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Can I customize the voice on gps?

Is it possible to add my custom voice for the gps?
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Yeah that would be cool. Like the garmin in my car has about 10-12 diff voices.

Settings -> Text-to-speech -> Language -> British English (in 2.1)
Settings -> Voice input & output -> Text-to-speech settings -> Language -> British English (in 2.2)
you might have to download it from the market (I did in cm6 by going to: Settings > Voice input & output > Text-to-speech settings > Install voice data). you also might need to check off "Always use my settings" also. Even with British English selected, distances are Imperial (feet/yards/miles) not Metric.
Have fun playing with the speech rate also

Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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novanosis85 said:
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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Then no that isn't possible...

novanosis85 said:
Thank you for the reply but I meant if I can make a custom sentence. Ex: "turn .right at so and so" to " bust a right at so and so".
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Not with Google Nav, unfortunately. Might want to post a feature request to Google for it.

Well here's to hoping.....
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Google Nav is still in beta, every nav system has voice options, Google Nav just has synthesized voice right now. It is not a priority, but it will happen before it leaves beta, which with google could be a while but i would expect this feature within a year.

Yes you can change the voice for the navigation, it is a standardized voice for the whole phone. There just are not many alternate voice options yet to do so. The market only has two voices that I found, one is free and very bad, the other is a paid for one, I think the voice was called 'Susan' but I did not try that one.

First of all...good job XDA for the auto search function when trying to start a new thread! LoL!
I noticed that the voice for Google Nav is so much better and more natural prior to installing the speech synthesis package. I wonder why they didn't use that? I nearly thought it was the 'new' voice with the new Maps update. Got all excited for nothing after downloading the speech pack!
Obviously, it only gives you general directions and doesn't say the names of the streets.

Closest I can find to a new speech pack is svox
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.svox.classic.langpack.eng_usa_fem
But it's marginally better and isn't free (based on the examples I heard on their website).. So I'm holding off for google to implement their own improved version (or until $2 is burning a hole in my pocket one day)

Voice Actions not downloading

The newly announce updated Voice Search app (including Voice Actions) is not downloading on my Desire. It's not even there on the market.

yep, me too

Has an U.S. chums got the .apks ? Will that work?

its up now for uk users dude!

Just showed up on Irish market and installed no problem

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Just showed up on Irish market and installed no problem
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Does the "send text to" or "listen to" functionality work? I can't get these to work. However the maps/ directions / call functionality does work for me.
Rooted official Froyo

I managed to get it downloaded and working via Appbrain

Woo hoo. Also got it but text and email options not working? Anyone got this working?

nb8k said:
Does the "send text to" or "listen to" functionality work? I can't get these to work. However the maps/ directions / call functionality does work for me.
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"Send text to" works fine. "Listen to" or "set alarm" don't though. The HTC apps need to be updated to support it
Official Froyo, not rooted

Does this give us bluetooth voice dialling by a roundabout route?

It won't install on my desire. Pays froyo rom.
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al89nut said:
Does this give us bluetooth voice dialling by a roundabout route?
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Yes. I can press the button and say "Call Buster" and it does a quick countdown followed by dialling that number. Haven't tried with bluetooth but I assume it would.

I guess the problem is that you still have to press a button, but it is a move forward

I set voice recognition in settings to English us and it all works now

mottchew said:
I set voice recognition in settings to English us and it all works now
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Nice one!!!! Works much better. Which music apps support it?
Found answer: Pandora, Last.fm, mspot, spotify and Rdio according to the website

nb8k said:
Nice one!!!! Works much better. Which music apps support it?
Found answer: Pandora, Last.fm, mspot, spotify and Rdio according to the website
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Have you worked out how to pick which music app you want? I have the standard music app, Spotify and Last.fm and it keeps defaulting to Last.fm.

Once the language is set in settings to English US it becomes infinitely more useful. Probably getting about 90% accuracy with complete random results. Test emails, texts, calling the chicken shop across the road from where I live, the closest McDonald's to where I live, and even my work place. All flawlessly! Very impressed.

