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Annoying voice in stock browser

Each time a new page is loaded in the stock browser, I get this voice message saying "Loading started" and then "Page loaded". Totally useless, disturbing and stupid.
I searched everywhere and I can't find the switch to stop it. Can Someone help me?
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i couldnt find answer either but i stopped using stock browser and the voice doesnt happen on chrome

Either talkback is enabled or something else under accessibility. I had this problem using the app iphone notifications. I froze both the Samsung text to speech and google text to speech using titanium backup and it has stopped.
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I have the same issue. Do you have Light Flow installed? If you do, I believe it is a bug with that app and/or TalkBack.

Subaru_Nation555 said:
I have the same issue. Do you have Light Flow installed? If you do, I believe it is a bug with that app and/or TalkBack.
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can confirm that its a bug with light flow.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
I tried disabling Lightflow and Talkback and the problem remained.
I also revised tbe Accessibility options and saw nothing that would cause this. I tried both Samsung and Google Text-to-speech - unfortunately there is no option to disable it.
Guess I'll switch to Chrome... When the designers try to make a phone too intelligent, it becomes stupid!!!
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I have the same problem...
I have also Tasker in accessibility, and from some quick tests I think that if any of accessibility items (TalkBack, LightFlow or Tasker) is on "yes" then the problem occurs
I will do more tests in this evening ...
It's very annoying ... !

Had the same issue. Try turning off all of the "Services" under your accessibility settings. Even those that seem unrelated. For me in was a notification service for a dashclock widget. Wasn't very obvious, but simple enough. Of course, you can turn them back on one by one to determine the culprit.

Problem solved
thomwithah said:
Had the same issue. Try turning off all of the "Services" under your accessibility settings. Even those that seem unrelated. For me in was a notification service for a dashclock widget. Wasn't very obvious, but simple enough. Of course, you can turn them back on one by one to determine the culprit.
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Yes, this is the cause. Lightflow is doing this. I switched to Chrome and the problem is solved. Samsung are good at hardware but not very good at software.
Thanks for your reply
J

Have you tried actually uninstalling it? I had to do that before the issues went away.. I love lightflow, but the bugginess is just too much of a pain right now.
Jgobeil said:
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
I tried disabling Lightflow and Talkback and the problem remained.
I also revised tbe Accessibility options and saw nothing that would cause this. I tried both Samsung and Google Text-to-speech - unfortunately there is no option to disable it.
Guess I'll switch to Chrome... When the designers try to make a phone too intelligent, it becomes stupid!!!
Sent from my SGH-M919V using xda premium
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This is discussed over in the Pebble forums. Apparently Samsung has a few bugs in their software, various parts of the system treat "any app that is using accessibility" to mean "talk back is activated" and behaving accordingly. A few problems were noted on earlier phones and those have been fixed (pending new updates being pushed by the carriers), but meanwhile the S4 ships with some new bugs along those lines, including annoying voice prompts on the browser and the stock gallery.
Even worse, the workaround for prior models was to disable Samsung and Google TTS services, but the stock S4 ROM refuses to let you disable the Samsung TTS service so there is no way to get rid of this (sans rooting).
The S4 Touchwiz ROM also turns off many features that don't work well if Talkback is activated, but does so if any accessibility app is active even if TB is turned off.
Apparently using a non-Touchwiz launcher can fix it, as can using a non-stock browser.
References:
http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/1312/accessibility-question-on-android
http://www.productigeeky.com/faq/#1
http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/3215/samsung-talkback-issue-and-pebble
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/thread/samsung-devices-and-accessibility-services/77/204387

Ok google from any screen - voice training

Hello all,
I am trying to turn on ok Google detection from any screen in the Google app (settings ~ voice ~ ok google detection).
When in voice training, it asks me to say OK google thrice. But It does not seem to detect my voice (only during this training) even once!
I have verified that the app has the necessary permissions. Worth pointing out that it works ok when I manually click the microphone within the Google app.
Has anyone else faced a similar problem? And/ or could make suggestions to help?
Thanks!

