Hi all, just wondering if anyone is using Google assistant here and encountering any problem with it. My Google routine on the phone returns search results instead of activating the routine. For eg, when I say, ok Google turn on the fan, it shows me the search results for turning on the fan instead.
I have all other notes and all working fine. Been trying to resolve this for the past few days.
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I just noticed mine does the same. I'm not using it for home automation, but it just opens search results and nothing in a window of its own.
Also when I say "OK Google" the window that opens only takes up half the screen
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I just figured it out. Long press the home button to physically activate Google assistant. It will then take you through a real quick set up process and it should work normally
magnumtripod said:
I just noticed mine does the same. I'm not using it for home automation, but it just opens search results and nothing in a window of its own.
Also when I say "OK Google" the window that opens only takes up half the screen
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I just figured it out. Long press the home button to physically activate Google assistant. It will then take you through a real quick set up process and it should work normally
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Managed to resolve it. Need to disable the stupid bixby totally in order to work. Thanks for the tip.
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So I had heard from everyone how bad S-voice is and I almost didn't even use it. However, I started using it yesterday and so far it's great. It transcribes me almost perfectly and it is much easier to send text messages and call people versus remembering the exact syntax for google search. Also, the ability to snooze my alarm this morning without having to fumble half-asleep for my phone by simply saying "Snooze" is amazing. Has one else been pleasantly surprised as well?
Bottom line -- this phone just keeps getting better.
PS Is there anyway to use the voice controls that Samsung has for the stock music app for the google music app? Or is there a way to connect the samsung music player to my google music songs in the cloud? Thanks
Here's another tip about S voice , if you or others didn't know about it already. Open your app tray or anything else then click home button on bottom of the phone. There will be a slight delay. Sorry to point this out because most people I show didn't notice it until I said something.
Now go into S voice and remove the setting "Open via home key".
Now click the home key and enjoy your instant back to home with greater speed
The home button is waiting to ensure that you didn't mean to double click it. So with this setting off its like 'no reason to wait take em home'.
(Doesn't mean you can't use s'voice again just put it on a shortcut).
Rockasama said:
Here's another tip about S voice , if you or others didn't know about it already. Open your app tray or anything else then click home button on bottom of the phone. There will be a slight delay. Sorry to point this out because most people I show didn't notice it until I said something.
Now go into S voice and remove the setting "Open via home key".
Now click the home key and enjoy your instant back to home with greater speed
The home button is waiting to ensure that you didn't mean to double click it. So with this setting off its like 'no reason to wait take em home'.
(Doesn't mean you can't use s'voice again just put it on a shortcut).
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Nice. Is there a way to change the long press on the home button to bring up Google Voice instead of S-Voice?
I usually use and prefer Google Now, but have used S-voice to add appointments to my calendar as Google Now doesn't do it directly. S-voice is also the default voice command app when I use my Bluetooth headset, and it works well for calls.
But in general it's MUCH slower than Google Now to find or look up things (weather, local restaurants).
Milkman00 said:
Nice. Is there a way to change the long press on the home button to bring up Google Voice instead of S-Voice?
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I would like to know this as well, or if anyone has some tips of how to access google now quickly.
Right now I have the shortcut on my lockscreen, the google search bar on my homescreen, and can long-press the menu button from the homescreen. None of these methods seems to directly activate Google Now to listen to me though, I still have to tap the microphone. I'd like to be able to use it like I did with Siri on my iPhone...
check out home2shortcut app on play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...0.appspot.home2shortcut&feature=search_result
Milkman00 said:
Nice. Is there a way to change the long press on the home button to bring up Google Voice instead of S-Voice?
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lmike6453 said:
check out home2shortcut app on play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...0.appspot.home2shortcut&feature=search_result
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Excellent suggestion. Thank you. It does add in a slight delay now when I press the home button, but being able to double-tap to Voice Search is awesome. Wish it would work on the lockscreen too...
UCLAKoolman said:
Right now I have the shortcut on my lockscreen, the google search bar on my homescreen, and can long-press the menu button from the homescreen. None of these methods seems to directly activate Google Now to listen to me though[.] I still have to tap the microphone.
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In Google Voice Search Menu>Settings>Voice, select Hotword Detection. Then when you start Google Voice Search, you can say "Google" instead of tapping the mic to get started.
Guys, if you are at home already, click and hold menu key, launches Google Now. Then no delay on home key. But now you have some options
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hrivner said:
PS Is there anyway to use the voice controls that Samsung has for the stock music app for the google music app? Or is there a way to connect the samsung music player to my google music songs in the cloud? Thanks
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I froze the stock music player with Titanium BU and tested with S voice (hoping to get a prompt to choose a music player) and it just sits there
Google now, say "play Journey" it will prompt which music player you want to use (as long as you have a few options) and then you'd be set.
