The Mrs. & I went to the Chahinkapa Zoo in Wahpeton, ND yesterday in celebration of our 19th wedding anniversary…This guy kept chiming in, and your video made me think of him!!
By the way, I blame @lichme for on-going Android Pie annoyances.
-Default volume rocker behavior. Since this controls media by default (even when media not playing) I cannot change the ringer volume nor put the phone into vibrate mode without looking at and touching the screen. I like a different ring volume when in the car vs while in bed. I like to be on vibrate at work. This means, I like to adjust the volume without looking at my phone when driving, while in bed, or while in meetings. now, I have to press the volume rocker, then either tap the vibrate icon, or tap the settings gear and then slide the ringer volume. More annoying is that it will play the ringer sound while moving the slider. (to preview the volume level) I don’t want this to make a noise while I’m changing the volume in bed or other places where I’d like to be quiet. The ONLY time the default media volume control would be helpful to me is if I’m about to play an adult video and I want to turn the volume way down before the video starts.
-It makes a sound when I plug it in to charge. I guess this may be helpful to some, but I find it annoying. I have not looked to see if I can disable this.
-Adaptive brightness isn’t helpful. It’s supposed to learn my usage and automatically adjust based on time, location, and lighting conditions, but it’s not working very well. I’m giving it a chance, but I find myself manually adjusting the screen brightness more often now than I was before. I may have to turn this off.
-It keeps asking “you usually dismiss these notifications. do you want to keep seeing them?” Yes. I do want to see them. Just because I don’t tap on them does not mean it didn’t convey helpful info.
It makes a sound when I plug it in to charge. I guess this may be helpful to some, but I find it annoying. I have not looked to see if I can disable this.
Odd, mine doesn’t do that. See edit.
Adaptive brightness isn’t helpful. It’s supposed to learn my usage and automatically adjust based on time, location, and lighting conditions, but it’s not working very well. I’m giving it a chance, but I find myself manually adjusting the screen brightness more often now than I was before. I may have to turn this off.
The Android team messed around with the algorithms associated with screen brightness. While on Oreo I was able to tolerate 10%, on Pie I have to use it higher.
It’s currently set to 45%, with adaptive brightness off.
It keeps asking “you usually dismiss these notifications. do you want to keep seeing them?” Yes. I do want to see them. Just because I don’t tap on them does not mean it didn’t convey helpful info.
This is something which has bugged me throughout the developer previews, and which is still a bit annoying for me.
I had turned ‘charging sound’ on before, but it wasn’t making any sound. I played with a couple of settings, and now it works.
To turn off sound when recharging: Under “Sounds”, look for “Charging sound”.
@medz@PlacidPenguin I’m still on Oreo but my phone asked me after the latest Samsung update if I wanted the volume to control media by default. I have a toggle switch at the bottom of the volume drop-down that switches default between media or ringer. Same toggle is in the sounds and vibration settings panel.
Also my S7 has always made a sound when I plug it in. It’s useful for two things: knowing if I put it on the charging pad correctly and telling me when my car charger has worked loose from the lighter outlet (it will make the charging sound every time I hit a bump).
I can see where those things would be annoying if you didn’t want them to be that way.
I was hoping that Android knew when I dismissed notifications so it would eventually stop telling me “new story about Donald Trump” every day. I haven’t bothered turning off those alerts because about once a month they tell me something interesting.
I was hoping that Android knew when I dismissed notifications so it would eventually stop telling me “new story about Donald Trump” every day. I haven’t bothered turning off those alerts because about once a month they tell me something interesting.
What are you using for the alerts? The Google Now feed allows one to hide stories based on topic or news source, and it usually works fine.
@PlacidPenguin it’s Google Now. I’ve never messed with it, but one day I read some Trump stories and it decided I wanted to know about all of them. It has done that with Tesla, Bitcoin, AMD, and a few other things. It has petered off, thankfully. I guess I should go look at the settings someday.
I guess it’s not astute enough to realize that I read about lots of things once or twice but don’t continue to give a shit about them. If it ever pops up and says “new dissatisfied customer in the wrong on Meh forums” then I will learn to fear its machine learning algorithms.
But to remove certain topics, you can tap the 3 dot button on the top right corner, and choose to hide that particular story, or (attempt to) prevent that topic/news source from showing up.
I just started playing with an app called “Tasker” that has a bunch of stuff you can automate. Kind of like an IFTTT for android actions. I keep not getting calls, then my voicemail goes off.
I set a trigger to check for a new voicemail. If I get one, it automatically turns up my volume, and plays an annoying ringtone every minute until I dismiss it. I’m sure there are 100’s of other use cases, yours might be one.
GOATS!!!
I go mooooooooo
… oh, wrong song
@nolrak
I’ve read this book many times. Maybe it would do you some good.
