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[Q] Google Now - "say 'Google' to search" missing?

I was looking through the Nexus 7 manual in the Play Books app and one of the things it says for gestures is swiping up from the bottom on any screen and saying the word "Google" then your search will search for you. I've swiped up and said it, swiped then paused briefly before saying it but nothing works. Is this something that was taken out with the 4.1.1 update or has it always been missing? Failing that am I doing something wrong?
To clarify things I'm not talking about voice search. I can tap the microphone icon and get search results that way but that isn't what the manual says or what I'm talking about.

Did you elect to turn on Google Now at the first boot? If not, find it in settings and tick the box
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Dyonas said:
I was looking through the Nexus 7 manual in the Play Books app and one of the things it says for gestures is swiping up from the bottom on any screen and saying the word "Google" then your search will search for you. I've swiped up and said it, swiped then paused briefly before saying it but nothing works. Is this something that was taken out with the 4.1.1 update or has it always been missing? Failing that am I doing something wrong?
To clarify things I'm not talking about voice search. I can tap the microphone icon and get search results that way but that isn't what the manual says or what I'm talking about.
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I'm guessing you're not based in the US? Google now is pretty crippled when not using the US version. One of the missing features (at least in the UK) is the ability to activate the voice search by saying Google, also the pretty search results with pictures etc are not there too.

kboya said:
Did you elect to turn on Google Now at the first boot? If not, find it in settings and tick the box
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Yup, I liked the idea of it when I heard about it so I enabled it.
Rovman said:
I'm guessing you're not based in the US? Google now is pretty crippled when not using the US version. One of the missing features (at least in the UK) is the ability to activate the voice search by saying Google, also the pretty search results with pictures etc are not there too.
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This seems to be the problem then. Curses! Thanks for letting me know.

I am US based, and have been unsuccessful with the "say google" voice command as well.

I launch google now.
I say google, and it starts listening for search and I can talk to it.
Works fine for me.

thats because in the second update on the nexus 7 it was taken out due to the court case!
but heres a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762570

movieaddict said:
thats because in the second update on the nexus 7 it was taken out due to the court case!
but heres a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762570
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That's a US court case though and only applies to the US. It's similar to how I can buy a Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1 if I want to regardless of what happens in the US. I would hope that Google would leave it in for all non-US countries.
Bielinsk, have you updated? Are you using the stock ROM? If you're using the stock ROM and have updated then something else must be causing it. If you haven't updated then it's clearly been removed.

Swipe from Home button, "Google", "[query]".
Works fine. Hello from Canada.
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You have to activate it in the settings menu.

Works now, I must have been doing it wrong

CooLoserTech said:
You have to activate it in the settings menu.
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Where exactly in the settings menu? Google Now's settings? General settings? I've looked in all of them and unless I'm missing something it should be enabled.
Same question for those saying it works, have you updated? Stock or custom ROM? I'm on 4.1.1 stock

It worked for me in the UK, but not with the detail of USA
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kboya said:
It worked for me in the UK, but not with the detail of USA
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Just a bit of info i have found from research -
If you're in the UK and the pictures aren't displaying, you have to tick - 'search from google.com' in the Google Now settings, and not use google.co.uk.
Same thing stands if you want the cute female voice - You have to change the language to English US
Hope this helps
p.s - the only thing i am stuck with is how to set up 'my locations' - i have enabled this within the Google Now settings but on the Maps app, i cannot add 'my locations', which makes that part of Google Now pretty much useless. I want Google Now to give me prompts to leave, etc etc, its a pretty nifty thing they showed off. Anyone know?

