OK Google While Charging

[sprete98]

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,

[_alexdon_]

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

[sprete98]

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

[Awesterdam]

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?

[sprete98]

Any updates, feedbacks or workarounds for this? 

[Awesterdam]

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

[_alexdon_ · Accepted solution]

@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.

[sprete98]

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?

[_alexdon_]

@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.

[sprete98]

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.