Has anyone else noticed that we get a different version of the search / Assistant depending on whether we long-press the home button or go via the microphone icon in the google app / home screen search bar?
First screenshot = via microphone icon, second screenshot = long press home.
I've been told that the long-press home version is the old Google Now and the microphone icon version is the "real" Assistant.
Strangely enough, when trying to recognize music, the old version will listen (as shown by the moving equalizer bar) but doesn't give any result, whereas the new version gives a result within a second or so.
I searched the settings but couldn't find anything related to the home button.
Can someone confirm that this is the same on their device, or direct me to the settings where I can perhaps change this?
Running stock Pie with September update (V10.0.14.0)
Thanks in advance.
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I recently updated to 2.3.6 and everything is great except Voice Talk. I know many of you know what I'm talking about. Double tapping home to bring up Voice Talk no longer works. Also, "Auto-start listening" does not work no matter if it is checked or unchecked in settings. There is not an option in the settings to toggle double tap on/off, I know the long press on search works but I use that feature for Sound Hound. Any suggestions?
If you found a double tap home on/off toggle in settings somewhere and you have 2.3.6 installed, please reply with a screen shot and tell me where you found it because I have looked everywhere and I don't see it.
Long hold the search capacitive button
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?
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.
CodeNameRedNeck said:
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.
I have Samsung Galaxy S5 Model 900T (klte)
Lineage OS 14.1 November 23, 2017
API Level Guava (7)
Security Patch Level Novembefr 6, 2017
Baseband Version: G900TUCU1GQC2
Kernel Version 3.4.113-lineageos-g746d931
Build Number: lineage_klte-userdebug 7.1.2 NJH47F-c26202ea25
The phone randomly switches to the split screen mode, usually when I am opening apps or using them (eg. ES File Explorer, Blue Mail, Google Search, Cloud Library, IHeart Radio app). I hear a short vibration, then the phone switches into split screen mode.
I have tried an app called MultiWindow Toggle but this does not solve the problem.
I have tried to switch the function of the short press of the recent button to no action and the long press of the recent button to recent apps switcher, but this makes the phone switch to the recent apps switcher.
I don't know if this is a hardware issue or a software issue, and if the latter, is it the os or some of the apps? Does any one have any guidance for how to solve this issue? It is very intrusive, and I really like the Lineage OS.
Thanks for any help that can be offered.
Sounds like a Hardware issue. Can you deactivate the button and activate software nav bar?
kurtn said:
Sounds like a Hardware issue. Can you deactivate the button and activate software nav bar?
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I managed to modify the file named build.prop using some instructions I found online. It did activate the software nav bar. I expected it to disable the hardware buttons, but it did not. I still had the same problem.
I had to go into the settings for lineage and set the "recents" button to do nothing on short press and nothing on long press. The leftmost button on the nav bar now does nothing as well. The phone still vibrates a short blast randomly, but does not switch. The right most button on the software nav bar the one with the rectangle face, that one activates the task switcher now. The rightmost hardware button still acts as a "back" button, I want that function so I will leave it as is. I can live with that. I don't know a way to activate the split screen in this configuration, but I can live with that as well. Both the hardware home button and the center button on the software nav bar do the same thing now. I would like to be able to program the nav bar to do what I want it to do, is there a way to do that. If not, I can live with this.
Thanks for your help.
Pixel 2 XL
Android 10
March Update
Google Play Services 20.12.14
Google App 11.3.7.21
Since March update here's what happens:
- from the home screen I click on search bar at the bottom
- I type search terms and hit return
- I get the search results
- the top search bar contains the search terms
- I click on an item from the search results
- Chrome is opened
- I swipe back to go back to the search results
- the search results page is shown but...
... the top search bar is blank
... the phone is unresponsive for a few seconds (3-5 seconds)
... the top search bar is filled again with the search items
... the phone becomes responsive again
This happens only if gesture navigation is enabled: if buttons navigation is enabled the freezing issue disappear.
I have also tried in safe mode and the issue happens when gesture navigation is enabled and disappears with button navigation.
This happens also in other apps like Amazon. So seems to be a global problem.
Try the April update?
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Just got it
Will let you know
thegios said:
Pixel 2 XL
Android 10
March Update
Google Play Services 20.12.14
Google App 11.3.7.21
Since March update here's what happens:
- from the home screen I click on search bar at the bottom
- I type search terms and hit return
- I get the search results
- the top search bar contains the search terms
- I click on an item from the search results
- Chrome is opened
- I swipe back to go back to the search results
- the search results page is shown but...
... the top search bar is blank
... the phone is unresponsive for a few seconds (3-5 seconds)
... the top search bar is filled again with the search items
... the phone becomes responsive again
This happens only if gesture navigation is enabled: if buttons navigation is enabled the freezing issue disappear.
I have also tried in safe mode and the issue happens when gesture navigation is enabled and disappears with button navigation.
This happens also in other apps like Amazon. So seems to be a global problem.
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I have this bug after march update too
after April update it fixed.
But I got a more annoying bug
the system UI sometimes freezes while waking up after a long time of screen off