Wow. Just found a new feature. - HD7 General

First of all, from HTC Kaiser to Samsung Vibrant to HTC HD 7 & I'm never going to look back!
OK now:
1. Go to an Email tile
2. Tap on the far left (next to the bolded name of the sender)
3. Voila - you have a slick option to select mail
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere. Thought it might be useful

Yeah found it the other day by mistake but I didn't think it was any earth mover

Yeah, my phone actually pointed the feature out the other day - I was deleting several emails one at a time, and a little info bar appeared at the top to say you can click on the left to quick select.
Not an earth mover at all, but neat that it recognised what I was doing and was able to tell me how I could do it quicker!

Big Foot said:
First of all, from HTC Kaiser to Samsung Vibrant to HTC HD 7 & I'm never going to look back!
OK now:
1. Go to an Email tile
2. Tap on the far left (next to the bolded name of the sender)
3. Voila - you have a slick option to select mail
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere. Thought it might be useful
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its great, but were is the "select all" feature, instead of you having to select each one.
I avg over 80 emails a day... how fun is my day selecting each one to delete

rysky007 said:
its great, but were is the "select all" feature, instead of you having to select each one.
I avg over 80 emails a day... how fun is my day selecting each one to delete
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If you are deleting all the emails you have recieved each day, then consider to discontinue using email...

homer.web said:
If you are deleting all the emails you have recieved each day, then consider to discontinue using email...
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That makes no sense, what is the point of keeping an email once you have read it? I check most of my emails on my desk top, the phone I use to track what is happening via emails for 4 different accounts when out with clients.
I dont need 100 emails sitting on my phone.
I am simply stating that every phone I have every used even old ones allowed you to do a select all feature for old sms phones.
HD2 has it, why was it not placed into WM7, just a small feature which is important but also missing as many important ones are.
but face book is there, wheeepy another face book driven phone, like we dont have enough of those.

Here's another one that you may (or may not) be aware of.
when typing press and hold on the actual text you have been typing. A cursor will appear allowing you to re-position anywhere within the text.
very handy for going back to make changes (like inserting a space between words, inserting words etc.

rysky007 said:
That makes no sense, what is the point of keeping an email once you have read it? I check most of my emails on my desk top, the phone I use to track what is happening via emails for 4 different accounts when out with clients.
I dont need 100 emails sitting on my phone.
I am simply stating that every phone I have every used even old ones allowed you to do a select all feature for old sms phones.
HD2 has it, why was it not placed into WM7, just a small feature which is important but also missing as many important ones are.
but face book is there, wheeepy another face book driven phone, like we dont have enough of those.
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I am also using 4 email accounts, two Exchange servers and two Hotmail accounts. I have no problem to have two weeks synchronized on all of the accounts. If you dont want it, than set it to last 3 days and you dont have to worry about...

Kiwi_Dave said:
Here's another one that you may (or may not) be aware of.
when typing press and hold on the actual text you have been typing. A cursor will appear allowing you to re-position anywhere within the text.
very handy for going back to make changes (like inserting a space between words, inserting words etc.
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This is very cute feature... I didnt know about it and was missing this one...

Big Foot said:
First of all, from HTC Kaiser to Samsung Vibrant to HTC HD 7 & I'm never going to look back!
OK now:
1. Go to an Email tile
2. Tap on the far left (next to the bolded name of the sender)
3. Voila - you have a slick option to select mail
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere. Thought it might be useful
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Umm thanks for the tip was trying to figure out how to do it
now am gonna poke everywhere to get more goodies

homer.web said:
I am also using 4 email accounts, two Exchange servers and two Hotmail accounts. I have no problem to have two weeks synchronized on all of the accounts. If you dont want it, than set it to last 3 days and you dont have to worry about...
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i have it set to minimal days i avg over 100 per day

homer.web said:
If you are deleting all the emails you have recieved each day, then consider to discontinue using email...
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you are cute.... i only check my emails and if its imporant and must reply i will reply, edit delete and reply i will do on my notebook or desktop...

Yeah, it was nice when the phone pointed out I could do that.
Nice feature.

homer.web said:
This is very cute feature... I didnt know about it and was missing this one...
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Me too, ditto. And the email delete feature is good too.

