Bixby You're Fired - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion

If you like Bixby, congrats you're weird. Haha. But if you don't and want to remap I suggest using bxActions. Let's you remap the Bixby button to whatever, I use it your Google assistant.

dude exactly what I was looking for

Just an FYI bxActions seems to kill Car Mode for Galaxy. Yes car mode sucks but I don't even use the app. I use it to get into full screen mirroring so I can use ALL my apps in my car. Navigation included. Apparently bxActions overlays the screen and prevents me from using my touchscreen altogether. Once I uninstalled bxActions all was well again. I'll live with that button being active.
Not knocking bxActions. It's great for what it does. I just want mirrorlink more than I want to kill that button. I'm just putting this here for anyone else having issues with Car Mode, mirrorlink and looking for a solution.

Most all of the Bixby remappers also cause lag on your phone. I have just diabled Bixby with Package Pro Disabler.

ggrant3876 said:
Most all of the Bixby remappers also cause lag on your phone. I have just diabled Bixby with Package Pro Disabler.
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Same here. Had too much lag, it would briefly open bixby, than the app I remapped it to. Now I just have a dead button. I wish Samsung had it remappable out the box. That and a "Just once/Always" when choosing default apps. For the meantime I use "Better open with" app. It's great.

ihavenewnike said:
If you like Bixby, congrats you're weird. Haha. But if you don't and want to remap I suggest using bxActions. Let's you remap the Bixby button to whatever, I use it your Google assistant.
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Enjoy your new, laggy device without it :good:

jaxenroth said:
Same here. Had too much lag, it would briefly open bixby, than the app I remapped it to. Now I just have a dead button. I wish Samsung had it remappable out the box. That and a "Just once/Always" when choosing default apps. For the meantime I use "Better open with" app. It's great.
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bxActions disables Bixby and allows you to go straight to the app or action you use. Look up the app and see if it's the same as others.

TroubleShootMe said:
Enjoy your new, laggy device without it :good:
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Nope, still great. No annoying Bixby now.

I think I'm weird, though it's still brand new to me. I may just be caught in the novelty that you can completely control your phone with it. That was sort of the dream of the nerdy 3rd party voice apps and Tasker setups few years ago.
I was just afraid I couldn't use GA at the same time. Now I sort of feel like I have the best choice for different tasks. I've had Siri for the past year and it sucked.
But ultimately voice assistants are probably all somewhat dumb so far. Also, it must affect battery having 2 systems listening.
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Got rid of Google Assistant. Stupid thing can't even take a selfie...
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rawintellect said:
Just an FYI bxActions seems to kill Car Mode for Galaxy. Yes car mode sucks but I don't even use the app. I use it to get into full screen mirroring so I can use ALL my apps in my car. Navigation included. Apparently bxActions overlays the screen and prevents me from using my touchscreen altogether. Once I uninstalled bxActions all was well again. I'll live with that button being active.
Not knocking bxActions. It's great for what it does. I just want mirrorlink more than I want to kill that button. I'm just putting this here for anyone else having issues with Car Mode, mirrorlink and looking for a solution.
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If you don't want to remap, and want to simply just kill the button, use BK Package Disabler to disable Bixby entirely

I must be weird then. being a Samsung pay user it gives me free money asking my phone dumbass questions then so be it lol send me gift cards for having a 5 minute convo with a phone
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guthrien said:
I think I'm weird, though it's still brand new to me. I may just be caught in the novelty that you can completely control your phone with it. That was sort of the dream of the nerdy 3rd party voice apps and Tasker setups few years ago.
I was just afraid I couldn't use GA at the same time. Now I sort of feel like I have the best choice for different tasks. I've had Siri for the past year and it sucked.
But ultimately voice assistants are probably all somewhat dumb so far. Also, it must affect battery having 2 systems listening.
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Same here, althought training Bixby is being a nightmare, After 2 hours I finally got to the second stage of the voice training where it wants me to read a few sentances, then it just takes a turd and says it didnt hear **** and wants to start over again.

