How to get chrome to use Google.com instead of .ca - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have Google location services turned off and under Google account settings I've also checked the box under search settings as shown here:
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Yet when I do Google searches from the address bar in chrome they are always to the .ca site.
When I open up chrome settings where you can select the search engine the only 3 options are Google.ca, bing.com and yahoo.com
I've also manually gone to Google.com and made sure to set my browser cookie to set .com as my default site.
Anyone know if there's anything else I'm missing here? His do I get address bar searches to use .com?

You may have to try VPNs to trick it into using google.com, but that is kinda weird how it won't let you use the american one. How different is the canadian one, though?
-Ara

Shows different results for many many searches. I personally find the mixed in Canadian results less relevant. I always always use Google.com everywhere. All my other android browsers let me set it except this chrome

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[Q] Unable to access Google Account setup

I'm having a very strange problem today. I reflashed back to my previous rom and now can't access my Google Account which has always worked previously. I can sign in to gmail and receive emails, but when run the Setup and I click on Google Account - nothing happens. Also it normally says "Tap to setup" and now it's showing google_login .
I also went to Settings>Accounts & Sync and tried to add an account, but Google is not one of the options available. If I try to access the Market thinking I could sign in there, again nothing happens - press market icon and it just returns to the app drawer. I have seen some posts and articles from endgadget where there were comments about problems being experienced with the market, but has anyone experienced this as haven't seen any similar posts?
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check to make sure you have accountsyncmanager.apk in your system/apps folder. I repacked my own system.img and took out some apps I didn't need or wanted and accidently had taken that one out and experienced similar behavior.
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Thanks for the pointer, but the accountsyncmanager.apk is there in the system/apps folder.
I can choose to add Facebook, Twitter, Flikr accounts etc, but not Google.

Edit Search History Entries - Feature missing form Android OS

I have found a little unconvenient thing on Android. Do you like to use virtual keyboard? I hate it. I'm blind writer on my laptop qwerty keyboard but the flat screen kb is minus 10 years.
The situation worst when you have to type words twice or more. Especially when you are searching something but you mess up one caracter.
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In the search history you can see your previous (messed up) word but there is no possibility to edit them because when you click on it, your browser start to search it again.
On a desktop browser you can modify anithing in the borwser (or search) history list. Android should have this feature as well.
My theory solution is:
When you press and hold your tap on the search history item, the string moves to the search bar and you are able to modify it. And a simple click just search it just before.
Am I the only one who miss this?
I agree, I have this problem on market. Even if there is what you want on the search history with a small mistake or 2 words with no space, you cant edit it. Its realy annoing.

Can anyone log into gmail.com via chrome in 4.2?

Since upgrading to 4.2, I can't use gmail.com in chrome. I use it for other accounts that I haven't linked. When I first went to gmail.com it automatically logged me into my primary account which prior to 4.2 it never did before. I chose to sign out and now it's caught in a loop constantly refreshing the url but nothing ever being displayed.
Are others getting this? If not, is there a way I can clear the cookies for just gmail.com?
I can.
All I did is it auto-logged me in and I clicked the menu icon on top left and "Sign in with different account", then just logged in.
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Thank you for answering. I thought such a simple request but no one would answer.
It's strange, it will keep looping/refreshing in the address bar but no content ever comes up. However, if I request desktop version of the site, it does finally come up, but desktop gmail has always been extremely slow on chrome (I think it's actually slower now). Once I got in I successfully logged out hoping that would solve it, but once I go back to mobile it begins looping again.
I don't think there is a way of clearing all cookies/cache for a particular site in mobile chrome, but if anyone knows how I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I'm going to clear all of it's cache but I'll lose my saved logins etc for other sites.

Stock weather app showing wrong location!

I don't know why it hapoens but most of the times the stock weather app which can be accessed from the shelf menu doesn't show my the correct current location. It always tends to show some different name rather than the place where I am actually present! Only sometimes it shows the correct location but mostly, it doesn't! Given below is a screenshot which shows my current location as Sedhar but I am actually in Jammu, J&K, India.
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If anyone can suggest a possible solution to this then please do!
amitgudwill said:
I don't know why it hapoens but most of the times the stock weather app which can be accessed from the shelf menu doesn't show my the correct current location. It always tends to show some different name rather than the place where I am actually present! Only sometimes it shows the correct location but mostly, it doesn't! Given below is a screenshot which shows my current location as Sedhar but I am actually in Jammu, J&K, India.View attachment 4018006
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One more thing I would like to mention is that when i check the About section in the weather app, it clearly states that
: "The weather data from the Chinese weather network. Powered by AccuWeather"!
I wonder if the problem may be due to the the app is fetching data from the chinese network rather than the Indian network! Is there a way I can switch that!

Can't get echo dot to update list of available devices?

Trying to get my echo dot to work with dish network (it was working but stopped) now it will not update the list of devices available for linking??
Here is what the web interface says after "discover devices"
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I've tried un-linking the account from dish to alexa, I tried a factory resetting the dot, unplugging everything waiting 30 secs., tried changing wifi networks, tried from my tablet which rather than finding the wrong info finds nothing to link to at all.
I've de-register the device COMPLETELY, did a hard reset to factory defaults and started over, and the wrong info STILL survived, my last idea thought of while typing this is I'm gonna de-reg and link through a new amz account and see if that works, that's mu last straws anyone have any other straws?

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