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Google pinyin

Google Play Store is asking me to update an app called Google Pinyin. It is an input method (apparently primarily for Chinese characters) but I can't figure out why it is on my Nexus 7. Anyone familiar with it? Could it be connected to 7Note?
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elwood1229 said:
Google Play Store is asking me to update an app called Google Pinyin. It is an input method (apparently primarily for Chinese characters) but I can't figure out why it is on my Nexus 7. Anyone familiar with it? Could it be connected to 7Note?
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Same thing happened to mine. I had pinyin activated on my phone, so i'm thinking the settings got transfer over?

elwood1229 said:
Google Play Store is asking me to update an app called Google Pinyin. It is an input method (apparently primarily for Chinese characters) but I can't figure out why it is on my Nexus 7. Anyone familiar with it? Could it be connected to 7Note?
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Pinyin is mainly used in China, I think for EN/EU users, you don't have to update this, and you could even uninstall update/disable it.

its a ASUS thing, they someone managed to put this IME on a supposedly clean Nexus rom
it got under the radar because it is blessed by google

disable it
I just uninstalled updates and disabled it. It is of no use to me for I don't speak Chinese.

Did you guys install the PDANet Drivers or use the Google Nexus 7 ToolKit v1.1 to root and/or unlock? My Nexus 7 did not have Pinyin on it until I tried to root it tonight and it didn't show up until I installed the PDANet Drivers and the Google Nexus 7 Toolkit.

Hooray for Titanium Backup! Friendly bloatware remover! :]
I had that and a Korean keyboard pre-installed.. both are long gone...

This randomly downloaded itself onto my nexus 7 this morning - understock there is no way to uninstall it - thank god for root.

You did nt happen to install the London olympic app did you? That's when I noticed it was there
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It was one of the first apps I uninstalled as soon as I had root!

bmar29 said:
You did nt happen to install the London olympic app did you? That's when I noticed it was there
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Yes I did. Wonder if there linked some how?
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Dazzh82 said:
Yes I did. Wonder if there linked some how?
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I doubt it, i didn't install the olympic app and i had korean keyboard and pinyin.

I also had a Japanese IME, began with an "i" but I can't remember the name.
Uninstalled all 3 via Titanium Backup.

I am not rooted and have not installed any Olympic apps. I did install 7Note with Mezac. Did not notice Pinyin until after that thus my reason for asking if they were connected. In all fairness, however, I was not looking for Pinyin and wouldn't have noticed it if it hadn't started asking to be updated. For all I know, it could have come out of the box with Pinyin installed as some have suggested. I have disabled it with no adverse affects thus far.
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Pinyin!?
Got both NBC "London Olympics" apps and presto, there was the Pinyin app.
Bah!

Its just showing up for everyone yesterday at around the time you downloaded any app from the app store, it just threw that update in there, no matter what you installed. I am not rooted and cant get rid of it. Uninstalling the update erases it from the app drawer, but as soon as i download an app or update from Play, its back....

Like I mentioned on the thread in the QA forum , it's to save Google from having to manage localised versions of firmware images. You know, the world doesn't revolve around English as the only language. And no, Asus didn't put Pinyin there, Google did, because the app is by Google themselves. So stop getting all emo and xenophobic.
I actually use Google Pinyin myself, so I'm actually glad it's there by default.

It came on mine stock.It was there before I installed anything.Mine is korean however.

James-NC said:
It came on mine stock.It was there before I installed anything.Mine is korean however.
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Chinese, Japanese and Korean IME ALL came with the stock ROM.

I actually have other issues, i don't mind google puts useless ime in the rom, but it removes/hides my books, magazines, movies when detecting my location (outside of usa)... sign...

Google Ears outside the US

Google Ears (like Shazam / Soundhound) is automatically disabled for Canadian (maybe other non-US?) Nexus 7 users, I guess because we can't buy music from the Play Store. It's in system/app, but it's frozen.
Titanium Backup will not allow me to unfreeze. I moved the existing apk and odex with Root Explorer and put this in it's place, set permissions, rebooted and installed. Works fine, but it doesn't stick around after another reboot. I can restore it with Titanium and it'll work again... until the next boot.
It's so quick in identifying a song vs Shazam. Any ideas?

I'm sure there must be an easier way, but it seems that converting it to a user app with Titanium after restoring does the trick.

It's disabled in UK too. I just set permissions using root explorer (rw, r, r), put the widget on my homescreen and it's stayed there through all reboots. Didn't notice any icon appear in the app draw though.
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Strangely enough, it isn't disabled on UK Nexus S's (my friend has one, unrooted stock, I saw it there after he got JB update).

All I had to do was defrost with Titanium Backup.

I can't even get it to install .Works fine on my OneX side loaded the apk to the N7 and it just goes through the motions of installing then says failed

chrisnash said:
It's disabled in UK too. I just set permissions using root explorer (rw, r, r), put the widget on my homescreen and it's stayed there through all reboots. Didn't notice any icon appear in the app draw though.
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It's a widget, shows up as Sound Search. I'm amused at the propensity for Google to always have two possible names for one service... you never know for sure where something is going to show up in the app drawer / app manager.
Anyone having trouble may want to try the version from the Google Ears/Sound Search (From Jelly Bean) thread over in dev / hacking.

