[vi-android] Speaker phone on/off help needed.

  • From: "Christopher gilland" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:15:42 -0500

OK, so I did indeed get my Motorola X, as I said I would, and god almighty do I love it! I do need a little help though with something.


I have a pretty bad hearing loss, so therefore, when the phone is even as close as 2 inches from my ear, just barely! enough to activate the screen when in a call, I still have issues hearing Talkback through the private earpiece. This makes turning on and off the speaker phone somewhat hard. I can do it, don't get me wrong, and I do know pretty much where the audio button is in my call screen, but it still is a bit tricky. I'm just curious therefore...

I have heard, though somewhat old, that there are! some apps that'll, definitely! help me with this. I know about upside down. that would be an excellent! sollution if I simply needed to go to speaker phone, then set the hone down on a table, or desk etc. I could just move it from my ear, flip it over, and boom. done! The problem with this however is, I work a lot with phone IVR systems, so this isn't a good option, as I wouldn't have access to the call screen, nor the screen in general.

There was however an app that my friend David Erich from Lubbock TX told me about, which sounds right up my alley. I just don't remember the name of it, and I haven't been able to reach Dave to ask him again what it was called. Hopefully, one of yall will know what he was talking about. He said there was an app which would do the upside down thing, but it also! would do some other cool things I may like such as the ability to shake my phone to answer a call. I know to do that, there is an app called shake to answer, but why do that if this one app would give me my speaker phone ability, as well as that answer option all in one? The thing with the speaker phone though is, I don't wanna have to lay the phone flat screen face down. I'd like something like the IPhone when Voiceover's turned on, where I could simply do nothing more than move the phone away from my ear, and have it then automatically switch the speaker phone on without me having to do anything at all. Using Android KitKat 4.4, is this doable?

Chris.
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