[macvoiceover] Re: Urgent help needed - getting VO to speak when booting from USB flash drive?
- From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Macvoiceover list list <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:34:53 -0400
Hi Russel,
I'm happy that IMAP is working out well for you. Having things saved to the
cloud makes certain tasks so much easier. If not easier then, a little more
worry free. :). I have one more suggestion. With your headphones on, when in
the recovery partition or, booting to a thumb drive /SD card, press VO command
left or right arrow until you get to volume. Now, unplug your headphones, and
press VO command up arrow and see if that raises the volume on your iMacs
speakers. At least, I seem to remember you using an iMac?
Any who, haha, that should raise the volume on your built in speakers.
hth
Ricardo Walker
ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Ricardo! Once again you've solved my problem! When you mentioned
> wearing headphones in your previous email, I thought I'd give it a try with
> headphones! I was pretty skeptical that this would make a difference, so,
> imagine my surprise when I booted to my SD card, pressed command f5 and heard
> the sweet sound of VO!! I am assuming I have some sort of hardware issue
> going on with my iMac. I haven't yet tested it out, but, I'm sure that this
> is the same issue I am having with not having VO come on at the login screen.
> I am going to try it without headphones, and, if I get no speech at login,
> I'll try it with headphones.
>
> And, just one other thing to thank you for Ricardo… the last time I was
> re-installing my OS, you had suggested using IMAP so that I wouldn't have to
> backup email messages. I recently moved to GMail using IMAP, and, it's a
> beautiful thing! After clean installing Mountain Lion this morning, I set up
> my GMail account, and, magically, there were all my messages, nicely sorted
> in the folders I had previously created! Sweet, sweet, sweet!
>
> My iMac is now running like a new machine! It's a happy day! :)
>
> Russell
> On 2013-06-18, at 8:04 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Yes. I was in the ML recovery partition a couple of days ago. VO turned on
>> with command F5, it was just really low. Honestly, if I wasn’t using
>> headphones at the time, I might have not notice Voiceover was on.
>>
>> Ricardo Walker
>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>> www.appletothecore.info
>>
>> On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ricardo,
>>>
>>> I tried the Fn key with command F5, but no go. I now tried turning up the
>>> volume, but that didn't work either. Ricardo, have you had luck with
>>> getting VO to speak when booting from a thumb drive or SD card? The
>>> strange thing is, I can't even get VO to speak when booting to the ML
>>> recovery partition... is VO available at the ML recovery partition, as far
>>> as you know? Wow, one of the things I loved about my Mac over a Windows
>>> machine was the ability to re-install the OS independently, but, it seems
>>> that functionality may not be available anymore!
>>>
>>> Thanks Ricardo!
>>>
>>> Russell
>>> On 2013-06-18, at 5:46 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The volume could be turned down very low as well.
>>>>
>>>> Ricardo Walker
>>>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>>>> www.appletothecore.info
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:28 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey John,
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, yes. I tried Command F5 many, many times! :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for checking though!
>>>>>
>>>>> Russell
>>>>> On 2013-06-17, at 3:55 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I know a simple question, but did you do a command-F5 to start VoiceOver?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Okay, I backed up all my files, and am now ready to do a clean install
>>>>>>> of Mountain Lion. I am using a 16 GB SD card. I downloaded Lion Disk
>>>>>>> Maker, and created a bootable SD card. I then inseted this card into
>>>>>>> my computer with an SD card reader, went to System Preferences and
>>>>>>> chose this SD card as the startup drive, and then restarted the
>>>>>>> computer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My problem is that I am not able to get VO to start off of this SD
>>>>>>> card! I know that I have booted to it because I called a friend on
>>>>>>> FaceTime on my iPhone and had her look at the screen. I have the
>>>>>>> options to install ML, go to Utilities, etc., but I can't get VO to
>>>>>>> come on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone know if using Lion Disk Maker to create a bootable SD card
>>>>>>> actually includes files to allow for VO use? Or, should I create the
>>>>>>> bootable SD card using the Mac's own Disk Utilities?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>>>>
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