Help Help...VERY strange issue when navigating today

[pookieguy]

Hello all,

Wasn't sure where to post this but since it happened with my Skyrocket, I figured I would post here.

Something VERY strange happened tonight when using Google Navigation as I always do. Everything was fine and was navigating fine with the standard female voice for directions. Then, all of the sudden, I here a beeping noise and start hearing another female voice but this one was different. Don't know how to describe it but it was like a "mean" female voice. It started dictating all kinds of numbers and web addresses. It wouldn't stop. It just kept spilling out a bunch of gibberish, mostly numbers and web url's. (strange ones)

What the hell was that? Could my phone be hacked or contain a virus of some sort for this to happen? I have been VERY careful so I don't see how.

This just freaked me out. Never have I seen something like this on a smartphone.

What do you guys recommend I do?

Thanks,

 

[jslanger]

Haha. Not a virus. It seems to be a bug in the Text-to-Speech engine (mine has done this too). Specifically the Samsung one. The standard android TTS engine works just fine (but I think its harder to understand).

 

[pookieguy]

Lol! Yes, I have been told today it was either the tts or the nav application that just bugged out. I seriously doubt it is Google nav, as I have been using it since it was released. Scary though man. Just practically took over the phone.

 

[hillucla]

I think I am experiencing something in this same vein. Started yesterday - whenever I plug my phone in to charge it, even if it is on mute, a female voice says "navigation resume". What is that all about?! I have not used navigation for at least two weeks or more. And I've never had it say that to me before yesterday.

 

[pookieguy]

hillucia,

Not exactly what I'm experiencing but this is definitely strange and I still can't figure it out.

 

[Malonies]

Go to one of the url's it tells you.