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How I got "OK Google Everywhere" back on Kitkat

What I did was download a rooted stock ROM that I was already running (cnk2). I dirty flashed it onto my tmobile s5. Surprise! OK Google Everywhere! This confirms for me that Google has deliberately killed this function on their updates, I don't know of course which updates, but I would guess very possibly the search and Google App itself.
At this point I will continue to use the un-updated Google Apps, and report back on whether this adversely affects my use of the Play Store and so on.
Anyone not using Kitkat may be able to locate a ROM that contains Google Apps old enough not to have been damaged by Google. You of course flash that at your own risk. I was already using a stock ROM and flashed the same exact ROM, original version, over my running system.
If anyone would like, I can list whatever version of system app I am using that you think might be of interest in this situation.

Update
Yesterday my phone was getting really hot and the battery use showed that Google Apps was accounting for 16% of battery usage. I did some googling and found others were having this problem. I decided to see if updating Google play services would make a change. I updated:
Google app
Google play services
Google play store
Google text to speech
Google+
Afterward with testing, I still had Google Now Everywhere. My theory now is that an update of some kind that I have "leapfrogged" in this manner may have caused the loss of Google Now Everywhere. I can go into the Google app, select settings, and under voice/"ok google" detection/ I can still retrain the voice model and select "from any screen".

Google assistant rollout

With Google officially starting the GA rollout I am curious if anyone has yet to get it? I updated to the Google Play Services Beta and latest Google apps via apkmirror.com. And NO I have NOT got GA working.
I STILL only have this (Screenshot)

I used a beta APK that was linked from Android police a couple weeks ago, but it broke the Feed part of the Google app, so I deleted it. Assistant did work.

raduque said:
I used a beta APK that was linked from Android police a couple weeks ago, but it broke the Feed part of the Google app, so I deleted it. Assistant did work.
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Ya I am actually talking about the latest release. Google Assistant is suppose to be available to all devices now as long as they are on Android 6.0+.

aaronpw0621 said:
With Google officially starting the GA rollout I am curious if anyone has yet to get it? I updated to the Google Play Services Beta and latest Google apps via apkmirror.com. And NO I have NOT got GA working.
I STILL only have this (Screenshot)
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I also updated to the Google Play Services Beta a few days ago thinking I would get the new assistant almost immediately but nothing yet here either.

The switch is server sided no APK's will get you the assistant anymore.
At least that's what I've been made to believe. We'll all have to patiently wait.

Took official nougat today and got Assistant!!!!

Crsdr37 said:
Took official nougat today and got Assistant!!!!
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Nothing here and already updated to nougat

re assistant
I updated to nougat. Tried beta's too. Still no assistant!

I have unlocked the secret to getting Google Assistant and it unfortunately it requires your Google account to be activated server side. I tested it on 2 other devices including my own. As long as your Gmail account is on a phone with Marshmallow or above and you setup Google now to your account the next time you hold the home button it starts the assistant setup. The downside is if you remove that google account it does not stay unlocked to that device. So if you have family member that has it you can get it but otherwise Google will have to unlock your account.....

Cleared Google now app's cache, went through the setup and customization and let it run for a few minutes and got the assistant setup

Don't think it had to do with clearing the app cache they had a massive rollout of accounts the night before and yesterday looks like we got lucky.

Google assistant just landed on my phone about an hour ago. Google must be rolling things out slowly, but didn't have to do anything special.

It became active for me last night around 11pm.

I've had assistant on stock 6.0.1 for weeks... I didn't realize it was a big deal lol. Just checked for system updates though and Nougat is FINALLY available

With everything that Verizon WON'T allow us to have... (ie. Samsung Cloud, Samsung Pay @ Launch), we get a little giddy when something does land on our phones LOL.

And Samsung Pay is only still allowed because there isn't a "Verizon Pay" yet!

This sucks lol. I still haven't gotten it.

