I just picked up one of the $200 phones, and I'm playing around with it.
I've got a Qualcomm Toq smartwatch, and - after installing Google's Play Store - have been able to install the app that goes with it. The Toq has paired to the phone and they are seeming to communicate well.
My issue is this: In order for the Toq to get alerts, the Fire Phone tells me that I need to enable it on in "Accessibility-> Services." So I do. Everything else in Accessibility is still turned off, but when I got to Silk or the Amazon App Store, the Fire Phone starts reading everything out loud to me. So, it's as though the Screen Reader has been turned on. I've verified that the Screen Reader believes that it is off, and I've tried turning in on and off again, and rebooting the phone as well.
Nothing seems to fix this issue.
Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known issue? A quick search turns up nothing.
Thanks.
kilurb said:
I just picked up one of the $200 phones, and I'm playing around with it.
I've got a Qualcomm Toq smartwatch, and - after installing Google's Play Store - have been able to install the app that goes with it. The Toq has paired to the phone and they are seeming to communicate well.
My issue is this: In order for the Toq to get alerts, the Fire Phone tells me that I need to enable it on in "Accessibility-> Services." So I do. Everything else in Accessibility is still turned off, but when I got to Silk or the Amazon App Store, the Fire Phone starts reading everything out loud to me. So, it's as though the Screen Reader has been turned on. I've verified that the Screen Reader believes that it is off, and I've tried turning in on and off again, and rebooting the phone as well.
Nothing seems to fix this issue.
Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known issue? A quick search turns up nothing.
Thanks.
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More likely than not, you're trailblazing here.
I just installed the Toq app (I don't own the corresponding device), enabled it in services, and tried to open the Amazon Store. After a bit, it started reading things to me even though I didn't enable anything to that effect, much like you're getting. This might be something you'd want to report to Amazon, regardless of whether you're using Google services or not.
Disabling the Toq app disables screen reading in other apps. No idea what's up. I'm on 3.6.8.
snapplefish said:
More likely than not, you're trailblazing here.
I just installed the Toq app (I don't own the corresponding device), enabled it in services, and tried to open the Amazon Store. After a bit, it started reading things to me even though I didn't enable anything to that effect, much like you're getting. This might be something you'd want to report to Amazon, regardless of whether you're using Google services or not.
Disabling the Toq app disables screen reading in other apps. No idea what's up. I'm on 3.6.8.
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Thanks for the feedback. At least now I know my problem isn't unique. I imagine that my hardware setup is a corner case, and I wonder if there are even many apps that would cause these features to turn on. I suppose I'll try to contact Amazon about it.
Thanks again.
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I bought my Smartwatch 2 from amazon and apart from being totally disapointed by the fact that Sony removed the shake2wake, music widget and auto brightness I have found an other problem: it gets stuck (happens like once a day) and it usually happens when I let it turn the screen off by its own, it will just dim the screen and get stuck in a dimmed screen state, showing my apps, but I can't interact with it, is anyone else experiencing this, and did anyone manage to fix this problem, or is my devices defective and I should send it back for repairing, and if that's the case can I send it to Sony Roumania instead, cause I don't like the idea of sending it to Amazon UK?
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I bought my Smartwatch 2 from amazon and apart from being totally disapointed by the fact that Sony removed the shake2wake, music widget and auto brightness I have found an other problem: it gets stuck (happens like once a day) and it usually happens when I let it turn the screen off by its own, it will just dim the screen and get stuck in a dimmed screen state, showing my apps, but I can't interact with it, is anyone else experiencing this, and did anyone manage to fix this problem, or is my devices defective and I should send it back for repairing, and if that's the case can I send it to Sony Roumania instead, cause I don't like the idea of sending it to Amazon UK?
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Do you think you might have downloaded an app that is causing this? I haven't had my watch for long but, I downloaded a calander app which would cause my watch to freeze whenever I'd open it.
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Do you think you might have downloaded an app that is causing this? I haven't had my watch for long but, I downloaded a calander app which would cause my watch to freeze whenever I'd open it.
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Downloaded only Sony's apps (most of them) and WatchIT and the xbmc and tasker extensions, don't think any of one can cause that...
EDIT: Forgot to say it also happened when my phone was dead, so the watch was not connected to anything.
Just if anyone is interested and has the same problem as I did, I managed to solve it by unpairing the watch from the phone, reseting the watch and doing the whole repairing process.
