I thought I did something to it, restarted, rebooted it but nothing was working. But this very simple technique fixed it all. Greatly appreciated this. Thanks

24/7/2023 AMAZING!! This repair still works! Fixed my Dad's Google Home as she had stopped listening to him! Thanks for making the video.

I spent an hour on the phone with Google Home tech and got nothing accomplished. I watched your three and a half minute video and I'm back in action. Thanks!

We haven't been using our old google home for a few months since this happened. I thought it was finally gone, but this worked. I also used a hand-held vacuum in addition to the t q-tip (q-tip looked like it did nothing so I vacuumed too, didn't test in-between) and it worked! Thanks!

HOL-LY CRAP-ZILLA!!!!!...... I can't believe this!.... I had the EXACT same thing happen to my Google Home device. One minute, I can talk to it, and it does whatever it's supposed to.... The next minute..... NOTHING!! ..... It was like it was saying, "Ya, no thanks, I'm TIRED, forget YOU!" Quite a long time later, I now came across this video, I pulled off the bottom, smacked the CRAP out of it, took a cotton swab (dry as you said), rubbed it all around and tried to get inside of it. I also blew really HARD in the microphone holes, put it all back together. AND. OMG!! It WORKED!!!!! This SAVED my Google Home device! You're AWESOME for posting this!!!

I was annoyed by your answer while troubleshooting my Google Home. I cleaned the mic holes with rubbing alcohol to try anyway and it worked immediately! Thank you, as I cherish Google Home as my perfect alarm clock and timer.

Wow, after weeks of research, resets, and unresponsiveness from my Home, I can't believe this was the solution. Thank you!

OMG Cant believe it works with this simple steps .... I reset like 10 times did whatever I could and it didn't work but now my Sony lf-s50g is back to life , thank you so much @EBPMAM Tech Review

I can't believe this worked!!! Google support told me that both of my Mic's seemed to have shorted out. The activity was nothing but static when I manually activated the mic. I appreciate the tip!

Why didn't I see this video sooner? My google home has been unresponsive for 10 months and I've been resetting and looking up "fixes" for months! But it was this simple fix that miraculously worked! Thank you!

Wow!!!!!! I was talking to my wife something about google home mini and I was using the phrase “ok google” and the mini kept interrupting I don’t understand. So I gave the command “hey google mute”. Once we were done talking . I gave the command “ hey google unmute” . The listening mode LED lit up. But then on it stop responding to any commands. I rebooted couple of times and also toggled the mute button. The speaker kept saying unmute and mute but won’t respond to any command. I followed your instruction and gave a slight tap after flipping the mini upside down. MAGIC!!!!! Mini started responding. Looks like google mini requires some old fashioned smack on the buttocks to start listening

I had a tech support work on it remotely from google. Cleaned with a bry toothbrush and blew in the speaker holes and still nothing. Took the speaker and tapped 3 times upside down and magic!!! Works again. Thanks man.

Was doing the same thing cleaned like you said and WHAM! I threw it out the window lol jk it works now. Thanks for the vid!

Incredible. I did the same and it works. I took a dry paintbrush! I have been trying for week to fix it. I am happy that I don't have to replace it. Thank you so much!

This is crazy. One of our original Google home devices (2017) activated on "Hey Google" with the typical spinning of light etc but no response to what we were saying afterwards. Tried resetting and all other tricks found online but nothing. I started to think it was too old and out of service or something as it took "Hey google" but nothing else. I had taken the device offline to recycle it but had one last go in my office just now and found this video point to a hardware/maintenance issue. Laughed to myself a bit as I tapped the bottom and blew at the two openings on the top. But to my surprise, it was back and working perfectly again. Thank you so much!

Wow…..I spent 2 whole days farting around with rebooting, resetting, re recording my voice and everything else I could find on the Google site. I found your post on KZfaq and just vacuumed the holes where the mic’s are and wamo it’s working again. You’re a genius my friend. Can I buy you a beer?

Totally worked for me. I was almost sending it back!!! After hours of resets and setting up. Thanks!!!

Unplugged the Google home, tapped lightly a few times on the bottom, blew on the two holes, gave a little wipe with cuetip, plugged back in, voila! So glad to have her back, thank you so much for your advice!

Did not think this could possibly work but wow. My Google Home is working after a month of being a piece of bedroom décor. Thank you very much!