I don't have English US in Settings>Language - just UK and Ireland
Edit - however I do in Settings> Voice Input and Output - is that what you mean?
Edit 2 - yes, that changes it.

al89nut said:
I don't have English US in Settings>Language - just UK and Ireland
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Settings > Voice input & ouput > Voice recognizer settings > Language

Oooh. Changing to English US made all the difference. I was on English UK and it wouldn't recognise "text" and "email" commands. Now it's great! Remember to block offensive words unless you specifically need to swear because even the most innocent of texts ended up with an f-word or two. Not exactly what I was expecting but anyhow

Google now

I've been messing with it but I can't figure out how to add cards to the front page I guess you could call it, like when I first open Google now I want to add sports and such anyone know how? Also has anyone had luck with sports? The option to edit teams is there but its grey and you can't click and open it.
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Do as follows:
Google now
Settings
Google now
Top right toggle off sync
Toggle on sync
It will restart the entire Google now
Enjoy!
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C-4Nati said:
I've been messing with it but I can't figure out how to add cards to the front page I guess you could call it, like when I first open Google now I want to add sports and such anyone know how? Also has anyone had luck with sports? The option to edit teams is there but its grey and you can't click and open it.
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Just do a Google search for your favorite team a couple times. Google Now will learn.

Google Now learns based on where you are, what you do and search. Just use your device and let it go.
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wisefreakz said:
Do as follows:
Google now
Settings
Google now
Top right toggle off sync
Toggle on sync
It will restart the entire Google now
Enjoy!
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These instructions make no sense to me. There is no "Google Now", there is the search bar with the mic on the home screen, that brings up the search box with the "Now Cards". I assume that's what you are talking about?
But in the settings, there is no sub option "Google Now" there either. There are:
* Now Cards
* Voice
* Phone Search
* Privacy and accounts
And there is no sync option in any of them, the top right hand has some dots that popup "Send feedback" and "Help".
In any case I have restarted the entire phone without success.

H3g3m0n said:
These instructions make no sense to me. There is no "Google Now", there is the search bar with the mic on the home screen, that brings up the search box with the "Now Cards". I assume that's what you are talking about?
But in the settings, there is no sub option "Google Now" there either. There are:
* Now Cards
* Voice
* Phone Search
* Privacy and accounts
And there is no sync option in any of them, the top right hand has some dots that popup "Send feedback" and "Help".
In any case I have restarted the entire phone without success.
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Well, you're one step closer than me because I don't have "Now Cards" in my settings. Just Voice, Phone Search, and Privacy and accounts. So, basically, all the help in the phone relating to now cards don't even apply to me. Awesome. Anyone have any idea how to turn on now cards on a phone that apparently doesn't have any?

I want Google now in Italy
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C-4Nati said:
I've been messing with it but I can't figure out how to add cards to the front page I guess you could call it, like when I first open Google now I want to add sports and such anyone know how? Also has anyone had luck with sports? The option to edit teams is there but its grey and you can't click and open it.
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I have the same issue....doesn't seem to be learning, I've searched for one team multiple times over multiple days

theltrj said:
I have the same issue....doesn't seem to be learning, I've searched for one team multiple times over multiple days
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From what we can make out, your searches MUST be for teams both in the US and MUST be currently mid-season. I.e searching for Manchester United will give no results or cards, same as NBA team currently as its off season.

I had this problem because my account was through google apps and the predictive ui needed to be enable for mobile in the apps dashboard. If that is the case for you, try this solution another user found: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1744793&page=2
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Well, you're one step closer than me because I don't have "Now Cards" in my settings. Just Voice, Phone Search, and Privacy and accounts. So, basically, all the help in the phone relating to now cards don't even apply to me. Awesome. Anyone have any idea how to turn on now cards on a phone that apparently doesn't have any?
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Fyi you may need to enable web search history in your Google account dashboard to get these teams to popup, that fixed the problem for me
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theltrj said:
Fyi you may need to enable web search history in your Google account dashboard to get these teams to popup, that fixed the problem for me
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where is this option in my google account? I found the dashboard but not this setting.

google.com/dashboard > scroll down to 'Web history'
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I haven't switched to Jelly Bean yet as I prefer the features in AOKP but had a question about Google Now.
Is the 'learning' it does tied to your Google Account or to your device?
i.e. I use my GNexus on the go but sometimes I'm going to be using my Xoom or my Nexus 7 I'm waiting for, will everything it's learned from being used on my GNexus be available on my 2 tabs? Also if the device is ever wiped does it have to relearn everything?
Just wondering. Looks like people love it so far.
Thanks!

