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I'm Canadian and was recently gifted a Google Home, from an American.

It works great with standard tasks like music, reminders, etc, and I've been playing with customization ITTT, which so far works fine, including features like SMS and callings.

The problem is that I can't access certain settings in the Android app — tapping them does nothing. For example, I can't :

  • Set up voice match (although it recognizes my voice)
  • Manage news sources (although it plays local news when commanded)
  • Setup Shopping List (although the feature works fine)

I can't help but think this is related to the fact that this unit wasn't made for my country (although they are available here too).

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Does anyone know if there's a way around this either programmatically, or maybe a setting I haven't seen, or some other workaround?

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ashleedawg
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  • New enough equipment that it's tough to find an answer... but I did get closer to an answer today: Several pages from Google and their partners mistakenly state that at minimum, Android 4.4 is required. Turns out they were wrong - Android 5.0 is required and they are working to update all the pages. However the good news for me is that Samsung put out a 5.0 upgrade that apparently will work on my old Galaxy handset - even though they announced long ago there will be no further updates to it. I'll know for sure in a day . – ashleedawg Jul 09 '18 at 12:09
  • (I was assured that the Canada/USA difference is irrelevant.) Thus, I suppose this new information makes this "not a programming question" however I will leave it for now because others will likely be looking for programmatic solutions to the same problem i had. – ashleedawg Jul 09 '18 at 12:11

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