I have the latest version of Euphoria v1.1 ROM installed on my nexus 6, on the top of my home screen there's the persistent Google search bar, so I just long tap the home screen>settings>disable show search bar. When I return back to the home screen the Google search bar on top is no longer there. Problem is it keeps coming back sometime after 5 - 10 minutes even though it's disabled in settings and when it reappears it's partially loaded (not showing the full widget of the google search bar). So I have to long tap the home screen again>settings>enable the search bar and disable it again for it to be removed. Why is this happening and how can I stop the persistent google search bar from returning to my home screen? I still use the google search app so I don't want to permanently disable/uninstall it.
I did the following so far:
- uninstalled the stock google app, rebooted my phone and downloaded the latest version from app store but still having the same issue.
- I also tried this on another nexus 6 phone running the same Euphoria v1.1 ROM and it has the same issue.
- After disabling the persistent search bar I manually added the Google search bar widget to the home screen, but again 5-10 minutes later the disabled search bar still reappears on the top screen partially loaded.
I was able to resolve this issue using a working around, I did not want to install a 3rd party launcher and ended up coming across this fix through Xposed Installer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
- I downloaded and copied the following files to my phone XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk & xposed-v74-sdk22-arm.zip
- After installing Xposed I went to the play store and installed Xposed GEL Settings (activate module in Xposed Installer and then I rebooted phone)
- I long tapped the home screen>settings>disabled show search bar
- I opened the Xposed GEL Settings app>menu>google search bar>enable hide option and rebooted phone
- After phone rebooted the persistent google search bar was no longer on top of my screen and never reappeared
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Running CM7 nightly 31, with TetherGPS (HTC Thunderbolt server --> NC client).
Everything worked great until I rebooted the first time - then the Nav icon disappeared from the app drawer. Read a thread about choosing Nav from within Maps, but I have no such icon?
Uninstalled and reinstalled Maps from the market. Nav icon back. Rebooted. Nav icon gone.
How can I keep Nav from disappearing? Sucks to not be able to reboot
assuming the nook is receiving gps data via tethergps, then when you program a location to drive in google maps, you will get a listed direction, on the top right corner of this list, the navigation icon appears
note if you're not receiving the gps data, the navigation icon does not appear
tarheeldan said:
Running CM7 nightly 31, with TetherGPS (HTC Thunderbolt server --> NC client).
Everything worked great until I rebooted the first time - then the Nav icon disappeared from the app drawer. Read a thread about choosing Nav from within Maps, but I have no such icon?
Uninstalled and reinstalled Maps from the market. Nav icon back. Rebooted. Nav icon gone.
How can I keep Nav from disappearing? Sucks to not be able to reboot
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assuming the nook is receiving gps data via tethergps, then when you program a location to drive in google maps, you will get a listed direction, on the top right corner of this list, the navigation icon appears
note if you're not receiving the gps data, the navigation icon does not appear
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So Maps does an active check for GPS data? If it somehow does this check on boot, that might be why the Nav feature is disappearing.
To be clear, it works on first Maps install with tethergps enabled. If I then reboot, even if I enable tethergps as before, the Nav icon is gone, I can't find the Nav icon anywhere in Maps - even after asking for directions. Hitting nav in Car Home also says the feature doesn't exist.
Thanks though, I'll try again after work and make sure tethergps is active before I open up Maps - I could be remembering wrong.
I had the same problem with the newer Maps, so I just run with an older version, and don't update.
Version I use is 4.5.1 (from Phiremod 5.1).
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Sweet, downloaded Phiremod and found the Maps.apk in system\app. Thanks!
Apologies for resurrecting the thread, but I had the same question. Does installing an older version of maps fix this? I'm going to try myself here shortly. I will post results. I would, however, be interested to see if there is a fix for the new version of navigation. As the op suggested, after installing the navigation icon is there and works fine, but disappears after reboot. The maps application remains as still works fine.
edit: looked around some more. thanks to roboray. suggested opening up maps, tap directions, type where you are going. on the direction screen, you will see the blue navigation arrow in the upper right hand corner of the screen, press it and it opens navigation perfectly.
also just opened it through carhome and it works from there also. I wonder if there is a way to place the shortcut to it back in the app drawer.
I've read in several places that you can get rid of the persistent Google search bar on the stock home screen by long-pressing it and responding to the dialogue box that then pops up. I've tried this and the long press has no effect on mine.
I've also tried disabling Google Search and, while this did stop the search app from starting when I tapped the persistent search bar, it didn't make the bar go away.
I'm running the UK customised version of the .77 stock firmware.
Anyone got any ideas why this isn't working for me, and/or what I could do to make the thing go away without running a custom home screen or installing Xposed? I do know that removing it won't buy me any extra home screen space, but I just don't like it being there!
