[ALERT!] Premium Navigation subscriptions - Desire HD Themes and Apps

Hi everyone,
I want to give out an alert to whomever thinks of buying subscriptions out of the upgrade section of the HTC Locations app.
The subscription "Traffic information" is NOT working. At least you expect traffic information to light up on the map, like Google Navigation does. But it doesn't the only thing that mentions something about traffic is the "Car Panel" settings. But thats only about when it should update the traffic info. Thus making traffic information totally useless.
Yet another expectation is that it should reroute your route to avoid traffic jams with this. It fails to do this either.
So my conclusion is you're buying vaporware here.
Support on this product is unbelievably bad. There is NO manual in the HTC Desire HD, Nor does Route 66 deliver instructions on how to use this crap piece of software that they call premium navigation.
HTC Support POV:
"Sorry, the locations app is build by a third party than HTC, namely Route 66. Please contact them for support on this.".
I can confirm this because whatever you buy from the locations app is processed and credited from Route 66.
So I went and call Route 66:
"Sorry, but the application is provided by HTC on your phone. We have nothing to do with this. The order you say is processed by us isn't ours. Please contact HTC for support on your purchase. *Hangs up phone*"
So Route 66 doesn't want to refund my purchase, in which they obviously got paid by me.
So my advice:
Don't buy anything from this scam!

Good to know... but isn't there some kind of trial option?

Nope, there isn't anything.
You just hand over your money, and they not even thank you for that....

funfair said:
Good to know... but isn't there some kind of trial option?
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I believe that there is a trial-period of 30 days.

Which country are you from, maybe they just don't have traffic coverage in your country? Haven't checked if it states for which countries it should work.
The trial only is for the navigation itself, but not for the extra services like traffic info and speed cameras.
Any of you tested that?

Dvdm1 said:
I believe that there is a trial-period of 30 days.
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Trial period of voice guided turn by turn navigation, not the speed cams (this one works unlike the traffic one) nor traffic information
Im from The Netherlands.

Phoenix the II said:
Trial period of voice guided turn by turn navigation, not the speed cams (this one works unlike the traffic one) nor traffic information
Im from The Netherlands.
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Why would you need to know info on the speed cams anyways? Wouldn't it be much easier to just follow the traffic rules like you're supposed to?

kingkeld said:
Why would you need to know info on the speed cams anyways? Wouldn't it be much easier to just follow the traffic rules like you're supposed to?
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You don't want to get punished when you are in a traffic jam and are driving too slow. So when there's a speed cam, you take the emergency lane and pass the trafic jam with full speed.
Just a different interpretation of rules

kingkeld said:
Why would you need to know info on the speed cams anyways? Wouldn't it be much easier to just follow the traffic rules like you're supposed to?
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I got a suzuki swift 1L, and love speeding...
Oh wait, I can't even...
Nah, I just wanted to test speed cams.

Anyone know if when the trial period expires does standard navigation kick in?

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Anyone know if when the trial period expires does standard navigation kick in?
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When the month worldwide trial period is over, the only thing that changes is that you don't have spoken directions anymore. The maps and soundless navigation stays free.

OK confusing situation here...
I got my first DHD on the 18th October and activated the trial for navigation on that day.
I returned that phone to the store 1 week later (25th Oct) and had it replaced with a new handset.
Last Wednesday (10th Nov) I actually needed to use the premium navigation, so assuming I was still in my 30 days trial (which I was) I went to use it. It had to search for my license and it took a few seconds, but it activated fine.
I decided that I'd try out the speed cameras and traffic to see if it was any good. I couldn't buy the traffic as I just got a blank page, but I went and bought 30 days of speed cameras. However, nothing appeared to download to the phone. I carried on anyway.
However, the cameras were not displayed. When I went through some average speed areas, it would bring up a red bar indicating I was in a speed controlled area, but it gave no indication to speed, distance, or anything!
I figured it had just not downloaded it, but when I went to check, it said my licence for both the Navigation and Cameras was due to expire on October 12th (before I even got my first handset!)
The Navigation was still working, but I didn't think the cameras were.
It's totally bizarre.
Indeed today, if I look at the "Upgrade" menu in the Locations app, at the very top it says:
Navigation
Worldwide
Expires 12/10/2010
Safety Cameras
United Kingdom and Ireland
Expires 12/10/2010
What's going on?!

