Hardware search button and search widget not working

[APassivePoke]

Hey everyone. I've been having trouble with searching on my Droid. I'm running Cyanogen Mod 6.0 and using QuickDesk with ADW Launcher.

When I press the hardware search button on the homescreen, it does absolutely nothing. I get the haptic feedback, and long pressing it will give me voice search, but just a regular press gets no response.

In other apps, such as Dolphin HD or Gmail, the search button works fine to bring up search for that particular app, but I remember at one point pressing it from the homescreen would give me a generic search. Now it does nothing.

I'm having a similar issue with the search widget. When I press it, it clicks like a button and doesn't give me a keyboard. When I press it and type with the hardware keyboard nothing happens.

 

[merge5]

I'm having the same problem with Sapphire 1.1.1.
Help would be appreciated

 

[DeeMat]

I was having the same issue and this is what I did from terminal:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

ln -s /data/app/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox*.apk /system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Reboot.

 

[merge5]

I was having the same issue and this is what I did from terminal:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

ln -s /data/app/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox*.apk /system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Reboot.

Thank you very much! All is working now. I had to do something extra because the ln command kept telling me the file existed. I deleted the link in /system/app and also the .apk in /data/app. I then installed the .apk from here:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bu...arch-app-now-search-button-doesnt-work-2.html

After this I followed your terminal commands and all worked well after reboot!

Thanks Again.