Removing Vlingo Voice Talk - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Man, this thing is so annoying. I have a habit of double-tapping the home button to get to my desktop and I suppose the new function goes to Voice Talk. I don't want it to go there and I can't remove/remap it. Any clue on how to get rid of it?

yah thats in settings, go to motions in settings and uncheck double tap! that should fix it

You'll have to wait till our phones get rooted to completely remove any stock apps.

movieaddict said:
yah thats in settings, go to motions in settings and uncheck double tap! that should fix it
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That does not fix it for me, I have all motion turned off, and still get the vlingo terms of service when I double tap home. Which I then decline every time. Very Annoying.

Same issue here. I want it to behave like Sense and display all of my homescreens (zoomed out). What does the 'home' key have to do with Voice Talk and Vlingo anyway?!

What would u like to do ???
Lol cant get it off either
Tmo Galaxy S2

Damn near a deal breaker
I like the plain voice commands from android and I'd like to do what I've been doing for the last couple of years - push the headset button, say what I want and have it just happen. I'm going to play with this a while longer but I'm going to give the phone back if it doesn't work exactly like I want. It's too much money to live with like I did the Vibrant - till the guys here made it work.
I don't mind something being no removable if there's an option to use something else. If any of you know how to change the settings so the original vlingo by Samsung isn't the automatic choice, that would be greatly appreciated.

Yep checked off double tap and it still goes into voice talk
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Its called voice commander. Uninstall through titaniun backup
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b0ricuaguerrero said:
Its called voice commander. Uninstall through titaniun backup
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Or just freeze it. That's what I did.
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if you want to remove and disable samsung voice talk from your take a look here: http://www.guruht.com/2012/02/how-to-disable-voice-talk-samsung.html
it helped me alot from that bad app, I hate it, wish this help everyone

Just switch to mr X rom its stock rooted and its disabled also no carrier iq
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Yeah......flash something custom and your problem will go by by..
sent from the nuke in my pocket...

This one did the trick!
Froze it using AntTek did the trick!
Thank you so much!! this app might be one of the worst one out there... What is samsung thinking by pushing this piece of %"#$#"!! so annoying!!
Frozen!

Maazer said:
Man, this thing is so annoying. I have a habit of double-tapping the home button to get to my desktop and I suppose the new function goes to Voice Talk. I don't want it to go there and I can't remove/remap it. Any clue on how to get rid of it?
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UNinstall voice command-voice talk- voice search using titanium backup if rooted. if not rooted- see previous posts.
I prefer the vlingo app from market(which needs voice search app,also available in market).
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n0tr1x said:
UNinstall voice command-voice talk- voice search using titanium backup if rooted. if not rooted- see previous posts.
I prefer the vlingo app from market(which needs voice search app,also available in market).
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It's been gone since the first update from when the phone was released... I don't know exactly which update, but I noticed it being gone after an OTA.

One easy way if your running ICS is to install go Launcher, open app drawer, long press voice command icon, un install, Vlingo gone! Un install go Launcher. No rooting required.

HOLY SHII
This solution that GDF01 is talking about, is not only very easy, but also very awesome! I removed Voice talk and Chat and other stuff, and i ICS-froze Readers Hub and all that stuff, so now I have a fully functional and great phone, without rooting or anything! Thanks!!

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Google Now working on T Mobile GS3