I just never set either of them up. Problem solved! Best voice assistant I have seen is Hound. You can ask it some complex things.

You know with Bixby you can make a custom chat. Type in your question and type in what you want it to respond...can get pretty humorous

imatts said:
If you don't want to remap, and want to simply just kill the button, use BK Package Disabler to disable Bixby entirely
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Thanks for the head's up. BK Package Disabler works great to kill Bixby. While in the app, if you hit the three vertical dots settings in the upper right one of the items is the Bixby remapper. Anyone try this yet? It looks like you have to re-enable bixby briefly in order to do the remap.

I hated bixby at first but im finding the chain commands very useful, even the built in commands like Goodnight and Good Morning, movie mode, work really well and I'm able to add lighting macros to connected items.
I like good morning on GA but it lacks the hardware switches that make bixby unique.

imatts said:
If you don't want to remap, and want to simply just kill the button, use BK Package Disabler to disable Bixby entirely
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Thank you for this. After killing Bixby in BK can you un-install BK and Bixby will still be gone? Also, if you take a software update will it re-enable Bixby?
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I can't disable Bixby... it's the only way i can get to wifi calling on my unlocked note 8 with sprint -_-

krazieboy said:
I can't disable Bixby... it's the only way i can get to wifi calling on my unlocked note 8 with sprint -_-
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Hey. Go to the dialer app, hit the three dots on the top and go to settings. You'll find wifi calling options there.

