Help Google search replaced with *

[Grouchy187]

Whenever I type a search in on google through my phone, it shows up as *s rather then what I type, as if I was typing a password. Any idea how to fix this? thanks.

 

[project.in.process]

Whenever I type a search in on google through my phone, it shows up as *s rather then what I type, as if I was typing a password. Any idea how to fix this? thanks.

are you rooted?
did you recently install any keyboards?

try clearing the keyboard cache or Data

stock keyboard===home screen>menu>applications>manage applications>Running>Touch Input

swype===home screen>menu>applications>manage applications>downloaded>Swype

 

[mattdeasay]

I experienced the same thing today. My phone is stock and unrooted.

 

[HenryKrinkle]

Same here. Unrooted and stock. Only happens with Google.

 

[irony]

I had this happen to me Also. The dirty fix seems to be run that Google search page in classic mode.

 

[Grouchy187]

like the others have said, unrooted and it just randomly happened.

 

[ska.t73]

Update: This is a Google mobile issue, they are working on it and last I heard it seems to be fixed. It is actually happening across all devices. Just for a little FYI, how something is typed into a field (i.e. if it is plain text or treated like a password field) is handled by the website.

 

[HookEmHorns*UT*]

Whenever I type a search in on google through my phone, it shows up as *s rather then what I type, as if I was typing a password. Any idea how to fix this? thanks.

I have this happening also. It just started today and it is very annoying. I am not rooted.

 

[ncwildcat]

as of 5 minutes ago its still not fixed...so I just search from the address bar

 

[namx]

glad to see this is not only my phone. did anyone notice that when you turn instant on, you get too search boxes that does the same thing (puts in the ***)

 

[Ibrick]

F*CK!

I wish I would have read this earilier..

I thought it was an issue with my phone, so I cleared all cache's, wiped data, re-flashed multiple ROM's trying to fix it..

As of right now, I lost everything in Titanium Backup and my backed up ROM is no more, so Im going to have to manually download all my apps again and re-install BAMF 1.6 w/ de-Sense..

There goes my night..

 

[vzwuser76]

I saw this on the Android central forums. Change the homepage from the Google Android default homepage to just google.com & reboot the browser. You may have to do a force close on it or open a new window to get it to take affect.

 

[jacko1]

go into google homepage 2 click on settings in the bottom 3 click off on query suggestions 4 save settings 5 add that as home page 6 enjoy
First clear data in browser
I posted that on xda