tropicanapure said:
Hello all,
I am trying to turn on ok Google detection from any screen in the Google app (settings ~ voice ~ ok google detection).
When in voice training, it asks me to say OK google thrice. But It does not seem to detect my voice (only during this training) even once!
I have verified that the app has the necessary permissions. Worth pointing out that it works ok when I manually click the microphone within the Google app.
Has anyone else faced a similar problem? And/ or could make suggestions to help?
Thanks!
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Your voice settings may be set to English US and you may have different accent. Try English India if you are Indian or try saying Google in a US accent.
Worked for me.
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awsmanks said:
Your voice settings may be set to English US and you may have different accent. Try English India if you are Indian or try saying Google in a US accent.
Worked for me.
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Actually I have my language set to English UK and this has worked for me on the Oneplus One.
Any other suggestions?

Google Assistant

I had Google Assistant working it just came out of nowhere. I reset the phone now it's gone. How do I get it back.

cmanju88 said:
I had Google Assistant working it just came out of nowhere. I reset the phone now it's gone. How do I get it back.
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Is your language set to English US?
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cmanju88 said:
I had Google Assistant working it just came out of nowhere. I reset the phone now it's gone. How do I get it back.
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I had faced similar issues. Go to settings>> apps>> google app tap on three dots and select uninstall updates. Reboot your device. Open playstore update google app and assistant will appear
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I've only just noticed that I now have assistant. I thought it was still on US.
I've just set up all my smart home devices and it's working really well

abhayruparel said:
I had faced similar issues. Go to settings>> apps>> google app tap on three dots and select uninstall updates. Reboot your device. Open playstore update google app and assistant will appear
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I'll try and let you know

Resetting the phone didn't work, clearing app data and reinstalling fight work.

9.0.5/9.0.6 OOS 5T issues with 'OK Google' access for Google Voice

No matter how many times i delete/retrain the voice model, diaable/renable/update the Google app, the Google app never actually activates the 'Access with Voice Match' option as seen in the picture. It's not 'greyed out' per se, but when i select it and click 'yes I'm in and 'finish', nothing actually happens and it just remains deactivated, as seen in the picture. Any advice would be welcome.

Uninstall google app updates from play store. Enable google voice. Update google app. All will be good.
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1stHTCphone said:
Uninstall google app updates from play store. Enable google voice. Update google app. All will be good.
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When I remove update and go to the voice settings, the option is truly greyed out, see screenshot.

I had the exact same problem as you before. It allows me to enable it after I remove all google update. Try clear cache and reboot? Good luck.
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marcsmv3 said:
When I remove update and go to the voice settings, the option is truly greyed out, see screenshot.
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If you are rooted try this out

intoxicated.mad said:
If you are rooted try this out
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I am. No luck, just tried.

I have the same issue! Removing the update fixes it, but once Google app updates itself it's turned off again. I submitted a bug report, you should do the same! Hopefully it gets fixed.

Same for me on ob31
What i did was to uninstall updates for google app and disable autoupdate from playstore
Also if you uninstall the update and retain voice settings, the voice commands will still work if you update again but you don't open google assistant settings

Makerrr said:
Same for me on ob31
What i did was to uninstall updates for google app and disable autoupdate from playstore
Also if you uninstall the update and retain voice settings, the voice commands will still work if you update again but you don't open google assistant settings
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Would work if I could get the setting to activate in the first place at all, but like I said, whether I remove the update or not it's either greyed out or just plain doesn't activate.

freyrnygaard said:
I have the same issue! Removing the update fixes it, but once Google app updates itself it's turned off again. I submitted a bug report, you should do the same! Hopefully it gets fixed.
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Do you remember when it last worked? I remember it working before OOS 9.0.5 I think...

marcsmv3 said:
Do you remember when it last worked? I remember it working before OOS 9.0.5 I think...
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Well i am on ob31, and last worked on beta 29 i think

1stHTCphone said:
I had the exact same problem as you before. It allows me to enable it after I remove all google update. Try clear cache and reboot? Good luck.
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Tried clearing cache/reboot after downgrading, option still greyed out.

Also having similar issue, I get voice recognition after initial reboot, but then does not recognize voice thereafter.

Great news! OOS 9.0.7 has fixed this issue for me completely. I am now changing channels on SiriusXM app via OK Google voice command while listening through my car stereo's Bluetooth and shifting gears at the same time. Brilliant.

