Is there a way to disable the buttons on the S4 and enable onscreen navigation like on the Nexus devices? The physical buttons is the only thing keeping me from getting the S4.
idk about disabling the buttons but you can disable the lights on the keys and then do a easy build prop tweak to get on screen navigation
I've seen a few requests for this. Why do folks want to give up the screen real estate to add this? Not hating, just genuinely curious.
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knitler said:
Is there a way to disable the buttons on the S4 and enable onscreen navigation like on the Nexus devices? The physical buttons is the only thing keeping me from getting the S4.
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yes you can. depends on the rom. but there is a bunch of roms out there that have the onscreen navigation mod.
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Don't get me wrong the .com/www. is a useful button, but I'd rather have a tab button. I was wondering if there was a way to make the .com/www. button or even one of the custom buttons on the physical keyboard turn into a tab button. I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me. (If this is even possible). Thanks!
There is a thread in the dev section about this. Remapping keys is possible by editing the files that contain the layout.
While this is one custom approach and may not suit all your needs, it opens the door to customization for your own purposes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837002
woops commented on the wrong thread. someone can delete this comment please
mcjerica said:
There is a thread in the dev section about this. Remapping keys is possible by editing the files that contain the layout.
While this is one custom approach and may not suit all your needs, it opens the door to customization for your own purposes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837002
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Awesome, thanks. Didn't know the words I needed to use to find what I was looking for.
Is it possible to bring up the task manager by a double click of the home button, instead of holding it?
I typically use it, when I need to switch apps. It would be quicker to quickly double click (like apple) rather then hold it for two seconds.
Is there anyway I can change this behavior? Im rooted.
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I'm using nova launcher prime, and it has a gesture control, I double tap the screen and task manager opens, no more holding down the home button to open it.
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Is there a way to make the navigation bar stay on the right side of the screen when in landscape mode like the Nexus phones (see attachments)? The screen is already quite narrow to begin with; it seems like such a waste of space for the software buttons to be on the bottom. I already searched around but the best I've found so far is GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. It helps but I'd rather move the navigation bar to the side instead of hiding it. Stock ROM, rooted.
Yeah I want this as well.
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Aokp had this feature although it got messed up in later nightlies.
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Gonna have to wait for custom Roms but I don't think any of the developers have this thing yet? I'm probably wrong though
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Its not only a waste of valuable screen space in landscape, it puts the home key in the least convenient place possible: in the middle as far as possible from both thumbs. What a horrible design decision.
Only reason I'm getting custom rom is this.
Apex launcher will do this. Not sure why you would want to tho.
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Apex launcher will do this. Not sure why you would want to tho.
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where in APEX?
If you have root GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys allows to hide stock navigation bar and adds Quick Bar (autohide navigation bar) instead. Latest beta added option to move Quick Bar to side in landscape.
I had it on PA3.93, by default. But then I played around with UIs & updating PA... then I couldn't see it anymore.
I think it's pretty neat. I'm on a different ROM (Slim) now.
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If you have root GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys allows to hide stock navigation bar and adds Quick Bar (autohide navigation bar) instead. Latest beta added option to move Quick Bar to side in landscape.
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Ohhhhh good to know about the option to move to the side. Thanks.
What I didn't love about autohide was that there was stuff under the bar when it wasn't hidden. That means you don't just hide it when you want more real estate, but also when its blocking things. Just leaving it on the side would have been better.
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Its not only a waste of valuable screen space in landscape, it puts the home key in the least convenient place possible: in the middle as far as possible from both thumbs. What a horrible design decision.
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The whole in screen nav bar in general was a horrible design decision. Google should fire whoever came up with that idea. My biggest gripe with Android is that stupid nav bar. All Android devices should have 3 capacitive buttons.
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The whole in screen nav bar in general was a horrible design decision. Google should fire whoever came up with that idea. My biggest gripe with Android is that stupid nav bar. All Android devices should have 3 capacitive buttons.
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I agree with you 100 percent. But surprisingly a lot of folks seem to love them. It baffles me to waste some of the most valuable screen real estate (near your thumbs) but to each his own.
My solution is to return the nexus 7 and buyb Samsung devices. I have an s3 phone, Note 8, and Tab 3 8. One of the two tablets will go but I cant ddecide which. Both are quite nice.
