I have disabled Google Now (I did it on my previous m8 too). Its not something I use often, if at all, and especially back on the m8, swiping up and activing it by accident was irritating.
However, on the HTC10 after disabling google now, it seems to have been replaced with Firefox Search. Or rather, Adblock Search since I use Adblock Browser, which is basically just an adblock specific version of Firefox.
Basically, when you hold down on the home button/fingerprint sensor, when it would usually bring up google now, it instead brings up a search page.
It isnt the first time this has happened. I managed to disable the search thing when I was back on Stock ROM, but since installing a custom one, I've completley forgotten what it was I did.
AH! I've figured it out!
It is a setting burried in the menus. In the settings menu I just searched for the word "draw" as I have a feeling it might be something to do with "draw over other apps". It isnt, but it lead me to the right place. Under "Default Apps" is a setting called "Assist and Voice Input" and it is the selected "assist" app. Click that and select "None". Done. No more annoying pop up menus.
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This is really becoming annoying! I click the Home button, then I check the set default and click Launcher Pro. For a couple of uses, the Home button automatically takes me to Launcher Pro. Then, I'll be web browsing or checking email, click Home, and the options pop-up comes up again asking which launcher i want to use. This happens over and over again. I've even tried sing HTC Sense UI and ADW, same problem. Any possible solutions?
(btw, I'm fully rooted w/ NAND unlocked and I'm running Damage Control 3.2.3 and I've tried uninstalling HTC Sense UI as well as a few other bloatware, which helped things become much more stable, unfortunately this problem still pops up. Oh, 1 more thing, launching web links seem to always ask for which browser to use also, even if I check a default, repeatedly. Could this be related?)
Did you search for the answer?
It's the qik update, uninstall it or reset your default home every time you long press the home button and choose a recently open program.
of course I searched, but I couldn't figure out how to do a boolean AND (I finally was able to find + using google and it works nicely. xda would go a long way to include a little tutorial on how to best use forum search on the advanced search page) so my search wasn't fruitful. I uninstalled Qik. It helped the problem. Thanks for the tip!
I have installed Gooogle Now on my stock rooted Touchwiz ROM from the famous Google Now thread.
My only issue is something is hardcoded in the ROM to not allow me to change what app double tapping home starts. There are no apps on the market that say they can do this that work either. I have tried them all.
My issue now is that if I double tap Google Now's "Voice dialer" only shows up which is an activity within the Now application. I have turned s-voice off as I think Now is better. So basically double tapping (which is also the same thing as holding down a bluetooth device's button for voice search to come up) I can only tell it to call people using the Google Now app. Other people on AOSP ROMs can get the full Now Voice Search to show up when double tapping but something in Touchwiz always defaults it just to the "voice dialer" instead. If I uninstall Now I get an option on double tap to choose s-voice or the normal ICS voice search so I know it can be changed but that same window does not come up asking which default task to use when double tapping with Now installed. I have cleared all defaults also, and that window still doesn't pop up.
So something in the Touchwiz ROM prevents me changing what double tap does, or it is something in Now, but I find that unlikely since other people with other devices (even the SII running touchwiz) can change the function.
Any help would be appreciated.
Our phone has a feature called Quicklinks, whereby if you pressed the search button plus a hardware keyboard key, you could quickly launch applications (i.e. search+e = email app).
Now, a bug in the software meant that the phone would sometimes think the search button was constantly pressed, so you would open the keyboard to answer to an SMS for example, and find yourself launching an app instead. The only workaround was to use the on-screen keyboard.
Before, in GB, this functionality could be disabled by going to Settings->Applications and disabling QuickLinks. This made the problem go away.
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Enter ICS. The feature, with the same bug is still there, but I cannot find the QuickLinks entry in Settings->Applications. I've looked everywhere and I cannot find it.
Does anybody know where it is or how to disable it on the unusable official build of ICS?
So I have tasker and I use it for a couple things, but one thing in particular is I use it so it turns on my screen for 5 seconds when google voice gets a notification. However, in order to have this enabled, tasker needs to have the "tasker - JB" accessibility option checked. When this is checked, it prompts saying "talkback cannot be enabled while airview is enabled, disable airview to enable talkback". If you go ahead and hit disable it turns on "tasker - JB" and turns off airview (though talkback accessibility is still off).
So I was fine with this for a while until I started using my s-pen. Now when I hover over my emails from my email app (not gmail) it will start reading emails as I hover over them. If I turn airview back on (at this point talkback has NEVER been enabled in the options), it still does the same thing.
In conclusion it seems like the tasker - JB accessibility option is causing talkback to be semi-enabled when hovering the s-pen over. I haven't noticed any other apps talking back besides the stock email app, gmail does not talk back.
Just a funny little quirk..
TalkBack with S-pen in mail app
Had the same issue when I installed an app (WatchIt!) for my SmartWatch which required permission for Accessibility Services. So I disabled TalkBack in the Application Manager, guess what, it defaulted to Google TTS Engine (I noticed a voice change). So, I responded like a war dog, and instantly disabled the same... The d’riod hits back, it defaulted to Samsung TTS (another voice change, this time a female). Finally I had the upper hand when I disabled that too. Now it is working fine.
In more 'formal/serious' terms, disable the following three TTS engines:
Google Text-to-speech Engine
Samsung TTS
TalkBack
Please note that you might have to disable any other too if you have more.
The same thing happens to me and it drives me nuts. I wish I could find a way to fix it.
1. Changing home screen pages from the little "bubbles" at the bottom of the home screen makes it say the number "1" "2" "3"
2. Zooming out on the home screens makes it say "Open home screen paged edit"
3. Selecting one makes it say "Home screen 3 of 5"
4. Opening an app folder makes it say "Folder Open" and then when you close it, "Folder Closed".
5. And of course, the most irritating: Hovering over an email with the pen in the email app makes it read the ENTIRE message out...
I need Tasker to get my notifications, there's got to be a way to disable this stupid thing.
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Ive tried looking on the forums and on google.com i have found a lot of stuff stating the same problems but no fixes. So if someone could either explain to me the problem or a solution that would be awesome.
FOr some reason on the Note 2 and S3 i think for that matter Google now wont work 100%
1. if you press menu the menu pops up for a sec and then disappears. only way around this is if you press in the search bar as if you were going to type then you can press menu.
2. I no longer have the little picture at the top that shows either the sun (if its day light) or the moon (if its night) its just the search bar with all my recent searches under it which is super annoying. If i use the fix above to get to the settings and turn google now off and then on i get my little picture back until i leave Google now. then its gone again.
Like I said in the other thread. I was able to uninstall the updates for Google Search and all is well for me.
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Like I said in the other thread. I was able to uninstall the updates for Google Search and all is well for me.
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Before updating google now, go into google now settings/voice/hotword detection and turn it off. Menu button will work fine after the upgrade. Some issue with hotword detection and Note 2.