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Google Now voice commands

Hi,
Recently i've been having problems with some of Google Now's voice commands. Prior to the Google Now update last week I was able to set myself reminders using my voice i.e "Remind me that dinner is ready in 20 minutes" - This would then set an alarm on my phone to remind me in 20 minutes time.
However when I use that same command now, it saves a "note" instead and does not remind me.
I've also noticed that some of the other commands I used to use (Play, Listen to, Navigate To etc) now result in a Google Search instead.
Wondered if anyone could help?

Same issue here.
I used google now for boiling eggs. For instance, telling Now to "set alarm in 8 minutes" would alarm me in 8 minutes.
What it does now is it sets an alarm at 8pm, titled "minutes". This actually made me overcook my eggs yesterday, haha.
I cleared the app's cache but to no avail. I haven't bothered clearing the app data. This probably is the new way this command is handled, and I hope they will revert it. By the way, do you happen to have Google Keep installed? I'm thinking that the note-setting may be related to that...

Same here... Google now seems a bit more like siri to me
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vindikleuk said:
Same issue here.
I used google now for boiling eggs. For instance, telling Now to "set alarm in 8 minutes" would alarm me in 8 minutes.
What it does now is it sets an alarm at 8pm, titled "minutes". This actually made me overcook my eggs yesterday, haha.
I cleared the app's cache but to no avail. I haven't bothered clearing the app data. This probably is the new way this command is handled, and I hope they will revert it. By the way, do you happen to have Google Keep installed? I'm thinking that the note-setting may be related to that...
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same problem, are google aware?

toge64 said:
same problem, are google aware?
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Use the give feedback button in the menu.
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vindikleuk said:
Same issue here.
I used google now for boiling eggs. For instance, telling Now to "set alarm in 8 minutes" would alarm me in 8 minutes.
What it does now is it sets an alarm at 8pm, titled "minutes". This actually made me overcook my eggs yesterday, haha.
I cleared the app's cache but to no avail. I haven't bothered clearing the app data. This probably is the new way this command is handled, and I hope they will revert it. By the way, do you happen to have Google Keep installed? I'm thinking that the note-setting may be related to that...
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Yeah I downloaded Google Keep a few days before the commands stopped working. I'll try uninstalling it now and see if that makes a difference. If it is the new way the command is handled, I hope Google revert it back to the old way.

apt3r said:
Yeah I downloaded Google Keep a few days before the commands stopped working. I'll try uninstalling it now and see if that makes a difference. If it is the new way the command is handled, I hope Google revert it back to the old way.
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Any difference after uninstalling Google Keep?

Seems to be back to normal guys. Let me know if it works for you

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Seems to be back to normal guys. Let me know if it works for you
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I froze Google Keep with titanium backup. It's still saving notes when I don't want it to, and the timer won't work either.

Use the command. set timer 8 minutes
See if that works for you because that is still working for me and I am stock non rooted all apps updated
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jonapunk said:
Use the command. set timer 8 minutes
See if that works for you because that is still working for me and I am stock non rooted all apps updated
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Hmpf

vindikleuk said:
Hmpf
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yup, same issue

Use the command. set timer 8 minutes
See if that works for you because that is still working for me and I am stock non rooted all apps updated
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Are you guys using a custom kernel or just custom rom. I'm wondering why Google now would make our phones behave differently

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'Set timer' also worked for me. Using AKOP 4.2.2

Woah, are you on the last version of google search as well? And American english set as system language? This is interesting and strange at the same time.
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Edit: I'm on franco's kernel by the way. I don't see how that would make a difference to Google Now behaviour though.

Still having the same issues, anyone know how to clear the app cache? - bit of a noob here!

apt3r said:
Still having the same issues, anyone know how to clear the app cache? - bit of a noob here!
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Settings » Apps » Select ALL apps.
Then find "Google Search", and under Cache, hit "Clear cache".
That didn't fix it for me, though. d'awwww

All good for me. "set reminder to ... at 9 o'clock tonight' set an alarm with almost the right description. I'd like it better if it went into tasks instead though and set a reminder alarm.
"Set timer for 1 minute" also set an alarm for 1 minute from current time.
On HTC One running 4.1.2

[Q] Volume changes sporadically on AT&T Galaxy S5 - can I log changes?

Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 bought through AT&T, and the volume (ringer/system volume from silent to vibrate to loud and vice versa) seems to change sporadically on its own. I'm unable to identify the cause. I put the phone into safe mode, and as far as I know, it doesn't change the volume on its own when in safe mode, so I have reason to believe it's from an app I installed. I currently have Volume Locker installed as a temporary solution. This problem never happened on my Galaxy S3 through AT&T, with no different apps installed after upgrading. I do not have any apps that change the volume profile.
Question: is there a way I can log (in real-time) volume changes and also the apps that put in the request for these changes?

adub said:
Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 bought through AT&T, and the volume (ringer/system volume from silent to vibrate to loud and vice versa) seems to change sporadically on its own. I'm unable to identify the cause. I put the phone into safe mode, and as far as I know, it doesn't change the volume on its own when in safe mode, so I have reason to believe it's from an app I installed. I currently have Volume Locker installed as a temporary solution. This problem never happened on my Galaxy S3 through AT&T, with no different apps installed after upgrading. I do not have any apps that change the volume profile.
Question: is there a way I can log (in real-time) volume changes and also the apps that put in the request for these changes?
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I've never hear of an app like that, but it's most likely turning on in your pocket. The S5 has very high tough sensitivity so even in your pocket it can change things without you knowing.

aooga said:
I've never hear of an app like that, but it's most likely turning on in your pocket. The S5 has very high tough sensitivity so even in your pocket it can change things without you knowing.
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I thought the same thing too, but I've left my phone completely alone, and it'll still switch sound modes on its own. It has to be an app.
Anyone have any ideas on this app business or logging? In Developer options, there's a setting where I can turn on OpenGL traces...could this possibly monitor actions? I have no idea how to use it and don't know what it does.

adub said:
I thought the same thing too, but I've left my phone completely alone, and it'll still switch sound modes on its own. It has to be an app.
Anyone have any ideas on this app business or logging? In Developer options, there's a setting where I can turn on OpenGL traces...could this possibly monitor actions? I have no idea how to use it and don't know what it does.
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I don't mean to be rude, but why not just get it replaced instead of going through all this?

aooga said:
I don't mean to be rude, but why not just get it replaced instead of going through all this?
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Not rude at all. I actually already replaced it once, and it's doing the same thing. My fault for not mentioning that sooner. If asked why not get a different phone, the answer is because I don't want to.

adub said:
Not rude at all. I actually already replaced it once, and it's going the same thing. My fault for not mentioning that sooner. If asked why not get a different phone, the answer is because I don't want to.
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Do you have a list of all your apps installed? Use this app to make it easier.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.onyxbits.listmyapps

aooga said:
Do you have a list of all your apps installed? Use this app to make it easier.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.onyxbits.listmyapps
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I tried posting my app list after getting it from the app you recommended, but I keep getting the error message: We are sorry, your post was flagged by our system and was blocked from submitting. If you believe this was in error, please contact an admin to report this.
I sent an email to the developer of the website, so hopefully s/he will get back soon.

adub said:
I tried posting my app list after getting it from the app you recommended, but I keep getting the error message: We are sorry, your post was flagged by our system and was blocked from submitting. If you believe this was in error, please contact an admin to report this.
I sent an email to the developer of the website, so hopefully s/he will get back soon.
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Post it on pastebin.com and put the url here. OR just PM me.

aooga said:
Post it on pastebin.com and put the url here. OR just PM me.
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http://pastebin.com/rAdrW4MW#

adub said:
http://pastebin.com/rAdrW4MW#
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I'll take a look and see what might be causing it. Thanks.

aooga said:
I'll take a look and see what might be causing it. Thanks.
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Thanks, I appreciate it!

adub said:
Thanks, I appreciate it!
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Try this in tasker
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Auto-close apps.

Hello guys, i have a problem with the Axon 7. When i turn off the screen for a longer period of time(10-15 miuntes) and then turn it on again, i get the massage:" unused apps auto-closed during Screen locking".
It seems like it deletes all cashe from the running apps. For example the video i paused in youtube disapeared in the app. This is pretty annoying. Do you have this issue, too?
I hope someone can help me. Thanks.

Here is a screenshot btw.
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+1
Would be very nice to be able to disable this bloody thing!

Maybe you can opt to not have it optimized by the power manager in settings?

Is this exclusive to the US version? Only have used mine for a day but never saw that.

It's an option on the power managment. Disable the second setting under power managment.

djona12 said:
It's an option on the power managment. Disable the second setting under power managment.
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It was always disabled. Is this maybe a bug?
I have the European model btw.

djona12 said:
It's an option on the power managment. Disable the second setting under power managment.
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A2017G_B03 here.
fixed it for me when i disabled it in the per-app settings.

Flaîm said:
A2017G_B03 here.
fixed it for me when i disabled it in the per-app settings.
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Could you tell me, which one of them?
I think I tried everyone and it still doesn't work. And YouTube for example, isn't even in list.

Kleva94 said:
Could you tell me, which one of them?
I think I tried everyone and it still doesn't work. And YouTube for example, isn't even in list.
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you're right. youtube isnt in the list...
i had the problem with a music app called "netease cloud music".
i just disabled all the settings in there that were ticked.

