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Re: Voice search

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F Murtz wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>> F Murtz wrote:
>>
>>> Huawei on optus, when I try to use voice search in some areas (sometimes
>>> says 2g or 3g)is gets no where but if I set phone as wifi hotspot it
>>> does,Why?
>>
>> Settings -> Data Usage
>> Check if the unidentified app is listed and configuring to NOT use
>> cellular data (i.e., it can only use wifi).  For me (Android 4.4.1), the
>> app will be listed as "Restricted" when it is only given wifi access.
>>
>> For example, I went on a trip for a wedding where there was no wifi
>> access in the area.  Couldn't get the weather widget to update.  Then I
>> remembered that I had configured it for wifi access only.  Went back
>> into Data Usage and removed the checkmark so the app could use both wifi
>> and cellular data.  Then I got the weather updates.
>>
>>
>> "set the phone as a wifi hotspot".  Does that mean you are actually
>> configuring your smartphone so OTHERS can access the Internet through
>> your smartphone?  Or did you mean you enabled wifi on your phone?
>>
> I normally set it as a hot spot when I want to connect to the internet 
> with computer or tablet (tethering)

Your other device connects via wi-fi to your smartphone.  Your
smartphone connects to your cellular provider's service (e.g., 3G).
Something between mediates the tethering.  What are you using?

I've seen instructions for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to go into Settings,
Wireless & Networks, More, Tethering and portable hotspot.  Although I
have Android 4.4.1 KitKat, there is no such option probably because it
is a low-end Samsung Galaxy Core Prime and also a Tracfone-locked phone.  

So are you using "voice search" on the other device (the PC or tablet
using wifi to the phone and then from the smartphone to cellular data)
or on the smartphone itself?  It sounds, so far, that when doing a voice
search on your phone, it sometimes fail when the phone connects using
cellular data (2G, 3G) and during that cellular fail the voice search
works okay when you enable wifi tethering on that phone.  Although the
display shows 2G or 3G for a cellular data connection, how may bars does
it show?  Cellular signal strength may be too weak to get a connection
that way and instead your phone is using the wifi tethering to connect
to some wifi source to get to the Internet that way.

When tethering is NOT enabled but wifi *is* enabled on the phone, 2G or
3G showing up means there's no wifi available or you aren't connecting
to it from your phone.  No wifi icon but 2G/2G icon means your phone is
using cellular data for Internet access.  But what if the signal
strength is too weak via cellular data?  Besides the bars, a better
measure is to go into Settings -> About phone -> Status and look at
signal strength.  Although your phone has no wifi for a direct
connection, and with too low a signal for cellular data, maybe your
phone uses the wifi tethering to get at your PC to use its Internet
connection.  

I have not used tethering to know if it only works one way (other device
to phone) or if it can work both ways (other device to phone and phone
to other device).  Hopefully the plan to which you subscribe at your
cellular provider (Optus) allows for tethering; else, they can terminate
your subscription.

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  Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-20 23:28 -0500
    Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-21 20:12 +1000
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      Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-21 15:51 -0500
        Re: Voice search "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-10-21 23:30 +0200
        Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-22 13:33 +1000
          Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-22 00:26 -0500
            Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-22 19:49 +1000
              Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-22 19:57 +1000
              Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-22 11:19 -0500
                Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-23 14:10 +1000
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                Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-23 00:16 -0500
                Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-23 00:31 -0500
                Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-23 16:12 +1000
                Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-23 02:04 -0500
                Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-23 18:16 +1000
                Re: Voice search VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-23 07:32 -0500
                Re: Voice search F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-24 18:44 +1000

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