Source for Google Experience Launcher:
http://phandroid.com/2013/10/31/download-and-install-the-new-google-experience-launcher/
Files to install:
1) http://www.mediafire.com/download/ki2jhowk7obiefu/PrebuiltGmsCore.apk
2) http://www.mediafire.com/download/jvpjx0dp1gpiixg/Velvet.apk
3) http://www.mediafire.com/download/3ina0fd8fwki5fo/GoogleHome.apk
Google Search Force Close fix:
Long press the home screen, select Settings. Select Voice. Select Language to change the default. Change to another language, I choose English – UK. Hit Home. Do a Google Search. Repeat the first three steps. Change back to English – US
Not sure if the order matters
Thanks will give it a try
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For me wrong section. Post in theme and apps.
Hope that mod shif thread in right section
pretty buggy with verizon G2.
AND no knock knock
Why is this here? I could understand if you had actually developed this...but its not a ROM...and you didn't develop it...so why is it in the development section?
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Thanks for the share man.
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How do you guys live without tap on/off?!?
friguy3 said:
How do you guys live without tap on/off?!?
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tap near the status bar...
Status bar and tap on still works? Oh that's all I need
And is there an easy way to go back to the lg stock launcher?
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insang-droid said:
pretty buggy with verizon G2.
AND no knock knock
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I have the LG G2 Verizon variant and knock knock works. No bugs here. Can you elaborate? Everything with the exception of selecting "Wallpapers" when you long press on the home screen works. Just to clarify, when you long press, you are presented with Wallpapers, Widgets, and Settings (the Google Now settings).
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I have the LG G2 Verizon variant and knock knock works. No bugs here. Can you elaborate? Everything with the exception of selecting "Wallpapers" when you long press on the home screen works. Just to clarify, when you long press, you are presented with Wallpapers, Widgets, and Settings (the Google Now settings).
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So besides the swipe to the right for google now and always on "hey google", are there any differences or things you like better than the LG Launcher, because that is great for me.
friguy3 said:
So besides the swipe to the right for google now and always on "hey google", are there any differences or things you like better than the LG Launcher, because that is great for me.
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You mean "OK, Google"?
Well, it's the closest thing to the AOSP.
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Have any of you tried saying "OK, Jarvis" ?? It works!! Now i just need the iron man suit...
xstahsie said:
You mean "OK, Google"?
Well, it's the closest thing to the AOSP.
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Hey Google works too
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Try it out, you might not want to go back
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xstahsie said:
I have the LG G2 Verizon variant and knock knock works. No bugs here. Can you elaborate? Everything with the exception of selecting "Wallpapers" when you long press on the home screen works. Just to clarify, when you long press, you are presented with Wallpapers, Widgets, and Settings (the Google Now settings).
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I see that knock knock only works on the status bar and lock screen when using the Google launcher.
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xstahsie said:
Try it out, you might not want to go back
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Tried it and was....eh. I liked the swipe to the side for Google now but otherwise, it was nothing special. Don't need the always on Google search (w/ the screen on). And my wallpapers are all stretched so back to stock LG launcher (And I get more icons with it).
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friguy3 said:
Tried it and was....eh. I liked the swipe to the side for Google now but otherwise, it was nothing special. Don't need the always on Google search (w/ the screen on). And my wallpapers are all stretched so back to stock LG launcher (And I get more icons with it).
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I like the big icons. And performing Google search from your home screen using just your voice is a plus for me.
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Is there a way to GEL during standby?
TehJorge said:
Source for Google Experience Launcher:
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Google Search Force Close fix:
Long press the home screen, select Settings. Select Voice. Select Language to change the default. Change to another language, I choose English – UK. Hit Home. Do a Google Search. Repeat the first three steps. Change back to English – US
Not sure if the order matters
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So...is there a way to make it wake up by saying Google Now when it's in standby? I disabled S Voice but never really used it in the first place since I only recently got the S4.
Related
While my one x is charging, wanted to see if I can find workarounds till root is available for a few things:
Battery percent on status bar (something nice looking but lightweight)
No search button, including assigning long press to an app.
