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[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before, but, I absolutely HATE how the stupid samsung calendar is the default cal when making new events! I SWEAR THEY ARE STILL STUCK IN FEATURE PHONE WORLD! ahem, sorry for the outburst. Any way, is three a way to change that?
[Vibrant General] sj_martin:
i'd like to know too.
[Vibrant General] vuvsion:
X2 ^^ ... one feature that I missed the most that was on my G1 is the hyperlink of URL, address & phone number.

Especially the hyperlink for address, I drive around town alot for work, and plan my destinations on Calendar the night before. Not having the hyperlink to address has been a PITA.
[Vibrant General] sonnyg95:
s0niqu3 was able to push the stock 2.1 apps on to the Vibrant. Check out his post below. I haven't tried it out myself though.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731822&highlight=calendar
[Vibrant General] kizer:
Yeah nothing is more frustrating than putting in the address and when you want to navigate to it, it well doesn't work.
[Vibrant General] jmattp:
More specifically:

Replace touch wiz calendar with google default

That bar on top pisses me off, but I would rather have a tiny annoyance than using the TouchWiz calendar.

Follow the directions though, you have to remove the TouchWiz Calendar and TouchWiz Calendar Provider FIRST with a root file explorer or ADB (which I never got working), and then uninstall the residuals from Settings>Applications. THEN push/move the two apk's in the linked thread to system/app, then reboot.

You will lose access to a few TouchWiz widgets, and the home dock app won't work.
[Vibrant General] Excelsius:
Ok, I am not sure how many are familiar with Microsoft SyncToy, but I am basically looking for something for Android. So is there an app that will sync any two folders that I select? Preferably I'd like some automation, such as anytime the phone is in the Bluetooth or WiFi range, the folders are synced automatically.

I have heard a lot about Kies. Will it serve this purpose, even if only by using a USB cable? If not, then what is the purpose of installing Kies? Thar's a huge application at almost 140MBs. Compare to just a few MBs (or maybe even under 1MB) for SyncToy.

Any input would be appreciated.
[Vibrant General] down8:
DropBox.

-bZj
[Vibrant General] Excelsius:
Thanks, but I meant a direct sync, not through a website. One thing I don't like about the Android is that it forces the users to use internet servers more than any other platform. They don't have a decent outlook sync either. I hope that this changes soon otherwise windows will always be on top. Most of the people in our generation don't care much about having all our stuff online, but I know that a major incident (whether major data loss or data compromise) will change that very quickly.

Ok, so I guess there is no simple, direct sync solution between any two folders between the phone and the computer. That sucks. I hope Kies does at least something like that.
[Vibrant General] PuterPro:
List of Sync products here

Ran across this site while doing MY research on this sync issue.

Standard Web address, syncdroid followed by .NET (Forum won't let me post the link until I've been vetted or some such nonsense ... LOL!) I get it, but it's STILL annoying!

They have a chart of the available Android sync products, cost, etc. Most have a free trial, but a lot are dumb in that you can only sync 5 items (like THAT'S going to help you get a feel for the software!) LOL!

If you're using an Enterprise Server, the top one seems to be Touchdown. For just straight USB to device, CompanionLink (on the PC) and DejaOffice (Android end, they're a pair) is also popular, as is gSyncit.

I'm pondering getting a Domain name and setting up a Google Premiere account so I can get onto a secure server. Debating that or straight USB sync. There's a couple with Bluetooth, but that tech tends to be shaky at best! Don't know if it's out either. RSN and all that.