Saintfyre said:
I haven't switched to Jelly Bean yet as I prefer the features in AOKP but had a question about Google Now.
Is the 'learning' it does tied to your Google Account or to your device?
i.e. I use my GNexus on the go but sometimes I'm going to be using my Xoom or my Nexus 7 I'm waiting for, will everything it's learned from being used on my GNexus be available on my 2 tabs? Also if the device is ever wiped does it have to relearn everything?
Just wondering. Looks like people love it so far.
Thanks!
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As long as you're signed into Google, it will keep learning about your preferences, doesn't matter whether you're on a phone, tablet, or on the computer.
And no, Google won't forget your preferences even if you format the phone/tablet.
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theltrj said:
Fyi you may need to enable web search history in your Google account dashboard to get these teams to popup, that fixed the problem for me
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Thanks J - mine was paused

happy to help =)

google now cards?
theltrj said:
happy to help =)
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can someone actually show that they have other cards besides the weather card i only have the weather card i tried all these options listed multiple searches and turning on web history and etc and nothing all it does is show the weather and do google searches nothing else

thekidcalledl said:
can someone actually show that they have other cards besides the weather card i only have the weather card i tried all these options listed multiple searches and turning on web history and etc and nothing all it does is show the weather and do google searches nothing else
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sure: <attached>

Slowing down search?
When I have Google Now enabled I find that the time it takes to launch the search app is significantly longer than when Now is disabled from search. Has anyone found a way to speed it up? I use the search bar for everything like opening apps, web searches, etc and need to be able to launch it quickly on the go!! But I do like Google Now so want to continue to use it but not if it's slowing me down, man!
btw, running stock 4.1.1
Thanks for the help guys!

Google Now Doesn't Speak

Please forgive me, I have searched but 'Google Now' isn't a great search term...
Basically, I get no voice feedback when using voice search or the Google Now app on my 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update. Initially I was underwhelmed by Google Now and wondered what the fuss was, until I discovered it should be talking back to me in a Siri-like fashion.
I had the leaked 4.1 I/O release previously and same issue. Language is English and I have voice prompts turned on in the search settings.
Any ideas? It's a Google stock ROM and it never worked, so I really don't know what it could be.
Edit: Nevermind, same discussion here. Too bad there's no time-limited delete functionality here, feel free to delete.

Try this
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.

goliath969 said:
There is my solution:
- Set your locale to whatever you want
- Set the Google Now Voice Language to English US
- Voice Output to Always
- Remove the tick(untick the box) on Hide Offensive Words
I spent hours of tinkering with this and tried all kinds of options, but in the end that solved it for me. This is because recently there was an update to Google Search, which is the application designation for Google Now and it introduced this bug.
I have my locale to my native one English UK en-GB and everything works like a charm as it should be and as it used to work before the update.
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I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped

How about this
vintermut said:
I have same problem with google now and this setup not helped
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Make sure that you have downloaded the offline speech recognition in English US and maybe try asking something like "What's the time?". It will not talk back to all questions. Only the ones that were specifically pre-programmed. If it still doesn't work, try putting your system locale to English US and restarting your phone. And most importantly update your Talkback, Google Search and Google Voice search apps to their latest through the Play Store.
What I did now officially works on my O2 HTC One S and 3UK HTC One X, so it works for sure on those two.
I hope this helps

Drextee Messenger for Android Wear is available to public now - Free

Reply to your messages using our predictive keyboard with easy error correction feature (patent pending technology)
No promotional signature is added to your messages
Features:
- If you pressed a wrong key, you can correct it by dragging your finger on the keyboard (video: https://youtu.be/Bvlk3_4MOvA?t=28s )
- Reply to SMS, Email and Hangouts
- Use state-of-the-art word suggestion for faster data entry (in many cases it predicts your next word even before you enter its first letter)
- Hold down keys to see accented letters. Hold down SPACE bar for quickly entering punctuation
- Emoji support
- Voice recognition
- Search contacts or view inbox on your watch.
- To run, tap on a message you have received or tap on the app icon on your watch
- Supported languages include English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and many more.
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idelan.drexteemessenger
Demo: https://youtu.be/Bvlk3_4MOvA
Feedback: http://bit.ly/1iN8QOQ

idelan2016 said:
Reply to your messages using our predictive keyboard with easy error correction feature (patent pending technology)
No promotional signature is added to your messages
Features:
- If you pressed a wrong key, you can correct it by dragging your finger on the keyboard (video: https://youtu.be/Bvlk3_4MOvA?t=28s )
- Reply to SMS, Email and Hangouts
- Use state-of-the-art word suggestion for faster data entry (in many cases it predicts your next word even before you enter its first letter)
- Hold down keys to see accented letters. Hold down SPACE bar for quickly entering punctuation
- Emoji support
- Voice recognition
- Search contacts or view inbox on your watch.
- To run, tap on a message you have received or tap on the app icon on your watch
- Supported languages include English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and many more.
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...exteemessenger
Demo: https://youtu.be/Bvlk3_4MOvA
Feedback: http://bit.ly/1iN8QOQ
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link doesnt work. but did find it elsewhere.. Nice app but constantly FC's on my Xiaomi Note 2... Also when working an INBOX REFRESH button would be useful