Related

SMS Scheduling Software?

I would like to set my Kaiser to send pre-written text messages at specific times, does anyone have any idea about any software that does this? Or anyway to do it on the phone now?
For example, next week, I'll be traveling. I would like to write a text wishing my girlfriend a happy birthday, and then have my phone send it to her at 8AM her time, which will be 3AM my time.
Or, as another example, being able to set it so to send other people I work with reminder texts, about deadlines or whatnot, without my having to keep track of doing it myself.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
rush242 said:
I would like to set my Kaiser to send pre-written text messages at specific times, does anyone have any idea about any software that does this? Or anyway to do it on the phone now?
For example, next week, I'll be traveling. I would like to write a text wishing my girlfriend a happy birthday, and then have my phone send it to her at 8AM her time, which will be 3AM my time.
Or, as another example, being able to set it so to send other people I work with reminder texts, about deadlines or whatnot, without my having to keep track of doing it myself.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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you are in luck because I have found this recently for my kaiser and it works great. Does scheduling and group texting and you can save the groups too.
Ah, that's brilliant, I'll give it a try.
Muchas Gracias!!
How do I install this.
yes, I am abit new
daddy_yankee1980 said:
you are in luck because I have found this recently for my kaiser and it works great. Does scheduling and group texting and you can save the groups too.
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OK, this is frustrating as hell, do any of you professionals have any ideas??
Each night, I send three to five messages to the same person, say at 0300, 0305, 0310, and 0315.
Almost universally, the first message is delivered, as I can see it crossed off in the Scheduled Messages section of PowerSMS, and it also appears in the Messaging program as sent.
However, the remaining messages, although crossed off as sent in PowerSMS, do not appear to have been sent, and do not appear in the Messaging program as sent?
Any ideas? This is the sole reason I bought PowerSMS--to send scheduled messages to the same person, but it's only sending the first one.
I've tried everything. Soft resets. 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 minutes between messages. Leaving PowerSMS minimized. Closing it entirely. Leaving it open on the desktop. Plugging the phone in, leaving it unplugged but with plenty of power. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it sends a few messages. Most times, it doesn't.
Frankly, this is annoying. The phone works. Messages coming and going are not an issue, EXCEPT when PowerSMS is involved in sending them.
I posted much of this on the developer's site, and his only comment was: "That seems odd, and I don't have an answer for you right off the bat because the behavior is unpredictable. Does it help if you space the messages out a bit more (i.e. try to send them 15 minutes apart instead of 5)? Also, can you soft-reset your device to ensure the memory is clean and nothing else is running in the background? Then see if you can get it to send yourself 3 messages in a row 10-15 minutes apart. One guess is this *may* be related to the power management features of the device. It gets woken up at a certain time, sends the message and goes back to sleep and tries to wake up too quickly. Maybe this is causing the problem?"
Anyone here have any thoughts? What he says makes sense, but I have no idea where to go from there.
What version are you using? The newest version is 1.3 and it may fix the issues.
-haze- said:
What version are you using? The newest version is 1.3 and it may fix the issues.
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Thanks for the quick response, yes, I am using 1.3.
When it works, it's a brilliant little program. It just doesn't work very often. I'm tempted to ask for my money back.
You should try these two programs out. They look very promising!
RJV SMS Scheduler
Info
download here
and
There is this one but it costs $9.99
Timed SMS Scheduler
Info and download here
Hope these work for ya!
Power SMS is no longer freeware... At least not for me.
Sean D. said:
Power SMS is no longer freeware... At least not for me.
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It has a 14 day trial, but is only about $10, which i believe to be a fantastic deal considering all it's features, including export to .csv and .xml files.
asofiker said:
You should try these two programs out. They look very promising!
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Thanks for the headsup and the links! I'll give them a try, and see what there is to see.
scotchua said:
It has a 14 day trial, but is only about $10, which i believe to be a fantastic deal considering all it's features, including export to .csv and .xml files.
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Yes, he's right, it's a fantastic deal. Well written, clean, simple, small. All good.
Except it doesn't always work.
D'oh!
rush242 said:
Yes, he's right, it's a fantastic deal. Well written, clean, simple, small. All good.
Except it doesn't always work.
D'oh!
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When doesn't it work?
scotchua said:
When doesn't it work?
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Each night, I send three to five messages to the same person, say at 0300, 0305, 0310, and 0315.
Often the first message is delivered, as I can see it crossed off in the Scheduled Messages section of PowerSMS, and it also appears in the Messaging program as sent.
However, the remaining messages, although crossed off as sent in PowerSMS, do not appear to have been sent, and do not appear in the Messaging program as sent.
Like I said, the phone sends and receives fine. Never an issue. Not that I get many texts at 3AM, but if I do, I can reply.
asofiker said:
You should try these two programs out. They look very promising!
RJV SMS Scheduler
Info
download here
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OK, so this one seems to work just fine. No issues at all.
Damn hell ass PowerSMS. That's too damn bad.
I've been using sms scheduler for quite awhile with never a problem.
mattarse said:
I've been using sms scheduler for quite awhile with never a problem.
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Yep, it works like a dream, and confirms that the messages have been sent with a Notification.
Nice.