Hope this helps! :D

PuterPro
[Vibrant General] dcugooner:
Samsung Kies was working for me until I upgraded to Windows 7, 64-bit, which Kies is not compatible with yet.
[Vibrant General] faroid:
I'm using Kies 1.5 on Windows 7 64 bit. It works fine but it only synchronizes contacts and the calendar with outlook... You can also export some items to your PC.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Sheen160:
Ok so my girlfriend has a Blackberry and she hates it. She's up for a new upgrade, BUT she's on Alltel. They only have the hero and her friends have all had bad experiences with it. I'd like to get her a Droid and put it on Alltel. She can't leave Alltel because she's got a good deal with a family plan. I've done some quick researching to no avail, but was wondering if maybe some of you could help. Anything you can link me to or tell me about would be helpful and I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] [ L ]:
There is, but you will need someone who has had lots of expesince with the hardware and esn's of phones.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] Leviuqse:
You will find a lot of info here

http://www.whiterabbit.org/android/

U will find a lot of info there, I'm well experience in the metropcs world, but I know nothing about altell

U will need someone that can add the esn to altell, after that ready the website that I sent you...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexusdue:
Google announced "Voice Actions" or "Voice Search" (or whatever it is called): http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/google-voice-actions-for-mobile-announced-write-messages-find/

What's the difference to the voice commands already on the N1?

Will we automatically get an upgrade to the new "version"?

Does one need to install something from the market?

WTF is the deal?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futango:
Manual update from market. The original search just goes to google. this lets you send txt, email, navigate, etc all with your voice.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Yes they are on the market.
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
How you all finding this?

It can dictate a text no problem, but doesn't seem to pick up the TO: field for me.

So if I say "send text to bob how are you" it will fill in "2 bob how are you" in the message field and leave the TO field empty. how are you getting on? It's still pretty cool. And you can say things like "call 08665242424" and it gets that perfect. Although when I say "call Joe" it just won't find the appropriate entry on my SIM card.
[Desire General] 360nitrous:
hey,

So far with the actions, i had a little bit of troubling getting it to call my contacts e.g. "call Paul C" an it suggests everyone else in my list with the surname C except "Paul C" also the text thing doesnt seem to work at all, but i have found it's very good at web searching and also when you have already entered the texting menu, i think once it gets the support for different countries it will be really good and fun to use.

At the minute its more of a novelty, but it could become very very useful.
[Desire General] @MARK:
We had a lot of fun earlier as what I said and what the phone thought I said was so different!

e.g.

Send a text to Teresa to say hello

=

Send a text recycle au

I did manage to get the thing to give me directions to Skegness (although I was trying to call somebody at the time).

Maybe I need to lay on an american accent and try again :rolleyes:
[Desire General] marinierb:
But... But... But... It worked so well in the little video!
[Desire General] Singh400:
Very hit and miss for me. If it works, it works spot on 100% and great. If it fails, it fails epically.
[Desire General] DavieMarshall:
Same here. If it works, it works, if not, well I just hope I'm not showing it off to a friend as it can make an ass of itself.

The text action? Doesn't work for me at all. Neither does setting an alarm. Getting directions is perhaps the most reliable voice action of all. Calling people is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't complete the action. I'll say, "Call Claire XYZ Mobile", and it displays a list of 'did you mean?' options. The top one is usually right, but when I click it it Googles it as a search term!
[Desire General] al89nut:
The Alarm is still in development
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
the fact it requires a data connection means its learning as it goes. Recording 10000s of new words per day and linking them based by region. In time it should be able to learn words with accents etc so well that its hard to fool.

at the moment it is certainly more novelty than technological wow. but.. I think it will get there. I wish you could "teach it" by sampling your address book. I mean you click on a contacts name and then say it 5 times and the google learns how this name is pronounced in your region. then it recognizes it next time. I think they'll get there. this is a good start.
[Desire General] aindow:
If it learns as it goes, then all those who set theory phone to US English may not be helping out develop the software for their own language if each voice request is sent out with a language tag from the phone.
[Desire General] thejinx0r:
How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?

I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.

For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.
[Desire General] th3:
It picks up very few words I say correctly. Usually "call" it always gets correct. Brilliant concept but not very practical for the masses yet.

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[Desire General] st0kes:
I've found this terrible so far, 0% success rate! Even speaking in most clearest English with no background noise.

