Saturday, March 1, 2014

Google Now woes

Do you own an Android powered tablet?  If it's running the latest KitKat, perhaps you've also come across Google's new "Google Now" app that's being advertised.  In theory, I think it has promise.  However, at this time it doesn't really do much to enhance my usage other than to increase my frustration level. 

As a result, I uninstalled it.

This left my icons in a weird state: Most were still there, but many had been replaced with a generic green Android icon.  Some labels had also been stripped away so only the process name that the underlying Linux system knows them as was showing (Such as com.zygote or com.motorola.something!).  How to bring them all back without going through each one?!  Shut the tablet off.  Yup, then turn it back on.  After I did so, my tablet was back to its original setup that I had made for it.

I'm sure someone will come across the same situation, so there you have it!

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