• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Search results

  1. T

    Help Fix: Can't select Google TTS voice by default, only Engine + Lang, so have to set ea. time!!!

    One of the supreme annoyances of Google TTS is that although the voices are fabulous, the way you select them is awful! You can only select the engine and Language by default (i.e., UK ENG) but not the voice (in my case, preferred is "en-gb-x-rjs#male_3-local). So every single time I open my...
  2. T

    Contacts backup that handles # sign?

    Hello! A common problem in the 4 years I've had an Android phone is in order to 'block' certain numbers to keep them private, where I live we have to use "#31#" (without quotes) before the area code and number. This has thrown every contacts backup app off so that I have to go back in and...
  3. T

    Help Rooting Sony Xperia X Performance from safe, no-cost site - possible?

    I've been doing a lot of reading on the internet and keep coming across the https://www.oneclickroot.com site. But they require $89.00 or so for what I want in a root package. I'm concerned about the safety of the procedure and the downloaded files. Is there no safe place that provides a...
  4. T

    Microphone not on keyboard. How to enable?

    I've wasted 2 hours on this so I really hope someone knows how to enable voice input. Though I've had my phone for over 2.5 years now, never used the microphone icon. I'm pretty sure it was on my keyboard at one time. Since I also accidentally _always_ swiped upwards on the keyboard -...
  5. T

    Help Going Google-less?!!

    I've been reading up on going Google-less, which I know may be tricky on an old "GOOGLE" Nexus 4, but I have learned too much over the last 2.5 years since I bought this phone, and esp. in the last 2 months and really want to do this! It was especially brought home today and just now when I...
  6. T

    Do apps save data "locally" all the time? Possible to find even if not logically named?

    Just curious as to something. I had an app the other day that I'd had a data wipe happen somehow (don't know how as I hadn't used it in quite a while, and didn't delete or do anything in any way ... hmmm ). I contacted the dev as I'd purchased the app a little over two years ago - in fact it...
  7. T

    Help Way to search for files on Android (root folder, too) created (modified) within mins/hours?

    Hi, Every search app I've tried at most searches for files created (I also assume modified) today. I haven't been able to find anything that will let me search for something created within the last hour or two or even within however many minutes one designates. When one is searching for...
  8. T

    Help Widget or reminder option for hidden, offline calendar?

    Hi, everyone! Another unusual question, I know - I'm having trouble with finding a solution to an interesting problem. I have several offline calendars; one is solely for general observances/holidays (i.e., Mother's Day, Father's Day, Flag Day, etc., etc.). [I absolutely have to keep these...
  9. T

    Help Anyone know how to tell where a read-only calendar may be coming from?

    I have a holidays calendar that is time-limited (lasts only till end of 2017) and also read-only. I have only a handful of holiday, calendar, and birthday apps and widgets and I've checked several times into them but I can't figure out where this holiday calendar is coming from as I can't see...
  10. T

    App to remind things like Father's Day?

    I have 3 or 4 great birthday reminder apps, some with widgets, that look into the Contacts app and notify you of events. But there are holidays, like Father's Day, that don't make it into these apps as they're not in Contacts. That's because it would mean entering into each Father's a custom...
  11. T

    Help SMS _Conversation_ saver app?

    Hello, I have SMS To Text which allows me to backup any text message thread I want and I've chosen to export to CSV (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smeiti.smstotext&hl=en). I love this app a lot but it doesn't save text conversations, which are messages sent to more than one...
  12. T

    Help App that catches calendar duplicates?

    Hello! Does anyone know, by any chance, of an app that can catch calendar duplicates? The stock calendar on my Nexus 4 is pretty lame but I found 2 apps way-back-when that have made it powerful. Unfortunately, in one of them, the EDIT button on the app is spaced much too close to the...
  13. T

    Help Way to write syntax that will launch into a text?

    I'll try to explain my question as best as I can. I'm lacking vocabulary with reference to the Android system and I'm forgetting what it's called in Windows. So I'll do my best to explain. In various types of situations, exp. apps that richedit support, if memory serves, you can write a line...
  14. T

    Help Media Storage chosen by mistake as default option ... how to delete that?

    Good Morning! When I was changing some default notification sound options, I accidentally hit the ALWAYS button when I chose Media Storage as the way to travel to notification sounds. I need to delete that but don't see a Media Storage option in the APPS section to be able to press a "Delete...
  15. T

    Visual-style calendar app with good permissions?

    Good Morning, everyone! One of the single-biggest frustrations I've had with apps is the permissions. I found the perfect calendar app that seems to show a preview of entries made right on a calendar grid - seemingly exactly what I was looking for - but I can't test or keep it as the...
  16. T

    How can we launch more than 1 app at the same time, pls?

    I don't know if this is a feature than is invoked specific to a phone, like my Nexus 4, or if this would go in a general forum, so just posting here and mod(s) may kindly move to most appropriate spot as has been done in the past (much appreciated!). I have certain tasks that require several...
  17. T

    [Resolved] Anyone know of an app where we can manually track snail mail, etc.?

    Hi, everyone, Searching for a mail logging app has been difficult because all search results returned have been for the wrong type of logging app. All results are for autologging where an app logs a particular function on Android - which is not what I'm looking for. After nearly 2 months...
  18. T

    Help [Solved] How to fix sort order in Nexus 4 stock phone app????

    In M$ Windows in folders and in my BlackBerry in the phone app, when sorting, the folders or names, etc., get sorted alphanumerically, yes, but also numbers go before letters - like this: 0 - 9, A-Z. I've entered every name in the same sub-field under "Last Name" and like I have always done...
  19. T

    VLC album art problem - anyone resolved this one?

    Only one other major thing has turned on my 3-week old phone, LG Nexus 4: I've used VLC player at home for years now but only for video, so didn't know about the odd album art behaviour in VLC till I started using VLC Android. It started because songs I put on the VLC on my Nexus have shown...
  20. T

    How to stop automatic dl and install of upates?

    I got fed up with the notification to install that sat for days in the notification area, so I went ahead and installed a couple of days ago. Okay, the first install went alright, nothing bad happened. Then, a _second_ notification came up a day later when I went on WiFi to install yet _another_...
  21. T

    Anyone know of a calendar app that can have customized sounds?

    I have searched the forum and tested a bunch of calendar widgets from the Play Store on my new Nexus 4 phone. Nothing does what is needed, and that is to give me ability to choose custom sounds for individual calendar events along with 2 other items. The stock alarm clock allows for custom...
  22. T

    Edited personal dict to accepted "i.e.", but still getting autocorrect of "I.e." ... ?

    This is such a pet peeve of mine. I got this in my BB, too. But editing the personal dictionary didn't fix the issue so was wondering if, instead, there was a way to fix the auto-correct, like one would in, say, Micro$oft applications? I'd really like my cell to understand that i.e., and...
Top Bottom
Back