Maybe you have more success with an American accent??
[Desire General] @MARK:
But the odd thing is that the previous "search by voice" and technologies such as Translate both recognise voice really really well.
[Desire General] damo34:
As with most of you, no success at all.. another interesting thing is set it to US English and hold it up to your speakers and play the guy from the Youtube video talking and it fails to get correct anything he says as well so I would like to know how they got 100% success rate in the video.
[Desire General] adesonic:
I have had limited success with it set to US english, one big problem is the "listen to" command, it insists that I need to install a music player, I have spotify installed (which is on the approved list) but voice action does not appear to recognise that it is there.
[Desire General] depaor:
It is looking for the nearest psychiatrist, as it has deduced you are in urgent need thereof:-)
[Desire General] andycted:
Like the previous voice to text, it mainly accepts US english inflection, for the moment being.

However in my fake mafioso-US-english accent I could manage to type some emails, but I couldn't, for the hell of it, make it recognize the 'to' field most of the times. I think you really have to speak it all together "send email (no pause) to xyz (pause) how are you ?"
[Desire General] gogol:
Too many "SERVER PROBLEM" .... not good.
[Desire General] th3:
OK, I've figured it out. It works and works just as accurate as in the Google vid. You just have to speak at your normal pace and the phone no more than around 6 inches away.

I can use US and UK accents to get it working. I've moved around enough to know them well.

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[Desire General] serialkillazzs:
I have tried it for directions, navigation, voice dialing good.text message no go on generic htc sense 2.2.

Northern irish accent.

Just saying one word searches for pizza, thai, pubs god tho.bruins up google search entries by location.plus point
[Desire General] pablo_max:
Well, I have an American accent and I can't get it to work for any of the contacts. I am considered to speak reasonably clear as well.

I say, send text to my wife, when are you going to be home?

Always the same ****..text reads

"my wife, when are you going to be home?"

The most damned annoying thing is when I say, "Call my wife" (contact is called my wife") and every ****ing time it does a web search and calls the university of Köln.

Total and utter crap software.
[Desire General] Lukehluke:
I cannot try it yet due to not having 2.2 till September but I have tried Vlingo and that works pretty well.
[Desire General] mayad79:
You need to say send text, then speak the context of the message in the same sentence. Then choose or speak the contact after hitting either the field or the Mic button.

Make sure you select English US as the language.
[Desire General] Singh400:
Mine has a great problem with "call home". Do you think it has something to do with the fact that my Home contact is stored on the phone, not on Gmail Contacts?
[Desire General] Geeba:
Nope cant get "call" or "text" anything... mostly it just searches the web...
[Desire General] Jabbafat23:
Using it on Australian English from the side of the road at rush hour to call my brother because I was too lazy to use the smart dialer worked perfect.

Experimented with testing lady night and it got it about 50% both in name and text contents. Navigation worked pretty well also.

It's a work in progress for something that has just come out and may not have a large database yet. Might have helped to have that 2nd mic......
[Desire General] explodingboy70:
I am at a loss. I have a Vibrant with the new leaked 2.2 Froyo. I have been waiting for this so that I could have the Voice Actions. My problem is that for the first day it worked perfect, 100%. Now I can't get it to work to send a text or make a call. It will pull up a text but the name I speak is in the message field also when I try to place a call it does a search for something close to what I'm saying, doctors, buisnesses, ect. It doesn't seem to be reading my contacts anymore. I have tried everything short of doing a factory restore and reflashing 2.2. Any suggestions?
[Desire General] 3722:
You can try "Vlingo" from the market it's free and a very good app, make sure the "right" english is selected for your pronunciation in settings.Also read the "getting started" so you'll be sure that you'are doing everything right :).
[Desire General] explodingboy70:
I actually tried vLingo twice but don't like that it is a 2 step process to send a text which is where I'm at with Google Voice Actions.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] DAKIDD236:
Heres the .APK for TweetDeck, the app is still in it's BETA stage so it doesn't have all of the features that you would see on the iPhone version.