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[Q] Delete Vlingo

Does anyone know how to uninstall/delete Vlingo without using adb?
Or at least change its configuration so it doesnt open when I press 2 times "home"...
Greetings.
mantian said:
Does anyone know how to uninstall/delete Vlingo without using adb?
Or at least change its configuration so it doesnt open when I press 2 times "home"...
Greetings.
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Looking at your signature, you are rooted yes?
If so, do you have titanium backup? if so, then you can choose to either freeze or delete vlingo(freezing is the safest option, in case you decide you may want to use the app, or just in case).
You can also use root explorer to delete vlingo.
stoney73 said:
Looking at your signature, you are rooted yes?
If so, do you have titanium backup? if so, then you can choose to either freeze or delete vlingo(freezing is the safest option, in case you decide you may want to use the app, or just in case).
You can also use root explorer to delete vlingo.
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I had the same problem, bothered me to death; Solution above is the only solution I've found so far. One thing I've noticed though since freezing Vlingo: Now it just sometimes does literally nothing when I press my home button (probably when I use my home button twice with almost no pause between)
(btw: U gotta look for "Speech", "Sprache", "Voice" or something like that, in your language)
Thank you both for answering! I had tried both solutions but didnt find Vlingo to delete, so specially thanks to kaassema for
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(btw: U gotta look for "Speech", "Sprache", "Voice" or something like that, in your language)
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EDIT: If someone with a spanish phone has this problem look for "Comandos de voz".
mantian said:
Thank you both for answering! I had tried both solutions but didnt find Vlingo to delete, so specially thanks to kaassema for
EDIT: If someone with a spanish phone has this problem look for "Comandos de voz".
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I am curious. Why do you want get rid of vlingo?
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hotsync100 said:
I am curious. Why do you want get rid of vlingo?
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Because it sometimes starts on accident, for example when pressing the home-button twice fast, when all you wanted was twice the action of a one-button-press...
...or for clarification: I really have no use for Vlingo, nor intention to start it, yet I have seen it's interface at least 35 times already... By accident! Thus disabled it
kaassema said:
Because it sometimes starts on accident, for example when pressing the home-button twice fast, when all you wanted was twice the action of a one-button-press...
...or for clarification: I really have no use for Vlingo, nor intention to start it, yet I have seen it's interface at least 35 times already... By accident! Thus disabled it
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You can disable Vlingo quite easiily on the Samsung Galaxy S2.
Settings>Language and Keyboard>Samsung keypad>Voice Input
Untick the box and the double click on home no longer brings up Vlingo.
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You can disable Vlingo quite easiily on the Samsung Galaxy S2.
Settings>Language and Keyboard>Samsung keypad>Voice Input
Untick the box and the double click on home no longer brings up Vlingo.
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What if I'm using Swype keys?
Seems your suggestion didn't work.
{i'm assuming the settings is overriding global setting}
JohnN6. That does actually not work. Even if you do that, disable the processes and swipe the data for Vlingo, it will always start, with Eula questions and everything, every time you either double-tap home, or more itrritatingly, if you hit your headset button to try and bring up any preferred installed dialer. The latest three software-updates for the S2 has been like this. And to add insult to injury, Vlingo has actually no hope of working for a Swede like me. Even if I tried to voice-dial a Swedish friend, by idiotically trying to pronounce the swedish names in English, it has almost zero chance to do a correct detection.
This software just has to be able to be disabled again (like the first Software version my S2 came delivered with). I am seriously thinking of just throwing the phone and get something else over this issue. Having to touch the phone to dial anyone is in my occupation often putting me in life-threatening situations. So it is really, really bad all of this...
@ SDPlus: I had the same problem and solved it. Using Titanium Backup free version on a rooted SGS2, it was easy (all english commands are translated from German, so could be not perfect):
First I entered Titanium, "Backup & Restore", and searched for "Vlingo". As a result there came "Sprachsuche", which is German for voice search. Pointing on it long enough brought up a menu, where I could choose "backup", and after that I clicked in the same menu on "force to stop". Then I clicked on "uninstall", and off it went.
Since I have a better app for voice dial (cyberon), Vlingo was pain. Now Cyberon works as expected.
Reasons for getting rid of Vlingo (someone asked): 1. I don't want to accept their terrible terms, where I allow to collect data about everything I do , whom I call, when, whatever. Disagreeing ends up in a not working voice-dial, even if you have a paid app for that installed. That is kidnapping. 2. It does not work good enough for me. 3. If I want to be binded to a software, I would have decided to buy an IPhone.
tnx it fixed my problem too
PS: In dutch/flemish it's called "spraakopdrachten".
If you freeze it with Titanium backup the double press doesn't work anymore.
You da man, thanks much for the info.....worked perfetly!!!
I want to take the subject and would like to know if you have any good replacement for the Vlingo app?
And if it have Portuguese language!?
Thanks!
JohnN6 said:
You can disable Vlingo quite easiily on the Samsung Galaxy S2.
Settings>Language and Keyboard>Samsung keypad>Voice Input
Untick the box and the double click on home no longer brings up Vlingo.
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This Settings>Language and Keyboard>Samsung keypad>Voice Input
Doesn't work. I have it like that for months and voice command it is still popping up .
Very annoying
Anyone have a fix to stop Vlingo poping up all the time? Even if I dont double press the home key it comes up. Very annoying. I dont have my phone rooted either.
The best way which i did last week
I ROOTED my Galaxy s2
Installed titanium tool and I freeze the voice command
Never again I got the voice command pop up
For those who already seeking for a salvation:
Get your phone rooted, instally Titanium Backup (even free version).
When you in Titanium Backup press menu and hit Filters, enter Vlingo, Accept. And then Go to Batch operations scroll down to Freeze apps and there you will only see Vlingo sh.t in your language just hit the Run button and you are now FREE FROM VLINGO.
toMOne said:
For those who already seeking for a salvation:
Get your phone rooted, instally Titanium Backup (even free version).
When you in Titanium Backup press menu and hit Filters, enter Vlingo, Accept. And then Go to Batch operations scroll down to Freeze apps and there you will only see Vlingo sh.t in your language just hit the Run button and you are now FREE FROM VLINGO.
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Confirmed, it works.
use go launcher
Install Go Launcher.
Open the app drawer
Click the dots and then App Manager
Click the trash can next to Voice Command.
Click OK.
Not rooted. Ics 4.0.3
I never accepted the eula after ics update. Don't think that matters. No more vlingo ! Swype still fully functional.