lohtse said:
link doesnt work. but did find it elsewhere.. Nice app but constantly FC's on my Xiaomi Note 2... Also when working an INBOX REFRESH button would be useful
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Hi Lohtse,
Sorry! We had copied and pasted an ellipsized link. It's fixed now. Thanks! We have seen some issues on Xiaomi devices. We are working on them.
Regarding Refresh button, if you press the Inbox button again, it should refresh the inbox if there has been any new messages. Please let us know if this is not
what happens on your device. Once again, thank you very much!

idelan2016 said:
Hi Lohtse,
Sorry! We had copied and pasted an ellipsized link. It's fixed now. Thanks! We have seen some issues on Xiaomi devices. We are working on them.
Regarding Refresh button, if you press the Inbox button again, it should refresh the inbox if there has been any new messages. Please let us know if this is not
what happens on your device. Once again, thank you very much!
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"WHEN" it is working if I press the inbox to refresh as you have suggested it simple FC's the App on the phone.... It does work(app) from time to time but not enough to be useful
Devices are Sony Smart watch 3 and Xiaomi Note 2, BOTH on latest roms!

lohtse said:
"WHEN" it is working if I press the inbox to refresh as you have suggested it simple FC's the App on the phone.... It does work(app) from time to time but not enough to be useful
Devices are Sony Smart watch 3 and Xiaomi Note 2, BOTH on latest roms!
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Sorry! We look into the issue. I will let you know once we upload the new version. Thank you for reporting it!

idelan2016 said:
Sorry! We look into the issue. I will let you know once we upload the new version. Thank you for reporting it!
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great thank you

lohtse said:
great thank you
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Hi Lohtse,
Xiaomi devices allow only the default SMS app to access the SMS. Can you go to the Settings and change it (i.e., change the setting so it will not block other apps from accessing the SMS)? After doing this, please run Drextee Messenger again. Please let us know if it works properly or not. Thank you very much!

idelan2016 said:
Hi Lohtse,
Xiaomi devices allow only the default SMS app to access the SMS. Can you go to the Settings and change it (i.e., change the setting so it will not block other apps from accessing the SMS)? After doing this, please run Drextee Messenger again. Please let us know if it works properly or not. Thank you very much!
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how would you suggest I do this as I have it ALREADY set to Handcent!
And that would not explain why it work sometimes but not others!
Also my partner has the Asus Zenwatch and Xiaomi Note 2 and no such issues!

lohtse said:
how would you suggest I do this as I have it ALREADY set to Handcent!
And that would not explain why it work sometimes but not others!
Also my partner has the Asus Zenwatch and Xiaomi Note 2 and no such issues!
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Hi Lohtse,
Thank you very much for the information!
> how would you suggest I do this as I have it ALREADY set to Handcent!
If there is any option in the settings to block apps from accessing SMS, please toggle it to allow Drextee to access the SMS.
Otherwise, you can set Drextee Messenger as the default SMS app and open it on your watch
a few times to see if it crashes. Then, on your phone you can set the default SMS app back to Handcent.
Another test that you can do is the following,
send an email or Google Hangout to yourself. When you see the Drextee notification on your watch, open it and reply to it.
This will open Drextee Messenger on your watch. Please let us know if it crashes or not.
At this point, our best guess is that Drextee can't access the SMS inbox on your phone.
Once again thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience!

