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Z2inQld

Phone updated to Android 5 and now no spoken street names. Updates installed and uninstalled back to base version. Very frustrating as this is the base version that Sony ptovide.

Z2inQld

Problem Solved!

For English speaking countries.

BOTH System Language AND Text-to-Speech output must be set to "English (United States)"

Go to;

Settings / Language & input / Language and Select English (United States)

Then scoll down to Speech / Text-to-speech output

Tap settings cog next to Google Text-to-speech select Language and choose English (United States).

Hope this works for others too.

David

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Uliwooly

@Z2inQld

That's not quite accurate, Google is in charge of google maps, hence "Google", if you are experiencing a bug, you have to report it to Google devs.

Uliwooly

@Z2inQld

It seems that you experienced the same issue back in February.

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z2/No-spoken-Street-Names-in-Google-Maps/m-p/942650#M22858

Uliwooly

You have few options

1. boot on safe mode

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/How-to-boot-your-phone-into-safe-mode/m-p/348008#U348008

or

2. repair the phone with PCC

PC Companion (PCC)

Bridge (for Mac)

Alternatives on How to backup Xperias

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355

Z2inQld

Your statements are mostly correct.

Yes this problem occurred back in Feb and was resolved at that time by downgrading back to the earlier version of Google Maps by uninstalling all updatesmas per your suggestion. And I asked at the time whether Sony would be compatible with Google in the future.

Recently Sony have released Android 5.0.2 in Australia. And I installed this as per your suggestion via PC link Sony software.

I hoped that many of the incompatibilies and little glitches would be addressed with the new operating system. So I was surprised that this issue was now back.

Interested that you blame Google Android when Sony rolled out the update.

As a user I don't get the choice to roll-back standard Android apps such as Maps to versions earlier than that of the operating system.

That said this is where we are now, and I am looking for solutions that do not require factory reset as this wastes time resetting up all apps.

Uliwooly

@Z2inQld

Yes Sony rolled out the update but Sony it's not responsible on Google apps. That's up to Google, believe it or not, you can ask on another forum, XDA Forum or xperiablog etc.

boot on safe mode and see if google maps work, most likely it's Ok Google creating this issue, again another GOOGLE app.