So.. turns out this is a "feature" introduced in B03.. any way to disable it?

jpde said:
So.. turns out this is a "feature" introduced in B03.. any way to disable it?
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can't you just downgrade to B02?

I don't know if that is possible, but that's not a solution considering that B02 also fixes some issues.

Same here.
Cannot find a way to manage this.
Chrome browser is always loading all my page when I open it...
It's really boring

Yikes I don't have this issue with quarts gray US version.. I am able to have about 20 apps in memory before any start being shut-down in memory.. It's a dumb question to ask- Have you tried factory reset? T_T Maybe something was dirty after going from BO2 TO BO3?

MrWilsonxD said:
Yikes I don't have this issue with quarts gray US version.. I am able to have about 20 apps in memory before any start being shut-down in memory.. It's a dumb question to ask- Have you tried factory reset? T_T Maybe something was dirty after going from BO2 TO BO3?
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did that with mine and it had no effect on the issue

MrWilsonxD said:
Yikes I don't have this issue with quarts gray US version.. I am able to have about 20 apps in memory before any start being shut-down in memory.. It's a dumb question to ask- Have you tried factory reset? T_T Maybe something was dirty after going from BO2 TO BO3?
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ZTE is actually thinking this is a feature. It doesn't activate itself for apps that were installed pre-upgrade, but I installed instagram today and it does by default activate the "clean lockscreen" thing which means that it will close the app. The problem is that for system apps, you cannot change the setting. It's a bad implementation of a useless feature.

jpde said:
ZTE is actually thinking this is a feature. It doesn't activate itself for apps that were installed pre-upgrade, but I installed instagram today and it does by default activate the "clean lockscreen" thing which means that it will close the app. The problem is that for system apps, you cannot change the setting. It's a bad implementation of a useless feature.
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That's horrible I feel like that's return-worthy. Are you still within your return period?

I've only had it for 3 days, so I still have 27 days to return it. But I strongly doubt ZTE will keep it that way. Maybe @rikin93 can get ZTE to do something about it.

The RAM Management on the Axon 7 is too aggressive! I've got the european Axon 7 quartz grey model (A2017G, update B03) and whenever the screen is off for longer than approx. 5 minutes most/all apps I had open are auto closed. I've searched all settinigs (maybe I missed something) and did not find a way to disable this behaviour (at least for some apps). It is pretty annoying to wait for apps to relaunch and should not happen on the Axon 7, having 4GB RAM!
My previous OnePlus One has 3GB RAM, did not auto close any app like Chrome anywhere near as aggressive as Axon 7 (some long unused and big apps are still closed relatively soon).
Is there anything I can do or do I have to wait until ZTE decides to change this behaviour on the Axon 7?

New OTA update available

Downloading now.....

Woot!!!! new features...

Downloading now!
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i need to flash this from my G950U1 firmware. I have Bixby voice, I wonder if this has more?

thank you for the update

FYI - I'm running T-mobile on the unlocked S8+. Didn't think that I would get tmo updates, but it actually worked (had to manual check for the update). Mine just finished installing the OTA.

Downloaded this last night. Was trying to use the camera and kept getting a "system UI" crash notice. Phone started overheating really bad, to the point it was hot to the touch. I immediately shut it off, and left it on the ground for awhile, in case it decided to pull a Note 7. Turned it back on after 30 min, and camera works, but the phone started heating up again. Turned it back off for awhile. Started it up again, closed all apps, and so far it's okay. If you download, please keep an eye on it.

Moostafa29 said:
Downloaded this last night. Was trying to use the camera and kept getting a "system UI" crash notice. Phone started overheating really bad, to the point it was hot to the touch. I immediately shut it off, and left it on the ground for awhile, in case it decided to pull a Note 7. Turned it back on after 30 min, and camera works, but the phone started heating up again. Turned it back off for awhile. Started it up again, closed all apps, and so far it's okay. If you download, please keep an eye on it.
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try taking out the sd-card and try the camera again using the internal sd... then try putting the sd-card in again to see what happens..
I would hate to say, maybe u have to do a factory reset, and see if that helps.. last resort...

I took the update last night,no overheating or issues,think root for our device is a long ways away as well....so who is getting the note 8?hopefully that comes with the ability to root

Heads up. Bixby button mappers are blocked from working with this update.

The update broke the built in Digits app. Support had me download and install the Digits app from the Play Store and said that it is now required. Anyone else?
Edit: It was not the OTA that broke built in Digits support. Wiping cache and loging out and then back in to my account fixed the issue. It appears that timing of the OTA and me noticing that Digits was not working was coincidence..

lancemoreland said:
The update broke the built in Digits app. Support had me download and install the Digits app from the Play Store and said that it is now required. Anyone else?
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That's not cool, I don't like the digit app. You will end up having 2 notifications for each text or call you get.

vboyz103 said:
That's not cool, I don't like the digit app. You will end up having 2 notifications for each text or call you get.
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I edited my post above. Turns out that it was not the OTA that broke Digits.

