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[XPERIA X1 General] alias_neo:
Annoying

The voice command has become somewhat annoying and I will probably remove it soon.

When out doors, if I attempt a voice command using the phone microphone it will never pick up what I say, almost 100%failure rate. IF I use the wired headset it will pick it up almost 100% of the time. Why so much better with the wired headset? It's further from my mouth and surely more suscptable to other sounds.

The Voice command causes my ring volume to go loud and quiet, loud and quiet, as if it were supposed to announce the caller name when quiet, but it doesnt.

The main thing annoying me is that when I use "play music", "artist", "name of artist here" it will only add a playlist of about 2 songs from that artist, even though I have a whole album, or collection of albums.

For Example, I say "play music", (what do you want to play), "artist", (which artist?), "pendulum". (Pendulum - starts playing).

However, it will only play one song. I have the In Silico album on there and it will just randomly play 1 song from it.

So, I try Replace "artist" with "album" and say "In Silico" and it will add 2 songs now instead of 1.

The ID3 tags are perfect, the Artist and Album is spelled and capitalised correctly in every track, so why the problem?

EDIT: I found the command "Play Album" that added 7 of the songs from In Silico to the playlist. Not quite there still but getting better.
[XPERIA X1 General] neo3424:
It works great for me.

Voice command awesome especially if you have a bluetooth headset.

I press a button on my headset and voice command beeps for a command. I can call anyone from my phone book. I can call home mobile or any other number asociated with my contact. I rarely repeat the name that want to call. voice recognition is pretty good. voice call announcement works perfectly.

I very often check my calender. I just say "what is schedule" and it gives me my next appointment time, location and subject. coool!

Announces new emails. sender and subject. I use Microsoft push mail from Exchange server and i have some rss feeds on my desktop in outlook. now i get my rss feeds via push and voice command will read my feeds when they arrive. wow! rsshub is useless now!

I can play music. just say Play music.

I can start any application from my programs. i say "start audio manager" if i don't want to use windows media player.

I also get some status info like battery level. i say "what is my battery level".

If incoming call comes while i am listening to music, music fades out and it announces the caller name and from where he/she is calling for example mike from mobile or mike from office..after i finish my call the music comes back on automatically. same with email announcements.

So I can do hole lot of stuff with my phone without even touching it.

some improvements i like to see in future are

capabilities to read complete email.

support all menu options in all applications.

dictation for word.

integration into navigation.

sound more human like.
[XPERIA X1 General] MrLeche:
Dudes, I beg to disagree to almost all of you. Yeah, Almost all.

Firstly, the voice command IS very handy. Didn't you watch the youtube demo? so here's the thing:

1. I also had the ASUS 02 XDA Zinc which has a voice commander. A different program BUT it reads emails and sms. BUT you'll have to train your voice to get things pretty acurate - as opposed to MS voice Command which doesn't need training but also doesn't read sms/email. So No it can't.

2. Good points are: with just a press of a button you can command almost everyting like getting home from work, exhausted and before putting your Xperia on your table just say " What is my battery level " way faster than clicking start > settings > power.

3. Listening to music. You know you don't have to elaborate all the albums, artist and genre it's there for a reason:

a. just say: "play anything" and it will play a song. no more than one.

b. say " Play everything " and it will play all your songs. pretty neat IMHO

c. say "play pop rock" and it will play all songs with this genre. That's why there is the genre thing.

d. say "play Hell freezes over" and it will play all eagles song under this album. That why the albums thing is there too.

c. say "Play nirvana" and you'll start to hear Kurt Cobain all hour. That's why there is the artist thing too.

f. you can also say "next track, previous track, what song is this?, stop, pause, shuffle on and off, repeat on and off. I'm still thinking why you guys aren't liking this.

g. This won't ever work if your mp3's aren't organized (e.g. putting correct artist, albums etc.)

h. play anything or play everything is pretty much useful.

4. some less frequent commands but I feel acurate: What is my signal strength?, Flight mode on, What day is this?, What is my next appointment, I kinda don't use this much.

5. Calling. uh, for me it's pretty acurate saying call Garry, call Kristine, call Raymond, then it prompts you to call home, mobile, work, car etc. you can command this in the first place invoking: call Garry home. It also shows all Garry(s) if you have more than one garry in your phone phonebook. pretty much faster than scrolling with your thumb or taking the time too unsheathe your stylus.

