Long Pressing Home brings up the recently used apps list. Single pressing the button to the right does the same thing, so the long press seems wasteful. I would like to change Home's Long Press action to bring up the application drawer. Is this possible?
lethologica said:
Long Pressing Home brings up the recently used apps list. Single pressing the button to the right does the same thing, so the long press seems wasteful. I would like to change Home's Long Press action to bring up the application drawer. Is this possible?
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Long pressing home on my phone doesn't do that, are you on stock ROM?
I am on a custom rom. I guess this has to be baked into the rom then?
lethologica said:
I am on a custom rom. I guess this has to be baked into the rom then?
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Would think so, don't know if its kernel or ROM dependant.
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Press Menu and Power at the same time.
shoot me on the market is good too. sometimes i want to take a screenshot while pressing a button and cant with the built in screenshot feature so i use shoot me.
you just shake the phone to take a screen shot.
zwwel said:
Press Menu and Power at the same time.
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Not quite, that is the explanation always given but it's actually
Press HOME
Press and release POWER
Release HOME
rockyxda said:
Not quite, that is the explanation always given but it's actually
Press HOME
Press and release POWER
Release HOME
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Press both at same time is actually right. You can hold HOME and press POWER and release POWER and stay holding HOME though.
I'm using "screen capture" on the market
here's the link
https://market.android.com/details?...reencaptureshortcutfree&feature=search_result
HOME + POWER works like a charm, no root required, no need to install any additional apps
rockyxda said:
Not quite, that is the explanation always given but it's actually
Press HOME
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rockyxda said:
Press and release POWER
Release HOME
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Hallelujah! I never got that, was pressing both buttons simultaneously which just locked the screen. This works better, though still not every time like on iOS.
Do you the recent button to switch between app?
I used to have HTC DHD and I used to hold down the home button to switch app, however now I am not using the recent app button .
Do you?
Try to long press each capasitive buttons.
mr.dj26 said:
Do you the recent button to switch between app?
I used to have HTC DHD and I used to hold down the home button to switch app, however now I am not using the recent app button .
Do you?
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Personally I use it all the time, you can use this mod to change it to a menu button http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582506
I used it to change my home button to a long press to be a menu button
Maybe it's something I overlook. But how do I switch between running Apps.
In KitKat, I switched by pressing the home button.
How do I do this in CM13?
josz said:
Maybe it's something I overlook. But how do I switch between running Apps.
In KitKat, I switched by pressing the home button.
How do I do this in CM13?
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It turns out, that you need the change the behaviour of the home button.
Configurations>Buttons.
Hi, i just updated my phone to Nougat, and i miss the feature of long pressing the recent apps button that gives me a menu button (MM feature?). Is it possible to activate that again? It seems to be replaced with split window feature. In addition, in the display settings, in the buttons section enables the menu button. Does that only show the menu (three dots) button on apps only? (has nothing to do with the capacitive buttons on the phone?)
Thank you for reading this, look forward to a reply
Before Nougat:
Choose from the options: Always open recent apps. Press for menu, press and hold for recent apps. Press for recent apps, press and hold for menu.
After Update:
Display options - buttons- menu button
holding the button on the right to open up split screen is a feature of nougat.
I knew of the feature to hold the button down to bring up a menu, but im guessing it wasnt widely utilised, hence its removal.
There may be a way, using root, to change what the button does, but I wouldnt know how. Someone else probably does though.
silegeek said:
holding the button on the right to open up split screen is a feature of nougat.
I knew of the feature to hold the button down to bring up a menu, but im guessing it wasnt widely utilised, hence its removal.
There may be a way, using root, to change what the button does, but I wouldnt know how. Someone else probably does though.
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Hey thats a bummer, i loved that feature! i not really fond of the split screen feature, its not really that useful to me.
Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully, ill flash a custom rom on this phone soon.
This is bull****! They could at least give us a choice of choosing what does the button do. Now I will have to install a custom rom to get back that menu button
Can someone who has a Twitter account describe this menu button issue to Graham Wheeler or Mo Versi ?
We`ll get a better chance of them fixing it then.
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to lock an app in memory even if I push the back button?
I am locking 2-3 most frequently used apps from the "Recents" menu but that gets washed away when I press the "Back" button after being done with the respective app.
I know the best option would be to start pushing the "Home" button but over the years I developed a habit of pushing the "Back" button several times to go to home or once to close the app and it's very hard to change behavior now.
I'm on NitrogenOS (8.1) if it matters - stock kernel.
Cheers.
DonnyR said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to lock an app in memory even if I push the back button?
I am locking 2-3 most frequently used apps from the "Recents" menu but that gets washed away when I press the "Back" button after being done with the respective app.
I know the best option would be to start pushing the "Home" button but over the years I developed a habit of pushing the "Back" button several times to go to home or once to close the app and it's very hard to change behavior now.
I'm on NitrogenOS (8.1) if it matters - stock kernel.
Cheers.
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Unless the back button is programmed to kill an app, the app should stay in memory. So check the options for the back button and change it.
It is set to close app. Long press for kill. But still does not work.
If I assign to something else, then basic acknowledge functionality does not work...
DonnyR said:
It is set to close app. Long press for kill. But still does not work.
If I assign to something else, then basic acknowledge functionality does not work...
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Check the long press duration and if possible lengthen it. Or assign double tap for kill and none for long press as an experiment and check.