Are you sure it's not US dates, they put the month before the day, so that date would be December 12th.
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Just checked mine, it says 12/9, so I'm sure it's month then day
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Ok that might make some kind of sense, and would seem to suggest that the 30 day trial is linked to IMEI rather than a particular account.
Can anyone confirm how safety cameras are working for them? Can you see them on the map? Do you get alerted before going through them?
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Registering 30 day trial?
Anyone else having problems with the 30 day trial than me and few other finns?
When starting to use the Premium Navigation its checking for licence and the shows installed maps, voices etc.
But when returning to navigation software gives a menu where are options to Buy, use a coupon or syncing licence.
Ive tried many times to sync the licence but there is no change to the navigation and it asks to buy etc. all the time.
I think the problem is same with Desire HD and Z here in Finland?
Other finns to comment this?

Heffu said:
Anyone else having problems with the 30 day trial than me and few other finns?
When starting to use the Premium Navigation its checking for licence and the shows installed maps, voices etc.
But when returning to navigation software gives a menu where are options to Buy, use a coupon or syncing licence.
Ive tried many times to sync the licence but there is no change to the navigation and it asks to buy etc. all the time.
I think the problem is same with Desire HD and Z here in Finland?
Other finns to comment this?
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Same here..

Problem solved, I bought Premium Navigation with Speedcams for Nordic countries. Now it works.. I don't know trial license wont work.

I have also problem with 30 days trial in Finland
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I have the same problem as mjl_79 and others, the trial wont work

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GPS - Speed Camera locations app??

Have I missed something or are there no Android apps yet which use GPS data to give a warning when there is close proximity to a POI??
I am thinking of Speed camera traps specifically, but there might be other uses. The up-to-date location of cameras in most countries is easily available in CSV format for download. It need only be a simple app with a flashing screen and sound alert when within say 400m (1/4 mile) of a location; no need to get all clever with maps etc!
I did this years ago with a serial port GPS and a psion 3, it was not pretty code, I'm guessing it must be far easier nowerdays......
http://www.cyrket.com/package/android.traffic
Cool and thanks for a speedy reply. Will give it a try
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http://www.cyrket.com/package/android.traffic
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Ah ha... this is a neat app to look at traffic conditions real time from cams. What I am looking for is a proximity warning for those sneaky police speed traps - the permanent cameras hidden just after bridges and behind trees and road signs which we are plagued with in the UK!!
Since my question last month there has been a whole spate of apps released which do this task:
Speed cam Hunter is the one that's survived longest on my phone thru testing and its not out of beta yet so can only get better. It uses the Foxytag database which has got a committed userbase and after some initial registration problems I was up and running.
Nice ui and a version for us left side of the road users in the UK shows attention to detail.
Frequent improvements have been made by the dev in response to user comment and I think it will be one I will be prepared to pay for in due course as it becomes a polished app.
robmal said:
Since my question last month there has been a whole spate of apps released which do this task:
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Most of which is the same person "Ted Teresa" releasing the same app under 50 different names, and from some of the reviews the app isn't that grand. Even has the hide to charge for some of the apps listed even though they seem to be the same as the free one.
Most interesting..... I hadn't spotted that. the good thing about the community that involves the more engaged G1 user is that eventually quality will win out in the end!
Cheers
Rob

