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gblades Occasional Visitor
Joined: 25/05/2003 13:28:04 Posts: 52 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject: Car Mode |
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The app has an option where it should start automatically when you put the phone into car mode (which is separate to car dock). What is this?
I have the Galaxy S3 which has 'Driving Mode' but I guess this is something different as when I turn it on the camera alert software does not start. |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 870 Location: Southport
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:05 am Post subject: Re: Car Mode |
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gblades wrote: | The app has an option where it should start automatically when you put the phone into car mode (which is separate to car dock). What is this?
I have the Galaxy S3 which has 'Driving Mode' but I guess this is something different as when I turn it on the camera alert software does not start. |
As far as I'm aware, car mode on the SGS3 is supposed to read out emails & texts, but from what I can see it's very hit & miss, mine tells me an email had arrived but nothing else |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 870 Location: Southport
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:11 am Post subject: Re: Car Mode |
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gblades wrote: | The app has an option where it should start automatically when you put the phone into car mode (which is separate to car dock). What is this?
I have the Galaxy S3 which has 'Driving Mode' but I guess this is something different as when I turn it on the camera alert software does not start. |
As far as I'm aware, car mode on the SGS3 is supposed to read out emails & texts, but from what I can see it's very hit & miss, mine tells me an email had arrived but nothing else |
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gblades Occasional Visitor
Joined: 25/05/2003 13:28:04 Posts: 52 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:04 am Post subject: |
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The app is set to start automatically when car mode is turned on. However when I turn on driving mode nothing happens. I dont know if its a bug in the app or if driving mode and car mode are different things. |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:27 am Post subject: |
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they are different things. "Car mode" is a UI mode that only shows six icons per page, and severely limits the applications that you can assign to these icons. On most devices car mode also shows a monochrome UI (well , grayscale).
"Drive mode" (or navigation) can be initiated from within "Car mode".
Now "Car Dock" is something else entirely. It's the physical process of connecting the phone through the pogo stick gold contacts. You CAN configure your phone to place it in "Car Mode" when it detects "Car Dock" but that's not mandatory. _________________ Lutz
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