Voice search - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is there anyway to activate voice search by long pressing the home button? Right now, if you long press the home button it brings up the Google tiles then you have to hit the mic to voice search. I've tried the home2menu app, but it doesn't work.
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jrock79 said:
Is there anyway to activate voice search by long pressing the home button? Right now, if you long press the home button it brings up the Google tiles then you have to hit the mic to voice search. I've tried the home2menu app, but it doesn't work.
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After you are in google now by long pressing home, if you say "google" it will automatically activate voice search, not exactly what you want, but it does the trick. (may need to activate the feature in settings)

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Homebutton settings

Hello!
Is there any kind mod or apk to change home button to show recent apps by long pressing?
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n0zzz said:
Hello!
Is there any kind mod or apk to change home button to show recent apps by long pressing?
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If you are rooted the back button long hold menu
Is long-pressing home very much preferable to the default way of doing this (double-tapping home)?
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NxNW said:
Is long-pressing home very much preferable to the default way of doing this (double-tapping home)?
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I my self would definitely prefer a long press rather than having to double tap. Sometimes I miss the second two and just go home but would have no problems with a long press.
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Any solution to this? I'd like to make long-press home as the multi-tasking view and disable double-press home entirely (don't care about google now).
On the new 4.2.2 long press is now the menu button, double tap home is the recent apps like before and press, hold, and swipe up is the Google now
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syaoran68 said:
On the new 4.2.2 long press is now the menu button, double tap home is the recent apps like before and press, hold, and swipe up is the Google now
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Yea I just saw this when I flashed to a 4.2.2 ROM. The thing I want to disable is the double-tap home button as it makes the single-press home a bit laggy since it has to wait to see if the second button press of home is registered or not. I would rather the phone just instantly goes home when I press home which requires the double-tap home function to be disabled which is why I'd like to rebind the task-switcher to something else like long-press home.
dinan said:
Yea I just saw this when I flashed to a 4.2.2 ROM. The thing I want to disable is the double-tap home button as it makes the single-press home a bit laggy since it has to wait to see if the second button press of home is registered or not. I would rather the phone just instantly goes home when I press home which requires the double-tap home function to be disabled which is why I'd like to rebind the task-switcher to something else like long-press home.
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It doesn't make it laggy, as it doesn't wait for the second tap. You can still do the second tap once it gets to the homescreen. If you think it's slow, you should see the Samsung Galaxy phones with their REAL homebutton lag
MacHackz said:
It doesn't make it laggy, as it doesn't wait for the second tap. You can still do the second tap once it gets to the homescreen. If you think it's slow, you should see the Samsung Galaxy phones with their REAL homebutton lag
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It does... this is exactly what I'm relating it to. On my S3 it had double-press home to go to the S-Voice app. Once I disabled that feature, the home button would be instant on the S3. Otherwise, it would be "waiting" for the 2nd press. It's the same thing with the HTC One... at least it feels like it.
And no, I can't still do the 2nd tap when I get to the home screen...
dinan said:
It does... this is exactly what I'm relating it to. On my S3 it had double-press home to go to the S-Voice app. Once I disabled that feature, the home button would be instant on the S3. Otherwise, it would be "waiting" for the 2nd press. It's the same thing with the HTC One... at least it feels like it.
And no, I can't still do the 2nd tap when I get to the home screen...
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I can some people store more electrical charge in their fingers, guess you are lacking that 'zap'
In all seriousness, I don't have any lag and you can disable the double tap by editing the framework.jar
MacHackz said:
I can some people store more electrical charge in their fingers, guess you are lacking that 'zap'
In all seriousness, I don't have any lag and you can disable the double tap by editing the framework.jar
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Lol... well I feel the vibration feedback of the 2nd tap but it just acts as me pressing the home screen again, not part of the 2nd press from the 1st. I've tried timing it very closely but I still can't get it to go home and then bring up the task switcher. I can just get it to go home, then go home again, or get the task switcher.
Disabling it is only half the battle... I still want to bind the task-switcher to long press but I lack the know-how to do it lol. Thought there would be something built into modaco's framework to do it but I don't see that level of button customization there yet.
n0zzz said:
Hello!
Is there any kind mod or apk to change home button to show recent apps by long pressing?
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Go to the playstore, search "swipe home button" 99 cents, you can swipe up on the HTC button for home, swine up and back down for multitask. More included
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chc31 said:
Go to the playstore, search "swipe home button" 99 cents, you can swipe up on the HTC button for home, swine up and back down for multitask. More included
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how? it does not work for me ..
Max128 said:
how? it does not work for me ..
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Well you have to do it by placing your finger in the HTC logo on the bottom, and slide it up on the screen. Did you do that correctly perhaps?
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chc31 said:
Well you have to do it by placing your finger in the HTC logo on the bottom, and slide it up on the screen. Did you do that correctly perhaps?
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Yes it does not work!

