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Help Ok Google not speaking anymore, for certain things

redking125

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I have a boost mobile Samsung Galaxy J3 2016 with the google now launcher and all the latest updates. As of this evening, when I ask most questions on Ok Google, the voice doesn't talk back to me anymore.

For instance "Ok google how is the weather" or "when is labor day" just opens up a search page but doesn't speak, whereas it used to have a voice that would read the answer to me.

If I say "Ok google send text to Joe" it WILL speak back and say "Ok! What's the message?" or something like that, so the dysfunction seems to be selective.

I have tried clearing the cache for all apps, restarting, reinstalling google now, made sure media volume is up, the "speech output" setting is ON, language is correctly set to "English US"

Any ideas?
 
Hi,
Go to settings>storage>apps>google play services uninstall updates.
Open Google drive.
This prompts to update google play services.
Settings>storage>apps>google play store clear data.
Settings>storage>apps>google now launcher uninstall.
Reinstall from google play store.
Settings >storage>cached data>clear cached data.


I've tried your suggestions, as best as they match up with my phone, and it didn't seem to work. I've now done a factory reset and that still didn't work
 
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I've been trying for the better part of the evening to figure this out...i've had the same problem....it's related to an google account glitch somehow...here's what I know...just for kicks i put one of our other google accounts on my phone and google now worked flawlessly under that acct...whenever i swapped back it quit working...i've narrowed it down to this....if you login to your google...go to manage your google activity...and then go to activity controls...for me...when I turned off or paused webb and app activity, google now began to work without issues...if I re-enable this, it quits working again...I really don't understand why, but it doesn't...I've deleted all history and it still doesn't work when that is enabled...maybe this will help you, i'm really pissed that i reset my phone because now i've gotta call my bank to re-enable my debit card for samsung pay! anyway, hope this helps ya
 
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