Notification toggles
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Sure would like to restore some of my app data.. Especially for the few games I have.
Any good and battery friendly lock screen replacement? Last I heard widget locker still wasn't ics compatible.
Any way to block ads on an unrooted phone lol?
Anyone get Google voice working?
Sure was spoiled having root during my entire prior android experience. I've went ahead and got this assuming we'll have root in the not so distant future. Just trying to get by till then. I have a hard time seeing myself with anything else but a htc phone but I'll switch to the s3 if nothing changes by the time its released.. Grr.. sure don't want to.
Ty so much for any help I can get.
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Anybody?
As far as Google voice is concerned, still can't get it to take. It changed two of my forwarding numbers but won't switch my voicemail in settings, nor does my call history include my google voice mails.
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As far as google voice, I set it up on the phone and it would not work correctly, so I logged in on the pc and went to settings and it gave me a code to type into the phone and it works now, but in the voicemail settings on the phone it still says my carrier but under call forwarding it has my gv number
I think I had to deactivate it then reactivate it
kravguy said:
While my one x is charging, wanted to see if I can find workarounds till root is available for a few things:
Battery percent on status bar (something nice looking but lightweight) - requires root to modify neccessary files
No search button, including assigning long press to an app. - second half requires editing locked files, needs root
Notification toggles - someone made a thread about an app that will do this
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Sure would like to restore some of my app data.. Especially for the few games I have. - Most app data can be restored to /sdcard/Android/
Any good and battery friendly lock screen replacement? Last I heard widget locker still wasn't ics compatible.
Any way to block ads on an unrooted phone lol? - hosts file in /system/etc requires root to edit
Anyone get Google voice working? - Did you enable your device via the google site?
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hopefully that helps sooth your mind a little.
kravguy said:
Anybody?
As far as Google voice is concerned, still can't get it to take. It changed two of my forwarding numbers but won't switch my voicemail in settings, nor does my call history include my google voice mails.
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I had this problem... And for now I called up att and had them change my voice mail number to my Google voice number now when people call me it goes to Google voice and although the settings on the phone don't show it the voice app does work
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warri said:
I had this problem... And for now I called up att and had them change my voice mail number to my Google voice number now when people call me it goes to Google voice and although the settings on the phone don't show it the voice app does work
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I previously used google voice with my inspire. Just seems that some people haven't had issues while some have. Just wondering why
was wondering about the GoogVoice issue as well. dude... i cannot freaking wait until we get this thing rooted. so many problems on the software side. it's pretty horrendous imo. there's quite a lot i'd like to tweak.
kravguy said:
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Have you tried Apex? Has the menu button and looks very similar to the Sense 4.0 launcher.
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Hope this helps.
mywebslave said:
Hope this helps.
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Yes, I've used Apex before. Nova (for me at least on the Inspire) just seemed to be smoother (and I had already paid for the prime version). I might give apex another shot on this phone.
There is a Google Voice thread on this forum. It worked for me. You have to log in on the computer and use a number. After that it works like a charm regardless of what the VM settings on the phone say.
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Yeah I made a thread about the notification toggles. Its a pretty nice little app.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639696
You can even put your most used apps in the drop down if you want.
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howsleyd said:
Yeah I made a thread about the notification toggles. Its a pretty nice little app.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639696
You can even put your most used apps in the drop down if you want.
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I'm using that. Pretty nice and does what I wanted. Hate running an extra app though but not much choice right now.
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kravguy said:
I'm using that. Pretty nice and does what I wanted. Hate running an extra app though but not much choice right now.
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Yeah it kind of stinks having to run another app but it is very customizable which is very nice. You can even make more than one toggle bar if you want to.
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Hello all,
Ever since I flashed emancipation ROM on my infuse, pressing the search capacitive button no longer opens up the Google search box.
Otherwise the button works fine. long pressing the search button opens the “speak now"dialog and everything but not the Google search function for some reason.
Can someone guide me on how to bring back this functionality.
Thanks
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This is because you probably do not have the Google Search app. If you want to get the functionality back, all you have to do is go on the Play Store and download Google Search.