Full credit goes to author of the below thread. Got Google Now working 99% on my stock rooted Tmobile GS3. What is the 1% not working? Once you launch the app if you dont perform any search, back button does not exit the app. So need to close it from task manager. Also sometimes after you enter the search text, enter key does not initaite the search, so hit menu -> refresh. Other than that the cards, talk back, quick and accurate response, voice search etc works just fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747224
Try to reinstall it beacuse on my device I am able to exit Google Now with the back button. I am rooted running FreeGSM R5, Faux Kernel and High Def In Color theme.
i'm guessing we're ARMv7? and which of the 5 apk's did you use?
Lieu10ant said:
i'm guessing we're ARMv7? and which of the 5 apk's did you use?
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I just flashed the file in the following link, in recovery and rebooted and thats it. Yes we are ARMv7(T-Mo)
original thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821152
oh wow. lol they over-complicated it for no reason then.
so even if we already have an older version of Google Now, same steps? it'll overwrite the old one, right?
Lieu10ant said:
oh wow. lol they over-complicated it for no reason then.
so even if we already have an older version of Google Now, same steps? it'll overwrite the old one, right?
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y sir, atleast with me it did.
Do the cards take a while to show up because I've had it installed for a few hours but still don't get the weather card. I'm using the mikey m6. Everything else works.
t-mobile sgs3 stock rom/rooted
Stupid question but have you asked for the weather ? Because that was the first thing I asked and started getting cards. Also when in the app hit menu and go into settings I beleive that there are more options.
I have been using it for the last 2 days and it's such a gimmick. It doesn't give me the cards that I am expecting and need and most of the time I do a voice search instead of a card I get thrown to Google even tho I have a card set up for let's say my favorite sport team. Kind of wack.
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How do I remove it? Google Now is one of those products that's probably gonna follow Google listen etc after a few years...
See u guys are getting the wrong impression of google now it does not work right with stock roms and has a phony voice. It was awesome on my gnex and was super quick and cards showed up when i needed. It finally is working great on cm 10 ....p.s. the inverted google now looks sick
Google Now will keep me from flashing to JB if the only thing that I can do with the double tap home function brings up Voice Dialer instead of Voice Search. Only fix is deleting the entire Google Search apk, which nullifies any benefit Google Now brought to the table. Sad, I actually liked the app...
Anyone having issues?
Hey guys. I was able to put Google now on my rooted SGH-T999 and it works wonderfully. I'm running CM9 and I can't wait to see what this can do. I was experiencing one issue though. Sometimes, after I search, I will click on one of the websites it shows me and the link won't open. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Or any other issues with Google Now? Thanks guys!
The only issue i have is that if your launch Google now and don't search anything, pressing the back button won't exit the app. Need to use menu > refresh. Not a big annoyance since most times the app is used to search something. I wish location services would work just using gps, but you need to enable cellular triangulation too for that. I feel like triangulation will drain battery unnecessarily.
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They have fixed that issue, I am using reekotub's v3 of Google now, and it works almost perfectly. They have also made a fix where voice search can be mapped to double tapping the home key!
Google now versions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747224
Replace S-Voice
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1823194
hope this helps
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Any luck with Google Now?

Has anyone had any luck installing Google Now via these instructions? Or a similar way? I've got the stock ROM and rooted. I installed the Online/Offline ReekoTubbs version via recovery mode and set the proper permissions. I'm just not seeing Google Now at all. No idea how to start it or whether it's even installed. My SGS3 looks just like it did prior to installing GN.
Thanks.
I've not installed it this way as I am running a JB rom, but try opening your Google App. There is no special icon, etc. for it. Your Google app should become Google Now (but icon, name, etc. remain just Google).
TheFiveDots said:
I've not installed it this way as I am running a JB rom, but try opening your Google App. There is no special icon, etc. for it. Your Google app should become Google Now (but icon, name, etc. remain just Google).
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I'm such a dope! I didn't think of using the regular Google app. Stupid me! Thanks so much.
Chromag9 said:
I'm such a dope! I didn't think of using the regular Google app. Stupid me! Thanks so much.
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No problem. I'm loving Google Now and I'm excited to see where Google takes it. Works about 1000x better than S-Voice for me as well.
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No problem. I'm loving Google Now and I'm excited to see where Google takes it. Works about 1000x better than S-Voice for me as well.
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Yeah I tried S-Voice a couple times and I hated it. Looking forward to trying out Google Now.
Chromag9 said:
Yeah I tried S-Voice a couple times and I hated it. Looking forward to trying out Google Now.
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The best part was when S-Voice set an alarm for negative 5am and trying to delete it crashed my phone. :/
Has anyone else figured out a way to get Google now to work with double tapping the home button like with S-Voice?
Gargamel198024 said:
Has anyone else figured out a way to get Google now to work with double tapping the home button like with S-Voice?
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Not sure how'd this would work on the stock ROM. You'd have to find a mod that allowed it, if such a thing exists.
I'm running CM10 and I've set long-press on the menu button to app switcher and long-press on the home button to be Google Now. Quite liking the setup.
The Google app kinda works like Google Now but it is like a stripped down version of it. Google Now is way better..
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Has anyone else figured out a way to get Google now to work with double tapping the home button like with S-Voice?
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I am using stock ICS, so I don't know if this will apply, but I hated svoice, and used this as a solution...
I installed apex launcher, and assigned the home button to launch google voice search/actions.
In svoice: settings>launch s voice(uncheck)
In apex: settings>behavior settings>homekey action>launch shortcut this i directed to a shortcut to launch google voice search.
Next, in apex: settings>behavior settings> homekey to default screen(checked)
The behavior that this causes is: when on home screen, and I press home button, h google voice search loads. If I am not on home screen, home button brings me there. So, from any where on phone, google voice search is accessible by two presses of home button. First takes me home, second loads voice search.
SGH-I747
I'm a leach
I am using CM10 KANK (8/25). I can start Google now search but when I tried to use the same test sentences i.e. "what´s the weather?" my Google now search shows me a google result instead of showing me the weather pop-up as shown in those many video. What do I make wrong?

