and it still got a good bit of bad feedback as a security bug. My 2 cents would be to make the setting work like the USB debugging setting in a stock ROM. Enabling it requires you to acknowledge a pop-up that warns and explains the risk. This might limit the number of armchair professional comments you get in the Market that are all caps and scream about how your app has security bugs and allows people to hack androids and steal all the datums and megahurtz off of them.

Hey thanks for this app, used voice dialing and commands all of the time on my Tilt with WinMo 6.0, only real downside of Android is not implementing this feature in an easy to use format IMO. I'm still figuring out vlingo but I can finally use my BlueAnt ST3 the way I used to, or almost anyway. Thanks again.

I started with yur earlier version that did Google Voice only, then the one that you could choose between GV and Vlingo.
Just installed latest version, and getting FCs.
I don't know if it is because I am selecting wrong COM item under (I've tried several under Vlingo, and get double vibrate, then FC each time) the app, or this application itself. But bringing up a long list of all the different components of various programs makes it immensely more difficult to get an operational program.
Going back to earlier version for now.
[EDIT]
I was able to get it to work with Google Voice, but never did with Vlingo.
I now realize that 3 vibes is normal. I'd prefer an option to turn that off.

[Android 2.1+] Caller Name - knowing who is calling without looking at the screen.

Hi everyone,
Today I released an application I've been working on for the past week. I'll be adding new features, such as exclusion list for speak aloud's, etc. This works with all the contacts on the phone (Facebook, etc.).
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.denzilferreira.apps.callername
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An application that gives you the name of who is calling/texting you right now, without you having to look at the screen.
NEW PRO FEATURES: voice on Bluetooth A2DP headsets and wired headphones, smoother and improved UI
ATTENTION: Facebook doesn't allow access to the profile pictures on the contacts because they failed to follow the Android standards (complain to them!). If you want pictures to show on the contact list, set the picture on your Google Contacts.
Free version:
- It won't lower the ringtone.
- It won't respect your sound profile. BUT you can use the widget to disable the caller name for convenience! (So that people don't complain about the phone talking while on a meeting).
- Will not let you know about messages received.
- Ads are displayed on the application.
- After each call, the phone will advertise Caller Name.
PRO version:
- Lowers ringtone after two seconds to say name aloud.
- Says who just texted you.
- Respects your sound profile, so no speaking if your phone is set to vibrate only/silent.
- Widget to disable call/text name without changing sound profiles.
- Selective call/text speech aloud on visible contacts on your phone.
- Type or speech to filter contacts using Google Voice Recognition.
- Letter-based filter for contacts.
- Swipe to toggle between search and contact list.
- No ads at all.
Changelog: 2.7
NEW: on the Free version, you now have access to the contact list, but you can't configure call/sms aloud.
FIXED: problem when device doesn't have an SDCard.
FIXED: in some situations, the ringtone wouldn't reset back to normal.
ENHANCED: faster loading of the contacts.
ENHANCED: minor GUI glitches.
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How to use the widget?
Press-and-hold your finger on an empty space on the phone's main screen. Select Widgets and then Caller Name. That will add a new icon on the phone's main screen. You can use it to toggle the talk aloud functionality ON/OFF without changing your phone's ringtone volume (it automatically turns OFF is set to vibrate/silence).
If any problems, please JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL, I can better keep track of those than comments on the MarketPlace! Giving a bad review doesn't help me fix anything...
Thank YOU for the bug reports, they are extremely useful to improve the application's functionality. Before giving a bad review, please drop me an email so I can investigate what could possibly be wrong.
Thank YOU for the suggestions, they really help improving the application!
Let me know what you guys think, suggestions are also welcome!
BR,
¬D

nice app man!

k_flynn said:
nice app man!
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Thanks!
I've updated the application today to fix a few bugs. I've also removed the ad's that would show up after the calls. So now it's pretty much like Pro, except for the smoothing of the voice when the call is ringing.
You can also uninstall the application and reinstall the application that previous licenses are restored automatically.
Enjoy!

New updates:
- Read aloud SMS senders, widget to turn it off without having to fiddle with sound settings.
Current version is 1.8!

great app!

