sudden notifications

[tracivaughn]

Please help! I havent made any changes to my knowledge,but my S III started giving me verbal notifications for email, voicemail, text, etc. It started in the middle of the night so its been very disturbing. Ive tried all the regular fixes and cnt figure out whats wrong or changed.

 

[3neekimmy]

do you have lightflow installed? or any other app that asked for permission from your accessibility menu?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

You've somehow activated Talkback. If you have Lighflow installed and are using the stock Touchwiz Launcher, that's likely the reason. LF and TW don't get along. To start, uninstall Lightflow, but that might not eliminate the problem.

Talkback is hard to turn off, because it affects how the system responds to touches. A single tap just reads what it is you're tapping on. To actually tap a button, you need to wait until the phone shuts up, then single tap it to set the focus, and then double tap the button or item you want to tap. In order to scroll a screen, you need to use two fingers. So, using double taps and two finger scrolls, and lots of patience, navigate to Settings / Accessibility and turn Talkback off.

If Lightflow was the trigger, and you want to keep using it, try using an alternate launcher. I like Nova better than TW in most respects anyway.

Edit: corrected the post above (with the text in red) to correct an omission.

 

[gnr_2]

If Lightflow was the trigger, and you want to keep using it, try using an alternate launcher. I like Nova better than TW in most respects anyway.

1) you can find info about it on the Lightflow page in Google Play 2) is this Talkback thing just for TouchWiz?


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[meyerweb#CB]

No, if you turn talkback on it takes affect with any launcher. Well, I don't know that for sure, but I know that Talkback works even with Nova launcher.

 

[GSDer]

If you enable "Driving mode" from the Notification bar, won't that cause similar behavior? It's pretty easy to accidentally turn that on.

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