Hello Sieghard, I strongly disagree with you about having VoiceOver be automatically silenced during a call. If you want VO silent, double tap the screen with three fingers.
I want to hear those announcements, like I always have, during phone calls. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 29/03/2013, at 4:01, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Raul, > > I am one of these people who has a 4S which keeps announcing the call > duration all the time. I will try this recommendation to take the phone away > from my ear and to touch the end button, but what seems to happen with my 4S > is that even if I move focus away from the call duration, after a while > Voiceover says "Screen Locked" and then within 30 or so seconds after that > Voiceover continues to read out the call duration every 20 seconds. There is > of course also the issue everybody has that Voiceover will read out incoming > push notifications, text messages or anything else you have set to read in > the lock screen and I just feel Apple should make Voiceover shut up > altogether when a call is in progress. After all, if I hear something has > happened, e.g. a text message or email came in or a push notification, I can > always take the phone while I am on the call and manually review it if I > feel I need to know immediately. > > I am also getting a replacement 4S in a couple of days and it will be > interesting to know if I am going to have the same problem and whether I am > going to be once again able to balance Voiceover volume and call volume so I > can use the keypad properly when a call is on speakerphone. Right now I am > simply not able to make Voiceover loud enough to hear it reliably in this > situation even if I turn Voiceover up all the way to 100% by using volume on > the rotor and as soon as I try to turn down the call volume with the volume > buttons Voiceover also goes down. > > I am getting a replacement phone because in the last few weeks I was > suddenly unable to scan a single barcode with Digit Eyes. I finally asked > one of my employees to try it and he said the image on the screen was all > blurry and the camera didn't focus. He tried to just use the stock camera > app and especially when I tried to take a picture of something close up > Voiceover would say Auto Focus as it does, but visually the camera wouldn't > focus. I did a full factory reset setting the phone up as a new device and > even with nothing else installed the problem persisted, I called Apple and > since I fortunately decided to buy Apple Care and my phone still has > warranty until November they immediately said they would send out a > replacement. I am supposed to get it by Monday. It's the usual good Apple > service and it's nice to get a new phone after almost a year and a half, > yes, I know it maybe a refurbished phone, but I was actually told that it > "could" be a refurbished phone but is not necessarily one and even if it is, > I was assured that it would, for example, have a brandnew battery which is > of considerable value. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > > I called Applewith the voluduring a c > > shortly after that thtouch > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Raul A. Gallegos > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone > > Hi, this is a great suggestion and it works for me and the people I've > mentioned it to. However some are still reporting that even that fails > to silence VO while they are on a call. I don't get it. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > No one sits in my spot. - Sheldon Cooper > Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 > > On 3/27/2013 8:05 PM, DJ wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I've discovered that if while on a call, I can stop VO from announcing >> information such as the elapsed time of the call by taking the phone away >> from my ear and tapping one time toward the bottom of the screen on the > End >> button. After that there is no interruption. Give that a try. >> >> DJ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Sieghard Weitzel >> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone >> >> Hi Susan, >> >> Yes, my 4S also reads out the call duration every 20 seconds or so. It >> doesn't matter if I move focus away from this, eventually the screen > locks, >> then if I continue to talk after about 20 or 30 seconds it resumes reading >> the time. I can only hope Apple will implement better handling of this in >> iOS 7, as far as I am concerned Voiceover should not say a thing by itself >> if I am on a call. I know a bunch of people said to just use a 3-finger >> double tap to mute speech altogether, but while this may be a work-around, >> it does not address the issue. In any case, if I am out and about and have >> my iPhone in it's belt case under a jacket or an inside pocket, I > basically >> have to stop, tell my dog to wait, then dig out the phone and do all this. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Susan >> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:52 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone >> >> I've had similar issues. Good luck. I also have an issue with mine > calling >> out the elapsed time on the calls. This is so very annoying. >> Does yours do that? >> >> On 3/19/13, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If your case does not cover the display, it is not a case issue for you. >>> >>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 20/03/2013, at 7:32, "Christina C." <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Where is this sensor located? Thanks for all the advice. I think it >>>> may >> be >>>> a hardware problem :(. I will try taking the case off first. I do >>>> have a case on there but it is a minimal case. It's a very simple >>>> one. I mainly have it on there for the antenna gate issue. :) >>>> >>>> Christina C. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. > 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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