[HOW TO] Replace S-Voice with Google Now, incl. for BT Voice Dialing

I have found S Voice completely unusable when not connected to WiFi, and so after some searching I have managed to completely replace S Voice with Google Now, including having Google Now activated by the voice dialing button on my bluetooth headset. While my S4 is rooted, I do not believe root is required to do this on the S4.
All credit goes to those who have figured this out before me, I'm just putting the steps in one place.
1. Disable S Voice. Menu > Settings > More > Application manager > All
2. Install Home2 Shortcut from Google Play Store (free!).
3. Open Home2 Shortcut and set the double tap option (Home > Home) to Google. Change your double tap response if you wish, set your Home Application to TouchWiz home, and tap the Close button.
3a. If you want the double tap to immediately activate the voice search function, set your Home > Home option to Voice Search.
4. Double tap the home button, choose Home2 Shortcut and select Always.
Congrats! You have now replaced S Voice with Google Now! But wait a sec, when you activate voice dialing from a bluetooth headset, you get the Google Voice Dialer. This isn't nearly as useful as Google Now, so that's the next item to fix!
1. Install Bluetooth Launch from Google Play Store (also free!).
2. Open Bluetooth Launch.
3. This app does not display well on our screens, but you should be able to find and tap on Google Search. This expands a list of options.
4. Select "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.VoiceSearchActivity"
5. Activate voice dialing from your headset, choose Bluetooth Launch and Always.
Congrats again! BT headset voice dialing will now activate Google Now Voice Search! :highfive:
C4PO said:
I have found S Voice completely unusable when not connected to WiFi, and so after some searching I have managed to completely replace S Voice with Google Now, including having Google Now activated by the voice dialing button on my bluetooth headset. While my S4 is rooted, I do not believe root is required to do this on the S4.
All credit goes to those who have figured this out before me, I'm just putting the steps in one place.
1. Disable S Voice. Menu > Settings > More > Application manager > All
2. Install Home2 Shortcut from Google Play Store (free!).
3. Open Home2 Shortcut and set the double tap option (Home > Home) to Google. Change your double tap response if you wish, set your Home Application to TouchWiz home, and tap the Close button.
3a. If you want the double tap to immediately activate the voice search function, set your Home > Home option to Voice Search.
4. Double tap the home button, choose Home2 Shortcut and select Always.
Congrats! You have now replaced S Voice with Google Now! But wait a sec, when you activate voice dialing from a bluetooth headset, you get the Google Voice Dialer. This isn't nearly as useful as Google Now, so that's the next item to fix!
1. Install Bluetooth Launch from Google Play Store (also free!).
2. Open Bluetooth Launch.
3. This app does not display well on our screens, but you should be able to find and tap on Google Search. This expands a list of options.
4. Select "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.VoiceSearchActivity"
5. Activate voice dialing from your headset, choose Bluetooth Launch and Always.
Congrats again! BT headset voice dialing will now activate Google Now Voice Search! :highfive:
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This used to be completely broken in both AOSP and TW roms because Google Now voices recognizing in Bluetooth voice dialing was buggy - it would never properly recognize contact names...
Are you saying it works now?
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Just tried Google Now.
It still DOESN'T WORK.
It now recognizes names just fine, BUT ONLY when the screen is unlocked.
When the phone is off and locked, it doesn't recognize any voice commands.
Back to the buggy S-Voice for me!
C4PO said:
I have found S Voice completely unusable when not connected to WiFi, and so after some searching I have managed to completely replace S Voice with Google Now, including having Google Now activated by the voice dialing button on my bluetooth headset. While my S4 is rooted, I do not believe root is required to do this on the S4.
All credit goes to those who have figured this out before me, I'm just putting the steps in one place.
1. Disable S Voice. Menu > Settings > More > Application manager > All
2. Install Home2 Shortcut from Google Play Store (free!).
3. Open Home2 Shortcut and set the double tap option (Home > Home) to Google. Change your double tap response if you wish, set your Home Application to TouchWiz home, and tap the Close button.
3a. If you want the double tap to immediately activate the voice search function, set your Home > Home option to Voice Search.
4. Double tap the home button, choose Home2 Shortcut and select Always.
Congrats! You have now replaced S Voice with Google Now!
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I managed to get this working but now there is a slight lag/delay when pushing my home button. Not acceptable for me so I went ahead and uninstalled Home2 Shortcut.
Marty said:
I managed to get this working but now there is a slight lag/delay when pushing my home button. Not acceptable for me so I went ahead and uninstalled Home2 Shortcut.
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The reason for that is the app is waiting for you to push the home button once again. You can set the double tap interval to be shorter. I disabled the double tap home key because 905% of the time that i am pressing the home key i am exiting an app, not doing a search and i want my phone to be as fast as possible.
Change the interval time to "very short" or "very very short"
Mdracer said:
The reason for that is the app is waiting for you to push the home button once again. You can set the double tap interval to be shorter. I disabled the double tap home key because 905% of the time that i am pressing the home key i am exiting an app, not doing a search and i want my phone to be as fast as possible.
Change the interval time to "very short" or "very very short"
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Thanks! This significantly shortened the lag/delay. However, I am still noticing a very, very small lag which I just don't want (phone has enough lag as it is already) so I am uninstalling again. I'll just keep a shortcut to Voice Search in my dock and on my lock screen.
This didn't work for me initially. Google now would launch but wouldn't record. Found out I had to change a setting in Google now...
In Google now go to settings>voice>blutooth headset
Now it will hear you. I still have to tap my bt mic a couple of times before it pics up.
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I'm having a similar issue. I can hit my button on my headset to launch Google Now now, but it doesn't seem to pick up my audio. I hope to play around with it more later.
Does anyone actually have the Google Now Voice Search actually picking up the sound from their bluetooth headset?
No go for Google Now
I followed the directions as outlined above - and I had the same problems with Google Now and bluetooth not working with the screen off. It just won't start. Works fine with the screen on. So I tried Dragon Mobile Assistant and it works. Much better than SVoice and it reads aloud what actions it's performing.
Worked like a dream! Thanks!
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Does anyone actually have the Google Now Voice Search actually picking up the sound from their bluetooth headset?
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Yup. The OP's thorough, step-by-step instructions worked like a dream. My S4 now jumps immediately to a listening Google Now search when i double-tap home, or (and this is the best part) when I press+hold the home button on my Plantronics Legend BT headset. Even / especially from a completely locked state. There's a weird sound, like two waiting chimes overlapping, but who cares?! It works!
You may have to follow parashara's tip as well:
This didn't work for me initially. Google now would launch but wouldn't record. Found out I had to change a setting in Google now...
In Google now go to settings>voice>blutooth headset
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THANK YOU!
Nice. Google now is way more useful.
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I am going to give this a try
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I followed the instructions in the first part of the OP and can't get this to work.
When double tapping I just get a grey screen and then back to the launcher.
Stock Rom
Using Nova Launcher
Xoom said:
I followed the instructions in the first part of the OP and can't get this to work.
When double tapping I just get a grey screen and then back to the launcher.
Stock Rom
Using Nova Launcher
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Same thing here. Either the phone doesn't do anything, or I see a black screen that goes immidiately back to the launcher. Sometimes it just stays on "Initialization"...
Bluetooth Launch isn't working for me.
I got the double press home button to work but I can't seem to get my bluetooth call button to work. When I disable S-Voice in Application Manager, Settings takes away my option to "Activate voice dialing." But when I enable S-Voice in Application Manager and select "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.VoiceSearchActivity" in Bluetooth Launch I'm never asked to select Bluetooth Launch as an option when voice dialing. . . It's a bit frustrating and any help would be incredible.
Thanks.
Xoom said:
I followed the instructions in the first part of the OP and can't get this to work.
When double tapping I just get a grey screen and then back to the launcher.
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I'm having the same problem. Stock rom, unrooted.
Thx a bunch !
Stopped working with MH8 update
Using GOLDENEYE ROM on i337
Wasn't able to get Google Now to work, but once I disabled S Voice and used Bluetooth Launcher I did get Utter to work. All I'm really interested in doing is making hands free calls, and that works, even if the screen is locked with a pin.
I am using the Hyperdrive ROM, but not sure if that matters.
YMMV.
JW
Instead of installing Home2 Shortcut, just open up S Voice and go to settting, and disable the app from starting without having to install any third party apps.