Search Press and Hold Menu

Hey everyone I tried doing some searching but these words are pretty common so I couldn't find much.
The problem is that I know that by pressing and holding the menu button I get to the search function but the problem is that it doesn't give me the launch menu like it did on my S2 t989 for example when I held the search key on my S2 t989 a "which app would you like to do this in" menu would come up that would give me direct access to apps like shazam, soundhound, and screencast. Is that feature completely gone or do I have to enable a setting or something for this? I really loved having that menu there.
Also another question about the search function that does come up. It does not seem to be the same full search function from before but only for the web. I used to be able to search the apps that are actually on my phone and launch them through that menu as well. Is that possible anymore or has that been disabled too?
Don't get me wrong I LOVE this phone so much I just miss those couple little things. Thanks!
Thank crapple for the change in search function. If you are rooted go to /system/app and find GoogleQuickSearchBox_USA.apk. renameto remove the __USA part.
Dont know bout the other. Sorry.
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Thanks for the quick reply and help. I am rooted and I am actually running FreeGS3 and in my /system/app folder there is only "GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk" there isn't one with "_USA" on it.
Thats odd. I know that used to work. Maybe im forgetting a step, though I dont think I am.
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You know i didn't even know you can launch the search that way,yeah this is my 1st Samsung phone
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Are you on stock?
CM10 has settings under system where you can change the menu button long press action to in-app search.
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At some point whatever action you're trying to do you probably checked the "use as default" box and now you don't get the choice. I still get to choose which app I use for most things, not sure how to go back and remove the default though.
hotsammysliz said:
Hey everyone I tried doing some searching but these words are pretty common so I couldn't find much.
Also another question about the search function that does come up. It does not seem to be the same full search function from before but only for the web. I used to be able to search the apps that are actually on my phone and launch them through that menu as well. Is that possible anymore or has that been disabled too?
Don't get me wrong I LOVE this phone so much I just miss those couple little things. Thanks!
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you can do it throught Google Gow. just go into Google Now>settings>phone search> and select what you want it to search.
I just loaded a custom ROM but when it asked what app to use it gave me this popup.
Clear default app settings by going to Settings>Applications manager>All

