I use Google assistant to play music when I’m Bluetoothed to my car. There’s a significant delay between me asking “hey Google, play music” to when it finally plays, compared to when I ask the same on my smartphone which is much quicker to play. Just wondering if there’s a setting I’ve missed or if there’s something I’m not quite doing right
Its probably because the phone has better hardware than the watch. If you look at antutu scores, the kospet hope has about 30 000 while most newer smartphones has well over 100 000.
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That’s very odd.
I do exactly the same thing and I don’t experience a long delay.
Maybe go through the voice settings and retrain your voice print in the app.
no luck getting google assistant voice activated on optimus pro
It works well.
Have you looked at the video on our YouTube channel?
i did, looks a bit different on my watch but I think I did all as suggested,
however, the voice recognition option is greyed out and can not be switched on
Ok, I have a confirmed solution for you guys. @fuuz
Since i ran into exactly this problem yesterday.
Make sure you have the assistant installed. and go to your Play Store and search “Google” And open the page for the Google, app. The actual google app.
this one.
And uninstall it. It won’t remove it. It’ll just uninstall the updates. Then on your watch/phone. Go into the Google, app. The one just marked as Google.
Make your way into the settings and enable the Ok Google settings. It will likely look a bit different than the newer versions. It was in the Voice settings for my phone, and i forgot where it was on my kospet hope.
Then go into your Google Assistant and go through it’s internal set up. If it asks you to update your Google app. That’s fine. Go ahead. go to the play store and update it. Just remember to enable the Ok Google settings on the older version first.
Now your google assistant should respond normally.
Here’s the catch. Do NOT go into your Google app settings where you would enable the Access on Voice Match. We’re grandfathering in the settings from the older version.
Edit: Sometimes when the Google app updates it breaks it again. Just noticed. It’s pretty hit’n’miss.
For my kospet hope, updating the Google app breaks it. But the default version is fully featured anyways. Soo… Just be sure to grab the offline voice recognition packs and such. 
I’d give a video tutorial. But OMG that would be a PITA.
How i discovered this fix. I some how broke my assistant last night while looking at my settings just trying to figure out how to get it to work on a phone. And this was how i managed to fix it. I also got Google Assistant working on a phone that doesn’t even support Google Assistant. So you MAY be able to side load it onto a Hope Lite (install with APK), and get it working with this method.
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Ok i have a follow up! The fix gets even better! @fuuz @pablo11
After doing the previous steps. Do not update your Google app, regardless. Just uninstall your updates.
Instead, you will download this version of the Google app, it doesn’t have to be this EXACT version, but this one seems to be working well for me. Somewhere in the 8.5x range. Maybe 8.6, or 8.7.
However 8.91 does not work.
https://google-quick-search-box.en.uptodown.com/android/download/1993264
This is the one i used. I picked it at random. I needed it higher than my Hope’s 7.18 default. But lower than 10.x, 9.x, and 8.91. The reason being, is i wanted Google Lens to work, and Lens didn’t work with 7.18.
So this version, 8.55.6.21.arm, works with the Google Assistant. Works with Access with Voice Match.
Works with Google Lens, and Google Translate.
When updating your apps in the play store, just make sure you don’t update the google app. Keep the APK on your watch just incase you ever need to uninstall the Google app and reinstall this middle version.
Please feel free to play around and find higher versions above 8.55 that work. For all i know, 8.70 works, but 8.91 doesn’t.
https://google-quick-search-box.en.uptodown.com/android/versions
So if you find a better version. Keep me updated and I’ll do the same for you.
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Thankyou for all the time and effort you have put into this . Its appreciated 
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i can confirm it works pretty well, unfortunately it seems to be working only for english
thanks mate
Sorry my bud. Getting it to work for other languages is out of my league.
Since what we’re doing is we’re using the Original OK Google voice match, that was for the search bar. And having it activate with the assistant. Since there was some crossover for a time.
But newer versions of the Google app have expanded on it by a bunch.
You can TRY going into the settings and downloading the offline language packs, but this is a coil toss on whether or not it’ll work.
Try one of the
10.4.3.21.ARM
https://google-quick-search-box.en.uptodown.com/android/download/2012178
or
10.4.3.21.ARM
https://google-quick-search-box.en.uptodown.com/android/download/2017976
There’s no guaranty either of these will work. In fact there’s a fairly good chance they won’t.
But this version was working on my samsung galaxy on5. That said. the 8.70.4.21 is working a lot better on my Galaxy On5.
These are VERY hit’n’miss. You will need to click on the different versions and figure out which one introduces the language that you need. You didn’t tell me which language you need.
But you might be able to find one that has it.
thanks bud.
will try and report as soon as I get a chance
cheers
In this older version of the Google app that you have posted only US English is fully supported I believe?
Anyway, I managed to flash the latest full set of G-Apps and the issue is gone.
The issue is that the Google apps get updated from the play store but the system core (for Google Services) is out of date and so these functions break.
Sadly for me, this means I have to spend a lot of time building the firmware and giving it to them to distribute 
It’s my job in our partnership - Google is inaccessible in China and so I renew the Google components for them every few months.
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I don’t have a very good understanding of how all this works. All i know while poking around was when i downgraded my Google (app) my OK Google started working.
But my Google Lens stopped. So i just stepped forward to figure out how far forward i could go to figure out which ones i could use that’ll give me OK Google and Google Lens support.
I’m not sure what all firmwares you’re working on.
Is it the google play services that don’t get updated?
I’m hoping the Kospet Hope gets a new firmware soon with a few fixes. Like being able to turn off Cellular Data from the quick menu. Maybe some GPS Tweaks, not just A-GPS.
Hell… i want 64Bit android for the kospet hope. I have my reasons. 
Pabloeleven has been working on the Gps thing for at least twelve months that i can think off so it cannot be easy . Like u i use universal launcher and yes you cannot turn off data . Its ages since i tried but when universal launcher ISNT installed you can then turn off data from quick menu ? I will check …
i’ve just updated google to the newest version and I’m happy to report that google assistant not only works like a charm, but it now also supports my language.
you can now say “hey google” too, to invoke it 
, which is pretty cool IMHO
I’m not completely sure though, but I think we still need to adjust everything on an older version first (as shown in the video) and then update.
anyway, good job google!
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@fuuz Did you update through the play store?
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yes
im on version 2.5 FW and didnt install anything, not even google assistant from playstore.
it just simply worked out right after i enabled it on the watch (google play services)
even had my previous voice matching stored from my google account login credentials
works everytime from any screen, even watch face screen using ok google voice invoke