[Q] Help with s-voice

Okay, so my s-voice won't do anything? I say "call mom home" it prints the words I front of me & does nothing? Same thing when I give it a math problem, launch an app, or anything at all? Do I need a replacement or am I doing something wrong? I actually use voice commands alot!
Ok go to settings, application manager, on the top click all find S-voice hit it the click clear data. Hit thanks if this helps!
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Clearing data worked & factory reset has worked once alsw, but I don't know why it keeps happening?
Samsung really needs to get their act together with S-Voice. Their software development on this was rushed, and it shows. S-Voice often stops working and requires clearing the App data, and even when it works, the app's inability to understand variation in syntax makes it far more limited than Apple's Siri.
I also notice that when I do a Google search using S-Voice, the web search is done through a Samsung sponsored adsense account, so it's evident that S-Voice is mainly an attempt by Samsung to monetize their users' google searches rather than an earnest effort to improve user experience.
The Galaxy S3 is great phone overall, but I hope Samsung comes out with an S-Voice update that will do this phone justice. Meanwhile, I'd love to be able to replace the double-click home button with Google Search instead of S-Voice.
However, at least I can access vanilla Google search quickly with a long-hold on the capacitive menu button.
I haven't had a problem with it yet. It sometimes gets mixed up and doesn't know what I say.
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Had the same issue, I saw it in a different thread, just go in to the svoice settings and in language choose English UK for some reason works great....
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walliester said:
Had the same issue, I saw it in a different thread, just go in to the svoice settings and in language choose English UK for some reason works great....
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Lol I was having problems with S-Voice on my International SGS III understanding my words until I changed it from "English UK" to "English US" very odd indeed...
I'm running SVoice on my SGS2 with no problems and it's not even for our phone.
I wonder why you guys are having issues with it?
Powered by the SGSII
only problem i've had is while driving it will pick up the road noise and not end the voice command entry automatically, also if there is too much road noise the app will not audibly alert as it stops if it hears any sound
While not too surprised by it, the performance while driving leaves S-Voice worthless to me. If my window is down, I pretty much can't use it.
Also, I tried using it to launch Waze... it prints the correct name, but then says it can't find the app. I have yet to get it to open a non-default app.
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While not too surprised by it, the performance while driving g leaves S-Voice worthless to me. If my window is down, I pretty much can't use it.
Also, I tried using it to launch Waze... it prints the correct name, but then says it can't find the app. I have yet to get it to open a non-default app.
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I agree 100%! I use voice commands a lot, and mostly in the car is when I use them. That's the only time you ever NEED hands free control over the phone, and yet it's almost worthless in the car! I have to roll up the windows, close the sunroof, and if the AC is on you can for get it, lol. I think I'm gonna try the original vlingo app I've always used, because I know they are behind svoices software, but it worked better when I downloaded it to replace the Samsung tinkered vlingo on my s2. It could possibly be that the mic on the gs3 is very sensitive though? None the less, every phone has some apps that I don't care for.

