Can't back out of Contacts app - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When I press the back button in the Contacts app another screen opens (this one identical to the first, except missing the "Contacts", "Groups", and "Activities" tabs), rather than exiting to the home screen as should be expected. Pressing the back button on this screen does nothing - the only way to exit the app is with the home button.
I have noticed that this does not happen with some ROMs - pressing the back button on the first screen simply exits the app without opening the second screen. Why does this happen, and is there a way to make the app always exit when pressing 'back'? I tried using the Contacts.apk from a ROM in which it works correctly in a ROM in which it does not, but nothing changes.

l1g3rz said:
When I press the back button in the Contacts app another screen opens (this one identical to the first, except missing the "Contacts", "Groups", and "Activities" tabs), rather than exiting to the home screen as should be expected. Pressing the back button on this screen does nothing - the only way to exit the app is with the home button.
I have noticed that this does not happen with some ROMs - pressing the back button on the first screen simply exits the app without opening the second screen. Why does this happen, and is there a way to make the app always exit when pressing 'back'? I tried using the Contacts.apk from a ROM in which it works correctly in a ROM in which it does not, but nothing changes.
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Press and hold the Contacts icon until the Edit Dock Shortcut window appears. Select Change Shortcut and find Contacts under Applications. Select the icon you want. You must reboot the phone for this fix to work. After the reboot, Contacts will work normally with the ability to "Back Out" to the desktop.

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

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CM7 keyboard

I've had this problem on every iteration of CM7 thus far where occasionally after entering my message, whether in a text message or search engine, the keyboard will stay maximized rather than disappearing as it normally would. The only way I can get rid of it is to press back and reenter my search or exit by pressing the home key and then navigate back. Anyone else encountered this?
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try pressing t and then swiping down. you need to press for about half a second before swiping. also try holding the menu key.
dkdude36 said:
try pressing t and then swiping down. you need to press for about half a second before swiping. also try holding the menu key.
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Well at that point he'd have to press back, because long pressing the key brings up the keyboard; unless I interpreted it incorrectly.
teh roxxorz said:
Well at that point he'd have to press back, because long pressing the key brings up the keyboard; unless I interpreted it incorrectly.
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not a long press. about half a second. then swipe your finger down to the spacebar. the keyboard will disappear on stock gb kb. or just hold the menu button. it will also disappear.

Question regarding Go Launcher?

So, I really want to use Go Launcher, but have one issue. I want when I press the home button that it takes me to my middle home page. For example, let say I'm on screen four, I then go to an app, I then want to go to my HOME(main screen), when I press the home button, it takes me to the last screen I was on. I set the home screen up in the menu. Any advice? Thanks!
Try double tapping the home key
sandman512 said:
So, I really want to use Go Launcher, but have one issue. I want when I press the home button that it takes me to my middle home page. For example, let say I'm on screen four, I then go to an app, I then want to go to my HOME(main screen), when I press the home button, it takes me to the last screen I was on. I set the home screen up in the menu. Any advice? Thanks!
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Under Go Launcher's preferences, the Gesture section, there's a setting for Home key action... set this to Function and then select "Show home screen, then overview" (or just "Show home screen", but I prefer the first myself). Then it will work ROUGHLY as you expect: a single tap of the home key while in an app or app tray will still bring you to the last home screen you were on, but tapping it again will bring you to your middle screen (and a third tap, if you selected the option I like, will show you the overview of all your home screens). FYI, I think you also need to disable S Voice's shortcut on the home key for this to work as well (it's in the settings inside S Voice as I recall).

Home button behavior w/ jb & no lock screen

I don't use any lock screen and I always use the home button to wake my phone up.
Since official JB, the home button not only wakes the phone up but it closes the app I'm in. Example : I'm browsing something on chrome, the screen turns off bc of timeout, I wake the phone using the home button and I see chrome back but immediatly it closes down like if I had pressed the home button again (but I didn't). The same behavior does not happen when a lock screen is enabled.
I tried searching for an answer and tried the solution of editing the .kl files in system/usr/keylayout by adding WAKE_DROPPED or replacing WAKE with WAKE_DROPPED for every occurence of the home key (key 172) without luck. I tried fixing the permissions in CWM and I made sure the permissions are rw-r-r.
Running stock rooted with CWM.
Any other ideas? Thx!
I'm also curious about this. My temporary fix was to unfreeze S Voice in Titanium and then enable the double press of the home button to start S Voice.
I'd rather keep S Voice frozen and still keep the same behaviour of the home button in ICS.
pappcam said:
I'm also curious about this. My temporary fix was to unfreeze S Voice in Titanium and then enable the double press of the home button to start S Voice.
I'd rather keep S Voice frozen and still keep the same behaviour of the home button in ICS.
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Yes that does work indeed. However, it brings back the lag when pressing the home button. I'm also using home2 shortcut for some shortcuts and it completely breaks them!
The same problem arises also when you long press the home button to get to recent apps, if you have an app open in the background at that moment and you press the home button to get out of the recent app screen, it closes the app!

Home button lag with disabled lockscreen

So heres my problem in a nutshell:
When I press the home button, my phone unlocks (I have no lockscreen), however it takes me to the home screen. Whereas if I hit the power button, the screen turns on where I left off. This is the expected behavior.
If I go into S-Voice, and select "Open via the home key", the home key unlocks the phone correctly, but I have to deal with the home button lag issue.
So, how do I get the best of both worlds? No lockscreen, no home button lag, and no issue with using the home button to wake the phone.
I could do without S-Voice all together so if thats an option Im OK with it.
jackher0r said:
So heres my problem in a nutshell:
When I press the home button, my phone unlocks (I have no lockscreen), however it takes me to the home screen. Whereas if I hit the power button, the screen turns on where I left off. This is the expected behavior.
If I go into S-Voice, and select "Open via the home key", the home key unlocks the phone correctly, but I have to deal with the home button lag issue.
So, how do I get the best of both worlds? No lockscreen, no home button lag, and no issue with using the home button to wake the phone.
I could do without S-Voice all together so if thats an option Im OK with it.
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I wasn't happy with the speed of the home button, I took off the double tap for svoice and I'm much happier not sure if that helps you

[Q] Home Button Action

I currently have my screen set to turn of when not in use at 30sec. If I have say a browser window open, step away from the phone, the screen turns off as expected. When I hit the home button, screen turns on and closes what ever app I was using, in this case the browser window.
How can I set the home button to turn the screen back on, but not close the app I was using?
Thanks...
Hi!
I don't think you can reprogram the action on click on the home button using the Samsung's stock ROM.
You may have some luck using the Xposed Additions Xposed module -- I haven't tried it myself, but based on the description, it should help you achieve what you want. You will, of course, need to be rooted and have Xposed Framework installed.
In the stock ROM, the home button switches tasks away from any open app but does not exit your ongoing session within the app.
You can long press on home to pop a task list enabling you to switch back.
You can more fully exit any task using the (curved arrow) back soft key, but the task remains partly open on the home button popup unless you either flick it aside or use the "x" soft key to close all.
Short press the power button for a simple screen wakening.
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