Thanks
New version is out: 2.0
An application that gives you the name of who is calling/texting you right now, without you having to look at the screen.
NEW PRO FEATURES: voice search, text search, selective call/text aloud!
ATTENTION: Facebook doesn't allow access to the profile pictures on the contacts because they failed to follow the Android standards (complain to them!). If you want pictures to show on the contact list, set the picture on your Google Contacts.
Free version:
- It won't lower the ringtone.
- It won't respect your sound profile. BUT you can use the widget to disable the caller name for convenience! (So that people don't complain about the phone talking while on a meeting).
- Will not let you know about messages received.
- Ads are displayed on the application.
- After each call, the phone will advertise Caller Name.
PRO version:
- Lowers ringtone after two seconds to say name aloud.
- Says who just texted you.
- Respects your sound profile, so no speaking if your phone is set to vibrate only/silent.
- Widget to disable call/text name without changing sound profiles.
- Selective call/text speech aloud on visible contacts on your phone.
- Type or speech to filter contacts using Google Voice Recognition.
- No ads at all.

Was keen to try this app, downloaded and have not been able to get passed the opening screen before a popup tells me its not working and must force close or report.
HTC Sensation

Fixed that problem, current version 2.2
It was a silly mistake where I was trying to do Pro features on non-pro version... and also there was a problem with the keyboard not showing up on HTC Sense devices (blame HTC for their modifications on the framework...).

nice app man!

Bluetooth?
So far Pro version works good on my Bionic. But... if this would announce through my Bluetooth when connected instead of my phone speaker then it would truly be perfect. Any possibility of adding that feature?

toypwr said:
So far Pro version works good on my Bionic. But... if this would announce through my Bluetooth when connected instead of my phone speaker then it would truly be perfect. Any possibility of adding that feature?
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That's an awesome suggestion. I'll add it to the list of things to-do. I also have on the list a letter-based selection of the contacts too, for easier filtering when driving.

yes it is a usefull application.

Meagain1 said:
Was keen to try this app, downloaded and have not been able to get passed the opening screen before a popup tells me its not working and must force close or report.
HTC Sensation
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Tried again and all is well ! Thanks dferreria.
Will go Pro soon

Thanks, really appreciate it
I've modified the first post to add the wish-list and to-do's. Suggestions are welcome, if there is something you'd like me to consider for future versions.

Nice app, using the pro version.
I've noticed two issues though. 1) no name is announced if a contact only has a last name. ie: contacts first name is left blank. 2) on a test, I sent an sms from my 360 area code phone to my 352 area code phone and no name was announced.
Would it be safe to assume this happens simply due to the way my contacts are set up?
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RRSpikes said:
Nice app, using the pro version.
I've noticed two issues though. 1) no name is announced if a contact only has a last name. ie: contacts first name is left blank. 2) on a test, I sent an sms from my 360 area code phone to my 352 area code phone and no name was announced.
Would it be safe to assume this happens simply due to the way my contacts are set up?
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Hi there RRSpikes,
1) I can fix that issue, will be fixed on the next version. Just need to add a verification, nice catch!
2) I'm just guessing you don't have your own phone number on the other phone? The application doesn't say the name if it can't find the contact by the phone number.
Thanks!

dferreira said:
Hi there RRSpikes,
1) I can fix that issue, will be fixed on the next version. Just need to add a verification, nice catch!
2) I'm just guessing you don't have your own phone number on the other phone? The application doesn't say the name if it can't find the contact by the phone number.
Thanks!
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For #1, cool, thanks.
For #2, both phones (Tmo SGS2 & Sprint SGS2/ETg4) have active service. Could the key to this be that both numbers are in my contact list under the same name? I doubt this will make a difference but I also forward my 360# to my 352# or vice versa depending on where I'm at.
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RRSpikes said:
For #2, both phones (Tmo SGS2 & Sprint SGS2/ETg4) have active service. Could the key to this be that both numbers are in my contact list under the same name? I doubt this will make a difference but I also forward my 360# to my 352# or vice versa depending on where I'm at.
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Hum... So both devices are SGS2 correct? I was thinking if it could be an API issue with a manufacturer. So let me see if I got it correctly, if you send from Tmo -> Sprint and vice-versa, it never says your name? Can you check if on the messages app, it appears your name? Is your personal contact a Google Contact or something else? Also, can you try asking someone to send you a text and see if it is working?
Thank you for helping me figuring this out!

great app
what do you think of adding...
read selected text
say the time (triggered by pressing vol up+down or cam button or whatever )
i cant think of anything more right now, my mind is bent on my UCAS.... hope you like my suggestions, sorry if they are a repeat, didnt have time to read the whole thread

