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[Verizon] Google Now, Voice Search is crap now.

Xenon is great... if you wipe. If you don't wipe, weird little things like this happen.

I'm trying to decide today if I want to wipe and install the latest Xenon or jumpship and try a different ROM.

I have to wipe regardless. Too many little bugs like this crop up because I didn't wipe last time.

XenonHD is the best on my phone. I have tried AOKP, Sourcery, Belly, CNA, and was getting discouraged. The last one was XenonHD and I'm home for now.

They are all in experimental mode though.
 
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So I'm on Xenon 13 now.

When I do a voice command to "call the nearest XXXXXX store", it's still doing the same thing. It brings up that store's Google Map location.

If I type "call nearest XXXXX store, it does call.

NOW on my stock unrooted Nexus, I received JB today. And Google Now search works perfectly.

So i'm pretty sure this is a Xenon issue.

So what ROM should I jump over to?

Don't blame the ROM. I just tried what failed for you and it succeeded for me.

Make a nandroid and do a good wipe and flash again? Thats what I do before I condemn a ROM.

But my Honda 90 may go 5mph faster than your Honda 90 - Eh?
 
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Don't blame the ROM. I just tried what failed for you and it succeeded for me.

Make a nandroid and do a good wipe and flash again? Thats what I do before I condemn a ROM.

But my Honda 90 may go 5mph faster than your Honda 90 - Eh?

Running JB Sourcery and Google Now is perfect. I have clean wiped and flash the last 2 versions of Xenon (going to 12 then going to 13).

My other Nexus with stock JB is also perfect.

Its the ROM. At least on my Honda.
 
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Okay, my Google Now has gone nuts again. Below is an example of something that works perfectly when I type it, then detects my voice perfectly, but behaves completely differently.

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Xenon 14, which seemed to be previously working fine.

Sorry for the double post, but this thread is more visible to everyone using Now.
 
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Okay, my Google Now has gone nuts again. Below is an example of something that works perfectly when I type it, then detects my voice perfectly, but behaves completely differently.

Screenshot_2012-10-09-19-40-10.png


Screenshot_2012-10-09-19-41-30.png

Xenon 14, which seemed to be previously working fine.

Sorry for the double post, but this thread is more visible to everyone using Now.

Ha... I got me thinking. So I tried my Google now that was working perfectly with Xenon v14. And. Now it's doing the same thing as yours.

This sucks.

Time to roll to AOKP.
 
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Voice search was always crap. Nothing but a gimmick.
I cant think of a single situation where using it was quicker than actually using whatever function it was that i wanted to use anyway.

Google now just makes things worse. I cant say im impressed with constant google navigate in the background navigating me to places i went to a week ago that just plain wont **** off. I hate to say this as ive been a fan of Android from the beginning but its seriously starting to annoy me now having these useless gimmicky non intuitive bits of bloatware installed.

The other issue i get is with g+ constantly attempting to upload pics off my phone despite 'instant uploads' being disabled on my phone, tablet, and pc web browser.

Looking forward to ubuntu mobile as a possible alternative.
 
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Google voice search has always sucked, and lagged behind Apple's voice search. Ever try voice dialing? Now that really sucks. Welcome to Android.

I use voice dialing almost everyday... Works great 99% of the time.

In fact the only time I have issues is a OE problem (Operator Error), like only using the person's first name when their in the phone book with first and last...
 
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