Android tips and tricks

evilmike · Jan 16, 2014

Does anyone know of a way to turn off the sounds associated with Android's voice input? I can turn off the mock-Siri voice output, but I haven't figured out how to turn off the activation or "input complete" pings.

Covar · Jan 16, 2014

what phone do you have? do you mean the google voice search?

evilmike · Jan 16, 2014

It's a Moto-G.
Basically, any time I use voice input, there's a start tone and a finishing tone when I would prefer it to just be silent. It happens on the voice search, but it also happen if I'm trying to dictate into any text field.

PatrThom · Jan 16, 2014

I assume this is something you want to happen without muting the entire phone?

--Patrick

evilmike · Jan 16, 2014

Yes, exactly.

The answer might be as simple as a selective volume control app, but I haven't had time to experiment.

Shakey · Jan 16, 2014

My quick look couldn't find anything other than a suggestion to overwrite the sound files it calls with silent audio files. Probably not the best option.

Chad Sexington · Jan 22, 2014

These guys can be a bit technical and not always welcoming, but if you can put up with that you might get a great answer. Also be sure to search the site/forums/wiki; they may already have solved this.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/

PatrThom · May 21, 2015

Resurrecting this as the most appropriate thread (that isn't locked):
Might want to think twice before giving your old Android phone away, it seems wiping it may not actually delete your stuff.

--Patrick

Bubble181 · Jul 14, 2015

Silly stupid question. New smartphone, yes, my first, thank you, I'm catching up to the 21st century nicely, etc. Anyway, I'm trying to convince it to connect to my wifi. It won't. It sees the network, I can give the WPA password, but it simply won't connect. It will, however, connect to the free-but-limited public Wifi my modem also, automatically broadcasts. No clue why. that one isn't password protected, I'd guess there'd be some issue there but I can't quite figure it out. It lists my own network as saved and secure, but trying to connect to it simply stops the phone for a second, has it start scanning again, then connect to the free open network again? I honestly don't know anything about Android

Shakey · Jul 14, 2015

My guess would be your password is wrong. Android doesn't give you much of a notification when that happens.

GasBandit · Jul 14, 2015

It does sound like a wrong password. Does your wifi router have a WPS button? Most android devices support Wifi Protected Setup, and a lot of the time it's an easier way to add a device to your home's wifi. You just need to do it once, and it will just work after that.

Eriol · Jul 14, 2015

Also, if you connected to the "free" one first (or last, or whenever) it's possible it's a "higher priority" to keep connecting to that one. So make sure to "forget" that network, and not just disconnect from it before trying to troubleshoot your other one.

PatrThom · Jul 14, 2015

Also make sure the time is set correctly on the phone.
Otherwise anything with encryption won't work (WPA, https, etc)

--Patrick

Bubble181 · Jul 15, 2015

All of those were ok. Apparently the network kept disconnecting because of interference from some neightbour's wifi. Restarted it on another channel, no more issues. Ah well.