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[Mod][Guide][ICS]How to fully replace S-voice with Google Now voice search

This is simply a tutorial on how to replace Samsung's crappy s-voice with the amazing Google Now voice search!
In order to follow this guide you must be rooted, if you are not and wish to do so, follow the guide here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 If you are already rooted, then continue with the guide!
Step 1: Installing Google Now:
1.)Download the Google now flashable zip here (download the one entitled mikey7 online/offline voice) XDA Google Now Download Thread
2.)Make sure they are on your internal SD card and reboot into recovery
3.)choose install zip file and navigate to wherever the file is (if you are unsure then there is a good chance that it is filed under downloads/mikey7_offline.zip)
4.)once you are done with this, turn your device back on and verify that the app "Google" is in your app drawer
5.)If so then continue with the tutorial, if not then retry and if that does not resolve the issue then post questions in this forum.
Step 2: Activating Google Now
1.)Make sure you have Google latitude installed and have set up your account for latitude before continuing just to be safe.
2.)Launch the Google Now app and go through the setup until you click the "Yes, I'm in." option and your cards appear
3.)Continue to the next and final step or, if you are happy with not being able to launch Now via double tapping the home button, stop here and have a nice day!
Step 3: Replacing S-Voice
1.)Go into S-voice settings and uncheck the option "Launch S-Voice"
2.)Download a free app from the market called "home2 shortcut" (or link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eikatou0.appspot.home2shortcut ..)
3.)Set the double tap home option (Home> Home) to launch "Voice Search" from installed applications. (make sure it displays a blue microphone when you do this)
4.)Continue with the instructions for the app and close the app.
5.)Test it out, if it doesn't launch directly into the voice search after doing the double home then follow the next few steps, if it does then skip to step 8.
6.)Open the Google Now app (it will be listed as "Google" in your app drawer)
7.)Press menu>refresh.
8.)Reboot
9.)Enjoy having Google Now on your Ice cream sandwich Samsung Galaxy S3!
Don't Forget to hit the thanks button if this helped you!
Credits go to:
SilentStormer - kept the Google Now for ICS thread up to date
Slickdaddy96-helped me find apps
Google- For making this awesome Program
Samsung- For the hardware!

Thanks this worked perfectly!

Great post! Thanks!

Thanks for this...is there a way to set this up so that a single press while in my launcher (Nova Launcher) returns to the default screen? Single presses in the launcher do not currently do anything.

OpaqueEcho said:
Thanks for this...is there a way to set this up so that a single press while in my launcher (Nova Launcher) returns to the default screen? Single presses in the launcher do not currently do anything.
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You maybe can go into gestures settings in nova and set up the double tap for voice search in nova. However, you may have to triple press. This was actually my work around for a small time. You may have to buy the premium nova in order to use gestures though. Hope this works!
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the manual search is working perfectlly on my tab 10.1 running 4.0.4.
but the voice function is not. the message of "shell has been granted in su perm" kept appering for tens of times. then the app get forced to close.
thanks for the great effort...

Ghstudent said:
You maybe can go into gestures settings in nova and set up the double tap for voice search in nova. However, you may have to triple press. This was actually my work around for a small time. You may have to buy the premium nova in order to use gestures though. Hope this works!
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Thanks for the reply...should the Back button be doing something in Google Now? It doesn't seem to back out of the application...

OpaqueEcho said:
Thanks for the reply...should the Back button be doing something in Google Now? It doesn't seem to back out of the application...
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I haven't had any problems with it
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So is this more useful than S Voice?

613BulletProof said:
So is this more useful than S Voice?
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Incredibly more useful
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thank you so much it work great!!!

Thanks! It works but unfortunately the home button goes back to home really jerky and unsmooth along with a slight lag. Any fixes?

jfp999 said:
Thanks! It works but unfortunately the home button goes back to home really jerky and unsmooth along with a slight lag. Any fixes?
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I get the same thing on my wife's phone.
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Everything went smooth, just "Step3/#6". I don't have Google Now icon in my app drawer, but I do have "Voice Search" icon.
Is it the same?

ighost77 said:
Everything went smooth, just "Step3/#6". I don't have Google Now icon in my app drawer, but I do have "Voice Search" icon.
Is it the same?
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It will be labeled as "Google" if it isn't then try reflashing the package
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Is it easy to revert back to S-Voice? Not saying i would but if you have to.
Edit: Never mind. Doing the guide in reverse order works.
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This is awesome, the best search experience out there by far, works perfectly thanks!
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tjb433 said:
This is awesome, the best search experience out there by far, works perfectly thanks!
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Seeing fc on rooted stock rom...reverted back to google search
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ak789 said:
Seeing fc on rooted stock rom...reverted back to google search
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Maybe try a reinstall? Havent tried it on stock rooted, I'm running wanamlite 1.2 and it works perfectly, I Also have s-voice disabled if it matters
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ak789 said:
Seeing fc on rooted stock rom...reverted back to google search
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I am running stock rooted Rom..
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LG keyboard greyed out options

