lv2bsilly
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Things you've discovered on Note 8?
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Thank you, last night I must have been fumble fingered, today I worked
ETA great channel, thank you for that also!
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DLCPhototography
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My 2016 Hyundai Sonata has Android Auto, which can be very useful when traveling. I recently purchased a Note 8, and Android Auto works just fine with it. But sometimes I don't need/want to plug my phone into the USB port for the full Android Auto experience, and explored other options.
On my phone, I have Bixby completely disabled, with Google Assistant as the primary app for this function. I also have enabled Voice Unlock, training it to use my saying "OK Google."
What I have found is that even if I have the phone in my pocket, I can switch to the Media/Bluetooth input on my car, and can then interact with Google Assistant using the car's microphone and speaker. I can say "OK Google" to wake it up, and I can then have available a wide variety of commands. Moreso, in fact, than when using Android Auto.
I've found that I can send a text quite easily. I can also ask it to read back the most recent text from a specific individual. It does this, and gives me the opportunity to reply as well. I can initiate navigation, and I can hear the turn-by-turn directions through the car's speakers.
I can ask for any type of information, weather, find the nearest Walmart, etc.
I can put my phone in the CD mounted holder I have, to be able to see the screen as well (for example, for navigation), but I really like being able to do a variety of things with my phone in my pocket. I haven't yet tried it, but I assume I can place a phone call; I can do this with the car's built-in system, but I have found that to be extremely sluggish, and not very smart.
Anyway, I don't know if this will work with all cars with bluetooth, but I was pretty pumped to discover how this works in mine.
I do need to keep the car on the media/bluetooth input, since the phone's audio doesn't over-ride this if listening to Sirius radio, for example. But then I can always listen to some podcasts on my phone, and keep it on that input.
On my phone, I have Bixby completely disabled, with Google Assistant as the primary app for this function. I also have enabled Voice Unlock, training it to use my saying "OK Google."
What I have found is that even if I have the phone in my pocket, I can switch to the Media/Bluetooth input on my car, and can then interact with Google Assistant using the car's microphone and speaker. I can say "OK Google" to wake it up, and I can then have available a wide variety of commands. Moreso, in fact, than when using Android Auto.
I've found that I can send a text quite easily. I can also ask it to read back the most recent text from a specific individual. It does this, and gives me the opportunity to reply as well. I can initiate navigation, and I can hear the turn-by-turn directions through the car's speakers.
I can ask for any type of information, weather, find the nearest Walmart, etc.
I can put my phone in the CD mounted holder I have, to be able to see the screen as well (for example, for navigation), but I really like being able to do a variety of things with my phone in my pocket. I haven't yet tried it, but I assume I can place a phone call; I can do this with the car's built-in system, but I have found that to be extremely sluggish, and not very smart.
Anyway, I don't know if this will work with all cars with bluetooth, but I was pretty pumped to discover how this works in mine.
I do need to keep the car on the media/bluetooth input, since the phone's audio doesn't over-ride this if listening to Sirius radio, for example. But then I can always listen to some podcasts on my phone, and keep it on that input.
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Sometime this year Verizon enabled the FM chip in my S6 Edge. Never got a chance to mess with Next radio app yet. Will mess around with it later today.
toenail_flicker
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one of the Easter Eggs they left for us perhaps, or maybe just a programming glitch?
eta - I can't even press mine to get a place to enter anything
It also happens on my S8+ running 7.0. You have to tap it a few times until the screen changes.
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toenail_flicker
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ah. okay. pressing per the instructions on "software version". no wonder it didn't work.
tried your "android version" and still nothing. tried 4 taps and then all the way to 11 again and nothing. Sprint here.
j_hansen
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Maybe it's removed by Sprint, do you have developer options enabled ?
It's only an N on the screen, doesn't do anything
toenail_flicker
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yeah. I get that. was just curious. yes, dev opts enabled. guess it just doesn't work for me.
7h3d34f0n3
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Here you go. I have had the cat pop up but had no clue what to do after that.
How to access Android N 'Nougat' easter egg - Pocket-lint
How to access Android N 'Nougat' easter egg - Pocket-lint
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Some Note 5s have had the FM radio activated. My S7 Edge also has it as well as my S8+ and Note 8.
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all of a sudden, after two plus weeks and many texts without the proper response, my edge lighting worked perfectly today! nice. only one person on earth I want to be notified that way and it finally worked. 
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all of a sudden, after two plus weeks and many texts without the proper response, my edge lighting worked perfectly today! nice. only one person on earth I want to be notified that way and it finally worked.
Do you mean you chose 1 specific contact to have the edge lighting work? If so how? I'd love to be able to have it light up for just my favorite contacts for example vs. every text I receive
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