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OK Google - Doesn't work

I just noticed that my phone will not recognize the "OK Google" Command. I've tried trainging it by saying "OK Google" 3 tims but even then, the phone does hear me. It will hear me and recognize my words ok if i press the microphone button first and then speak. Anyone else have the same issue?

brandypuff said:
I just noticed that my phone will not recognize the "OK Google" Command. I've tried trainging it by saying "OK Google" 3 tims but even then, the phone does hear me. It will hear me and recognize my words ok if i press the microphone button first and then speak. Anyone else have the same issue?
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Nop, works for me even on BT. Maybe you have it disabled?

so what should I do? under the screen "OK Google" detection, it shows, From the Google App=on, but the other options are greyed out. When I turn on From Any Screen, it asks me to Just say OK Google three times, and it's listening, but it never recognizes my voice even if I say it 100 times. But, I can do a voice search OK in I manually click the google microphone button.

I have the same problem. Recently bought an Idol 3 5.5, and cannot get 'OK Google' to work. Any amount of 'OK Google' commands in different accents (and by different people) are useless. I can do voice search by clicking the microphone button on Google search app. Not sure what is the problem here. How do I make sure this feature is not disabled on my phone?

Same issue here as well. It "will" work if you open the Google App first. It then recognizes commands without having to select the microphone. But yes, without first opening the google app, it does not work.

you have to add english as primary language in google settings (beside the language you use). Works for me (i am from Europe). It also works from any screen.

There is something wrong with it on the Idol 3. If you boot into safe mode, you can enable it but only from safe mode. I did this and it workd for awhile but then something disabled it again. Very Frustrating. Unfortunately, I doubt we will get any fixes from Alcatel. BTW, to boot into safe mode, press the power button and then long press on either restart or power off. I can't remember which.

like i said it works well on my and many other devices, so you have to set it right.

DallasCZ said:
you have to add english as primary language in google settings (beside the language you use). Works for me (i am from Europe). It also works from any screen.
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Yes, it works from any screen as long as you have "previously" opened the "Google App", and, it's still running in the background.
For instance, if I cycle my phones power, and come to the home screen, "Ok Google" will not work, it simply doesn't work. But, if I open the "Google App" after a reboot, and then go back to my home screen, or any screen, it will work. You have to open that "Google App" first, or it doesn't recognize any command, because it's not "listening" / running in the background. If I "close" all running apps, which you should be doing quite often, "Ok Google" will not work, until I again open that "Google App".
The phone should "Always" be listening (provided you want to use this feature), without the need to run the "Google App" first, but that's simply not the case. To me it's just poor implementation, because it forces you to always make sure the "Google App" is running, or hit the microphone. This shouldn't be necessary. It should just work from the moment the phone has booted up (again, if you want this feature), but it doesn't.
Better implementation would have been a "service" you either turn on, or off, under settings, so it's always running (from the moment the phones powered up), or it's not running.
I hope that's clear, and makes sense?

Makes sense that that's what happening to me as well. I recall it worked just fine previously. I wonder if the recent updates did something to that interface.

I'm having the same problem after doing a factory reset and reloading everything.
It was working fine before the reset and since it will only work if I've recently opened the Google app. I've checked all of the settings multiple times, uninstalled/reinstalled the Google app, and it's still occurring.
Has anyone found any possible solutions?
(Not sure if this is anyhow related, but before the reset the flip to mute and snooze gestures didn't work at all. Since the reset, they work perfectly.)

Now on Tap

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.

Ok Google with Home Button

Ok So pretty simple request. I want to activate "Ok Google" using the home button just like S Voice or Siri behaves. With Google set as the Device Assistance App a long press of the home button pulls up the google app, then I have to click the mic button. Or I have to activate it by saying "Ok Google" which is super annoying. I've searched everywhere for a solution and the only thing I found was the following:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQue...t_possible_to_activate_ok_google_with_a_home/
Which doesn't work at all on the S7. A long press of the home button opens the Launcher App which asks me to select google. Basically adding a 3rd step.
I'd appreciate any help!

