I'm on 4.1.1 stock rooted and I was wondering how could I enable the soft buttons on my phone? I feel like the wear and tear on my home button is getting worse and it's not as responsive.
Someone else posted editing the build.prop and adding in qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 but that didn't seem to do anything.
mazdamiata210 said:
I'm on 4.1.1 stock rooted and I was wondering how could I enable the soft buttons on my phone? I feel like the wear and tear on my home button is getting worse and it's not as responsive.
Someone else posted editing the build.prop and adding in qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 but that didn't seem to do anything.
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You should use LMT launcher. It has the PIE included in it which has all the soft navigation buttons plus you can assign other things like opening apps and using scripts as well. Much more functional, doesn't take up screen space etc...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
You can add this to build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
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UtkarshGupta said:
You can add this to build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
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It doesn't make sense but 1 is off and 0 is on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2032117
Take a look
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mazdamiata210 said:
It doesn't make sense but 1 is off and 0 is on.
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You are interpreting it wrongly. 0 means no hardware key so navigation bar will come out. 1 means hardware key exist.
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Brothers,this is the first post from me in xda,sorry for my bad english..
Alright,back to the question...
As you know i want to make my nexus become fullscreen display so i root and use the softkeys to replace the 3original softkeys..
However,I found that the LMT Launcher v1.2 is not good enough for me so i want to find another softkey to use.....but after finding,i find that there are only 2 choice i can choose..
1:LMT Launcher v1.2
2:Button Savior Pro
So i want to ask wether are there any other choice i can choose?
If any brothers know...please tell me!!!!
Especially i want the one as same as the i phone!
The iPhone doesn't have soft keys.
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There would be, if this phone had any softkeys to begin with...
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GNex has no soft keys.
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chancy319 said:
GNex has no soft keys.
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the navigation bar contains soft keys...
and to answer the question you can use miui rom to make it look like iphone a bit but none of the softkey hiding techniques i know are stable.
If your rooted and have a custom rom that supports removal of soft keys like aokp or some aosp roms Try black ice rom on rootzwiki if your looking for the gsm version there the soft keys are in the power menu and the toggle on and off in there too
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413582 you can change your soft keys to what ever you want. Even down to one and make it look like the iphone
Hope that is what you looking for and don't forget to hit thanks to all the people who helped you
saadi03 said:
the navigation bar contains soft keys...
and to answer the question you can use miui rom to make it look like iphone a bit but none of the softkey hiding techniques i know are stable.
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I know what you're talking about but I meant soft keys like the Nexus S.
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chancy319 said:
I know what you're talking about but I meant soft keys like the Nexus S.
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You mean the capacitive buttons?
Figured all the mentions of soft keys was short for software keys. Which sorta makes sense.
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bleedblue said:
You mean the capacitive buttons?
Figured all the mentions of soft keys was short for software keys. Which sorta makes sense.
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Yeah, when he said soft keys, I thought of software keys, not capacitive buttons
Use aokp, it completely hides the bottom soft buttons so its total full screen. And it looks excellent.
hey brothers,,first of all..sorry,,may be i use the wrong word....
while my word 'soft key' is that the software keys....because i hide the original 3 keys and use some software to replace it...so i wanna to ask are there any other choices of software i can use to replace the function of "back home and search........
i want some apps~
I am on the paranoidandroid rom and was wondering if i could disable the softkeys completely and rely on the on screen nav bar
JellyFreeBeans said:
I am on the paranoidandroid rom and was wondering if i could disable the softkeys completely and rely on the on screen nav bar
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First off just a correction ...
softkeys are "Software Keys" so the "On Screen" keys are soft keys .....
As far as disabling the Hardware keys, there used to be an app that let you disable buttons, but not sure if it works on the sgs2 ....
I'll look around for one, thanks
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JellyFreeBeans said:
I am on the paranoidandroid rom and was wondering if i could disable the softkeys completely and rely on the on screen nav bar
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I was wondering the same thing earlier... if your using nova launcher hold down on the home screen and select shortcuts then activities then select Galaxy sII settings. Then just dissable key backlight.
Hope that helps
Edit - after re-reading what you wrote I realized you meant how to completely dissable them. I'm not really sure how you would do that. Well, good luck
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Does anyone know which JB roms allow you to remove the soft keys? I'm currently running the final AOKP nightly but am looking to try others. Thanks.
