Motorola Moto X Pure glitches when using "moto voice assist" (voice activation)
hello all. I have two questions about this phone.
1: The Motorola Moto X pure, has an interesting proprietary voice activation feature, I'm sure many of you are already familiar with, called "Moto voice" assist. I often use this to instruct the camera to take a picture, enabling me, to do hands-free photography.
This has proven invaluable a couple of times, as my job is in security, and it's great to be able to pull up behind a car, or warehouse, and simply tell my phone to "take a photo" for future records. My problem is when I use it in conjunction with the camera function, there is a frustrating 3 second countdown, which is actually something more in the order of 5 seconds. I'm wondering if there's a way to eliminate this countdown, so the camera will merely open up and take a picture when I tell it to, rather than doing this slow countdown.
2: like many other people I believe, I migrated to the Motorola Moto X, from Samsung galaxy S3. on that phone, I could use a flashlight, and the camera simultaneously.
This was also good thing, because I could use the phone screen like a lit monitor in conjunction with flashlight, and it would help me find small things and details at night, and the two working together made the phone even more functional for me. Sadly, for some reason I do not understand, using the Motorola Moto X pure, I can find no way to use the flashlight, and the camera simultaneously.
Anybody have any ideas on how to solve these two problems?
Thank you for your time
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So, I'm not sure how many people are familiar with a hacked Motorola phone feature called "fun lights" (or club lights), in which the phone picks up music being played and flashes its lights to the beat, as seen here with a Motorola KRZR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS32vxWQC1U . Can this be done with our phones? I know the Tilt has a good number of lights to use. The indicator lights on the headset speaker and the soft key lights would be prime blinking lights. This feature would also be cool to do when someone calls you, and you're in the dark, your phone's buttons will start blinking and flashing.
So, developers and people who are smarter than I am, can this be done?
hehe loved that feature on moto phones. ahh... the good old motorola modding days when i moded my motorola v635 and the razr v3s someone should be able to do it.
Yeah, they're really cool. I'm not sure how useful it is, but it's certainly quite a novelty feature.
BUMP =D
i like lights...
Haha, everyone likes lights!
This may be similar to what you are talking about? Scroll to the bottom then scroll up 5 topics. Wouldn't be to the beat though.
Well, the notification LED is different than the softkey backlights. This will be cool to do when you receive a call as well as to music.
looks like i'm not the only one who remembers good ole' seem editing!
Either way, has anyone come up with a program that does something similar?
BUMP! This would be hella cool! The SE and Moto phones so why not the WM phones
I'm hoping once this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=406820 gets more developed, we'll be able to assign entertaining videos. It could make things more interesting.
Hi all,
i love the moto display feature but i have some issues that make it less usable for me.
- on certain conditions the moto display seems to react to fast, while on other i had to wave 3-4 times until the screen was woken up. Does anybody know what makes the display not recognize the wave sometimes?
- i hate the fact that the notifications are an all or nothing feature. i might have 10 notifications, and i can only dismiss them all at once. But i want to dismiss onlyspecific ones and keep the rest on my lockscreen. Is this possible somehow?
- as the moto display dismisses all notifications at once, and the regular android lockscreen doesn't, creates situations where there are notifications on the drawer (which need to be dismissed manualls) vs. the Moto screen that doesn't show any notification.
Is there any way to make the dismissing of notifications work as on stock android (possibility to either dismiss all, or only specific ones).
I'm pretty sure its a proximity and light sensor of some sort, but other than that, I'm having the same issues as you.
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I believe that only the sensors on the top of the phone fact to the wave. I don't know what the bottom sensors do.
Why is it impossible to find a diagram listing the location and function of all of the sensors?
If you have many notifications and want to do each individually, then instead of using the moto display just hit the power button to go to the normal lockscreen.
pizza_pablo said:
I believe that only the sensors on the top of the phone fact to the wave. I don't know what the bottom sensors do.
Why is it impossible to find a diagram listing the location and function of all of the sensors?
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Top sensor is for waving (as you said). Bottom sensors are there for when you pick the phone up. If you go to pick the phone up, once your hand covers those two sensors, the display lights up. I found this out somewhere on XDA because I had no idea what they did either lol.
you can disable the sensor, and it will work like the first generation moto x.
Still, the sensor works fine for me, they just takes a little time to turn on after the screen lights on (about 1, 2 seconds) so it's not instant.
chris23445 said:
Top sensor is for waving (as you said). Bottom sensors are there for when you pick the phone up. If you go to pick the phone up, once your hand covers those two sensors, the display lights up. I found this out somewhere on XDA because I had no idea what they did either lol.
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Thanks!
I checked out the bottom sensors, and it appears that they do respond only to touch, as opposed to waving over. :good:
You know, its the feature where if you wave your hand in front of your phones proximity sensor the screen momentarily lights up so you can check notifications at a glance. It used to be a moto x only thing, but I know there is a form of it available for other phones since my cyanogen s3 is able to do it as well.