6. Opening programs: Well I have to grade this at 90% acuracy. It opens files even custom installed ones.

Lastly, of course we cannot expect this to work inside a speeding train or at a construction site at a passing rate. As outdoor noises may interrupt the commands. Try to watch the youtube and re-test the MS VC. I'm sure you're gonna like it.
[XPERIA X1 General] alias_neo:
Well I guess you're a lucky one because as I said 2 posts up from yours, the play music commands don't work properly for me. I say "play In Silico" and it will only play the first 7 tracks. I wan't the whole Album. If I say "Play Pendulum" it will only play the first 2 tracks.

What gives?

P.S. And yes, my tags and sorting are all perfect, I am an anal perfectionist, trust me, They're as sorted as they can get. Under my music folder I have Artist Folders, under each Artist Folder I have album folders. All ID3 tags within each Album are identically labelled for Artist and Album with exact same capitalisation, no spelling mistakes or errors. Infact, they all show perfectly under the exact correct places if I browse my library manually, so why can the voice command not add the whole album properly?

I say "Play Chinese Democracy" it adds only 1 track (Different song each time, I have the whole album), I say play "Only by the Night" it plays the whole album. I say "Play The Rising Tied" it adds one track (random track each time, I have the whole album).
[XPERIA X1 General] George Knighton:
I sold the black X1i. I still have the silver X1a. The case is cracked, so I am not sure I could sell it.
[XPERIA X1 General] AaronUK:
I can't get incoming announcements. THis is a problem for some Voice Command builds. WHat version and build number are you using? You can find this in the voice command app screen.
[XPERIA X1 General] creid:
I use MV, its good for reading out incoming sms (i turn of text message tone)

im happy with it :) but, it uses a lot of memory 1.9meg ! so slows phone and empties battery quicker - they should make app more streamline :mad:
[XPERIA X1 General] darkhalf520:
I found that by disabling the incoming call alert in the options the ringtone volume stops the flactuation problem :D
[XPERIA X1 General] MrLeche:
Okay we trust you man. but I have to ask you again. what version are you using? I'm using 1.6 And I do not get notifications or incoming calls from whom like the one who posted before you. I tried playing an album again and It still works. got the whole 17 tracks.

Lastly, how do you organize your tags? I only use windows explorer in my Vista. Could it be connected since it is a winmo phone? and yes, I assumed you know what you are doing since you know conflicts come when they are mispelled. You might wanna take a look at you MSVC version first.

P.S. I re-read your posts and it seems you sort your song via folders. I don't do that. All my songs are only in one folder in my storage that is (X1mp3s) for me. I put tags in my mp3 in it's properties. right click the mp3 file and click properties, then hit the "detail" tab. see if things in there are also on the corrected spellings. THAT is the ONLY way winmo can check if it is sorted out.
[XPERIA X1 General] AaronUK:
I have version 1.6.19214 installed and my incoming call alerts do not work.

You can find your version number by going to Start > Settings > Voice Command.

Please post your version number if your incoming call alerts work. Thanks.
[XPERIA X1 General] alias_neo:
Weird

My version is 1.6.19209 which i thought was the latest according to microsoft but apparently not according to the post after you.

I use mp3tag to edit my tags but if i click the details thing in Windows 7 it does show them all normally as

you would expect, so there are no problems it seems with the tags. Also, they are all arranged perfectly in the Media Library in the phone.

One thing to note, I deleted some files related to MSVC and rebooted and it "remade" the databse or whatever it uses, some albums were fixed and the whole thing showed, some of them it would just add one song still, or most of the songs but not all.

It's strange because where it adds 1 song, it's not the same 1 song, it will be a random single song from the album. Where it adds most but not all, it adds the same few, every time.

1.6.19209, voice alert NOT working.
[XPERIA X1 General] creid:
Im using v1.60.4622.0 - my sms are read out

am i using and old version ?
[XPERIA X1 General] alias_neo:
Yep

I guess so.

Oh, it seems the one I have is fairly old. I just got hold of 1.6.19965 (no voice alert) and also 1.6.19971 (about to install.)

