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So ive just turned on my phone to browse the web using ICS Browser + and on each and every page i open i get a voice telling me which page im on........
If i click a link then the voice reads out the link and im taken to the next page......
If i click the search bar on my home screen and type 'dinosaurs' (example) and hit enter im taken to google and the voive says "dinosaurs - google search"
Ive killed all programs/rebooted my phone and still it persists..... even tried on stock browser too.
Im on International stock 1.28 if it makes a difference!
Any idea whats going on and how i can turn this off?
UPDATE - played around with a few settings and i made sure that the 'talkback' feature in 'accessibilty' was turned off but still i got the voice.
Remembered that i installed 'Widgetsoid' a little while ago and tried turning off its notification ability in the same menu as 'talkback' and the voice went away.
Perhaps there is a conflict here and having 'widgetsoid' allowed in this menu somehow enables 'talkback' to run even if its not checked in the box........
Very strange lol
wolverine73 said:
So ive just turned on my phone to browse the web using ICS Browser + and on each and every page i open i get a voice telling me which page im on........
If i click a link then the voice reads out the link and im taken to the next page......
If i click the search bar on my home screen and type 'dinosaurs' (example) and hit enter im taken to google and the voive says "dinosaurs - google search"
Ive killed all programs/rebooted my phone and still it persists..... even tried on stock browser too.
Im on International stock 1.28 if it makes a difference!
Any idea whats going on and how i can turn this off?
UPDATE - played around with a few settings and i made sure that the 'talkback' feature in 'accessibilty' was turned off but still i got the voice.
Remembered that i installed 'Widgetsoid' a little while ago and tried turning off its notification ability in the same menu as 'talkback' and the voice went away.
Perhaps there is a conflict here and having 'widgetsoid' allowed in this menu somehow enables 'talkback' to run even if its not checked in the box........
Very strange lol
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Haha I had the exactly same problem when I first got my Galaxy Nexus, It's incredibly irritating and annoying.
It's a bug in ICS; when something is ticked in the Accessibility menu other ones randomly activate too! As far as I know, there's no way to properly fix it. ><
Hey Guys,
Last night, i was jus playing with my GN as usual and suddenly as BAM... i got the update for JB :victory:
No doubt JB is so awesome, but i noticed this while using Google now. Everything is ok, works perfect,
EXCEPT for the voice reply. I saw the You-tube Videos where it replies with voice. (eg. whats the temperature?)
Mine does not. Mine works like something similar to this "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBZrtApZCD8"
I am from Germany, using English (US) as language in the phone.
So is there anything i should change ?
Thanks for the help in Advance
I know that some features only work in the states. I wonder if you downloaded the market enabler and selected the U.S play store to make your phone think your in the states if that would work. But I think there are some other threads on here were people are not getting all the Google now features if they are not in the states. I would check them out to see if anyone had any other tips that work.
Jellin' like a felon
Thanks for your reply kevinjgray88, me and my friend had a live comparison of the Google Voice features and his phone is from UK and mine is from Germany.
Everything works well for him, lets say, the results are always given with pictures and it speaks, but my phone just shows the text and it does not speak.
Mine is also working correctly, I've just tried "what's the temperature?" and I got the card and the voice result, I must add that my system language is EN (US) and I'm from and live in Lima, Perú.
Maybe you need to download a text-to-speech language pack, I'm just guessing, I did that back when I had ICS 4.0.2.
Cheers,
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Thanks for your reply kevinjgray88, me and my friend had a live comparison of the Google Voice features and his phone is from UK and mine is from Germany.
Everything works well for him, lets say, the results are always given with pictures and it speaks, but my phone just shows the text and it does not speak.
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some have voice replys and some dont
I also have this annoying issue... phone is in Canada and I think it should work.
I have tried both English (US) and English (CA) with no success. This is a bit worrying since it doesn't seem like a common issue, and it's not like we're using anything unofficial here...
I experienced this same issue on both 4.1 aosp and 4.1.1 aokp.
