[Q] No listening Google Search widget - Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi I just got my black Xperia Z2 and loving it! But coming from GS4 i came to notice the Google search widget doesnt have the listen feature in the homescreen.
Second problem is that when i tap the microphone icon on Google Now app or on the widget, it doesnt beep letting u know its listening. But it does listen and beeps normally when its finished listening. Its kinda misleading if you use GNow often.
Anyone experienced this? Pls share thoughts.

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[Q] Zplayer assistance

hi there,
i bought the app, have a few questions/comments (fyi, my phone is a Nexus S, running stock 2.3.1):
-i checked off to use lockscreen controls. no lockscreen controls show up, do i need to do something else to make them appear?
-if i check off hide home screen, it then goes to music directly when starting. that i get... but then how do you get to any other section (videos, podcasts, etc) if you hide the home screen? or is that the point? if you hide it, it's meant to only then use music?
-what font is being used for the app? it's not segoe like metro/zune/win7 phones...
thank you

Unified audio controls for music apps?

I was a long time ios user that bought the galaxy note, and my biggest issue is controlling music apps.
On the iphone from the lockscreen regardless of what app I'm playing from (spotify, stitcher, ipod, whatever) I could easilly pause and play whatever I'm listening to from one interface.
I haven't found a way to do this with my Note. What I've resorted to doing is having a seperate spotify app widget, and a stitcher app widget, and an audible widget on my lockscreen so I can pause and play each of them pending on what I was listening to.
Please tell me there is a way around this.
Most of the good music apps have a setting to place controls on the lockscreen. Look in the apps settings.
beats audio
you should put beats audio on your phone
kimtyson said:
Most of the good music apps have a setting to place controls on the lockscreen. Look in the apps settings.
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Yeah, thats what I have, but thats what I'm trying to avoid (having individual apps having lock screen controls). So on my lockscreen now I have A widget for stitcher, spotify, and audible. I was hoping to have one thing that allows me to pause/play what I'm listening to like I can on an ios device.
rchapoteau said:
Yeah, thats what I have, but thats what I'm trying to avoid (having individual apps having lock screen controls). So on my lockscreen now I have A widget for stitcher, spotify, and audible. I was hoping to have one thing that allows me to pause/play what I'm listening to like I can on an ios device.
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Sorry. I guess I wasn't really clear in my post. You don't need the widgets or icons in the lockscreen. Just go to the application and there "should" be a setting to allow the player in the lockscreen. Then, when you are playing something it will show in the lockscreen. But only while it is playing. Otherwise it is hidden, not visible. This works for my Poweramp app. I don't have the apps you listed so I can't get any more specific than this. Hope it helps.
Found the app Media Buttons
Does exactly what I needed. Now I can pause music from any app without having to think about whats playing.

Google keep's reminder notification problem

Hey Guys,
I've been facing this issue for a long time now and would highly appriciate any advise here ...
I have a nexus 5x.
I am using google keep's reminders but sadly I get a very short (one second) notification on the screen if the screen is on
or a notification short sound (shorter then usual notification sounds) when the screen is off.
There is no notification lasting on top of the screen that I can scroll and see like in the past.
It seems like something is blocking it,
I gave Google keep permissions to my contact, storage and everything that is possible.
I've enabled the locked screen notification on google keep's settings
I've also reinstalled google keep and it didn't help ..
I've downloaded many reminder apps like any.do and evernote but they face the same issue as I've mentioned above.
The only way I can get a reminder is if I put a reminder in google calander's built in app
But I don't want to use it
Would appreciate any help on your part.
Thanks.

Ideas for unused Galaxy S5?

I want to make use of my Galaxy S5 which is laying under the table hole time and I want your ideas.
My wish so far is to make it speak at loud current weather every 2h, for now I have app that says notifications at loud but I didn't find weather app that puts notifications with weather details as text every few hours, every weather app I installed so far just puts widget in notification area.
EZY-E said:
I want to make use of my Galaxy S5 which is laying under the table hole time and I want your ideas.
My wish so far is to make it speak at loud current weather every 2h, for now I have app that says notifications at loud but I didn't find weather app that puts notifications with weather details as text every few hours, every weather app I installed so far just puts widget in notification area.
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You can do tons of ideas. One is to make your s5 a dash camera for your car. Another is to use it strictly as a music player in your car. You could also use it as one of those live picture frames. Creativity is key!
I managed to make it speak IFTT notifications about weather at loud for now, every morning and before going to bed.
I want it to be like some kind of info center that speaks useful informations through day, but don't have any other ideas.

Having Music Controls on the Lock Screen

Hey folks,
So I was wondering why there are no media controls on my Honor 10's lock screen when music is playing (usually via Spotify).
It's not really cool to unlock the phone, swipe down, open spotify and press next when all you want to do is skip a song.
Do these controls show up on your lockscreen?
Did I maybe disable them without noticing?
Thanks for your answers in advance!
vollkornbaguette said:
Hey folks,
So I was wondering why there are no media controls on my Honor 10's lock screen when music is playing (usually via Spotify).
It's not really cool to unlock the phone, swipe down, open spotify and press next when all you want to do is skip a song.
Do these controls show up on your lockscreen?
Did I maybe disable them without noticing?
Thanks for your answers in advance!
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I do have them there, try disabling having to show your face to show notifications on lockscreen in face unlock settings, was a culprit for me before.
DashDashCZ said:
I do have them there, try disabling having to show your face to show notifications on lockscreen in face unlock settings, was a culprit for me before.
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Hey thanks for your suggestion, I've now disabled face unlock, gave Spotify every possible permission (like ignore "do not disturb" mode, draw on lockscreen etc). But still nothing shows up on my lockscreen when music is playing from Spotify.
I even logged off from Spotify and on again like some people suggested in another forum. Didn't change anything.
However I noticed the stock music app makes fullscreen controls appear on the lockscreen (but I won't use that app).
Any further suggestions?
vollkornbaguette said:
Hey thanks for your suggestion, I've now disabled face unlock, gave Spotify every possible permission (like ignore "do not disturb" mode, draw on lockscreen etc). But still nothing shows up on my lockscreen when music is playing from Spotify.
I even logged off from Spotify and on again like some people suggested in another forum. Didn't change anything.
However I noticed the stock music app makes fullscreen controls appear on the lockscreen (but I won't use that app).
Any further suggestions?
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Actually yeah, one more suggestion. If you changed your lockscreen theme to anything other than the default one, change it back to default. For some reason notifications and everything that's supposed to be on the lockscreen is banned in custom themes. No clue what's wrong if it isn't this.
DashDashCZ said:
Actually yeah, one more suggestion. If you changed your lockscreen theme to anything other than the default one, change it back to default. For some reason notifications and everything that's supposed to be on the lockscreen is banned in custom themes. No clue what's wrong if it isn't this.
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Thanks for this suggestion, too.
I already thought this might be a problem and changed it beforehand.
So now after I made all these changes:
Lockscreen design to default
Disabling Face Unlock
Enabling the rights for Spotify to send Lockscreen messages
Enabling all possible rights for Spotify basically
A notification for currently playing Spotify tracks shows up quite randomly.
I assume it needs some time to show up. It doesn't show immediately after I play music and lock the phone.
If turn on the screen like 3 minutes later, it's there sometimes.
Now it would be awesome if it showed up in fullscreen mode on the lockscreen (like the huawei music player does) and show up immediately.
Thanks for your help so far, feel free to post further suggestions if you come up with something.

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