You can also sign up for the app here http://www.tweetdeck.com/api/android_whitelist/ and they will send you a beta version through an e-mail.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Minker17:
Isn't it out on the market already?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] DAKIDD236:
Tweetdeck is a free application and its in a BETA stage. I don't think the application in the market is real. You can try downloading it to see if its real.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pauper7:
IN the "about phone" battery use the "display" shows 53%, Voice calls show 36% android 5% Cell Standby $% Phone idle 3%, I made one call 3 hours ago and since then havent touched it...what the heck are these results telling me? IM so confused.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daPorkchop:
Of the percentage of the battery thats been used, those percentages is what has used the batter thus far.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pauper7:
thanks porkchop! That much I get I honeslty do, but if my phone is sleeping, and its been three hours since the call took place, why are those the hogs?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenulator:
Your reading too much into it. It's a percent of a percent and even if your phone has been sleeping for hours it will still show those numbers because that's what had been using the battery the most.

The way its displayed is confusing. If your battery is at 50% and it says the display used 50%. The display has really only used 25% of the battery so far. It doesn't matter if your phone has been asleep after you used it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daPorkchop:
And its since the phone has been last unplugged. They aren't really the hogs, its just what has been used in the last how ever long the battery has been off the charger. The display and the phone use way more battery than cell standby and phone idle. now say the battery was at 70% when you took these readings...and left it on sleep til it was 1%, cell standby and phone idle would then be the top percentages.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] negativefx:
Hi,

Tried to enter the 4636 menu on froyo and it didn't work. Wanted to check CPU/batt usage beyond what the standard UI has available. Did a different command replace this one? Not looking for an app that does this but rather the built in functionality.

Thanks
[Desire General] Noodled24:
Is anyone aware of or experiencing any problems with the android market?

I'm using a Stock UK Orange ROM. 25mb free internal space. Using Android market I can go through all the motions and tap install I get the message saying my item will be downloaded. The "downloading" bar appears and is animated, This happened last night. This morning the item had downloaded.

I thought that was the end of it but as I write this I've been waiting an hour for a clock widget to download.

Have also tried via appbrain but experience the same problem.

I can watch youtube videos and browse so I am online. Is there a hidden setting I might have misconfigured? or anyone else experiencing the same thing?
[Desire General] quicksite:
Since you have 25MB free, that is peculiar. Typically downloads get stuck in queue when space is low -- in which case you are getting a notification in the Notification Bar that you are "Getting Low on Empty Storage Space". In those cases remedy of course is to uninstall a few apps you rarely use. After you do that, the "Low on Storage Space" icon will clear, and the instant that it does, all of the downloads you had started -- but were all stuck in queue -- will now proceed -- instantly.

But in your case i don't know. Are you for certain NOT getting that icon notification? (just checking that's all)... Then this probably won't solve your case at all. THIS POST: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7663366&postcount=17
[Desire General] Noodled24:
No worries.

The only thing in my notification bar is the icon for advanced task killer, and 1 Gmail notification.

I've uninstalled a couple more apps but that still hasn't forced a download. This has only happened in the past couple of days and it crossed my mind that google might have been tinkering, but i've read nothing of the sort.

Just been to the shop and back and in those 5 mins Tajam (the clock widget from my OP) has downloaded... I've just added a pinball game, but it hasn't downloaded...
[Desire General] Noodled24:
Is it at all possible that an application has reserved space? As in I might have 25mb free but some app has reserved some of the free space on my handset?
[Desire General] Noodled24:
Nobody else had this issue then?

Any thoughts on a solution? would a hard reset solve this?
[Desire General] htcd2fan:
Try to:

- start your google-talk-app

- use the menu-button to open the menu and sign-out!

