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I have a lot of apps installed, and while Go Launcher does indeed allow me to add more icons than the MotoBlur launcher, sometimes I need that odd app that I haven't pinned to the home screen.
Google Search -- the app itself, that launches through the search button when you're at the home screen -- allows searching for installed apps and launching them directly, as long as you type the first few letters of the program.
I got used to this on my old Nexus One, especially with CM7, which allowed me to long press the Search button and it would launch GSearch no matter where I was. After finding a way to do this via a third party helper utility on the Atri, I can launch Search via a long press, but the app search itself works about 1/3 of the time. Most of the time it returns nothing.
I may be in the minority of users who use search to launch apps, but when I have around 150 installed apps, it's a pain to have to look through the launcher every time you need a particular app.
On Froyo, the app search feature was also buggy, and was hoping they would fix it by now, but on GB it's the same story.
Anyone experience this as well?
Click the search button then the top left icon and on the top right click on the preference button ..make sure app search is checked.
Works fine for me. Give me an app that doesn't work for you and I'll be glad to try it.
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I've enabled it, disabled web and contacts search, so app search results should be the only thing coming up.
What I mean is not that a particular app doesn't come up, but rather that the search functionality stops working all together. As in, no matter what I type, nothing is returned in the search results. I can't figure what triggers this. I just rebooted the phone and it's working fine, and as I continue using the phone, it will stop working.
At the end of the day, it's just a nuisance that can be worked around, but it was a neat little shortcut I got used to.
i have about 75 or so apps installed, so i kinda know your pain. but, the search feature has always worked for me in the past, currently using ninja speed freak 0.4.5 with Faux's kernel.
do you have any mods/roms installed on your Atrix?
Deblured by freezing some Motorola processes and of course rooted. Nothing else, and like I said, it works, but only some of the time.
I would suggest checking it after it's been a while since last reboot to see if you can reproduce the problem.
This happened in Froyo as well, and on my previous Atrix, so it's definitely reproducible between phones and different OS versions.
Well. At least you can use the app groupings!
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I also had such issue till now. just now i tried going to the setting of search and unselected selected apps and google search. it now work.. may be the setting got refreshed.. u may try this..
Works completely fine for me. Could be something your freezing that makes it buggy? Or maybe GoLauncher?
ive always had the same issue, on stock, roms, whatever i'm running. I would search for an app, and the only thing that would show up is the term i typed in with a magnifying glass (signifying searching the web). I'd go into search settings and make sure APPs are checked... then i search again, and the apps show up!
I find I have to constantly go into search settings and then press back for applications to show up. it's annoying. It ends up working though, but why can't it work the first time?
Seems to me that something so basic should not be so buggy by version 2.3.4 of an OS. Maybe once we get CM7 it won't be a problem anymore, based on my experience with it on my n1.
s1mpd1ddy said:
ive always had the same issue, on stock, roms, whatever i'm running. I would search for an app, and the only thing that would show up is the term i typed in with a magnifying glass (signifying searching the web). I'd go into search settings and make sure APPs are checked... then i search again, and the apps show up!
I find I have to constantly go into search settings and then press back for applications to show up. it's annoying. It ends up working though, but why can't it work the first time?
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You don't need to go to setting everytime just type the app name expand search icon and tap on app your app will show in search result works for me
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Hem, that does work, thank you. It's still annoying that searching "all" doesn't work, but the "apps" sub category does, but I'll just have to get used to it till they get it working correctly.
Works just fine for me, 4.5.91 installed ota (rooted w/ preinstall, no bl unlock)
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You don't need to go to setting everytime just type the app name expand search icon and tap on app your app will show in search result works for me
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lol it works! but damn it should be the FIRST thing that shows up! instead of having to go thru all the other options
As the title states I have been having problems with Google now since the update to 4.1.2. I'm am running unrooted life stock Jelly Bean and the issue I am having seems to be Google now hanging up while attempting to answer a question. The questions that start with a "Who is" seems to cause it the most trouble. Once I ask the question it will ding to show it accepted the question but then it will just spin looking for an answers without ever answering the question. This issue could also likely be attributed to the October 29 voice search update Google pushed through the place store.
I never had this issue until I upgraded, so I am asking the community of experts here.
