hey, I was just wondering if I missed this setting or anyway I can remap this. Every time I press the back hard key it keeps taking me back to the home screen. Is it suppose to work like this? I thought that's what the home key is for. I wanted my back key to go back to the apps page whenever I'm on an app.
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Is there any way to change the "favorites" left soft key button back to the "Back" soft key. I do not know how it got changes but I am realy annoyed with the fact that I have to reload each pag from the beginning in order to get back to a page.
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help please..is there anyway to go back to home screen in android from any aplication like dialer or text mesages without pressing hard buttons..because my kaiser hard buttons not working fine and i have to press 100 times hardware button to go back to home screen :-(...please help...thanks alot..sorry for my english
fast666 said:
help please..is there anyway to go back to home screen in android from any aplication like dialer or text mesages without pressing hard buttons..because my kaiser hard buttons not working fine and i have to press 100 times hardware button to go back to home screen :-(...please help...thanks alot..sorry for my english
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After posting tons of comments over facebook:Back back back..... LOL its the only way.... I think u can change under spare parts/ end button (or is it home button?) behavr but none of them worked for me so far...
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fast666 said:
help please..is there anyway to go back to home screen in android from any aplication like dialer or text mesages without pressing hard buttons..because my kaiser hard buttons not working fine and i have to press 100 times hardware button to go back to home screen :-(...please help...thanks alot..sorry for my english
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Don't thinks so... unless the app provides this (exit or something) but this is application specific.
Android depends on the back button, and the menu button.
I'll give you a example, i installed android on a Diamond. Now The diamond has 5 buttons in the front, 2 on the side, and one on the top.
The Dial and the other one are pretty obvious. The back key is just that, the BACK key. Now, the HOME key, is the menu key. I was missing the Home key, and really missing, like, how the hell do i get out of here?
Until i noticed, the Power button only powers the phone, it does not powers off.
When the phone is on, it acts as the HOME button.
Hardware keys, are a must on the droid...
You could use atools and reassign the back hardware button to one that works.
don't know you guys, but imho,
back should just be back.
multitasking should use long press home (instead of long press back)
and voice search should use long press search (instead of long press home)
reason for this is (in my case) search is kinda under-utilized and back gets used all the time. i'd rather leave back key to back function alone.
what's your thought on this?
edit: oh, i'd also rather have back key to go back within the same app and not to desktop or some other app.
I agree with the long press on the search button for tellme search. But back button is a better choice for multitasking menu because your finger is going to drift there to switch back an app.
Btw don't call it the home button... Its the start button =)
hardcoreplur said:
I agree with the long press on the search button for tellme search. But back button is a better choice for multitasking menu because your finger is going to drift there to switch back an app.
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my rationale is to separate in-app navigation (use back) and between-app navigation (use home).
right now there's no indication of where you are in the "back queue". e.g. you don't know that you are already backed to root navigation inside an app and another back would bring you outside the app. coupled with lag in certain apps, it can be very frustrating.
I think I like things the way they are. I use the search button (hardware) a ton.
anybody else having problems with there physical keyboard? It doesnt happen all the time but sometimes when im typing with it, certain buttons will start opening shortcuts. Once I restart the phone it goes back to normal but its starting to get annoying!
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anybody else having problems with there physical keyboard? It doesnt happen all the time but sometimes when im typing with it, certain buttons will start opening shortcuts. Once I restart the phone it goes back to normal but its starting to get annoying!
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It happens to me every now and then. When you hold down the search button and hit certain keys it acts like a shortcut. Search + g = gmail. I don't have to restart the phone, just hit the search button to clear up the stuck key/input. Also I think you can disable these shortcuts in the settings menu.
I have looked under the settings for hours and have not found anything! Need help :/
The only way for me to get back to home is to press back a bunch of times, I can't hold the home button to pull up recent apps either.
I am new to android, or just phones in general and my friend flashed my phone with AOKP.
Any help is appreciated!
Alright guys, I was the one that flashed his phone, and he's new to forums so I'll address the problem he's having.
We live far apart so can't really fix his phone for I don't have an S3 myself. His home button was working as it should, home would exit, long press would bring up the multitasking etc.
Today randomly his phone wouldn't respond to the home button. The thing is, I told him to wipe dalivk, do a factory reset, etc. and hes able to use the home button in the recovery but not the ROM itself.
There's a huge probability that he has possibly changed the settings somewhere binding the home button to do absolutley nothing on keypress, but I am just unsure of his settings on his phone. Could anyone help out please? Thanks.
what rom?
Flash stock? See if it's working again?
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Alright guys, I was the one that flashed his phone, and he's new to forums so I'll address the problem he's having.
We live far apart so can't really fix his phone for I don't have an S3 myself. His home button was working as it should, home would exit, long press would bring up the multitasking etc.
Today randomly his phone wouldn't respond to the home button. The thing is, I told him to wipe dalivk, do a factory reset, etc. and hes able to use the home button in the recovery but not the ROM itself.
There's a huge probability that he has possibly changed the settings somewhere binding the home button to do absolutley nothing on keypress, but I am just unsure of his settings on his phone. Could anyone help out please? Thanks.
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what rom and launcher.
Op says its aokp.
Next thing id try is reflashing the rom.
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with CM10, you can configure what the home button does, or you can assign "nothing" to it. aokp is basically cm10 with more options, just fiddle with the settings and find that option, it should say something like "hardware keys"