I have noticed that the Phone Search options under the Google Now settings are severely limited on the Nexus 5. On my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 I can set IMDB and Wikipedia among others to be searchable from the search box. All the options are gone now. You can't even launch maps or music. What's going on?
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I'm seeing this problem on my Nexus 5 too. Really surprised to see Google release a device/software upgrade with such a core functionality missing.
I'm having a hard time believing that more people aren't talking about this issue.
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Having the same issue, could barely find any threads talking about this problem. Have you guys managed to find a fix? I have the exact same settings under phone search as you, just contacts, app names, and Play books and movies.
I have been looking all over and haven't found any info.
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I'm surprised by this as well! Maybe we just have to wait for the various apps to update for 4.4 to get recognized in the list?
On a related note, and I'm sure of the answer already, but, are you guys able to use the "OK, Google... Play [insert music]" command? It obviously doesn't here and I'm a bit disappointed... It didn't work on my old phone for a reason I wasn't able to figure out (perhaps a Nexus S issue or me being in Canada) and I was hoping it would work now...
Oh well...
There's a new API for this sort of functionality in Kit Kat. That's probably why. Google will be allowing developers to integrate their apps more seamlessly with Google Now. Rumor is an update to Google Search will be coming this week that will have the first bits of this functionality (limited only to certain developers who were given early access), but will expand soon after.
Basically, before, the integration was little more than speech-to-text for those apps, a very scrappy integration. This will be far more integrated into Google Now, with apps allowed to show cards and such.
Edit: Note that playing music is still possible however. Make sure you have the music apps you want installed first. Then, ask google to play something. A card will pop up, and it'll initially say "Google Play Store", but there's an option in the lower left corner to change that to any music app available. Basically it works the same as before, but instead of a pop-up window asking you, it's now an option below the card.
Thanks, that's good to know it's simply an API issue and we just need to wait for developers to update their app.
As for using the command "Play" or "Listen to" and "What's this song?" in Google Now, it appears it is still being blocked for us Canadians for now. I assume this restriction will be lifted once Google Play Music service is introduced in Canada. I know "Play" and "Listen to" used to work in the earlier builds but became blocked with one of the Google Now updates during the summer.
Just update to Google search 3.1.8, but the problem is stille, can't search music, book, or any other third party apps.
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Hi guys,
I've managed to install many applications on my Nexus S, however I just can't install Beautiful Widgets on it at all. Does anyone know if this screenshot attached can help - or can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I've emailed the developers, and they say that Beautiful Widgets is indeed compatible with the Nexus S, and they develop on the Nexus S all the time.
So I don't know if it is my Google Apps account or something else that is making this difficult?!
Thanks guys
Did you try buying it from the Market app on your phone rather than the website?
As a last resort, you can download the app market enabler and spoof it as T-Mobile USA and buy Beautiful Widgets
It definitely works on the NS but I wish I hadn't bothered as it seems really pixaly.
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I've had no problems with it on mine. I use the Beautiful Home Smaller Weather widget on both my home screen and lock screen. It's pretty terrific. You might have issues with the location function, but if you do, you just have to clear the caches in any apps that use location (when I first got it, it was setting to my old apartment. I had to wipe data in BW and Maps, and it's been fine).
The OP isn't asking if the widget works on the NS or not. The problem the OP is having is buying the app from the website, unsure if he can buy it within the market app.
Thanks for the advice.
I can't actually find the Beautiful Widgets app in the Market app on my phone.
Even if I go to the developer's website and scan the QR code, the Market app tells me that there are no search results.
Perhaps then it is a location (South Africa) problem, and I will need to spoof it as T-Mobile USA and buy Beautiful Widgets.
I've just never rooted my phone, and if this is the case, I will need to do some more reading up on how to backup, root, recover, etc before I go any further!
Thanks for the help!
P.S. Going to try purchase it with AndroidPit website ... will revert!
Hi Guys,
It was definitely a location type problem between my phone and Google, or else a problem with Google Checkout and my credit card?
Perhaps I can't purchase any app through the Google Marketplace? I'll have to check that out further.
At any rate, I purchased the BW app through AndroidPIT and BW works perfectly!
http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.levelup.beautifulwidgets/Beautiful-Widgets
Thanks for all the help.