For me, it turned out that the google-now volume was somehow muted even though my volume level display showed maximum volume. I was able to restore the text-to-speech voice by increasing the volume while within google-now's settings pages.
Try opening google-now and go to: menu > settings > voice.
There, I increased my volume via the rocker and surprisingly found that the volume level display showed muted.
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I experienced this same issue on both 4.1 aosp and 4.1.1 aokp.
For me, it turned out that the google-now volume was somehow muted even though my volume level display showed maximum volume. I was able to restore the text-to-speech voice by increasing the volume while within google-now's settings pages.
Try opening google-now and go to: menu > settings > voice.
There, I increased my volume via the rocker and surprisingly found that the volume level display showed muted.
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I wish the solution was that simple... just tried it an unfortunately my volume was on high already.
Thanks anyway.
Guys, its not only about the Voice, it doesn't show pictures too, for example ask "whats the temperature of the sun". For all those, whose phone doesn't support voice, the picture is not shown too. In my phone, it jus shows 5,778"K.
I guess they apparently released 2 versions around the globe, one with voice and pictures and other without.
lets start from the beginning, wht was the size of your Jelly Bean update ?? mine was 144.9 MB to be exact.
Mine spokes the temperature but no picture shown
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vicky88_nofear said:
Guys, its not only about the Voice, it doesn't show pictures too, for example ask "whats the temperature of the sun". For all those, whose phone doesn't support voice, the picture is not shown too. In my phone, it jus shows 5,778"K.
I guess they apparently released 2 versions around the globe, one with voice and pictures and other without.
lets start from the beginning, wht was the size of your Jelly Bean update ?? mine was 144.9 MB to be exact.
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Yeah, mine is exactly the same too when I ask the same question.
This is so annoying... can't be that there's two different versions as I didn't get the OTA, I flashed the takju 4.1.1 update on Google's servers and started with a fresh install. Unless nobody in Canada has Google Now?
Edit: Out of desperation I tried to clear data on the Google search app... I get photos on my very first search then but to text only unless I clear data again, still don't get any voice even on first search.
Guys I've found a solution, sort of.
It seems you need to be on English (US) to get voice feedback. I thought I had checked this but I had checked the Google search app settings, which doesn't do anything - you need to change the main language by going into Settings > Languages and input - I still have Google search set to English (Canada) but as long as the system language is US you still get voice feedback.
Although, I still don't see images for searches, for example when searching for temperature of the sun. Clearing data brings back the image for one search but then back to text-only.
Thanks Shawn_230 for your tip, but unfortunately, my phone's language settings is already in English (US) and it still doesn't work or even show pictures after clearing data.
I think i promptly have to wait for Google them-self to give a proper explanation or release a fix.
i solve it to my phone
Go Settings, Language & input, Text-to-speech output, press Listen to an example and and immediately press Volume+
vicky88_nofear said:
Thanks Shawn_230 for your tip, but unfortunately, my phone's language settings is already in English (US) and it still doesn't work or even show pictures after clearing data.
I think i promptly have to wait for Google them-self to give a proper explanation or release a fix.
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That's too bad - you sure you changed the phone language though?
Google Now language doesn't seem to matter, you need change the whole phone to US (which ruins everything like units and date format across the whole system by the way...).
Grousso said:
i solve it to my phone
Go Settings, Language & input, Text-to-speech output, press Listen to an example and and immediately press Volume+
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WOW.. this actually worked !! :victory:
But it still shows no picture, I personally think this is soo stupid of Google to keep a bug like this
and i see no pictures yet.
Yup, so changing the system language to US English did the trick! right on! Finally! i've been trying to get this to work for forever. But sadly, yes, it also changes all the units and everything to the imperial system. So i just have to remember to ask it in Celsius what the temperature is.
i solve it by this way
Go to google play music, select any mp3, play it, then press Volume+ to max
Grousso said:
i solve it to my phone
Go Settings, Language & input, Text-to-speech output, press Listen to an example and and immediately press Volume+
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That did it for me also, thank you! I got my phone today directly from Google Play and set it with the Bell Canada network.