Hey all. I just got the phone yesterday and am loving it btw. I liked using the LG keyboard and having the extra row on top with the numbers. However, after messing with it for a while, that disappeared and it started to say each letter out loud and most of the options are greyed out as seen in the screen shot. The only thing I have found in searching that might have caused it is trying out light flow lite. Has anyone else experienced this or know a way to fix it?
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CapnPez said:
Hey all. I just got the phone yesterday and am loving it btw. I liked using the LG keyboard and having the extra row on top with the numbers. However, after messing with it for a while, that disappeared and it started to say each letter out loud and most of the options are greyed out as seen in the screen shot. The only thing I have found in searching that might have caused it is trying out light flow lite. Has anyone else experienced this or know a way to fix it?
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Yes light flow and other apps seems to trigger the talkback feature even though its says its off. The solution I found is to go into setting then apps find the talk back app and uninstall it. Then all that will stop. If you ever need it again you can just install it again. I notice this only happen with LG keyboard. Other 3rd party keyboards are fine
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nthknd said:
Yes light flow and other apps seems to trigger the talkback feature even though its says its off. The solution I found is to go into setting then apps find the talk back app and uninstall it. Then all that will stop. If you ever need it again you can just install it again. I notice this only happen with LG keyboard. Other 3rd party keyboards are fine
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That did it. Thank you so much! However, it worked to simply disable the Talkback app instead of actually uninstalling (it didn't have that as an option since it's a system app). Everything is good now!

CapnPez said:
That did it. Thank you so much! However, it worked to simply disable the Talkback app instead of actually uninstalling (it didn't have that as an option since it's a system app). Everything is good now!
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Oh true I unistalled it from the market. But as long as the end result is the same its all good.
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CapnPez said:
That did it. Thank you so much! However, it worked to simply disable the Talkback app instead of actually uninstalling (it didn't have that as an option since it's a system app). Everything is good now!
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How did you disable it?

stevefxp said:
How did you disable it?
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go to setting then apps then to talk back and you can disable it from there
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nthknd said:
go to setting then apps then to talk back and you can disable it from there
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There is no option there. Only a force stop option, but I believe that once you reboot your device the app is again active.

stevefxp said:
There is no option there. Only a force stop option, but I believe that once you reboot your device the app is again active.
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this is how I did it go to the play store find the talk back app, uninstall from there. then go back and check it in your app draw it will then say enable and stop, once you uninstall it in the app store then your good it uninstall all the updates try that
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nthknd said:
this is how I did it go to the play store find the talk back app, uninstall from there. then go back and check it in your app draw it will then say enable and stop, once you uninstall it in the app store then your good it uninstall all the updates try that
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pics here
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nthknd said:
pics here
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Are you rooted?

stevefxp said:
Are you rooted?
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nope all stock many of the system apps can be disabled by the play store at least that's how I did it
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nthknd said:
nope all stock many of the system apps can be disabled by the play store at least that's how I did it
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Got it and figured out what I was doing wrong. I too also shut down all the bloatware I could using this same technique. Now if I could only disable ATT Address Book for good.

stevefxp said:
Got it and figured out what I was doing wrong. I too also shut down all the bloatware I could using this same technique. Now if I could only disable ATT Address Book for good.
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Oh I just stopped it from syncing, go to setting then syncs and accounts there you'll find the att address book and just uncheck it for syncing that will stop that crap
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Oh I just stopped it from syncing, go to setting then syncs and accounts there you'll find the att address book and just uncheck it for syncing that will stop that crap
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and I think you can disable it from going to apps in setting hitting forced stop then disabling it or maybe even from the play store
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Phone on LMT launcher

Does anybody know why the phone app on my LMT launcher does not work? I'm running wicked v5.1, stock deviant kernel. Is there a workaround? Thanks in advance... :beer::beer::beer:
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Were you asking how to get the lmt pie control to work included in wicked rom? You have to enter the settings and start lmt and then pick where you want it to open from. I hope I helped and if I read it wrong let me know of maybe I can try helping again.

No I'm sorry what I meant was I know how to use it, it's just when I add "phone" as one of the quick apps, it doesn't bring up the dialer?
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Hmm I see I just tried it and it didn't work for me either. I'm thinking of just installing the app itself (not using the wicked one) and see what happens.
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I have actually done that before and still nothing.... thanks though.
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I been having the same problem too. Does your phone lag when youturn your wifi on our off?
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Possible Solution to phone dialer not working on LMT launcher pie
Daniel323la said:
Does anybody know why the phone app on my LMT launcher does not work? I'm running wicked v5.1, stock deviant kernel. Is there a workaround?
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Hello everyone! I am using LMT 2.0 and also have the same problem (the phone app does not work from the pie), but I think I have found a solution.
Under the list of normal commands about the pie, select "app" then select "CONTACTS" from the list of applications. This must be some kind of bug, because instead of opening the list of contacts, it opens up the phone dialer app, instantly.
(hopefully this works on other phones) (I am using a custom rom on jelly bean)

Google Home Launcher. Tried my best to provide info and files. Good luck!!