My wife hasn't either....

I still don't have assistant. Anybody else not get it yet?

Strangest thing happened with me.. I read that I needed to leave the Google services beta program to get assistant to work. So I did and uninstalled the beta version and updated to the current version. Almost instantly received Google Assistant. Then the strange part is it was gone after I used it once.. no clue why and can't get it back no matter what I try.

Did anyone get Google assistant?

I mean without any mods or custom rom. Google recently announced to launch Google assistant on eligible devices with marshmallow and up. I'm on 6.14 version of Google App and 10.5.37 version play services . But still Google assistant is not working.
Update: Good news everyone it is working on moto e3 power just popped out on the phone by long pressing the home button . And I'm in India!

Aman301582 said:
I mean without any mods or custom rom. Google recently announced to launch Google assistant on eligible devices with marshmallow and up. I'm on 6.14 version of Google App and 10.5.37 version play services . But still Google assistant is not working.
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They have launched it but in Google Allo messaging app. It is built in the app but you don't get a voice talkback

DumbKid23 said:
They have launched it but in Google Allo messaging app. It is built in the app but you don't get a voice talkback
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I'm talking about full system level assistant. It is not available in my country, but in other countries where it is available, I want to know if it is working on moto e3 power or not.

I've got it this morning on my Panasonic Eluga tapp.I think it is a server side switch from Google.

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I've got it this morning on my Panasonic Eluga tapp.I think it is a server side switch from Google.
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It came out of nowhere today on my e3 power.

Are you having any bug or glitches in it.I Mine is having a lot of bug.

Adrenoaak322 said:
Are you having any bug or glitches in it.I Mine is having a lot of bug.
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Bug for example?

s7e Oreo no Bixby no google?

Hello, Oreo official is not delivered with Bixby ok but did you manage to get google assistant working?
Since yesterday I have problem with microphone... I have google beta version , basic version or clear cache does not help
Thanks for help

I had the same problem. I resolved by doing a voice search on the Google app. Magically I was able to register Voice Match.

Hum thanks but no chance here, I think problem is BTU csc I will check

Bixby not that good to me anyway. Have the at&t note 8 on oreo and it sucks. Battery is horrible. Also samsung still has not updated there system apps.

HIZPO Allwinner QUAD-CORE T3 p3 Android 6 Google Apps crashing, Android 7 update?

Hi,
I have one of these http://r.ebay.com/mfgqMf running Android 6.0.1, which has been working fine for about a year. Now there have been some updates to Google Maps, Chrome, Play Store and Play Services, they are not running. Maps opens and closes again, Play Store and Chrome does the same, and Play Services crashes randomly. I contacted the seller to try and get an update to Android 7, and although they shared the update with me, it was corrupt and they recommended to not update the unit anyway.
Has anyone either updated their unit to 7, or found a way to stop the Google apps from crashing? I have managed to prevent Maps and Chrome from updating, but I can't stop Play Store or Play Services updating.
Thanks....

the same probllem
Hi, I have the same problem with google apps.
Did you manage to solve it or update your android?
I'm desesperate
regrads

borreguito said:
Hi, I have the same problem with google apps.
Did you manage to solve it or update your android?
I'm desesperate
regrads
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Hi,
No I still haven't got to the cause of the issue. I contacted the ebay seller, who sent me an update file for the unit. It seemed to be corrupt every time they tried to send it, so after trying a repair, it would not install.

Same problem, Allwinner QUAD CORE T3 P3 device, running android 6.0.1, can't open neither Google Play or Google Maps.
Temporary yet annoying solution is to disable app (which restores it to factory version) and enable it again. This helps until it updates again.
The Google Play updates on its own, so you can't control that, but at least google maps will work if you disable auto update.

I have same issue. Temp fix is disabling/uninstalling Google app (not Google play)
EDIT: Set system time for updating from internet, not GPS data. This fixed all issues for me. Google Assistant working as well