- restart the google-talk-app

- use the menu-button to open the menu and sign-out!

usually, after the 2nd or third time you do that, the download-process begins...

edit: you should notice that the log-in-process of the google-talk-app takes some time, seeing the spinning wheel-symbol on the top-right... just ignore it, start the app, wait 5 seconds and sign-out, repeat...
[Desire General] Noodled24:
Thanks for the reply but I dont have google talk installed.

I'm thinking a hard reset might be my only option but it's a pain, and now difficult to download any backup software.

Found this thread http://www.google.tm/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=57b5e3efa7477b50&hl=en

Started by a google employee, subsequently locked. Seems to be a recurring problem
[Desire General] Derevko:
I've the same issue, cancel/abort the download and start it again fixes the issue
[Desire General] River T.:
Hey,

I suffered from the same issue...

I literally tried every in the book but to no avail!

Eventually I had to add a file manager into a rom in order to manually download the apps from the internet and then install them onto my desire!

This is a repeat issue with the Android OS. It does go away after a while... Give it a day or two and it'll just literally stop with the issues.

Good luck friend
[Desire General] levellerbob:
I had this issue last week and tried every trick I could to get things working again, even a hard/factory reset didn't work. From reviewing the thread you quoted from the Google support forums I got the impression that it was a Google account problem of some sort so before doing a second factory reset I changed from @googlemail to @gmail and for whatever reason after the hard reset this has done the trick.
[Desire General] sutepm:
Yes, I am having the same problem too and only started couple days ago... I can't download anything at the moment
[Desire General] El Soap:
Still no market downloads :(

After the froyo update for me, there's still no way

to update or download apps from the market.

I tried all the options now known:

Gtalk

Cache clearing

Factory reset

Etc.

What to do next???
[Desire General] Noodled24:
I checked a few places and this seems to be a common problem. One thread on the market forums was started by a google employee, 400+ replies later the thread was marked as answered (which it clearly wasnt) Now the forums are becoming littered with posts on this same problem.

I've managed to sort it out. Settings>apps>market>clear cache>force close market>soft reset seemed to force any pending downloads.

But that wasnt really a solution, so had to export contacts to gmail. Change my googlemail account to a gmail account (as prompted when you login to Gmail in the UK.... then I had to perform a hard reset and make my Gmail account the primary google account on my handset.

Very annoying, and I'm in disbelief that google are SO aware of this and dont seem to be offering any help.

But for the time being it's working again. The suggestion on the market help forums is that the UK market is having problems with @googlemail accounts.
[Desire General] El Soap:
Well i never had the googlemail adress and i'm not from the UK, so there's more to

it then only that specific problem....
[Desire General] El Soap:
Pls advice....

None of the great developers here has an idea what's happening here or maybe a solution to this issue???? :confused:
[Desire General] El Soap:
Pls help out guys?

Guys please advice, i'm just a bit desperate with this issue.

Nothing seems te help and google stays as silent that i lost faith they are going

to fix this....

Does this mean my DESIRE became useless??!??!?!
[Desire General] sutepm:
It's a bit temperamental to be honest, I left it at 'Starting Download' and sometimes it would start after a few hours and another time after about a day. Never used to be like this before. Google need to seriously take a look at this problem.
[Desire General] El Soap:
Sadly my downloads all just end in "failed" within 5 secs....
[Desire General] atelesco:
Had Problems downloading for a month

Hi All,

I have had this problem for about a month now. Never starts to download for me except if I do a factory reset then it downloads some apps between 3 and 22 apps before it hangs again. The phone is a Samsung Galaxy s I9000. Unlocked. I tried different SIM cards from different carriers and removing the SD memory. I can download from different places on the web like Samsung or one of the web sites that have the apps just not the market.

Has anyone else been having this problem for that long?

Regards
[Desire General] Ja-be:
Same here. I usually leave the downloads "hanging" around. After 10 min. to a few hours, the downloads start.

Same with "Chrome to phone". Both apps use the GTalk service to send commands to the phone. Google broke something.