After performing your trick, I asked the following questions:
"distance between montreal and new york" - no voice
"what is the weather tomorrow" - voice presents the forecast
"remind me to call manuel in one hour" - voice confirms the alarm
"call queen elisabeth hotel in montreal" - voice confirms call
"listen to billy jean" - voice confirms the play request
"12 x 18.5" - no voice, result shows in calculator
"what is 12 percent of 25" - no voice, result shows in calculator
"3000 feet in miles" - no voice, result shows
"text alex how are you" - no voice, but the text message hits Alex properly
"bus directions to olympic stadium montreal" - voice confirms getting directions
"take me downtown by foot" - voice confirms getting directions
"when is the next montreal impact soccer game" - no voice
"when is the next giants game" - voice confirms the game details
"what time is in toronto" - voice confirms the time in Toronto
"air canada 715" - voice confirms the flight details from Toronto
"what is facebook" - voice confirms the information
"what is fyi" - voice confirms the abbreviation
"where did mark zuckerberg go to school" - no voice, probably because the dude doesn't like Google.
"where did bill gates go to school" - voice confirms information
OK, I got tired of testing, please post other commands that had the voice on.
Same here
dk0r said:
I experienced this same issue on both 4.1 aosp and 4.1.1 aokp.
For me, it turned out that the google-now volume was somehow muted even though my volume level display showed maximum volume. I was able to restore the text-to-speech voice by increasing the volume while within google-now's settings pages.
Try opening google-now and go to: menu > settings > voice.
There, I increased my volume via the rocker and surprisingly found that the volume level display showed muted.
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Same for me somehow I got muted. when to settings and increased the volume in the volume control
*Edit* p.s. i'm on pre-alpha ROM for HTC Desire
Can someone tell me how to get back the system menu buttons (The 3 horizontal lines next to the search icon) in the play store back? I am on version 3.7.15. I don't know how long they have been gone but i noticed today that they are not there anymore. TIA.
The problem that you explaining sounds like an update. Only other thing I can possibly think of is to hit menu and click settings. Snoop around. If not, I think you are SOL.
Sorry.
That is all.
Thank you.
Mods..please close this thread...thanks.
Hi Everyone. I hope you could help me with my situation.
I had the watch about a month now. It was working nicely till a couple of days ago, the ok google stopped working.
When I tap the screen twice, there is a red G speak now. I cant tap on that icon. When replying a sms, the watch doesn't go into the voice recognising mode. I also tried sync with another phone.
I tried resetting to factory default. Reinstalling android wear and moto connect. Still doesn't work. I even tried the settings in Google settings, re recognising the ok google..
Running out of options.. Please help
When the red G Speak now appears do the following:
Speak.
This is the new design since Wear 2.0 Update
I spoke ...
but nothing happens...
Ferderico said:
I spoke ...
but nothing happens...
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Strange, could your microphone have something in the little hole?
i doubt that something is stuck in the little hole at the 9 o'clock position.
cos if i tap on Speak Now - it should have some bars which emulates a sound equaliser... but in my case, there isnt.
So i suspect is a setting. ... sigh..~ btw i am using Samsung Note 4
Ok, excuse me for my upper post.
But without the further infos you have now given, i could not resist to write this.
Test the microphone with an other app.
SleepAsAndroid, LED Music Controller or any soundrecorder which uses the moto360 microphone.
Have you rooted your Samsung and are you restricting apps with xprivacy or a similar program?
If the sound test fails I think your microphone is broken...
Try this. My problem was that "OK Google" only working from Voice Settings Screen using Moto 360 with my Samsung Galaxy S4 running Lollipop. I could not get the "OK Google" feature to work anywhere EXCEPT when I had the SETTINGS/MY DEVICE/LANGUAGE AND INPUT/GOOGLE VOICE TYPING screen open on my phone. Turns out that you have to have the GOOGLE NOW LAUNCHER as the home screen software. It will not work with the TOUCHWIZ HOME as the home screen software. To change this, go to SETTINGS/MORE/DEFAULT APPLICATIONS/HOME and select GOOGLE NOW LAUNCHER.