PersianSphinx said:
what do you think of adding...
read selected text
say the time (triggered by pressing vol up+down or cam button or whatever )
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Hi PersianSphinx,
Reading the message itself... I could do that, but it kinda is a bit out of scope to the Caller Name. The app is about letting you know from who, not the content. It is only my opinion, but if the phone would read my messages aloud, I wouldn't like it. Unless you are driving or something... I guess I could think about it if the device is connected with a BT headset.
Saying aloud the time, totally out of focus

Bad battery life, high Android OS drain

I'm experiencing very high battery drain on my phone, most of it attributed to "Android OS" in Settings -> Battery. For example, my battery is at 62% after 6 hours off charger, with 19min screen-on time. Any help, please? I tried reading various guides for dealing with the issue, but most of them refer to older versions of Android.
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Mmm thats weird, did you try to uninstall some apps that may be wakelocking your device ?
Wakelock its an excellent app but sadly you need root
Try unisntall some "fishy" apps that could be doing it

That's the problem, since I'm not rooted, I can't use wakelock detector It is kinda crippling.
I can't think of any fishy apps off the top of my head.. is there a list of "known bad" apps?

List some less popular apps you have installed. Apps like Tinder gave me ridiculous wakelocks. Screw that app BTW.

Interesting, I do have tinder installed! Is there any easy way of getting all installed applications on the phone?

rohandhruva said:
Interesting, I do have tinder installed! Is there any easy way of getting all installed applications on the phone?
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Check for which devices are set to actively sync. Turn off all the apps that don't need to sync in the background. Also, turn off syncing for all the google apps that you don't use.
If you're logged into multiple accounts, you have might location tracking and history on for all. I disabled both and it doesn't affect google now.

Try a factory reset,I had my Google Services on high and I did a factory reset and it was fine from there on.

erikiksaz said:
Check for which devices are set to actively sync. Turn off all the apps that don't need to sync in the background. Also, turn off syncing for all the google apps that you don't use.
If you're logged into multiple accounts, you have might location tracking and history on for all. I disabled both and it doesn't affect google now.
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What do you mean by devices to sync? I have only one google account synced on my device. I'll try removing crap like tinder.

ry_t said:
Try a factory reset,I had my Google Services on high and I did a factory reset and it was fine from there on.
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I've been holding off on a factory reset simply because it's so disruptive I should probably get around to it...

rohandhruva said:
What do you mean by devices to sync? I have only one google account synced on my device. I'll try removing crap like tinder.
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Under settings/accounts.
You'll see google and other apps like twitter, dropbox, waze, etc

Not sure if this is what you're asking, but you can go to Settings, Apps and the initial list you will be presented with is only the apps you have downloaded

CUBENSIS said:
Not sure if this is what you're asking, but you can go to Settings, Apps and the initial list you will be presented with is only the apps you have downloaded
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Yes, however that would need me to take multiple screenshot to list all apps that I have installed. I was looking for something which exports a text list of all my installed apps, maybe...
I've removed tinder and hinge for now, to see how it might affect battery. Any other ideas?

rohandhruva said:
Yes, however that would need me to take multiple screenshot to list all apps that I have installed. I was looking for something which exports a text list of all my installed apps, maybe...
I've removed tinder and hinge for now, to see how it might affect battery. Any other ideas?
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Sorry for late responding but I'm pretty sure it's a third party app. But another suggestion is to boot into Safe Mode and see if the high drainage still occurs. If it stops, then we know it's a third party app.

I have solved the majority of this problem on my phone.
Go into apps, reset data for the app "Moto"
Now enter Moto, do NOT accept "Yes I'm in" (or whatever it's translated to for you)
It appears the car detection chews through battery like mad, they apparently use ambient audio to detect driving if there's no location service running.
You will have to go into camera and click/unclick the wrist flick feature, same with alarm clock, you have to click/unclick in the Moto app, and launch alarm clock at least once. You will also need to do this on the "approach to activate" set of features.
This obviously kills the four assistive features and always on voice activation. But it appears this drains a ton of battery.
And even if you don't use voice activation any more, (I enabled it to test it out), but the DSP that handles it is never disabled.
Also always set GPS to "device only" as this google data farm "feature" completely murders battery life.

