I tried setting an alarm but for some reason it still forces a Google search, despite processing the command correctly. How do I fix this?
Also, Google Now doesn't talk back even though I set everything to US English. It forces a browser search, rather than the built-in in browser like what various videos show.
I'm having identical issues, although I can get my phone to talk back.
If I ask "Who is the prime minister of Australia" it will talk back the answer to me.
But if I ask it to set a reminder or to send a message it just does a Google search.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
Set the Devices language to "English (United States)", this is in the main settings not the "Google Now" (Settings->Language & input). The other voice/input language options can be whatever you want.
You should be able to tell if it worked as the Google Search should now have mountains as a background rather than being blank, and in the Google Now app's settings the first option should show up as "Google Now" not "Now Cards".
The only problem is now the weather is in Fahrenheit
EDIT: This can just be set back in the setting for the Weather card
It shows the background for a second and it disappears. I was probably redirected to the local Google region-specific site. Is there a setting I can change to make the search engine google.com?
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Picture cards (from wikipedia) are not showing in Google voice search. Is there any way to fix it??? Or are there any settings that i'm missing out on? And i'm currently outside US so can it be the reason?
Unfortunately you are right, in your setting, set it to search on google.com, (Google now, settings, privacy and accounts, tick the box), then you will get pictures. This used to break local searches, but they seem ok now =]
I recently had some trouble with Google Now literally searching for Voice Controls. I have seen other people having issues with this as well, but no viable solution seems to had been found. Untill now. Which I stumbled upon accidentally. XD
A Example of the issue is say, if I say "Set Timer for 10 minutes", it would literally search the web for that phrase. Basically, somehow that phase got added to the "web search" portion of your search history. If your having this occur with 1 or more of your voice control options then my solution should fix it up.
Solution 1. Reinstall Google Search, this can be done by going to the Play Store, going into My Apps, and simply uninstalling and installing the Google Search application. *This will require you setting up Google Now again, but all of your settings should be stored in the cloud*
If this restores the missing Voice Command functions, then you are all set. However, if your like me and it still just is not doing the command you want then this next step will clear it up.
Solution 2. Open Google Now > Press the settings button > Tap Settings > "Privacy & accounts" > Then turn OFF "Web History", then turn it back on again.
Congratulations, what Voice Commands were still missing after re-installation of Google Search should now be working. Basically turning off Web History caused Google Now to re-sync with the cloud and correct the issue.
When navigating in maps I still get a voice telling me to turn but it no longer says the street names. I'm sure it's some kind of setting or conflict but I can figure out what caused the voice turn by turn to stop saying the street names.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
You only get the names if you have tts enabled. Check your settings.
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Thanks for the reply. In TTS settings there's nothing there to change or set or turn off/on. It looks like I can install Ivona TTS but what happened to the one that comes with Android?
Sorry, I don't know. The reason I suspected tts, is that I have my phone language set to English but live in the Netherlands. When using Navigation, my phone would ask me if wanted to use and download tts files for voice guidance. Of course I ticked Yes. Then I got this horrible electronic voice trying to pronounce Dutch street names using English pronunciation algorithms. Unintelligible.
So I uninstalled TTS and from that moment on, I did still receive voice guidance, but, just as you describe, limited to turn left, turn right, straight ahead etc. No more reading out of street names.
This is why I thought your problem might have tondo with missing tts files, at least for your language. There is no way of telling Google Navigation to use a different language than the default ui language. Stupid, but there it is.
If that's not the issue, I am stumped.
Good luck. Please update if you find a solution.
I fixed it by doing a factory reset. The TTS voices returned.
Fortunately, I had backups of all my app data via Carbon Backup.
This is an easy guide to making all of the normal features of google feed, assistant and stuff work properly on any android 7+ phone (haven't tested below 7) in any country that doesn't allow these features.
this is not for everyone, read this in full before starting so that you know what you are getting into.
so far, there has been no danger to my phone's software doing these stuff.
however im not responsible if you do something wrong. follow the steps properly.
DO NOT DELETE GOOGLE FRAMEWORK DATA ON ANDROID 9. THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM
1. first of all download a VPN app from the play store, I personally used the CM VPN but use whatever you want. only important thing is that your vpn must have USA connection.
2. update your google app to the latest version, or even go all the way to the latest beta (I prefer the normal because feed looks nicer)
3. turn on the VPN and go to your location settings, and select GPS Only mode.
4. go to your apps in the settings, press "show system apps" and go to the G letter and find Google Services Framework.
delete all of the cache and data for that app. then find the google app. do the same but it happens in a different window, you gotta press manage data and then delete it from inside the google app.
5. open the google app, wait a few seconds and the google feed shows up. weather is missing and most of the features dont work yet, we will get back to them.
6. disconnect and close the vpn. then restart your device.
7. start by activating the assistant. first i suggest that you pause voice activity in google account settings.then activate the voice assistant step by step to the finish.
8. go to the google app, the 3 lines to the right( settings and stuff) go to assistant settings, in the 2nd tab find "phone" and activate voice unlock (this is just to test if the assistant is working properly) if the voice unlock gets activated properly then you're good, if it doesnt, try deactivating voice and audio activity and try again.
you can disable voice unlock after.
9. so now the assistant is activated, google feed is working, you also need to install a launcher that supports google feed page(i am using lawnchair 2 which is in alpha currently, you can use Nova, Rootless Pixel, or CPL or any other that supports it)
10. in order to get google at a glance on screen if your launcher doesn't have it, there is a widget in your widgets screen, from google themselves.
11. in order to activate the weather, go to location settings, select high accuracy, turn on google location history, and then go to the google feed page in your home screen, on the search bar type "weather" and search for it, open the weather page (the google weather app thingy) and close it. refresh the page and its up and running as the top card.
common problem: disappears after a while
do the search bar thing again and it works.
12. the last thing is reminders. type "reminder" in the search bar of the google feed page, make a reminder, then close the whole thing. open assistant, say show me my reminders, it will tell you the reminder you just set up. delete it using voice commands. then make another reminder using voice commands, go to the google app, open the 3 lines page (bottom right) then open reminders. if you have done everything properly, the reminder you set up in search is gone, and the voice reminder is there. if you don't need it, delete the reminder.
Thats all. I'm living in iran so i know all of this works 100%
Good Luck. ill be answering questions if there is any, whenever i check this again.
So I just noticed that I could not search for contacts through the main google search bar. It was weird since this is how I always do it. So I thought that maybe the contacts option was turned off. I went to Google settings/general/personal results and the weird thing is that it doesn't have all the standard search option to choose like contacts, music, websites, etc. It only shows one thing for apps. The only thing that I did was enable developer options. Does anyone know how to get these things back? It's annoying as hell not being able to search and having to use individual apps to do so.
Well, I figured it out. Had to uninstall Google assistant and updates to get it back
yeah, them removing it is frustrating.. i did find a thread a while back that it now shows a contact page, but thats if you type in the full name pretty much.