This update has wrecked my battery life. Android System is consistently beating out screen by a factor of 2x for the amount of battery utilization , even after several reboots. Disappointing that an official OTA has made me go from singing this phone's praises to hating it within a couple of days. And no, I don't want to do a factory reset and then spend hours setting everything back up, those days were supposed to be gone the moment they prevented us from rooting and installing custom roms.

Update: The issue I had was happening in any app, whenever I'd turn the phone to landscape mode. I did some research, and found someone in the Sprint S8 forum had the issue as well, and was able to fix it by simply changing the navigation button order, then switching it right back. Haven't had any issues with overheating since Saturday, but battery has been meh since the update.

mhill1986 said:
Heads up. Bixby button mappers are blocked from working with this update.
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Any way to avoid this update? I do NOT want Bixby!

ARS_K1MGY said:
Any way to avoid this update? I do NOT want Bixby!
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You could completely disable Bixby with BK Disabler which is what I did.
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lancemoreland said:
You could completely disable Bixby with BK Disabler which is what I did.
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Can the button be re-mapped with the disabler?

ARS_K1MGY said:
Can the button be re-mapped with the disabler?
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No. It disables it.
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ocelot4ark said:
FYI - I'm running T-mobile on the unlocked S8+. Didn't think that I would get tmo updates, but it actually worked (had to manual check for the update). Mine just finished installing the OTA.[/QUOTE
Interesting how you got an update from T-Mobile on your unlocked S8?
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Google Maps 6 gets killed running in background

Hi guys, is anyone here still using Google maps v6?
It is still working fine, except that on this phone (s10+ Exynos) the app gets killed when running in the background.
At first i believed it to be because i had added the app to the sleep list. I had done that because the system keeps saying the app is eating up battery, even when not running.
So I removed the app from the sleep list, but it keeps getting killed.
How can i make sure that an app never gets killed when running in the background?

Try this go into settings and search optimize battery usage, and then press optimize battery usage listed. You have the options to see what is not optimize battery usage or all click all on top left and see If maps is toggled on. If so toggle off.

latino147 said:
Hi guys, is anyone here still using Google maps v6?
It is still working fine, except that on this phone (s10+ Exynos) the app gets killed when running in the background.
At first i believed it to be because i had added the app to the sleep list. I had done that because the system keeps saying the app is eating up battery, even when not running.
So I removed the app from the sleep list, but it keeps getting killed.
How can i make sure that an app never gets killed when running in the background?
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Make sure the following are set.
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Make sure the following are set.View attachment 4766267View attachment 4766268
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I have those settings now, and removed the app from the sleeping apps (again). I'm afraid the system will put it back on the 'sleep' list again because it uses a lot of battery in the background (I get regular warnings about that).
Anyone have an idea why this app would be so active while not even used?

latino147 said:
I have those settings now, and removed the app from the sleeping apps (again). I'm afraid the system will put it back on the 'sleep' list again because it uses a lot of battery in the background (I get regular warnings about that).
Anyone have an idea why this app would be so active while not even used?
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What power mode are you running at? Play with a few settings on the attache two screens. View attachment 4766542View attachment 4766543
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I have the same settings as you have.
What happens is that i get warnings about the old apps eating battery. I guess i then put it to sleep without noticing.
I restarted my phone, did NOT start mapsD, but its still doing something on the background.

latino147 said:
I have the same settings as you have.
What happens is that i get warnings about the old apps eating battery. I guess i then put it to sleep without noticing.
I restarted my phone, did NOT start mapsD, but its still doing something on the background.
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It's a modded maps correct? It eats alot battery not even sure it's worth it. What use it ?

fearbasel04 said:
It's a modded maps correct? It eats alot battery not even sure it's worth it. What use it ?
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It's v6 of Google Maps. It had a much simpler interface, and easier to use when looking for alternative routes.
And it doesn't have all that commercial baggage of the new version, which is way slower too btw.
The only thing is, why does it use battery when not even started....

latino147 said:
It's v6 of Google Maps. It had a much simpler interface, and easier to use when looking for alternative routes.
And it doesn't have all that commercial baggage of the new version, which is way slower too btw.
The only thing is, why does it use battery when not even started....
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Being it's an old version I would think you downloaded it from the net and not the play store. Maybe it has hidden spyware etc?

fearbasel04 said:
Being it's an old version I would think you downloaded it from the net and not the play store. Maybe it has hidden spyware etc?
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I actually got it here from XDA, posted by a senior member.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2566159