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Hey everyone, I received my Mate 8 about a week ago but no matter what I try I can't get now on tap working. Every official Google app has permission to do whatever it wants and I have the latest firmware version installed (and yes, now on tap is enabled within the Google app) but I still can't get it working. I've read that other people have the same problem. Has anyone else figured out how to fix this? Thanks in advance

Blood Blister said:
Hey everyone, I received my Mate 8 about a week ago but no matter what I try I can't get now on tap working. Every official Google app has permission to do whatever it wants and I have the latest firmware version installed (and yes, now on tap is enabled within the Google app) but I still can't get it working. I've read that other people have the same problem. Has anyone else figured out how to fix this? Thanks in advance
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Sorry can you elaborate more? do you mean google now? as I know it's clashing with EMUI of Huawei at the moment unless others can correct me....

Well Google now works in general, "OK Google" speech recognition works fine as does pretty much everything else, the only things that don't work are the home button related gestures (holding home for Now On Tap and swiping up from home to get to your now cards).

Blood Blister said:
Well Google now works in general, "OK Google" speech recognition works fine as does pretty much everything else, the only things that don't work are the home button related gestures (holding home for Now On Tap and swiping up from home to get to your now cards).
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Flash the international rom that should be released in the near future and im sure it will work much better.

That Stipid Bixby button

It doesn't seem to do anything since an update i got yesterday on ATT. Anyone else have the same issue ?

Before the update, Bixby button was working fine. After the update, button didn't work initially. I tried enabling swipe on homescreen to activate bixby and then tried button ( I had to double click instead of single click). after that, it worked but launching bixby with button became very slow. I'm still using double click to launch and I wish they push out a new update soon.
I'm also on AT&T

I too have this problem. In my case, even two quick presses in succession fails more often than it succeeds.

rabilancia said:
I too have this problem. In my case, even two quick presses in succession fails more often than it succeeds.
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Are you on AT&T as well ? I have the same problem too. Swipe on home screen works well for now. It takes about a second to load but using button IF I successfully launch bixby, it takes about 4-5 seconds to launch. Before the update, it was instantaneous.
One thing I noticed is if I disable breifing in Bixby cards, performance improved. Try and see if it works
Edit: I can confirm that after disabling breifing, bixby works well.

23nikhil1 said:
Are you on AT&T as well?
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I am not--T-Mobile here.
Agreed: disabling the 3 cards I had running gets the double press to work reliably. However, doesn't that defeat the purpose of Bixby (what little there is right now)?

Double tab does the trick.Is new after the latest update.

rabilancia said:
I am not--T-Mobile here.
Agreed: disabling the 3 cards I had running gets the double press to work reliably. However, doesn't that defeat the purpose of Bixby (what little there is right now)?
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oh yeah I agree. It's just a temp fix till they push update. They introduced this bug after update...so they should fix it soon

I'm also on T-Mobile and having this issue (just got my S8+ yesterday). I was going to return the phone to T-Mobile for are placement until I found this post. Now I know that I have to wait for an update to fix it as a new phone would exhibit the same problem after I did the update.

New update was push out to stop people from remapping bixiby button and stop accidental pressing of it.
So its now a double click.
Best thing is to have online chats with samsung and complain about this. If enough people do it, they will oush out an update to fix it.

Verizon here. I have noticed mine works with double clicking Bixby about 60% of the time, and 30% of the time it works with a single click. Remaining 10% being me left holding the phone staring at the home screen waiting.
The annoying bit is that it's inconsistent, so when a single click decides to work it opens and then immediately closes if I double clicked it.

Double press and wait a second or two before it decides to actually show up ?

What does Stipid mean?

Can get Bixby Remapper from Playstore. It allows remapping even after the update. It's free too.

highaltitude said:
Can get Bixby Remapper from Playstore. It allows remapping even after the update. It's free too.
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Uh which one? I see like 4. I'm going to try this on my wife's s8. She wants it to open camera. I disabled all the Bixby crap on my s8+ and I like it that way. Samsung is as bad as the government these days with their cramming stuff down people's throats. Great phones though
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The actual one named "Bixby Remapper".

utter waste of time. If this is so far off being ready they should have excluded it and added it to the note 8 or allow it to be mapped to something usable in the meantime.
Worked fine for me in the UK before the update. Now its a double tap with varying degrees of content.

yesterday I got an update on AT&T( mifhr be rhe red tint fix). Post update, bixby button is working fine

What does Bixby even do? Why use it. Google assistant is far better

dave30534 said:
What does Bixby even do? Why use it. Google assistant is far better
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A quick access to my calander, imp email, uber, S health.
Things bixby does better than google:
Good integration with work email and events from work calender, twitter also flipboard feed
Things google does better than bixby:
Google on tap and stories related to my previous search. I absolutely love google on tap, especially when tracking packages and good integration with my gmail accounts.
I don't wanna pick one over other. I like and use both of them

I click the Bixby and it takes a few seconds each time to load and refresh, no Google integration (Keep, Waze, etc...) another half baked Samsung idea they will insist on tormenting us with.

