Hey, the title say it all. When gaming in galaxy nexus, does the soft button will disappear? Anyone of Galaxy nexus owner can answer me? It is kind of fun if disappear so that it can play with 1280x720 HD resolution and HDMI to TV with no letterbox.
As far as i know right now, no. But im thinking that can possibly be managed in the future.
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Unless some app developer figures out a way around it, no. The three possible states for the on-screen buttons are visible (which is typical), low-profile mode (reduced to three dots), and hidden (i.e. fullscreen). When the buttons are hidden, any user input (touching the screen, pushing the volume or power buttons, etc.) will make the buttons visible again. So at best, games on the GN will have the buttons be in low-profile mode, at least until there comes to be another solution to that
It isn't a built in feature in HC but there are apps in the market to hide them... I wonder if they work in ICS? If not, its only a matter of time.
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player911 said:
It isn't a built in feature in HC but there are apps in the market to hide them... I wonder if they work in ICS? If not, its only a matter of time.
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I'm sure you'll be able to hide the bar completely. With root access of course
Doesn't the Videoplayer and the Easteregg of ICS did it? For me it looked like that in some Videos so I think there should be a way to use the full screen without the buttons in ICS.
edit: There at second 15 you can ses what I mean. It goes to fullscreen and uses the area where the buttons where before for fullscreen too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHPhrhIpkE4
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Doesn't the Videoplayer and the Easteregg of ICS did it? For me it looked like that in some Videos so I think there should be a way to use the full screen without the buttons in ICS.
edit: There at second 15 you can ses what I mean. It goes to fullscreen and uses the area where the buttons where before for fullscreen too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHPhrhIpkE4
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Like hyperdude already said, the buttons will come back as soon as you touch the screen, so you can't hide it completely while playing games.
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What about Youtube full screen, in call, photo library and Browser, do the Soft B dissapear?
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robrob777 said:
What about Youtube full screen, in call, photo library and Browser, do the Soft B dissapear?
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I know that when you watch videos fullscreen (including Youtube) the soft buttons disappear. That's all I know at this point, considering I don't have a GN.
robrob777 said:
What about Youtube full screen, in call, photo library and Browser, do the Soft B dissapear?
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YouTube full screen: hidden
Photo gallery and in-call: discrete mode
Browser: stays on
Edit: It goes into discrete mode in call.
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Unless some app developer figures out a way around it, no. The three possible states for the on-screen buttons are visible (which is typical), low-profile mode (reduced to three dots), and hidden (i.e. fullscreen). When the buttons are hidden, any user input (touching the screen, pushing the volume or power buttons, etc.) will make the buttons visible again. So at best, games on the GN will have the buttons be in low-profile mode, at least until there comes to be another solution to that
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Well, I figured a idea which make possible useful for 720p display for gaming especially HDMI to TV. That is when playing games the soft button will completely disappear but when you pause the game, the soft button will immediately pop out. This make useful when multitasking/home screen or others.
Does anyone agree with me ?
w1nter456 said:
Well, I figured a idea which make possible useful for 720p display for gaming especially HDMI to TV. That is when playing games the soft button will completely disappear but when you pause the game, the soft button will immediately pop out. This make useful when multitasking/home screen or others.
Does anyone agree with me ?
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Android will never let an app decide when to show the navigation bar after it's been hidden - that's not good security. There's a reason why it's designed so that an app can only hide the navigation bar until the user interacts with the device.
A good solution to this problem has been proposed by some others: have the power button double as a navigation bar activator. Double tap the power button to hide the bar, double tap it again to bring it back up. This lets you hide the bar without relying on apps to determine when to show and hide it. It would be better if there were a dedicated button on the Galaxy Nexus for this, but alas there isn't.
The buttons do not hide when playing Shadow Gun and I find I exit to home screen during the middle of some frantic shooting. Tres Frustrating!
chandlerweb said:
The buttons do not hide when playing Shadow Gun and I find I exit to home screen during the middle of some frantic shooting. Tres Frustrating!
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Argh, I was really hopeful that ICS would address this when I saw the virtual keys. This is one of the things that pissed me off the most about soft keys - they don't go well with games. Plus the extra screen space is awesome.
I hope cm9 will be able to address this.
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Android will never let an app decide when to show the navigation bar after it's been hidden - that's not good security. There's a reason why it's designed so that an app can only hide the navigation bar until the user interacts with the device.
A good solution to this problem has been proposed by some others: have the power button double as a navigation bar activator. Double tap the power button to hide the bar, double tap it again to bring it back up. This lets you hide the bar without relying on apps to determine when to show and hide it. It would be better if there were a dedicated button on the Galaxy Nexus for this, but alas there isn't.