[APP] auto-mate first showing of features

Hi all
I've been a member of XDA for a while (have a hero and been on the villanrom builds since they began). But I am a developer full time and so I have decided to start in Windows Phone 7. I know silverlight, I know .NET so why not.
I have started the company 'Infinite Monkey Theorem' and this is a showing of the first application.
auto-mate. This app allows you to record your cars stats at each fuel up and service to allow you to view statistics about your cars. This app will also allow you to setup service types (months or miles) and the app will schedule them for you taking into account your mileage per year. MOT and Tax renewals are stored and show when they are close.
The reason for this app is this: I drive 24,000 miles / year which means that I need to maintain the car more than just a yearly service, this app will tell me when I need to change my oil or have a minor/major service based upon the miles I drive per year and the miles I'm doing recently allowing me to budget for it accordingly.
This app syncs to the cloud so you can look over all the cars you are monitoring from your office and export the information or book a service.
This app is in beta at the moment, it is not feature complete as I need you to be able to say you have done your MOT or Tax but its almost there. Of course with it syncing to the cloud there is a cost, that I MUST pass on somehow. I looked into Ads but Microsoft in thier wisdom only allow thier ad framework in america so Im out (UK). But I'm thinking of a free version that has ads (in future) and does not sync to cloud. Thoughts on what you would/might pay for this app would be greatly appreciated.
The future of the app?
Well I am planning a pro version which is for business mileage and will export from the web site allowing business travellers to fill out expense forms. But there are lots to add to this app as well.
Take a look at the vid and let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyw_ivcygk
Njoy.
id add light comercial vans upto 3.5tonnes as many courier use wm devices so many will upgrade to wp7
Love it and it looks superb. I dont know what you can and cannot do in regards to apps interacting with other features of the phone. But the option to put a reminder in the calendar or a pop up one month before the tax is due or service is due etc I think would be really beneficial (liked I said not sure if MS will let you do that though)
The only other thing I can think of is a field it enter a monetary value for the top up. So you put 44.66 litres in and it cost £70 for instance. You could maybe track this in the same way the MPG are, but as a Pence, or cent etc per mile.
In regards to price, there are alot of apps/games I have seen for say £2.99 that I refuse to pay for (bejwelled for one) but this I would pay for. Im not sure what price you were expecting but Id happily pay £2.99 for it which seems the average.
I know you have spoke about the cloud but is it possible to export the information to PDF or excel etc and then have the users email this to themselves, this would cut your costs but again I dont know whats allowed
Good Luck and I look forward to this being released.
4 or 5 euro isn't a bad prize .
if you could put in lpg and diesel blend (trucks that run on diesel and lpg ) then this app would be the hammer .
it would also be nice if you could ad your own car/truck .
lets say I have a scania R420 and I am driving on diesel and lpg , I would want to know if I am saving money .
normally a truck uses 32 litre of diesel every 100 KM
now it uses 22 litre of diesel and 10 litre of LPG
Diesel: costs 1 Euro
LPG: costs 0.50 Euro
it would be nice if your app could calculate my savings per 100 KM .
if you could make that happen you would have a winner .
Greetings Cees.
looks great! i would be willing to pay $5-7 for it without adds. I would also be willing to beta test for you as i am picking up a samsung focus on monday.
Keep up the good work, hopefully we will see this app in the market soon!
App showing in other games on my phone
I bought the app yesterday and couldn't find it. Today I noticed in other games. Should I uninstall and resync? I pinned to start for now.
thanks for what looks like a good app. Have another question. I have a csv file exported from a program I was using on my iphone. Any way of exporting or manually entering almost two years of data online vs the phone? You also mention website. Was is the url so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Johnny
Looks like a decent app but it also shows up in other gas for me
Thanks for comments
Hi all
Thanks for the comments, aint been on here in a while. Dont know why its showing in the games section, I've downloaded the trial and it shows in the normal menu, have purchase it and try it that way.
Answers:
1) Cost of fueling up will be coming in an update (not long)