Have you encountered this issue?
If you have how did you fix it?
Than you guys for reading and sorry for the post length.
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Hey, I'm having the same problem - I have also tried reverting the app back, reinstalling the update, factory wipe of the nexus 7 and wiped cache etc. No luck here I HAVE found that if you ask (by voice) something like "how tall was Napoleon Bonaparte" it works perfectly and very quickly. Also, while web search does not work 99 percent of the time (I find it does after a reboot for one go then stops working) image search through Google search works perfectly.
This only happens with Google search, not chrome.
Let me know if you find a solution.
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Hey, I'm having the same problem - I have also tried reverting the app back, reinstalling the update, factory wipe of the nexus 7 and wiped cache etc. No luck here I HAVE found that if you ask (by voice) something like "how tall was Napoleon Bonaparte" it works perfectly and very quickly. Also, while web search does not work 99 percent of the time (I find it does after a reboot for one go then stops working) image search through Google search works perfectly.
This only happens with Google search, not chrome.
Let me know if you find a solution.
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I am having the same issue. First search works stops working after that.
When did it start for each of you? I may not have noticed it as I haven't used Google search much lately....
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It seems the microphone isn't working for me at all most of the time unless I reboot. I'm on stock rooted. Its definitely hosed up.
Go here and add your bug reports or logs: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39172&thanks=39172&ts=1351764881
Having search problems here also.
Basically, hasn't worked for me since day 1 after purchasing the 32GB version this past Tuesday & installing 4.1.2 JB.
Same symptoms - whether type or voice search using the search box at top of the screens: hangs on web search & other search with link tabs at bottom giving no results.
Image searches do produce results though...odd.
Changing search options to Google.com from Google.co.UK fixed it for me.
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pedalpusher said:
Changing search options to Google.com from Google.co.UK fixed it for me.
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Can you explain how?
Yes, changin search option to google.com solved the problem for me.
This could be done in main settings-google (accounts)-search option...
I've got the same problem. Makes no difference if I am on Google UK or Google. Com. Bah.
pedalpusher said:
Changing search options to Google.com from Google.co.UK fixed it for me.
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How exactly do I do this? I can't find it anywhere...
nowocain said:
Yes, changin search option to google.com solved the problem for me.
This could be done in main settings-google (accounts)-search option...
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Sorry, I don't seem to have that option in Settings > Accounts > Google > Search. Could you be more clear on the steps to get to the option you refer to?
There it is at settings>google>search>search on google.com... check this option.
It is also at Google app settings in Privacy & accounts
Im on stock 4.1.2
Looks like they are aware of it: per Kousha N.
nowocain said:
There it is at settings>google>search>search on google.com... check this option.
It is also at Google app settings in Privacy & accounts
Im on stock 4.1.2
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I just did it, and for some strange reason it WORKS...i've done at least 5 searches, vague ones, and it searched the web. THANKS!!!
EDIT: But NOW, it won't do the voiceback like "What is 3 times 3" it should come back with "The answer is 9" now it just does a web search...
EDIT2: Ok I rebooted device after checking and UNCHECKING the option, and it works TOTALLY now. I am a happy camper ^_^
Thanks guys for all the responses, I am glad I am not alone in this. It seems like it's getting better but the voice search is still not performing the way it used to. If I try to search for info on say Micheal Jordan, it doesnt read back his information like it used to. I don't get the card anymore either I just get the google search. I hope they find a fix for this soon.
When I go into Google now on my nex7 everything works fine except for the Google search web results. It brings up cards and has voice response but brings up no web results. I wiped everything did a reset and flashed a different ROM and still having the same problem. Everything else on my tablet works fine. I'm beggining to think it may be a Google server problem in my area. Is anyone else having this problem?
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When I go into Google now on my nex7 everything works fine except for the Google search web results. It brings up cards and has voice response but brings up no web results. I wiped everything did a reset and flashed a different ROM and still having the same problem. Everything else on my tablet works fine. I'm beggining to think it may be a Google server problem in my area. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Oooh - you too huh?!
If you are referencing the Google Search bar @ the top of each screen - my web searches are just hanging with no results also.
It does bring back personalized cards like you said & if I select the [image] tab @ the bottom it will bring back images from the web...but everything else is hanging....
