Smokescreen17
Newbie
Hi all:
Just wondering if anyone has any insight about the following issues, all of which came into play only after updating to 4.4.2 kitkat:
1) Full screen album art on lock screen when music is playing.
There isn't much to say about this - there are a lot of people praising this on tech sites, but that is a real head-scratcher. The art isn't formatted to fit the screen, and the album art typically isn't high-res, so it looks like trash. Furthermore, I like my custom lockscreen I made, as well as the old widget which had more functionality. I saw a suggestion to use the home button after starting it and then turning off the screen, but it didn't work. This literally took any sane individual less than 30 seconds of testing to see that this was a bad idea to force this and not make it a choice. Anyone know what can be done?
2) S Voice is a mess now. First, it no longer recognizes the saved locations like "work" or "home" that I set up in both Google Now and the location services settings for Android. If you ask it to navigate to work, I get utterly random locations.
3) S Voice now has a robotic voice, and refuses to use the Google TTS settings I specified in the Android TTS settings. It used to until 4.4.2. I love the Google American English female voice, and Google Now, Google Maps, Google Navigation, etc. ALL use and and work perfectly. It is just S Voice. There is no way to force it to use the proper TTS that I can see. Even if you temporarily change the TTS to Samsung for testing, the "female american english" voice is just the robotic voice again, so even the Samsung TTS isn't functioning properly. The only reason I haven't just dumped S Voice like an empty soda can is I actually use driving mode. Can I use Google Now with driving mode? Or does anyone know how to fix S Voice?
Thanks.
Just wondering if anyone has any insight about the following issues, all of which came into play only after updating to 4.4.2 kitkat:
1) Full screen album art on lock screen when music is playing.
There isn't much to say about this - there are a lot of people praising this on tech sites, but that is a real head-scratcher. The art isn't formatted to fit the screen, and the album art typically isn't high-res, so it looks like trash. Furthermore, I like my custom lockscreen I made, as well as the old widget which had more functionality. I saw a suggestion to use the home button after starting it and then turning off the screen, but it didn't work. This literally took any sane individual less than 30 seconds of testing to see that this was a bad idea to force this and not make it a choice. Anyone know what can be done?
2) S Voice is a mess now. First, it no longer recognizes the saved locations like "work" or "home" that I set up in both Google Now and the location services settings for Android. If you ask it to navigate to work, I get utterly random locations.
3) S Voice now has a robotic voice, and refuses to use the Google TTS settings I specified in the Android TTS settings. It used to until 4.4.2. I love the Google American English female voice, and Google Now, Google Maps, Google Navigation, etc. ALL use and and work perfectly. It is just S Voice. There is no way to force it to use the proper TTS that I can see. Even if you temporarily change the TTS to Samsung for testing, the "female american english" voice is just the robotic voice again, so even the Samsung TTS isn't functioning properly. The only reason I haven't just dumped S Voice like an empty soda can is I actually use driving mode. Can I use Google Now with driving mode? Or does anyone know how to fix S Voice?
Thanks.