Try this one
http://www.4shared.com/file/JE3HgjVm/Fancy_Widget_By_Gonzah_Cumbiia.htm
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Are you on 2.3.3 GRI54? Previously I flashed the Axura ROM and I can see almost all apps but not Fifa 10, when I go to market.android.com, it says the same thing, the app is not compatible with my phone. The developer fixed it by using back the signature GRI40 for the ROM.
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Are you on 2.3.3 GRI54? Previously I flashed the Axura ROM and I can see almost all apps but not Fifa 10, when I go to market.android.com, it says the same thing, the app is not compatible with my phone. The developer fixed it by using back the signature GRI40 for the ROM.
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The OP already fixed the problem, it was a problem with his location.
No need to respond to this thread anymore.
@gene: I hope thats not warez.
I'm a developer who distributes free and paid apps on the Play Store, and have recently been seeing accusations that my apps use notification bar advertising.
MY APPS DO NOT USE THIS TRASH AND NEVER WILL.
I actually have avoided advertising altogether, (I'm using the free-lite-version/paid-full-version model).
I want to put some apps on a test phone that actually do use notification bar ads to determine if this is simply random chance or if perhaps these apps are doing more nefarious things like waiting for other APKs to be installed before pushing ads, or waiting until other app-processes are in the foreground before pushing ads. This may be difficult as I believe the push rate is fairly infrequent.
My wild guess is that these apps aren't that evasive, though their design is still to disassociate the advertising from the app that is its source. I imagine they simply delay a week or more before firing the first ad, and probably only do so if the device is asleep.
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Edit: if you do know of any apps that do this, please post links here (on the Play Store or off). I have no idea what apps actually do this, and so far haven't run into any myself.
Thanks for your dedication. I will follow this thread and try to spread the word.
On my Samsung I long press the notification and i can see the app info of the app that actually sent the notification, maybe you can use this to know which apps are messing with yours
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On my Samsung I long press the notification and i can see the app info of the app that actually sent the notification, maybe you can use this to know which apps are messing with yours
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Thanks, but I actually don't have any such apps on my devices at this time...this is all coming from user reviews, so I don't actually know which other apps they have installed that might be firing the push ads.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mjva1/list_of_known_airpush_enabled_infested_apps/)
BTW, I personally have a Tasker profile I enable/disable on need. It just logs all notifications with the notification's title and app, allowing me to detect airpush apps.
EDI: I remember some game kept sending chinese ads to my notification bar, and if I remember correctly, I had it for quite some time before it started doing so.. and it only started doing so after I installed another app. I'm not entirely certain about it as it happened a few months back, but now that you mention it, it might have been the same scenario.
Post your main use for your Android / iPhone /WinPhone
I think alot of people are really very curious..
Whats the main reason you NEED your Phone?
and then I should probably also mention that antiquated and frivolous use, practically all but forgotten these days.... "Making Phone Calls"
Some of you younger folks may not know what that is.. but I do believe several manufacturers actually still do support this function.
and then theres "SMS".. several phones are still carrying the torch on this one as well.. probably for sentimental reasons
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Probably myself I m using it for getting variety of apps to work with simply as a PC......
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Probably myself I m using it for getting variety of apps to work with simply as a PC......
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any luck with that?
I'd like to do the same thing.. but I have an android *sigh*, and it just doesnt seem built for it..
have you made any special modifications?
any suggestions on how to get my phone more PC-like?
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Almost everything I do on my laptop, I can do on my Nexus4 android! (Mostly internet. Least phone.)
another use I might have included on the list is "as a GPS for my Car"
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Almost everything I do on my laptop, I can do on my Nexus4 android! (Mostly internet. Least phone.)
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The Google Nexus 4
Google tells us exactly what its made for:
"Play with Your favorite Google Apps"
"Use an 'amazing' Photo Sphere camera"
"Access your favorite entertainment on Google Play"
"Puts the best of Google in the palm of your hand"
"ZIP around the web" (yes, this has nothing to do with your carrier, eh?.. your hardware will make the internet faster... ya.. ok..)
