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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonwsc:
Well you can try Galaxy S with voodoo (slightly outdated but the best) , S2(Yamaha chips aren't that great) or S3 (if you have the cash:silly:) Nexus S with Voodoo and Galaxy Nexus are also exceptionally good. Some Samsung phones have DAC, but NOT ALL.

The new Xperia phones are worth a go, or do a bit of modding with the older ones to have the same functionality (clearbass, surround etc.) They have excellent sound, but it is expected of a Sony phone.

You "can" try out BEATS in HTC, though I wouldn't recommend doing so.

The HTC Desire is the exception for a high-end at that time, my Milestone XT was great.

P.S If you want more info go GSMArena and check out the sound quality section for phones in reviews.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
Real life experience: Galaxy SIII or Xperia S.

Ps: if you really care about sonic experience in your phone, Try PowerAmp (trial version/paid) from market, it gives the best sound quality ever even on a crappy sound-chip of Samsung galaxy SII

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
It seems a fair few people are having issues configuring Google Now to give them the smooth female voice, images in the search content and the ability to send texts, set alarms etc.

Follow this tutorial and you should be sorted in no time.

The problem is that the phones native language should be set to US English, and the Google Now search needs to be configured to use google.com

Configuring Android Language

Go to Settings

Language & input

Language

English (United States)

Downloading Language Packs

Go to Settings

Language & input

Google voice typing (settings)

Download offline speech recognition

English (United States)

Configure Voice Search

Go to Settings

Language & input

Voice Search

Language

English (United States)

Configure Text-to-speech

Go to Settings

Language & input

Tech-to-speech output

Google Text-to-speech (settings)

Language

English (United States)

Configure Google Now

Go to Google Now

Settings

Privacy and accounts

Tick box for "Search on google.com"

Now you should be all good to go. Give it a try and let me know
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anton2009:
No "search on google.com" (even though it does it automatically for me) in privacy and accounts settings. Just Manage location settings, location and google search, show recent searches, and manage web history...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Interesting.. Not sure on that one. Take it you're in the US
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashiken:
I can't seem to download any language pack for the voice recognition. I see many languages listed but they keep failing to download. Is it because I'm not in the US?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Im not in the US either but i've managed to get mine working and downloaded. Are you on Wifi?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] depths:
Thanks, this worked for me. I had my settings configured for Australia.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashiken:
I tried both wifi and data. No go. Sometimes it tries to download but it will just disappear by itself. Nothing is installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] killyouridols:
Language pack for UK downloaded fine for me, however it does seem to take an unusually long amount of time (~10 mins)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashiken:
Well seeing that there's a country besides each language, I figured that I can't download any because I'm not in any of them...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Thats very odd, i dont think thats the case as I just download Chinese succesfully
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashiken:
Hmm, maybe it's the new franco JB kernel? That's the only thing I changed from bigxie's rom. I'll probably look around my location settings again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rasinell:
I can't get it to open any of my apps.... :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] killyouridols:
How to set up Home/Work Locations. All credit to Jessesmith888
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
I dont think it can do that
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rasinell:
That's pants. The old search would and it has the search phone selections like it used to... seems odd that they'd remove functionality from it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
You can still search for the app and click on it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rasinell:
So you can. Thanks. I Missed the little phone icon :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] welshboy09:
Thank you so much for this information! I can now add alams and send texts. I cannot get it to open applications though, no biggie!

Thanks again :D

EDIT : One last thing, it now thinks that I am living in the US and automatically gives me forecasts for Washington. I have to say "Weather forecast in Swansea" to get my location. Any way of changing this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Turn on location settings. Mine works fine
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] welshboy09:
They are all on, it still gives me information for US though. :(

If I select "search on google.com" it gives me US results, if I un-tick it, it gives results for my location :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tyler_c:
how can i find the hex values used for this? i tried looking in the color folder, but when i try to read the xml files it just comes up with characters that can't be read. thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fk3166:
sorry for my poor english, i dont know how to set that 'Google Apps Control Panel -> Settings -> Mobile -> Org Settings.',i cant find it.

someone can help me?more details for me,thx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
Great idea! Someone should put this on the OP
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] remybach:
This is amazing! Thanks for the heads up!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Just tried that today. Doesn't have to do with Search History. It's all syntax. "Did the mets win their last game" doesn't work, but "Did the mets win last night's game" and "mets scores" do. Weird! It also seems to only be MLB right now, no NBA or NHL. Either way.. I don't care about the mets just experimenting with the examples I saw listed :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmarmstr:
To get the cards to show up automatically for new games you do need your search history enabled though otherwise you can't set your teams up in the settings
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pitflyer:
Thanks for the idea, but not working for me. I put 'Wife' in phonetic last and phonetic first and I see it as a contact on my phone but when I say 'text wife testing' (which Google Now does decode correctly) it just google searches that.