Ranomez said:
Just if anyone is interested and has the same problem as I did, I managed to solve it by unpairing the watch from the phone, reseting the watch and doing the whole repairing process.
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Yep, I'm experiencing the same problem as I'm typing. I was just viewing an email and, exactly like you said, the backlight slowly turned off and it just stopped working. I'm going to soft-reset the smartwatch.
InjecTioN said:
Yep, I'm experiencing the same problem as I'm typing. I was just viewing an email and, exactly like you said, the backlight slowly turned off and it just stopped working. I'm going to soft-reset the smartwatch.
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Hope you fix it man, the smartwatch 2 is a beautiful device, unfortunately mine is no more (screen got burnt so I sent it back to amazon and got my money back) so I really hope you fix it and keep enjoying it cause I really miss it but oh well, waiting for a g watch and hoping to be as satisfied of it as I was of the smartwatch 2.
I tried to change the provider in WatchESPN and how I can never get it to go past the first screen. The waiting circle goes around and around and in the end comes back with an error about the network, even though I now that is not the issue as everything else works perfectly. I think it has something to do with me changing the provider. I have tried to remove and re-install but it still does not work. Is there a way to ensure that it has been completely removed and try again as maybe some rogue configuration is being left behind.
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I tried to change the provider in WatchESPN and how I can never get it to go past the first screen. The waiting circle goes around and around and in the end comes back with an error about the network, even though I now that is not the issue as everything else works perfectly. I think it has something to do with me changing the provider. I have tried to remove and re-install but it still does not work. Is there a way to ensure that it has been completely removed and try again as maybe some rogue configuration is being left behind.
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Have you figured this out?
Anyone else having issues with this? Mine just stopped working. Uninstalled a bunch of apps/rooted apps but still keep getting error when attempting to play video or stream.
Maric said:
Anyone else having issues with this? Mine just stopped working. Uninstalled a bunch of apps/rooted apps but still keep getting error when attempting to play video or stream.
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I finally got it to work for those with similar problems for the future. I had to go into the file system and delete WatchEspn folder. The Amazon app is still terribly slow and buggy. I sideloaded the Android WatchEspn apk which is much better in performance. Only setback with the Android version is that you need a mouse/tablet to control the app.
Is there any way to mimic the 10 seconds forward and reverse (or any length of customized time) while playing replay events in WatchESPN? Something like the forward and reverse buttons on FTV remote that does the job for Amazon movies/tv? Something where one single click goes forward/reverse a set amount of seconds, while keeping the button pressed gives you the option to scroll through at varying speeds.....
Is there a list of apps it's ok to "turn of"?
I ask because I disabled several AT&T apps, and my battery life started being horrible and the phone lagged something awful. System monitor showed my CPU usage being way up, and "security storage" was the max offender......whatever that means.
I turned the apps back on one by one, and it possibly was the STUPID "keeper" application that not until I turned it back on did the phone start acting normal again. I HATE THAT STUPID APP with the overlay all the time (I use lastpass). Anyone else disabled that and the phone work ok? (NOTE, it seems to work fine until after the first reboot of turning that app off).
SO......anyone else have any similar experience?
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Is there a list of apps it's ok to "turn of"?
I ask because I disabled several AT&T apps, and my battery life started being horrible and the phone lagged something awful. System monitor showed my CPU usage being way up, and "security storage" was the max offender......whatever that means.
I turned the apps back on one by one, and it possibly was the STUPID "keeper" application that not until I turned it back on did the phone start acting normal again. I HATE THAT STUPID APP with the overlay all the time (I use lastpass). Anyone else disabled that and the phone work ok? (NOTE, it seems to work fine until after the first reboot of turning that app off).
SO......anyone else have any similar experience?
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thats odd because I was able to disable Keeper without any adverse affects. Just so you know, here's what I disabled without any ill-effects:
ATT FamilyMap
ATT Hot SPots
ATT Live
ATT Locker
ATT Mail
ATT Mobile Locate
ATT Navigator
ATT Ready2Go
ATT Smart Wi-Fi
BlurbCheckout
Caller Name ID
Device Help
DriveMode
Famigo
Flipboard
Games
Hancom Office 2014
Keeper
Lookout
Milk
MobileTV
myAT&T
Pen.Up
S Health
Samsung Galaxy Apps Widget
Uber
Visual Voicemail
YP
I've also disabled a couple of Google apps that I dont use, like
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Newsstand
Hrm.... I'm going to try again... Maybe I got a rogue update for something else that caused the issue.