2) Putting final touches to website then its live. it will be at www.infinitemonkeytheorem.co.uk You will be able to do everything you can do on the phone but see more information and view multiple car details over each other
3) Had to do some changes to the app to see the charts better, this is coming real soon.
4) will be adding fuel type soon.
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Hi all
Thanks for the comments, aint been on here in a while. Dont know why its showing in the games section, I've downloaded the trial and it shows in the normal menu, have purchase it and try it that way.
Answers:
1) Cost of fueling up will be coming in an update (not long)
2) Putting final touches to website then its live. it will be at www.infinitemonkeytheorem.co.uk You will be able to do everything you can do on the phone but see more information and view multiple car details over each other
3) Had to do some changes to the app to see the charts better, this is coming real soon.
4) will be adding fuel type soon.
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When I put it to my phone using a developer account its in the normal place. Strange
jgibo said:
I bought the app yesterday and couldn't find it. Today I noticed in other games. Should I uninstall and resync? I pinned to start for now.
thanks for what looks like a good app. Have another question. I have a csv file exported from a program I was using on my iphone. Any way of exporting or manually entering almost two years of data online vs the phone? You also mention website. Was is the url so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Johnny
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You could try uninstaling and resyncing, as its all stored online you just re log back in.
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Love it and it looks superb. I dont know what you can and cannot do in regards to apps interacting with other features of the phone. But the option to put a reminder in the calendar or a pop up one month before the tax is due or service is due etc I think would be really beneficial (liked I said not sure if MS will let you do that though)
The only other thing I can think of is a field it enter a monetary value for the top up. So you put 44.66 litres in and it cost £70 for instance. You could maybe track this in the same way the MPG are, but as a Pence, or cent etc per mile.
In regards to price, there are alot of apps/games I have seen for say £2.99 that I refuse to pay for (bejwelled for one) but this I would pay for. Im not sure what price you were expecting but Id happily pay £2.99 for it which seems the average.
I know you have spoke about the cloud but is it possible to export the information to PDF or excel etc and then have the users email this to themselves, this would cut your costs but again I dont know whats allowed
Good Luck and I look forward to this being released.
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One idea I have going is that as the data is stored online, I should be able to send a message to the phone when a service / mot /tax is due and the pic will go amber and show a 1.
The thing i'm working on right now is auto-mate (offline edition). The basic functionality of keeping track of your vehicle, store when your tax/mot is, and it will schedule the services for you, but all offline. becuase of the zero cost to me, it will be priced low. thinking £0.75...
Hope to have that out in a week.
Just checked and microsoft has put it under games, when I specifically said Tools and it was under tools originally.???
Nice one microsoft.
I could e-mail microsoft to change this but I'll just do an update which will fix it. Sorry for it being in the wrong place, not my fault.
Glad to hear. I just tried uninstall and reinstall and it didn't work. I hope I can enter my 2 years of data easily on the website. Can't see doing that on the phone. I could just get a new car and start over Those new 5.0 mustangs are nice. Add sync and I would be a happy camper
Prepare to be one happy camper, now im not saying now, im not saying in 1 week but excel import/export is always a step in the process
Just to let you know, an update was sent to microsoft over the weekend. This update will put the app back in the apps list. Include better charting, bug fixes. And ability to send error reports on some errors if they happen
Thanks for the update. Finally moved from under Games. When will the web site be up? I still haven't entered my previous data. Have been hoping to do it online and sync to phone.
Its in alpha now.... Beta next then live.
I just realized after putting in my second entry that I can't enter how much per tank or price per gallon. Any chance you will be adding this?
Yes, this is coming in an update.
Clicking on the historical button for miles/week shows the graph for MPG?
Also, whenever I enable the live tile, save the settings. The marker always goes back to disabled?

