Answer Key For Gizmo

[Jan Dominquez]

Thegizmo key is a small lever found on most B foot joints. This lever closes the low B tone hole only, without closing the neighboring C or C# tone holes. Introduced by Verne Q. Powell at Powell Flutes in 1928 after a visit with Arthur Lora, Principal Flutist with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, who asked if there was a way to modify the footjoint, the development of the gizmo key was also a response to criticism from performers such as Jean Pierre-Rampal, who believed that the lengthened tube of the B foot joint made it more difficult to produce notes in the high register. The key is used primarily to facilitate the performance and intonation of the 4th register high C, but can also be used to bring down pitch and increase stability generally in the highest register.

What do you think? How often do you use the gizmo key? Are there more sustainable ways to achieve a solid C4? Do you use the gizmo key on other notes? Do you like using the gizmo? What are some of your reflections on the pros/cons of this key? Please comment below.

My son had an issue today where we were calling his GizmoWatch 2 and it would ring loudly - but he couldn't answer the call. When he got home, we tried it out and sure enough if my wife or I called him, it would ring loudly, but the date/time would appear on the screen and there was no way to answer a call.

Well, how many people need to report this for it to be considered a "reported issue"? One of my two Gizmowatches is doing the exact same thing. It rings, and my daughter cannot answer it because the screen just shows the watch face. No input via touch is registered while the watch is ringing. I too must power down the watch and restart it for the issue to go away. This has happened frequently on one watch and not at all on the other. This sounds like a device defect and not a normal operation issue.

I just bought a brand new Gizmo yesterday (5/4/2021) from the Verizon store and am experiencing the same issue; my child can see the call coming through, but the device won't answer the call by tapping the screen. A reboot of the Gizmo fixed that problem. The remaining question, as others have asked before, is when will this happen again? So almost a year later since the original post and this problem has yet to be resolved...

I also experienced the issue where I was on a call with my child, hung up and immediate a new call came through from my child's device though he couldn't have called me back that quickly even if he tried.

We have had this problem with my daughter's Gizmo watch2 as well. Only it wasn't just incoming calls it was outgoing to. Meaning that if anyone misses a call she is forced to leave a max length voice-mail and sit and wait for it to kick her off the phone because she is unable to hang up. We turned it off and back on and it started working again but I don't want this to become a habit

We're trying to get a hold of my son, it rings but won't answer. He just sees the time on the watch and there is no way to answer the call. A minute or so later it shows on the watch he missed call from me, and then he can make an outbound call successfully.

Completely powering down watch and turning back on resolve both issues - when I call now after power cycling, he can answer the call manually, plus the auto answer feature works after a number of rings.

The auto answer function on my daughter's Gizmo watch has stopped working approximately 10 days ago. I have taken it to 2 stores, talked to talk support, the software is updated, the auto answer has been toggled off and on, app has been deleted and re-installed, device has been removed and re-paired. We still can't get it to work. The stores have no answer and either want me to buy another one or buy a phone. I'm not quite interested in either of those options. It just seems unusual that everything else works except for this one function.

I have the exact same problem. I have two Gizmo Watches since around September 2022. They both worked fine up until 3/12/23 when I noticed the Auto Answer feature was not working for both watches. Toggled the feature on and off on both watches, made sure I was up to date on software for my phone and both watches. Re-installed Gizmo Hub app. Deleted my Gizmo Hub account and app and factory reset both watches. Re-installed Gizmo Hub app again, made new account and re-paired both watches. Nothing worked to solve the problem. On 3/18/23 I tried to get IT support via online chat. I realized the rep had no idea about what this watch even was by the questions they were asking me. They were trying to walk me through setting up the Number Share, which is not even possible for the Gizmo Watch. Got off chat and called Verizon Wireless and was on the phone with that rep for 45 minutes. Still nothing worked. Rep said they would open a ticket for further IT support and the rep would call me back in a couple of days. On Sunday 3/19/23 I tried both watches and the Auto Answer feature worked for both. The next day on Monday, I noticed when I went into the Gizmo Hub it did not ask for my pin, I had it set with the pin feature on. I also turned on the vibrate feature on and off on both watches. When I c called both watches, the Auto Answer feature was back to not working. The Verizon rep did actually call me back on 3/21 to let me know they are still working on the problem and he would call me back on 3/24. So it's now almost 2 weeks I am having this problem and almost 1 week since Verizon is supposedly trying to figure it out. Thank you to the other user for posting. Anyone one else experiencing this problem, please post your details.

