Well, when I lose speech on my iPhone, I now always do a triple click of
the home button and a three finger double tap to make sure I haven't
accidentally turned off VoiceOver or the speech. Ditto for checking the
mute button when I'm not getting my sound effects. Fortunately, I
haven't ended up restoring my iPhone to get speech back when I didn't
need to.
Reminds me of my laptop. I can't tell you how many times I've rebooted
the system because I wasn't getting any speech because I'd turned off
the external speakers, plugged in some headphones or muted the sound.
Checking all of these things is now part of my standard debug steps.
On 04/11/2013 06:58 PM, Rose Combs wrote:
You know, the other day my husband told me his screen was all black and
he could not fix it, I suggested he reset the phone and that worked but
I bet somehow he turned on the screen curtain, I don't use it and I
don't know if he even knows it exists, I do know when he was telling me
he could not see anything it was talking.
That is pretty funny now that I think about it. Since he managed to
mess up a droid in the past hear and lose the iPhone 4, I just figured
it was something else we would have to deal with.
*From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On
Behalf Of *Victor Gouveia
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:31 AM
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: a battery saver, but effective?
While I agree with most of these battery saving tips, I should point out
something the guides don't take into account.
Audio-brightness should be switched to off, not on.
Common sense dictates that while it would save battery life on the
brightness, that savings would be eaten up by the power the light sensor
is using up in order to operate. Granted, I don't know exactly how much
power that particular sensor uses up, as it would have to function
constantly in order to be able to deduce what setting the brightness
needs to be at in order to operate at a comfortable level in any
particular instance, whatever it is, you wouldn't gain in battery
savings as you would setting auto-brightness to off.
In any case, if your vision doesn't require brightness, as in you're a
totally blind person, keep the screen curtain on, and regardless of what
the brightness is set at, be it 0% or 100%, the screen curtain shuts
down any foreground and background colours, making the screen
essentially blank, and, as I said in my previous post, I have confirmed
this with my brother who is sighted.
The great thing is that the screen curtain doesn't have to be turned off
manually when you need sighted assistance with the phone, as turning off
Voiceover automatically shuts off the screen curtain, then re-enables it
when you turn Voiceover back on. Talk about efficiency. Smiles.
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