Dears,
it's a few months I'm dealing with an absurd problem with Google Assistant on my S20 Ultra.
Firmware releases have passed as Google app versions, but problem persists and Samsung's support is useless.
My phone is set to Italian.
Simply, after some time Google Assistant begins to appear half in English and half in Italian.
Check this video for better understanding:
As you can see, it doesn't work either in English or Italian till I kill it.
I checked all language settings in my phone and in the Assistant's settings, it's all set to Italian.
I just have English and Italian as offline speech recognition languages, as English cannot be uninstalled.
Clearing Google app's data, reinstalling the app and also factory resetting the phone doesn't fix.
I honestly have no more ideas.
Any suggestions?
Regards
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When navigating in maps I still get a voice telling me to turn but it no longer says the street names. I'm sure it's some kind of setting or conflict but I can figure out what caused the voice turn by turn to stop saying the street names.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
You only get the names if you have tts enabled. Check your settings.
nispen,
Thanks for the reply. In TTS settings there's nothing there to change or set or turn off/on. It looks like I can install Ivona TTS but what happened to the one that comes with Android?
Sorry, I don't know. The reason I suspected tts, is that I have my phone language set to English but live in the Netherlands. When using Navigation, my phone would ask me if wanted to use and download tts files for voice guidance. Of course I ticked Yes. Then I got this horrible electronic voice trying to pronounce Dutch street names using English pronunciation algorithms. Unintelligible.
So I uninstalled TTS and from that moment on, I did still receive voice guidance, but, just as you describe, limited to turn left, turn right, straight ahead etc. No more reading out of street names.
This is why I thought your problem might have tondo with missing tts files, at least for your language. There is no way of telling Google Navigation to use a different language than the default ui language. Stupid, but there it is.
If that's not the issue, I am stumped.
Good luck. Please update if you find a solution.
I fixed it by doing a factory reset. The TTS voices returned.
Fortunately, I had backups of all my app data via Carbon Backup.
I am outside the UK using a VPN service. With the 5.1 update the BBC Apps (iPlayer etc) have disappeared from my main screen. My location service is off and language is set to English UK. After every reboot I have to install the iPlayer APK to access the app. Any ideas how to fix this?
Go into your Settings than:
1) Alter your Language Setting from (presumably) English (US), to English (UK).
This should ~hopefully~ turn your BBCs... ON! (Its a preinstalled App), and if needs be can be updated from your outta service Account.*
2) Disable Geolocation. I suspect this isn't quite the trigger the First One is. But, it won't hurt anything.
3) Make sure your VPN is setup correctly, and ENJOY!
* Outta Service Account here refers to your non-UK (EU, or US, etc...), Account. You may need to create a second non-locked Account to eventually download Geolocked Content al-la CBSN (e.g. CBS News), which is itself NOT Geolocked, but requires you to use a US Based Account to Download it.
Tried all of the above. Does not work
You might have to 'create' a dummy account then. So you can access the UK PlayStore, and activate from there. If it doesn't show up after having switched out English (US), for English (UK).
The only thing I do know, is could set the VPN to give you an UK IP Address, (And with a dummy Account log into the UK PlayStore. If you ever activated, or purchased anything on your normal PlayStore Account. Than it will be tied to that Region ONLY! So you have to make a new dummy Account if you want to download such Geolocked things.), Then search for iPlayer, where you will have the option to Activate / Update it.
But, if you want iPlayer to survive a reboot you MUST have your language set to *English (UK)* which is NOT the same as English (US), only English (UK) will unlock the iPlayer.
I have heard that Google Assistant is rolling out to devices with Marshmallow and above, but my Galaxy A7(2017) is on Android 6.0.1 and still haven't received it. I tried long pressing the home button but it's just the google now or something and not google assistant. Any help on how to get Google Assistant besides using Allo?
I have A3 2017 with the same 6.0.1 as you. At leat I assume Assisstant works fine for me. The only thing I can think of is that you need to use english language on your phone. Im from Hungary, but when I got the phone, the first thing was to change the language. Everything works OK, even the Assisstant. I hope thats it
Hello, I had the same problem so here is how i fixed it:
1. I set my search language and phone language to English (United States).
2. Updated my google and google services app to the leatest from apkmirror.
3. Went to applications and cleared all data from google and google services.
That's it, went into the google app and google assistant was there!
How is it possible that my device has gotten the 7.1.1 OTA, updated and yet no Google Assistant. I have tried everything, but yet when I long press the Home button Google Now on tap comes up.
PS: For your own sake those really smart people who will post links that will lead me to Google search results, keep it to yourself
I was having it in 7.0 but afyer upgrading my device no assistant is present.
From what I understand it depends if Google has activated it for your device and also what you have your language settings configured to.
Here is what I use: http://https://github.com/amirzaidi/Launcher3/releases
I am on 7.0. I got google assistant when i registered as google beta tester. And then its important to set your language to english.
Update: I just received the notification to enable Google Assistant and after the initial setup. I finally have Google Assistant! ?
It's popping up every time when I long press home button. I would like to get rid of it and gesture from bottom which brings up Google now. I'm not using none of them.
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Change language in Android settings to English UK. After that if you long press home you'll get it.
Hi guys. I enabled English as the second system language to have "squeeze" to open Google on tap. It worked fine but after few hours is just stopped. Anyone experiencing such issue? When I set English as primary language assistant works fine.
Anyone?