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Help 2.3 Voice search or text not working

Have the same problem after updating to 2.3.3. Also my camera and barcode scanner do not work. I upadted all and I currently have
Android version 2.3.3
PRI version 2.15_003
PRL version 60679
How do I undo what I did?
 
I may have a solution. I cleared the data on voice search and then under applications un-checked Fast boot and restarted the phone. I had to reset the Voice Personalization after the reboot but so far it is working. I will test in my car above 25mph and report back.
 
I had the same problem and reset the voice and started over. Works on handcent, quick search. Although I only used the navigation for a short period, I was 75 ish and tracked fine.....
 
neno1313 said:
I can hold my finger over the mic. (small hole on bottom, left of center) and it works fine. Annoying but still a temporary fix.
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How crazy! This made mine work too. The challenge is, the microphone still seems to pick up ambient noise when you do this, so it doesn't know when to stop recording. Still cool that you figured this out.
 
Google has released an update in the market for Voice Search. I was excited to see it, but when I installed it, it didn't fix the issue. I'm wondering if this is something more related to HTC than Google.
 
I also held my finger by the mic, then it works....even when driving...
that is crazy!!
the new update for gingerbread did not fix the voice to text issue either, again sooo annoying, is there a way to get the old version on or has anyone herad of a fix coming soon for this???? I should not have to put my finger over the mic every time to do this!!!!
 
WOW the finger over the mic works Thanks;) !!!!!
you would think there would be a slider some where to adjust mic levels
hell windoz 3.11 had it :confused:
 
justryan said:
I just launched the voice search app again and it asked if I wanted to turn on "personalized recognition" and I said yes. The speech to text now works. You can find that setting under voice input in settings.
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Thx so much that worked perfectly for my EVO. Turned it off waited 30 seconds turned it back on and went to voice search it works fine, then I went back to the google search which had previously never had enough mic volume to hear me and now it work just fine.
 
Nothing has worked on this issue for me. I've tried everything short of a device wipe / reset. I think I saw a Sprint rep on the Sprint forum that said they are looking into it.. but who knows.
 
I just spent about an hour on the phone with HTC tech support regarding this issue. The issue has now been officially reported and documented. I was told this the first step in getting the issue resolved. I have a temporary fix that works flawlessly on my phone. I put a small piece of scotch tape over the microphone and it works better then before the update. I
 
Has anyone tried tapping "Voice Search" and saying "Send text to <name> ... <message>"? Both this command and the "send email" will not fill in the "to" name field. They both bring up the text message app or the email app correctly though. The name and anything you say after it, all goes into the message area in both of these commands. Seems a bug, unless its just my E3d. The Voice Actions demo video and help says you should be able to do this.
 
stv1a said:
I can absolutely verify that voice search does not work properly on my Evo (stock, unrooted) phone after OTA update to 2.3.

Here is where it gets weird. Works fine at home, works fine in car GOING LESS THAN 25MPH! Once the car is moving more that about 25mph, the mic no longer registers voice input. I have tested it over and over and over - reset the phone, done battery pulls, everything. GPS is off, toggling on GPS does not make a difference.

How does it know???? I have no idea, but try it for yourself - I would be interested to know if anyone has the same results. This is a real deal breaker for me as I use voice to text and voice command on the road a lot.

Also, while I have not had any issue with the infamous voicemail icon getting stuck, I did notice that my wi-fi signal is not nearly as good. I have read it is because wireless N is no longer supported, but I have not been able to verify that. All I know is I do not get signal in my house in places where I used to, like my bedroom and bathroom.

Last but not least, I have noticed some 3g drop out while moving - I will be surfing and all the sudden I have no data connection and the only way to get it back is to toggle mobile data and it comes right back. Probably happened 10x yesterday on a 2 hour drive in metro area.

Right now, I am waiting for unrevoked 3.4 to come out so I can root this thing and go back to 2.2.
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I can verify that this is a 2.3 issue, not a hardware issue. My wife and I purchased our phones one month ago. My wife's phone came with 2.3 and mine had 2.2 on it. My wife kept complaining that her phone didn't work very well at all, especially voice recognition and her bluetooth earpiece. Every time I tested it, it worked fine. But, I never tested with background noise. As usual, I suspected she was simply technologically challeneged. Finally, I tested with background noise, and ooops, she was right, it didn't work. The little microphone picture stopped flashing when you talked to it. I suspect they have some noise cancelling software that instead was cancelling everything.

I rooted our phones, and made a backup of my phone and copied it to her xd card. Then "restored" her phone using my backup. Then I had to reset her phone to factory settings (not factory rom) to get rid of my personal info. Now the phone works perfectly. Prior to that I had tried a factory reset of the rom (which of course just reinstalled 2.3) and changed every setting the phone had that had anything to do with sound. This included the above recommendations. And putting my thumb over the mic helped, but that is a POS solution.

So, my recommendation is. Root your phone and find a friend with 2.2 willing to let you copy it. Or maybe it can be downloaded from somewhere. And two, once you get your phone working like you want, create a backup. I even copied my backup to my PC so if something physically happens to the phone, I can get a new one back to this exact setup. After having an iPhone, I have to say, being able to create the equivalent of an image of your hard drive, is so superior. It scared me to death when I did iphone updates, there was never any way to go backwards and good old Steve Jobs would randomly deleat features without telling you! With this, an update can be undone in 10 minutes.