[Q] Prevent S Voice from starting when car docked? - TWO Workarounds Found

whenever I mount the phone to my car dock, S Voice comes on first! When it wasn't working on my Skyrocket, I just froze it and said screw this thing, but now that it works just fine on the SIII, every time I mount it to the car dock, I have to close out of it first before I can get Music up and running.... is there a work around for this to prevent it from coming on when mounted to the car dock I haven't thought of yet?
I quit using Tasker, it got to be too damn much on the phone, so I just use A2DP Volume to automate the connection - when I connect my car dock, it loads Music and adjusts BT volume for me, but it won't close an app on connection.... How can you prevent S Voice from coming up in the first place?
EDIT - I found these steps for turning off Voice Talk, the older version of Google's Voice Commands, and I'm going to give this a try. The motion part isn't applicable though, I think....
Try turning off DOUBLE TAP under Voice Talk settings.
Click on and bring up Voice Talk, then hit the bottom left button and click SETTINGS.
On the SETTINGS page, scroll down to the VOICE TALK section and click VOICE TALK SETTINGS.
On the next page, click on MOTION.
Next page, under MOTION ACTIVATION SERVICES, uncheck DOUBLE TAP.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...140779-infuse-car-dock-users.html#post1486669
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WORKAROUNDS - We now have two workarounds to solve this problem.... Here they are:
If you like S Voice and just want to prevent it from starting up when car docked, use the Dock Nothingness app and select it by default the next time you car dock
If you don't like S Voice and want to block it completely, just freeze it with Titanium Backup and it won't run at all (PRO key must be installed for you to freeze and defrost apps)
Did you get anywhere with this problem - I'm in the same boat. What I'd really like is the old default car home to launch, but not getting s-voice (useless in my little convertible!) would be a great start!
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Did you get anywhere with this problem - I'm in the same boat. What I'd really like is the old default car home to launch, but not getting s-voice (useless in my little convertible!) would be a great start!
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Nope, but I think your issue would be easier to overcome since you can just download Car Home Ultra or something similar, I don't want any car home to launch at all, just the A2DP Volume app which will launch Google Music for me....
I have everything set like they said on the S Voice settings page, so it doesn't activate with a double tap home input, but it still comes up! Now that I have Tasker running as well, it asks if I want to use S Voice or Tasker, or either of them by default, and I don't want any of them, really! If I say Tasker, I believe it will do nothing, but that might interfere with A2DP Volume, and then I have to set Tasker to run A2DP Volume when it is car docked..... that's straight up going around in circles now!!!
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
baublitz said:
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
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Nothing I can do about it, I'm definitely not a dev....
I selected Tasker by default when car docked and it seems to work just fine right now, I don't have any task set when the car is docked, but at least it recognizes Tasker will take priority when car docked instead of S Voice! That's the best work around I know of so far....
Sorry if I'm mentioning the obvious, but if you go into s voice in the applications manager is anything set in its 'launch by default' section? I don't have anything in there now, but that may be because I set my car-launcher as default on docking. I don't know if 'on dock' was in there before.
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Sorry if I'm mentioning the obvious, but if you go into s voice in the applications manager is anything set in its 'launch by default' section? I don't have anything in there now, but that may be because I set my car-launcher as default on docking. I don't know if 'on dock' was in there before.
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That's a good thought, but no, there are no defaults set on my phone either under that setting - it was worth a look though! I'm sure it's got to be something as easy as that though....
baublitz said:
I have the same problem... please fix! I do not like S Voice...
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If you are rooted, why don't you just freeze svoice? I didn't like it so I froze it when I was freezing all of the carrier installed crapware (didn't want to uninstall it in case I actually get some of the features enabled).. freeze it and you will never see it again.. (I don't think I would risk deleting it since if it breaks something else it is easy enough to unfreeze/thaw the application)... this of course requires you to have titanium backup and pay for the elite license which gives you these features..
Double Home doesn't launch anything anymore.. although I never had a problem with it launching when going into car-mode.. I had turned that feature off...
I am still a noob with the andriod phone.. I had an iphone before this.. but am finding that I really like the flexibility of andriod over iphone..
It looks like we have a decent work around, posted by zen0s on the Infuse car dock thread:
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I just tried this and it works great. To get rid of that annoying "S Voice" pop up everytime when phone is docked. Go to play store and download "Dock Nothingness". After you install it dock your phone and make "Dock Nothingness" as your default app. Now you won't be bother with those s-voice launching.
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I froze it using TiBU on my Skyrocket and that worked just fine because S Voice wasn't really working well with the phone, but now that I have an SIII, I want to use it when it is appropriate for me, not every time I dock the phone! So the two options stand, freeze it or run Dock Nothingness to prevent S Voice from starting up every time it is car docked!

How to disable long press headset button activates google now?