[APP] Telenav 6.2 (basic navigation is now FREE)

Okay so if you go to the Telenav OTA site at ota.telenav.com/tn and click T-Mobile as your carrier, then click the Vibrant 4G, it is completely compatible with the Captivate. Basic navigation is now free (including voice navigation, automatic re-routing, etc) and the full premium navigation (which includes SPEED TRAPS among traffic and all sorts of other things) is only $2.99 a month - MUCH better than paying at&t $9.99 a month and this app is much better than the stock at&t Navigator app and worlds better than Google Navigation, which quite often thinks you aren't on the right road when you're dealing with a highly populated area with lots of roads.
Also, unlike Google Nav, TeleNav will continue to work without a tower signal, it will just tell you to turn without the street name. I know this from experience when I drove from Colorado to Arizona and was driving through Hatch, NM and had no signal from Sprint or any roaming partner and still got navigation directions.
Just thought I'd post this up here. I decided to check out the OTA site and see what's up.
Also, if you download it directly from the device, it will tell you it can't recognize your device and you just hit Samsung, then Vibrant 4G.
I do not know if this works on non T-Mobile ROMs but I don't see why it wouldn't. Let me know what you guys think.
Nice find. Thank you.
Awesome find. Thank you for sharing. Will log in tomorrow from pc to vote this up and a thank you.
-couldn't wait logged into dolphin for this one. Already found atm's around me. Curious on one as it is in a neighborhood.
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Thanks for this been looking for this but wasn't available in the us yet
Thanks. Only if my gps worked great
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So far, looks great on my Cog 4 loaded Cap. (My GPS sees to work oretty well, but I have not tested it that much.)
It crashed (the entire phone) on the initial run, but I have not had problems since then.
Thanks!
Thanks for the tip. Loaded as you recommended. Curious why not identify as att?
Just checked tele nav's maps almost instant lock pinpoint on house went into google maps no lock after 30 seconds. In the nav mode also almost instant lock and immediate directions.... Will check in morning see how tracking works. Can only hope. If it works as well as the locks will have a usable gps finally.
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Great find. Instant locks and great accuracy. Will test navigation tomorrow and report back. Thanks OP.
Really nice app. Thanks op
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Glad everyone is loving it! It appears that this version is ONLY for the Vibrant 4G so its kick ass that it works on our phones. I used it for navigation today because I got so pissed with Google Navigation always thinking I'm on a street that I'm not and it was FLAWLESS the entire route.
I may very well may the 2.99 a month - sure beats 9.99 a month and the lane assistance is helpful when you're traveling somewhere you haven't been before. Nothing worse than being in the wrong exit lane and ending up either almost getting in an accident changing lanes at the last minute or ending up going the wrong way and finding 5 street lights with no U-turns and ending up 15 minutes out of your way before you can turn around.
By the way, I'm running this on Firefly, which already has amazing GPS, and Google Navigation still can't track me anywhere near as well as TeleNav. On top of that, the screen can be set to be off unless you're at a turn - massive battery saver over Google Nav.
Hooray for a GPS program that works...stupid google maps...
Yeah I was trying to remember the OTA address for TN and when I was typing it in the browser, Google auto-filled the /tn for me and I figured the Vibrant 4G is pretty much a Galaxy S with HSPA+ 21Mbps, tried it, and it works fantastic.
Hehe us Captivate users should pressure the company to releasing one for the Captivate. Then again big brother AT&T might not allow them.
-Edit, tried to poke around the choices on the captivate and one link took me to the Market. Drum Roll, and displayed ATT Navigator.
Yeah, at&t navigator sucks ass compared to this version. Plus its a 6 dollar a month difference in cost or you can use it for free...
PERFECT! Also running on Firefly, locks in seconds!! Great find
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Thanks for the tip. Loaded as you recommended. Curious why not identify as att?
Just checked tele nav's maps almost instant lock pinpoint on house went into google maps no lock after 30 seconds. In the nav mode also almost instant lock and immediate directions.... Will check in morning see how tracking works. Can only hope. If it works as well as the locks will have a usable gps finally.
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Wow finally got a nav system that actually knows where i am. while all the gps fixes out there helped alot it actually seems to be a issue with google maps/nav. only thing i liked about google maps was the ability to have the map in the direction i was going . Methinks that a working nav/maps is better
once again Thanks for the info
Wow this is actually amazing!
I always wondered if google maps had issues with our phone... Maybe it actually does?
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Wow this is actually amazing!
I always wondered if google maps had issues with our phone... Maybe it actually does?
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Not just our phones - Google Maps has issues with all phones because it thinks we are on streets we are not - my Evo did the same damn thing.
If I helped you guys, please remember the Thanks button - it really does a lot for credibility on the site. Thanks
Very nice find. +1 thanks

