Voice search problems

Laro

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Sometimes when I end all tasks on the task manager my voice search stops working. I excluded the TTS service on the task manager and it still doesn't work... Are there any other services related to voice search that I should be excluding? I have to restart my phone to make it work again.

This is with Android 2.1, and strangely voice to text will work in other areas besides voice search. Anyone else have this problem?
 
I would have thought Voice Search. I find it interesting that you think excluding the Text To Speech process would help - that's only used for converting text to speech, not speech to text.

This kind of thing is exactly why these task killers are bad. Most people who use them don't have a clue how they work, what the side effects are, or how Android handles processes.

Basically, people want to kill tasks to make things faster and free up some memory. Well... in most cases they're killing off processes that will just have to restart (this wasting the processor power killing it, wasting the processor power freeing up the used memory, and wasting a lot of processor power loading it back up again). Meanwhile, after it loads, it will be using more memory than it was when you killed it, because memory that is used but not needed often is often compressed into the comp-cache. End result is that you end up using more memory and a ton more CPU.

It's also worth noting that Android will remove processes automatically when it gets low on memory - there's no need to do it yourself or have an app to do it all the time.

Services running in the background, unlike in Windows, really do use 0% CPU on Android, unless they're actually acting on something.

My advice would be to exclude EVERYTHING from your task killer, unless you're 100% certain it's something you don't want running ever. Remember though, that apps leverage code in other apps, for example it's common for people to think it sensible to kill off the Calendar service if they don't use the Calender, but apps sometimes use methods in the Calendar to schedule events (alarms, updating stuff, anything that happens every X minutes or at a certain time). So killing the Calendar just means it has to reload a few minutes later.
 
forgot to mention i excluded voice search as well. i understand why task killers can be bad, but the instant gratification of being able to free memory is too tempting.
 
I am experiencing problems with voice search on my Samsung Epic 4G (with Android 2.1) in a number of applications.

It will work when I first turn-on or reboot my phone but after what appears to be a random period of time, all I get is, "no voice heard". I have un-installed the Apps Killer but I am still experiencing this issue.

I don't know if it is related but, in addition, the screen unlock pattern seems to turn itself off.

Any help to fix or try to identify the source of problem would be appreciated.

Thx.
 
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