New to Z1 and can't find option/menu button

Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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ashouhdy said:
Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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like all nexus devices and on screen keyboard devices, in 4.0 there was a button on the apps which acts as the menu button (its called action menu or something), you only need to look for 3 vertical dots or play with the apps.
the facebook app have its settings on the left tab at the end of all the crap, there you can find the settings
Asadroid said:
like all nexus devices and on screen keyboard devices, in 4.0 there was a button on the apps which acts as the menu button (its called action menu or something), you only need to look for 3 vertical dots or play with the apps.
the facebook app have its settings on the left tab at the end of all the crap, there you can find the settings
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Yup but in messages u cant delete conversations caise no action button.
Seriously whats the use of 2 button with basically of the same function. The home and task bar button
Should be integrated in 1 button only home button one press then long press brings the task manager.
So is it the same with all launchers?
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ashouhdy said:
Yup but in messages u cant delete conversations caise no action button.
Seriously whats the use of 2 button with basically of the same function. The home and task bar button
Should be integrated in 1 button only home button one press then long press brings the task manager.
So is it the same with all launchers?
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in the messenger app and in the facebook app, you need to go to the messenger section (facebook app) long pres the conversation and then an optional menu will appear.
BLAME facebook for a poorly done app man, they should implement better ways to navigate through the damn app
Reminds me of the ios
??
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ashouhdy said:
Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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it took me a while to get used to it too..
try to look for 3 vertical dots !!!
it's menu or setting most of the time!
choihan06 said:
it took me a while to get used to it too..
try to look for 3 vertical dots !!!
it's menu or setting most of the time!
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Yea.... thats the only thing i dislike about the phone
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ashouhdy said:
Yea.... thats the only thing i dislike about the phone
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It's the same with all Android devices that use stock or close to stock above 4.1. The real blame is with poor and lazy app development of which Facebook is a good example.
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tiny Taiwan has the elusive options button.
ashouhdy said:
Hi guys how r u all
Am new to the Xperia Z1 and really can't find the option button anywhere
I mean in Samsung there is a menu button lower right
In Htc you long press the home button the menu appears
Where is it in the Xperia.
For example in Facebook application cant find it to set settings
In messages in facebook app for example before i press the menu button and can delete conversation and many other options
But cant find it here with Z1
Help!
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That button is essential for things like search in webbrowser.
sony made in China no options button like Htc in Taiwan has.
spacelite said:
That button is essential for things like search in webbrowser.
sony made in China no options button like Htc in Taiwan has.
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Honest question. What makes a physical button "essential" for this, and an onscreen button (depending on the browser, that will be either on the navigation bar, on the rightmost part or on the title bar, besides the tab button) not fit? Specially when pressing either of them will have the exact same effect?
Yes, I was used to the TouchWiz way on my previous phones, and I thought that having the menu button fixed on the same position all the time was the only way to do so. Now I see that (a dedicated physical menu button) the same way as I see the fixed menu bar on Mac OS: it has some nice points, but overall it's a waste of good space. Note that the Android application design guidelines asks for an onscreen overflow button (the three dots button). Some manufacturers change the behaviour to remove the onscreen button and assign the same function to a physical key. Some developers screw up the design in epic fashion (Facebook). But there's no way around it: the onscreen menu button is how Android is meant to be, at least since the last major overhaul on ICS. Anything other than that is either a manufacturer's attempt at "differentiation", breaking the expected design of apps, or an app's utter failure to adhere to a very simple set of rules.

[Q] Double Tap Svoice on Null Rom

Hey Guys,
After flashing Null Rom - the double tab to svoice is not working any more.
Do i need a programm to map my buttons or can i find this somethere in the settings?
Thank you
Nobody got any help? Or is there an app that i can get to give the Hardwarebutton certain funtionaletys?
Hi there, I'm on null rom and my double tap on power button activates s voice, I also have s voice mapped to upward swipe gesture in apex launcher. Did you uncheck home button re map in aroma installer? I'm no expert but it's definitely possible to have s voice via power button on null. Good luck
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I dont know if i did but i dont think so . Strange double tap just brings up the screen. i will investigate further
Re-flash the rom without the home button remap mod.

How to remove google assistant from home button

Hello,
I've been using the Nokia 7 plus for two days now and it's a great device which I'm really happy with.
I have this really annoying problem with my navigations bar home button, whenever I press it there are these red, gree, blue and yellow dots popping off and if I long press it it opens up the Google Assistant.
Is there a way to disable these features or at least remove the long press to open up Google Assistant?
MySaviour said:
Hello,
I've been using the Nokia 7 plus for two days now and it's a great device which I'm really happy with.
I have this really annoying problem with my navigations bar home button, whenever I press it there are these red, gree, blue and yellow dots popping off and if I long press it it opens up the Google Assistant.
Is there a way to disable these features or at least remove the long press to open up Google Assistant?
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Settings - Apps & Notifications - Default apps - Assist & voice input - Set it to None
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Thank you it works!
And now after I disabled Google Assistant from my home button can I use it with voice commands again?
MySaviour said:
Thank you it works!
And now after I disabled Google Assistant from my home button can I use it with voice commands again?
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Unfortunely no. It needs to be your assist app for voice commands to work.
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Thank you for your help!
MySaviour said:
Hello,
I've been using the Nokia 7 plus for two days now and it's a great device which I'm really happy with.
I have this really annoying problem with my navigations bar home button, whenever I press it there are these red, gree, blue and yellow dots popping off and if I long press it it opens up the Google Assistant.
Is there a way to disable these features or at least remove the long press to open up Google Assistant?
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you can use a different launcher. In nova launcher you can disable the home button behavior and still keep the voice command.
I do not know how can you remove the animations with the dots, though.

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