DroidOnRoids said:
Sorry for late responding but I'm pretty sure it's a third party app. But another suggestion is to boot into Safe Mode and see if the high drainage still occurs. If it stops, then we know it's a third party app.
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Thanks, I'm going to try using my phone in the Safe Mode today! It's incredibly crippling.

rohandhruva said:
Thanks, I'm going to try using my phone in the Safe Mode today! It's incredibly crippling.
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No problem. My issue with battery is the Cell Standby bug that seems to be a bug with this build for Verizon Moto X. There's nothing I can do about it except wait for Lollipop.

Shadowdancer123 said:
I have solved the majority of this problem on my phone.
Go into apps, reset data for the app "Moto"
Now enter Moto, do NOT accept "Yes I'm in" (or whatever it's translated to for you)
It appears the car detection chews through battery like mad, they apparently use ambient audio to detect driving if there's no location service running.
You will have to go into camera and click/unclick the wrist flick feature, same with alarm clock, you have to click/unclick in the Moto app, and launch alarm clock at least once. You will also need to do this on the "approach to activate" set of features.
This obviously kills the four assistive features and always on voice activation. But it appears this drains a ton of battery.
And even if you don't use voice activation any more, (I enabled it to test it out), but the DSP that handles it is never disabled.
Also always set GPS to "device only" as this google data farm "feature" completely murders battery life.
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Thanks. I'd try that, but it feels like it's disabling all the useful features of the Moto X. Kind of negates the reason I purchased this phone

DroidOnRoids said:
No problem. My issue with battery is the Cell Standby bug that seems to be a bug with this build for Verizon Moto X. There's nothing I can do about it except wait for Lollipop.
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I'd this same problem for the first few days I had the phone for! I am not sure what fixed it, but I don't see Cell Standby up there now (I'm on AT&T).

rohandhruva said:
I'd this same problem for the first few days I had the phone for! I am not sure what fixed it, but I don't see Cell Standby up there now (I'm on AT&T).
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Hmm interesting, I'm gonna have to search to see if there's a fix.

Shadowdancer123 said:
I have solved the majority of this problem on my phone.
Go into apps, reset data for the app "Moto"
Now enter Moto, do NOT accept "Yes I'm in" (or whatever it's translated to for you)
It appears the car detection chews through battery like mad, they apparently use ambient audio to detect driving if there's no location service running.
You will have to go into camera and click/unclick the wrist flick feature, same with alarm clock, you have to click/unclick in the Moto app, and launch alarm clock at least once. You will also need to do this on the "approach to activate" set of features.
This obviously kills the four assistive features and always on voice activation. But it appears this drains a ton of battery.
And even if you don't use voice activation any more, (I enabled it to test it out), but the DSP that handles it is never disabled.
Also always set GPS to "device only" as this google data farm "feature" completely murders battery life.
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I have all of these enabled. I use approx 45-60 min of GPS per day, minimal talk time, >50% of my time spent with no cell signal. I consistently get ~3.5 hrs of screen on time.
Maybe you did improve your battery life, but I don't think the moto features were your problem.

Should I (we) be concerned about Clipboard?

I've recently updated my Galaxy Note 9 from Oreo to Pie. Before this update I've never noticed nor encountered this.
I use the cut and past option also known as clipboard often. Lately when I goto my clipboard I find various clippings that I never cut. They are a series of numbers or numbers and letters with dashes (-).
As of right now I have 19 clippings within my clipboard.
9 of them are only numbers. Each of the 9 clippings have 12 numbers.
The other 10 clippings are of numbers and letters. Each of those have 4 sets of some kind of number and letters. Here's an example (TYRC-X424-TW3K-78H2)
Immediately after typing the example I now see a clipping in my clipboard that now includes characters such as (@#).
This is exactly what I do. I find something online in lets say Google browser on my phone. I'll find a story or news article. I'll press and hold a name or something so that I can copy it. I then goto my youtube app (not logged in) and select search. I then press the screen within the search and a popup comes up that gives me the option to paste or clipboard. I select clipboard and then all the weirdness begins with the codes.
What exactly is this? Why is this happening? What's causing it? Are any of you encountering the same thing?
I know for a fact that I've deleted my entire clipboard content and this event keeps taking place.
Any help or info on this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Shad0wsabr3 said:
I've recently updated my Galaxy Note 9 from Oreo to Pie. Before this update I've never noticed nor encountered this.
I use the cut and past option also known as clipboard often. Lately when I goto my clipboard I find various clippings that I never cut. They are a series of numbers or numbers and letters with dashes (-).
As of right now I have 19 clippings within my clipboard.
9 of them are only numbers. Each of the 9 clippings have 12 numbers.
The other 10 clippings are of numbers and letters. Each of those have 4 sets of some kind of number and letters. Here's an example (TYRC-X424-TW3K-78H2)
Immediately after typing the example I now see a clipping in my clipboard that now includes characters such as (@#).
This is exactly what I do. I find something online in lets say Google browser on my phone. I'll find a story or news article. I'll press and hold a name or something so that I can copy it. I then goto my youtube app (not logged in) and select search. I then press the screen within the search and a popup comes up that gives me the option to paste or clipboard. I select clipboard and then all the weirdness begins with the codes.
What exactly is this? Why is this happening? What's causing it? Are any of you encountering the same thing?
I know for a fact that I've deleted my entire clipboard content and this event keeps taking place.
Any help or info on this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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ONE UI PIE 9 Has been rushed it's a joke i can't comment on your clip board issues, but i got a feeling its bugs as PIE 9 is buggy as hell! Have you checked your clip board network usage ? is it sending and receiving data for no apparent reason ? i doubt it very much your hacked did you reset your phone once you updated to pie ? As that is recommended to wipe out some issues that you are facing! Or maybe Samsung or Android OS is activating Apps using clipboard as everthing has keys in this day and age.. it's just an theory!

