in the stock motoblur rom, there was an option to speak the caller's name (or number if it wasn't in contacts) then the ring tone would start
I can't find it in cm7, anyone have any recommendations? I had a look at Announcifier, but it was too much and the speech would only start half way through the ring tone
Darn I was hoping there was a solution also, I to used that in the Blur ROM
Found Who's Calling? in the Market and it fits the bill. I like it better than the one that came with Blur. It has various settings and will also announce sms/mms messages also. Can also change what is said for people in your contact list.
Related
Thanks to this forum, my HD is almost perfectly customized with the current tools. Now I am going to experiment with the new radio 1.12.
However one thing is still bugging the hell out of me. Everytime I get a call of an unknown caller, I get the default avatar picture (grey and boring). I know that you can change this with some programs, like Photo Contacts Pro. But I don't want to install this, because I like the standard call pickup screen with the slider.
Is it possible to change the pictures for incoming unknown and private callers without installing another program?
I was wondering if anyone knows if the TP2 had the capabilities to have a different ringtone for each person so that when they call AND text it is the same ringtone for that specific contact, instead of defaulting back to the main ringtone for texts. I have tried searching for this on google but I have only found solutions for this problem if I have a blackberry. For example, I would like Song A to play for Person A when they text AND call. I would like Song B to play for Person B when they text AND call. Right now all it will do is to play Song A when Person A calls and Song B when Person B calls. When either Person A or B texts me, it will play Song C. Is there something I am missing on what to do to fix this? Is there a setting I can change or is there a hack that I can use? Any help is appreciated.
PhoneAlarm lets you assign custom tones based on email or SMS subject & sender.
(I'm starting to feel like a shill for PA, but it is the only thing I have to contribute at this point.)
There is no "built-in" method for setting per-person Text ringers. (I used to have this feature on VzW's "The V" a few years back, and haven't seen it built-into a phone since).
As the other poster mentions, there are various applications that can be installed after-the-fact to provide this feature for each contact for text messages.
Definitely need to try PhoneAlarm myself... hadn't seen that one yet.
My dad's SGS2 for Sprint recently went 4.0.4 OTA and though I was excited for him, he's not happy about the default call log only showing recent call activity by date and not by caller as he claims it used to be. For instance, he runs a business and for him it's important to be able to click on a contact and have all call log data available in one spot for that contact as opposed to scrolling through the entire history of all callers to find when he may have missed a call from someone. Does anyone know of an app or ROM that could help? This apparently can be done for people who are registered contacts, but he wants it done for when someone's not a contact.
Still Possible / Horribly Inconvenient
This is the nicest free replacement dialer IMO, a MiUI style dialer with the same functionality your father is looking for.
play . google . com /store/apps/details?id=com.modoohut.dialer&hl=ja
I'm looking for a new Text-To-Speech app that announces the name of who's calling and who's texting me. I just uninstalled Voice Alerts because it doesn't announce names without cutting out and worse, it doesn't stop announcing caller's names long after you've declined the call. I also used SMS Alerts and some others, but each one ends up failing.
Does anyone else use an app like this on their GN2?
Hmm... guess no one like to use TTS announcements instead of ringtones like I do. I did find and am trying out "Call Announcer". I had a minor problem at first so I contacted the Developer who replied fairly quickly. It's working so far.
I've used Full Screen Caller ID for quite a while: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androminigsm.fscifree&hl=en
Besides the bigger contact picture, it will announce calls and read text messages.
Turn on driving mode under touchwiz. (You will find it under the quick toggles in the pull down notification screen.)
I am not 100% it works the way you want it to, but it does announce who is calling and who sent you a text message. Play with it.
I was wondering how that was happening on my mom's note.
I found a way to get the caller's name to be spoken -- but I guess there is no built-in way to get this to happen for a text message? I would be nice to know who is texting without having to look at my phone.
TechnoHippie said:
I found a way to get the caller's name to be spoken -- but I guess there is no built-in way to get this to happen for a text message? I would be nice to know who is texting without having to look at my phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I found a way, but it's not built-in and I think you'll need root.
I installed 'text to speech' from the play store, typed in 'messge from .........' saved all the names I wanted and transfered them to system/media/audio/notifications/sound theme/calm (root needed?)
Then chose their name as the ringtone, works in whatsapp aswell.
i did something somewhat related as well. i went into a text to speech website and created both a ringtone and an sms tone for specific contacts only. so say if i'm driving and the sound comes "liam calling" or รค message tone of "sms from liam", that will be from my son which i need to address as it might be urgent. but if the generic tone "sms" or my usual ringtone comes up, i don't address it right away. i went one step further for the other notifications. i created ones for teams, messenger, office email etc.. so say when the tone "front door" sounds, this is the camera in front detecting a person.