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Is there a way to make the navigation bar stay on the right side of the screen when in landscape mode like the Nexus phones (see attachments)? The screen is already quite narrow to begin with; it seems like such a waste of space for the software buttons to be on the bottom. I already searched around but the best I've found so far is GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. It helps but I'd rather move the navigation bar to the side instead of hiding it. Stock ROM, rooted.
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It's not what you are looking for but checkout my thread on how to reduce the size of the navigation bar. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2412699
+1 would also like to see it on the side like on my galaxy nexus. if anyone could make a flashable zip would be great. don´t want to use a thirdapplication for something "simple" like that. but gonna give the app a try.
GMD Auto Hide Softkeys + GMD Gesture Control (to replace the Back, Home and Recent buttons with gestures - use 1-step gestures with 3 fingers to make it fastest and most convenient).
In GMD Auto Hide, set it so that the navigation bar comes up by swiping, not by tapping. And set "Trigger sensitivity" to 1 so that taps in the lowest area are not interpreted as trigger attempts (important when using keyboard).
Best Solution, hands down. Try it.
I actually wanted the opposite; nav-bar on bottom.
I finally got it on the bottom by messing around in the PA hybrid properties. Changed my interface to Phablet mode with a DPI of 320, nav-bar height set to 50% for more screen real-estate (plus, I like the smaller button icons). I know you probably want a solution other than "Flash x custom ROM and mess with these settings" but if nothing else, maybe the DPI and nav-bar settings will point you in the right direction. Plus, you might actually decide to flash PA and edit those settings.
Wished nav bar would relocate to the top when playing games since I always hit them by accident ruining the experience. Prefer hardware buttons because of this.
GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys can also completely disable navbar.
You also can use Xposed Framework with module "Gravity Box" and set to "Expanded Desktop".
I am looking for a mod that enables the negative colors mode on "X" number of home button clicks or long press menu key etc... I know there is a kernel out there but I would like this to work on AOSP roms. Any help is appreciated.
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I am looking for a mod that enables the negative colors mode on "X" number of home button clicks or long press menu key etc... I know there is a kernel out there but I would like this to work on AOSP roms. Any help is appreciated.
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I found that you can do this from the terminal as root by typing: echo 1 > /sys/class/mdnie/mdnie/negative
How can I do this as a script or as a toggle via multi or long press hardware buttons so that it sends a 1 if its 0 and a 0 if its 1?
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Hello everyone!
I just purchased the Galaxy S3 as an upgrade from the Galaxy S2 (d2tmo and hercules respectively). Over at the S2 XDA forums, our sweep2wake consisted of swiping across all the capacitive buttons on the device (since, as you know, it did not have hard buttons for menu, home, back, and search).
However, from what I've researched on this forum for the S3, it seems that YOUR sweep2wake is swiping a finger across the screen, or what the S2'ers called swipe2wake.
I know a couple devs, but unfortunately am not one. I do know that only certain devices are capable of waking by capacitive buttons due to keyboard drivers. My question is, does the S3 qualify? I'd love to wake it by touching the menu and back button. I've broken a plenty phones simply by wearing out their buttons, and I find sweep2wake an elegant solution.
However, I don't have the technical skill to port something like this to a kernel just yet. I hope someone can help me clarify this issue.
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Hello everyone!
I just purchased the Galaxy S3 as an upgrade from the Galaxy S2 (d2tmo and hercules respectively). Over at the S2 XDA forums, our sweep2wake consisted of swiping across all the capacitive buttons on the device (since, as you know, it did not have hard buttons for menu, home, back, and search).
However, from what I've researched on this forum for the S3, it seems that YOUR sweep2wake is swiping a finger across the screen, or what the S2'ers called swipe2wake.
I know a couple devs, but unfortunately am not one. I do know that only certain devices are capable of waking by capacitive buttons due to keyboard drivers. My question is, does the S3 qualify? I'd love to wake it by touching the menu and back button. I've broken a plenty phones simply by wearing out their buttons, and I find sweep2wake an elegant solution.
However, I don't have the technical skill to port something like this to a kernel just yet. I hope someone can help me clarify this issue.
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If you're rooted & running custom ROM, kit kat or lollipop, then flash Neocore kernel & use trickster mod to set sweep to wake & double tap to wake! Both have to be activated at the same time for it to work!
I'm not sure if you read my post, but it specifically ruled out screen-based waking solutions.
I was talking about capacitive button based wake (tap menu, tap back, screen on).