Google Home Launcher. Files and instructions. Should work on most Jelly Bean phones.
Download the files.
1st - PrebuiltGmsCore.apk (Google Play Services) first.
2nd - Velvet.apk (Google Now)
3rd - GoogleHome.apk
Place the lib file in System/lib folder and fix permissions (owner , group and others should be checked under READ)
(ONLY owner should be checked under WRITE)
Reboot.
Thats all I did. If OK Google doesn't work do this.....
Settings - voice - offline speech recognition- install language of choice. I use English. - switch to english UK and perform a search and then swich back to normal language. That shoult make everything functional. If not.....I tried. Works for me!
https://db.tt/cOn39wd9 feel free to upload this wherever.
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For some reason I cannot push the file into system/lib
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dayzesrs said:
For some reason I cannot push the file into system/lib
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I just pasted it in there using root explorer.
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you guys also need this lib, just sayin
also after you add this file reboot

Got this working! Thanks so much!
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Thanks for posting. Seems to work until I use Google now. For example when I ask "what is the weather" it starts to work then says "unfortunately Google search has stopped". Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Got this working! Thanks so much!
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FIXED: as the OP states I had to change the language to English UK do a search then back to English US
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Got everything working, plus I change the icons for the phone,camera, so it looks more like 4.4.

Just in case some one wants to try it.

jokersax11 said:
you guys also need this lib, just sayin
also after you add this file reboot
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The lib file is included in the zip file I posted. Even has the instructions.
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ajizle123 said:
Got this working! Thanks so much!
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Glad its working for you. I find it a much better google now experience
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helloyoufool said:
Just in case some one wants to try it.
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Thanks for the icons. However, the backgrounds aren't transparent. Could you perhaps provide us with versions with a transparent background? Thanks again.

are the apk being installed just like regular apk's or are they being pushed to a specific folder?

Nvm got it to work, looks like it has potential, it would be good if we could set our own settings for the drawer and if we could hide certain apps
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So when I tried to install PrebuiltGmsCore.apk, it said "application not installed", but I went thru and installed everything else, rebooted and it seems to be working ok. Should I be worried?

This hack is awesome. Makes the ROM 2 x faster.
One other question,
I've noticed on my home screen tile it doesn't have number indicators next to the stock e-mail and SMS icons to show how many items are unread. Is this by design? Any way to fix this?

i believe that is how its designed.. hopefully they will add that feature at a later date

How to make the status bar transparent?

Has anyone been having some random reboots? Seems to happen when the battery gets lower then 10%. Happens maybe once a day.

princeferoz said:
How to make the status bar transparent?
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when you'll find the answer, please let us know.
thank you.

helloyoufool said:
Got everything working, plus I change the icons for the phone,camera, so it looks more like 4.4.
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Hi, how to change the dialer icon to look like kit kat dialer. Thanks in advance
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Optimus G and the Google Now Launcher

Hey there,
Just tried to install the new Google Now Launcher / Google Experience Launcher on my phone. I am running stock first of all.
Tried almost all apks for the new Google search and Google home app. But when I select the Google launcher, I will just end up with forced closes. Changing the phones language and/or Google search language just won't work for me. Same problem with all settings and apks.
Anybody here using or having used the new launcher on their Gs?
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Kevtronimus said:
Hey there,
Just tried to install the new Google Now Launcher / Google Experience Launcher on my phone. I am running stock first of all.
Tried almost all apks for the new Google search and Google home app. But when I select the Google launcher, I will just end up with forced closes. Changing the phones language and/or Google search language just won't work for me. Same problem with all settings and apks.
Anybody here using or having used the new launcher on their Gs?
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Please try this. If this does not work then it probably doesn't work on stock.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vz7ejmeuglpi9mh/GoogleHome.apk
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Thx,
Google search still crashes after selecting Google home...
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Kevtronimus said:
Thx,
Google search still crashes after selecting Google home...
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Google search ?
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Maybe try the new launcher that Google posted and see how that works? It's currently only for GPe and Nexus devices, but I'm sure it's been leaked on the internet SOMEWHERE.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.launcher
I actually have had the same problem as the OP and would like the launcher, so I will be searching myself and seeing how this works. Will keep you posted.

BG64 said:
and would like the launcher, so I will be searching myself and seeing how this works. Will keep you posted.
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I am waiting...

niyazidk said:
I am waiting...
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Oh calm down. XD
The mirror just got posted- http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407574586 . I haven't tried it yet, but now you can.

Parsing problems. I have copied to system/app with rw-r-r without succes

Perhaps it might work on xboxfanj based roms as he predominantly uses mako sources?
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nchc said:
Perhaps it might work on xboxfanj based roms as he predominantly uses mako sources?
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No i will never try to flash an Lg, never again...

Strangely enough, I have the same problems. I want to know how LG made this not work without issuing a single update. -.-
Sorry to disappoint everyone, but I don't think that the new launcher will work on our phones until it is released for everyone via the Play Store.

KitKat only
I think the Google Now Luncher only works on KitKat Roms