@fastfinge in reading this entry, yes you can turn off things like raise to wake, and touch to wake. I have mine set that way as I absolutely hate my phone waking up that easy. as far as the notifications. that is the one thing I personally think apple got right. there are a couple other things that are the same on android, like answering a call, you can use the two finger double tap to answer, and ending the call as well. the two finger double tap can also pause your music too in most apps if I am not mistaken. if you have questions. you can ask, and as long as I know the answers, I will help you as much as I can.
@JamminJerry My biggest struggle right now is that explore by touch just completely stops working every 30 minutes or so. I have to lock the phone and unlock it again to make it start working. It’s infuriating. I can’t even type when it happens because only flick works. That and talk back is just! So! Slow! 1.5 seconds to scroll a list. Lag when typing. Etc. I thought Google tts was the issue, so I switched to espeak. No change. Voiceover is faster on my iPhone 8. What can I do to make talk back actually responsive? Because this is killing me.
@fastfinge I do get what you mean that voiceover is more responsive. I use the alix voice, and even that 900 meg voice is still more responsive than anything on android. yes eloquence, ESpeak, vocalizer, and things like that are more responsive than the google tts any day, but eloquence you can't even get or put on more modorn phones sadly. but I mean, I could record a demo for you to show you that my stuff isn't even that slow when I do things. that is just crazy!
@fastfinge here is the thing. even though mine is the pro xl, there shouldn't be that much difference. not like what you are explaining. hell! I could even get out my pixel 8, and do the same shit if you wanted, just so you can hear it.
@fastfinge holy wow! I have to do a lot of updating to my pixel 8. lol. I haven't taken it out of my desk in almost a month. smile. not only am I updating the OS to the latest beta, I need to do a lot of app updates as well.
@JamminJerry Yeah so I’m trying csr or whatever it’s called now. With it, explore by touch sometimes freezes for a few seconds but it comes back without me needing to do anything. It’s also significantly faster. So something is obviously wrong with my talk back.
@fastfinge CSR is more responsive than talkback, and it is a whole lot more configurable, especially if you pay for the subscription. that is kind of a pain, but it id doable, and once you do, you get access to more stuff.
@JamminJerry How do you make it use talkback actions? From my first fifteen minutes with it, it looks good. But no actions makes it unusable with gmail.
@fastfinge I am sure it can be used with GMail without the actions. I know people that use that thing over talkback, and in fact use it as there daily driver. now how they do things in it? that part I really don't know.
@JamminJerry Oh, I figured it out. The default settings are just silly. You want global granularity navigation 2 as your gesture style and then you can swipe up to actions, and swipe left/right through the actions.