I've been searching for over a month, I think 2 months now. Every morning my Google home stopped "hearing". I've moved it to a different part of the room to avoid interference from other wifi devices. I've done factory reset twice. Still, every morning device would stop hearing until some sort of reset was done. Hard reboot. Soft reboot. Factory Reset. Whatever. Than it would work. Until the next day. I checked voice recordings. Those done when device worked are fine. Clear as a bell. Those done when device doesn't hear are non existent. The device is 3 years old. Not abused. I contacted Google. They upped it to senior techs in California as this is so odd ( I'm in Toronto Canada) . The reason I'm posting this here is one of the comments ( I tagged you in it) the poster was having the same issue and it's the only place on the net I found anyone else having the issue. Google techs were looking into it, and as I said upgraded it to senior IT techs at head office even though device is 3 years old and warranty is 1 year, as it was so odd. So, as of Thursday evening/Friday morning, it's working!! Now, 2 things happened. Either, or, or both could have fixed things. A patch update came out Thursday evening, but I hadn't realized, and Thursday afternoon I had turned off Duo calling on the device as it was the last variable. I did get a call from Google California Saturday , but wasn't expecting it and missed it, and message just says it's the senior tech guy Is been working with on this issue and he'll call back. But I'd think the fact they had a senior tech at head office look into it, they get all the info they can from me, have me do things to the device while they see data on their end over the last 2 weeks, and an update comes out and suddenly things are working, that the issue was solved in the update. I'm posting this here because, as I said, this is the only thread anywhere I can find where someone had the same issue as me, just making sure anyone else searching will find the info in the same place.

Worked!!! Cleaned those mic points, worked afterward, just had some home remodeling done, saw dust must have gotten in there, even though it looked clean , working great now!! Thanks!

So funny. Mine went out a while back. After watching this video I walked over and turned the google home over and smacked it a couple of times and it started working immediately. Thanks!

Thanks for the video - exact same issue here in the UK and have been trying for week's to resolve (was considering replacing it). Found your video and followed the steps and now back working :-)

Thanks for your information on how you got your Google Home to work again after not hearing you. I followed your advice and it works like new again. Thank you very much.

It really worked. Thanks for taking ur precious time to give this amazing simple tip. God bless u.

This really works! I had the same issue with my Google home and after hours of troubleshooting, resetting it several times and even resetting it to manufacture settings I decided to give KZfaq a try. This was the first video that came up I follow your very simple instructions and my Google home came back to life. Thank you!

Oh wow, fixed mine in a matter of seconds. Cheers dude!

Crazy as it may sound, IT WORKED for me! Spent an hour messing with google assistant settings and re-pairing my Goggle Home device to the network. Was looking at diy videos to take the device apart as a last resort, but stumbled on this video clip. Blew into mic and Q-tipped it abit..and Voila! Sweet sound of google assistant working again...

3:10 if you have a dirty house or just want to skip to the solution. But I think it heard him because it spelled out what he said.

Use this for my garage and it stopped hearing commands. I used compressed air and worked right away. Thank you!

This is actually really funny. I have a few of these in my house and one of them started not hearing anything. I have owned that particular one for over a year. I own an IT company and to be honest tapping things is not normal protocol. So I unplugged it and tapped it on the bottom and turned it back on and it worked. Now I also deleted my history for the myactivity portion as well so my mistake was to doing one at a time to actually really find out what was causing it the failure. Still Funny.... Tanks again for getting me to look at things in a different way. I wanted to take the thing apart.

IT WORKED!! I really didn't think it would, but two taps on the bottom and blowing out the mic holes brought it back online! Thank you!

I can't believe simply tapping the bottom of the speaker worked. Thank you!

Unreal, tapping it on the bottom and just blowing out the mics totally worked. Thanks, thumbs up.

You are a live saver! Super star 🌟. Was battling with Google support for weeks to get this fixed but they never did. You should probably train Google support.

Today my Google Home stopped listening. Reset doesn't solved the issue. I found your video and tried to clean the mics of my Google Home with blowing air on the mics. Solved the issue...spooky :-)

Blowing hard at the mics worked, thanks :-)

Thank you that fixed my problem! The two listening hole atop of the Google hone Device was clogged up with dust my wife had clean my area that’s went into those two little holes! Good video!!! 👍🏽👍🏽

Wow. this really works! Thank you

Omg!!! The tapping and I just blew air into the 2 little holes to remove dust and Bam!! Can not believe you dude. I was like, “yeah right, sounds sketchy”. But I have to hand it to you. Lol

Thanks for the vid. Didn't even occur to me to check the mic - I think because the stop in response was so abrupt! Gave a tap on the bottom and blew into the mic's to clear any dust and back in working order. :)

Wow, worked for me too. I initially turned it upside down and tapped it while plugged in, but it didn't work. I proceeded to unplug the cord from the bottom so I only had the speaker without the cord. I gave it a few solid taps, then hit the mic holes with some compressed air just in case, and that did the trick. Thanks!

Ok thank you!! I tapped on the bottom and it worked! I wish all my problems were this easy 😂❤ thank you thank you!

I've been on with Google support for 10 days. They are useless. Your microphone is defective they said. Your warranty is expired they said. It needs to be replaced they said. Once they washed their hands if it I started looking at physical fixes and found this. 23 seconds later my Google Home rose from the dead, although it swears it never went anywhere. Thanks for this video.

Good idea to keep a can of compressed air handy and blow them out every so often, but don't stick the straw or nozzle directly in the mix holes. Keep some distance as the air blasts are pretty powerful.

I admit that I was skeptical but as soon as tapped the bottom and hit it with compressed air it worked again! Thanks for the tips!