Google voice search (and Google now) very slow to reply

I just got my Nexus 7 16 GB tablet yesterday at Staples. It looks good, plays games and videos well.
But I have a big disappointment. The Voice Search and Google Now both takes more than 60 seconds to reply my queries. It just says "recognizing...." forever. When I watched the videos on youtube, it replied within a few seconds. Could it be my Indian accent? I had HTC Desire HD with andriod 2.3.3 which could understand me within few seconds.
Anybody having the same issues.
sanjeevkafle said:
I just got my Nexus 7 16 GB tablet yesterday at Staples. It looks good, plays games and videos well.
But I have a big disappointment. The Voice Search and Google Now both takes more than 60 seconds to reply my queries. It just says "recognizing...." forever. When I watched the videos on youtube, it replied within a few seconds. Could it be my Indian accent? I had HTC Desire HD with andriod 2.3.3 which could understand me within few seconds.
Anybody having the same issues.
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Could be your accent or your connection, i get responses pretty much instantly when i do a voice search.
Might be the accent. My dad is Filipino and his iPhone 4S can't really understand him.
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Might be the accent. My dad is Filipino and his iPhone 4S can't really understand him.
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That gave me a good laugh. I could just imagine Siri going "Huh??" :silly:
Even if it doesn't recognize the accent, I don't think it takes a minute to realize that.
Think it straightaway searches in Google instead of bringing up cards.
First come smiles. Then come lies. Last is gunfire.
after watching the youtube voice search, i was quite disappointed in the voice results. that guy must of had a list of questions that voice search worked with. most of my voice searches just take me to the google site with search results.
Slow Google Now / Recognition
sanjeevkafle said:
I just got my Nexus 7 16 GB tablet yesterday at Staples. It looks good, plays games and videos well.
But I have a big disappointment. The Voice Search and Google Now both takes more than 60 seconds to reply my queries. It just says "recognizing...." forever. When I watched the videos on youtube, it replied within a few seconds. Could it be my Indian accent? I had HTC Desire HD with andriod 2.3.3 which could understand me within few seconds.
Anybody having the same issues.
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I'm having the exact same problem! I actually think there is either a config issue or something else.
I've tried installing/downloading the Australian English file and have cleared cache and data and restarted but still having the same problem.
I also have a HTC One XL which has better capability of voice recognition than the Nexus 7. I've been trying to get through to Google's Nexus 7 support but they are experiencing a lot of demand atm (as you can imagine).
I do not have much of an accent (for an American) and I also have the problem where it can take up to 60 seconds to do a Google Now search. I speak very, very clearly and it takes a long, long time to give me back results. I think it's a network issue, not an accent issue. If anyone else is having this, I'd appreciate any clue as to why.
I tried linking to a YouTube video with a sample of my voice, but I'm too much a newb on this forum (long-time lurker) to be allowed to post links. So, if you're not lazy, here's the URL: youtube.com/watch?v=KmNIouLByJQ
I'm also having the same problem. At first I thought it just didn't work. It hangs on recognizing forever. I'm in Australia but have a fairly have light English accent. I've tried with almost every English language voice pack too.
It's the same when I try to dictate as well. I wonder if it's related to the connection I'm using on campus as the wifi icon is rarely blue (connected to Google servers if I remember correctly). I'd try on a data connection but I'm almost out.
You guys should try to connect somewhere else than your home to see if its your connection or something else...
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Mine is pretty responsive 90 percent of the time. I've never had it take to more than 10 seconds.
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Mine is pretty responsive 90 percent of the time. I've never had it take to more than 10 seconds.