Phonebook App by Voxmobili Onmobile

Phonebook
Voxmobili - Onmobile
Contacts are among the most important data on your phone. Phonebook gives them the place they deserve on your G1 phone.
Phonebook comes with a new user interface, a landscape view, a dialer and an activity log which centralizes calls and messages.
Your contacts stay on your phone, they are not sent to any remote servers.
Check it out in the market it looks good
more updates will be coming
The only thing that I wish it had was the ability to view all display groups. All you have to choose from is all or contacts with numbers. I would like to have MyContacts in the list, but other than that it is a slick app.
I actually almost love Phonebook... but it's SO FREAKING SLOW. Omg. I love that you can show contact images in the list, but my jebus, it takes like 5 minutes for my contacts to finish listing, and the scrolling is horrid if you have a lot of contacts. (I guess my 60 contacts are a lot for this app...)
I have it installed though, just so I'll know if it (ever) gets an update.
savethechicken said:
The only thing that I wish it had was the ability to view all display groups. All you have to choose from is all or contacts with numbers. I would like to have MyContacts in the list, but other than that it is a slick app.
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The exact same reason I uninstalled it.
Yup...was really slow... BUT it seems like the new update has addressed the speed issue somewhat. I haven't used it much since the update, but it did crash once.
seems to work fine, is ther away to go straight into 'phonebook' by pressing the green button? or does that go to g1 phonebook no matter wat.
One thing that I didn't like was that it seemed like it didn't share information with the stock contact list. I recall adding photos and updating numbers and e-mail addresses in it and it wasn't synced with my gmail contacts. Screw that, that's a big reason why I have a freakin' google phone.
Can anyone confirm or refute this?
did u add/edit after you u installed phonebook? when i installed phonebook it automatically synced all my contacts/pictures/information to phonebook.
i still have no idea how to set it as the default phonebook.. help
marioiscoool said:
did u add/edit after you u installed phonebook? when i installed phonebook it automatically synced all my contacts/pictures/information to phonebook.
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But make changes in phonebook and see if they get synced anywhere else..
nolageek said:
But make changes in phonebook and see if they get synced anywhere else..
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yes it works.
i edited a contact in each phonebook, and the other phonebook synced.
johnnylicious said:
Phonebook
Voxmobili - Onmobile
Contacts are among the most important data on your phone. Phonebook gives them the place they deserve on your G1 phone.
Phonebook comes with a new user interface, a landscape view, a dialer and an activity log which centralizes calls and messages.
Your contacts stay on your phone, they are not sent to any remote servers.
Check it out in the market it looks good
more updates will be coming
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Great App! Very slick interface but having the ability to sort through your various Google groups would be killer! I have over 1000 work contacts which gets in the way when I am trying to quickly look up a friend's number. I know it's free and I am VERY grateful , just thought I would give some constructive feedback! Thanks!
anybody how to make this the default so that when I press the call button PHONEBOOK APP pops up and not G1 phonebook?
the dev said thats not an option yet, once its more stable he will add the default app option
i have been using it for a while now....when it origionally launched it was very choppy and kept it installed so i knew when it was updated.....now the new version is awesome....cant wait for some grouping features and the ability to make this my default PB hurry hurry LOL
i think this phonebook app drains battery alot.
Not available in my market, either because I'm using an ADP1 phone or because I'm in the wrong region/country. To be honest this crap is starting to piss me off. Every passing week I find that more and more apps, including free ones, are unavailable to me for God knows what reason. Even Apple's walled garden approach is better than this seemingly arbitrary crap. *sigh*
mannyb said:
Not available in my market, either because I'm using an ADP1 phone or because I'm in the wrong region/country. To be honest this crap is starting to piss me off. Every passing week I find that more and more apps, including free ones, are unavailable to me for God knows what reason. Even Apple's walled garden approach is better than this seemingly arbitrary crap. *sigh*
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http://plcnet.org/2www/pagu/android/Voxmobili/
I hope i helped you
pagubg said:
http://plcnet.org/2www/pagu/android/Voxmobili/
I hope i helped you
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Even though I was mostly *****ing about the arbitrary market as a whole, not just this app, you certainly did. Many thanks!
mannyb said:
Not available in my market, either because I'm using an ADP1 phone or because I'm in the wrong region/country. To be honest this crap is starting to piss me off. Every passing week I find that more and more apps, including free ones, are unavailable to me for God knows what reason. Even Apple's walled garden approach is better than this seemingly arbitrary crap. *sigh*
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It's ADP causing it and the sole reason I temporarily went back to RC33.
uberingram said:
It's ADP causing it and the sole reason I temporarily went back to RC33.
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Yeah, I guess so. It sucks a$$, because there's no way I'll ever bow down and put a T-Mo image on my dev phone. I'd rather turn to piracy than to shame myself like that

