I have had three of the original Google home mini speakers. This "mic is off/on problem happened on two of them, neither of which did I ever manually use the mic switch to turn off or on. The first one was replaced with the two other ones. Then one of those started doing the same thing, the first one was discarded before finding out about removing the switch, which fixed the problem with the second one. I decided that since just pulling the switch off the pcb worked perfectly and two of the three had the issue happen that I would just preemptively remove it from the third one before it started happening on it also. If the "reset it" wasn't the only fix available for the first speaker it wouldn't have been thrown out instead of removing the switch which was later found to be the fix for the problem. My suggestion would be to just remove the switches from the pcb on all Google home mini/nest versions of speakers since they all seem to have the same problem. This isn't a fix for people who don't have any reasons to turn off the listening ability of their speakers, but they can always just be unplugged from their power supplies for those people.
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I have had three of the original Google home mini speakers. This "mic is off/on problem happened on two of them, neither of which did I ever manually use the mic switch to turn off or on. The first one was replaced with the two other ones. Then one of those started doing the same thing, the first one was discarded before finding out about removing the switch, which fixed the problem with the second one. I decided that since just pulling the switch off the pcb worked perfectly and two of the three had the issue happen that I would just preemptively remove it from the third one before it started happening on it also. If the "reset it" wasn't the only fix available for the first speaker it wouldn't have been thrown out instead of removing the switch which was later found to be the fix for the problem. My suggestion would be to just remove the switches from the pcb on all Google home mini/nest versions of speakers since they all seem to have the same problem. This isn't a fix for people who don't have any reasons to turn off the listening ability of their speakers, but they can always just be unplugged from their power supplies for those people.
Thank you so much because my google as we speak is tripping 😭
@pyrrhicactions glad it helped! 😀