Google's voice to text box will not go away.

[mikeinstlouis]

I use the Google voice to text feature all the time, I dictate my text messages, pretty much everything. Now, it seems to work fine for a little bit then all of a sudden that tap to pause box with the little microphone will not go away, I know there's a little X in the upper right corner to get rid of it if you want to, but I can tap on that for hours and it will never go away. I always have to end up rebooting my phone. Has anyone else ever had this problem with the little voice to dictation,,, microphone thingy and Google? It's getting very annoying. Thank you for your help!

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[baxaho]

I as well had this happen starting yesterday Wednesday Sept 24.....it works fine for a while, then freezes exactly as your screenshot shows....I can still navigate my phone..go home..go to app drawer..etc..., but cannot see anything under the voice to text box and cannot close the box without doing a full reboot. I tried clearing cache fro the google text engine...even uninstalling all the updates for it but still freezes. Today I went all day without it freezing, then on my drive home...I had to reboot the phone 5 times because it kept hanging.

Hope somebody has a solution as this just started for both of us yesterday.

I use it for FB Messenger and Texting all the time

bax
Motorola Droid Turbo

 

[Jen6483]

I have been having this issue for the past day or so. It is annoying and the only way I can seem to "fix" it is to reboot the device entirely. I couldn't find anything other than clearing message cache. Since I am totally device-stupid, I googled how to do such a thing and ended up on Androidpit. I cannot post links yet (account too new) so just search "How to clear the cache on the Galaxy S5 for better performance". It took probably less than a minute to complete. Prior to this, my voice text screen would freeze while trying to send a second message. Since I cleared the cache partition, it has worked fine. *knock on wood* that it stays that way.

Figured I would let you know since no one else has responded yet and I have seen a few people ask about it now. It's worth a shot.

 

[Jen6483]

Sorry, I probably have mentioned that I have a Galaxy S5.

 

[Lorroth1]

Exact same thing happening to me..started yesterday

 

[rolling18]

ADD ME TO THIS LIST!!
JUST STARTED HAPPENING TO ME ABOUT 2 HRS AGO!!
GALAXY S6

I SIGNED UP FOR THIS FORUM just for this problem
waiting for a fix....

going to verizin store tomorrow

 

[baxaho]

Please let us know what Verizon says...mine is verizon also although I doubt it is a carrier issue. Very odd that it seems to have happened to all of us on Wednesday, so had to be some update that I am not finding.

Jen, I did the cache clear first thing and it still hangs...in fact, this morning, it froze after using it for an hour on messenger....then rebooted, and first use it froze again, reboot, and again froze on first use.....getting annoying to say the least!

 

[scuba_steve]

Same problem. Note 4 on Verizon.

Very frustrating. Rebooting is the only solution I have found thus far. Started about a week or two ago.

 

[Lorroth1]

I as well had this happen starting yesterday Wednesday Sept 24.....it works fine for a while, then freezes exactly as your screenshot shows....I can still navigate my phone..go home..go to app drawer..etc..., but cannot see anything under the voice to text box and cannot close the box without doing a full reboot. I tried clearing cache fro the google text engine...even uninstalling all the updates for it but still freezes. Today I went all day without it freezing, then on my drive home...I had to reboot the phone 5 times because it kept hanging.

Hope somebody has a solution as this just started for both of us yesterday.

I use it for FB Messenger and Texting all the time

bax
Motorola Droid Turbo

 

[Lorroth1]

Ditto here. Hoping someone knows why

 

[cccthethird]

The solution posted by Jen6483 is the easiest I've found. I have a Note 4 and it worked for me, her solution will probably work for all Galaxy phones. Google "How to clear the cache on the Galaxy S5 for better performance" and follow the instructions, its very easy to do.

BTW: On my phone the problem happens consistently when I have the "tap to speak" dialog shown and I turn off the screen using the power button.

 

[cccthethird]

Correction - it did happen consistently as I described but has not happened since I cleared the cache.

 

[Doug Alder]

T-Mobile Note 4, same problem. cleared cache but same problem keeps coming back (tap to speak freezes on screen). Doubtful it is the carrier, google needs to fix this very soon. *frustrated*

 

[Dave1767]

Verizon Note 4 - same problem.
I have cleared cache, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, factory reset the phone, nothing helps. It appears to freeze totally at random after using the voice app. Only temporary fix for me has been a reboot.

 

[carintoti]

This has been happening to me to for a couple of weeks (so approx Sept 13th it started)
I have to re-start every time as well.
Anyone find out what is happening???

 

[kc4braves]

I am having the same issues to the point that I want to throw my Note 3 out the window! I read how to clear the cache and did that. it worked for a few hours and now the problem is back. Can't answer the phone when it rings because of this and have to turn the phone to landscape to see and reply to texts messages. Sometimes rebooting the phone may fix it for a few hours and sometimes the problem returns immediately. This and other issues started after updating to 5.0. I really hope someone has some answers because I paid a lot for this phone and do not think it is right that through no fault of my own that I can see, my phone doesn't work right. Help.

KC

 

[shamlesteberg]

Ugh!!! Me too as of a few hours ago. I have S4 and Sprint. Randomly pops up and won't go away unless I reboot. 4 times in the last 3 hours!!

 

[scrowe]

Found a solution at least for Samsung, go to settings>application manager>all>google app>uninstall updates. after that you have to go to playstore >settings > turn off auto updates.

It looks when this app updates it has some bugs and causes this to happen so turn off updates until a fix comes out.
Hope that helps... you will be using the older version of google voice but that seems better that constantly restarting your phone.

It appears to be a google software issue not an carrier or samsung issue.

 

[uhaneikaao]

Possible alternative interim solution:

I have a Moto X (gen 1) This has been happening to be as well for a week or two. I had been previously rebooting the phone and shouting at it to clear the "tap to talk" message (shouting did not work, just helped my frustration).

However I found that if I hit the double squares, that pull up the open application lists and swipe away the Google app (G) it will close out the "tap to talk" window. The catch is, you have to have enough other apps open to be able to see it above the "tap to talk" screen.

I tried to go to setting, apps to force close, but both the google app and the ok button on force close show up behind the screen. I keep a pretty lean home screen, so I have added a couple of extra "reachable" apps on one of the far to the left screens, so I can get a few extra apps added if I dont have enough. This still isn't optimal for driving, but as my Moto X has the open mic all the time, I can work around it with other voice commands for the most part, hopefully they will patch it soon.

 

[lajohnson2006]

Thank you for the suggestion to uninstall google updates. I had also switched from the default Google keyboard to the Samsung keyboard and that seemed to help. Not sure if this was just coincidental or not as I am not super smartphone savvy...just know enough to be dangerous. LOL!

Can anyone tell me if switching to Samsung Keyboard will restrict anything?