Button Order? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Does anyone know if it's possible to switch the task switcher and back buttons round at present as I'm used to the back button being on the right hand side on my HD2 and would much prefer it to be there on my Galaxy Nexus.

Tung_meister said:
Does anyone know if it's possible to switch the task switcher and back buttons round at present as I'm used to the back button being on the right hand side on my HD2 and would much prefer it to be there on my Galaxy Nexus.
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Not in the stock software as far as I'm aware, but I'll bet custom ROMs, once they start making their way out, could have something like this as a feature.

Ye I'm certain it'll be developed for custom roms, was just wondering if anyone had discovered a way yet.

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[REQUEST] Menu Button Mod

coming from a GNex, i really miss the on screen "menu" button being in the top right hand corner for ICS apps. by having a hardware menu button the SGS3 takes feature away, and its my only issue with the phone.
Its an ICS phone, I WANT it to work like ICS. The downside to this is, if implemented itll probably introduce the software menu dots for non ICS apps like the ONE X. I own a ONE X and dont have an issue with them
I personally think Samsung was too lazy to update their own stock apps to ICS native style and such put in a menu bottom (Conspiracy)
Nway, if you can help itd be mighty appreciated
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coming from a GNex, i really miss the on screen "menu" button being in the top right hand corner for ICS apps. by having a hardware menu button the SGS3 takes feature away, and its my only issue with the phone.
Its an ICS phone, I WANT it to work like ICS. The downside to this is, if implemented itll probably introduce the software menu dots for non ICS apps like the ONE X. I own a ONE X and dont have an issue with them
I personally think Samsung was too lazy to update their own stock apps to ICS native style and such put in a menu bottom (Conspiracy)
Nway, if you can help itd be mighty appreciated
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I hope some smart person takes up this cause and makes it happen
It's been asked already...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672952
get button savior app.. its way better than having on screen button.. wasting awesome huge screen space
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1234568 said:
It's been asked already...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672952
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Thanks. Checking it out
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try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1547221&d=1354990462

[Q] [REQ] Navbar on the side in landscapemode

As mentioned in threatname i am looking for a navbarmod which sets the navbar on the right instead to the bottom when in landscape like on a phone. i don´t have got alienthumbs to get to middle of the screen to press the homebutton. would like to have it on the side if possible always on the buttom side of the tablet
i know this could be a disadvantage for gamers, but for 80% of the daily users this might be a senseful idea
L-ViZ said:
As mentioned in threatname i am looking for a navbarmod which sets the navbar on the right instead to the bottom when in landscape like on a phone. i don´t have got alienthumbs to get to middle of the screen to press the homebutton. would like to have it on the side if possible always on the buttom side of the tablet
i know this could be a disadvantage for gamers, but for 80% of the daily users this might be a senseful idea
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If you have rooted ur device, i recommend GoodMoodDroid's "Auto Hide Soft Keys", available thru PlayStore. It works on stock ROM. Besides hiding the nav bar, it has the nice effect of resizing it and putting it on the right hand when turning the device into landscape mode.
Regrettably i don't know another way, when u are not rooted.
of course i have my phone rooted xD but i´d like to get it out of the box without 3rd application on the side
still looking for a good solution.
hmm maybe if you use PA hybrid properties and change to stock/phone UI you'll get the nav bar at the right side.. not sure about that though
On Paranoid Android, if i set it to phone UI then the navbar is on the side. This does change some other things I didn't like about the UI but it might be what you want