OK Google not working... Anywhere!

I know it's not supposed to work from a locked phone, but I can't get it to work with the screen on even. Any clues what could be wrong? I do have the bxactions app installed and using the Bixby button for Google now, but I doubt think that's the culprit. I've also postponed the first tmobile system update but it worked when I first got the phone. Suggestions?
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Mine suddenly stopped working too. It could be the recent google app update that broke it, I remember getting that update. I retrained my voice again and so far so good.

Same problem here. Restarting seems to fix mine for awhile but something is causing it to glitch out and stop working.
Edit: seems to stop working whenever I open the camera, then it's stuffed until reboot.

After reinstalling google now working fine

Haven't had any issues with mine, even after the last update. Was using one of the Bye Bixby apps and had the button remapped to flashlight but uninstalled it due to the horrible lag the app produced.

It seems to be a problem with power saving mode. The mic stops working after turning on the power saver mode. Restarting the phone will F fix the problem.

prithivraj said:
It seems to be a problem with power saving mode. The mic stops working after turning on the power saver mode. Restarting the phone will F fix the problem.
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I do not use power saving mode and still does not work with screen off
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Techvir said:
I do not use power saving mode and still does not work with screen off
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Sorry . I am not aware of what you are experiencing. I haven't tried that. But while turning on and turning off power saving mode disables ok google detection.

prithivraj said:
Sorry . I am not aware of what you are experiencing. I haven't tried that. But while turning on and turning off power saving mode disables ok google detection.
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Do u have it working with screen off and no charger connected?
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Techvir said:
Do u have it working with screen off and no charger connected?
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No. Ok google doesn't work until lock screen is displayed.

is there any update to this?
for me ok google works for while, then stops working and a reboot is the only way to fix it. only annoying thing is i need to reboot every other day. this issue doesn't seems to be covered much?

OK Google not working? Fix:
If you set up "trusted devices" to keep your phone unlocked, that is what stops "ok google" from working. Its been that way since the Galaxy S6. Don't know why they don't fix it?! Go to Settings/Lock Screen and Security/Smart Lock/Trusted Devices. Remove your Trusted Devices and it will work again.

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If you set up "trusted devices" to keep your phone unlocked, that is what stops "ok google" from working. Its been that way since the Galaxy S6. Don't know why they don't fix it?! Go to Settings/Lock Screen and Security/Smart Lock/Trusted Devices. Remove your Trusted Devices and it will work again.
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Will this make ok Google work when screen is off?

You still have to press the power or home button to wake your device, and then it will unlock it with the "ok google" voice command instead of using the iris, fingerprint, password, pattern, etc.

In my case, Google doesnt work holding the home button for search
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Mine works when I retrai the voice model.. but if I use bixby voice it never works again until I retrain... I wonder if the two are conflicting each other. Samsung is probably purposely sabatoging Google assistant. To push bixby. I've only had this issue since the release of bixby voice

I had this problem for a couple of weeks and it was bugging the hell out of me.
Ok Google would work, but it would not speak back to me, just bring up search results.
For me the problem was in languages.
I'm in the UK and no matter how many times I set the language to English as default, the damn phone would constantly show Settings>Google>Search>Voice: as "English (South Africa)"
But in Settings>Google>Search>Search Language it would show as what it should be, which is "English (UK)"
Anyway, basically what I did was clear cache and data in apps tab, then set my S8 Plus as pictured below.....but obviously choose your own language and make sure BOTH show the same language....default and the other. (see pics)
Also click 'Ok Google detection' and select 'Retrain voice model' (after the cache wipe etc of course and after you made sure both screens say same language.
Select Say 'ok google' any time.
plus, I selected trusted voice, so also unlock screen too.
if your settings look like mine in the screenshots.....should work.
Matt
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Also, go to settings>Accessibility>Text-to-speech and make sure Default language is the same as on the other screens.
That's what sorted it all for me anyway....

Ok Google works fine for me as long as the phone isn't being charged. If it's being charged, it is as if my mic is disabled.
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Here are some quick things to try that have helped me:
1) Restart your phone, its likely that going into high-battery saving mode disables mic and a lot of settings.
2) Remove trusted devices.
3) Reinstall and Uninstall Google

Ok so this is really annoying. On my lg g6, the phone can be locked and screen off. I can say ok google without touching the phone and it will unlock and be ready for my voice command. I am not get my s8 to do that. Ok google only works after physically unlocked. Then when i can get to open with ok google my daily briefing will not work no matter how I ask for it.

new bixby update??

