Purchased HTC Droid Incredible and cannot use voice dialing

[Roballen08]

I have a Bluetooth device Jabra BT8010 which I have used on many phone (HTC Pro II).  I cannot make the Incredible accept voice dialing from my headset.  Is there a headset that works,  I cannot believe that this does not work.  Hands Free has been around for a long time.  Most states are making laws that you must have hands free phones while driving.  Please tell me that a patch is coming.  This will complete the name incredible for the HTC Droid!  

[NavyStingerDoc]

I am experiencing the same problem with the Jabra BT2070. It worked fine on my BB Storm, but voice dialing is not working on the Droid Incredible, although they paired without any problem. I called Jabra support and they pointed to VZ.

[AZSALUKI]

i  hate to break it to you...but no....there's no "complete hands free voice dialing." search this or other forums, or google it. many threads out their with work arounds (sort of), but they all involve actually touching the phone at least once. it is a fix coming with android 2.2 (froyo)....but for now, i've only seen a few cars that had built in bluetooth that it actually works on. it's an android issue.

[M91-30]

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Roballen08 wrote:

I have a Bluetooth device Jabra BT8010 which I have used on many phone (HTC Pro II).  I cannot make the Incredible accept voice dialing from my headset.  Is there a headset that works,  I cannot believe that this does not work.  Hands Free has been around for a long time.  Most states are making laws that you must have hands free phones while driving.  Please tell me that a patch is coming.  This will complete the name incredible for the HTC Droid!  

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welcome to android, and the one thing stopping me from getting one. this is a lack of the feature problem, not a problem with your phone.

[tom29909]

Had the same problem.  The Android 2.1OS does not support Bluetooth Voice Activation and won't until they publish the next operating system update.  After spending two very frustrating days trying to make it work, was able to get in contact with an HTC technical resource.    A convenient little fact that neither HTC nor Verizon bother to publish in their marketing literature...gee I wonder why?  Love the Incredible and its functionality but very disappointed that I'm having to wait around for them to get the Android OS up to speed with Bluetooth capability that has been around for a while.  Talk about a development miss.  If your in a state that requires hands free...you have a real problem!   

[M91-30]

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tom29909 wrote:

Had the same problem.  The Android 2.1OS does not support Bluetooth Voice Activation and won't until they publish the next operating system update.  After spending two very frustrating days trying to make it work, was able to get in contact with an HTC technical resource.    A convenient little fact that neither HTC nor Verizon bother to publish in their marketing literature...gee I wonder why?  Love the Incredible and its functionality but very disappointed that I'm having to wait around for them to get the Android OS up to speed with Bluetooth capability that has been around for a while.  Talk about a development miss.  If your in a state that requires hands free...you have a real problem!   

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and I doubt "but officer, my flashy smart phone doesn't support it" will be an acceptable excuse.

[MrHost]

From what I can find the only requirement for handsfree is so you don't hold the phone to your ear while driving.  If for legal reason you want to drive handsfree legally, your best option would be to use a wired headeset with mic.  I believe android will work fine with the wired option, but I haven't tried that myself as of yet.  The software just doesn't support bluetooth so I don't see why the wired option wouldn't work.  Has anyone tried a wired solution?

I looked briefly at http://www.handsfreecellphonelaw.com/ about hands free kaw, but I didn't get into the state by state on handsfree law and what they cover specifically, but the larger reason is for the holding of the phone to the ear while driving. 

Blue tooth isn't a requirement.  Making the call it self isn't even illegal using the phone, it is talking while driving. 

[M91-30]

actually, holding and operating the phone with your hands is the problem. texting, dialing, ect. is the distracting part.

[dabubbakin]

Most phone laws say "while the car is moving" so if you wait for a stop, or red light you're good. That's NY law anyways, but I assume most states have it written the same way. Most people don't know that little catch.

[cleveland]

I can't get voice dialing to work on my Incredible even without a bluetooth headset. Any ideas?

[fezzik]

I think the idea is they are making voice confirmation part of the voice dial menu.  I noticed that depending on what I have running and stuff I can use my headset to initiate the voice dialing.  There are no voice prompts and it doesn't do a great job with understanding what you said (think about how wonderful Google Voice is at transcribing voicemails it uses the same software) so you basically just have to assume it did it and tell it to call but then it doesn't understand so it pops up a little menu with different selections for what you meant.  So yeah it is by no means a handsfree device currently.  Supposedly in Froyo voice prompts and confirmations have been built into that system so that it will be a little better.  Possibly even work well with Blue tooth and corded headsets as well.

I don't think I would expect it to be just outstanding until Spring of next year when 3.0 is coming out.  I am assuming that will be Horchatta just because that is what I would want it to be.  Gingerbread (an assumption as far as I know at this point) is probably going to be 2.6 or 2.5 something like that.  I would think expect that late fall to early winter with most of us getting it Early next year.  Hopefully as they separate various things out from the core updates will take a little less time to roll out.  That is the plan from what I have heard but who knows.  My guess is November or so we will see phones on the Cortex A9 processing Core probably an early iteration of it coming out most likely with a single core, and also possibly a Moorestown Intel Atom based phone or two.  These will more than likely require a new version of Android if for no other reason but to build in support for the new processors.  Likely the reason for 2.0 on the Droid being the first Cortex A8 processor on Android.  Something similar will probably happen for whatever those are which will be like 2.0 kind of a minor half update that required several intermediary updates and at least one major update to be the full 2.1 it was intended to be.  2.0 was rushed out probably just to support the new hardware profiles, then 2.1 came out to finish the job.  If we are lucky 2.2 will include support for these two new processor platforms and we won't even have to wait until December for those phones.  Though I wouldn't expect a whole lot more in the way of major Android phone releases on Verizon besides what is already announced until the big Autumn push to Christmas. 

[freedomsearcher]

I know in Washington it is not illegal to have you're hands on tyne phone as long as you are dialling number

[MrHost]

All the laws I have found so far in regards to hands free only talk about while talking/hearing and texting.  It doesn't talk about handsfree dialing. 

My 2.1 leaked v3 I have on my droid eris has two apps. Voice dialing and voice search. Vocie dialing does not work on my phone at all since I did the update, but this could be because it is a leaked version.  Voice search does a pretty decent job, pending on what you have it search for.  You can change the settings with in the menu-settings-search-search items section.

I think it works nicely but it doesn't support bluetooth and you still have to click on screen to confirm.  There is no stock android app that supports bluetooth voice dialing.  There are work arounds and the moto devour I think has support for bluetooth voice dialing using a non standard application(It doesn't even provide it on their newer phones as far as I have heard).  I don't even understand why the app isn't available seperately on the market as of yet. Terrible.

[PJNC284]

The Devour has it because Motorola added a software package called Nuance to its Blur devices.  The upcoming Droid X will also have native support for bluetooth voice dialing.  Froyo is expected to bring bluetooth dialing support to the Droid in July but no ETA on when HTC will bring it to the Incredible.

[dabubbakin]

I have a feeling Froyo will be available not too far behind the evo. I think Verizon and the Evo carrier push HTC behind the scenes.