GO Dialler/Contacts annoyances. Best alternative?

I've been using Go Dialler/Contacts for well over a year, previously on my HTC desire and it had the same issue back then where it wouldn't register the cleared missed calls, so if you got a missed call, it would say 1 missed call, then you would check the missed call and the notification would go. Then if you got another missed call (and only 1) it would then say 2 missed calls, this would go on and on until you restarted the phone. On the desire I solved this by putting the app in system/app with root explorer.
Another annoyance is that when you dial or try to save a number, it automatically puts spaces between digits where country/area code are. I like to keep my numbers all in the same format, that means no spaces or anything, so just +XXXXXXXXXX
I use my phone for business so save a lot of numbers, this is going to be a pain to have to edit each number while saving a contact.
So just wondering, since go dialler/contacts hasn't been updated since nov '12, is there any newer and better alternatives that work the same way with the dialler predictions (and having latest dialled show up smartly when composing new message in GO SMS also - this is handy!) but which don't have the annoyances?
Any feedback appreciated!
cormie said:
I've been using Go Dialler/Contacts for well over a year, previously on my HTC desire and it had the same issue back then where it wouldn't register the cleared missed calls, so if you got a missed call, it would say 1 missed call, then you would check the missed call and the notification would go. Then if you got another missed call (and only 1) it would then say 2 missed calls, this would go on and on until you restarted the phone. On the desire I solved this by putting the app in system/app with root explorer.
Another annoyance is that when you dial or try to save a number, it automatically puts spaces between digits where country/area code are. I like to keep my numbers all in the same format, that means no spaces or anything, so just +XXXXXXXXXX
I use my phone for business so save a lot of numbers, this is going to be a pain to have to edit each number while saving a contact.
So just wondering, since go dialler/contacts hasn't been updated since nov '12, is there any newer and better alternatives that work the same way with the dialler predictions (and having latest dialled show up smartly when composing new message in GO SMS also - this is handy!) but which don't have the annoyances?
Any feedback appreciated!
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I am new to the world of Android, having previously been a RIM and iOS user. However, since coming over to Android and seeing the open nature of the platform...loving it. Anyway, back to the matter in hand....Contacts+ works brilliantly, I would suggest giving it a look :good:
I use 'ExDialer & Contacts' app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5tb2Rvb2h1dC5kaWFsZXIiXQ..
Very simply themable dialler and contacts app.
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what this means?
"This is a trial version with 7 days trial period. When the trial period expired, you will be asked to buy PRO version. You can still keep trying if you haven't decided to buy"
So is it free to keep using or what? Do they keep bugging you to upgrade/pay?
I don't have experience of it,but I would guess you will get nags to upgrade, although with what frequency I couldn't say. I think that is one of the reasons I stuck with contacts+...it's free! That and the integration with FB, it's merge facility etc
cormie said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what this means?
"This is a trial version with 7 days trial period. When the trial period expired, you will be asked to buy PRO version. You can still keep trying if you haven't decided to buy"
So is it free to keep using or what? Do they keep bugging you to upgrade/pay?
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Going to try out exdialer first I think, seems to have a lot of recommendations from what I've seen, first impressions are good anyway and it's solved the issue of the number having the spaced put automatically. I think the missed call issue might be in every dialler so I might have to put it in system app
cormie said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what this means?