It didnt ask to uninstall the old one or remove it just upgraded it. Will post feedback when I have tried the later one.
[XPERIA X1 General] creid:
where did you get upgrade ? did u have to pay ?
[XPERIA X1 General] alias_neo:
Ehr...pass?

P.S. Neither fixed voice announce and neither fixed my media problem. There is no discernable difference so far.
[XPERIA X1 General] creid:
Version Information and how to Locate/Install MSVC post 106

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=391262&page=11
[XPERIA X1 General] MrLeche:
okay so I have version 1.60.4622.0 and I don't have sms alert. Does that only activate whenever there are bluetooth headset? I don't have one.
[XPERIA X1 General] Sfkn2:
I'm on v1.6.19209 -- it reads out SMS and the title of emails, but it does not read out the phone number or the caller for an incoming call.
[XPERIA X1 General] Jammy2:
interesting software here, we can I get this from?
[XPERIA X1 General] Sfkn2:
You can purchase it from Handango.
[XPERIA X1 General] achmed20:
reading SMS and Emails has to be activated manualy. not sure what version i have(had) but it just worked fine there.
[XPERIA X1 General] creid:
I have same version as you. to have sms read out -

start-settings-voice - click on email, then options

turn on announce new messages

turn off high priority messages only

then on notification option, i have speak notifications through device speaker or wired headset only.

then i go into phone sound options and turn of text message tone.

This works for me :)
[XPERIA X1 General] frankencowx:
i have trouble getting it to recognize any contacts that i tell it to call, however starting programs and music and such works great.
[XPERIA X1 General] tiggerzn:
Has anybody tried using a wav file as their ring tone, as opposed to an mp3, maybe that could be the problem why VC doesn't work on incoming calls.
[XPERIA X1 General] MrLeche:
Amazingly neat tip! I do now hear sms announcements. Altough I still can't hear incoming calls. I've tried setting the notification of incoming call to no ring. but no luck.
[XPERIA X1 General] tiggerzn:
Okay, I tried using a WAV file as a ringtone, but still no notification on incoming calls :(
[XPERIA X1 General] malcolmst:
ID3 problem

alias_neo,

It sounds like you're having the same problem I had with the ID3 tags. I have version 1.51, and it had a bug that it would add random characters to the end of some album and artist names (because some programmer forgot to add a null character to mark the end of the name.....). This would make some of the albums only play a couple songs depending on what random characters Voice Command decides to append to each album/artist name. It would also sometimes cause albums to be listed more than once.

I edited the assembly and machine code to fix this myself, but as far as I know Microsoft is not aware of this problem.

From your experience it sounds like 1.6 is still affected by this.

I'm going to contact Microsoft (today) to tell them what the problem was and how I fixed it, so hopefully they will eventually release a patch or something.

If anyone else is having this problem, feel free to contact me via PM and I may be able to help.
[XPERIA X1 General] Steve_TLS:
It does the job perfectly for me.

It works better with my BT earpiece than the phone mike, but I got it for when I'm on the road and using my earpiece. (Can't afford the fine or the points if caught using a mobile phone while driving here - hands free is ok).

Press my BT button, tell it who I want to call and most of the time it gets it right the 1st time. I use it to tell me the time, my battery level and my next appointment. Hardly gets it wrong.

Some times I'll use it at my desk to open contacts or the calculator or something, but I didn't buy my X1 for its media player so any issues with playing music is not an issue for me. (The only time I use it to play music is to show it off :))
[XPERIA X1 General] stevencyc:
I have the same version as yours and also realized it did not announce incoming number or name. However, it works now with a custom ROM on WM 6.5 release 21812. So I guess it is an issue with WM !!!
[XPERIA X1 General] adamz:
MSVC 1.6.21725 and 1.6.19965 are not working on R3A (generic UK) for some reason. With 21725, when I press the bluetooth headset button, it goes to the phone dialer and starts routing all audio to the headset, but VC doesn't start listening. With 19965, the button on the bluetooth doesn't do anything. VC doesn't start listening there either.

Anyone else seen this problem? Solutions?
[XPERIA X1 General] JwY:
I'm having the same issue as well.
[XPERIA X1 General] pimmen:
i DONT want to be annpunced, because it only does that both in phone and bluetooth handsfree, and i miss lots of calls this way, can anyone pm me if you haev a .cab with all the notification options?
[XPERIA X1 General] de Wolfe:
On my X1 this works.
[XPERIA X1 General] JwY:
Which Voice Command version are you using?
[XPERIA X1 General] Steve_TLS:
What he said.