Rockasama said:
Here's another tip about S voice , if you or others didn't know about it already. Open your app tray or anything else then click home button on bottom of the phone. There will be a slight delay. Sorry to point this out because most people I show didn't notice it until I said something.
Now go into S voice and remove the setting "Open via home key".
Now click the home key and enjoy your instant back to home with greater speed
The home button is waiting to ensure that you didn't mean to double click it. So with this setting off its like 'no reason to wait take em home'.
(Doesn't mean you can't use s'voice again just put it on a shortcut).
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Wow. That helped a lot since I'm not a s voice fan. Thanks for the tip!
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Long press the menu button & Google now/search will come up
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Guys, if you are at home already, click and hold menu key, launches Google Now. Then no delay on home key. But now you have some options
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I froze the stock music player with Titanium BU and tested with S voice (hoping to get a prompt to choose a music player) and it just sits there
Google now, say "play Journey" it will prompt which music player you want to use (as long as you have a few options) and then you'd be set.
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Google now isnt google search tho.
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So far I am finding S Voice much more useful for activity integrated to the device wheras google Now is more useful for searches.
Example With Svoice I can ask for a particualr song and it will play it. Same to launch an app or text someone check schedule.....
I am finding that with Google now it will launch music player to a group but not a specific song etc.....
Thanks! OP!!!!! That was an incredible piece of info.
Rockasama said:
Here's another tip about S voice , if you or others didn't know about it already. Open your app tray or anything else then click home button on bottom of the phone. There will be a slight delay. Sorry to point this out because most people I show didn't notice it until I said something.
Now go into S voice and remove the setting "Open via home key".
Now click the home key and enjoy your instant back to home with greater speed
The home button is waiting to ensure that you didn't mean to double click it. So with this setting off its like 'no reason to wait take em home'.
(Doesn't mean you can't use s'voice again just put it on a shortcut).
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This does remove the lag, but it also (for my ROM anyway), changes how a press of the home button functions when your screen is off.
With this option unchecked, a press of the home button when the screen is off opens to my home screen, rather than just waking the device to display the last app you were running when display was turned off (very annoying for me). Thus, I have just been dealing with the lag to get the desired wake screen behavior. If anyone knows a way around this, it would be appreciated.
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This does remove the lag, but it also (for my ROM anyway), changes how a press of the home button functions when your screen is off.
With this option unchecked, a press of the home button when the screen is off opens to my home screen, rather than just waking the device to display the last app you were running when display was turned off (very annoying for me). Thus, I have just been dealing with the lag to get the desired wake screen behavior. If anyone knows a way around this, it would be appreciated.
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I actually posted a thread about how the home button removes everything and takes me to the home screen immediately. I guess this was the culprit. Hmmmmm.....
I'm not totally sure if that area is totally disabled or just simply rom's error.
The best to describe that part is when I use my phone horizontally (home button, port charger, etc... is on the right hand side), the backspace button ( "<---" when typing) is not responding, and I can't delete the texts. Turn the phone around and it works just fine. using other apps, horizontal and vertical also got slow responds around that area.
using LGOG Korea ver only for about a month.
Im typing a text in the right-handed landscape mod.
Works good for me so far, no problems. Backspace working good. But i use emm, actually i dont remember name of that keyboard. Something pro
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Just tried, no problems for me.
I am a motorcycle rider and recently switched to LG G4 from iPhone 6. I would be a happy camper if I had something on par with siri. I have a bluetooth (SENA) headset installed in my helmet. I need the ability to activate Google Now so that I can say things like "Navigate to _____," "Call _______," Read my messages, etc. etc.
Voice Mate doesn't work. I hit the button and nothing happens...it ends up getting locked up or something.
Is there a way to use Google Now when i click the button on my bluetooth device?
Why would LG even feature Voice Mate over Google Now when it is SO FAR BEHIND. Makes zero sense not to give us the option to use the Google feature on a google phone (the reason I end up always going back to apple...)
You're trying to activate Google Now with the screen off?
As far as I know, GN does not activate with the screen off unless it's plugged into a charging device. You can see this from the settings --> voice --> "OK Google" detection. I am unaware of how Voice Mate works, since I disabled it from the start.
Does the iPhone allow you to activate Siri while screen's off?
Yeah there's a voice dialer app on the g4, locate it and disable it in settings. The g4 will them redirect to Google now! Don't think you can disable voice mate but it won't activate without the voice dialer app
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I bet you can accomplish this. I have an annoying bug where most times I plug my regular headset in, the phone thinks I'm plugging in a headset+mic, and launches google now (it used to try to launch the LG voice mate, but after installing the ZV6 update, it launches google now).