My Note 2 doesn't work with the updated Google Now

Updated Google Now today, and I have a few bugs.
The worst bug: When I tap on the menu key, the menu only quickly flashes.
I cannot get a card back if I accidentally swipe it away.
I cannot remove a stock from the stock card.
The vioce search is not working.
Also, although not a bug, the widget design looks too simplistic, displays minimal info (guess Google wants us to come inside), takes up only 4x3 space as a 4x4 widget. If I shrink it down to 4x3, then it will take 4x2 space, and so on. Drives me nuts.
As their flagship app, I am surprised at the low quality of this major update.
Anyone else care to share their feedback?
Maybe uninstall and re-install? Maybe try a reboot? I'm on rooted bone stock and it works fine.. I think as more cards come up the widget will use more space hence the large 4x4 space required .. Voice search working fine as well as the menu key long press
Thanks for the input. I am on stock rom and have rebooted to make sure I have a clean start. I will try un install and reinstall.
TailsNeon556 said:
Maybe uninstall and re-install? Maybe try a reboot? I'm on rooted bone stock and it works fine.. I think as more cards come up the widget will use more space hence the large 4x4 space required .. Voice search working fine as well as the menu key long press
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After you use long press to enter Google now, could you tap on menu again and see what happens? Mine will only flash the menu. Definitely a bug.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. Still the same bugs. I have also seen the same complaints in the play store now.
I finally had to uninstall the update and everything is fine again. Saw a lot of similar complaints on Google play. Can't believe this comes from Google and their flagship app.
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After you use long press to enter Google now, could you tap on menu again and see what happens? Mine will only flash the menu. Definitely a bug.
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Yea.. You're right.. Once in GN the menu is borked..
Yes, my menu button in Google Now is not working either, just to confirm and complain. WTF. Such an obvious mishap. I have not seen other phones complain about it though.
my google now is working as it was before as far as i can tell. I do a long press on the menu button on the 'button' next to the home key or long press on the google search bar to bring me into google now. Then I press the menu key which brings me to settings page
The settings page has the Google Now at the top, then voice, then phone search, then privacy and accounts. Everything works fine running cleanrom 4.0.5
My menu also flashes and then goes away.
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The only work around is clicking the weather card in Google now and pressing settings. It doesn't flash then.
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Same thing happening on my rooted note 2.
On Google Play it looks like most of the issues with the menu key are from GN2 users, except one report from a S3 Mini user.
The other major complaint is that the weather hourly slider is gone after the update.
And the widget sizing problem is popular too.
I cleared data in app settings menu for Google search and all is well.
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Lucky you. I tried the same but no sucess. Are you also on a stock rom?
robstunner said:
I cleared data in app settings menu for Google search and all is well.
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x2h said:
Lucky you. I tried the same but no sucess. Are you also on a stock rom?
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Stockish. Cleanrom 1.2se
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Other devices
There is another thread on xda where someone with the HTC sensation is having the same issue. I have a friend with the international note 2. He said he had the issue first couple tries and then it fixed itself. I tried cleaning data, uninstalling and using a themed Google now apk and nothing works. I'm rooted on clean ROM ace 4.0.5
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There is another thread on xda where someone with the HTC sensation is having the same issue. I have a friend with the international note 2. He said he had the issue first couple tries and then it fixed itself. I tried cleaning data, uninstalling and using a themed Google now apk and nothing works. I'm rooted on clean ROM ace 4.0.5
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I spoke too soon. My fix only lasted for a short while.
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Same problem on my stock sprint note 2.
Where's the fix?
Same bug here (stock unrooted). Clearing cache/data doesn't help. Visiting the weather card does work around the bug.

[Q] Any way to "OK, Google" from any screen but Google Now?