If you remove the soft keys how do you plan on navigating thru the phone... unless there's something I haven't seen, the soft keys are needed
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You can add qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 to you build props to remove the onscreen buttons
jboyer0000 said:
If you remove the soft keys how do you plan on navigating thru the phone... unless there's something I haven't seen, the soft keys are needed
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I've been wondering this too.
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For what reason......
The buttons disappear when they need to.
Not like they take up space on the screen. They are needed and available when they are needed and go away when they aren't needed so why try to remove something you will need.
I dont get it.
If you still want to try to remove the buttons I believe I seen this option available in the JB Sourcery ROM for the Nexus. Read about JB Sourcery here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833834
Paranoid Android supports it.
jboyer0000 said:
If you remove the soft keys how do you plan on navigating thru the phone... unless there's something I haven't seen, the soft keys are needed
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button savior?
rnjsgurwn96 said:
Paranoid Android supports it.
button savior?
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I use LMT Launcher to hide the soft keys, the come up when I command them to. It gives more screen real estate. I use it on top of Nova. YOu can set gestures if you want as well. Once I got rid of them, I couldn't stand having them on my screen anymore. Now if only every app came in full-screen mode, my life would be complete.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150 <---- LMT Launcher
Is there a file I can download that allows me to remove the action bar? Or do I need to use a different ROM?
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Maxwell3004 said:
Is there a file I can download that allows me to remove the action bar? Or do I need to use a different ROM?
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for starters, are supposed to guess what rom are you running?
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The "are you jellin" ROM.
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Upload your framework-res.apk and I'll send you a .zip.
You can add this line to your build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 or let Jubakuba edit your current framework.apk
jerrycycle said:
You can add this line to your build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 or let Jubakuba edit your current framework.apk
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Good solution...
But the harder solution is "better" in that you'll still get ICS+ optimized menu buttons. (You know, the three dots. If apps see that you "don't have" a NavBar" they don't show the three dots...since that generally means you have a hard menu button).
Decompile framework-res.apk
/res/values/dimens.xml holds three lines in relation to navbar size. Edit all three to 0.0.
Profit.
For this person your edited framework would be best. In my case I use gesture to control back, home, menu & power off/on, so the build.prop is best for me.
How do I do that?
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Maxwell3004 said:
How do I do that?
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Use a file explorer to copy it from /system/framework/framework-res.apk
To your SD card.
Upload somewhere.
Send link.
Is possible for non-rooted? Any apk for remove the action bar? I use not any Rom .... any answers is welcome ... I appreciate it! Thanks!
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Edit: Problem solved .... I found app that called GMD Immersive Mode ... works very well!!
According to Samsung's website on how to use Multi Window, there suppose to have an edit button.
But it's missing here. I am using Nova launcher, has that have anything to do with it? How can I get to back? I wish to edit the apps available to the Multi Window Panel.
Bump
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FinancialWar said:
According to Samsung's website on how to use Multi Window, there suppose to have an edit button.
But it's missing here. I am using Nova launcher, has that have anything to do with it? How can I get to back? I wish to edit the apps available to the Multi Window Panel.
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Hey mate. Looks like you're on a custom ROM, which one? In my experience, the edit button normally found on the bottom of the bar can be elusive if you have non-stock DPI (320 is stock). I recall being able to rotate to landscape while on 260 DPI, opening the bar, and could see half the edit button, enough to press it.
Alternatively, if ur rooted then get the multi-window app which manages those apps in a neat package.
Good luck
FinancialWar said:
According to Samsung's website on how to use Multi Window, there suppose to have an edit button.
But it's missing here. I am using Nova launcher, has that have anything to do with it? How can I get to back? I wish to edit the apps available to the Multi Window Panel.
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Did you change your screen dpi? Anytime you switch the screen dpi from its default it's going to mess up the multiwindow menu, and the most obvious result is that the edit button disappears. Restore the dpi to its default value (320) and voila! the edit button returns.
mudge
Verizon disabled the edit of the multi window app selections
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Did you change your screen dpi? Anytime you switch the screen dpi from its default it's going to mess up the multiwindow menu, and the most obvious result is that the edit button disappears. Restore the dpi to its default value (320) and voila! the edit button returns.
mudge
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I changed it to 240.
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FinancialWar said:
I changed it to 240.
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Thats to be expected when you chnage Screen DPI. what you can do is move your MW tray to buttom so the EDIT button will show or find a modded flashbar with multi DPI support.
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