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
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I was fooling around and was trying to get the hotword to function on my stock Xoom with JB. I installed a apk from the Galaxy S3 forum about Sprint's update killing the google search box. Which I now have but it has killed my google now search capabilities the mic no longer shows at the top of the right hand side and I can not slide up from the home button to start it either. It is also gone from the launch screen where I could choose from camera, google and system unlock. So I need the stock JB google now apk. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
It may also help if someone could look in their settings and go to apps and go to all and click their google search and see what number version they have. Mine is version number 1.4.1.338691
Thanks to all those that helped. I figured all I had to do was uninstall updates from my google search app and problem was fixed.
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?
What's the best and more popular assistant for S7?
In my device I find S-Voice but it seems an old assistant.. Google Now maybe the most integrated with other apps and features... but what the new ones like Bixby and Google Assistant?
Does anyone use Google Now?
I don't use any assistant, in fact I've disabled all the info collecting settings for Google to the point the assistant won't work unless I turn them all back on again
Cortana from Microsoft is available on the play store too / apk install but as with Android, I kill that thing on Windows too, assistants are dumb and it's generally faster and more accurate to do everything manually anyway, and doesn't collect your data in the process
It's your choice, while I *need* an assistant driving my car to call, create reminders, send WhatsApp messages, SMS, etc
I'd like to perform only a few simple (hands-free) actions, you can easily do with Siri (iOS).
Google Now seems so poor.. so many times it doesn't understand what I say and put my request to google (web)... so frustating.. You too?
Yea, I've never found any voice recognition / assistant that can understand what I'm saying well enough for it to be any use, spend more time correcting and typing in the correct words than I would if I just did it myself in the first place
Siri is what you're looking for
Anyway Google Assistant (born inside Google Allo) should become the new modern virtual assistant improving the current Google Now. Unfortunately it's not available in Italian... have you tried it in English? (at first look it seems faster and more clever than Now)
Does anyone know how to disable breeno voice and enable google assistant in CN versions?
Byronjvh said:
Does anyone know how to disable breeno voice and enable google assistant in CN versions?
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Only method I've found is to uninstall Breeno via ADB (i.e. as per method outlined here https://forum.xda-developers.com/realme-x2-pro/how-to/eu-rom-realme-ui-debloat-list-t4084795, some packages are different so I used an app called 'Package Names' from the Play Store to help identify which ones I wanted to remove).
Google assistant now working. Also google feed now comes up instead of the breeno feed thing.
Nearly feels like a european ROM, my only remaining niggle is how to get location tracking turned back on for google maps timeline.
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Only method I've found is to uninstall Breeno via ADB (i.e. as per method outlined here https://forum.xda-developers.com/realme-x2-pro/how-to/eu-rom-realme-ui-debloat-list-t4084795, some packages are different so I used an app called 'Package Names' from the Play Store to help identify which ones I wanted to remove).
Google assistant now working. Also google feed now comes up instead of the breeno feed thing.
Nearly feels like a european ROM, my only remaining niggle is how to get location tracking turned back on for google maps timeline.
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How did you make Google Feed to work?
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How did you make Google Feed to work?
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Just installed Google app and it took place of breeno when tapping the search bar.
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?