To set your Home and Work locations you have to go to maps.google.com (or .co.uk or wherever you live) on your PC and log into your Google account. You should see the links under the Create Map button on the left.
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Come on guys.. I've asked a simple question of anyone saying "it works" but none of you are replying. I'm glad it works for you but I need to know if you're using stock ROM and 4.1 or 4.1.1 so I can troubleshoot. Help me out

Dyonas said:
Come on guys.. I've asked a simple question of anyone saying "it works" but none of you are replying. I'm glad it works for you but I need to know if you're using stock ROM and 4.1 or 4.1.1 so I can troubleshoot. Help me out
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It works for me and I'm running 4.1.1 with the 2nd small "D" update. It also worked before and after the first update to 4.1.1
To turn on the "Say Google" feature open Google Now
Click Menu(3 dots lower right corner) -> Settings -> Voice -> Hotword Detection
Enjoy
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movieaddict said:
thats because in the second update on the nexus 7 it was taken out due to the court case!
but heres a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762570
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Second update on the Nexus 7 doesn't remove any search functionality. I can still search and see results for apps and contacts when searching from the search box. This issue only applies the the Sprint version of the Galaxy Nexus.
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dch921 said:
It works for me and I'm running 4.1.1 with the 2nd small "D" update. It also worked before and after the first update to 4.1.1
To turn on the "Say Google" feature open Google Now
Click Menu(3 dots lower right corner) -> Settings -> Voice -> Hotword Detection
Enjoy
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Well that confirms it, I have no "Hotword Detection" in Voice. At least now I know where it should be and I can quiz other UK peoples, thanks!

Dyonas said:
Well that confirms it, I have no "Hotword Detection" in Voice. At least now I know where it should be and I can quiz other UK peoples, thanks!
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Here's what I have found
UK nexus 7 on stock 4.1.1
Voice language set to English UK
Search set to Google.co.UK
Offline files for voice recognition for UK English downloaded.
No hot word option in menu. No response to "Google"
Change language to English us at Google now. Change search to Google.com exit from Google now go back in Google hot word works menu option there.
BUT voice recognition way off (was almost perfect before)
Change language back to English UK, exit, back into Google now, no response to "Google" no menu hot word option.
Seems to be the language rather than the search that triggers it.
Guess it will come when they have analysed enough voices to get it right. Although it seems a strange thing to leave out given the rest of the recognition stuff works OK.

Google Now discussions

Hey guys,
I opened this thread to see how people is using Google Now nowadays. I found myself excited about the launch of it, but now I found it pretty boring and useless. First, I sometimes use it for weather, the other functions are not really working. Everyday I'm going to my workplace, at the same hour, working in the office between 9 am - 2pm and 5 pm - 8 pm. I have the location history enabled, the house address and workplace address both added, I see the statistics in my dashboard and my current location in latitude (no check-ins however), but Google never advised me that I need to leave from home to be in-time at work or reverse. The only things I got was some live scores and some random mistakenly notifications like "78 minutes to home", while I was only like 200 meters away.... Also, I found that if I search my job address in Google Maps, the location is correctly shown, but in dashboard, I'm getting that briefcase (workplace icon) wrong positioned with around 80-100 meters. Otherwise, Google Now is answering to all my questions and working pretty good, but I don't find it really smart...

Google Now works well. It is just that Google Maps have a long way to go. Many routes it shows are not the fastest, etc.

Like you i was pretty excited about the whole thing, the problem is that the tradeoff in battery life simply isn't worth it for me.
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dan_hin said:
Like you i was pretty excited about the whole thing, the problem is that the tradeoff in battery life simply isn't worth it for me.
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absolutly agree with you..
i noticed that when i'm with wifi enabled, if i look at battery usage, wifi is always connected even in standby (with wifi disable option active)
double checked and if Gnow is disabled wif act as it was supposed..

It would be great if there was some way to change the location poll frequency to maybe every 15 minutes or whatever, rather than the default.
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I see no huge changes in battery life since I activated the location and search history in my phone just for Google Now. The problem is that the check-ins are not regular, I'm getting bad locations sometimes, so Google Now can't give me information about when I need to leave home because of traffic or so.... Nothing. Got one notification in a whole month and that one was wrong as I said in my first message. No idea what I need to do instead. Check in at work at the same hour daily? Why the pin sometimes is flying like 500 meters away from my location (that's what I see in dashboard) while the google maps app is showing my location with 16m accuracy even if I'm in a building?
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It would be great if there was some way to change the location poll frequency to maybe every 15 minutes or whatever, rather than the default.
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Exactly, the poll frequency is not fixed, google is doing checks when it want so that's why I guess I'm not getting reminds about job etc
Trunkam said:
absolutly agree with you..
i noticed that when i'm with wifi enabled, if i look at battery usage, wifi is always connected even in standby (with wifi disable option active)
double checked and if Gnow is disabled wif act as it was supposed..
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Do you mean that even if you have wifi disabled you see it as enabled in battery usage? I'm not getting such thing.
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How can I remove Google now, I mean everything associate to it.