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Same here. And that's while tethering via my gnex!
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I'm from southern England, Google don't like common accents ! About 40% success rate
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I'm from southern England, Google don't like common accents ! About 40% success rate
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I'm from the South too I'm amazed at how well it does. I wouldn't describe my voice as common though.
I bought Nexus 7 at Staples in Ocean City, Maryland. I went back to the store, and asked for a replacement. I, along with other (American) Staples staffs tried Voice Search and Google Now, which took the same amount of time (1 minute or more).
Anybody bought 16 GB version it at Staples? Or anybody using Comcast Internet Connection in USA? Because they only have comcast here, I doubt comcast has some limitations. To clear confusion, I have 20Mbps download and 4Mbps upload speed.
Do anybody knows if we can change the server settings for Google Now so that I can select the closest server?
I want to clear another misconception. It understands me almost clearly 95% of the time, just takes too long to answer, so it is not the accent.
Thanks.
What I learned about voice search
18t said:
after watching the youtube voice search, i was quite disappointed in the voice results. that guy must of had a list of questions that voice search worked with. most of my voice searches just take me to the google site with search results.
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It's pretty fast in bring up cards, or google results when I use it. But I find that it works best when there is a definitive answer to the question. For example if it's a question regarding definitions, math problems, units, specific questions about famous people like, height, age... that sort of thing, you'll usually get a voice reply and card.
However if you ask questions with various answers or that require a lot of details, like how to prepare a dish, who's the highest paid actor, how to flash cwm to the nexus 7, you'll usually get google results.
It's good for answers to precise questions, otherwise, it will get you closer to researching the answer with Google results.
I can do an RP accent as well as my normal Shropshire accent and it is very slow regardless of where I connect or the speed of the network.
I know it's a N7 thread, but I've been a N7 owner for the past 1.5hours and was checking the forum.
But to the topic, I've been using Google Now and Google Voice on my Galaxy Nexus and I found it to be very accurate.
I remember being in the car, with the phone on the holder, stuck in a traffic queue to get in the Euro tunnel (port areas are know for bad connection) and there were some posters about the 7 world wonders of the modern area and I started asking questions about it and all of them were spot on in under 10 seconds.
Accent wise: I'm a Brazilian who learned American English as teenager and been living in UK for almost 4 years. So I must have a weird accent.
I just found out, it is not yout phone, it is not your accent, it is your connection. It always took me three minutes to get the answer to test sentences such as how tall president of the united states. I was connected over WiFi. "Recognizing..." was all I got.
I turned WiFi off and i got the same answer in 2 seconds. As soon as the sentence has been spoken, the old Sci-Fi voice recognition computer processing animation was seen. And wow the answer was there. With WiFi turned off, I did not see the text "Recognizing..." at all.
If you have slow Google Voice Search results, check if you are connected to a wireless lan and if yes, turn it off to see if it works better for you.
This looks like a bug in Google Voce Search to me. this of course only works on phones, so if you use a Tablet without any 3G capabilities, no data plan, you might be out of luck.
I hope Google fixes this as soon as possible.
Could well be..
My results aways come back in under 10 seconds..
I tethered to my phone - which had a low signal for data - and it took much longer - about 30 seconds..
google now must send the voice data - online to translate - and then fetch your query..
I think you can download the voice recognition data -? if I remember ?
See if that helps?

