As the title says. requesting a softkey mod that enables the menu on both sides. default behavior.
I'd like to see this as well. Additionally always there menu would be nice.
Sounds like a useful thing to have....I'll look into it. No promises.
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i had mentioned that before, all i got was there is one.. LOL
id love a real menue soft key, thanks
Paul O Brien's ROM at MoDaCo does that (http://www.modaco.com/topic/355705-jr6-jro03d-411-mcr-new-button-mods-youtube-with-preloading/)
I am not sure if his pre-bake has it (I think it does, but it also puts the Back, Home & Tasks button at the right hand side when holding in Landscape).
If you have an ad-free account you can bake your own ROM with whatever options you want!
StuMcBill said:
Paul O Brien's ROM at MoDaCo does that (http://www.modaco.com/topic/355705-jr6-jro03d-411-mcr-new-button-mods-youtube-with-preloading/)
I am not sure if his pre-bake has it (I think it does, but it also puts the Back, Home & Tasks button at the right hand side when holding in Landscape).
If you have an ad-free account you can bake your own ROM with whatever options you want!
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Oh,then no need for me to look into that.. hey....are there any themers on the n7 yet?
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Just wondering for those of you who have the device already, have you guys found some neat features/tricks using 4.0 that haven't been documented or heavily advertised?
I would love to make a list of these features for other users to explore...
Lets get this started
List:
Reserved........
I know it's documented,but it was still a surprise to me - you can now finally delete apps straight from the app drawer, by dragging them just as if you were going to place them on the desktop,but then putting them in the recycle bin on the top.
No affiliation with apple. Or siri.
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Nobody's talking about the search app. It's way better than the one in Gingerbread. Much easier to find stuff in your phone : music, app, sms, docs, etc. The old one was returning web search suggestion in 90% of the result... useless.
Search in browser let's you edit suggestion if you want to add something to it. But we lost popular web site suggestion
Just read it on Pocketnow but you can make folders in the favourites bar. Apologies if obvious.
When in the stock browser and you change orientation, tap the screen to make it rotate.
gambiting said:
I know it's documented,but it was still a surprise to me - you can now finally delete apps straight from the app drawer, by dragging them just as if you were going to place them on the desktop,but then putting them in the recycle bin on the top.
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You can do that on stock fascinate.
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mkropf said:
You can do that on stock fascinate.
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which runs TouchWiz, so it's not stock Android
Rotate the phone to the right whilst in any stock app (so the speaker grill and front camera are on the right). Notice that the back, home and task switch buttons have moved to the top of the screen so that they stay on the right.
When using an ics app hold down on an icon in the action bar to get a description of what it does
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Not heavily advertised, but it should be:
The quick control in the browser. Almost the same as on honeycomb. Activate it in the labs settings of the browser. Love it!
appelflap said:
Not heavily advertised, but it should be:
The quick control in the browser. Almost the same as on honeycomb. Activate it in the labs settings of the browser. Love it!
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NICE find! Thanks!
This is known about, however you said undocumented and I haven't a single document for the Nexus/ICS apart from on one which came with the phone,telling me how to fix the battery.
Hold the volume down and power key, and you take a screen capture. Which is very handy on occasions
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If you tap the volume button which makes the volume bar appear, you can then press the icon to the left of the volume bar and it toggles between ring and vibrate.
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In settings/about phone. Tap repeatedly on the android version number (4.0...) then a little android appears. Keep ur finger on it and it grows into a screen animation.
If u didn't know about this,I guess u r now thinking this is a joke. Or is it?
Need someone to test; try swiping the web pages up/down using 2 fingers
, is it a feature or a glitch?
Stea1thmode said:
Need someone to test; try swiping the web pages up/down using 2 fingers
, is it a feature or a glitch?
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what's supposed to happen?
You can use the front facing camera to record in 720p hd
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what's supposed to happen?
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I thought it scrolled page by page. try by flicking with 2 fingers.
I have been using ics for a month. The design is generally great. but there is just one thing that piss me off. ....the soft button. They just take up too mich space!
i dont know if it is possible. Can you make the soft buttons stay on the screen buttakeup no space? i tried lmt launcher. its quite good, butits tired to hold the screenand slide to the keys that we are supposed to be able to press directly. I tried the key savior as well. the little arrow is indeed quite good! can some developer make "3little arrows that stay on the screen" to replace the soft buttons on ics?
i have my buttons transparent so it looks full screen but they are still there.
Under "GALAXY NEXUS THEMES & APPS" there is a thread about removing then and only having them pop up upon a certain gesture our action allowing you to have the full 720x1280 screen.
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how? thx... thats good!
