You could also do a 2-finger double-tap to mute VO until such time when you want VO to speak again. Then the only thing you might hear would be system sounds.
DJ -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:02 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Voiceover announces call duration, was: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone Hi Raul, I am one of these people who has a 4S which keeps announcing the call duration all the time. I will try this recommendation to take the phone away from my ear and to touch the end button, but what seems to happen with my 4S is that even if I move focus away from the call duration, after a while Voiceover says "Screen Locked" and then within 30 or so seconds after that Voiceover continues to read out the call duration every 20 seconds. There is of course also the issue everybody has that Voiceover will read out incoming push notifications, text messages or anything else you have set to read in the lock screen and I just feel Apple should make Voiceover shut up altogether when a call is in progress. After all, if I hear something has happened, e.g. a text message or email came in or a push notification, I can always take the phone while I am on the call and manually review it if I feel I need to know immediately. I am also getting a replacement 4S in a couple of days and it will be interesting to know if I am going to have the same problem and whether I am going to be once again able to balance Voiceover volume and call volume so I can use the keypad properly when a call is on speakerphone. Right now I am simply not able to make Voiceover loud enough to hear it reliably in this situation even if I turn Voiceover up all the way to 100% by using volume on the rotor and as soon as I try to turn down the call volume with the volume buttons Voiceover also goes down. I am getting a replacement phone because in the last few weeks I was suddenly unable to scan a single barcode with Digit Eyes. I finally asked one of my employees to try it and he said the image on the screen was all blurry and the camera didn't focus. He tried to just use the stock camera app and especially when I tried to take a picture of something close up Voiceover would say Auto Focus as it does, but visually the camera wouldn't focus. I did a full factory reset setting the phone up as a new device and even with nothing else installed the problem persisted, I called Apple and since I fortunately decided to buy Apple Care and my phone still has warranty until November they immediately said they would send out a replacement. I am supposed to get it by Monday. It's the usual good Apple service and it's nice to get a new phone after almost a year and a half, yes, I know it maybe a refurbished phone, but I was actually told that it "could" be a refurbished phone but is not necessarily one and even if it is, I was assured that it would, for example, have a brandnew battery which is of considerable value. Regards, Sieghard I called Applewith the voluduring a c shortly after that thtouch -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:54 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone Hi, this is a great suggestion and it works for me and the people I've mentioned it to. However some are still reporting that even that fails to silence VO while they are on a call. I don't get it. -- Raul A. Gallegos No one sits in my spot. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/27/2013 8:05 PM, DJ wrote: > Guys, > > I've discovered that if while on a call, I can stop VO from announcing > information such as the elapsed time of the call by taking the phone > away from my ear and tapping one time toward the bottom of the screen > on the End > button. After that there is no interruption. Give that a try. > > DJ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:56 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker > phone > > Hi Susan, > > Yes, my 4S also reads out the call duration every 20 seconds or so. It > doesn't matter if I move focus away from this, eventually the screen locks, > then if I continue to talk after about 20 or 30 seconds it resumes > reading the time. I can only hope Apple will implement better handling > of this in iOS 7, as far as I am concerned Voiceover should not say a > thing by itself if I am on a call. I know a bunch of people said to > just use a 3-finger double tap to mute speech altogether, but while > this may be a work-around, it does not address the issue. In any case, > if I am out and about and have my iPhone in it's belt case under a > jacket or an inside pocket, I basically > have to stop, tell my dog to wait, then dig out the phone and do all this. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Susan > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:52 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker > phone > > I've had similar issues. Good luck. I also have an issue with mine calling > out the elapsed time on the calls. This is so very annoying. > Does yours do that? > > On 3/19/13, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If your case does not cover the display, it is not a case issue for you. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 20/03/2013, at 7:32, "Christina C." <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Where is this sensor located? Thanks for all the advice. I think it >>> may > be >>> a hardware problem :(. I will try taking the case off first. I do >>> have a case on there but it is a minimal case. It's a very simple >>> one. 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