Question Bugs - Voice Dictation & Lock screen Text

Hi all!
I got my RM8P yesterday. I really like the device, but definitely see the software lackings that everyone has mentioned.
My current bugs:
1. I copied my data from my Pixel 6 Pro to the RMP8. It also copied the lock screen text I had "My Google Pixel 6 Pro, *****es". So when I go into personalized setting to try to change this text, it won't let me. When I click the option, it just goes back to the Settings menu.
2. More importantly, my voice dictation/voice to text functionality is now broken. It was fine until this afternoon when I updated a bunch of apps in Play Store. Now, no voice dictation is working for any app. I've tried every possible app and rebooting. The OK Google still works so it's "hearing" my voice in general.
Any feedback?
Thanks!
EDIT: I figured out that enabling Google Assistant (Hey Google) broke the voice dictation. Strange that it breaks it.

darbylonia said:
Hi all!
I got my RM8P yesterday. I really like the device, but definitely see the software lackings that everyone has mentioned.
My current bugs:
1. I copied my data from my Pixel 6 Pro to the RMP8. It also copied the lock screen text I had "My Google Pixel 6 Pro, *****es". So when I go into personalized setting to try to change this text, it won't let me. When I click the option, it just goes back to the Settings menu.
2. More importantly, my voice dictation/voice to text functionality is now broken. It was fine until this afternoon when I updated a bunch of apps in Play Store. Now, no voice dictation is working for any app. I've tried every possible app and rebooting. The OK Google still works so it's "hearing" my voice in general.
Any feedback?
Thanks!
EDIT: I figured out that enabling Google Assistant (Hey Google) broke the voice dictation. Strange that it breaks it.
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I was about to tell you that disabling hey google fixed the dictation thing. The first os layer is funny af, it does that and doesn't carry the swipe between apps gesture. And a bunch of things, I worked the hey google with the swipe from a corner gesture tbh I don't use Google assistant that much but still it was a thing

Alextakatu said:
I was about to tell you that disabling hey google fixed the dictation thing. The first os layer is funny af, it does that and doesn't carry the swipe between apps gesture. And a bunch of things, I worked the hey google with the swipe from a corner gesture tbh I don't use Google assistant that much but still it was a thing
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I don't use hey Google assistant too often, but I do use it occasionally. It's just strange that I have to choose between enabling that functionality and enabling voice dictation. I guess I'll choose the voice dictation and give up Google assistant or enable it when I feel I need to use it at times. I'm not sure it's a Red Magic thing as it may be a broader Android thing.

darbylonia said:
I don't use hey Google assistant too often, but I do use it occasionally. It's just strange that I have to choose between enabling that functionality and enabling voice dictation. I guess I'll choose the voice dictation and give up Google assistant or enable it when I feel I need to use it at times. I'm not sure it's a Red Magic thing as it may be a broader Android thing.
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Pretty sure it's only a redmagic thing. Their support has been largely useless when I attempted to alert them to this issue.

darbylonia said:
Hi all!
I got my RM8P yesterday. I really like the device, but definitely see the software lackings that everyone has mentioned.
My current bugs:
1. I copied my data from my Pixel 6 Pro to the RMP8. It also copied the lock screen text I had "My Google Pixel 6 Pro, *****es". So when I go into personalized setting to try to change this text, it won't let me. When I click the option, it just goes back to the Settings menu.
2. More importantly, my voice dictation/voice to text functionality is now broken. It was fine until this afternoon when I updated a bunch of apps in Play Store. Now, no voice dictation is working for any app. I've tried every possible app and rebooting. The OK Google still works so it's "hearing" my voice in general.
Any feedback?
Thanks!
EDIT: I figured out that enabling Google Assistant (Hey Google) broke the voice dictation. Strange that it breaks it.
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Hello, I have Alexa installed as the main assistant, if you select it as the default transcription program, it already works for you to transcribe messages. The failure after several tests I have realized that when you select Google as an assistant it stops working, the mobile does not listen to you. I have already opened several incidents on the Magic network page but they only tell me that I formatted the mobile.