My new Gizmo 3 watch that I bought today does not work with auto-answering either despite updating the software, syncing, toggling on and off the auto-answer feature and restarting the watch. Called customer support and they said to comment on this thread, too. This is unacceptable for an advertised safety feature that does not work for us. They need to resolve it ASAP.

I just spoke with a very helpful tech support agent at Verizon named Tina. She informed me that ZTE, who manufactures the Gizmo, will be releasing a software update on 4/4/23 to restore the auto-answer feature to our devices. Hopefully, this will work. My wife and I rely heavily on the GPS-tracking and auto-answer features to care for my father-in-law, who suffers from advanced dementia.

An update: I've gotten nothing by a run around and no help from Verizon over the phone with regard to this problem. But, through trail and error (because, again Verizon has been a waste of time), I figure out what is triggering the problem of why the Auto-Answer feature is not work, with my watches anyway. So I have 2 watches. In the contacts for each watch, I list the other watch as a contact and gave permission for the watches to be able to contact each other. The contact will then automatically list as a Gizmo buddy. I found that when I managed the contacts, and took the permissions off for the watches to contact each other, it triggered the auto answer feature not working. I put the permissions back on for the watches, and Auto-Answer feature worked. Hope this helps for others.

I have had this problem since 3/12/23. I spent a week trying to figure it out. I spoke with a Verizon rep on 3/18/23 and spent 45 minutes on the phone with him trying to solve this problem. He ended up opening up a ticket for further assistance. I heard from him on 3/21 and again on 3/24 saying there was still no resolution. He never got back in touch after that. I called Verizon again on 3/30; spoke with one rep who transferred me to another rep. Thirty minutes into the call I was being transferred to a 3rd rep only for my call to be bounced back to the automated system with a recording that it was after hours for customer service. Verizon didn't drop the ball here, seems like they didn't even pick the ball up. It is absolutely ridiculous that a ticket is open for 2 weeks and no resolution. That I am charged for devices and services that I do not have full use of. People who get the GizmoWatches devices do so to make sure a loved one is safe. And auto-answer is a part of the safety features on this device, and marketed as such. Yet Verizon couldn't care any less about our problems with the devices they sell and service for them.

However, when I follow these steps, I still do not see the transformation controls (3d transformation gizmo) when I select an object/camera. Searching this issue in this forum only brings up the answer of using Ctrl + Shift + H to show layer controls, which is already enabled and still not showing the gizmo.

I've recently upgraded to the newest AE and have been getting the hang of the new 3D gizmo and its various modes. However, I've had problems doing precise adjustments to anchor point location and motion path curves on 3D layers since I often end up selecting one of the many gizmo transform handles so close to the curve handles or the gizmo itself, which is a pretty visually busy tool, obscures the precise pixels I'm trying to adjust the anchor point to. Is it possible to turn the 3D gizmo off or revert it to the old "gizmo," at least temporarily? I've been able to find workarounds, but overall my workflow would be quicker if I could turn it off or revert it to the old tool when making those adjustments.

I have an editor extension creates empty game object nodes. I show these in the scene view by using OnDrawGizmos event to Gizmos.DrawSphere at the correct location. The documentation states that: "Implement this OnDrawGizmos if you want to draw...

EDIT: Ah, found the problem. Unity docs are indeed wrong. some gizmos are pickable. e.g. the solid-versions of Gizmos (DrawCube, DrawSphere) are pickable (although the docs on how to know which one was clicked are still missing), but the majority (DrawWireCube, DrawWireSphere, DrawLine, etc) are not pickable.

Looks like if its inside another object with a gizo also you cannot select it, very weird. Even pasting it in the root of hierarchy it acts strange, I can then click it after a few attempted but moving it doesd not update the inspector, so I am thinking this is a bug in 2019.4.11f.

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