Hi guys, I need a little help here.
On ICS I used to skip songs on Poweramp using the headset button, but since I upgraded to Jellybean, the long press goes to Voice Search on Google Now? Is there a way to disable that? I already configured on Poweramp to use the long press, gave it high priority, but google voice continues taking place and there's no options there to disable it.
Any idea?
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Jays headset control seems to do the trick... it's free on google play
Sent from my HTC ChaCha with CM9 using XDA app.
Google Voice still prevails.
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Hello. I've found "Headset Button Controller" on the market. It seems that this should be a fixer for this issue. I will try this later, because starting this google voice is annoying...
There's a review saying Google Voice still has the priority
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This seems to be the only solution so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32999600&postcount=38
Also, if you agree that this is an issue, you should vote for it on the Android issues forum post here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36026
Anyone know how to just adjust the button time for it? On my Xperia Z it is too sensitive and trying to pause/unpause music usually ends up launching it. I'll see if I can figure how to just disable the google now...
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Mobe1969 said:
Anyone know how to just adjust the button time for it? On my Xperia Z it is too sensitive and trying to pause/unpause music usually ends up launching it. I'll see if I can figure how to just disable the google now...
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If you install a headset button conytol app and set the sensitivity of the buttons to your personal need it works pretty good.
This app does not only control the buttons but also the app itself, like Poweramp,, but also online players like Spotify an Rdio. Free, no ads.
Degauss Labs app on Gogle Play
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shengande.degausslabs
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nixter99 said:
If you install a headset button control app and set the sensitivity of the buttons to your personal need it works pretty good not to accidentally start Google Now..
This app does not only control the buttons but also the app itself, like Poweramp, but also online players like Spotify an Rdio. Free, no ads.
Degauss Labs app on Google Play
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shengande.degausslabs
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Nick
nixter99 said:
If you install a headset button conytol app and set the sensitivity of the buttons to your personal need it works pretty good.
This app does not only control the buttons but also the app itself, like Poweramp,, but also online players like Spotify an Rdio. Free, no ads.
Degauss Labs app on Gogle Play
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shengande.degausslabs
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Nice! That is a new one. Haven't seen that one before. Shame it doesn't recognize Audible though. Or rocket player. Or Sony Walkman. Argh
nixter99 said:
If you install a headset button conytol app and set the sensitivity of the buttons to your personal need it works pretty good.
This app does not only control the buttons but also the app itself, like Poweramp,, but also online players like Spotify an Rdio. Free, no ads.
Degauss Labs app on Gogle Play
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shengande.degausslabs
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Not work on n5, long press headset button still activate the annoying voice search.
xmlnoob said:
Not work on n5, long press headset button still activate the annoying voice search.
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yeah, is there a solution?
phantomEVO said:
yeah, is there a solution?
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I don't think so.
That/those smarties in google dev team who come up with this idea should be punished @%!^#[email protected]$^@$^$&U
I've made the app which brings back long-press functionality for the button. Headset Remapper remaps “HEADSETHOOK WAKE” key with the “MEDIA_NEXT WAKE”. In other words when you press the play/pause/accept/decline button (the one in the middle or the only one in your remote) it will be “seen” by the Android OS as the SKIP button (next song).
Having this done you can use your button again with its full functionality (I checked that it works with this app: Headset Button Controller). Remember that you need to configure the SKIP (MEDIA_NEXT) button not the the play/pause/accept/decline !
This app needs ROOT to run!
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I've made the app which brings back long-press functionality for the button. Headset Remapper remaps “HEADSETHOOK WAKE” key with the “MEDIA_NEXT WAKE”. In other words when you press the play/pause/accept/decline button (the one in the middle or the only one in your remote) it will be “seen” by the Android OS as the SKIP button (next song).
Having this done you can use your button again with its full functionality (I checked that it works with this app: Headset Button Controller). Remember that you need to configure the SKIP (MEDIA_NEXT) button not the the play/pause/accept/decline !
This app needs ROOT to run!
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I tried the app and it didn't work for me on a US Cellular Galaxy S3. I'm not sure why. I started it, granted it root, and it said it was successful when I made the change. I rebooted, and then tested it out and holding the button still launched Google Now. I then restored the original file with the app. Then I followed these manual instructions in this thread and rebooted. I need to point out that I do not have a sec_jack.kl file, so I only edited Generic.kl. After doing the edit by hand and rebooting, long press now works the way I want and doesn't launch Google Now. :victory: I use Headset Button Controller for assigning the functions.
Ign0tus said:
I tried the app and it didn't work for me on a US Cellular Galaxy S3. I'm not sure why. I started it, granted it root, and it said it was successful when I made the change. I rebooted, and then tested it out and holding the button still launched Google Now. I then restored the original file with the app. Then I followed these manual instructions in this thread and rebooted. I need to point out that I do not have a sec_jack.kl file, so I only edited Generic.kl. After doing the edit by hand and rebooting, long press now works the way I want and doesn't launch Google Now. :victory: I use Headset Button Controller for assigning the functions.
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Hey could you provide the apk since its no longer on google play thanks!
nikkifm said:
Hey could you provide the apk since its no longer on google play thanks!
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pls pls pls orz
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Quick fix; disable Google App. No more annoying long press interruptions.
Just disable permission for microphone
Hey You Can Force Close The Google App To Get Back This Feature Again.
If I Helped You Hit Thanks Button.