It's really the only major feature *outside of chop-for-flashlight gesture* that I would miss from the moto x.
Does the axon have a option to enable it or something like it?
No it does not. A lot of people use apps like Kinetic Screen or Dynamic Notifications, but they don't let the CPU sleep :S I miss that from my many Motos, too.
nope
So while GA unlocks my phone by voice when the screen is on and the phone is locked, GA doesn't seem to respond when you shut the screen off, even though the setting for secure voice is active.
I don't know if this is working as planned but it seems to really defeat the purpose of this.
While I get no response from my DT2, my DT1 actually responds with the sound prompt while the screen is off. However, I can't issue any commands.
Anyone else experience this?
Yes, same on my DT2. Saying Ok Google with screen off won't trigger Assistant. Does fine with screen on. Makes me want to go back to Moto Voice, which works every time.
Yeah, this is a real pissed, especially coming from the Nexus 6. I'm definitely bummed that you can't open phone with Okay Google
I have the same exact problem. Anyone know if this is an acknowledged bug that might be fixed? Or is it some weird conflict with Moto Voice, that we're stuck with?
Pretty sure it's got something to do with Moto Voice, don't these phones have a separate processor just for voice or something to that extent?
What happens if you set your moto voice activation sentence to "ok google"?
Hey guys!
The Moto G5 and G5 Plus have some motion features, like twist to start the camera or shake to start the flashlight.
Well, some times my Moto G5 Plus freeze this features, and some times work, some times not work.
I don't know why this occur, I think can be gyroscope or Android bad function...
With someone this problems occur?
Someone know how fix it?
I've reseted my Moto G5 Plus, but this not solve the problem
Someone?
bkawakami said:
Someone?
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I have the same problem also the proximity sensor doesn't work, i "fix" the problem but only for a short time , when u call someone the bug disappears , but only for short time ... so i create a widget with the call service and then hang out... theeeen the phone works perfectly
sorry for my bad english
I also have same problem in both g4 plus and g5 plus.
Gestures are working fine for me, I am on the latest stock ROM, my device is 4/32gb indian varient.
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sinchan_nohara said:
I also have same problem in both g4 plus and g5 plus.
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u have a guarantee? i tried in the store (i have 30days in the store, 1year with motorola) and they said : all its ok.. but the phone still fails .
i have the 2/32gb with telcel/mex
MartinPowa said:
u have a guarantee? i tried in the store (i have 30days in the store, 1year with motorola) and they said : all its ok.. but the phone still fails .
i have the 2/32gb with telcel/mex
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I think this normally behave this way i tried this in some other moto phones also sometimes it work perfectly but some time it takes 2 or 3 guestures to activate flash i don't think by changing the phone will fix it may be it just behave this way
I'm facing a similar issue..chop for flashlight and twist for camera not working.. Randomly work by themselves...if I manually turn on flash light..it turns OFF with the chop gesture...don't know why it's not working.. Help anybody?? Also proximity sensor has some issues...
Actions sometimes work, other times don't
I have the same problem with Moto Actions on my G5 Plus. They will work for a while after a reboot. Also chop for flashlight will work to turn light off, but not on, when it's acting up. So frustrating! Otherwise a great phone but these little things make me wonder about my purchase.
I spent hours researching on the net and testing why the above problems happened. In the end, the answer was simple: some features don't work when there is a cover on the phone. With the phone cover removed, I can shake the light on and off and turn the camera on - which I can't do when the phone has its case cover over the screen. I think that this is because IR sensors are needed, not just gravitation sensors.
Scarecrow is right: one can turn on the light manually and then switch it off by karate chopping (even with the screen covered), but the inverse (chop to turn on light) only works with the screen uncovered. That is strange, but at least the chop and twist functions do work with the screen uncovered.
It is a little sad, as I love my phone case; it protects both front and back. But I now know to remove the front cover if I want to use the chop or twist function.
I actually have a Moto G4, which I love. But I think that what I have written should hold true for the G5, too. Good luck!
LPCF said:
I spent hours researching on the net and testing why the above problems happened. In the end, the answer was simple: some features don't work when there is a cover on the phone. With the phone cover removed, I can shake the light on and off and turn the camera on - which I can't do when the phone has its case cover over the screen. I think that this is because IR sensors are needed, not just gravitation sensors.
Scarecrow is right: one can turn on the light manually and then switch it off by karate chopping (even with the screen covered), but the inverse (chop to turn on light) only works with the screen uncovered. That is strange, but at least the chop and twist functions do work with the screen uncovered.
It is a little sad, as I love my phone case; it protects both front and back. But I now know to remove the front cover if I want to use the chop or twist function.
I actually have a Moto G4, which I love. But I think that what I have written should hold true for the G5, too. Good luck!
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Yes, the front needs to be uncovered. With the proximity sensor covered, the motion features and Moto display are disabled. This prevents activation while the phone is in your pocket.
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