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Driving Mode and Keyboard issues

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eosman

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Hi there,

My dad has the Note 2 and he has the following issues.

When he enables 'Driving Mode' the phone does not say the person calling out loud. Also is there anyway to answer a call with the sound of your voice during 'Driving Mode'?

Second issue is that my dad got stuck on the S-pen keyboard and he couldn't get back to the Qwerty keyboard. Only thing available was the numeric keyboard from pressing a button on the top part of the s-pen keyboard. There was no mini keyboard icon/button on the s-spen keyboard to switch out of the s-pen typing. He tried removing the s-pen from the phone and putting it back but that didn't help. He had to reboot the phone to get back the normal qwerty keyboard. Is there a trick or button to switch back or is this a bug? On my keyboard for my S2 LTE I just have to look to the bottom left corner and I can switch between qwerty and the numeric keypad.
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Ya driving mode only works when it wants to. For me to get diving mode to work I have to restart my phone and then turn on driving mode. Our go into language and input settings and tell it to speak directions out loud when in driving mode. .. Every single time I want to use driving mode.

To get the keyboard back all you have to do is hold down the little microphone button next to the space bar and a little menu should pop up with a picture of a keyboard. Touch that picture of the keyboard and the letters should reappear
 
I haven't used driving mode yet. Can't wait to try it out. This phone is too big not to have a dock for it and fiddling around with it while driving is no fun.
 
Pull down the status bar (where you can see icons for bluetooth/gps/mute ect)

Slide the icons for the bluetooth/gps/mute to the left (driving mode is to the right, off screen with another full set of icons)
 
Hoss said:
Pull down the status bar (where you can see icons for bluetooth/gps/mute ect)

Slide the icons for the bluetooth/gps/mute to the left (driving mode is to the right, off screen with another full set of icons)
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:O there is nothing there my list starts with Wi Fi on the most left side and ends with sync on the most right side and in between there is nothing about diving mode :(
NB: my mobile is the international unlocked version
you using something else?
 
You can find it in your settings under language and input
 

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Driving mode is awesome! I use it every day on my commute. Coupled with A2DP on my Jawbone Icon Era, it's great. I got a text from my relative this morning, while I was driving, and it read out the entire text. Not sure how it'll do with shorthand texts, but that was amazing.
 
I have an NFC tag which I've set to enable driving mode and bluetooth in my car, which it does with no problems, but when I tap it again to disable driving mode and bluetooth, even though the driving icon in the status bar goes away, it's not actually disabled and I have to manually go into the status bar to do that, which is quite annoying.
 
suprmallet said:
I have an NFC tag which I've set to enable driving mode and bluetooth in my car, which it does with no problems, but when I tap it again to disable driving mode and bluetooth, even though the driving icon in the status bar goes away, it's not actually disabled and I have to manually go into the status bar to do that, which is quite annoying.
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That's annoying. I was actually going to do something similar that you've done here, since it's become apparent that I don't need 2 docks with built in charging ports (assuming that's the route that iBolt takes...which I'm still waiting to see updates on their car dock).

Nontheless, when you take the phone away from the NFC tag, does it automatically disable the setting prompts or are you saying that those settings don't get disabled at all when you pull the phone away from the tag...hence the need to manually toggle. Thanks in advance, for the clarification.
 
Yes, let me clarify. I have the NFC tag set as a switch. Tap it once, it enables driving mode and bluetooth and disables wifi. Tap it again, and it disables bluetooth, enables wifi, and SHOULD disable driving mode. However, when I tap it the second time, it doesn't disable driving mode, even though it removes the icon for it in the status bar.
 
suprmallet said:
Yes, let me clarify. I have the NFC tag set as a switch. Tap it once, it enables driving mode and bluetooth and disables wifi. Tap it again, and it disables bluetooth, enables wifi, and SHOULD disable driving mode. However, when I tap it the second time, it doesn't disable driving mode, even though it removes the icon for it in the status bar.
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Darn...that's almost exactly what I wanted to do with my tags (that have been sitting around, waiting to get used).

btw, do you keep NFC on all the time..and if you do, do you notice any drain from having that on? I really don't know, but I've kept NFC off this entire time thinking that it would add to battery drain (and since I haven't set up my tags yet).
 
Driving mode doesn't read out a complete email, which is fine with me...but would really be cool if it tried to do it!...LOL.
 
drexappeal said:
Darn...that's almost exactly what I wanted to do with my tags (that have been sitting around, waiting to get used).

btw, do you keep NFC on all the time..and if you do, do you notice any drain from having that on? I really don't know, but I've kept NFC off this entire time thinking that it would add to battery drain (and since I haven't set up my tags yet).
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NFC tags are super useful. I have them in a few places aside from my car. I have one at work to enable/disable wifi tethering (which I now no longer need because my company FINALLY installed a wifi network), and one at home with my wifi network with password encoded, so instead of giving people my wifi password, I can tell them to tap the NFC chip and it automatically connects them. I have have an NFC keychain with all my contact info, which is way more convenient than having them type the name and number in. Although I do also have business cards for that, but it's a neat trick to pull.

As for leaving NFC on, yes, I leave it on all the time. Otherwise I'd have to go into my phone and enable them every time I wanted to use one, which defeats the purpose. From what I understand, NFC is a passive thing, only draining battery when it's being used.
 
suprmallet said:
NFC tags are super useful. I have them in a few places aside from my car. I have one at work to enable/disable wifi tethering (which I now no longer need because my company FINALLY installed a wifi network), and one at home with my wifi network with password encoded, so instead of giving people my wifi password, I can tell them to tap the NFC chip and it automatically connects them. I have have an NFC keychain with all my contact info, which is way more convenient than having them type the name and number in. Although I do also have business cards for that, but it's a neat trick to pull.

As for leaving NFC on, yes, I leave it on all the time. Otherwise I'd have to go into my phone and enable them every time I wanted to use one, which defeats the purpose. From what I understand, NFC is a passive thing, only draining battery when it's being used.
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Awesome. Thanks for all the info. Just out of normal habits, I keep everything disabled that I won't be using. While I'm not really using NFC that much right now, I do plan on using it with the tags soon enough.

And you've actually given me some fantastic ideas of where else I'll use them (I'd been struggling with when/why I'd use them ever since I purchased w/ the 50% off Samsung coupon). Now, I'll put one on my work cradle and home cradle and program them according to my daily needs.
 
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