Hope this works.
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Crinkypops said:
This is because you probably do not have the Google Search app. If you want to get the functionality back, all you have to do is go on the Play Store and download Google Search.
Hope this works.
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that's what I thought at first too. It is not included in the ROM but even after downloading the Google search app the issue persists. I will try flashing a different ROM.
Thanks for reply
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Kind of embarrassing, but I've had this phone for over a year now and for some reason have never noticed or used the capacitive search button. Thanks for bringing this up, as I'm using it daily now. Handy!
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No problem lol...check out the long press function of the search button as well.
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ateebtk said:
No problem lol...check out the long press function of the search button as well.
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Yep, I have the long press set to use Vlingo by default now, and that has come in very handy when driving with a Bluetooth headset.
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so i installed a different rom hoping this issue would be fixed (Mind of Mac) and still same thing. I really like that fact that before i could simply "tap" the capacitive search button ONCE and search apps/contacts/internet/google serach...now i gotta use the google search widget which is extra work.
any one have anyideas?
thanks
So I have JB on my rooted Nexus S. As usual i have deleted system apps that I don't use or like. One of them was google search AKA Google Now.
I don't like something stuck on top of my home screen and removing it on 4 hadn't cause any issues. Not this time.
Beware that if you delete velvet.apk/googlequicksearchbar from JB you loose Voice Input method on your keyboard.
It is a real bummer to tie a device core function to a service that some people might not like.
nolovelust said:
So I have JB on my rooted Nexus S. As usual i have deleted system apps that I don't use or like. One of them was google search AKA Google Now.
I don't like something stuck on top of my home screen and removing it on 4 hadn't cause any issues. Not this time.
Beware that if you delete velvet.apk/googlequicksearchbar from JB you loose Voice Input method on your keyboard.
It is a real bummer to tie a device core function to a service that some people might not like.
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Is there any other way without harming other thingss ? The following link shoul help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788719
You do know you can just turn Google now off right? Just asking because I would hate to lose voice. If you didn't already know just open Google now, hit menu, select Google now, and slide on button to off. If you did know then disregard.
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Just in case
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Is there a way to get the old search back? I liked how my search opened directly into my browser. Even with google now turned off it searches in that different program which has terrible 3 past item history. Also it's quite easy to lose the search when multitasking and jumping in and out of different tasks.
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Just in case
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*** UPDATED LINK****
Droid life has a better download extractor.
Link → http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/3...om-the-nexus-5-dump-search-launcher-and-more/
However Phandroid has uploaded a few diffrent apk's not found on the first source, please visit for yourself and compare.Thanks.→ http://phandroid.com/2013/10/31/nex...ad/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Thanks man!
I installed the keyboard but I get constant force closes when I select it the Gmail works fine just don't see what is different from the one we have now
My Galaxy Note 3 Is A Definite Go!!!!!
Keyboard works for me love all the apps Google launcher takes a lot less ram to
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Keyboard works for me without issues too. I really want the camera from the nexus 5. I'm getting a little tired of how laggy the touch wiz camera is.
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I got it working with a different download link
My Galaxy Note 3 Is A Definite Go!!!!!
dreDrennon1 said:
I installed the keyboard but I get constant force closes when I select it the Gmail works fine just don't see what is different from the one we have now
My Galaxy Note 3 Is A Definite Go!!!!!
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Try this source
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/3...om-the-nexus-5-dump-search-launcher-and-more/
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Crazypinoy9 said:
Keyboard works for me without issues too. I really want the camera from the nexus 5. I'm getting a little tired of how laggy the touch wiz camera is.
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I'm using the Motorola x camera apk don't have time to find a link but just Google it its easy to find and very fast
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Everything is working fine on my note 3 except FC on hangout/sms when sending mms and ok google active listening prompt as it FCes too. There is a temporary fix to that by switching back n forth languages . Soon as you open anything in your phone and go back it will FC again.
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keyboard is working great for me too, as well as hangouts aside from mms totally crashing the app
Google search seems to be giving me an error when I search with the search bar.
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Fyi im getting way better battery life on my note 3 with the kit kat launcher even with google now on.