"Experience 3D graphics and gameplay"
"Switch between multiple apps"
So... to summarize, these phones are made, specifically, for:
Putting Google Products in your hand
Use Google Apps
Entertain yourself with Google Play
Making you a Googlephile
Make you Googly with Google
Turning you into a Googlebot
woohoo...
cool
Sounds like the little green Android Robot is Google's graphical representation of its end user
I'm sure there's an internal Google memo to that effect somewhere..
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This guy totally looks like the average Android user
Come on, admit it.. you kind of feel like this guy too
I use it for sms, phone calls, some whats app if i wanna share pics, reading news
Oh, and fooling around with ROMs (no dev from my side, just reports and trying)
But i dont have any twitter or fb or g+ on here^^
Greets Vauvenal7
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Especially for testing....
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I'm trying to get the best out of the Google Play Store and I'm looking for an advanced search but I can't find anything.
Usually when I'm looking for an app I'm not interested in games, book and whatever. Often I look straight for paid apps, but I can't see how to filter results. I can't see a way to sort results upon rates, price or last update date.
I even noticed that it's almost impossible to list ALL the apps made by Google: if I go to "more from developer" I can't see the Google Calendar app (I'm sure, checked twice, it's not in the list).
Am I missing something?
Isn't there a way to get an advanced search in which I can set strict conditions? (It doesn't matter if I have to use the computer or just android to perform an advanced search)
I'm kind of astonished ...
What? I can actually easily search google calendar 0_0 seems weird
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Talking about the paid apps you can actually do it just go to shop apps then slide between top paid, free , grossing and you can also choose in category
And also make sure your play store is up to date...
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What? I can actually easily search google calendar 0_0 seems weird
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I can look for "google calendar". My complain is the fact that if you filter the official apps made by Google than Google Calendar is not listed.
Talking about the paid apps you can actually do it just go to shop apps then slide between top paid, free , grossing and you can also choose in category
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yes but how can you select multiple categories and add additional conditions to your search? For instance "I want to get all the free (or paid) apps about notification that have nothing to do with games" (it's just an example)
How can you run such a search?
And also make sure your play store is up to date...
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it is and anyway whatever I say is true also for the website version
There is now an advanced search engine for Google Play available as an app, see here
Hello! I have a lot of apps on Google Play. Some of them have more than 500.000+ downloads, one even about 2.000.000. Since there is a war in my country (I'm from Ukraine), I haven't been developing apps or monitoring my Google Play profile for a long time, more than a year.
During this time, I received one suspension of an unpopular app because of a double interpretation of a phrase in the description of the main page of the live wallpaper ("Saves maximum battery" - I meant that it was a resource and energy-efficient app, but the Google Play administration decided that this is a function that cannot be implemented physically and suspended the application according to the Deceptive Behavior policy), and several removed applications, because I placed links to my other Google Play applications in the settings and did not notice it as advertising.
Now that I have the opportunity to work again, I looked at the statistics and was shocked - my top apps that had more than 5,000+ installs per day don't even have 10.
I also finished and published two apps that I had started to develop before the full-scale Russian invasion. But unfortunately, in two weeks they don't even have 500 installs, and almost all of this traffic is from users of my other old apps.
Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is this a shadow ban or just a natural process when you don't pay attention to apps on Google Play for a long time?
IMO there is no way to tell for sure if Google Play has imposed a shadowban.
That's what ChatGPT states:
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Why not directly contact Google in hope to get your question answered?
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Героям Слава!
Thank you for your response.
I haven't really contacted Google support yet, but it's unlikely that it will help. Instagram and TikTok also do not officially recognize shadow bans, but they definitely exist.
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IMO there is no way to tell for sure if Google Play has imposed a shadowban.
That's what ChatGPT states:
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Why not directly contact Google in hope to get your question answered?
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Героям Слава!
Thank you for your response.
I haven't really contacted Google support yet, but it's unlikely that it will help. Instagram and TikTok also do not officially recognize shadow bans, but they definitely exist.
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Ghost, or green mode. You can test it... depending on the site it will be detectable in various ways. Not undetectable
Gookill does this crap wholesale with their search engine so I wouldn't doubt they do it whenever they like. Especially for money.