I don't feel this new S4 is as accurate as my previous Droid Charge was. Any idea why that'd be?
I too say the S4 is not very good at it. I use it on my S3 all the time while driving and it get's it right but the s4 just sit's there with the mic blinking and then says retry it's not good at all only in a perfectly quite environment does it work if you have any noise in the background it will not pick up what your saying Sammy or Google need to fix this!!!!
does this top need to soak for a week
Done first try
I used it all the time while driving with my Droid Charge, but it's useless now. And I drive a damn Cadillac that is very quiet, and even when turning the fans/radio completely off, it still doesn't work well.
It does work well (most of the time) in a completely silent room, but that's hardly a common scenario when I need to use it.
And that "does this top need to soak for a week?" just worked perfectly when I tried it. But I couldn't get it to work in over ten attempts before. And I bet it magically won't work an hour from now. The inconsistency is painful.
I'm still adamant that something is wrong here. There is no way this Samsung Galaxy S4 should be blatantly inferior to my 2+ old Samsung Droid Charge.
Same problems here. Works pretty good in a quiet room but any noise at all throws it off big time. I've found that if I put my finger over the noise cancelling mic while I speak it works much better. I really don't want to turn noise cancelling off since I'm really impressed with the sounds quality with it on.
The voice dictation with my Galaxy Nexus was much much better than with this phone. That is pretty much the only thing I miss from it (well, that and the notification bar/pull down).
I'm right there with ya. So what hole are you putting your finger over, and where exactly are you talking into the phone?
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