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I don't think spamming the power button is a good solution - it's a physical button so it'll wear out if it's pressed so many times. I'd prefer to see a simple gesture, perhaps two fingers from bottom to top.
Wait, won't this screw up the dimensions/ratio/whatever you call it?
With the buttons present, wouldn't this make the games/content scrunched up (vertically)? That SUCKS
I do not own a Nexus but it's one of the phones im thinking about buying. So most of the time (except in youtube and video player) you actually don't have all of the 4.65 inch screen available to you for viewing your content? In your opinion how big is the screen when navigation buttons are available? 4.3, 4.4 inch?
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About 4.3.
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AOKP lets you hide the nav buttons completely, only problem is to use the keys, you have to hold power - and I'm wary of pressing a hardware button constantly.
BUT
I found a neat app called zMooth, which puts a tiny bar on the bottom of the screen to gesture back/home/menu/lock screen.
It doesn't appear to work well on GN yet, just the home/lock works from my testing. But this gives me great hope that once it works on GN, we can get rid of the native nav buttons completely and fully utilize the full screen.
Here's how it looks for me:
http://phota.me/ZFM4
That just seems really unnecessary.
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AOKP lets you hide the nav buttons completely, only problem is to use the keys, you have to hold power - and I'm wary of pressing a hardware button constantly.
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I found a neat app called zMooth, which puts a tiny bar on the bottom of the screen to gesture back/home/menu/lock screen.
It doesn't appear to work well on GN yet, just the home/lock works from my testing. But this gives me great hope that once it works on GN, we can get rid of the native nav buttons completely and fully utilize the full screen.
Here's how it looks for me:
http://phota.me/ZFM4
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You can use LMT Launcher or Button Savior for the galaxy nexus. I use LMT launcher and it works great. You can use the 'pie' navigation that is used in the stock browser for home, back, menu, and recent. I've read that the ones that put overlays on the screen can cause lag.
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That just seems really unnecessary.
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All in the eye of the beholder. I like using the mod and didn't take too long to get used to.
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i _think_ i know what you are referring to, the toggle switches in cm9-reloaded right?
if so, that's the only cm9 mod that offers that and at this time, it does not work, the dev has recently said he is rebuilding the whole whirliebird and apparently won't be updating the current v
like samsung galaxy nexus
On-Screen Buttons on CM9, like the Nexus
well i guess i don't know what you are talking about, the screen cap you added doesn't have any onscreen buttons, at least what i consider onscreen buttons.
scott0 said:
well i guess i don't know what you are talking about, the screen cap you added doesn't have any onscreen buttons, at least what i consider onscreen buttons.
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It's the three icons at the bottom...they're literally generated on the screen itself
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well i guess i don't know what you are talking about, the screen cap you added doesn't have any onscreen buttons, at least what i consider onscreen buttons.
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The bottom three icons on the screen. Those are present on the Galaxy Nexus because it doesn't have any hardware buttons (back, home, menu, or search). He's asking for that on Nitro, even though the Nitro does have hardware buttons.
I'm guessing there is a way to override the default setting and enable them, but I'm not sure.
nevermind is not for cm9 nightlies
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531222
only slould work on all CM9 RC....this is Reloaded Mod
Hello,
Coming from a Galaxy Nexus I miss having my back button the left side and the menu on the right, is it possible to swap these on the GS3?
Thanks!
Soursamo said:
Hello,
Coming from a Galaxy Nexus I miss having my back button the left side and the menu on the right, is it possible to swap these on the GS3?
Thanks!
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I remembering seeing settings in Slim for remapping the hardware keys... and setting different functions on long press, etc...
Hi,
I'm coming from a Galaxy S4 to the LG3.
This will be the first time I have a phone without physical buttons and I feel that too much space is taken up by the navigation bar.
Is there any way I can reduce the height of the navigation bar / buttons either within CM or using something else?
Thanks
No Expert said:
Hi,
I'm coming from a Galaxy S4 to the LG3.
This will be the first time I have a phone without physical buttons and I feel that too much space is taken up by the navigation bar.
Is there any way I can reduce the height of the navigation bar / buttons either within CM or using something else?
Thanks
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I think that gravitybox have this option: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.ceco.lollipop.gravitybox
RapHaeL_4_4_4_ said:
I think that gravitybox have this option: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.ceco.lollipop.gravitybox
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Hi, yes indeed it does.
I also found out about TweaksBox (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.ptoti.g3_tweaksbox&hl=en_GB)
Thanks