I keep getting a notification to update Bixby Voice. Every time I attempt to update it gives me an error, then tells me to update again.
Anyone else having this issue?

KD8DNS said:
I keep getting a notification to update Bixby Voice. Every time I attempt to update it gives me an error, then tells me to update again.
Anyone else having this issue?
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Try to delete Cache and App data

Same here i cant update
Already cleared data and cache for all bixby.
Can someone get the apk and post it
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Cleared cache and updated just fine.

How did it update just fine? Location? Carrier?

trini0743 said:
How did it update just fine? Location? Carrier?
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I cleared cache and tapped update, it updated. Location, Ohio, I'm on T-Mobile.

KD8DNS said:
I cleared cache and tapped update, it updated. Location, Ohio, I'm on T-Mobile.
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Have you noticed any changes in the last update?

ProzakVizaq said:
Have you noticed any changes in the last update?
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Not that I can speak of. I don't really use it. The only reason I tried is it said something about Bixby Voice.

KD8DNS said:
Not that I can speak of. I don't really use it. The only reason I tried is it said something about Bixby Voice.
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OK. Since I have been using BXactions app, where I chose "do nothing" while the Bixby button is pressed, I would probably stay away of updating because the Bixby developes might have closed this exploit.

Does bixby voice work?

KD8DNS said:
I cleared cache and tapped update, it updated. Location, Ohio, I'm on T-Mobile.
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Cleared data and it still won't update. I'll give it time.
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AlejandroAleja420 said:
Does bixby voice work?
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Nope

I'm getting the same error. It tries to Update but then it says most recent version installed but whenever Bixby reloads it shows the error all-over again.
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ProzakVizaq said:
OK. Since I have been using BXactions app, where I chose "do nothing" while the Bixby button is pressed, I would probably stay away of updating because the Bixby developes might have closed this exploit.
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Dumb question but why are you using an app to essentially turn off the Bixby button instead of just disabling the Bixby app?
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_Dennis_ said:
Dumb question but why are you using an app to essentially turn off the Bixby button instead of just disabling the Bixby app?
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The reason is simple. There are actually 2 reasons:
1) My S8+ is non-rooted. I don't want to install any package disabler for bixby related files disabling. I had a negative experience on my previous Note4 with a package disabler in the past (only TitaniumBackup worked well on rooted device);
2) BXActions enables you to reassign an action taken after the bixby button is pressed.
For instance, I want to disable the bixby today and I may want camera start in a week.
BTW, BXActions works flawlessly so far...

ProzakVizaq said:
The reason is simple. There are actually 2 reasons:
1) My S8+ is non-rooted. I don't want to install any package disabler for bixby related files disabling. I had a negative experience on my previous Note4 with a package disabler in the past (only TitaniumBackup worked well on rooted device);
2) BXActions enables you to reassign an action taken after the bixby button is pressed.
For instance, I want to disable the bixby today and I may want camera start in a week.
BTW, BXActions works flawlessly so far...
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Ah good to know. I've been out of the Samsung game a while and so I just went right to package disabler pro that I bought in the S6 days.
Wish there was a way to change the button without having a second program. Oh well.
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Bixby Voice is launching soon. Unlocked S8 in the US just got an update with June security patch and Bixby partially working in English.
Seems like it's just about them "flicking the switch" for the updates to roll out, probably why it keeps telling you there is an update.

Check for the update now. Mine now says I’m up to date instead of prompting me to update.

are u checking for update i.n the galaxy store.

Huge bixby update
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Best Way Unmap Bixby Button - S8+ ???

I have bxActions installed on my Verizon Galaxy S8+ and until yesterday when I updated to 9.0 Pie, my Bixby button was re-mapped. 2 Quick-presses turned on my flashlight. - - Now since the update it looks like I may be screwed which makes me pretty mad!!!
Can someone tell me if it's currently possible with Pie to "disable the Bixby button"? It appears that U.S. Phones cannot be rooted due to locked bootloaders...
It is extremely annoying that Samsung/Verizon felt they needed to screw up my phone usage!!! - - Thanks for any ideas on how to solve this problem!