For users in Canada, Google has it disabled
use tibu to defrost it,
type this in terminal emaulator:
su
pm enable com.google.android.ears
then use this link to update it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.ears
don't search, it wont work use the link. This worked for me.

ScumDroid said:
For users in Canada, Google has it disabled
use tibu to defrost it,
type this in terminal emaulator:
su
pm enable com.google.android.ears
then use this link to update it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.ears
don't search, it wont work use the link. This worked for me.
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Hey, this worked great. Thanks! Only thing is I couldn't update using your link. Just says not available in my country.
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Kewjoe said:
Hey, this worked great. Thanks! Only thing is I couldn't update using your link. Just says not available in my country.
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Hmm odd, i can open the link and im in Toronto too. ill dig around and see if i can find anything on it.

Works great I'm in the UK link works updated from market and widget still on home screen after reboot. Thanks.
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Automatically download all my apps from google play.

After factory resetting my GS3, the phone does not automatically downloads all my apps from google play but I have to go in and click one by ONE......
I have hundreds of Apps and it will take very long. How come the phone does not do it anymore. It use to do it every time i reset.
what am I missing?
Thanks,

SDJB said:
After factory resetting my GS3, the phone does not automatically downloads all my apps from google play but I have to go in and click one by ONE......
I have hundreds of Apps and it will take very long. How come the phone does not do it anymore. It use to do it every time i reset.
what am I missing?
Thanks,
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You're missing Titantium Backup :good:

Why two threads about this?
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SDJB said:
After factory resetting my GS3, the phone does not automatically downloads all my apps from google play but I have to go in and click one by ONE......
I have hundreds of Apps and it will take very long. How come the phone does not do it anymore. It use to do it every time i reset.
what am I missing?
Thanks,
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When you first setup your phone after a clean ROM flash it usually ask you if you want to sync up your Google applications. If you unchecked one of the options it will not automatically sync Google Apps from the Play Store. For me i prefer not to autosync and use Titanium Backup to restore my apps. This is much faster. There are some apps which when restore with TBU will not activate properly and for those i am not restoring from backup.
You could also access the Play Store from a web browser and directly send the installation to you phone. This way you don't have to waste time going through each App on your phone.

Yeah it doesn't work for me either. It worked great on my Galaxy Note but has never worked on the S3 anyone have a clue on how to fix this??? THanks

I'm having the same problem.... That sucks.

Use Rom toolbox its amazing and the dev actually helps you
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Is there a way of running the wizard that was at the first boot of the rom again..?

justin860 said:
Use Rom toolbox its amazing and the dev actually helps you
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Plus 1 on this. Great app.
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"Ignore" App Update In Market?

Hi all
I was just wondering if it was possible to ignore an app update from the playstore, and not be notified of it or have it in the "update" list? Basically the new youtube app doesn't work properly so I uninstalled it via titanium and installed the previous version. Getting rid of the update request will allow me to batch update other apps without fear of restoring the broken youtube.
I tried the "detach from market" option in titanium pro and then rebooted but it didn't seem to work??
Cheers

I think once you have ignore one time it will not pop up everytime
Personally i do so
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eng_samy said:
I think once you have ignore one time it will not pop up everytime
Personally i do so
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It shows up in my market list

Googles Hangouts unrestricted video over 3g, LTE.

The app is in the play store. It was written for the former app Talk but it still works.
If you tic the box to activate it for some reason it will making playstore think your app needs to update. So DO NOt set auto update on the talk app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innodroid.gtalkenabler
I tested it on stock based rom only.
Enjoy!
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Wireratt said:
The app is in the play store. It was written for the former app Talk but it still works.
If you tic the box to activate it for some reason it will making playstore think your app needs to update. So DO NOt set auto update on the talk app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innodroid.gtalkenabler
I tested it on stock based rom only.
Enjoy!
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This doesn't work on Stock 4.1.1 it just tells me there is no database..

michelbites said:
This doesn't work on Stock 4.1.1 it just tells me there is no database..
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The new hangout update killed it.
I hope gtalk enabler updates soon
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I have a workaround for this. Uninstall hangouts. Uninstall Google play services update. Clear play store data. Install market enabler (search for ask on Google). Launch enabler and change to tmo us. Launch play store, install hangouts, run hangouts, update Google play services. Now you should be able to run video chat over cell data. This was persistent through reboot with the market enabler being set on reboot.
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@derekedw I don't get the market enabler at all, please give more explanations
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This much easier method still works perfectly well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCDs-olovLw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is strange because I know a few months ago I couldn't hangout over cell towers but since an update a little after that I've never had an issue.
I used it just the other day because my Wi-Fi at work blocks video chat services. Maybe it's because I'm running a custom Rom?
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