Bluetooth Voice Dialing a welcome feature with a major flaw

[gmmurphy]

my razor dumb phone was fantastic. call greg calling greg, droid "call amy" calling boss mobile(at midnight of course) no bail option at all. im gonna pull whatever is on the razor and see if i can turn it into an apk...i would pay a few sheckels for bluetooth dial, oh and the voice,,,arrrgh; is this my wife scratching her nails on the blackboard...

[TheOldFart]

Yup, found it right after I posted that and I successfully got my voice back for the voice dialer!! But Thanks

Question:

For this app Choice Dialer is their supposed to be an initial voice that says "say a command" or something like that?

There wasn't on the 2 day free version that I installed yesterday and I didn't see a setting to add it. Also, it was wrong more times than the stock dialer, so I gave up and uninstalled it.

[HamDog]

For this app Choice Dialer is their supposed to be an initial voice that says "say a command" or something like that?

Nope. You just hear a beep and you talk. I have found Google's voice dialer to be much more accurate than Choice Dialer. But Choice dialer gives a confirmation (depending on how high you set the confidence level in the settings). I usually just use Choice Dialer for music, not dialing since Googles voice dialer is much more accurate.

One thing about both of them: you need a very quiet environment for them to work. Specially for Choice Dialer. If there is any back ground noise, Choice Dialer almost always gets it wrong or doesn't recognize anything. When I'm in the car about to give a command, I roll up all windows and turn down the radio all the way...and hope I'm not driving on the freeway.

I'd say Google's voice dialer would be best if they could just improve it with a confirmation before dialing. It's just amazing how every dumb phone does this very basic function better than our super smart phones.

[refthemc]

tek112,

I have been using Cryanogen nightly builds of 6 and I think once I updated to CM6 official release I have the SAME issue as you. I thought it was listening through by Jawbone BUT maybe not, but the voice definitely went away. Did you try the Choice Dialer just to see, yet?

I have a fix. You need to downgrade to the previous VoiceDialer.apk found here:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...attach_id=1724

Here are the instructions:

Voice Dialer Broken - CyanogenMod Forum - Page 2

Credit to Jim from Cyanogen for writing this up:

Correct method, as I found (need to be sure to remount /system read only) else risk keeping your /system folder writable = bad thing.

Via Terminal:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
rm VoiceDialer.apk
cp /sdcard/VoiceDialer.apk VoiceDialer.apk
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
reboot

Via adb shell:
adb devices
adb remount
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
rm VoiceDialer.apk
cp /sdcard/VoiceDialer.apk VoiceDialer.apk
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
reboot

Thank you, I will give this a shot