RogerPodacter said:
i have my buttons transparent so it looks full screen but they are still there.
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thats great... can u tell me how?
Smokeey said:
Under "GALAXY NEXUS THEMES & APPS" there is a thread about removing then and only having them pop up upon a certain gesture our action allowing you to have the full 720x1280 screen.
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the gesture is wt i dun like...
I would love to see the buttons incorporated into the top bar like CM7 for the Kindle Fire. This way your buttons are always there and take up no space at all. No swiping or gestures needed...
iamrockrock said:
thats great... can u tell me how?
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Search "transparent" in themes section. I got it from that thread.
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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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
... of apps ignoring the menu key.
I've always preferred the menu - home - back layout Samsung has stuck with. It just feels more natural to me... Now though I'm starting to think the new Android design guidelines are going to pose a big usability problem.
Especially on big phones like the GS3, having to reach to the top of the phone to get at common options is an annoyance at best. Mint is one of the latest apps to implement the new design guidelines that renders the menu button useless.
I hope the development community can come up with a workaround - if they haven't already. Anyone know of efforts to remap or otherwise keep the menu button useful?
Its not really the dev community that controls the design guidelines.. as you know google updates them with each iteration of Android. The problem here is, starting from the Galaxy Nexus, none of Google's phones have come with a menu button. Google believes this is better (for some reason) and so all the design guidelines are trending towards making the menu button obsolete.
Samsung on the other hand is slowly becoming the only manufacturer to persist with the menu button.
From a development perspective, its easy enough to support devices with/without a menu button, with the same piece of code. I feel the main reason big Android apps are moving to the Holo bar menu button is for uniformity like in iOS (which is what Google wants in the first place)
There are roms that let you easily re-assign the menu button. For example, I have menu bound to recent apps (android standard is back, home, recent apps) with long press recent apps as menu for those few cases where apps still use the menu button.
As much as you may like the menu button it is more than on its way out at this point. Despite what samsung has been building their phones with.
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50% of the reason I like a physical home button is because for me, it's easier to power up the phone...and more natural, less effort etc. I also go into standby by an upward gesture on my homescreen so on/off is very quick and handy.
The other half is that I have more screen real estate.
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Its not really the dev community that controls the design guidelines.. as you know google updates them with each iteration of Android. The problem here is, starting from the Galaxy Nexus, none of Google's phones have come with a menu button. Google believes this is better (for some reason) and so all the design guidelines are trending towards making the menu button obsolete.
Samsung on the other hand is slowly becoming the only manufacturer to persist with the menu button.
From a development perspective, its easy enough to support devices with/without a menu button, with the same piece of code. I feel the main reason big Android apps are moving to the Holo bar menu button is for uniformity like in iOS (which is what Google wants in the first place)
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Uniformity is huge, have you seen that picture with the buttons of around 10 android popular phones in which none of them have the same buttons/order.
Also, as an ex-galaxy nexus user, I must say that on-screen buttons are FAR better than what we have. The only down side is lost screen space in most apps (some stuff does go full screen). But the customizability of the software buttons is SO NICE. you can change the size of the bar, the colour, what buttons are there, what the icons are. The slide for google now is much more intuitive that long pressing menu. XDA devs have even added the ability to add what ever you want to the google now slide up gesture. (including widgets).
The software bar is simply a modder's wet dream
Sure uniformity is cool, but what's more uniform than a menu key that's just there all the time? I don't even have to think about it; I want settings/options, I press the menu key. This has honestly been one of my favorite design elements of Android. I hate that this is being phased out.
Ah well, nothing I can do about it.
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50% of the reason I like a physical home button is because for me, it's easier to power up the phone...and more natural, less effort etc. I also go into standby by an upward gesture on my homescreen so on/off is very quick and handy.
The other half is that I have more screen real estate.
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How do you have it set up to sleep with a screen gesture?
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yamahakid said:
How do you have it set up to sleep with a screen gesture?
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It's 2 parts...but super simple and turbo quick!
I use Go Launcher EX. Many of the custom launchers have Gesture ability. (unlike stock TouchWiz) There are 2 types of gestures in GLex. The one I use is an upward gesture anywhere on any home screen. (you could choose an icon in the dock as well) and it's not the Gesture Pad feature. For me, this works well as I never find myself swiping upwards on the home screen except to initiate SCREEN OFF....although I have requested them to add a 2 finger swipe for extra control.