[Q] OK Google Everywhere not working

Hey guys!!
Just got my S6 Edge and loving everything about it so far except...
My Ok Google anywhere isn't working. It's not even presenting me an option to turn it on. Also "enable audio history" option is missing which I know is necessary to get it all working.
I have done a factory reset, enabled and disabled S Voice, primary language English US, and deleted app data etc! I am running a stock Telus Samsunf S edge. I don't know if it's firmware dependent or not.
If anyone can suggest anything else, I'm all ears!!
Thanks in advance!
nvict said:
Hey guys!!
Just got my S6 Edge and loving everything about it so far except...
My Ok Google anywhere isn't working. It's not even presenting me an option to turn it on. Also "enable audio history" option is missing which I know is necessary to get it all working.
I have done a factory reset, enabled and disabled S Voice, primary language English US, and deleted app data etc! I am running a stock Telus Samsunf S edge. I don't know if it's firmware dependent or not.
If anyone can suggest anything else, I'm all ears!!
Thanks in advance!
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Looks like they removed it I had it yesterday now it's gone there was a update last night
Ah, that's a shame. At least I'm not the only one!!
Hope they come to their senses and come out with an update to enable it again!
Yep was there yesterday and gone now.
Perhaps it was sucking too much battery? Can't say I really used it that much but it was a cool feature. Will just have to press and hold home button to use it! A bit of a pain!
Found a work around for now...
Using an app called "Now Gesture Tweaks" which allows me to press and hold the home button to activate Voice Search and Nova Launcher gesture "Swipe Up" for Google.
Gives us a similar effect.
voice your disapproval: @S6NoOKGoogle https://twitter.com/S6NoOKGoogle
Don't you guys have "google settings" in your app drawer? All "OK Google" settings are right there.
EDIT: My bad.. deep down to the detection settings, it is gone!! How!? So is this Samsung's fault or Google's fault?
Yup. It's global and it's just all the variants of the S6 & S6 Edge. Some Nexus devices seem to be broken but still have their options.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/xGiV6D4PMS8[201-225]
I used it on a regular daily basis. Very frustrating for them to pull it without notice...
What is even more frustrating is that neither Google or Samsung is taking the heat for this,,,both are referring us to each other LOL,,,classic tactic.
SuperSport said:
I used it on a regular daily basis. Very frustrating for them to pull it without notice...
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What if you use the Google now launcher?
jasonbiggs said:
What if you use the Google now launcher?
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Unfortunately same, not working.
It doesn't work on my Note 2, my wife's S3, and even my coworker's Walmart Alcatel phone alll running Kitkat and all did the latest update.
Its a bigger issue and Google doesn't seem to be too concerned
I got an update yesterday and it is working now, well at least from the homescreen.
Sprint S6 Edge w/Nova Launcher, OK Google works from any screen.
Does the widget need to be on the home screen for it to work
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Not for me
Wow, just realized I don't need the widget at all for hotword to work. Cool
supposedly the 5.1.1 update will bring the OK Google functionality back.
Is your S-Voice App activated? Or did you disable that? I've read that either having it on or off might enable OK GOOGLE from any screen to work.
rank78 said:
Sprint S6 Edge w/Nova Launcher, OK Google works from any screen.
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