It wont work on mine :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] psydr3ams:
hey,i update my htc universal and lost the radio,now i get the error 114 when i ty to put old rom.

any solucion????pls
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] borce_razor:
Please help me with this. Because many people are confused with Diamond versions, pls tell me which of these are GSM and which are CDMA

DIAM100, DIAM110, DIAM120, DIAM130, DIAM140, DIAM200, DIAM210, DIAM300, DIAM400, DIAM500

Need 99.9% sure answers :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] RizwanKhan:
diam100: eu gsm

diam110: us gsm

diam120: ? (believe this is asian gsm)

diam130: ?

diam140: gsm

diam200: gsm, tmobile

diam210: ?

diam300: ?

diam400: ?

diam500: cdma

from the wiki here are the different types of diamonds by operator:

CDMA:

HTC P3051 / HTC Touch Diamond CDMA / Bell & HTC Touch Diamond / Sprint & HTC Touch Diamond / Telus & HTC Touch Diamond

GSM:

HTC P3700 / HTC P3701 / HTC P3702 / HTC Touch Diamond / HTC Touch Diamond P3702 / HTC Touch Diamond (White Gold Edition) / Orange & HTC Touch Diamond / Swisscom & HTC Touch Diamond / Vodafone & HTC Touch Diamond / Dopod S900 (Touch Diamond) / O2 Xda Diamond / O2 Xda Ignito / T-Mobile MDA Compact IV / EMobile Emonster S21HT / NTT DoCoMo PRO series HT-02A
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Arctura:
EMobile Emonster S21HT / NTT DoCoMo PRO series HT-02A[/QUOTE]

Are definitely not GSM devices since neither Docomo nor Emobile operate a GSM network. As far as I know there is no GSM network in operation in Japan.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] animelover:
DIAM300: XDA Diamond GSM, o2 Germany
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] swallick:
I have a DIAM400 from Verizon Wireless (US), which I believe is CDMA. Correct me if I'm wrong. I dunno.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kikodog:
diam110: us gsm

this will work in europe?

i have one only catch 3g :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] sucro:
if phone is tri-band or quad-band you can use it in Europe, cause thing is in frequency 850/900/1800/1900 mhz maybe numbers for frequency aren't exact , but look for that thing!

GSM 900 / GSM 1800 MHz are used in most parts of the world: Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East, Africa.

GSM 850 / GSM 1900 MHz are used in the United States, Canada, Mexico and most countries of S. America.

Greetz
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kikodog:
yup that´s correct after i read this thread i google and discover good phone work only in 3G :)

back to canada :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] dcbrowne:
If you open the battery cover and you don´t see a place for a sim card then it´s a CMDA phone,CMDA phones dont have a sim card slot
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] jaellis:
DIAM400 CDMA (Verizon)

DIAM500 CDMA (Sprint)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ekosbravo:
Are you sure of this?

On cdma version there isn't the sim slot?
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
Hi, I'm new in this forum, and I don't speack English well, so I want to excuse me!

I have the new Touch HD, at the beginning I changed immediately the original ROM with a new one, I installed a lot of programs, and everything woked very well for two weeks, but then I had a big problems with battery...a the first the battery was very good, -10/15% per day, but suddenly after two weeks the battery lose 1% of its charge every 2/5 mintes...if I disconnect the power when the battery is 100%, after one hour without use (and also without wifi, BT and GPS), I have 70% of charge!

I try to change the ROM, a friend suggested me a new upgrade for Radio, but I didn't resolve my problem!

Now I buy a new battery online in htcstore, but if I put my mobile in "Fly mode" the battery work very very good!

I want to say that here normally I have the signal indicator with 2/3 nicks, so the signal is good!

Someone can help me?...someone have my same problem?

Thank you so much fo everything!

Greetings, Eddy ;)
[Touch HD General] jonajuna:
the battery will be used up quickly if your fone is constantly searching in and out for a 3g signal, regardless of 2g signal strength

have you got wifi on?

bluetooth?

a gps app running?

what other apps do you have running in background? some really poll the cpu a lot and will lead to battery drain

other than a dodgy battery, it must be some software running that is using up the battery
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
Thank you for aswering!