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mastaofdacat said:
Fyi im getting way better battery life on my note 3 with the kit kat launcher even with google now on.
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Same here! An unexpected benefit.
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Thanks for this man.. but ok Google command doesn't work...
tufail.budoo said:
Thanks for this man.. but ok Google command doesn't work...
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I got it to work with the advice from this comment.
Use this thread to get everything working. Those sites don't have the necessary lib files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507529
Dankchild said:
Use this thread to get everything working. Those sites don't have the necessary lib files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507529
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I don't have root access to my Note 3. I followed the instructions to download all the necessary files, installed them in the proper order, and did the language switch trick, but I'm getting force closes whenever I swipe to the left and click on any card.
^^^exactly .I dont want to root my phone . Doing the language switch is just a temporary solution and will go back to force close when do anything after on your phone .
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Downloaded and installed gallery. My photos showed up fine but when I tried to edit, the app FC on me. Anyone has any solution?
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no idea how i did this..
Okay so I'm not totally new to android. Tbh I do a lot more modding on I phones. But way more than your average jailbreaker.
I've had a rooted gs1 gs3 and now I've turned in my iphone5 for the Note 3. Great decision.
So I have my rooted note 3 on at&t.
I then somehow got xposed framework to work with the new Google launcher. (Okay Google hotword and Google now to the left working fully ) also installed the Google keyboard after with no problems.
The weird thing to me is I read all the instructions on how to install the new Google launcher experience, and followed the instructions.
But when I went to install all the apps but the Google launcher file (last file you install) they failed to install. So then once installing the launcher I rebooted. Then went into the xposed framework and turned on and off the module and rebooted again. Then I set all my settings, rebooted again. And the FINAL product is
The new Custom Themed Google experience.
Here are some pics.
These are awesome, they work (some) , but as always use at your own risk.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/3...om-the-nexus-5-dump-search-launcher-and-more/
Anyone having Google Now problems, see if this works, tell me what happens either way:
Change the default language to UK English and leave it like that for a few hours it should fix the force close issues.
Thanks TechSoft for this fix!
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So i installed the frameworks, search, and home. When i attempt to change wallpapers on the home screen, google search fc's. There were instructions on phandroid for taking care of this, but evidently they don't fix things for the D800? Has anyone attempted to use google home and had success?
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I simply changed the wallpaper from the gallery. I opened the picture I wanted and under options selected, 'Set as' -> wallpaper.
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Has anyone found a fix for Google search that works for our device. Install the fix to the system/lib, and changing the language temporarily to perform a search are solutions that have only worked short term for me. Any solutions for MMS in hangouts 2.0? I can't get that working consistently on my vs980 either.
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transfo47 said:
These are awesome, they work (some) , but as always use at your own risk.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/3...om-the-nexus-5-dump-search-launcher-and-more/
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Can not you run for my F320................
bigdjeff said:
Has anyone found a fix for Google search that works for our device. Install the fix to the system/lib, and changing the language temporarily to perform a search are solutions that have only worked short term for me. Any solutions for MMS in hangouts 2.0? I can't get that working consistently on my vs980 either.
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Doh... Wish I would have read this before I installed.... The FC is super annoying. I noticed when I first opened the launcher after reboot it said I can say "Ok, Google" but that function doesn't appear to work either.
change the default language to fix fc
bigdjeff said:
Has anyone found a fix for Google search that works for our device. Install the fix to the system/lib, and changing the language temporarily to perform a search are solutions that have only worked short term for me. Any solutions for MMS in hangouts 2.0? I can't get that working consistently on my vs980 either.
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If you change the default language to uk emglish and leave it like that for a few hours it fixes the force close issues.
There is a video explaining how to fix these issues etc on TK Tech News
Did the article go into the hangouts MMS issue?
*the videos are almost unwatchable.
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manigault said:
So i installed the frameworks, search, and home. When i attempt to change wallpapers on the home screen, google search fc's. There were instructions on phandroid for taking care of this, but evidently they don't fix things for the D800? Has anyone attempted to use google home and had success?
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I can open it but it doesn't work.
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