"This is a trial version with 7 days trial period. When the trial period expired, you will be asked to buy PRO version. You can still keep trying if you haven't decided to buy"
So is it free to keep using or what? Do they keep bugging you to upgrade/pay?
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Is free but every 7 days when you next open the dialler it will show a screen asking if you want to buy the full version.
Very easy to ignore if you don't want to pay for the full version.
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thanks, every 7 days, so 52 notifications a year, hmm, seems a bit much
It used to come up daily but i think the developer changed it to 7 days because too many people complained!
Sent from my Motorola Razr I using Tapatalk 2
Thanks, I'll give it a trial anyway and see how it fares.
Try Dialer One, a very nice app.
Thanks, it actually turns out that ex dialler doesn't solve the issue with numbers being automatically formatted with spaces etc also, the add contact screen is a bit messy of exdialler, I find go contacts better in that regard, go may even be slightly faster?
Would anyone know how to get around the auto formatting at all? There's an option in exdialler not to use area codes or something which I thought would help but it doesn't.
cormie said:
Thanks, it actually turns out that ex dialler doesn't solve the issue with numbers being automatically formatted with spaces etc also, the add contact screen is a bit messy of exdialler, I find go contacts better in that regard, go may even be slightly faster?
Would anyone know how to get around the auto formatting at all? There's an option in exdialler not to use area codes or something which I thought would help but it doesn't.
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I don't find a problem with the spaces in the numbers so can't help with that one!
Regarding the add contact, when I click on the + button to add a contact it takes me to my default Motorola add contact screen (which is also messy!) so I'm not sure there is anything I can do about that.
When you add a contact is it taking to you an ex dialler add contact screen?
Yes, I downloaded Ex Dialler and Contacts (I'm not sure if there's a simple "ex dialer" link without the contacts?) but now I can choose either ex dialer contacts or go contacts. Unless ex dialer is using the motorola contacts?
Have now tried dialer1 and contacts+.
Contacts+ is a bit overkill for me and not customisable to get rid of contact pictures, change font etc so it just looks too clunky for me.
I'm very happy with Dialer 1, but there's two things I miss from Go Contacts:
1) The ability to search part names, so say for example you had a contact saved with a long, easily forgetable name, something like josternberg and you could never remember it, but you knew part of his name was "stern", that if you type 78376 it would show up. Unfortunately at the moment it doesn't, but it does in other aps (Go Contacts/Dialer and Contacts+). This would be especially useful for anyone who has saved contacts without putting spaces between certain words. So imagine I had a few hundred android developers phone numbers and saved them as: androiddevappname, I could get to all dialer contacts by typing "342537" for dialer, even though it's surrounded by other characters.
2) Alphabet scrolling in the contact window. At the moment there's only a little green bar that can be scrolled down/up. In Go Contacts/Dialer, there was a permanent alphabet sidebar (small but capable) which you could hit any letter to get to that section of your contacts. I've over 1,000 contacts saved with a sequential first name code starting with VTA (for my business) and after saving a new contact, I used to be able to quickly to the letter "w" scroll up a step and check that the new contact I saved was there, two actions but without the alphabet bar it's going to take a bit of scrolling to get there.
Also waiting on the release of light theme
I am pretty sure you can enable smart dialing in dialerOne settings...
Thanks negus, yes dialer1 does have smart dialing, but will only work at the start of each name, so say if I had you saved in my phone as "xdaforum negus40", I'd be able to find you by numbering in N E G U S or X D A, but not by numbering in U S 4 0 or F O R U M. I sent the dialer 1 team an email which they replied to quickly saying they'll look into adding these functions

So who's loving S-Voice from the gear?