Same here. When I type in to the search bar, it hangs. I can search using the browser. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling - did not fix. I am not rooted.
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They know about it. I reported the bug and others have it too. Hopefully they work it out soon.
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When I go into Google now on my nex7 everything works fine except for the Google search web results. It brings up cards and has voice response but brings up no web results. I wiped everything did a reset and flashed a different ROM and still having the same problem. Everything else on my tablet works fine. I'm beggining to think it may be a Google server problem in my area. Is anyone else having this problem?
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I have the same issue. Haven't found a solution yet.
Google has been having a rough 24hrs,give them a bit to fix it.
I had this but it was solved by changing search settings to Google.com rather than .co.UK.
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If this is a Google problem, why does the search widget work on my Galaxy Nexus phone but not on the nexus 7?
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If this is a Google problem, why does the search widget work on my Galaxy Nexus phone but not on the nexus 7?
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Likely they are on a different server. This is likely them working on the updates to google search that is to come with 4.2. It takes two steps back to get one large step foreword ...
Same problem here
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Google has been having a rough 24hrs,give them a bit to fix it.
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Really? I thought it's been a good roll-out for 4.1.2 JB.
Just this hickup & the usual lack of detailed usage training for end-users (which we actually embrace now as XDA-ers!)
Surprise, surprise. I'm having that issue also. Search on my N7 is giving me factual voice responses to a search like '50 milliliters in ounces', but if I say '2010 World Series' expecting to get webpage responses, I get the spinning circle. My Bionic returns webpages for these searches. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out, but kind of annoying at the moment.
Same with me. Changing from google.de to google.com did not work.
Disconnecting Wlan and connecting again and I can search once ...
I thought it was my fault
ok, well at least I know I'm not the only one. Hope they get it worked out soon.
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Really? I thought it's been a good roll-out for 4.1.2 JB.
Just this hickup & the usual lack of detailed usage training for end-users (which we actually embrace now as XDA-ers!)
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Google services went down for 15 WHOLE minutes yesterday. That's a hiccup we don't usually see.
That's not too bad, but this issue still exists and it has been a lot longer than 15 minutes.
Same problem on phone and tablet. About 30 seconds later my search results show up.
Looks like they are aware of it: per Kousha N.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/websearch/f256KJOdQLo
Mine's working fine tonight.
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I just got home from work and Google search and Google now seem to be working fine now. Just did about 20 random voice searches in a row and had no hang ups what so ever. I didn't change anything on my tablet or in settings so obviously a problem with Google that is worked out for now.
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So i use "ok google" a lot and have on all of my phones. But i constantly am having issues with my Nexus 6p, it will simply not work and when i press the mic button on the google search widget it tells me "cannot access microphone" a reboot fixes it or simply waiting a little bit then it will work again. It's anyone else having this problem??
Haven't seen this one personally. That sucks sorry.
I had that problem when I had cortana. It had taken priority. Prior phone though.
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dislplin01 said:
So i use "ok google" a lot and have on all of my phones. But i constantly am having issues with my Nexus 6p, it will simply not work and when i press the mic button on the google search widget it tells me "cannot access microphone" a reboot fixes it or simply waiting a little bit then it will work again. It's anyone else having this problem??
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Unless you specify what is installed on the phone, what ROM, etc.
It's difficult to help.
I would start disabling the apps I installed prior to this happening.
tech_head said:
Unless you specify what is installed on the phone, what ROM, etc.
It's difficult to help.
I would start disabling the apps I installed prior to this happening.
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Yea sorry, stock no special add ons and minimal app, facebook, instagram, ect very simple i have other phones and tablets to play i keep this guy stock for now
i have this problem too occasionally. a reboot fixes.
as someone else already mentioned, i suspect some other program is taking over the mic but i haven't figured out which one yet.
what's weird is that only okay google and the home screen search bar mic is busted when this happens. i can still use the mic to search in chrome and to do anything else (like write a text or whatever).
anyway, keeping an eye on this thread in case anyone figures out what the guilty app is.
May try going to app settings for the Google app (press and hold on it in the app drawer and drag it to app info is the fastest way)
And then go to permissions. Mic should be on. If it's not turn it on. If it is on, try turning it off then back on?