I use the Google Now Launcher and I had that ability. I will have to play around with my settings to get it back because I installed Labs so when I hold my home button down it waits for me to say a contact name and it calls them. I will have to get back with you on that when I can get access to my phone.

Ok, maybe the new version of the launcher doesn't support that. Now long press doesn't do voice search, it instead shows Now on Tap, but different than what I remember.

Outbreak444 said:
Ok, maybe the new version of the launcher doesn't support that. Now long press doesn't do voice search, it instead shows Now on Tap, but different than what I remember.
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Yup.. I still haven't found a workaround. Having the mic always on to detect "OK Google" seems to be a waste of battery.
Hopefully a solution comes up. Thanks for trying.

H3lipil0t said:
Yup.. I still haven't found a workaround. Having the mic always on to detect "OK Google" seems to be a waste of battery.
Hopefully a solution comes up. Thanks for trying.
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I have found a solution that works great! I just tested it myself.
Download this app here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicg.homebuttonlauncher&hl=en
You'll want to open it up, select the 3 dots, and then select add.
Add Voice Search, then do the same steps but remove whatever else was there by default.
Now if you're on marshmallow, which I assume you are, then you'll need to go to Settings -> Applications -> Default Applications -> Phone assistance app
And change it to Home Launcher
Give that a try and let me know if that works for you.

Outbreak444 said:
I have found a solution that works great! I just tested it myself.
Download this app here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicg.homebuttonlauncher&hl=en
You'll want to open it up, select the 3 dots, and then select add.
Add Voice Search, then do the same steps but remove whatever else was there by default.
Now if you're on marshmallow, which I assume you are, then you'll need to go to Settings -> Applications -> Default Applications -> Phone assistance app
And change it to Home Launcher
Give that a try and let me know if that works for you.
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You are the man!!!! This worked.. "Auto Start mode" had to also be selected but this finally got the job done.
It wasn't perfect at first. for some reason the responses to my questions where not audible.
For Example.. If I held the home button, the voice prompt shows up and I say "What's my next appointment?". It displayed the calendar item but didn't read back the result. If I activated it saying "OK Google" and asked the same question, I was shown the response and it read back to me. "You're next calendar entry is tomorrow at 7am...".
I tried it again a few more times. Now it seems to be working properly with the home button.
You've made my day. Wish I could buy you a pint of beer remotely.
Cheers!

A simple thanks is plenty, I've got all the beer I need in my fridge. Lol

Was looking for a solution as well. Works great. Thanks.

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.

amyjofarrey said:
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.

Waking up device with "Ok Google" voice command?

Has anybody had success with waking/unlocking your phone with the "Ok Google" voice command? I enjoy using it but I don't want to have to unlock my phone to use the voice assistant every time, particularly when it's for simple questions (I know, first world problems). I enabled Trusted Voice but that doesn't seem to work when my phone screen turns off. Any help would be appreciated.

Same here. I also tried to do that. Ultimately i came up with nothing.

same here man.

I can't recall the source, but I'd read somewhere it only wakes up to the Dear Honor voice command activated in settings. Seemed to work when I tested it. Also found an automate module that senses the honor voice app open, closes it and loads the Google one. It's pretty sluggish but that's the only workaround I was able to find.

The okay Google command only works with screen off on Nexus and Pixel devices. Honor has another command that you must use, but it doesn't tap into Google assistant.

Extinguished said:
I can't recall the source, but I'd read somewhere it only wakes up to the Dear Honor voice command activated in settings. Seemed to work when I tested it. Also found an automate module that senses the honor voice app open, closes it and loads the Google one. It's pretty sluggish but that's the only workaround I was able to find.
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Care to link to that module please?

pyromayniyak said:
Care to link to that module please?
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Looks like it's been removed from the list. I went ahead and zipped a copy of the flow so I can upload it here.