Originally got this phone to replace an overworked Motorola Moto X pure addition.
While the phone is sleek, and speedy, with a beautiful display, and a very high quality ceramic back, it has utterly failed in the one area I needed most, which is to be able to activate it hands-free while I drive. The command "okay Google" will not wake the phone up if it it is on the lock screen, and when I do unlock the phone manually with both fingerprint and pin code, even then the "okay Google"will not take a photo when I tell it to. It will open the camera app, but once again, I have to finish it manually.
The inability to activate it when the screen is locked using a voice command, also means I can't check my messages, make phone calls, or do anything hands-free.
Lastly, there are no options to customize the wake up phrase, a function found on many phones as old as five years.
It's like they took a step forward and three steps back with this model, and as I type this I want to smash it on the table top with a hammer.
I am told that there may be some way to fix this with a custom ROM, after I flash TWRP and some Kernel, a process I haven't done in over five years, and I'm willing to try it. But basically for anyone to call this phone a "daily driver" is ridiculous, since the Google apps integration simply does not let you operate this phone hands-free.
I have been on every forum, and in every room, and on four separate sites looking for a solution. If anybody has any real suggestions other than sending this phone back and getting another one, please let me know.
Thanks.
While the phone is sleek, and speedy, with a beautiful display, and a very high quality ceramic back, it has utterly failed in the one area I needed most, which is to be able to activate it hands-free while I drive. The command "okay Google" will not wake the phone up if it it is on the lock screen, and when I do unlock the phone manually with both fingerprint and pin code, even then the "okay Google"will not take a photo when I tell it to. It will open the camera app, but once again, I have to finish it manually.
The inability to activate it when the screen is locked using a voice command, also means I can't check my messages, make phone calls, or do anything hands-free.
Lastly, there are no options to customize the wake up phrase, a function found on many phones as old as five years.
It's like they took a step forward and three steps back with this model, and as I type this I want to smash it on the table top with a hammer.
I am told that there may be some way to fix this with a custom ROM, after I flash TWRP and some Kernel, a process I haven't done in over five years, and I'm willing to try it. But basically for anyone to call this phone a "daily driver" is ridiculous, since the Google apps integration simply does not let you operate this phone hands-free.
I have been on every forum, and in every room, and on four separate sites looking for a solution. If anybody has any real suggestions other than sending this phone back and getting another one, please let me know.
Thanks.
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