how can i disable the search button WINDOWS PHONE 8

[iamtim]

For the love of gods, if you hate Bing so much and the WP8 buttons and like the Android layout so much, WHY ARE YOU USING A WINDOWS PHONE!?

Bing and the button layout are part and parcel with WP8. If that doesn't work for you, get something which does.

 

[11B1P]

Thank you, thank you, you took the words right out of my mouth. I've come to hate Bing with a passion and refuse to use it no matter where I am (home, work, desktop, laptop, vendor, etc.) It's quality stinks and it's tactics are worse, fail fail fail. Is it too much to hope that enough 'feed-back' will prompt a change to remedy this problem? I've had my phone a week, and Bing has been a complete p.i.t.a. Worthless and invasive, like bad weeds.
And I don't have to 'hit' that d&%$ button, I just wave past it and it switches my screen, aaarrgh! I've already missed some good photo ops when it changed in the middle of taking pictures, which was why I bought this particular phone in the first place!

I find it quite useful. Another thing to keep in mind, if you accidently hit the Bing button, and I do sometimes myself, just hit the back button and you're right back where you were.

 

[mikeofthegarden]

I use the search button all the time. Its very handy when looking up things on the internet. I hardly ever use the internet explorer app unless I know the exact website I'm going to. Granted, I do accidentally hit it from time to time, but its never been a frustration for me. That's why the back button is there, to go right back to whatever you were doing.

 

[spaulagain]

Hey, I don't like the power button. It ruins every day of my life. I can't sleep at night!! Can I disable it?

/sarcasm

 

[amorenod]

I don't understand the "I-love-my-windows-phone-therefore-I-must-worship-everything-Microsoft" stance, then pointing anyone who disagrees to Android.

Well, I love my Lumia 920, my Xbox 360, and my Windows 8 laptop but I have no plans to get a Surface, a Xbox One, or to use Bing. The only reason Bing appears on my 920 is by accident. It never happened on my Optimus 7, due to hard buttons.

Windows Phone marketshare is still quite low, the last thing it needs is to dismiss any complain, then recommend people to get an Android device, because they probably will.

 

[iamtim]

the last thing it needs is to dismiss any complaint

On the other hand, it can't cater to every user. It would wind up an unusable mess. It needs to pick a position and stay with it, like it's done. Those who like that position can adopt it, those who don't can move on. Bing will be the default search engine for the capacitive search button. It's up to you if that position is acceptable to you or if you need to move on.

 

[mase123987]

I don't understand the "I-love-my-windows-phone-therefore-I-must-worship-everything-Microsoft" stance, then pointing anyone who disagrees to Android.

Well, I love my Lumia 920, my Xbox 360, and my Windows 8 laptop but I have no plans to get a Surface, a Xbox One, or to use Bing. The only reason Bing appears on my 920 is by accident. It never happened on my Optimus 7, due to hard buttons.

Windows Phone marketshare is still quite low, the last thing it needs is to dismiss any complain, then recommend people to get an Android device, because they probably will.

I wrote on another thread my stance on recommendations: Ask what the people need then want. If a need doesn't fit with WP, i won't suggest it. You can't change your OS to fit everyone's needs or wants, nor should you.

 

[SwimSwim]

Don't see the big deal. Bing is nicely integrated into Windows Phone, and with Google being a real **** towards Microsoft, no chance of any integrated, comparable search being available on Windows Phone except via Bing.

I don't get the hate towards Bing, it gets the job done well as Google. Honestly, for me, the search results on both seem to be exactly the same, so I just use Bing because:
1) The days, I do at least 70% of searches on my phone, and Bing is just a button away.
2) Bing rewards are nice. Not anything stellar, but a nice bonus every once-in-a-while.

Anyways, aside from complaints about Bing vs. Google, I also don't get the whole Bing button complaint. I rarely ever hit it, and if I do, just press back and quick-resume right where I left off (Unless the app doesn't support a simple feature that's been out since Mango, in which case, I have a few choice words for the developer...). I guess Microsoft could add a toggle, but in my opinion, that's a slippery slope.

User customization is nice, but you've got to draw the line somewhere. If you start adding toggles and exceptions for every little niche and single consumer, you eventually end up with a cluttered, toggled-up mess that lacks appeal and is less user friendly. Thus is/was the problem for Android, trying to hard to accommodate everything. It's been easing up in recent devices, but nonetheless, it does look/feel cluttered at times.

That, in my opinion, is the appeal of Windows Phone. I feel that Microsoft got the balance between unity and customization just right with their Metro interface. It can be customized enough that each and everyone's device has its own feel and flare to it, yet remains familiar enough that anyone can pick it up and instantly know what they're doing. iOS accomplishes this too, but it has even less customization, so no real difference between devices other than the wallpaper and where the apps are in the grid. I guess that works for some, though.

Sorry for being a bit all over the place, I write as I go along, and my mind tends to wander. I just hope my post got some point across and contributed to this thread in some way.

 

[hopmedic]

I was looking at my son's Android tonight and the three buttons across the bottom are Back, Home Menu, and Settings. That makes sense. And he has Search as an app on the nav. screen (Google, naturally). Too bad Windows didn't look at what works.