Wow. Unbelievable. I used some compressed air pointed directly at the Mic’s from a distance and it worked. This after spending 1 hr rebooting, resetting. Thanks

Wow, I noticed a while back that my commands we're being recorded super scratchy, barely intelligible. I researched and found several articles saying that meant one of the mics was shot. I was unfortunately passed my warranty time, so I want able to get it replaced. Then recently the Google home stopped responding all together. I did the tricks described in this video and Bam!! Google home fixed, and not only that, the recordings are no longer scratchy, which means the mic was never bad. Thanks so much EBPMAN! One thing I'll add though, I had to tap the bottom pretty hard to get it to start working so whatever particles were stuck were pretty well stuck.

Thanks, I was surprised that it worked. I had tried everything that I could think of and I had no success. Great video.

Followed your instructions and it starting working. Crazy! TY

Turned it updside down, tapped it and boom it's working again. Thanks!

Awesome! Got my Google Home to work again... THANK YOU!!!

Cheers dude this totally worked for my speaker. Your a STAR!

OMG 😮! Thank u so much!! I did what u said and my google home speaker is back to working now!! 👍🙏 cheers!

Worked after following your instructions. Thanks a ton! 👌

Worked for me! I blew into the mics as well and fired right up. Thank you!

OMG, I was going insane! I tapped and blew into the mic holes, and it instantly started working again.

Thanks dude! Blowing on the microphones worked for me. I wonder if you used a vacuum cleaner on the mic's would work as well?

Thank you, thank you, thank you...I tried everything to fix this issue and had no success until I watched your video!

My mini won’t listen to “hey google” but will listen to “okay google”

Omg I cannot believe all it needed was to clean the mics. Thank you so much

Worked great, I used some rubbing alcohol on a Q-tip!

Thank you! this fixed my google home!

Wow, actually worked just tapping on it and blowing at the mic.

Thank you this saved me twice now!

That was perfect! Thanks so much

Thanks for the video. Fixed it!

It works thanks so much😊 I only did the first one and it work like amazing thanks so much!!!

I have to admit I laughed mockingly at this video. Turn it upside down and beat it like a ketchup bottle and whipe off the mics huh? So ridiculous it worked... immediately. Lol. Thanks!!!

It worked. BTW, where did you get that battery?

Tapped the bottom twice and cleared the mic holes. It worked !! Thanks :)

Genial!!! De verdad muchas gracias! Estaba desesperado por que Google no me respondia a la primera, tenia que repetir y repetir hasta que lo hacia. Gracias y saludos desde México.

This worked for me.Thanks very much for this video.Thumbs up

Can't believe this worked. Tapped the bottom and didn't even need the qtip trick. Thanks for this easy tip.

Thank you!!! I tried everything and this simple fix was the one that helped and got it working

wow, I too reset it number of times to no avail, I even use different google account/phone to setup and same. After watching your video, I use duster and blew at the mic and VOLA!!! Thank you so much...almost brick the damn speaker...

Worked like a charm. Thank you!

work well thank you ❤️❤️

Well I didn't expect that to work. Thanks great video

Pure gold! Thanks a million!!!

Hey, didn't work for me. However, The google home is a very simple device. If you take the base off, there are 4 small torx screws (T-6) around the parameter-with the device. Turn the device upside down with the base removed. looking down with the power plug at 12 o'clock. one screw at about 1:30 (hidden in the corner by the edge of the speaker. Two at 6 o'clock. and one more at about 10:30 (hidden again). No need to remove the 4 easily accessed screws on the top of the base. Remove the 4 screws around the parameter as explained above. Remove the black base from the white top. There is a ribbon cable that connects the board with the lights and mics in the white housing to the base. I had dropped my device. I had lights but no microphone operation. The ribbon cable had pulled out slightly. I reseated it and it worked again. I am guessing when you hit the bottom the ribbon cable is reseating slightly. I am not sure it is a permanent fix. Sorry, I would do a KZfaq video. But, I don't know how. I also fixed another that we had because the solder joint on the base had broken. A little solder and it was good to go again. You can gen the T-6 screwdriver at Lowes or Homedepot. But, make sure it has a long bit. The screws you need to remove are recessed.

Wow thanks for that video very helpful. I did that to my google and it’s working fine now. 😀👍✌️

Worked for me - thanks for sharing!

Omg!! Thank you! Just blew on the mic and it worked

Awesome. This worked. Thanks.

Dude! That worked, I just blew in the holes. It came back to life!!!

Thanks for the video! My Google home is responsive again! Yay!

You are such a genius! Thanks for the tips

This worked, thanks a lot!! edit: eek, stopped working after last night. Thanks for getting it to work for me temporarily with your advice, anyhow!

Thanks for the info, worked perfectly after cleaning out both mics.

It worked for me. Excellent troubleshooting tip

It works! Thanks!

Thanks. Worked perfectly!

Amazing... That solved our problem. Thanks!

Google support super unhelpful! Thanks for the tip. I blew mine with an air can, and all of a sudden, it worked.

Thanks for the advice and it worked!

THANK YOU! I was in soooo much trouble for having broken it. Lol

Totally worked to fix ours. Thanks!

I used an air duster and it worked! Wow I couldn’t figure it out and it was that easy!

Lovely man, it worked. Thanks!