Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android]

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[–] 29 points 9 months ago*

Nobody is forcing you to watch Donald Sutherland films... oh wait, nevermind, misunderstood the post.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    my best guess would be to check the accessibility settings carefully? this seems like a shortcut enabled from there, what does it do?

    I'm really not sure though if you haven't messed with them prior. sorry I don't know more

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    As far as I can tell, it does nothing. I can push on it, I can try to pull from the left side or from the bottom or from the corner, but I can't get it to do anything. When I open a new app, it appears there in the corner.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    It looks like Firefox's microphone icon, used to search something with voice (speech to text). It should only appear when writing a search query, so it's a bug. Try updating, or using Fennec (Firefox fork).

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    The problem is it appears in all apps not just Firefox.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Makes it sound like it's part of your keyboard app

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think it is... It is the icon that appears at the bottom when the keyboard is open I have discovered.

    Pressing it there doesn't work either. 

    FUTO (I don't give them any money)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It's likely for activating voice input, but you didn't give the keyboard app permission to use the mic or something. Usually on keyboard apps there's a key you long press to get to settings, and you might be able to get rid of it there.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Have you tried turning off and then on again?

    Fixes way more things than it should.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Looking around online it looks like it might be a bug with keyboard dictation. I didn’t find a way to fix it other than rebooting or maybe trying to toggle the setting on the keyboard.

    Here’s a link to a thread that’s basically useless but the screen shot looks like it has the same mic icon https://r2.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S/Mic-button-displays-on-the-bottom-left/td-p/17377304

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