Is the lack of voice dialing from Google Now a result of the OTA?

[Vance]

When I press the voice input in Jelly Bean, and I say "dial [person in my contacts]", it just does a Google search for that. Is this the result of the OTA pushed to get around the patent issue?

If so, is there a workaround?

 

[mogelijk]

No OTA has been sent yet for the patent issue, at least that I've seen. Currently there is a stay on the injunction, pending an appeal. I wouldn't expect any updates for the patent issue unless/until Samsung loses the appeal.

 

[AntimonyER]

Hmm, I just tried mine, and it dialed my contact. But I am on a JB ROM, not an official OTA. Its possible the fix was incorporated into the OTA, and therefore your Google Now is disabled...

 

[mogelijk]

Hmm, I just tried mine, and it dialed my contact. But I am on a JB ROM, not an official OTA. Its possible the fix was incorporated into the OTA, and therefore your Google Now is disabled...

Actually, dialing someone from my contacts works fine on my Nexus, with the stock JB (4.1.1 JRO03C). Again, I'm not aware of any "fix" that has been pushed by Google. Though you likely need to say "call" rather than "dial".

 

[Vance]

Odd, I find that some of my contacts will be called, others not at all and it will end up doing a search. Not sure why.

 

[callmeox]

It used to be necessary to have your contacts synced with Google to use voice dial. I'm not sure if that changed with JB, but you should check to see if the ones that aren't dialing are local only.

 

[Bren S.]

I just tried mine and it works just fine.

Is it all contacts that it doesn't work for or just certain ones?

 

[nefor]

Use "Call [name of person]". I couldn't get "Dial" to work but call worked no problem. (using US English)