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tenorsdave
Posts: 2
Phone Model:
Motorola V180
Service Provider:
Cingular |
 
Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:20 pm |
I believe I have figured out the v180 voice dialing feature. First of all, you must save the names you want to be able to voice dial to the phone instead of the SIM card. Doing so will allow you to record a voice name for each contact. Then, to dial them using voice, you have to navigate to your voice dialing feature which is buried deep within the menus on the phone. I just set it up so my right home key will do voice dialing (soft keys work too). The little voice screen will pop up prompting you to say the name of the person you wish to dial, then it will highlight this name in the address book before actually dialing. You just have to wait a couple seconds and it does the rest. Hope this helps! 
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tenorsdave
Posts: 2
Phone Model:
Motorola V180
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:23 pm |
Disregard my last. Didn't see the 3 other pages where people already had this figured out... And here I thought I was some kind of smarty pants. 
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jcfraser
Posts: 2
Phone Model:
V180
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:30 pm |
Hello -
I just bought a V180 from Cingular and for the life of me could not figure out how to use the voice dialing, after I had recorded the names. Where was that so-called voice key??
It turns out that Motorola FORGOT to put the voice key on the unit. At least that was the explanation I got from the 800 number help person. They said Motorola knew the problem and they were fixing it, and I would be notified by my service provider and receive an "Upgraded" phone within the next few weeks. Can you beat that? They sell a phone with a feature that doesn't exist!
Actually, voice dialing is supposed to work with a headset, but I haven't tried that yet.
Jim
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jcfraser
Posts: 2
Phone Model:
V180
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:09 pm |
Finally - after a call back from a store manager I have voice dialing on my Cingular Motorola V180. The trick seems to be to set up the voice key on the right soft key on the home screen. Other combinations may work, too, but I didn't try.
Go to Menu/Settings/Personalize/Home Screen/Home Keys/Right Soft Key/Voice Dial and then tap the END call key to get back to the home screen. Now you should see V. Dial above the right soft key. Tap that key and you should see the moving indicator waiting to hear your dialing name. Speak it and it should dial. Voila!
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gator
Posts: 1 |
Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:56 pm |
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I just got a V180. I have T-Mobile service. I went to transfer over phone numbers from my phone and to set up voice dialing for each. When I got to the sixth one is told me that the voice dial memory was full. It would not let me enter more than 5 voice dials (though it does let you enter more phonebook entries, just without voice dialing). Do others with a V180 have this limitation, or is my phone defective?
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ozone
Posts: 1 |
Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:38 pm |
[quote="gator"]I just got a V180. I have T-Mobile service. I went to transfer over phone numbers from my phone and to set up voice dialing for each. When I got to the sixth one is told me that the voice dial memory was full. It would not let me enter more than 5 voice dials (though it does let you enter more phonebook entries, just without voice dialing). Do others with a V180 have this limitation, or is my phone defective?[/quote
1. Make sure the contact is stored to the phone not the Sim Card.
2. You need to have a Motorola headset with a send/end key.
3. Enable Voice Dialing (Menu/Settings/Headset/Voice Dial/On).
4. Record a voice tag in the phone book.
5. Attach send/end headset and press the send button.
6. Say the voice name tag.
(the above is from motorola, but I will be darned if it will work on my phone.) I give up. I am returning the phone tomorrow and they are going to give me one that works, or I am going to trade up to a V220, which actually has the voice key on the side.
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brendoni
Posts: 1
Phone Model:
Motorola V180
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:53 pm |
| bachdog wrote: | Go to Menu -> Settings -> Tools -> Dialing Services -> Voice Dial
I have AT&T Wireless and my V180 only lists "Fixed Dial" under Dialing Services. There's no listing of Voice Dial.
I've heard a couple of explanations:
1) You have to have a headset plugged in that has an "answer" and "end" button.
2) This feature is available on Cingular but not AT&T.
Does anybody know the truth. If voice dialing can be activated on this phone, then how? |
Here is what I just found using the instructions posted. I have a new V180 with Cingular. I found that if I saved the phone numbers to the SIM, no voicedial option was given. If I changed the option from SIM to PHone, the voicedial option shows up and I can record the name. Hope this helps.
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ForwardLooking
Posts: 1
Phone Model:
Motorola V180
Service Provider:
Att/Cingular |
Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:37 pm |
Just received a V180 from ATT/Cingular this weekend (it's my wife's phone).
As others have stated, there is simply no voice dial submenu item under the "dial services" menu. When phone numbers are stored in the phone (as opposed to the SIM), it IS possible to train the phone for that number - but there's simply no way to tell the phone you'd like to initiate a voice dial.
My phone is a V551 - same menu structure, etc - voice dial works fine.
Haven't tried the headset solution that someone else posted.
Sounds like this phone's flash needs to be updated. Maybe I'll call ATT/Cingular... or maybe spring for another v551.
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