I do appreciate this forum. It is what guided me through the rooting process and it is this thread that gave me the confidence to take on the task of reverting my wife's phone to 2.2.
 
apostolakisl said:
I rooted our phones, and made a backup of my phone and copied it to her xd card. Then "restored" her phone using my backup. Then I had to reset her phone to factory settings (not factory rom) to get rid of my personal info. Now the phone works perfectly. Prior to that I had tried a factory reset of the rom (which of course just reinstalled 2.3)
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I hate to have to call BS, but a few things you claim to have done are impossible: rooting an EVO that came with 2.3, "backing up" your phone and restoring it to hers and performing a "factory reset" of a 2.3 phone.

Please don't make up things and then post them on the forum. It will only serve to confuse those new to these things and good advice will get drowned out in the noise of bad advice.

Thanks!
 
Darn, I Googled the problem I was having on 2.3, while driving in the car I always used voice commands, now on 2.3 not working while driving. When I am at home, it works fine. I always have my AC cranked up in the car, so it's just ambient noise that's stopping it. Works fine in a quiet place.

Thanks for the work around, I'll have to give it a try. I was screaming at my phone all the way home with no help!!
 
Anyone else having this issue? Keeps saying no voice input heard...speak louder...wven if I shout no go.

Also my camaraderie ramdomly stops working.

Use voice for god at work....VERY UNHAPPY!!!!

HELP!!!!!
 
*.jpg said:
I hate to have to call BS, but a few things you claim to have done are impossible: rooting an EVO that came with 2.3, "backing up" your phone and restoring it to hers and performing a "factory reset" of a 2.3 phone.

Please don't make up things and then post them on the forum. It will only serve to confuse those new to these things and good advice will get drowned out in the noise of bad advice.

Thanks!
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Not made up at all. It may be that I rooted the phone and then it was updated to 2.3 by sprint ota. My wife was complaining prior to my rooting the phone but when I originally rooted it about 1 week after I bought it, it was not for the purpose of fixing the problem but rather to install tether. I do not recall what OS was on it at that time. I didn't update it to 2.3 so I assumed it came that way, but I suppose my wife could have clicked through allowing some auto update, but she denies it and I never got any pushed update to my phone. I have not looked to see if 2.3 is rootable, so if it is not, then it must have been an ota update after the root.

If 2.3 isn't currently rootable, I am sure that it will be soon.

But, it is absolutely 100% for sure that you can create an image of a rooted phone and install it on another rooted evo 4g and factory reset it. ROM manager does it for you with virtually no effort. The whole process took only about 10 or 15 minutes.

After I did the recovery process loading my 2.2 onto my wifes phone, my wife's phone was an exact copy of mine. All of the apps, the configurations, everything. The problem, of course, was that it was linked to my gmail account and the only way to get rid of that was to do a reset which wiped all of the apps off as well. However, it was still the same OS from my phone. After about half an hour I had all of my wife's apps back on and had all of her settings back to what she wanted.
 
Having the same problems and so is many others it appears judging by the view count of this thread.

Not sure why the mic got changed in this last update. It was working perfectly before. Is there a way of changing the module or service back to the 2.2 version or whatever is tied into making the mic work?
 
I've the same problem. Speech to text doesn't work in loud environments or when the car is moving at all. It used to work in bars with music blasting and people yelling in the background. All the iPhoners were drooling and jealous. Google / HTC: WTF did you do??! All other instances it works. If I would have known this would happen, I'd have never updated.
 
Unfortunately, in the haste to give an improved user experience, google & htc & spcs messed up a few functionalities that didn't need improving.
 
I confirmed that 2.3 is not as of yet rootable. So, my wifes phone must have been updated by her after I rooted it.

If you have access to an evo 4g that is still running 2.2, I recommend you root it and create a backup of the phone and save it to a separate computer. When 2.3 root becomes available you can restore that image to your phone and get back to the good old days when your phone worked.

In my opinion, it is a great idea to keep a backup of a good system configuration as insurance no matter what. I do this with all of my pc's as well and I don't store them offsite (or at least not on that computer).
 
Leafgreen said:
I've the same problem. Speech to text doesn't work in loud environments or when the car is moving at all. It used to work in bars with music blasting and people yelling in the background. All the iPhoners were drooling and jealous. Google / HTC: WTF did you do??! All other instances it works. If I would have known this would happen, I'd have never updated.
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Couldn't have said it any better.:(
 
apostolakisl said:
I confirmed that 2.3 is not as of yet rootable. So, my wifes phone must have been updated by her after I rooted it.

If you have access to an evo 4g that is still running 2.2, I recommend you root it and create a backup of the phone and save it to a separate computer. When 2.3 root becomes available you can restore that image to your phone and get back to the good old days when your phone worked.

In my opinion, it is a great idea to keep a backup of a good system configuration as insurance no matter what. I do this with all of my pc's as well and I don't store them offsite (or at least not on that computer).
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Just a note there, if you used unrEvoked, then your phone is rooted, no matter what update you install. please go to the official unrEvoked.com website to learn more about the process. There is a reason why it is called unrEvoked Forever (fyi it is an s-off/s-on tool and works both ways). It takes less time than it did to do your backup and is permanent.

So, while you might not be able to root a 2.3 factory fresh Evo, you can root an Evo and then install the OTA to 2.3 and still be rooted. It is based off the Baseband version, not the OS version.

direct from the unrevoked website:
unrevoked forever is a tool to set your Android phone's security level to S-OFF. The security level is a flag stored on the radio; when the flag is S-OFF, the bootloader (HBOOT) will no longer check the signatures of firmware images before flashing them. This allows custom firmware images to be uploaded, including unsigned boot, recovery, splash1, and hboot images (as well as official images that have been modified). When the system is S-OFF, the NAND flash memory protection is also reduced; this allows all partitions (including /system) to be written to while the operating system is booted.

The most substantial benefit of unrevoked forever is that the change is stored in the radio's NV memory; no ENG bootloader is necessary to continue to flash firmware images. Even if an
 
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