How to turn off the sound (voice navigation) in FreeNow app?

[watty]

Yes, I do.  Will experiment!

[Belker]

Yes, I do.  Will experiment!

That's what I do all the time, use the loudspeaker on the phone while it's in the cradle and not connected to bluetooth ever, I find that using the phone with bluetooth has a mind of it's own.

[Octavia1]

Maybe I'm paranoid ...but I also switch off the blutooth on me phone in between sumups .... i tink ther pretty much secure now but ther was a time wen they cud get into yur phone tru blutooth....an security updates I don't ignore neither ......
 

[Octavia1]

https://www.blackview.hk/blog/tech-news/can-my-phone-hacked-via-bluetooth

[Shallow Hal]

Is the mute icon gone?

[Rat Catcher]

The navigation bit is muted on mine. You can manage the bluetooth connection in bluetooth settings on your phone. In general I disable the "Media" option so taxi app alerts play on the phone and not the car speaker as the latter would interrupt the wireless.

[watty]

I must be doing something very stupid with my new phone because obviously the mute worked fine on my old phone.  And both are Poco's (Xiaomi sub-brand) so it's likely I've done something silly.  I'll press a few more buttons next time I'm working and see if I can fix it.  Thanks all!

And, RC, before you ask, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a (im)migrant that sneaked into my house one night and changed the setting.

[Shallow Hal]

I must be doing something very stupid with my new phone because obviously the mute worked fine on my old phone.  And both are Poco's (Xiaomi sub-brand) so it's likely I've done something silly.  I'll press a few more buttons next time I'm working and see if I can fix it.  Thanks all!

And, RC, before you ask, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a (im)migrant that sneaked into my house one night and changed the setting.

When the app is in Navigation mode...when you have accepted a fare,the voice/mute icon is on the right hand side of the screen(top icon of the three on screen)

[watty]

Yeah, I saw that.  But on my new phone, it seems to reset itself to Voice-ON with every new job.  It's a PITA.  But like I said, I must be doing something wrong if I'm the only one asking about it?

The app is getting kinda dangerous because of the amount of times you have to interact with it e.g. swiping up to turn off the 'follow-up jobs' option with every single new job.  Another thing I don't think you can turn off permanently...

[mercenary for hire]

Try rebooting your mobile.Something similar to this happened to me ages ago and resetting the phone while logged in to the app saved the settings somehow.

[watty]

By rebooting, do you mean kicking it repeatedly?  I've tried that and it didn't work 

[mercenary for hire]

Might be no harm also to log out of your Freenow account then log in again.

Perhaps even deleting the app then downloading it again might fix it.They update it so often that your phone might be struggling to manage all the different versions.

[watty]

It was a new phone and I took the time to fresh install all my apps instead of just copying them over.  But it might be useful to clear out the cache...

[markmiwurdz]

and yer cookies....

[Rat Catcher]

A couple of unrelated but possibly helpful things I eventually discovered on my clever telephone nua:

New(er) versions of Android have a "new" permission called "Auto-start" which by default was granted to some of the embedded apps (e.g. Android Auto), many of which I don't use. However for N26 and Revolut to work properly i.e. deliver notifications of receipts and expenditure in real time you need to manually grant said permission. On my phone it's under Settings->Smart Manager.

Adding the above for Sumup and turning off bluetooth scanning under location settings (Settings->Location->Manage Location Services) seems to have resolved intermittent issues with the Sumup Reader. Not sure what bearing either of the same actually have on the issue but since implementing both the reader connection has been reliable.... although I occasionally need to manually power on the device in which case I tend to wait for 10 seconds after the football on the top right of the screen stops spinning.