Replace S-Voice with Google Now in 4.1.1?

[Kelly Kearns]

Guys, you can just go to your Application manager to change program defaults.

Settings > Application Manager > All Apps > TouchWiz home. Tap 'Clear defaults'. Press home and you should be prompted on which app to use, select the Home 2 Shortcut app.

I tried that before installing another launcher, didn't work.

 

[rteichman]

It is important to choose GOOGLE SEARCH not "the google app" because the google app brings up voice dialing not Google Now

Yeah I got that behavior too. Then it went away when I restarted.

Anyway, this should help with setting Google Now to double click:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...cHBzcG90LmhvbWUyc2hvcnRjdXQiXQ&token=RoCyBNP1

That app doesn't have the most intuitive instructions but basically set the first option to the Google app. Then set Step 3 to TouchWiz home or whatever launcher you want. Then when you click the close button, select Home2 Shortcut and the Always option.

Also on your lock screen, add the Google icon so you can access it from there as well.

 

[icwhatudidthere]

It is important to choose GOOGLE SEARCH not "the google app" because the google app brings up voice dialing not Google Now

But there is no Google Search. If you go to Apps, right on the first page of apps, there's a blue G icon titled Google. That's what I'm talking about. This app goes straight to Google Now.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

But there is no Google Search. If you go to Apps, right on the first page of apps, there's a blue G icon titled Google. That's what I'm talking about. This app goes straight to Google Now.

Exactly and if you have it checked in the options, then you say "google" and it wakes up the voice commands and you can call from that also.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

BUT...I just looked and there is a "Voice Search" and if you make that the icon then it opens up, beeps and is waiting for you to speak.

 

[The Tick077]

It keeps launching voice dial, even when I select voice search in the app list...any suggestions?

 

[icwhatudidthere]

Try restarting your phone. A few of us have seen Voice Dial start popping up when double clicking home when S Voice is first disabled. Then when you restart, it suddenly goes away.

 

[The Tick077]

Try restarting your phone. A few of us have seen Voice Dial start popping up when double clicking home when S Voice is first disabled. Then when you restart, it suddenly goes away.

I didn't try that, but I was able to solve the issue. Instead of disabling s voice all together through the application menu, I simply turned the home button activation off in the settings. Apparently if you disable the app the OS defaults to the voice dial regardless...

 

[Kelly Kearns]

I didn't try that, but I was able to solve the issue. Instead of disabling s voice all together through the application menu, I simply turned the home button activation off in the settings. Apparently if you disable the app the OS defaults to the voice dial regardless...

But voice dial will not stay when you restart your phone, that launcher is necessary to get google now to9 pop up.

 

[StuntmanMark]

You can also hold down the settings button while on the home screen to launch Google Now.

 

[Targon]

Hold down the menu button to launch Google Now from any "home" screen. Easier than double clicking anyway, and it works without having to tinker. Note that even with ICS, holding the menu button would launch Google Voice search.