Unfortunately, all you can do is turn VO off.
Sent from my Verizon iPhone! On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:49 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi David, Len and others, > > My 4S which does have the volume issue during a call also has the issue with > VO reading out the call duration. What happens for me is that often when I > answer a call on my headset everything is fine. If the call is longer, > after 2 or so minutes the screen will lock and Voiceover will say "Screen > Locked". Then maybe 20 or 30 seconds later it will start announcing the call > duration about every 20 or so seconds even if I had previously moved focus > away from that during the same phone call. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Len Burns > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 4:06 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: vo talking during phone calls > > David, > > I have enough troubleshooting experience to have done the below as you > describe. And, VO still ends up on the time. I am not being highly > critical of Apple nor the phone, just stating an observation that I have > duplicated many times as have several others I know who are equally careful. > This has been true both in 5.1.1 and 6.0 with my 4S. > > Regards, > -Len > > On 10/27/2012 3:52 PM, David Chittenden wrote: >> Yes, but the factor may be the person brushing the phone so lightly that > they don't notice it after double-tapping the call button. I have done this > and it will place the focus where the body part brushes the phone. All it > takes is the merest contact. The touch-screen is not pressure sensitive, it > is contact sensitive. Now, if you ensure that VO is not highlighting the > call timer, close the phone app, have your headset connected, use the button > on the headset chord to activate Siri, and voice-dial a number / contact, > you will have eliminated all possibilities of touching the screen > inadvertently. If VO starts reading the call timer then, you have definitely > found a bug. VO remains on the field it was last on when the call screen > pops up. Using the above method, I have never been able to cause the > troubling behaviour. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 28/10/2012, at 11:35, Len Burns <len.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> While I know the below happens, I have seen the same thing occur with >>> an earpiece on, phone lying on the table with nothing near it. So, I >>> believe there is something going on here that is not always a human > factor. >>> >>> -Len >>> >>> On 10/27/2012 1:19 AM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: >>>> Hi, also for what it's worth, I don't feel this is a bug like I've >>>> seen others say it is. If there is any sort of bug it's that if >>>> Voice Over is automatically placing focus on the timer, then yes, >>>> that needs to be addressed, however I would venture a guess, coming >>>> from a training point of view, that more often than not, it's the >>>> person who accidentally touches the timer. A good way it's been >>>> done, and it's happened to me is when I was putting the phone next >>>> to my ear, my lobe touched the screen in just the right place. I >>>> guess I have really big ears. Sure enough, the timer started telling >>>> me all the length of the call. A simple touch to somewhere else solved > that problem. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Raul A. Gallegos >>>> My wife says I ask too many questions. I asked her what she meant? >>>> Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com >>>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 >>>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 >>>> >>>> On 10/26/2012 4:54 PM, David Chittenden wrote: >>>>> VO reads whatever is in the area you've highlighted with a touch. >>>>> If it starts reading the call timer and did not do so before, this >>>>> is because you touched, no matter how lightly, the call timer. Take >>>>> the iPhone away from your ear to activate the touch-screen and move >>>>> VO to another field either by touching a different area on the >>>>> screen, or using a right or left flick. If you have headphones on, >>>>> the touch-screen always remains active. >>>>> >>>>> To silence VO, you can either do a three-finger double-tap to mute >>>>> speech, or you can use a triple-tap of the home button to unload VO. >>>>> Just remember to use the same gesture when you are finished with >>>>> your call to get VO talking again. >>>>> >>>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>>>> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >>>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> On 27/10/2012, at 6:40, Donald Raikes <don.rai...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I had the experience yesterday of making a couple of calls some >>>>>> with the wired headset and some without. >>>>>> >>>>>> In both cases, VO started talking in the middle ofthe call. >>>>>> >>>>>> It would say screen dimmed and phone locked, and on one of hte >>>>>> calls I made with the headset, it kept reading the time every few > seconds. >>>>>> >>>>>> Obviously this makes it very hard to hear the person on the other >>>>>> end of the call. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any tips on how to get VO to stop talking while I am on a call >>>>>> would be appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>>> Google Group. >>>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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