Same for 'mom' and real unflattering nicknames for some people I tried. Maybe Google Now has some sort of cache it built so it will pick it up later.. or I gotta do the Windows thing and reboot my phone for it to pick up the phonetic name.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cmstlist:
It doesn't seem to accept "text" as a verb. I tried saying: "send a text to mom hello how are you doing" and it works that way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pitflyer:
Thanks for the tip, but that didn't work for me either. I am currently using it by saying 'Text Jane Doe Testing' where Jane Doe is in my phone book just fine. But when I 'Text Mom Testing' and Mom is the phonetic name for Jane Doe, no dice.

Maybe its just me... its ok. Even with these issues I still like showing up all those stupid Siri folks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
But Siri and Scorsese are dating now. There is no winning.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cmstlist:
I will use {} to delineate spoken text.

For me, with an actual name, {text (name) hello} brings up the message dialog but without the "hello" filled in the text field, and also doesn't work with pronunciation nicknames. Whereas {Send a text to (name) hello} populates the message field with "hello" and does work with nicknames.

Strange how we are seeing such differences.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] marhensa:
yes.. agreed.

why?

Sent from TapaTalk | MotoDEFY - Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dadounet91:
It doesn't talk to me... Does the voice only work in English?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
So it's Wife Wife? I think you should just use either the first or the last name
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nosferatu.:
thanks for this! :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sepharite:
Sweet, I don't know how but a camera apk just appeared. Maybe from the new kernel that was posted?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ImSherlocked:
All I get is a single weather card! How can I get other cards to show up? I have enabled most of the things mentioned here http://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-setup-configure-and-use-google-now-98749/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] remybach:
No, you keep the first and last names the same. Put "my wife" into the phonetic name field. To get this field, edit the contact on your phone and scroll down till you see the "Add another field" button. Hit that and you can choose "Phonetic Name".

This worked really well for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] meminiau:
Anyone got any idea why none of my calendar events come up in Google now? Could it be a ROM issue?

Swiped on my Gnex
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] meminiau:
And how can I get my phone to check in at my house, and not my next door neighbour?!

Swiped on my Gnex
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Go to the latitude dashboard online and change your home address
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] big samm:
Had the same problem... what I did is I wrote the word appointments in all my calendar events and now it works. Cards shows up with traffic time to gt there.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flintdragon:
Anyone else getting the "go home" card during the morning after getting to work? I would think that card would show closer to the end of the day. Maybe I should just follow it and go home? ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
Once you go home, it probably will say go to work, so you'll spend the whole day going to and fro ;) but maybe you should try :P at the end there will be a card saying "you've been declared crazy!" :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
I have a question... I did all the things said in the op, now when I say to set an appointment to visit the dentist at 5, it uses the alarm. Shouldn't it use the calendar?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] remybach:
No, it doesn't seem to integrate with the calendar in that way :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
Well, I saw the sample card, and in that the word used to schedule an appointment is "meet...", that's what I did, but got a Google search for it instead.... :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ssCISengineer:
Great guide
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ifly4vamerica:
To get Now to set a calendar event you can enable the mobile option on the calendar settings. (Desktop version) then you set a contact called calendar with a number gvent (whatever those numbers are in the dialer) then you can say "text calendar haircut Saturday at 9am" there is a thread explaining tthat somewhere but I can't remember where ....

G-Nexus Sent
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
You sure that's the proper way? Seems pretty lengthy and complex for these days... will have to check the I/O meeting to see if that's how they got it to work...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmarmstr:
Here's the other thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1791254
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
It's not a "proper way" it's a work around. You basically enable sending text messages to set calendar appointments, then use GNow to send those texts via voice.

