OK, you are right. I guess I hadn't thought through what you were saying. I am one of those who do not jail break devices. I apologize for missing the point. I was thinking the button on the headphones. Later,
Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Mar 12, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Aman Singer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Richard. > That doesn't burst my bubble at all. If it's true, it inflates it :) I > would much rather have something people could use without > jailbreaking, many people don't like to do so. I am, however, not able > to make it work without jailbreaking. That is, hitting the volume up > and volume down together does not start music playing on my brother's > non-jailbroken device without activator. Similarly, hitting volume > down, then up, does not move to the next song, nor does hitting volume > up, then down, move to the previous song. Remember that the point of > my message was simply to enable people to use the play/pause commands > with hardware keys and to point out that those same commands would > work with VoiceDream as well as music. The next/previous/play/pause > commands will certainly work with VoiceDream on a non-jailbroken > device, but I know of no way to make these commands work with the > hardware keys without activator, which is a tweak only available by > jailbreaking. On a device without activator, hitting volume down and > up together results in a click, hitting volume up and then down > quickly just changes the volume, as does hitting volume down then up > quickly. I hope you're right, you understand, I just don't think you > are. > Aman > > > On 3/12/13, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hate to burst your bubble, but that is the default behavior whether you >> have a jail broken device or not. >> >> Richard >> >> >> Richard >> (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) >> >> On Mar 12, 2013, at 11:21 AM, "Aman Singer" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, all. >>> I'm sure everyone knows about this, but it's something I just >>> discovered and I thought it would do no harm to put it out there in case >>> someone has, like me, not yet found out about it. If one has jailbroken >>> his >>> device, and has VoiceDream Reader, one can use Activator to enable >>> playing, >>> pausing, and moving between books as if they were songs using hardware >>> buttons on the device. For example, one can cause the pressing of the two >>> volume buttons together, wherever they are pressed and whether the device >>> is >>> locked or unlocked, to play/pause the reading of a book. Again, for >>> example, >>> the pressing of the volume down followed by volume up can move to the >>> next >>> book, while the pressing of volume up followed by volume down can move to >>> the previous book. To set this up, simply install Activator, which is >>> available from the standard Cydia repositories, go into the program, and >>> set >>> up your favourite hardware keys as shortcuts for the previous track, next >>> track, and play/pause functions. The nice thing about this, besides the >>> fact >>> that you can use it while the device is locked, is that what these >>> functions >>> do is dependent upon the last item you played. That is, if you last played >>> a >>> book with VoiceDream, your previous/next/PlayPause will act to go to the >>> previous book, next book, and will play/pause books, not music. If, on >>> the >>> other hand, you played a file from the music player last, those functions >>> will apply to the music, not to the book. Note also that you can, in >>> VoiceDream settings, modify things so that the previous/next track >>> buttons >>> move by 30 seconds within a book, rather than going to the previous or >>> next >>> book in the list. >>> If anyone is unfamiliar with Activator, this podcast >>> http://empoweringtheblind.com/2013/02/12/new-episode-activator-can-your-smar >>> tphone-really-be-smartt/ >>> explains it. The VoiceDream site is >>> http://www.voicedream.com/ >>> Aman >>> >>> -- >>> 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/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> 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/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. >> 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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