Comments on: Samsung May Have Blocked S Voice From Working, A Couple of Fixes Already Floating Around

By: PP PooPoo

PP PooPoo — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:47:00 +0000

worked for me.. thx

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:31:00 +0000

Apparently that’s just Google now lol works great though

By: BinaryBulge

BinaryBulge — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:31:00 +0000

Hopefully those of you working around Samsung’s attempts to stop you from using this actually own a Samsung phone, at the very least.

By: BinaryBulge

BinaryBulge — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:23:00 +0000

I lose a lot of money due to piracy, and I agree with the guy. What is it you do? I bet it doesn’t involve software development. Keep your opinion to yourself.

Piracy is everywhere, but it’s more of a problem on Android. There’s a reason Android is growing bigger and bigger yet Apple developers continue to bring in more profits. The users are actually willing to spend money where necessary.

By: Jerry Wilcox

Jerry Wilcox — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:21:00 +0000

thats rich apple fanboys do it all the flippin time. Just like when Siri first came out. It was only a matter of a week or two when it was being sent to the older versions of the iphone. Get off your want to be high horse. and learn what piracy is before you open your mouth.

By: BinaryBulge

BinaryBulge — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Don’t talk like you know things when you most obviously know nothing.

Most of Android is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. It’s a less restrictive license than the GPLv2, and even the GPL allows for propritary software built with open source tools (for an example of this, look to Apple; Xcode uses a version of the GNU compiler using the GPL).

Neither one of us will likely change your stance on this though, so enjoy your free ride…

By: BinaryBulge

BinaryBulge — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:10:00 +0000

100% agree with you. And perhaps Droid Life isn’t purposefully advocating piracy, but they need to understand that in this instance, it can be considered nothing other than piracy.

By: BinaryBulge

BinaryBulge — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Exceptions in the agreements allow for proprietary software built with open source tools. But seriously, how do you even believe yourself? Developers have every right to keep their trade secrets closed and try to turn profit on their hard work. You should actually look into the laws instead of trying to justify your own crappy behavior.

By: BinaryBulge

BinaryBulge — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:58:00 +0000

This is stepping out of the gray area into malicious behavior. They haven’t even released the phone and people are hacking their way into Samsung services. Even worse? You’re calling these hacks “fixes”. That would imply something was broken in the first place. The Modding community is acting far too flippantly.

By: BA_Carroll

BA_Carroll — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:55:00 +0000

Have you ever downloaded the Android SDK (System Developers Kit)? You know the program that is free and open to anyone to develop programs or apps for Android! Even Samsung uses the same program that is available to us all, or did you think they use some magical version of Android not available to us all?

By: michael

michael — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000

Computer self destruct, Code 1-1A-2B

By: hot_spare

hot_spare — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:46:00 +0000

S Voice is open source?? s voice is NOT same as Android. Prove it that S Voice it open source.

Going by your logic every code inside any android phone is open source!!

By: eninef

eninef — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:13:00 +0000

This is a work around i found for GNex and it works well for me. I’ve installed and it works like a charm. You maybe need to do some tweaks on its permission & owners in order to work. ( From the information i got, this .apk file only works in Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 OS’s only )

1) Download the .apk file

2) Open root explorer ( requires root ) or any root enabled file explorers.

3) Copy the file from SD ( which the .apk file is saved )

4) Go to /system/apps and paste the .apk inside the folder

5) Long key press on the .apk Icon until it comes with a Options Menu, Click on Permissions and set to Owner: read & write / Group: read / Others: read & press OK

6) Then go to Change Owner & select the new owner & group as follows – Owner : 0 – root / Group : 0 – root and press OK

7) Exit the application

8) Reboot ( Must reboot to make it work, or it might not )

9) Start up as per normal

10) Enjoy!

//ps : If this tutorial helps, please feel free to post it on other blogs, as i believe knowledge flows free!

mail – mh hackinthebox (dot) org

By: feztheforeigner

feztheforeigner — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:12:00 +0000

Project Majel

I can’t wait either!

By: shamefulzero

shamefulzero — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:32:00 +0000

any one have a qr code yet?