Search button no longer "searches" (what did I do?)

[jlong006]

getting an error

When following the commands i keep geeting a messege after second line saying in: not found any ideas

 

[jntdroid]

are you typing IN or LN? you should be typing LN (but lowercase... well, i don't know if upper vs lower matters, but it's LN, not IN )

 

[jlong006]

That was it thanks for the help.!

 

[lifebringer]

Please see my thread from today here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...work-but-long-press-does-help.html#post838285

try going to your settings > applications > manage applications > all applications > google search > clear data and clear default if that option is not grey'd out

I checked here, no data to clear ("Clear data" button is greyed out, data shows 0.00B) in one Google Search, cleared data in Google Enhanced Search and no change.

Mount /system and try this command:

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

then unmount and reboot

Terminal Emulator commands? (sorry im trying to learn fast) ;-)
Is this exactly how's its supposed to be typed? thx for the patience.

No patience needed! I was in the same boat... This problem happened with Sapphire 1.1.1, and some users of Sapphire (pdroid, skull_one, shiodooru) figured out you can make a symlink to get it to work again (assuming it's the same problem, which it sure sounds like it). I'm just a messenger!

The easiest way to mount /system if you don't want to mess with the commands is to open Root Explorer, go into the /system directory, then at the top right click "Mount R/W". Then switch over to terminal emulator, type "su" and allow superuser access, then type that full line exactly how it is above. I *think* that's all you should have to do... reboot, and see if it worked.

After a few tries (improperly mounted the folder, and one try I had an existing file with that name) ran this command where it didn't give me an error after executing and presumably the link was created. I unmounted and rebooted, but no change. Still no search.

Any more ideas? I cannot hold out without being able to search the Android Market (that's pretty crippling to an Android phone!)...this is ridiculous. Who is to blame? Google? Motorola? Some third party app that somehow broke the search today?

 

[listenman20]

Any more ideas? I cannot hold out without being able to search the Android Market (that's pretty crippling to an Android phone!)...this is ridiculous. Who is to blame? Google? Motorola? Some third party app that somehow broke the search today?

you should still be able to use the search icon located in the upper right of the android market app. i rarely use my search button. i have so many other ways to search....of those with bad search buttons, does the search button on the pullout keyboard still work?

 

[lifebringer]

Any more ideas? I cannot hold out without being able to search the Android Market (that's pretty crippling to an Android phone!)...this is ridiculous. Who is to blame? Google? Motorola? Some third party app that somehow broke the search today?

you should still be able to use the search icon located in the upper right of the android market app. i rarely use my search button. i have so many other ways to search....of those with bad search buttons, does the search button on the pullout keyboard still work?

Clicking the search button in the upper right of the market does the same thing mentioned in my thread: does a "soft" reboot of the phone. It's the same thing as going into Maps/Gmail/Wikidroid/etc and clicking the search button once. Again, doing a long-press on the search button brings up voice search just fine...

This is ridiculous...

Edit: Bit the bullet and did a factory reset, which fixed it. Wasn't as bad as I thought...thank God for Titanium Backup!