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Removing Vlingo Voice Talk

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!!

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?

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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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[Q] How to rebind search key with another app?

I am using Mimicry and I stumbled up on this really nice app called Maluuba. If you haven't tried it out, check it out. It's an amazing Google Now substitute. Anyway, I would like it to be the app that comes up when I either long press(currently voice search) or press the search key(currently Google search). How do I go about doing that?

ashwinmudigonda said:
I am using Mimicry and I stumbled up on this really nice app called Maluuba. If you haven't tried it out, check it out. It's an amazing Google Now substitute. Anyway, I would like it to be the app that comes up when I either long press(currently voice search) or press the search key(currently Google search). How do I go about doing that?
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Was able to change the long press action of my HTC Thunderbolt by using LauncherKey...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=818499

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.

x2h said:
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?
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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] Text to speech always crashes

Hey, my S3 is runnign Clean bean 4.2.2 and everytime I try to use speech to text, no matter which app (google now, s voice, swiftkey) it always crashes. Any help?

Try updating Google Search in the Play store.

Thanks
Fire Ball said:
Try updating Google Search in the Play store.
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Thanks, works perfectly!

Beat me to the punch. I was just about to answer this
I love the 90s. Good times.

E The Magnificent said:
Beat me to the punch. I was just about to answer this
I love the 90s. Good times.
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Didn't help. I even did a Factory Reset, but still my problem remains. Anything else I can do?

I have a similar issue, maybe it will help Paolonicus. When I Freeze (via TB) or disable Google search (in App manager)and or the Google search widget none of the voice inputs will work they all crash my phone.
Anyone know how I can get rid of the Google search bar widget without disabling my voice to text feature?
Sorry to hijack but it looks like the OP solved his problem.