Yes I did mean that. Thanks for catching it. Lots on my mind today. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:32 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voiceover announces call duration, was: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone
I assume you meant a three finger double tap. A two finger double tap toggles your audio between play and pause, while a three finger double tap will leave VoiceOver running but toggle VO's speech between on and off. On 03/28/2013 04:52 PM, DJ wrote: > 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. I mainly have it on there for the antenna gate issue. :) >>>> >>>> Christina C. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 Google >>>> Groups "VIPhone" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 Google >>> Groups "VIPhone" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>> send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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 Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > 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 Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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