It works great for me. Kudos to Microsoft. All this whining about a button.... No phone is going to make everyone happy, so it will make some happy and some not. Those not should look somewhere else for their source of joy.

Thank you, thank you, you took the words right out of my mouth. I've come to hate Bing with a passion and refuse to use it no matter where I am (home, work, desktop, laptop, vendor, etc.) It's quality stinks and it's tactics are worse, fail fail fail. Is it too much to hope that enough 'feed-back' will prompt a change to remedy this problem? I've had my phone a week, and Bing has been a complete p.i.t.a. Worthless and invasive, like bad weeds.
And I don't have to 'hit' that d&%$ button, I just wave past it and it switches my screen, aaarrgh! I've already missed some good photo ops when it changed in the middle of taking pictures, which was why I bought this particular phone in the first place!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for not being my wife!

Don't see the big deal. Bing is nicely integrated into Windows Phone, and with Google being a real **** towards Microsoft, no chance of any integrated, comparable search being available on Windows Phone except via Bing.

I don't get the hate towards Bing, it gets the job done well as Google. Honestly, for me, the search results on both seem to be exactly the same, so I just use Bing because:
1) The days, I do at least 70% of searches on my phone, and Bing is just a button away.
2) Bing rewards are nice. Not anything stellar, but a nice bonus every once-in-a-while.

Anyways, aside from complaints about Bing vs. Google, I also don't get the whole Bing button complaint. I rarely ever hit it, and if I do, just press back and quick-resume right where I left off (Unless the app doesn't support a simple feature that's been out since Mango, in which case, I have a few choice words for the developer...). I guess Microsoft could add a toggle, but in my opinion, that's a slippery slope.

User customization is nice, but you've got to draw the line somewhere. If you start adding toggles and exceptions for every little niche and single consumer, you eventually end up with a cluttered, toggled-up mess that lacks appeal and is less user friendly. Thus is/was the problem for Android, trying to hard to accommodate everything. It's been easing up in recent devices, but nonetheless, it does look/feel cluttered at times.

That, in my opinion, is the appeal of Windows Phone. I feel that Microsoft got the balance between unity and customization just right with their Metro interface. It can be customized enough that each and everyone's device has its own feel and flare to it, yet remains familiar enough that anyone can pick it up and instantly know what they're doing. iOS accomplishes this too, but it has even less customization, so no real difference between devices other than the wallpaper and where the apps are in the grid. I guess that works for some, though.

Sorry for being a bit all over the place, I write as I go along, and my mind tends to wander. I just hope my post got some point across and contributed to this thread in some way.

Nailed it.

 

[Doohickie]

Don't see the big deal. Bing is nicely integrated into Windows Phone, and with Google being a real **** towards Microsoft, no chance of any integrated, comparable search being available on Windows Phone except via Bing.

Say what? Get Your Google Back. Take two minutes to make Windows 8 more familiar.

 

[iamtim]

Say what? Get Your Google Back. Take two minutes to make Windows 8 more familiar.

That's for Windows 8, not Windows Phone 8.

 

[Doohickie]

My problem is with the button itself on my 8X. I accidentally hit it frequently and would love to be able to disable it. My annoyance with Bing isn't so much the search engine itself (although I prefer Google), it's the fact that every time I accidentally hit that button, Bing interrupts what I was in the middle of doing. If the button brought up porn, I'd probably hate porn by now.

As far as people saying that if you don't like a single feature on a Windows Phone, you should go to Android... get real. The Search button is annoying to me, but doesn't cancel out all the other good features of the phone.

 

[Doohickie]

That's for Windows 8, not Windows Phone 8.

Ah, but still there is a Google app for Windows Phone. I haz it.

 

[hopmedic]

Ah, but still there is a Google app for Windows Phone. I haz it.

Did Google publish it?

EDIT:
Ah, yes, they did. Last update 3/29/2012. They're right on top of things...

 

[iamtim]

Ah, but still there is a Google app for Windows Phone. I haz it.

Oh sure. But with only that one app, you have to agree that Google isn't rushing into the WP8 game.

 

[iamtim]

Did Google publish it?

Yes. It's the one and only app in the entire store by Google, Inc.

 

[Doohickie]

Did Google publish it?

Don't care. It does what I want it to do.

Oh sure. But with only that one app, you have to agree that Google isn't rushing into the WP8 game.

Don't care. It does what I want it to do.

 

[hopmedic]

Yes. It's the one and only app in the entire store by Google, Inc.

Yeah, I searched.... (see edit) Last update 3/29/2012. Version 1.1.0.0. They're right on top of things.

 

[Doohickie]

So what if it's a year old? It does what it needs to do, why mess with it?

 

[hopmedic]

One must admit, though, that Google has treated WP with a good bit of hostility. Lately it seems they may be coming around, but I'll reserve judgment on that. But back to the subject, I haven't seen anything to convince me that it wouldn't be a good idea to allow the customization of the search button (although switching it to Google would cost the extra features that are integrated into the Bing app - but give the user the choice). However, the complaining about "I accidentally hit it all the time" doesn't hold water for me. I don't see many Android phones out there that don't have capacitive buttons across the bottom. There's no difference here.