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Do any of you have Smart Lock with Trusted Voice enabled?
Same Issue
I also have this issue. My phone is non rooted. Only broken through the search widget. I was using nova launcher. Now using google launcher to see if that cures the issue. So far so good. Will now download my common used apps and see if anything breaks it. I really hope it was'nt Nova. I'll cry. I did speak to Google and they will replace the phone under warranty but I am going to test first anyways. I won't be returning my phone to google anytime soon as they want to pre authorize another charge on my credit card to ship me the device well behold I don't have enough available credit for a pre auth. Said they have no other options. So if your phone is under warranty and needs to be replaced make sure you have a good credit limit. I even offered to send them my phone before they sent me the new one but they said I cannot do that. So upset with google right now and their returns.
I had the same issue as OP, as recent as this past weekend. I was stock/normal rooted, no special launcher, no cortana. Microphone worked fine for speakerphone, but i could not use voice search on Google now on my phone, my moto watch, or android auto in my car. Weird how one issue spans three devices.
google searches yielded nothing. i deleted tons of apps and nothing. i went ahead and just flashed the whole stock rom, and it works normal now.
Check the permissions settings.
I am having the same problem as the OP. Glad to know I'm not alone.
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Reading the thread, had anyone solved this problem? I took the advice on checking the permission settings and found that all permissions are allowed except for storage and camera (or was it contacts? I don't remember exactly, both of them are lcoated closely). Anyhow, I decided to just allow all permissions, walla it seemed to have solved the problem, I pressed my finger on the microphone at the back of the phone and said "ok google" and it responded. Can anyone else try to see if this works?
This new permission structure has its fair share of problems, I have plenty apps crashing because of only partial permission allowed, Skype being one of them
Hi,
Voice recognition is not working any more on my OP5. For instance, if I want to speech an SMS text, I press the mike icon, the google speech box appears , but the sound is not registered. Same issue with google Assistant : "OK GOOGLE" not working any more and if I press the micro icon, a dot line appears but no result.
I checked the microphone by registring a file : it's working properly.
I have already tried an hard reset : no success.
My OP5 is not rooted and I am using the official ROM.
Thanks for your help
Settings>Apps>Tap the Gear icon top right>Tap Assist & voice input and make sure you choose Google in Assist app
Thanks for your answer. Google was correctly settled as assist app. Still not working.
I mean if you're stock, completely wiped everything, and it still doesn't work, but Mic still records... that's weird. I assume other apps like Cortana work fine?
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Make sure you do a clean install.. not restore from backup. And make sure your Google privacy settings are okay.
Hi,
I fully wiped the phone. I tried with a brand new email adress. No joy !
And cortana works fine
I downloaded the update (oxygen 4.5.13 android 7.1.1). Still no joy
When I go to activities log on my google account, I can find empty audio files for each time I tried a voice recognition (search mike icon)
You are right : it's weird !!!
Update Google app, then go check through all settings to be sure everything is switched on that you need. Will also need to retrain "ok Google". I had the same problem as you, and some other voice and typing issues.
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Hi,
Already tried. Impossible to achieve. When I try to register my "ok google" 3 times, it's stuck on the first trial.
Same thing if I try to speech a sms or a text.
brck26 said:
Hi,
Already tried. Impossible to achieve. When I try to register my "ok google" 3 times, it's stuck on the first trial.
Same thing if I try to speech a sms or a text.
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Check your app permissions. Go to Apps, then got gear wheel in top right corner. Tap on App permissions, scroll and tap Microphone. Go through list of Apps, make sure switch is turned on for Google and any other app you may need microphone turned on for. Maybe this will help.
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Thanx for your help but already checked ! Honestly... It's so weird. Cortana is ok but not Google Assistant.
All permissions ok.
I am lost ?
brck26 said:
Thanx for your help but already checked ! Honestly... It's so weird. Cortana is ok but not Google Assistant.
All permissions ok.
I am lost [emoji45]
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Sorry it didn't work. I had problems with my OP5 too with the "Ok Google" and speech to text. I looked everywhere in the phone settings and messed with Google Assistant. Even uninstalled and reinstalled Google App and Uninstalled updates to any Play store and services. Eventually, through all of this i finally got mine to work. And, i updated my Oxygen OS from 4.5.5 to 4.5.10 too. Keep trying and don't give up. Good Luck. [emoji3]
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brck26 said:
Thanx for your help but already checked ! Honestly... It's so weird. Cortana is ok but not Google Assistant.
