Google now, ok google, weather widget and ads

[Zamletti96]

I have a few questions.

First let me tell you that my phone just came in from repair (samsung s7 edge), and apparently they installed new firmware on it. They installed firmware for Poland and I am not from Poland. Nevertheless, I have the phone set on my language and all work as it should except for few things.

I now have written, when data is on, LTE instead of 4G... I know its the same but still its wierd.
Instead of Briefing app for news (that flipboard if you swipe left on home screen) I now have Upday which is laggy and i dont like it.
And I have a Polish app called Player which I cant delete but can only disable it. I dont know why they put this things on my phone... but umm ok i guess. I wrote this mainly if it may be important to figure out next things.

Google now and Ok google:
So I cannot, for the love of god, disable the Ok google detection. I went into google setting, into the Ok google detection, where I disabled ALL and EVERYTHING there is to disable... But still on my home screen on google widget it says ''say Ok Google'' and it still listens to me...So anyone knows how to completely disable it?

Weather widget:
I have my stock weather app set to show me forecast in SPlanner and I also have the Edge widget and the widget on home screen. Now before i got the phone back from repair, I could do this: I could go into the widget and have 3 cities in there... If I wanted a certain city to show up on SPlanner and on EdgeWidget I just viewed it and quit the app and it would be on Splanner and on EdgeWidget... If I then wanted another city to be shown there I went into the app I just viewed it and quit the app. So I didnt have to rearange anything in setting and didnt have to remove or set as default or anything... But now its different. Now it only shows the city that I first added. Meaning if i want another city on Planner and Edge, i have to delete them all and then add them back, but the one I want on planner and edge must be added first... It's really kinda stupid and not practical at all, so any idea on how to make it work again?

Now ads. I've noticed soemthing funny... When I play some games for example and those ads start to show up every now and then, there is no video ad or some random picture persuading me to go check it out on google store... It is just a black blank screen with an X to click for exit. And behind the X is android green robot logo. It's actually kind of neat because it shows up like anyother ad, but i dont have to wait for video to be shown so i can play on, but its just black with an X. But still do any of you have the slightest idea why this is happening and why isnt the ad shown in its enirety?

Thank you for your answers guys

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Did you ask the repair shop why they installed the Polish firmware? You could also use Odin the flash the correct firmware for your phone model: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...w-flash-stock-rom-via-odin-new-interface.html

 

[Zamletti96]

Yeah, I asked them why did they do it. Been on the phone with them just few hours ago. And they were shocked as they said they didnt install nothing new. So that was uselss i guess.

Any ideas on how to turn of OK google (like i said its turned of completely but somehow it still work)? And how to change the cities in weather app without having to delet them all and put them back in?

 

[B. Diddy]

I'm not sure if you can turn that off in the Google search bar widget. Do you really need the search bar widget on the homescreen? You should be able to remove it if you don't want the voice search feature there.