If your voice commands (aka voice typing and voice keyboard) on your Android cell when you are:
- creating a text
- creating an email
- asking Google a question
- …
and you see OFFLINE MODE UNAVAILABLE, it may be that you do not live in the United States and that is apparently a problem for Google.
In my case this problem started showing up as soon as I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S6 from Android 5 to Android 6 (Marshmallow). Eighty percent of the time, my voice commands would fail with OFFLINE MODE UNAVALABLE appearing.
I found a simple solution was to change my VOICE LANGUAGE from ENGLISH (CANADA) to ENGLISH (US) by:
- Tap the cog on the OFFLINE MODE UNAVAILABLE error
- Tap LANGUAGES
- UNcheck your local language which in my case was ENGLISH (CANADA)
- Check ENGLISH (US)
- Tap SAVE
- Have a nice day
2 Comments
Matt · June 17, 2016 at 9:22 am
Doing this, everything will be spelled incorrectly now though, won’t it? Colour = color, honour = honor, etc.
Ian Matthews · June 21, 2016 at 11:42 pm
It is obnoxious but that is the “fix” I have found 🙁