So, if you could just duplicate that, maybe cut the wires and splice a new switch to duplicate whatever my malfunction is, it might work? Have you updated to the latest Over The Air update?
Use the Debloater tool on XDA to disable the VoiceMate apk. That's how I got Google Now to work on a long press on the middle button from my headphones.
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I am NOT trying to activate it via voice at all. I simply want Google now to work when I push the button on my bluetooth device. Yes sir I does this s.
To do that I would have to have root. Is that very difficult to accomplish on the LG g4?
Thank you Cor-master! That worked!
JeffXT said:
Use the Debloater tool on XDA to disable the VoiceMate apk. That's how I got Google Now to work on a long press on the middle button from my headphones.
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Cor-master said:
Yeah there's a voice dialer app on the g4, locate it and disable it in settings. The g4 will them redirect to Google now! Don't think you can disable voice mate but it won't activate without the voice dialer app
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Sfkn2 said:
You're trying to activate Google Now with the screen off?
As far as I know, GN does not activate with the screen off unless it's plugged into a charging device. You can see this from the settings --> voice --> "OK Google" detection. I am unaware of how Voice Mate works, since I disabled it from the start.
Does the iPhone allow you to activate Siri while screen's off?
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I was simply hoping for Google Now whenever I pressed the button on my Bluetooth.
Voyaging said:
I was simply hoping for Google Now whenever I pressed the button on my Bluetooth.
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That's what it does when you disable the voice dialer. Seriously I gave a plantronics headset and an arctic sound Bluetooth speaker in which I both push the button to activate Google now and keep my phone in my pocket. All you have to do is disable the voice dialer app that's it. The voice dialer is what comes up by default not voice mate
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Voyaging said:
Thank you Cor-master! That worked!
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Sorry didn't see this before I replied. Glad to hear!
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Cor-master said:
That's what it does when you disable the voice dialer. Seriously I gave a plantronics headset and an arctic sound Bluetooth speaker in which I both push the button to activate Google now and keep my phone in my pocket. All you have to do is disable the voice dialer app that's it. The voice dialer is what comes up by default not voice mate
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Sorry didn't see this before I replied. Glad to hear!
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Yeah - I'm not very good at forums. I'm figuring out how to quote in replies so it's easier to follow. Thats on me. Thanks again for this simple solution. I do A LOT of motorcycling. To push the bluetooth button and be able to say "navigate to _____" is huge for me. Thanks to you, i can now do that. bravo!
I've notice this problem, it's not huge but it's annoying, and I don't think it's just my phone because CNet's reviewer mentioned this too. Basically, whenever I screengrab something via Smart Select (say, a tweet, or a Whatsapp message, or Facebook post) and share the picture, if the app to which i'm sharing has a text/caption box, the phone will auto text extract and paste the text in the photos into the box.
i've provided an example in the attachment. as you can see, i'm trying to send a screen capture of a chat to another friend and all the text inside the pic got extracted too. so i had to spend 5 seconds deleting all the text.
ALSO, while i'm at it... i also notice that even though i changed the notification sound to one specific sound in general settings, many apps still make its own sound when notifying me, and i have to go into that app's specific settings to change the sound. some apps, like youtube, just don't give that option, so i'm basically stuck with that one unwanted notification sound from youtube whenever i get a comment.
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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Here is an easy fix. Hit smart select and crop the image you want to send. Next tap the draw button INSTEAD of the share button. After you click draw button hit the SEND button at the bottom.
Hi Gang
Is everyone aware that active Google hotword detection works on this phone? eg. "Ok Google" detected during screen off. Too cool!
You just need to turn on "Lock screen personal details" under voice match else it'll ask you to unlock your phone when you make certain requests such as "Play "x" on spotify".
jackson88 said:
Hi Gang
Is everyone aware that active Google hotword detection works on this phone? eg. "Ok Google" detected during screen off. Too cool!
You just need to turn on "Lock screen personal details" under voice match else it'll ask you to unlock your phone when you make certain requests such as "Play "x" on spotify".
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I was aware that hotword worked but I am unable to find the setting 'lock screen personal details' Would love to get rid of the unlock your phone message.
Please could you give further details on how to do this
Ian
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jackson88 said:
Hi Gang
Is everyone aware that active Google hotword detection works on this phone? eg. "Ok Google" detected during screen off. Too cool!
You just need to turn on "Lock screen personal details" under voice match else it'll ask you to unlock your phone when you make certain requests such as "Play "x" on spotify".
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Found it now!