As of now, Google Now can only read appointments, not write them (it only writes to alarm), hence the need for workaround. I'm sure Google will update GNow to allow us to make calendar appointment in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
Well... then there's one more thing to ask, forgive me. When I set an appointment from the calendar, I get the stock notification, but no Google now card automatically. If I open Google now, only then does the apointment card show. I've set the priority to standard, any idea what's causing not the card to show up automatically?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] josefmawas:
Thanks!! Something was wrong with Google now but now everything works! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gordwest:
Awesome thanks big help
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nitinvaid:
Mine Not Working Like "Say 2+4"

it shows something else not calculating it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gene_Bailey:
Try asking what is 2+4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iamyxhsu:
same issue here

I'am having the same issue on my nexus s recently updated to 4.1.1 via ota.I just can't find the use google.com checkbox.I think this may have something to do with your current location(in my case,china,where access to google.com isn't always available).Anyone else having the same problem?Or is there anything I can do with it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nexusguy74:
My setting are all correct but I only get calculation voice stopped talking for some reason.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] terenceleechan:
Guys I have set up both home and work address in latitude. When I leave home I get the xx minutes to home card as expected... anywhere except when I am at work I don't get the xx minutes to home card. Is it because my work is only 10 mins from home? But I checked the cell towers at home and work they are not the same but why no xx minutes to home card?

Also I don't need to sign in to latitude as long as my home and work address are properly set up in latitude dashboard right? I don't want latitude as extra battery drain
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KevinAlbrecht:
Well, I if your work is only ten minutes from where you live, and then maybe GN does not consider it worth displaying traffic? I wish my work was so close.

Personally, I don't think 'we' should be validating GN to the nth degree like some are.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] butikofer08:
I can't use google now at all. I do all the settings but get a FC of google search when trying to download off line data, this happens on both CM10 stock kernel and Franco Kernel, wifi or data. I open google now and hit the microphone and speak and it does nothing, just sits their analyzing but never pulls up any web pages.

Oh, and on either kernel I don't have the option to check the box to search google.com
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
How do I bring up the traffic card by searching? What should I type/speak? Other than waiting for it to come up, I'd like to bring it up myself... if its possible...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bombaybadboy:
G now learns from you over time link
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] duppyy:
Google Now works perfect for me except one thing. Google Now still doesn't know my fav sports teams. I've probably done about 50 searches for my teams and it still doesn't post auto cards for them. Maybe I need to search another 50 times before google figures it out :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kid1da:
If your team isn't playing at the time it won't bring them up. I'm a big NFL and NBA fan but those cards won't come up but mlb cards will, that's from my experience so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patruns:
Do you have your search history enabled in Dashboard?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] duppyy:
Yep. Its enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
What sports teams are you searching? It's only working for MLB and MLS since they're the only US teams playing right now
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] duppyy:
Toronto Blue Jays at the moment.

Maybe it doesn't work with Canadian sports teams lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FYMXSi:
Hi all

Isn't there a way to keep all the settings and change only the system language and everyting keep working the same way?

When i have the system in English US everything work nice, including the voice.

If i change the system language to Portuguese, the voice don't work at all, just show results in google.

Honestly i prefer the system language in English but i want it in Portuguese because of Google Navigation (want it in Portuguese)

Thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] poena:
How can I rename locations. I was able to once before. I want to rename some of the places I've searched for instead of it just showing an address. I only have Home and Work. I can't figure out how I did it before.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patruns:
No, just US teams at the moment....

---------- Post added at 08:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:36 PM ----------

If you do a search of the address in the maps app and then tap the result and then the settings at the lower right you should have an option to add as a contact. I don't see an option to save as a destination per se...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
While the Toronto Blue Jays is a Canadian-based team, it is part of MLB which is a US league.

The Blue Jays have been showing up as cards when I search for them (as opposed to say, ESPANA during Euro 2012), but I'm also having trouble getting them to show up under "My Teams"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] poena:
Is there a way to get calendar events to show up without putting appointment in every description?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
Currently the voice works only for English. Google will continue to add more languages for the voice search to work in different languages. Be patient, and you'll be served. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
One question. I set up an appointment in my calendar, with the location as my home (was just testing), and the appointment card didn't show up automatically. I opened the Google app, and there the appointment card was already there. Shouldn't it come automatically on my home screen/notification bar? The weather card shows up perfectly in the notification drawer, but not this and other cards.....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
After searching for the Blue Jays a few hours ago, it sent me a notification and showed up as a card on Google Now a few minutes ago
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Socamonarch:
I have Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto F.C as my teams
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lesonal:
Google now ....tells me when I need to defecate
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
Cool! Does it give the estimated time to travel to the toilet, along with the route? :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Drzfr3shboialex:
I kept searching NYY and it didn't come out. I cleared my search history, then searched NYY. Clicked on recap and high lists, searched once more and now its there :).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Nearby Places not working

Hey guys, I'm having a problem getting the nearby places feature working. I have everything set to US. Search history on, language to US, location history on. Nearby places is the only thing not working. I am in Ireland.

