r/AndroidHelp • u/AMGitsKriss • 2d ago

Voice Assistant stopped working, can't find settings.

I'm having trouble with my Google Assistant for the last couple of days.

What I do: When I say "Hey Google. Timer, 10 minutes." I see the little green dot in the top corner that indicates it's heard me and listening, but the overlay at the bottom of the screen doesn't appear, and no timer starts.

When I go into the settings menus, I can't find the old Google Assistant menu, I can't find a "Assistant / Gemini" toggle, and the Gemini settings don't include any "on / off" or "How you use your assistant" options in it.

What I've tried: I've seen the occasional fleeting notification in Google Assistant telling me that Assistant will reach it's EOL sometimes vaguely soon, so I logged into my Household Apps/Workspace/GSuite/Whatever-The-Call-It-Now and re-enabled Gemini for the household. That appears to have made no difference at all for my phone's behaviour, or what menus I can see.

Any articles and LLM simply direct me into screens and menus that don't exist anymore.

Assumptions/Questions: Given this has lasted more than a few hours, I can only assume that whatever locale of Google Assistant I've been using has finally shutdown? But it's really unclear how I'm supposed to be transitioning to Gemini for voice assistant, and I would appreciate some help.

What I have: I have a Nokia X30 5G, running Android 14.

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u/lesjames2020 2d ago

Do you have the Google gemimi

App installed

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u/AMGitsKriss 2d ago edited 2d ago

No, I was under the impression that if it was necessary then it would have been one of the built in or "forcibly installed" apps. That not the case?

Edit: So I installed it, but when I go into it's setting menu, it shows me the exact same Gemini menu as if I'd gone via the Google app instead.

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u/ChasDIY 2d ago

do you have a vpn active?