I've exhausted my search efforts on both Google and the Forums and either my search terms are too vague or there simply isn't a thread out there which addresses this issue.
My Google Now on my N7100 is now insisting on redirecting all searches to an external browser, whether it be the Popup Browser, Stock Sammy Browser, or Chrome, depending on which I decide. Every time I do a search with Google Now, it always pops up the chooser. It didn't do this before. I recently uninstalled Chrome and before that searches were always completed inside the Google Search app and then all links would go to whatever default I would choose. Now, it always insists on performing the search through whatever Browser I have chosen as default. I tried reinstalling Chrome, but that didn't make a difference.
Is there anyway to get the Google Now searches back to being performed in the search app, and not forced to an outside browser?
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When I use the Google Search app, I just want to type a few letters and find whatever app/contact/etc I want to find. I hate having the history shown every time I search for something. Is there anyway to disable it completely?
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Go to the Market and get an app called HistoryEraser. Cleans up a lot of other cached stuff too.
Disable google search history online
I occasionally clear and turn off or on my search history in my google settings. This can be done through mobile device's browser, or on PC. Launch browser and log onto your google (you can start through gmail, for example) account through any PC browser. Go to your google settings and clear all or whatever search history you want, and you can set history to "off" if you want. When you launch your browser on any other device PC, phone, whatever) log onto google account again immediately and you should see that your browsing with same history settings continues regardless of device used, until you specify new change.
Final detail: After setting your account preferences for history I'm not sure how this would work in non-stock browser if you're not logged onto your google account.
Is it me or Google Voice Search does not do map search anymore?
I don't know how long has it been, but just tried the Voice Search and it always default to the browser.
That's a bummer.
Ok figured it out.
Apparently, you can't say "show map..." anymore, but just "map..."
Does it need the stock browser to show the search results? I don't have stock browser. Its giving me force close when i tap on one of the result options.
Ashaman's mod had the option to re enable universal search in Google Search. I prefer being able to use search to search for apps, contacts etc. I'm wondering if there is any to not have it show results by default when opening search. For example, when I open search, it'll show most people contacted and my last searches. I rather it didn't.
I cleared the data under app management and that seemed to do the trick. Except as soon as I searched for something that same list was back. Any way to get rid of it?
The other day I did a hard reset. All is back to normal with the exception of one thing. I no longer have a search history on the phone. When I click the search bar at the top of the home screen, none of my past searches are there. When I go into the search settings, the "clear on-device search history" is greyed out.
I do have my google account set to have my web history paused, but I don't think that is the same as my search history on my phone.
Is there a setting that I'm overlooking that needs to be turned on or off? I 've looking everywhere on the phone I can think of and no luk. I know it did save my searches before the reset.
Side note: I noticed that the google search app is no longer in the play store when I search for it via the phone, but it's installed on the phone. I do know that my tablet running official jelly bean does have search history and the search app shows up on the play store with that device.
Thanks for the help.
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.