The 2nd part is an app called "screen off and lock" which I have been using for years. I tell GLex to execute SOAL with an upward gesture on the home screen. Works flawlessly. (GLex has it's own plugin for screen off...but it is laggy)
SOAL also has CRT similar fx and other options. But I just use the clean screen off effect and it's INSTANT. I literally can turn on my S3 with my physical home button, swipe to unlock. then swipe up to lock/screen off in under a second...and keep repeating...no lag. (that's not what I use it for per-say...but just to show that it is fast...all with my thumb in a close proximity area.)
Just got it all set up and I'm loving it so far. Thanks a lot
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Just got it all set up and I'm loving it so far. Thanks a lot
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Right on, glad you tried it out.
To me, little things like this make the experience so much better.
Are you using GLex?
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Right on, glad you tried it out.
To me, little things like this make the experience so much better.
Are you using GLex?
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No I have an s3, but I flashed a fix that changed my build.prop to gnex so I can run Google wallet.
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No I have an s3, but I flashed a fix that changed my build.prop to gnex so I can run Google wallet.
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Ha Ha...no...actually I meant Go Launcher EX? (GLex)
What launcher do you use to perform the swipe?
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Ha Ha...no...actually I meant Go Launcher EX? (GLex)
What launcher do you use to perform the swipe?
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Haha oh I thought you made a typo. I'm using apex launcher.
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radeon_x said:
... of apps ignoring the menu key.
I've always preferred the menu - home - back layout Samsung has stuck with. It just feels more natural to me... Now though I'm starting to think the new Android design guidelines are going to pose a big usability problem.
Especially on big phones like the GS3, having to reach to the top of the phone to get at common options is an annoyance at best. Mint is one of the latest apps to implement the new design guidelines that renders the menu button useless.
I hope the development community can come up with a workaround - if they haven't already. Anyone know of efforts to remap or otherwise keep the menu button useful?
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Video about some of my likes and dislikes about the GS3 overall its the best smartphone I have ever owned .
That's one thing that annoys me about the Android OS not being unified... some apps will ignore the menu, some wont.
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Sounds cool :thumbup:
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sounds cool :thumbup:
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yup i just find out this quite impressive app !
Version 1.25b
- Korean translation, thanks to Chae Jina.
- Russian translation, thanks to Oleg Gljadkov.
- Custom fonts now work with custom themes.
- Added tasks focus animations.
- Display actual fonts in settings.
- Added tasks label stroking effect.
- Various eye-candies and a pinch of fairy dust.
Enjoy.
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Just give a shot hope you like this app its quite handy :good:
So its recents app that is pretty much built into 4.2 thanks for work but could have been useful a year ago recents works well enough for me keep building tho
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sped_13 said:
So its recents app that is pretty much built into 4.2 thanks for work but could have been useful a year ago recents works well enough for me keep building tho
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the recents app has been changed to open apps you hadnt launched yet?
Guys Give a Shot If You Want To Feel How Is Ubantu Work On Mobile :good:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fb.glovebox&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5mYi5nbG92ZWJveCJd
i REALLY like this, i think it just needs a few little tweaks and it will potentially forever be my first loaded app after a flash
I find the trigger point for swiping sometimes covering buttons a bit ang gets activated without fully intending. What about maybe making it activate on a triple click, or maybe a double click, with the slide on the second click? Dont know how well they would work, but just some thoughts i had to try to solve that issue.
Ahhh whilst just reloading it i noticed the home double click option, i'll give that a whirl
The other thing is that i woiuld like to be able to make the scrolling bars maybe be a little less themed. I've been checking out some similar programs and i just find the scrolling to not quite be as good on this. I'm thinking if the bars were simplified a bit, it could perhaps help that? or maybe it might be drawing them as an overlay, rather than actually using a full side of the screen for example. I do a lot of coding, but havent done any on android, so i've got some ideas, but just not sure if they would necessarily make much of a difference or not.
I'm just about to reload it now, but i'm just trying to remember if there is any sort of option to add shortcuts/actions etc to tabs, rather than just apps, something else to consider perhaps.
there are people complaining in the play store about it being a home launcher, i dont quite get what they mean, (yes it has the default action for launcher applied), but the way it uses it's backup launcher it really does seem to work "in addition" to the backup launcher. I'm thinking they are talking about screen redraws, but i couldnt get any to happen (maybe needs to be running a while longer)
Anyway overall i LOVE your work, but (and obviously it's the message from the play store comments) i'd love to see it be cut back more if possible, to try to avoid any noticeable impact to the system, and for the people on play (who arent really clarifying what they want i dont think) maybe trying to tweak it's interaction with the fallback launcher (i'm not sure exactly what their issue is as i said, i'm taking a bit of a stab)
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reinstalled it just then and disabled the trigger, and set activation to double click home :good::highfive:
disabled themes as much as i could, i'll give it a spin like this and see how it goes.