In background normally I have SMS o Contacs, but also if I close every programs in background the battery doesn't work well!

No, Bluetooth is OFF, GPS and WI-FI are OFF, I use telephone just with gsm!

Also when I write message, normally I write a message so long (3/4 messages), after wirting, the battery lost 10%, and I didn't have this problems at the biginning!

I left my mobile on also during the night, and in the morning I had again 100% of charge...now 100% it's a far dream! :(
[Touch HD General] jonajuna:
try turning off the autoadjust for the screen and setting it at a medium setting, also make sure the backlight turns off after a minute or less.

its a huge screen and will burn up power, although saying that i watched a full length film on my HD the other day and only used 20% in 1.5hrs

if no progs are running in the background and its not a display issue (how have you checked whats running btw? need more than just WM taskmanager, try mem maid or similar) and the problem is not there when in flight mode. then i can only assume its the rom you are using, try another with a different radio rom in it

i found roms with 1.10 radio to be better than 1.09. try this rom (mulitlanguage) works good for me :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=465637

edit: have you got HDTweak installed? its good to configure the data to auto turnoff after 1 minute or so (even in gsm gprs could be running)
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
I tried to setup the new ROM but I didn't resolve the problem!

If I leave my mobile only with GSM on, without use it, without call and sms, the battery lost 2% in 30 minutes, and it's not normal!

If I use it, change settings, write message, the battery lose 5% in five minutes!

I don't know what I have to do...this mobilie now can't live without a power connection!
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
I want say also that at the beginning some application in my HTC wanted "HTCAPI.dll" because they didn't found into the mobile...so I found this dll online and I did copy/paste into the directory!

It can gave me problems with battery?....I don't know how it's possible, but I don't know!
[Touch HD General] cayotte:
Try to buy or borrow another HD battery and compare them. You should know the problem then.
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
Of course, I alredy bought it online, and I'm waiting to get the shipping!

But it's very strange that a battery stop to work suddenly, but I know that there are a lot of people who have my same problem!
[Touch HD General] ardsar:
If i were you, i would flash back the original rom and do a hard reset. Then, without installing anything on the device, see if the problem persists.
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
Thank you ardsar...I want to try....can you tell me, what I have to do to obtain the original product?...without hardspl and new rom?...like the first time that I turned on this HD! Thank you so much! ;)

For example, I have your same SPL and ROM at the moment!;)
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
Hi Ardsar, I flashed my ROM and SPL (brand), and now my mobile is like the original but....do you know Teeter?...I played 2 minutes, I completed 3 levels, and from 85% the battery is now at 79%... :confused::confused::mad:
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
Hi guys...yesterday I did a lot ot tests, but without positive results, but I fund out new problems:

1)The bettery lose a lot of charge also if my Blackstone is offline, when I use it with TouchFLO, Teeter, SMS, Settings...everytime!

2)I have near to icon of signal, the simbol of GPRS, but sometimes it changes with the simbol H and with this new symbol, the signal falls and to resolve it, I have to wait a long ore reset the mobile.

Now I'm not sure that the "target" is the battery...I don't know, I changed also the Radio ROM with new last, but the problem is not over!

Before put it into garbage case, someone can suggest me something to try?

...I will never bring it to Assistence HTC, because I will have to wait some months, and I didn't pay 500€ to have it "under repairing" ;)
[Touch HD General] MobileXMan:
Do you have SK Tools 4.4.6 or another battery monitor installed?

With SK Tools, you can see under the sys info the current battery use. My usage is in standby with lighted display -100mA. What's normal?

My battery is also very empty. Last evening i had 54%. This morning, the phone was off, no power any more.
[Touch HD General] Eddy9000:
No, now I will try this tool!

But I think that you also have problem with battery, becase the firsts days that I had my HD, I left my mobile on the whole night with 100% and in the morning I had 100%...I had 99% at lunch time!And a lot of friends that have this mobile have the battery so strong, like me at the beginning...so...I'm getting angry :mad::(
[Touch HD General] bigdeal88:
i have this problem too. had my HD for 2 weeks coming to 3 now and my battery seems to deplect very fast, totally different when i had it. could be becoz of the wallpaper and 3rd party theme i had :(