The Mrs. & I went to the Chahinkapa Zoo in Wahpeton, ND yesterday in celebration of our 19th wedding anniversary…This guy kept chiming in, and your video made me think of him!!
@ 1:06 is a sheep
edit: also 0:43
@medz It’s 2018. They can identify as goats if they want.
By the way, I blame @lichme for on-going Android Pie annoyances.
-Default volume rocker behavior. Since this controls media by default (even when media not playing) I cannot change the ringer volume nor put the phone into vibrate mode without looking at and touching the screen. I like a different ring volume when in the car vs while in bed. I like to be on vibrate at work. This means, I like to adjust the volume without looking at my phone when driving, while in bed, or while in meetings. now, I have to press the volume rocker, then either tap the vibrate icon, or tap the settings gear and then slide the ringer volume. More annoying is that it will play the ringer sound while moving the slider. (to preview the volume level) I don’t want this to make a noise while I’m changing the volume in bed or other places where I’d like to be quiet. The ONLY time the default media volume control would be helpful to me is if I’m about to play an adult video and I want to turn the volume way down before the video starts.
-It makes a sound when I plug it in to charge. I guess this may be helpful to some, but I find it annoying. I have not looked to see if I can disable this.
-Adaptive brightness isn’t helpful. It’s supposed to learn my usage and automatically adjust based on time, location, and lighting conditions, but it’s not working very well. I’m giving it a chance, but I find myself manually adjusting the screen brightness more often now than I was before. I may have to turn this off.
-It keeps asking “you usually dismiss these notifications. do you want to keep seeing them?” Yes. I do want to see them. Just because I don’t tap on them does not mean it didn’t convey helpful info.
@medz
Odd, mine doesn’t do that.See edit.The Android team messed around with the algorithms associated with screen brightness. While on Oreo I was able to tolerate 10%, on Pie I have to use it higher.
It’s currently set to 45%, with adaptive brightness off.
This is something which has bugged me throughout the developer previews, and which is still a bit annoying for me.
I had turned ‘charging sound’ on before, but it wasn’t making any sound. I played with a couple of settings, and now it works.
To turn off sound when recharging: Under “Sounds”, look for “Charging sound”.
(Or just go to settings and do a search for it.)
@medz @PlacidPenguin I’m still on Oreo but my phone asked me after the latest Samsung update if I wanted the volume to control media by default. I have a toggle switch at the bottom of the volume drop-down that switches default between media or ringer. Same toggle is in the sounds and vibration settings panel.
Also my S7 has always made a sound when I plug it in. It’s useful for two things: knowing if I put it on the charging pad correctly and telling me when my car charger has worked loose from the lighter outlet (it will make the charging sound every time I hit a bump).
I can see where those things would be annoying if you didn’t want them to be that way.
I was hoping that Android knew when I dismissed notifications so it would eventually stop telling me “new story about Donald Trump” every day. I haven’t bothered turning off those alerts because about once a month they tell me something interesting.
@djslack
What are you using for the alerts? The Google Now feed allows one to hide stories based on topic or news source, and it usually works fine.
@PlacidPenguin it’s Google Now. I’ve never messed with it, but one day I read some Trump stories and it decided I wanted to know about all of them. It has done that with Tesla, Bitcoin, AMD, and a few other things. It has petered off, thankfully. I guess I should go look at the settings someday.
I guess it’s not astute enough to realize that I read about lots of things once or twice but don’t continue to give a shit about them. If it ever pops up and says “new dissatisfied customer in the wrong on Meh forums” then I will learn to fear its machine learning algorithms.
@djslack
I’ve had some Meh threads pop up there.
But to remove certain topics, you can tap the 3 dot button on the top right corner, and choose to hide that particular story, or (attempt to) prevent that topic/news source from showing up.
@medz
This app allows the user to set volume profiles for home, work, car, whatever.
You can set profiles that individually control ringer, call, media, notification sound and volume, etc.
Free (blue icon) and paid (green icon) versions.
Had success with this in the past
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soundactivated
@f00l @medz
I just started playing with an app called “Tasker” that has a bunch of stuff you can automate. Kind of like an IFTTT for android actions. I keep not getting calls, then my voicemail goes off.
I set a trigger to check for a new voicemail. If I get one, it automatically turns up my volume, and plays an annoying ringtone every minute until I dismiss it. I’m sure there are 100’s of other use cases, yours might be one.
Like the above, there is a free and paid version.
@lichme @medz
Played with Tasker for a while, especially back when I was designing a particular watch face for my watch using WatchMaker.
The watch face needed several behind the scenes apps to pull certain info from Meh, update it on my phone, then send it to my watch.
Ultimately, I decided that it wasn’t worth it.
I reverted back to just using IFTTT to send daily notifications from Meh to my watch.