I'm impressed by it I take a different route to work than I do home and it automatically changed and reports them correctly
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dan_hin said:
It would be great if there was some way to change the location poll frequency to maybe every 15 minutes or whatever, rather than the default.
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You can change the way each card works and when you want them to appear, also changing the priority of the weather card to low also helps.
Not sure if that's what you meant
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bradputt said:
How can I remove Google now, I mean everything associate to it.
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Menu -> Settings -> Google Now -> Switch to OFF. then you can delete the location history and search history in Google Dashboard and disable the latitude and all the rest of stuff or you can simply reset the phone and don't activate it again.
dave6018 said:
I'm impressed by it I take a different route to work than I do home and it automatically changed and reports them correctly
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Glad is working well for you. Can you tell us what are the settings you use ? A screenshot with the pages of the settings ? I would like to give it a try.
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You can change the way each card works and when you want them to appear, also changing the priority of the weather card to low also helps.
Not sure if that's what you meant
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He means that the Google is checking your location randomly instead to checking it every 15 minutes or so.
The big question is....how to make Google Now know that I'm starting the work at 9 am, so I will get those cards saying "30 minutes to work" or something like that. Google knows that I'm working as I'm getting those fancy graphics in the Dashboard (https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/dashboard) saying that I'm working X hours per week and Y hours I'm home, but the data is not accurate perfectly. I reset the data but same story now. Not sure if it's because my location sometimes jumps some kilometers away even if I have the wifi and gps enabled. Do I need to use Latitude and autocheckin or something like that to get accurate data ?

demlasjr said:
Menu -> Settings -> Google Now -> Switch to OFF. then you can delete the location history and search history in Google Dashboard and disable the latitude and all the rest of stuff or you can simply reset the phone and don't activate it again.
Glad is working well for you. Can you tell us what are the settings you use ? A screenshot with the pages of the settings ? I would like to give it a try.
He means that the Google is checking your location randomly instead to checking it every 15 minutes or so.
The big question is....how to make Google Now know that I'm starting the work at 9 am, so I will get those cards saying "30 minutes to work" or something like that. Google knows that I'm working as I'm getting those fancy graphics in the Dashboard (https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/dashboard) saying that I'm working X hours per week and Y hours I'm home, but the data is not accurate perfectly. I reset the data but same story now. Not sure if it's because my location sometimes jumps some kilometers away even if I have the wifi and gps enabled. Do I need to use Latitude and autocheckin or something like that to get accurate data ?
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Next appointment, travel time and location cards might be what you want.
http://support.google.com/websearch...ardlist&answer=2839499&rd=1&version=210020112
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Samsungnooby said:
Next appointment, travel time and location cards might be what you want.
http://support.google.com/websearch...ardlist&answer=2839499&rd=1&version=210020112
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More exactly, traffic cards.
I will try for the next days to click on "Update" here exactly when I'm arriving at office, maybe this way I will make google learn more about my locations...

S-calendar and Google calendar

I am using both S-calendar and Google calendar: i like the homescreen widget for S-Calendar but I prefer using the Google Calendar app for managing appointments.
Considering that I do not want two notifications, I set notifications only in S-calendar with vibration and turned them off in Google calendar.
Problem is that every time i reboot the tablet, it resets the settings of both calendar apps: it removes vibration in S-calendar and enables notification in Google calendar.
Anyone else?

anyone?

