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Help Enable Driving Mode?

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tonydi

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I've read posts from people who have accidentally enabled driving mode, but I've got the opposite problem. I've enabled it and yet it doesn't seem to do any of the things documented. I went into the settings and enabled every option, yet no voices telling me about phone calls, emails, calendar events, txt messages, etc.

What could I be missing?
 
tonydi said:
I've read posts from people who have accidentally enabled driving mode, but I've got the opposite problem. I've enabled it and yet it doesn't seem to do any of the things documented. I went into the settings and enabled every option, yet no voices telling me about phone calls, emails, calendar events, txt messages, etc.

What could I be missing?
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Is your bluetooth headset connected? If so, then the voice features are playing through that... Either put it in your ear, or shut down bluetooth. Also, check you volume settings. Make sure Media volume is turned up.
 
bnas said:
Is your bluetooth headset connected? If so, then the voice features are playing through that... Either put it in your ear, or shut down bluetooth. Also, check you volume settings. Make sure Media volume is turned up.
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Not using BT, it's off. I tried maxing out all of the volume settings.
 
Not sure if this applies to you. After the "upgrade" to 2.3.6, it seems all my voice command/voice recognition features have had a significant performance degradation. Time to process my voice commands has tripled - when it works at all. I've mucked around with settings, and it works a little better. Sometimes, rebooting my phone fixes the problem. I don't know for a fact that 2.3.6 is the culprit, but the performance issues with this and maps navigation started appearing after the upgrade - after months of being reliable. So that's too much of a coincidence for me not to blame 2.3.6.
 
AFAICT, driving mode works with or without BT headset connected. I have driving mode turned on all the time. It will tell you the incoming caller's name but after two or three ring tones. It speaks out the alarm name from Clock app.

My SGII is running 2.3.6 (UCKK6.)
 
fldude99 said:
Still have no idea what driving mode is?
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It is located under Voice Talk and one other location that I cannot remember.
It makes the device read notifications to you so you do not have to take your eyes off the road.
I didn't really like it after I tried it so I have forgotten the location. I prefer to pay attention to just driving.
 
MCW said:
It is located under Voice Talk and one other location that I cannot remember.
It makes the device read notifications to you so you do not have to take your eyes off the road.
I didn't really like it after I tried it so I have forgotten the location. I prefer to pay attention to just driving.
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Ahh ok. I choose not to complete the installation of that voice talk. If I want Vlingo, I'll just install it from the market. Why did Samsung incorporate Vlingo and call it voice talk or whatever..what a crock
 
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