[Q] navigation bar

Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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This may be possible if you are rooted with xposed installed, otherwise wait till roms come out or use a overlay launcher
deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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I'm only 5'10 and my hands can easily reach the home button... I'm not sure I understand the issue.
But as far as I know, you'd need to be rooted in order to add in things like a navigation bar, at least a fully working one. Check the app store and see if theres any options maybe?
QUOTE=nirurin;48393239]I'm only 5'10 and my hands can easily reach the home button... I'm not sure I understand the issue.
But as far as I know, you'd need to be rooted in order to add in things like a navigation bar, at least a fully working one. Check the app store and see if theres any options maybe?[/QUOTE]
well the thing is I'm coming for my original 10.1Wifi and have had custom ROM since day one and being able to do the navigation bar for orientation it's always there, not sure I can get used to the situation of having it strictly on one side. Of course it is rooted all 5 of our Samsung phones are rooted and running custom Roms. Before my note3 usually hadn't bought then till the roms where already established. Haven't used Xposed but guess time to learn.
Root and download gmd gesture control,. It gives you simple gestures To back or home
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deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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try gravit box app
deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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Handy Soft Keys from the play store gives you pop up home/back/recent apps buttons on one edge of the screen. Moveable so you can put it where your thumb naturally sits. No need for root. Not perfect but works well for me given the silly place Samsung put the home button
I use Button Savior Non Root (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey.nonroot)
You can set location, theme and which buttons to show - you can even set custom actions.
The only issue is - if you are not rooted, you can't get menu button.
deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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Did tried this it works good on my p600
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982000
funfun99999 said:
Did tried this it works good on my p600
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982000
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Thanks for all the replies I will do this when I get back from my trip.
deagleonvalium said:
Thanks for all the replies I will do this when I get back from my trip.
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I second Button Savior with Root. After I switched to that, I went from wanting to break this tablet in half because of the button placement to now I love using it.
Stocklone said:
I second Button Savior with Root. After I switched to that, I went from wanting to break this tablet in half because of the button placement to now I love using it.
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tried it gotta say it makes it so much better, the biggest issue is most of my local news apps are only a available in portrait its not that I couldn't do the stock button locations just is freaking totally annoying.
deagleonvalium said:
tried it gotta say it makes it so much better, the biggest issue is most of my local news apps are only a available in portrait its not that I couldn't do the stock button locations just is freaking totally annoying.
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I killed the long press on the menu because I kept hitting it and switching over to S Finder with portrait apps. That is seriously confusing the first time it happens. My wife couldn't figure out at all what was going on the one time I handed my tablet to her in portrait and it happened to her. Then I made the long press home Google Now using Xposed so I could use the search app I really wanted in the first place.
reubenskelly1992 said:
Root and download gmd gesture control,. It gives you simple gestures To back or home
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Precisely I cannot live without this app

Tablet UI

Yes, I know it's been brought up quite a bit...
This is really bugging me. I had the original Kindle Fire and put ICS on it and loved it. The Honeycomb-style user interface rocks. I bought a Nexus 7 thinking that I'd be able to put it into that mode with KitKat (the point of owning the Nexus # is to have the latest and greatest, right?), but have found myself unable to do so.
Is there any way possible to enable this on 4.4? I'm running into a gap on this discussion; most stopped talking about it about a month ago it seems. AOKP? Do I have to copy and paste the tablet UI code from 4.2 into 4.4?
This is Android. ANYTHING is possible. I know it has the potential to be done.
watsonism said:
Yes, I know it's been brought up quite a bit...
This is really bugging me. I had the original Kindle Fire and put ICS on it and loved it. The Honeycomb-style user interface rocks. I bought a Nexus 7 thinking that I'd be able to put it into that mode with KitKat (the point of owning the Nexus # is to have the latest and greatest, right?), but have found myself unable to do so.
Is there any way possible to enable this on 4.4? I'm running into a gap on this discussion; most stopped talking about it about a month ago it seems. AOKP? Do I have to copy and paste the tablet UI code from 4.2 into 4.4?
This is Android. ANYTHING is possible. I know it has the potential to be done.
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I was under the impression that google removed the tablet UI from kitkat altogether.
I thought I wasn't going to like the phablet UI but I got used to it, and now it just makes sense to me on a tablet this size. I say give it a chance, you might grow to like it.
I hate it, i'm forever catching the navbar when typing in landscape or passing the device to a friend because of thin bezel, it'd better located on it's side in the same portrait position next to the shortcuts & apps drawer button.
Q8-V08 said:
I hate it, i'm forever catching the navbar when typing in landscape or passing the device to a friend because of thin bezel, it'd better located on it's side in the same portrait position next to the shortcuts & apps drawer button.
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I do agree with this. When in landscape it is in the most inconvenient place possible. I would love a way to force it to remain on the right side but I haven't been able to find a solution other than setting the whole tablet into phone UI mode which then messes with the notifications shade.
If you're only problem is the nav bar, try GMD auto hide soft keys. It works great.
purple lady said:
If you're only problem is the nav bar, try GMD auto hide soft keys. It works great.
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I tried that, not really what I'm looking for. I don't want something that overlays the navbar and hides it when not in use, I want a permanent navbar that just stays on the right side of the screen. With GMD even if I turn auto hide off, it will still hide it when I rotate the screen, and when I swipe to bring it up it always covers part of my dock icons.
Have you tried gravity box xposed module? It gives you the ability to run pie. Or if that's not your thing in navigation bar tweaks it has an always on the bottom feature. It shouldn't be too difficult to make it always on the "short side".Why not ask the Developer in his thread ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554049
doop said:
Have you tried gravity box xposed module? It gives you the ability to run pie. Or if that's not your thing in navigation bar tweaks it has an always on the bottom feature. It shouldn't be too difficult to make it always on the "short side".Why not ask the Developer in his thread ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554049
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I've used the pie before on my gnex and it was OK. I might give it a shot. Android is starting to feel quite dumbed down lately...
doop said:
Have you tried gravity box xposed module? It gives you the ability to run pie. Or if that's not your thing in navigation bar tweaks it has an always on the bottom feature. It shouldn't be too difficult to make it always on the "short side".Why not ask the Developer in his thread ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554049
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Yep, I use GB on all my devices. I use PIE + expanded desktop when I want to game in full screen. The always on bottom tweak isn't what I'm looking for either. I want it to remain on the right in landscape. I appreciate the input though.
_MetalHead_ said:
Yep, I use GB on all my devices. I use PIE + expanded desktop when I want to game in full screen. The always on bottom tweak isn't what I'm looking for either. I want it to remain on the right in landscape. I appreciate the input though.
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No probs. The part about keeping the navigation on the "short side". I meant on the right (Short Side). It`s worth asking the developer surely
CM10+ and PA had the tablet UI I though and you could pit it on the right hand side. I'm not sure if this applies with the newest KitKat builds though.
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Questions on fixing things after root

