That’s right! no joy but I have to say that the phone keeps the curios mind interested <smile>. I wrote about this phone and how I received it earlier this week and I anticipated a wonderful Xperia experience however things haven’t turned out that way thus far and I’m writing this story just to alert others who are thinking of purchasing a Sony Xperia phone so they know what possibly to lookout for. I naturally thought that I could use the standard double-tap gesture on the screen to enable Talback when the phone fired up, I thought I heard the phone say “Hello!” but I can’t be sure of that. Anyway after the double-tap I didn’t get much out of the phone and thought that Talkback hadn’t started, I’ll refer to this again in a few seconds. So I tried holding down the volume down button and power buttons together, the phone restarted but still no joy with the double-tap and hold gesture so I left things along and just waited for a pair of eyeballs to turn up, it seemed to me at this time that it was just a simple matter of running the setup wizard, then going into the Accessibility Settings and launching Google Talkback then all my problems would be over. So Eyeballs turned up and his first annoyance with the phone was that he couldn’t activate the buttons on the screen such as the checkbox that comes up for you to “Agree”, the “Next” button and so on. It didn’t take me long to realise that I had in fact launched Talkback and we were hearing feedback sounds but no voice so - after instructing eyeballs on what to do - double-tap and swipe with 2 fingers - - we managed to get the wizard up, running and completed. So at this point we entered Apps and then Settings looking for Accessibility, Vision and Google Talkback which we found. My hunch was correct, Google Talkback was indeed enabled so we switched Talkback off and then on again, feedback sounds were there but no speech. At this time I didn’t have a activated SIM card installed in the phone and wondered whether this might have something to do with the status quo. Unfortunately I had no Wi-Fi either given my NBN was and still is at the time of writing down. So time to use a fully activated SIM card, reset the Xperia and start all over again which we did however we didn’t attempt to launch Talkback when the Start-Up wizard appeared. So through the installation/setup process we went again, into the settings menu, into Accessibility, Vision and Google Talkback. My hopes were soaring when I told Eyeballs to switch Talkback on but again, no speech, just feedback sounds. I then asked Eyeballs to check the TTS Settings in Language and Input. Google Text To Speech was selected but we couldn’t get a peep out of that when we activated the play sample button, tried to change pitch/speed etc. Oddly it seemed that the phone wasn’t connecting to the Internet via the Cell network which it should have been able to do automatically via the activated SIM card but - as Eyeballs had other appointments - there was little time left to dwell on that. So I guess I’ll have to wait until the NBN is up and running again with Wireless network fully functioning before I can go any further with this, Yep the Android world is certainly a diverse and interesting one <smile>.
********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