BxActions Works for Me
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I have bxActions installed on my Verizon Galaxy S8+ and until yesterday when I updated to 9.0 Pie, my Bixby button was re-mapped. 2 Quick-presses turned on my flashlight. - - Now since the update it looks like I may be screwed which makes me pretty mad!!!
Can someone tell me if it's currently possible with Pie to "disable the Bixby button"? It appears that U.S. Phones cannot be rooted due to locked bootloaders...
It is extremely annoying that Samsung/Verizon felt they needed to screw up my phone usage!!! - - Thanks for any ideas on how to solve this problem!
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I am using BxActions on Pie. I have the Pro version. I am on Verizon G955USQU5DSC1. I don't know why you can't use it.
I had the phone rooted in the past and you can still root your phone. Look in the ROMS forums. The Verizon ROMS forum has a lot of info as well. To be rooted you have to revert to Nougat. There is no root for Oreo or Pie. Also, I think your battery charge will be limited to 80%. The 80% on rooted seemed to last as long as 100% not rooted though. If you root, there is an Xposed app that will remap any button including Bixby. I forget the name of that app though.

Smithfolk4 said:
I am using BxActions on Pie. I have the Pro version. I am on Verizon G955USQU5DSC1. I don't know why you can't use it.
I had the phone rooted in the past and you can still root your phone. Look in the ROMS forums. The Verizon ROMS forum has a lot of info as well. To be rooted you have to revert to Nougat. There is no root for Oreo or Pie. Also, I think your battery charge will be limited to 80%. The 80% on rooted seemed to last as long as 100% not rooted though. If you root, there is an Xposed app that will remap any button including Bixby. I forget the name of that app though.
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Smithfolk4-
Thanks a lot for your reply!!! I also have the pro version of BxActions....
I thought my BxActions was updated to the latest version as I had updated all apps that said "need to be updated" a couple days ago. Maybe BxActions wasn't on the list...??? Now that I've updated BxActions, I can use my Bixby button (Long Press) for my flashlight and I'm able to stop the annoying/useless Bixby! - - For some reason, the "2-quick presses" that I used to use doesn't work on that button anymore - - will use long press instead. - - Oh well, you've helped me to regain my "sanity"!!! Thanks very much for that!!!
I've rooted phones in the past, but have only done so when I felt Samsung/Verizon had me up against a wall. Since this is fixed, I'll most likely stay stock now. Thanks again very much!!!

straykat said:
Smithfolk4-
Thanks a lot for your reply!!! I also have the pro version of BxActions....
I thought my BxActions was updated to the latest version as I had updated all apps that said "need to be updated" a couple days ago. Maybe BxActions wasn't on the list...??? Now that I've updated BxActions, I can use my Bixby button (Long Press) for my flashlight and I'm able to stop the annoying/useless Bixby! - - For some reason, the "2-quick presses" that I used to use doesn't work on that button anymore - - will use long press instead. - - Oh well, you've helped me to regain my "sanity"!!! Thanks very much for that!!!
I've rooted phones in the past, but have only done so when I felt Samsung/Verizon had me up against a wall. Since this is fixed, I'll most likely stay stock now. Thanks again very much!!!
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Glad it worked out. I will say that I am using double tap for flashlight, single tap for back, and long press for recent apps. Not sure why it won't work. There may be some stuff you have to do with ADB to get all of the functions working. I can't remember for sure. I also looked at the app real quick and didn't see anything about it so that is probably not something you need to do.

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Glad it worked out. I will say that I am using double tap for flashlight, single tap for back, and long press for recent apps. Not sure why it won't work. There may be some stuff you have to do with ADB to get all of the functions working. I can't remember for sure. I also looked at the app real quick and didn't see anything about it so that is probably not something you need to do.
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Hey thanks for the add'l. info! - - My latest update for BxActions shows v. 6.01. I assume that's what you have...?
Thanks for the idea about the back button. I made a single press of Bixby button back as well now... Since I can't use a double-press within bxActions I've shortened the duration of a long press in the settings. That makes it a little easier. And it seems I've got Bixby locked down which is great! - - Thanks again!!!

Yes. I am on 6.01. Glad it is working.

straykat said:
Hey thanks for the add'l. info! - - My latest update for BxActions shows v. 6.01. I assume that's what you have...?
Thanks for the idea about the back button. I made a single press of Bixby button back as well now... Since I can't use a double-press within bxActions I've shortened the duration of a long press in the settings. That makes it a little easier. And it seems I've got Bixby locked down which is great! - - Thanks again!!!
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is it possible to make an action to start a video recording too? the camera shutter does not start a video currently.
thanks for your work.

graffix31 said:
is it possible to make an action to start a video recording too? the camera shutter does not start a video currently.
thanks for your work.
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It looks like the closest thing bx Actions does is open the camera app or act as the shutter button. I looked through the options and there is option to start a video. You may want to contact the dev. to see if he can implement that option.

You can use Tasker and Autotools to map the bixby button to whatever you want. Developer already has a profile created you can import.
https://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?resources/bixby-button-remaper.375/updates