Google Now Slow to start voice search

**pingpongitore** · 07-23-2012, 07:45 AM

Hey Guys,
I got an unlocked galaxy nexus right before the injunction went through and when I receive it I flashed the preview version of 4.1 almost immediately. Everything was smooth sailing until the 4.1 OTA was announced. Being the good little boy that I am, I decided to return my nexus to it's factory 4.04 state and wait for the OTA to hit...

So I got impatient, haha, and grabbed the OTA file that was announced on XDA and flashed my nexus to jelly bean manually. Everything was smooth sailing once again until I started to try using the voice capabilities through google now.

When I launch google now, and press the microphone to do something like set an alarm or other various search, it sits on "initializing" for a very long time, sometimes never switching to "speak now". I didn't have this problem with the 4.1 preview version because I showed several friends and family members over the course of a few days how cool the feature was.

I guess I'm justing wondering if anyone else is seeing this and also if anyone thinks that once a full factory image of 4.1 is available for the galaxy nexus flashing that might help.

**1088933** · 07-23-2012, 11:09 AM

I haven't seen this yet, have you tried using a jb rom or something of the sort to see if its just a bug with what you have now?

**kc8flb** · 07-23-2012, 08:55 PM

I am having the same issue identically. I am 100 percent stock and got the jelly bean update over the air. It says initializing about half the time

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**@llforone** · 07-24-2012, 12:57 PM

Mine seems to work fine. Stupid question but did you try restarting the device?

**pingpongitore** · 07-26-2012, 08:58 AM

I've tried restarting the device several times. It seems to be hit or miss really. I'm new to android after being on an iPhone for several years. When google updates a nexus device to a newer version of the OS, will they eventually release a factory ROM of the new OS or will the only way to do a clean restore be to install ICS and then patch with the OTA again?

**mattatwar** · 07-28-2012, 07:21 AM

Mine disappeared

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**pingpongitore** · 07-28-2012, 07:23 AM

Luckily it looks like google has posted the stock factory image for the GNex so we can flash straight back to that and see if that resolves it. now if I could just find my micro usb cable :P

**SparkyXI** · 08-16-2012, 01:00 PM

FWIW - I'm on Toro, running a flavor of AOSP 4.1.1. I was having this same issue... I just flashed the most recent version I could find of GApps (0811), and that solved my issue. Voice recognition in GNow came up immediately.

**pingpongitore** · 08-16-2012, 01:11 PM

Do you have any quick instructions on how to flash the most current g apps?

**SparkyXI** · 08-16-2012, 01:15 PM

Must have 3rd party recovery (ClockworkMod Recovery, et al) and be rooted (to my knowledge). You'll want to boot into recovery, flash the .zip from there, then boot up.