Why you reboot your note?
Mine never rebooted.
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bomczz said:
Why you reboot your note?
Mine never rebooted.
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for example yesterday I upgraded to 4.1.2
btw, just for fun, your answer is like when you ask someone if he's got a lighter and he answers back he doesn't smoke ;-P
yeah, actually I seldon reboot it as well, but still it could happen

bomczz said:
Why you reboot your note?
Mine never rebooted.
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can you pls still try?
in the s-calendar set ibration and notification time at 30 minutes before, then reboot

thegios said:
can you pls still try?
in the s-calendar set ibration and notification time at 30 minutes before, then reboot
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Yea I had the same exact issue with mine. I realized that the 2 notifications in both apps are tied together. Meaning if you change one, it'll reset the other on reboot.
I wanted the notifications from S-cal and the googlecalendar app for management as well. I ended up disabling the S-Cal app entirely in the app management settings menu and instead using the google-cal app for everything. I dont think there is a way to separate the 2 apps.
If you find a way I'd like to know as well. Sorry I cant be more helpful.

This won't work on ICS builds, but if you have upgraded to JB 4.1 then in Settings - > Application Manager you can disable notifications on a per app basis.

DaRacerz said:
This won't work on ICS builds, but if you have upgraded to JB 4.1 then in Settings - > Application Manager you can disable notifications on a per app basis.
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yes this I know, my question was more: why upon restart the notification settings of both google and s calendar are set back to original values?

That I'm not sure. It shouldn't be resetting the setting on a reboot.
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[Q] Google Now: has my wrong location!!! So frustrating

I live in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada) and Google Now thinks I live in Hornby, Ontario which is like 45min away from me. Google maps seems to get my exact location (the GPS doesn't lock on it keeps saying "searching for location" or something like that but still shows me exact right location- when I have a SIM the GPS lock works perfectly). Google Now however doesn't fiind my right location with or without a SIM (always connected to internet via wi-fi). When I ask things like "what the weather" or "how's the traffic" it will give me information based on if I was in Hornby which I am not.
This has been going on for a couple of months now and is driving me CRAZY!
Any insight would be helpful - Thanks!

Have u tried putting it in manually?
Go to menu>settings>my stuff>places
Then manually type in your location. I was having the same issue but doing it this way fixed it.
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You can tell Google now to give you the temperature for that location for example, "what is the weather like in Buffalo, New York?" Give her a location and she'll reply back.
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chromium96 said:
Have u tried putting it in manually?
Go to menu>settings>my stuff>places
Then manually type in your location. I was having the same issue but doing it this way fixed it.
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I have my home location set but it still doesn't make a difference.

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You can tell Google now to give you the temperature for that location for example, "what is the weather like in Buffalo, New York?" Give her a location and she'll reply back.
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That is a workaround if I have to and cannot find a solution to where this would just work

I work from home for CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!

So I've looked all over for a resolution to this. It's driving me nuts. Google Now thinks my local Walmart is my work place. Although I go there way more often than I should, I do not work there. I have found lots of info about how to set your work location but the issue is I work from home.... So it's just not working. I have tried to set the same address I use for home as work but it doesn't seem to stick in Googles memory. I used to have it set as none and that was fine. It's just here recently that it's trying to force a work location. Maybe after some of the updates? Driving me nuts with notifications on both my tablet and phone. Please help!!! !!!?!!!!*[email protected]"#+ :banghead:
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jcnbama said:
So I've looked all over for a resolution to this. It's driving me nuts. Google Now thinks my local Walmart is my work place. Although I go there way more often than I should, I do not work there. I have found lots of info about how to set your work location but the issue is I work from home.... So it's just not working. I have tried to set the same address I use for home as work but it doesn't seem to stick in Googles memory. I used to have it set as none and that was fine. It's just here recently that it's trying to force a work location. Maybe after some of the updates? Driving me nuts with notifications on both my tablet and phone. Please help!!! !!!?!!!!*[email protected]"#+ :banghead:
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Your home address is not recognized as a POI(place of interest) by Google thats why you cannot check in there. Create a POI on Google earth/maps, attach a picture and description, wait a while and you should be able to check in to that location from there on. At least that's how I did it a couple of years ago with the home address of a friend of mine. If I am wrong I would gladly accept someone to correct me. The same issue apply to Facebook also.