I really didn't think I would use S-Voice much, in fact I had it turned off on my old Note 2.
But with the gear, I'm loving sending and replying to text messages with it. I've found it is very accurate and really cool to say it, have it show me what it is going to send, then just tell it to send message. I've used this in the office and from the couch a few times when the phone was across the room.
After having the gear and Note 3 for a few days the two go together very well.
mhoepfin said:
I really didn't think I would use S-Voice much, in fact I had it turned off on my old Note 2.
But with the gear, I'm loving sending and replying to text messages with it. I've found it is very accurate and really cool to say it, have it show me what it is going to send, then just tell it to send message. I've used this in the office and from the couch a few times when the phone was across the room.
After having the gear and Note 3 for a few days the two go together very well.
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+1. Rarely used S-Voice on any previous device except when people asked to see it. I use it a lot on the gear tho and am surprised at how well it will compose a text while driving including converting to shorthand automatically and adding smileys etc..
mhoepfin said:
I really didn't think I would use S-Voice much, in fact I had it turned off on my old Note 2.
But with the gear, I'm loving sending and replying to text messages with it. I've found it is very accurate and really cool to say it, have it show me what it is going to send, then just tell it to send message. I've used this in the office and from the couch a few times when the phone was across the room.
After having the gear and Note 3 for a few days the two go together very well.
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Funny - I was playing a bit this morning with it as well. I never cared for using it on my phone, because once I have that in my hands, I might as well do it manually. But to do quick things via watch is another story.
Something I started googling this morning, but no answer yet - can I make a nickname for people (ie, wife) to help it avoid conflicts when I try to send her a text.
Also, I found you can't open an app on your phone via the watch (I guess it tries to launch an app on the watch).
I did try to make appointments & alarms (worked well). I'm going to be making an effort in the next few days to try to use it more & see how it goes.
I'm also very happy with the two together. Never use S-Voice before. Now I'm loving it !
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How do you do abbreviation? Like smilies etc? I don't have either yet so if it's obvious I apologize, will be my first Samsung phones
spinkick said:
How do you do abbreviation? Like smilies etc? I don't have either yet so if it's obvious I apologize, will be my first Samsung phones
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For abbreviations its automatic.. Say "by the way" for example and the Gear types BTW. For smilies just say something like, " Hi smiley face" and your text will look like "Hi " on the other end. As a side note smile faces etc do not appear in the Gear when looking at a text message it will show : ). The Gear is also good at adding punctuation automatically but you can add what you want my simply saying it like "Hi exclamation point" becomes "Hi!"

