Hallo,
in my recently installed CM12.1 [note3] there is no search assistant (even if I can select the option "search assistant" for e.g. menu button). I mean the search which I can use to find apps or contacts on my phone (like i know it from stock Samsung/Sony/etc. roms). Is there in principle no search assistant in brands free Android or are there additional packages for these?
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[Fixed Guide] How to Fix v3.4< of Google Now/Voice Search FC on SGR Kitkat 4.4
As everyone know our devices has been lack of neon support
which create huge trouble on media support
After discovering many times.
I have found the solution on fixing the google search fc on Now/Voice Search
Steps:
1.Uninstall all the google search updates
(you could deleted all it's data after uninstalling)
2.Update from the play store
3.Open the google apps.
4.this time it will asking you to turn on the google now
don't enable it,tap on skip.
5.Doing a voice search,it should be fine.
6.if yes open google setting/search setting(you could tap the hamburger menu to open setting)
7.Tap on the voice
8.enable the bluetooth headset option
remarks:this option should not be disable in order to correct the fc)
9.return to the google apps,and enable google now
10.doing an google nows voice command through voice search,
and you should receive your result correctly without fc
if it solved,we could prepare for android 5
Hello guys. Today after some research on various websites i found out that google assistant for S7 Edge (and many other devices) has arrived. Method to enable it is easy. You must switch language to English US and install latest Google App (from apk mirror for example - installed latest beta). After a while when I long pressed home button google assistant setup appeared.
Enjoy
Ps. No root needed and at the moment assistant is only working when you set English US language, when i switched back to English UK assistant disappeared and normal ok google app appeared (so make sure you stay on English US).
This has been discussed in numerous other threads including the correct section:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/themes/google-assistant-app-t3566428
This video tells you how we can revert back from the new Google Assistant and replace it with the older Search widget.
This does not require root at all!
The reason for me to revert back is that I prefer to use text commands rather than voice commands. Also, I like to often bring up the text based search widget when I am in other apps. Google Assistant has this limitation that we cannot type our query. Till the Assistant brings the typing functionality, we can fall back to our old but working Google Now.
Note that this will not enable the NOW ON TAP option, but it will enable us to use the other features, like searching and using the text based commands available in Google Now.
Link to Home Button Launcher (I am not the developer):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicg.homebuttonlauncher&hl=en
I don't like cluttering my Android phone's screen with a lot of icons
I like to have a single search for web search and apps search
I use Action Launcher
I set a gesture that will open Google Search
Until about January 20, 2021, I was able to just open Google Search either via the gesture I set, the Google search widget, or the Google app itself and start searching for the name of an application I have installed on my phone. For example if I typed "tele", in the suggestions the "telegram" app would show up. This was also working with Actions Search, no issues.
However, at around the date I mentioned above, this feature disappeared both from Google Search and Action Search. I guess Action Launcher's search uses Google to do the search and get the suggestions.
Now, if I do search with Google Search for "telegram app" and click search, the app will be the first result and I can click the card in the results and the app starts. But this introduces more typing and at least one more tap as well.
Interestingly enough, if I fire up the Google Assistant, switch to keyboard and type "telegram" the app will start. Further searches will suggest it, so I can type just "tele", but it still requires an extra click (I have to click the keyboard because assistant starts in voice mode, and starting in text mode is even worse because it start without focusing the text field so I have to click twice, once to focus the input field and once more on the field to fire up the keyboard)
So far I tried clearing Google app's cache and restarting the phone several times. It didn't help.
I also checked in settings -> Personal Results that installed apps are checked. I even unchecked/rechecked it with a Google app cache clean in-between.
Do you guys and girls have any suggestions?
Hi,
I have a new Ulefone Armor X9 Pro. I am personally annoyed by all the preinstalled Google Apps like Google Play (I prefer free softwares available in FDroid for example), the Google search bar on the home screen, etc...
The first thing I did is disable and force exit of all the google apps and now, whatever I try to do I have notifications telling anything would work with Google Play disabled...
Even writing a sms or search something in Google Chrome is not possible because the keyboard does not appear...
I think I could solve this problem by
- enabling Google Play back
or
- download apk files for fdroid, aptoid etc. and install them manually
or
- root the phone
or
- install an alternative android version
But I am a newbie and I am afraid of broking my new phone...
Could you help me find the better way to use my phone without being force to use google services ?
Thank you for your help
PS sorry for my poor english
You can replace the pre-installed proprietary Google apps basket ( read: GMS ) by an aftermarket suite called GApps as provided by different developers.
BTW: Google Play is not part of GMS.
Thank you for your answer.
But I cannot uninstall the google apps, I can only quit them and disable them.
And the final goal is to not use the google apps.
Fortunately, I succeeded in manually install the alternative apps I need.
First of all, when I first started the phone, I did not connect the internet.
Then, I exited and disabled all the google apps and services I found.
On my computer, I downloaded the apks :
- Fdroid package manager (for free/opensource apps)
- Fennek browser
- K9mail client
- Simple Contacts (Simple Mobile Tools)
- Simple Camera (Simple Mobile Tools)
- Simple Gallery (Simple Mobile Tools)
- Simple Phone (Simple Mobile Tools)
- Simple Keyboard (Apache)
I transferred them on the phone by USB and installed each manually.
After that I installed Aptoid to install Telegram.
Everything seems to work, google apps and services seems to not restart automatically and after I disabled all apps saying "App xxx cannot work without Google Play" I dont have notifications like this anymore.
By default pre-installed GMS - what you call Google apps for whatever reason - are installed as system-privileged apps hence they are part of Android system and not any ordinary user app. You need a rooted Android to uninstall system-privileged apps, same is with Google Play components.
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