topic Re: OK Google While Charging in XZ Series

OK Google While Charging

sprete98 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:31:28 GMT

Hi Guys,

OK Google voice detection use to work with the screen off while the phone is charging. However it is not anymore, is there a setting I'm missing or was this removed for some reason?

Thanks,

Re: OK Google While Charging

_alexdon_ — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:47:14 GMT

@sprete982 I have noticed this too and it has been escalated. Will keep you updated.

Re: OK Google While Charging

sprete98 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:44:13 GMT

Wow thanks for the quick reply. I was hoping it was something dumb I was doing wrong haha.

Re: OK Google While Charging

Awesterdam — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:15:45 GMT

I just bought this phone and have been looking endlessly for a solution.

This feature is really important for me.

Is it possible to rollback to a previous version where this feature is working?

Re: OK Google While Charging

sprete98 — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:19:52 GMT

Any updates, feedbacks or workarounds for this?

Re: OK Google While Charging

Awesterdam — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 06:27:47 GMT

I'm surprised there is so little activity on this issue. We can't be the only people who use voice assistants?!

Re: OK Google While Charging

_alexdon_ — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 11:42:48 GMT

@Awesterdam @sprete982

Ok, got some information on this which states that the OK Google™ options have changed since after updating the Google™ and the option to wake the screen while the device is charging by saying “OK Google” has been removed.

Re: OK Google While Charging

sprete98 — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:32:19 GMT

Hi alexdon, really do appreciate you pushing to get information on this. Was this a google choice of removing or Sony choice? Just wondering who do we try to push to get this much needed feature back. Would downgrading the google app work?

Re: OK Google While Charging

_alexdon_ — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 08:58:56 GMT

@sprete982 downgrading the app helps. As far as I can tell from the above statement, it seems like the decision is on Google's end. I also can't tell if it's going to be implemented again.

You could try to forward your feedback to Google.

Re: OK Google While Charging

sprete98 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:50:54 GMT

Thanks alexdon for the feedback. I did a bit of googling and there is nothing concrete I can find but there is some people claiming it was removed to keep the feature exclusive to Google pixel phones. I'm going to look into using tasker and Autovoice as a workaround to detect when the phone is plugged in and listen to commands, rather not do this though, feature was amazing when it was just built in.

Re: OK Google While Charging

Yuri7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:51:16 GMT

Hello Gents,

I could not even make voice control when not charging and xperia care solved this when I right here.

Seems like all updates(versions) which we downloading everytime,makes problems only,I think we need to reject all next updates.

Yuri