Hi Guys,
The bottom of my screen (about 5mm) has become unresponsive to touch. In previous ROM's I've got around this by adding a navbar to the bottom of the screen which I don't use (as in the soft key buttons).
I've just installed a Sense 5 ROM (InsertCoin) and really like the feel of it, however I can't find any way to get the navbar at the bottom of the screen. Obviously as it's a sense rom, there is nothing in the settings, and I've tried putting qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 into the build.prop file but that has also not worked :/
Does anyone have a solution to this or a way to cut the bottom 5mm of the visible screen? Or even better, a way to get the bottom of the screen working?
Cheers,
Tom
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Hello everyone,
I just bought my desire and the first "annoying" thing is that I can't go back without using the hardware button. It would be nice to go back using a gesture like a slide from left to right (similar to the home pages navigation).
Since the display is quite big, you need to do some 'trips' between the upper part of the display and the bottom where the button is located.
Is there any utility tool which can accomplish that?
I assume because it would be rather confusing. What happens in apps that use the swipe gesture? If "back" is hard coded into the swipe gesture for the entire OS then apps can't use it. In the photo gallery swipe is for moving from one photo to the next...but if I accidentally try to share a photo and want to get out of that dialogue then I don't want swipe to move to share the previous photo instead...I want it to get out altogether.
I agree..in some applications makes no sense. Anyway, I need to have at least a soft button to go back on the upper or bottom of the display. Another solution is to have the back behavior only on some portions the display.
There is another problem which bothers me . The fonts are not so smooth..it looks like no clear type is available. Every letter have some very small pink pixels on the left side.In fact this applies for every vertical line. Is this normal?
has anyone else this pink pixels?
giony said:
I agree..in some applications makes no sense. Anyway, I need to have at least a soft button to go back on the upper or bottom of the display. Another solution is to have the back behavior only on some portions the display.
There is another problem which bothers me . The fonts are not so smooth..it looks like no clear type is available. Every letter have some very small pink pixels on the left side.In fact this applies for every vertical line. Is this normal?
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Er...no...never seen this. You need to get that checked.
RE pink pixels.
See this article and this XDA thread.
Regards,
Dave
I searched and came up with nothing. Is there a MOD available to reduce the size or hide the soft key bar all together (restoring with some gesture maybe)?
The idea being you would have more screen real estate at all times. The reality is we don't truly have a 4.65" screen, its more like 4.4" (unless watching video). This becomes especially annoying when using the browser...those soft keys take up a good .25" of screen real estate!
I would even be happy to cut the soft key bar pixel-width in half and use the 3 small dots like in the camera app.
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I don't currently know of anything, but there are some programs for honeycomb for hiding the softbuttons, you could give them a try.
Edit: I tried this to no avail: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379006
Im sure this will come with time it's inevitable!
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I enjoy using my phone in fullscreen but not so much the LMT app to navigate since it doesnt work as quickly as the navbar.
My question is, would it be possible to map the back/home/multi-task buttons to be off screen on the bottom but above the notification led?
Does the digitizer sense touch in this area?
No one? Anything? I believe this is a good idea
I'm pretty sure the digitizer stops where the screen does. Your idea would be awesome if possible but its not sadly. I actually was trying to make buttons out of tin foil(obviously just as a test) where the tin foil touches the bottom of the screen and when you touch the foil it would hit the soft keys. It got less and less responsive though the smaller I made the nav bar.
My home, back and recent buttons on the phone are broken. I hpermanent ave root but that's not the reason.
So, is there an app or Rom which can put those buttons permanent on bottom of screen, and then make the rest of the screen the display. So it should lower the height of the viewport, and put those buttons in the remaining space below.
I've tried "button savior" app, but I don't want those buttons as an overlay.
The screen on the phone is big enough to use some of it as a permanent button area I think.
thomashygum said:
My home, back and recent buttons on the phone are broken. I hpermanent ave root but that's not the reason.
So, is there an app or Rom which can put those buttons permanent on bottom of screen, and then make the rest of the screen the display. So it should lower the height of the viewport, and put those buttons in the remaining space below.
I've tried "button savior" app, but I don't want those buttons as an overlay.
The screen on the phone is big enough to use some of it as a permanent button area I think.
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most aosp roms and some sense roms have the option to show the "nav bar" at the bottom, some even have the option to change the colour of the buttons
thomashygum said:
My home, back and recent buttons on the phone are broken. I hpermanent ave root but that's not the reason.
So, is there an app or Rom which can put those buttons permanent on bottom of screen, and then make the rest of the screen the display. So it should lower the height of the viewport, and put those buttons in the remaining space below.
I've tried "button savior" app, but I don't want those buttons as an overlay.
The screen on the phone is big enough to use some of it as a permanent button area I think.
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Try the ParanoidAndroid ROM.
You can enable those buttons in there and you can even customize them exactly the way you want them to be! (the size, color, etc...) :victory:
StiQuezNL said:
Try the ParanoidAndroid ROM.
You can enable those buttons in there and you can even customize them exactly the way you want them to be! (the size, color, etc...) :victory:
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perfect! Can you also help me by telling me exactly where one can enable those buttons in that rom? And maybe give me link to latest version of that rom?
Pie Launcher which is for root users also provides some features..try it
thomashygum said:
perfect! Can you also help me by telling me exactly where one can enable those buttons in that rom? And maybe give me link to latest version of that rom?
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Sorry for not replying for so long.
Those buttons are enabled by default, so that shouldn't be a problem. The latest version of this ROM can be found here. However, why didn't you just have a look yourself? It can be found pretty easily in the Original Development section
Are there kernels in development where the HTC logo can be used to "activate" a transparent soft option, similar to how the stock soft home long press opens up Google now menu? I think there is the sweep2sleep but I like the implementation on the M7 because it doesn't waste the bottom row on the screen where as the M8 is on the display. The usualble space seems a bit taller/longer on the M7 and looking to see if anyone has a way to recover that on the M8.
I lose about an inch on the bottom because I also use the keyboard arrows.
Thanks
-p
purin said:
Are there kernels in development where the HTC logo can be used to "activate" a transparent soft option, similar to how the stock soft home long press opens up Google now menu? I think there is the sweep2sleep but I like the implementation on the M7 because it doesn't waste the bottom row on the screen where as the M8 is on the display. The usualble space seems a bit taller/longer on the M7 and looking to see if anyone has a way to recover that on the M8.
I lose about an inch on the bottom because I also use the keyboard arrows.
Thanks
-p
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No its not possible