Any ideas of a fix?

And please don't say it's US only, because I tested Google Now on a Nexus 7 in Ireland and it worked, only difference was it was a display unit using a UK Google Account.

Would resetting the device and using a UK or US VPN during setup help? Anyone else with this issue?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] plasticdarlow:
It works for me. I'm in canada and the jays cards show up for me . Just double check you've enabled web history on your dashboard. Should work no problems.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wicozani:
I can't tell if you've got Google Now configured properly now or not, but in my case my rom (rasbean jelly) did not have all the Google Now files it needed to operate correctly (my symptom was inability to terminate a command and act on it). Specifically, I was missing the SREC folder in /system/usr/, which can be found (along with all other needed files) in the directions in the following post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29634044&postcount=2370

Be careful to also fix permissions for each folder and file (to whatever the rest of these items have in /usr/) and reboot. Google Now operates correctly now, and I am now able to download offline language files.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dougshell:
"I've found that saying "Set alarm for tomorrow night at 11pm" works"

When i speak this it responds with "Sorry, alarms and reminders only support times of day, but not dates"

Any help
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spiralzz:
As said, it isn't supported yet. Hope Google supports that soon ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bombaybadboy:
Just found out g now is great at maths. I asked the square root of 43 first time it told me and when I kept asking mathematical questions it popped up with a calculator
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fergusstrachan:
Jesus, honestly?? Then what is the point of JB?

Okay, maybe there's a point, but GNow is the main one for me, and if it can't even do the simple things Siri can do it's a piece of crap imo.

Please tell me they'll make it actually do stuff rather than just look at Wolfram Alpha for answers like Siri (mostly) does.

:(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yadavjpr:
I don'r see Download offline speech recognition option there :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] milerx:
Hi,

This is what i get after using this tutorial :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pablomoreno:
I can not download via the menu google now the Italian language package for speech recognition off-line (the application crashes erratically).

Could you give me a link to manually download the language pack also explaining how the system folder should be subsequently located (example: / system / app / etc ......)?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] qortuba:
Thank you very helpful
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jjdavola:
Silly question, but is there a way to change to a black theme or change the font colors or sizes in Google Now??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alewillywonka:
Thanks for the guide!

:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] burntkookie:
I currently have"places" activated in google now. But ever single when i click "more details" i would have a pop up saying "Unfortunately, Google Search has stopped." Can anyone help me on this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Cmoore0965:
If you're rooted, inverted gapps

I777 gets it done, gnex just for fun
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jericho7:
Does anyone know if turning on "detect location" in the Google Maps location settings affect Google Now in anyway? does it enhance what it reports?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aeoveu:
I think it shows you the distance and travel time from where you are to another point... Although I'd like to know the answer as well cause I think latitude seems to eat my battery... and I don't have any friends on latitude, so it's kinda pointless for me.

sent from my mini tractor
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jb0ne:
Turn off latitude?

Do I need Latitude running for the traffic to work and things like that to work? Do I need Latitude enabled at all for anything Google Now does?

And if not - how the heck do I properly turn off Latitude. Don't want it draining my battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Soldier 2.0:
It doesn't have anything to do with Google now. Detect location is to automatically detect your current location when you launch the application. Report from this device check block is to allow Google maps to follow your location while under movement. You will see your current location icon moving with you in real-time. Very useful if your using maps to walk to your destination or exploring a city.

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You don't need latitude to get things like traffic information from Google now. It is used to broadcast your location to your Google contacts that have a gmail address. Having latitude on is like having Google talk enabled. It does use some battery, but it will not drastically change the end results.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bombaybadboy:
Anyone no what search by camera does on new g-now update
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dinoc:
damn, latest google search fu**ed up the weather , with the google now off, there is no setting to change the weather in celsius, anymore ... why google fu**s up good things ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jpinsl:
You can change it: Google Now | (three dot menu) Google Now > Weather > Weather Units
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dinoc:
I was referring to the fact that with Google Now Off, in the past, you had the option to change to Celsius.

That option was removed on the latest update. You need to keep Google Now On in order to have the Celsius option.

And of course "what's this song" is not working for the rest of the world ( outside of USA) '' good job Google ''

Sent from my mobile phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bombaybadboy:
I use to like saying play (name of song in library) and it would play that song with g-now off. Now it doesn't go directly to song, it stops at player