Nexus 4 UK availability checker [fast] [no cache]

Hey guys,
If you live in the UK and want to buy your Nexus 4 in the Play Store, I'm sure you've seen ludalex's availability checker. It used to be great, but now it uses cache (thus it can show "out of stock" when the Nexus is available), so I managed to create my own service. It's fast (remember, no cache!), simple and - once again - fast.
http://maciej.stronazen.pl/n4 - here is the checker. If you get the "auth error", click the reload button. I'm trying to fix it.
If you like it, buy me a beer (or just click "thanks"? )
how is this different to just going on the google play site??
djbenny1 said:
how is this different to just going on the google play site??
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It refreshes automatically.
natabbotts said:
It refreshes automatically.
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And if you don't live in the UK (like me), it's much faster than the proxy server
Seems like you didn't study my code well enough before trashing it to sell your product.
When you do a single refresh, it doesn't load the cached file (which is refreshed every 2 minutes, big deal) but it dynamically connects to the selected Play Store via proxy and grabs the availability in REAL TIME.
Plus, your site is broken.
www.n4checker.com
And it is fast - really fast - , it actually works and it refresh automatically (the page and the status) every 2 minutes or whenever you want if you click on the little button to the right.
ludalex07 said:
Seems like you didn't study my code well enough before trashing it to sell your product.
When you do a single refresh, it doesn't load the cached file (which is refreshed every 2 minutes, big deal) but it dynamically connects to the selected Play Store via proxy and grabs the availability in REAL TIME.
Plus, your site is broken.
www.n4checker.com
And it is fast - really fast - , it actually works and it refresh automatically (the page and the status) every 2 minutes or whenever you want if you click on the little button to the right.
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Are you going to fix Australia..?
Just wondering lol
Thanks for the great tool btw!
ludalex07 said:
Seems like you didn't study my code well enough before trashing it to sell your product.
When you do a single refresh, it doesn't load the cached file (which is refreshed every 2 minutes, big deal) but it dynamically connects to the selected Play Store via proxy and grabs the availability in REAL TIME.
Plus, your site is broken.
www.n4checker.com
And it is fast - really fast - , it actually works and it refresh automatically (the page and the status) every 2 minutes or whenever you want if you click on the little button to the right.
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I *did* study your code. Clicking the reload button should grab the Nexus' status from your script. It didn't when I was creating this threa, however ('Error, reload >' for the whole day), just like my script now (my proxy died actually).
I don't trash your code, seriously. It's not even a rivalry. Just two similar sites
Anyone using or writing these sites is a scumbag. Fontvthrybinderstand THEY are the cause of the buying problems?
Hammering the store with polling apps is a really bad idea.
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CrazyPeter said:
Anyone using or writing these sites is a scumbag. Fontvthrybinderstand THEY are the cause of the buying problems?
Hammering the store with polling apps is a really bad idea.
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I don't follow your logic. Surely the real DDoS attack on the store happens when stock does appear (and if these sites didn't exist the word would quickly get around anyway), when people try and buy rather than just read a web page? If these checkers were such a problem wouldn't we see the store going down under the strain even before stock is on sale ?
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webDeWo said:
I *did* study your code. Clicking the reload button should grab the Nexus' status from your script. It didn't when I was creating this threa, however ('Error, reload >' for the whole day), just like my script now (my proxy died actually).
I don't trash your code, seriously. It's not even a rivalry. Just two similar sites
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You did it wrong as it has always called "loaderDynamic.php" when doing singular refresh (except for USA and France which are updated every 30 seconds (no proxy needed)), it wasn't neither that hard to find out.
You used wrong informations to put in better light your work, and my UK proxy is not down.
CrazyPeter said:
Anyone using or writing these sites is a scumbag. Fontvthrybinderstand THEY are the cause of the buying problems?
Hammering the store with polling apps is a really bad idea.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk 2
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Yeah, sure, it's the few requests from my script to slow down the GOOGLE SERVERS. The company that rules the internet and has the largest and fastest datacenters in the world. Say scumbag to someone else, maybe to yourself.

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