I don't know if I'm missing anything, but if I long press on the homescreen to enter the mode for adding widgets I'll have the possibility to remove/add the Google search bar.
Brilliant! Many thanks. This is clearly a different method for removing the search bar than all those articles and threads that I found (eg this one started in September last year) - and much better too, because you don't have to delete the stock home app's data and lose all your carefully laid out home screens if you decide that you want to get it back at a later date. Presumably it's a change that was made because of that very problem. I wonder why the updated functionality never came to light in any of my Googling or XDA searches? I'm normally pretty good at tracking down info that way. Perhaps my mojo is waning...
This feature is only for the Xperia launcher, it's better than the google launcher, that you can't get rid of it
So today, after loading an app, my Nokia 8 decided to reboot itself. After rebooting, a few things ceased to function.
The Home button no longer worked. The recent apps button stopped working, I can pull down the notification bar however, the settings button and extending the notification bar to show notifications no longer functioned.
On top of this, Google Play stopped functioning with regards to installing software and you will notice that you cannot access the developer options anymore (as well as all your personal settings being reset!)
Was at a complete loss at what to do... I managed to install the Nova Launcher from an apk file from there accessed the short cuts to the Setting Wizard and re-ran it.
You can re-run the setting with the same email address and as soon as it's finished, everything should be working back to normal. You may need to reset a few preferences (such as keyboards etc / glance screen etc) but at least all the buttons work again.
Step instructions:
- Download Nova Launcher. If you cannot from the google play store, search for it on Chrome and download an apk version
- Install it (you may get a pop up advising you need to let apps installed from chrome, go to settings and allow it)
- Once installed, click on Open. This should launch the Nova Launcher
- Long press anywhere on the screen
- Choose Widgets.
- Look for the Activities widget and hold and place it anywhere on the screen.
- Scroll down to Setup Wizard. There's two, one that's "Setup Wizard" and the other "SetupWizard" without a space. Choose the first. There should be an option under it called ".SetupWizardUpgradeActivity". It might be slightly different for you pending the version OS you have but that's what came up for me.
- Select that to create the widget shortcut then click to open.
- This will bring you to the setup wizard and then just click Next all the way through (turn off any preferences you may have in the past)
And voila. Back to normal afterwards!
Note: You don't need to use Nova Launcher as your default launcher. You can even uninstall it if you want.
Works!
Thank you, this totally worked!
I think Skype crashing and crashing the phone caused this for me. It's getting an uninstall as a special thank you.
Cheers,
Peter
Please help! I don't see any option for setup wizard!
Since the last Update of MIUI (now on 11.0.6) or any of these System-Apps my Swipe-Up gesture of the MIUI-Launcher hast changed. Before the Update on swipe up, the google search opens, now when i use this gesture the miui browser appears. This don't want the browser, i want google search back. In Settings Chrome is my default browser. Tried several things: cleared all data of Mi-Browser - no changes ; disabled mi-browser with adb - only an error message appears on swipe up.
Does anyone knows who i can get back the google search using the swipe-up gesture ?
Phone: ROG 2 tencent on 16.0632.1910.64-0 build (android 9), rooted
Sometime around 14/10/20 or a few days earlier there was a strange "mini update" pushed to my phone. I do not have system updates enabled. No reboot occured.
I cannot tell if it was a virus, a hack or some broken update.
Some of these settings were easy enough to change back to what I used, but I want to know why it happened in the first place.
I have google play updates hidden from notification bar so I definitely missed some things. The only app i saw update was gboard, but it's safe to assume others did stealthly.
I will list what I know:
gboard re-enabled itself and updated itself. It was never enabled or the default keyboard.
all systemUI tuner settings reset, all flat style bar indicator settings reset
the entire UI was changed, navigation bar virtual key r now more compact (closer to each other) (this does not appear to be a setting i can change with anything i have installed?)
about half the system settings are reset to default values, the status bar now displays download speed amongst other things
the navigation bar and status bar now both have fully transparent backgrounds in most programs, i can't recall the specifics but it never was that many previously.(cannot fix)
The status bar text no longer changes color and is permanently white, if I use a white background program like most google programs, the entire status bar is now invisible. (cannot fix)
default Messages app disabled itself and reinstalled itself, resetting all settings, meanwhile ASUS data transfer became the default SMS program. Messages app also got cloned to work profile (shelter app) without user input.
Any ideas please?
I'm thinking google IME or systemtunerUI updates broke something, or a remote hack, but I don't know. Just to be safe i disabled updates on those apps. But google play is known to sometimes not respect ur per app auto-update settings.
I don't want to have to fight my phone to get it to work.
Please, i am at a loss.