Has Your S7E Received Google Assistant?

edubb256 · Mar 11, 2017

Almeuit said:
Yep. The most popular example is asking it the weather.

"What is the weather like today?"

Google answers.

"What about tomorrow?"

Google answers.

It understands when the flow as in when you say "What about tomorrow" it understands the context versus you having to say "What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?" after asking it the weather today. Small stuff like that.

Yes, that is neat feature, but Google search has done that for years. It's not new to Google Assistant.

LineKill · Mar 11, 2017

edubb256 said:
I guess I have to play around with it bit more. I'm not seeing the benefit. It seems to me Google Now understands the flow of conversations just as well as Google Assistant.

I tried these questions in both Now and Assistant:
- Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
- What about wife?
- When did he die?
- Where?

I got exactly the same responses from both. Plus Now gives the option of typing (as opposed to speaking) in the question, and Google Now has cards. That said, the Assistant UI is a little more user friendly. The two seem more complementary, rather than Assistant being a replacement. If I had to choose one, I'd definitely choose Now.

As far as conversation flow, they are not the same. In Google Now if you ask "Where was Abraham Lincoln born?" You cannot follow up with "What about wife?" It does not know what you are talking about. Instead you have to come back with the follow up question "Where was Abraham Lincoln's wife born?" Google Now cannot keep track of and retain the conversation.

LineKill · Mar 11, 2017

edubb256 said:
Yes, that is neat feature, but Google search has done that for years. It's not new to Google Assistant.

It is new, Google search or Now is not capable of doing what Almeuit has explained.

edubb256 · Mar 11, 2017

magerb said:
As far as conversation flow, they are not the same. In Google Now if you ask "Where was Abraham Lincoln born?" You cannot follow up with "What about wife?" It does not know what you are talking about. Instead you have to come back with the follow up question "Where was Abraham Lincoln's wife born?" Google Now cannot keep track of and retain the conversation.

You are not correct. Check out this Youtube video from 3 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ixuX4KwVE

Google now has had this capability for some time now. I think since Android 4.4 or maybe before.

sweetypie31 · Mar 11, 2017

I can kind of understand the complaints about the assistant vs now. I think assistant is cool, but I prefer now because I don't always want to talk to my screen. I'd rather type it in when I'm in a situation where I can't be verbal. Having said that though, we still have access to Google now and the cards by moving the Google icon ftom the app drawer to the home screen. Easy fix. I'll just go back and forward between both for now.

LineKill · Mar 11, 2017

edubb256 said:
You are not correct. Check out this Youtube video from 3 years ago.

Google now has had this capability for some time now. I think since Android 4.4 or maybe before.

I guess I was wrong. My bad!

ThrottleJohnny · Mar 11, 2017

Nothing wrong with choices. I still use both. GA is more convenient for me on the go. Google now when I'm at home. I feel like people just want to complain.

Vinman911 · Mar 11, 2017

I just checked on a whim and got it.

LineKill · Mar 11, 2017

ThrottleJohnny said:
Nothing wrong with choices. I still use both. GA is more convenient for me on the go. Google now when I'm at home. I feel like people just want to complain.

I agree with you! Eventually their services will merge together, more or less, then it won't matter.

bchain996 · Mar 11, 2017

Anyone else unable to use their mic or okay Google? I have tried uninstalling updates and reinstalling, s voice is disabled and default assistance app is set for Google, microphones permissions enabled

hypnospastic · Mar 11, 2017

meyerweb said:
I got updated over night. I HATE IT! With a passion. No longer can you just long press the button and get the cards you're interested in. No longer can you type a query. No, now you need to TALK to your stupid phone. I could easily use Google Now anywhere. But can you imagine talking to your phone in the middle of a meeting? Or during a wedding? Or in any of the thousands of other places where talking out loud is annoying, embarrassing, or downright rude? Where you might want to be discrete?

And there's no option for going back to Google Now. Thanks for forcing this unwanted bloatware on me, Google. Thanks for nothing, that is.

Do Google's employees really sit around work all day talking to their phones? Maybe they should go out into the real world and see how real people work.

(Sprint S7E, Nougat)

Couldn't agree with you more. Miss the cards.

Vinman911 · Mar 11, 2017

try to go to settings in Google Assistant and retrain the OK Google command with your voice. Also in the google assistant setting is to turn on the OK GOOGLE command.

bchain996 · Mar 11, 2017

Vinman911 said:
try to go to settings in Google Assistant and retrain the OK Google command with your voice. Also in the google assistant setting is to turn on the OK GOOGLE command.

Tried both of those still no luck

H2o · Mar 11, 2017

I was having trouble as well when I was using the touch wiz launcher. I switched back to Nova and it works perfectly now ( make sure you enable it in the settings of you are gonna use Nova)

Andyvalver · Mar 11, 2017

Still no update for me. Had updates for Google play movies over the past few days.

Freakster1 · Mar 11, 2017

meyerweb said:
I got updated over night. I HATE IT! With a passion. No longer can you just long press the button and get the cards you're interested in. No longer can you type a query. No, now you need to TALK to your stupid phone. I could easily use Google Now anywhere. But can you imagine talking to your phone in the middle of a meeting? Or during a wedding? Or in any of the thousands of other places where talking out loud is annoying, embarrassing, or downright rude? Where you might want to be discrete?

And there's no option for going back to Google Now. Thanks for forcing this unwanted bloatware on me, Google. Thanks for nothing, that is.

Do Google's employees really sit around work all day talking to their phones? Maybe they should go out into the real world and see how real people work.

(Sprint S7E, Nougat)

Just go in your app tray and open the Google app and it's still there. The only difference I see is you can't open it by long pressing the home button because that opens Google assistant.

sLithery · Mar 11, 2017

I just got it in Germany with a trick(?). I changed my system language to English(US) and opted in for the Google Beta app. After installing it I pressed the Home-button for two seconds and I automatically got it.

Edit: I also changed my keyboard language and my Google language to English(US) afterwards I changed everything back to German and it still works.

Edit2: It automatically gets disabled after some time.

Wizzy · Mar 11, 2017

In Nova, you can still assign a gesture to Google Now to avoid Google Assistant.

antman451 · Mar 11, 2017

Huh. I was poking around in the Google app, and "enable Assistant" was an option in settings. Instantly changed me over from Now to Assistant.

Rumblee1 · Mar 12, 2017

antman451 said:
huh. I was poking around in the google app, and "enable assistant" was an option in settings. Instantly changed me over from now to assistant.

got it. Yea.

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