Hello,
I used magisk to root my phone and everything's working fine but many things I want to fix and can't seem to find how to.
First of all, what's the point of rooting if only way to remove system apps are with adb? Can do this without root.
Any way to activate double tap to open close the screen when locked? Damn I hate soooo much the single tap to open it and the double tap that does nothing to close it.
Any way to remove the bottom search bar? I removed 2 packages with adb but the search bar is still there.
Any way to close/lock the phone besides the power button? Coming from HTC U11 with squeeze features, it bogs me a lot not having any other way to lock it than the power button.
I think that is it for now. I'll add if I think of more.
Thanks!
grat_master said:
Hello,
I used magisk to root my phone and everything's working fine but many things I want to fix and can't seem to find how to.
First of all, what's the point of rooting if only way to remove system apps are with adb? Can do this without root.
Any way to activate double tap to open close the screen when locked? Damn I hate soooo much the single tap to open it and the double tap that does nothing to close it.
Any way to remove the bottom search bar? I removed 2 packages with adb but the search bar is still there.
Any way to close/lock the phone besides the power button? Coming from HTC U11 with squeeze features, it bogs me a lot not having any other way to lock it than the power button.
I think that is it for now. I'll add if I think of more.
Thanks!
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Custom roms and kernels
nope
not on stock rom. not sure about custom as I haven't tried any yet
not sure what you mean hear...
thomas.raines said:
Custom roms and kernels
nope
not on stock rom. not sure about custom as I haven't tried any yet
not sure what you mean hear...
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Maybe with a custom rom I can remove the useless bottom screen search bar. Is it only working with chrome or can it work with any browser?
What I meant is with HTC U11 you can squeeze the phone to do things like open the camera, take a picture, open led lights, and most importantly lock the phone and close the screen. I was wondering if the 4a 5g can lock screen by another mean than power button.
Also I just found out there are no notifications led. How do you guys know if you have sms or emails or whatnot?
grat_master said:
Maybe with a custom rom I can remove the useless bottom screen search bar. Is it only working with chrome or can it work with any browser?
What I meant is with HTC U11 you can squeeze the phone to do things like open the camera, take a picture, open led lights, and most importantly lock the phone and close the screen. I was wondering if the 4a 5g can lock screen by another mean than power button.
Also I just found out there are no notifications led. How do you guys know if you have sms or emails or whatnot?
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I reformatted my phone just to see what you mean about bottom search bar. The only way that I know of to remove it, install a different launcher... i.e. nova launcher, apex launcher, etc... refer to playstore
No squeezing here... Use power button
When your phone makes the notification noise and or vibrates... Like I told my wife several phones ago... Learned to live without it or get a different phone and do your research before you buy it.

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