All permissions ok.
I am lost [emoji45]
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If you still haven't had any luck, you might try taking a look at this page from Google. https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM40g8Ku3a_N4o/?hl=en
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Still not working. Yesterday it worked during one hour. But I did nothing spécial. Then it stopped again. It' becoming paranormal !
brck26 said:
Still not working. Yesterday it worked during one hour. But I did nothing spécial. Then it stopped again. It' becoming paranormal !
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I noticed mine occasionally was working intermittently, regarding the voice typing/speech to text. I have since installed Google Now launcher and switched home launcher, to that instead of the OnePlus 5 home launcher. Now it seems to be working perfectly every time. Maybe give that a try..
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1car2trucks said:
I noticed mine occasionally was working intermittently, regarding the voice typing/speech to text. I have since installed Google Now launcher and switched home launcher, to that instead of the OnePlus 5 home launcher. Now it seems to be working perfectly every time. Maybe give that a try..
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Hi,
I noticed two interesting points :
. Every time I try to use Google voice recognition in an application (SMS for example), there is a short notice telling that the audio file will be registered in my google account
. When I check my activities on line in my google account, I can find short file of few seconds (with no voice) every time related to my voice recognition trials.
brck26 said:
Hi,
I noticed two interesting points :
. Every time I try to use Google voice recognition in an application (SMS for example), there is a short notice telling that the audio file will be registered in my google account
. When I check my activities on line in my google account, I can find short file of few seconds (with no voice) every time related to my voice recognition trials.
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What sms app are you using? I have seen some sms apps show that notice, but the one I'm using right now doesn't ever show me that and it works fine.
I'm thinking you may have an issue with the sms app and/or the virtual keyboard app you're using. You may want to try another sms app and different keyboard, and check all the settings in those when you do. If it doesn't help you can always switch those apps back..
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What sms app are you using? I have seen some sms apps show that notice, but the one I'm using right now doesn't ever show me that and it works fine.
I'm thinking you may have an issue with the sms app and/or the virtual keyboard app you're using. You may want to try another sms app and different keyboard, and check all the settings in those when you do. If it doesn't help you can always switch those apps back..
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Thanks for your answer. In fact, same issue with the search app. The dot line remain still...and there is a recorded file in Google activities. I tried with différent keyboards (Google and SwiftKey). Same issue.
Well. Tonight I managed to use voice recognition with a jack headset (OK google or Google search) :laugh:.
So I think the issue is with the internal microphone impossible to trigger.
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Well. Tonight I managed to use voice recognition with a jack headset (OK google or Google search) [emoji23].
So I think the issue is with the internal microphone impossible to trigger.
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Is it under warranty? Hopefully you can get it swapped out. Good Luck
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Is it under warranty? Hopefully you can get it swapped out. Good Luck
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I just thought of something, before you try to send phone back. Take your phone out of case and turn it off. Take a can of compressed air and use the straw it comes with. Spray it in short bursts. Use it in the mic port and any other ports too. You might have gotten dust or lint in there. Then turn your phone back on and try speech recognition without the headphone plugged into the jack.
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Is it under warranty? Hopefully you can get it swapped out. Good Luck
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I just thought of something, before you try to send phone back. Take your phone out of case and turn it off. Take a can of compressed air and use the straw it comes with. Spray it in short bursts. Use it in the mic port and any other ports too. You might have gotten dust or lint in there. Then turn your phone back on and try speech recognition without the headphone plugged into the jack.
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Thx, I will try. I experienced another way with Bluetooth headset. Impossible to trigger "ok google" with my voice. But after a manual trigger by pressing the icon, I can speak and voice recognition is ok.
So, to resume regarding "ok google" and general Google voice recognition :
. Internal mike : failure
. Wired headset : ok
. Bluetooth headset : no trigger, but voice recognised after.
And remember the microphone is ok for other purposes (phone, cortana, vocal message registering,...)
Seems to be a soft problem
I have the same issue. Google voice services won't register any sound. Is there any fix?