Nexus 5 Stock Alerts

I made a script to alert me when the Nexus 5 was available, and I figured I'd share the love.
This python script watches 7 different pages, and posts notifications when it detects a change (with the text 'nexus 5'). It posts a message using a twitter account (@n5stock). The cool part about this is you can easily get push notifications in the twitter account, or sms notifications. Based on my tests, notifications were received within ~2 seconds of me sending them.
Basically, there are two ways to get notifications:
Twitter Push Notifications:
Open @n5stock using the twitter app
Follow @n5stock, select 'face' icon on left, and select 'Turn on notifications'
SMS Notifications (works with Google Voice):
Text 40404
Login, or reply with a new username (that doesn't exist)
Text 'ON n5stock'
Here are the pages it's watching:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_black_16gb
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_black_32gb
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_white_16gb
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_white_32gb
http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
https://play.google.com/store/devices?hl=en
[Let me know if you have any to add]
Hopefully this helps some people out. I was definitely wasting waayy too much time refreshing / watching news sites for the release.
xur17 said:
I made a script to alert me when the Nexus 5 was available, and I figured I'd share the love.
This python script watches 7 different pages, and posts notifications when it detects a change (with the text 'nexus 5'). It posts a message using a twitter account (@n5stock). The cool part about this is you can easily get push notifications in the twitter account, or sms notifications. Based on my tests, notifications were received within ~2 seconds of me sending them.
Basically, there are two ways to get notifications:
Twitter Push Notifications:
Open @n5stock using the twitter app
Follow @n5stock, select 'face' icon on left, and select 'Turn on notifications'
SMS Notifications (works with Google Voice):
Text 40404
Login, or reply with a new username (that doesn't exist)
Text 'ON n5stock'
Here are the pages it's watching:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_black_16gb
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_black_32gb
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_white_16gb
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_white_32gb
http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
https://play.google.com/store/devices?hl=en
[Let me know if you have any to add]
Hopefully this helps some people out. I was definitely wasting waayy too much time refreshing / watching news sites for the release.
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I signed up earlier today, when I saw it mentioned on GottaBeMobile.
Very ingenious!. Thanks!
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Last year for the Nexus 4, on release day the sales were supposed to start at 11am ET/8am PT, but REALLY went live about 15 minutes early... When people logged on at 11am ET, Nexus 4 stock was GONE.
For this, you will get a text alert when the Nexus 5 shows up in Google Play. Great idea! :good:
ChazzMatt said:
I signed up earlier today, when I saw it mentioned on GottaBeMobile.
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That's good. But GottaBeMobile is a terrible site, they just rehash stories and post any old "rumor" so that they appear regularly in search results, garbage site!
ChazzMatt said:
I signed up earlier today, when I saw it mentioned on GottaBeMobile.
Very ingenious!. Thanks!
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Last year for the Nexus 4, on release day the sales were supposed to start at 11am ET/8am PT, but REALLY went live about 15 minutes early... When people logged on at 11am ET, Nexus 4 stock was GONE.
For this, you will get a text alert when the Nexus 5 shows up in Google Play. Great idea!
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Yup, that was pretty much my thought process. I'm guessing they'll be moving very quickly - selling out will help with publicity, so I'm betting Google will be aiming to do exactly that. I anticipate a similar stock situation to what they had last year.
If people see other urls to watch, let me know. I plan to keep this up after the first batch is sold, and send out alerts when it goes back instock (so don't despair if you miss the first batch).
Lewythefly said:
That's good. But GottaBeMobile is a terrible site, they just rehash stories and post any old "rumor" so that they appear regularly in search results, garbage site!
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Not disagreeing with you about the site in general. But this time, the article was helpful. I even re-posted it in another forum. So, funny seeing the guy who made the in-stock script here.
Can't wait for this phone!
I really hope this won't be necessary until after the announcement. It would be pretty bad for them to announce and release the phone at the same time.
Thanks much for the script, should be very helpful!
might sound dumb but where do I send the txt to?
nitramus said:
might sound dumb but where do I send the txt to?
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You text to 40404
Inferi0r said:
You text to 40404
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Lol, n5stock = 40404 = not found
So coincidental, yet so funny
I did. I txted ON n5stock to 40404 and nothing happened.
I'm following the Twitter account, too.
Finger crossed !
Regards
Btw, how can we be sure everything is working correctly? Could you kindly send a message again?
You have to go to twitter.com and set up text alerts first.
vn800art said:
I'm following the Twitter account, too.
Finger crossed !
Regards
Btw, how can we be sure everything is working correctly? Could you kindly send a message again?
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I'll be sending out a test alert in a few hours.
jayr04 said:
You have to go to twitter.com and set up text alerts first.
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Correct. You can also setup text alerts by texting 40404.
xur17 said:
I'll be sending out a test alert in a few hours.
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Cool, thanks - I think I've set it up right.. even set up twitter just for this!
xur17 said:
I'll be sending out a test alert in a few hours.
Correct. You can also setup text alerts by texting 40404.
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Just got your message, freaked out for a second, thought I was about to order my Nexus!
Thanks for setting this up!
gbpack2306 said:
Just got your message, freaked out for a second, thought I was about to order my Nexus!
Thanks for setting this up!
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I wish!
I'm signed up! Cool
got it working thanks... twitter texts didn't work on my provider mobilicity but does work great with Google voice...
Sent from my Nexus 7 2
Alert received! Thanks a lot!
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