idelan2016 said:
Hi Lohtse,
Thank you very much for the information!
> how would you suggest I do this as I have it ALREADY set to Handcent!
If there is any option in the settings to block apps from accessing SMS, please toggle it to allow Drextee to access the SMS.
Otherwise, you can set Drextee Messenger as the default SMS app and open it on your watch
a few times to see if it crashes. Then, on your phone you can set the default SMS app back to Handcent.
Another test that you can do is the following,
send an email or Google Hangout to yourself. When you see the Drextee notification on your watch, open it and reply to it.
This will open Drextee Messenger on your watch. Please let us know if it crashes or not.
At this point, our best guess is that Drextee can't access the SMS inbox on your phone.
Once again thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience!
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don't use or have hangouts installed and done as suggested and FC's!!!!!!!! same if I try refreshing inbox on watch.... Only time it seems to work is after a reboot and then only for a few hours before the issue

lohtse said:
don't use or have hangouts installed and done as suggested and FC's!!!!!!!! same if I try refreshing inbox on watch.... Only time it seems to work is after a reboot and then only for a few hours before the issue
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Hi Lohtse,
Do you mean it works after rebooting your phone or your watch?
We had a lengthy discussion about this issue today. It is possible that your phone OS kills the service which was started by Drextee. When you open Drextee on your watch, it tries to restart the service on your phone, but somehow it fails. Can you kindly do the following experiment and tell us what happens?
- Before opening the app on your watch, tap on the Drextee icon on your phone to open it. Then, open the app on your watch and see if it crashes.
Once again sorry for the inconvenience!

idelan2016 said:
Hi Lohtse,
Do you mean it works after rebooting your phone or your watch?
We had a lengthy discussion about this issue today. It is possible that your phone OS kills the service which was started by Drextee. When you open Drextee on your watch, it tries to restart the service on your phone, but somehow it fails. Can you kindly do the following experiment and tell us what happens?
- Before opening the app on your watch, tap on the Drextee icon on your phone to open it. Then, open the app on your watch and see if it crashes.
Once again sorry for the inconvenience!
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if it was the phone then My partner would have the SAME issue with her Xiaomi NOTE 2 and Zenwatch.
As to working it will work fro a short period after I reboot phone then will Force Close.
Now your experiment. It FC's but after SEVERAL attempt it opens(PHONE APP).... open on watch and then have to wait several minutes and if am lucky it refreshs the inbox....

"This application is not compatible with any of your devices" this is what I get in Google Play Store. I am using stock 6.0.1 firmware on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and stock firmware 6.0.1 on Sony Smartwatch 3.

sapiora said:
"This application is not compatible with any of your devices" this is what I get in Google Play Store. I am using stock 6.0.1 firmware on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and stock firmware 6.0.1 on Sony Smartwatch 3.
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Hi Sapiora,
We do support Samsung Galaxy Note 4, but the app cannot be downloaded from Bulgaria. The reason is that we don't support Bulgarian alphabet at the moment, hence the restriction. Sorry for the inconvenience and sorry that Google Play Store error message is not clear. I will contact you once when we add support for Bulgarian alphabet.

Thank you very much. I will expect that.

lohtse said:
if it was the phone then My partner would have the SAME issue with her Xiaomi NOTE 2 and Zenwatch.
As to working it will work fro a short period after I reboot phone then will Force Close.
Now your experiment. It FC's but after SEVERAL attempt it opens(PHONE APP).... open on watch and then have to wait several minutes and if am lucky it refreshs the inbox....
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Hi Lohtse,
Thank you very much for doing the experiment! Although you and your partner have the same type of phone, the settings and the versions of libraries running on two phones might be different.
We have been trying to roost cause the bug, but no luck so far. We have released a new version. Please let us know if by any chance it fixes your problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience!

idelan2016 said:
Hi Lohtse,
Thank you very much for doing the experiment! Although you and your partner have the same type of phone, the settings and the versions of libraries running on two phones might be different.
We have been trying to roost cause the bug, but no luck so far. We have released a new version. Please let us know if by any chance it fixes your problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience!
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ok installed and testing but FC'd soon as I did a reboot of phone and fc'd 6 times before it would let me open app on phone!

Well this the latest version is a little useless... been installed over 15 hours and never shown a text when its arrived nor does the inbox display ANYTHING either.. It is BLANK and refreshing does nothing!
Have uninstalled and reinstalled and same issues as mention in this and last post.. Partner now has SAME issues and hers was working fine before(as stated earlier)

lohtse said:
Well this the latest version is a little useless... been installed over 15 hours and never shown a text when its arrived nor does the inbox display ANYTHING either.. It is BLANK and refreshing does nothing!
Have uninstalled and reinstalled and same issues as mention in this and last post.. Partner now has SAME issues and hers was working fine before(as stated earlier)
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We really don't know why this is happening Thank you for letting us know! We will continue working on this and will let you know if we make any progress!

idelan2016 said:
We really don't know why this is happening Thank you for letting us know! We will continue working on this and will let you know if we make any progress!
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seems deleting app cache and date then uninstalling and reinstalling corrects the issue