When I try to disable any app the camera won't take wide selfies anymore. It gives me an error and doesn't take the pictures. Anyone else having this issue?
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When I try to disable any app the camera won't take wide selfies anymore. It gives me an error and doesn't take the pictures. Anyone else having this issue?
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I ran through the list posted above turning all them off and just took a wide selfie with out a issue
ooxteme said:
I ran through the list posted above turning all them off and just took a wide selfie with out a issue
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yeah, as I said....i dont have any issues with the camera or any other app for that matter, with those apps disabled above.
I've had keeper disabled today and rebooted a couple of times, still performing normal.........hrm.
It's odd, because I literally burned through my full battery two times yesterday, even while driving 2 hours away from home to go out that night. I might chalk it up to bad signal, but it happened in my home town and in Cincy both...........and then when I got back home. Not until I turned all the stock apps back on it started acting fine again.
I'm going to toubleshoot some more this week and I'll report back in a few days
Hello,
I'm sure this may seem silly, but it's a genuine nuisance and I'm hoping somebody will be able to help me (and others) out here.
I have an M8S, though this probably applies to most HTC's, that is rooted.
I have my PC set up next to my TV, so one of my favourite apps is the excellent Unified Remote, however whenever I run this app, a HTC Connection services icon appears in my notification bar along with a drawer telling me that it is running. Not information I am that interested in to be honest, but then it won't go away.
I have tried disabling this notification from the app settings, but the checkbox is greyed out.
I have tried installing third-party notification blockers such as this and this, which work for maybe five minutes before it reappears. Again.
The problem is, once it appears, it stays for literally days. Even if I reboot. It returns. Force close. It returns. Eventually, it goes away, but only if I don't launch Unified Remote.
I am rooted as I said above, but I cannot install Xposed. I'm running the custom Pandora Rom and it caused a bootloop.
There must be a better solution. I hope you guys can help me out!
I eventually decided to use Lucky patcher and Disable/Freeze the app. Does anyone know what it is explicitly for? I can't find any information on it.
No ill side-effects so far, I'll update this post if I find any.
UPDATE: 48 hours and so far so good.
I have been using the Moto Z2 Play for almost a year now, and the feature i used every day is waking the phone when the screen is off by using the OK/Hey Google command.
The tooltip in the Google voice match settings used to read: Access your assistant any time you say "OK Google", even if your screen is off or you're using your favorite apps.
However after updating the Google app to version 8.28 the tooltip changed to "whenever your screen is ON" instead of "even if your screen is off".
And sure enough, the phone will no longer respond to commands until i pick up the phone and manually turn on the screen, which defeats the purpose.
Why was this feature removed? I have tried everything and finally had to uninstall Google updates and install an older version(8.24) from apk mirror to get Assistant to work properly again.
What is even more puzzling to me is that this problem seems specific to my Z2 Play, i have the latest Google app version(8.28) on my Xiaomi phone, and the tooltip still says "even if your screen is off" and it works as it should.
I tried Googling this issue, i checked the Motorolla support forums, the Google assistant support forums etc. and couldn't find any mention of this issue.
This has also happened to me! I thought I just needed to reboot the phone to maybe fix a background service that had stopped, but I also see that "...even when your screen is off" has been removed from the Voice settings. This is one of the features that made the Moto Z line attractive to me, and I literally use (well, used) the feature several times a day, especially while driving. I also use Android Auto and now I have to either touch the microphone on my truck's head unit screen, press and hold the voice button on the steering wheel for 3 seconds, or unlock my phone so I can talk to it. I have a self-built Android Auto in my other car and it also has this issue, which I now know is not related to either car's system. Thank you for posting and bringing this to our attention.
I think this must be a bug in the latest Google app. Does anyone know where we can submit bug reports for the app, or voice control/Google Assistant in general?
Has any else experienced this problem, or does anyone have ideas about what to do to potentially resolve it? Surely OP and I can't be the only two people who have witnessed this issue.
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Has any else experienced this problem, or does anyone have ideas about what to do to potentially resolve it? Surely OP and I can't be the only two people who have witnessed this issue.
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It is likely that there just aren't many Z2 play users who frequent xda, and the ones that do never noticed the issue because they don't use the feature.