Interesting post and response. I just checked mine..
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{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"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"
}
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Shad0wsabr3 said:
I've recently updated my Galaxy Note 9 from Oreo to Pie. Before this update I've never noticed nor encountered this.
I use the cut and past option also known as clipboard often. Lately when I goto my clipboard I find various clippings that I never cut. They are a series of numbers or numbers and letters with dashes (-).
As of right now I have 19 clippings within my clipboard.
9 of them are only numbers. Each of the 9 clippings have 12 numbers.
The other 10 clippings are of numbers and letters. Each of those have 4 sets of some kind of number and letters. Here's an example (TYRC-X424-TW3K-78H2)
Immediately after typing the example I now see a clipping in my clipboard that now includes characters such as (@#).
This is exactly what I do. I find something online in lets say Google browser on my phone. I'll find a story or news article. I'll press and hold a name or something so that I can copy it. I then goto my youtube app (not logged in) and select search. I then press the screen within the search and a popup comes up that gives me the option to paste or clipboard. I select clipboard and then all the weirdness begins with the codes.
What exactly is this? Why is this happening? What's causing it? Are any of you encountering the same thing?
I know for a fact that I've deleted my entire clipboard content and this event keeps taking place.
Any help or info on this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Those 16 characters appear to be some sort of activation key. Are you sure you didn't copy that key string from somewhere?
As far as it talking to the internet, check to see if you have Samsung's customization options enabled. If you do, all of their apps will phone home to Samsung what you do with the apps so that they can better "serve" you with features and personalized suggestions.
If you don't have it turned on, the app will still phone home, but its "supposed to only be for bug reporting" purposes. Take that with a grain of salt.
Post a screenshot of your AppList

Have you tried wiping the Cache Partition in Recovery Mode? If that doesn't help backup your device and perform a hard factory reset.

I figured it out. Just don't know why this app/phone is doing and allowing this. I've an app on my phone that has to do with a grocery store game/promotion. The grocery store gives customers game tickets that you can scan from a phone from the game app. Apparently the resulting key from the barcode on the physical gaming ticket is being recorded by the app onto the phones clipboard.
I guess stuff like this happens when we give "them" permission.
As to everyone else's response, yes, I have reset my phone after the pie update.
Thank you all for the responses and input!

N1NJATH3ORY said:
ONE UI PIE 9 Has been rushed it's a joke i can't comment on your clip board issues, but i got a feeling its bugs as PIE 9 is buggy as hell! Have you checked your clip board network usage ? is it sending and receiving data for no apparent reason ? i doubt it very much your hacked did you reset your phone once you updated to pie ? As that is recommended to wipe out some issues that you are facing! Or maybe Samsung or Android OS is activating Apps using clipboard as everthing has keys in this day and age.. it's just an theory!
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How do I go about viewing the clipboard network usage? And thanks for your response!

iceepyon said:
Have you tried wiping the Cache Partition in Recovery Mode? If that doesn't help backup your device and perform a hard factory reset.
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I have. I think I figured out the cause of this. Thank you

Shad0wsabr3 said:
How do I go about viewing the clipboard network usage? And thanks for your response!
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Go to apps, then select system apps and search for "clip".
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