I don't get the point of having the "OK, Google" if I can't use it on any screen except when I actually open Google Now. I was hugely let down by the lack of "always listening" but what is the point of having this if I need to open up a specific program just to set an alarm with my voice?
How do I "OK, Google. Set an alarm for 30 minutes" without actually opening up the god damn Google Now?
I am so disappointed in this lack of feature or my lack of knowledge.
Purchase a Moto X if you want always listening.
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jmill75 said:
Purchase a Moto X of you want always listening.
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Thanks, for being a great help and an asset to the community.
I am asking about how to get Google to use voice recognition without actually opening up the program and wasting time..
But thanks again............
murf43143 said:
I don't get the point of having the "OK, Google" if I can't use it on any screen except when I actually open Google Now. I was hugely let down by the lack of "always listening" but what is the point of having this if I need to open up a specific program just to set an alarm with my voice?
How do I "OK, Google. Set an alarm for 30 minutes" without actually opening up the god damn Google Now?
I am so disappointed in this lack of feature or my lack of knowledge.
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Don't really know how to do it on sense, but you can install the Google Now Launcher.
murf43143 said:
Thanks, for being a great help and an asset to the community.
I am asking about how to get Google to use voice recognition without actually opening up the program and wasting time..
But thanks again............
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Hey smurf..... That is a feature of the X...... Not the One.
And your welcome.
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Don't really know how to do it on sense, but you can install the Google Now Launcher.
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Not able to do it.
"This app is incompatible with all of your devices." on the web play store, and the Google Now Launcher doesn't even show up in the play store on the phone.
jmill75 said:
Hey smurf..... That is a feature of the X...... Not the One.
And your welcome.
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Also a feature on the Nexus 5....(not talking about always listening but how to access Google Now from a home screen) but thanks again for being whatever it is that makes you feel like you need to be a ****.
murf43143 said:
Also a feature on the Nexus 5....(not talking about always listening but how to access Google Now from a home screen) but thanks again for being whatever it is that makes you feel like you need to be a ****.
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Bro you lost me when you started talking about "god damn google now"...is it really that serious of an issue to bring your lord and savior into it. So I figured I would really get you riled up Smurphy And it worked lol.
Anyway see my thanks meter compared to yours before you bash for not helping the XDA community. Bye now....
Anyways, I had to put that guy above on the ignore list for both wasting this threads time and just being rude.
If you hold the home button, then swipe up it launches Google Now, so that will be how I access it until active listening from the home screen when the phone is on is one day enable or someone does an extension.
Thanks to anyone but the guy I had to block.
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Not able to do it.
"This app is incompatible with all of your devices." on the web play store, and the Google Now Launcher doesn't even show up in the play store on the phone.
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Do a google search for the apk. You should be able to side load it.
You can then use ok google on the home screens, but still nowhere else.
You can download the Google now Launcher (googlehome.apk) from numerous threads here on xda, any gapps zip download for aosp, and many places on the internet. That's the only way to do it and you won't get BlinkFeed either :/ otherwise gotta deal with the home buttoness
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HolyAngel said:
You can download the Google now Launcher (googlehome.apk) from numerous threads here on xda, any gapps zip download for aosp, and many places on the internet. That's the only way to do it and you won't get BlinkFeed either :/ otherwise gotta deal with the home buttoness
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Thank you both kindly! I may do that if I find the "hold home, swipe up" can be improved upon.
Have a great day, and if I do side load it and test it I will replay back and edit my original post to include that and state how it works.
murf43143 said:
I don't get the point of having the "OK, Google" if I can't use it on any screen except when I actually open Google Now. I was hugely let down by the lack of "always listening" but what is the point of having this if I need to open up a specific program just to set an alarm with my voice?
How do I "OK, Google. Set an alarm for 30 minutes" without actually opening up the god damn Google Now?
I am so disappointed in this lack of feature or my lack of knowledge.
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There is an application called open mic +. It is still in beta I think but it works amazingly. Check it out.
Edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.OpenMic.Pheonix
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As far as I'm aware, it could only be done with certain apps (like the mic+ app linked in the above post) or from installing the Google Now launcher. That means you won't be able to run Sense though so if you really want to carry on using Sense you'll need to use one of the aforementioned apps instead.
It's a shame that HTC didn't implement such a feature to be honest, especially considering they made it possible to use Ok Google commands once on the Google Now app. I guess it's officially limited to certain Nexus devices though.
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ayo234 said:
There is an application called open mic +. It is still in beta I think but it works amazingly. Check it out.
Edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.OpenMic.Pheonix
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Thank you for this. I tried installing it and messing with it in many ways, but it only recognizes my "Okay, Google" about 10% of the time (I tried both engines) and even when it does recognize my "Okay, Google" from a home screen it takes about 5-10 seconds for it to launch, thus by the time it launches I have either thought it failed since it took so long or I said "Okay, Google" 3 times already by the time it launches.
Thank you anyways, it just doesn’t work well with this phone maybe. Pretty disappointing since the processor it has is able to do always listening or at least home screen listening.
xposed module
Not sure if you have root, but there is an xposed module for this. just search "ok google" in the xposed app and you'll find it.
Pure+ said:
Not sure if you have root, but there is an xposed module for this. just search "ok google" in the xposed app and you'll find it.
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Or simply use Nova Launcher which has added the ability to use "Ok Google" from any home screens in the latest update.
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Or simply use Nova Launcher which has added the ability to use "Ok Google" from any home screens in the latest update.
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Or some people actually like sense and don't want to cover it up. Thanks anyway
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