Static sound coming out
I am having the same issue. Also I am using a custom rom for note 4. I have tried the solution above and it doesnt work. I installed the "wear audio recorder" app and I only hear static sound... Is there an app or something to see if the communication between components working?
A very strange thing happens to me today.
My Pixel XL 128 (never rooted, with bootloader locked and running the lastest official Oreo) suffered a soft reboot when I clicked a YouTube link in the notification shade. After that, I ended up with home and recent buttons, not performing their actions. They still vibrated and the Home button kept the animation. The status bar did not showed notifications, even when they arrived (notification sounds continue to ring), and notification shade pulldown stops working. No mobile network either.
Has anyone else faced this thing?
I had to factory reset (through settings) to use my phone again.
The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
Yep same thing has happened with me as well. I didn't factory reset but I did have to do a reboot for my buttons to work again. Also I get a lot of reboots when I'm using PiP for about 5 mins.
Green_Laser said:
The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
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Exact same symptoms for me on a Nexus 6P with Oreo.
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
WillyBorgChuck said:
Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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ozvic said:
Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
I got the same with my stock XL 128 seemed to just happen for no reason, after messing around with none of the bottom buttons working the square changed to two rectangles on top of each other as the screen went split screen again for no reason after that I could press the "recent" now split screen button to get the options up to select what I wanted on the second half of the screen when I canceled out of that everything was normal.
seems to be a problem with the picture in picture or the split screen, I don't know how I got into it or out of it but just messing around eventually did it for me. it did have me worried at first as at the time I was in google maps and couldn't get out or even use google maps, the bottom buttons reacted as if they worked but ultimately did nothing until the recent button changed.
WillyBorgChuck said:
Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
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Apparently it thinks initial setup is running (or maybe it is in background). During setup it stops you from pressing home, or switching apps, or doing anything of significance. I guess running the setup to completion clears that flag.
Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk
Same here: Needed reboot to get "recent apps" button working (although it did "light up" when i used it).
THANK YOU!
I've had a lot of Google phones issues lately and woke up to this and was getting ready to be annoyed all day. Super easy fix as I run Nova Full anyway!
Saviour
You my friend are amazing. Google were absolutely useless, this fixed the problem and introduced me to Nova, double bonus
Thank you - Just the solution that I was looking for.
Thank you! I registered at xdadevelopers just to say that. I too did not want to do a factory reset and the change User to Guest option was not available. I also tried the enable screen lock to Pattern and rebooted.
Going to Nova Launcher and following your instructions to a T fixed the issue.
Grateful for your effort and time.
ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Thank you soooooooo much for your solution which worked flawlessly and saved me a lot of hassles!!!
Same story, pixel xl 128 GB , stock, no rooted, just reboot , talk with Google , did reset, and yesterday reboot again just laid on my chair.... I don't now what is the problem ....
Pixel XL home button
WillyBorgChuck said:
Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Hi, I've tried downloading Nova and Nova Prime, so desperate with this issue, I paid for it. Of course, it won't download, when I hit install, I get "install pending" or "downloading" this is going on for 4 days now. Please help!!!!
had my screen freeze again today with it being non responsive, it seems to be every time I leave chrome open and chuck it in my pocket, forcing the phone off and turning it back on fixed the problem this time, no clue what is going on with it as it only seems to happen with chrome.
You need to download the apk file through chrome, not through the google play store.
I have to say, thank you for posting that solution! I had this exact thing happen to my phone today, no idea why, but it sure was annoying!
All the same stuff happened to my Pixel XL original. Even lost "ok Google" spoken activation of assistant, and the night light failed to operate even though turned on in settings. Followed Google's advise and did the factory reset. Worked for about 3 days then bang, soft rebooted on its own while switching apps, and then all problems returned. Had the phone for just 6 months so Verizon sent me a replacement. Will see if it holds up. I told Verizon that if it fails again I want a Pixel 2!!!