So, as most of us have seen the new Pro line of samsung tablets have removed the menu button for a multitasking button. Now I'm sitting here wondering if the kitkat update will change our menu button to multitasking since everything in kit kat will have and overflow menu or if we will be stuck with basically a dead key.
This is the one thing that might actually make me switch to the pro line even though i dont really want to.
Any thoughts? or maybe suggestions on something i can do to fix that?
It's being discussed here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588904&page=4
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Hello, n00b here!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S II (SGH-T989 T-Mobile), that has four 'hard softkeys', that is, touchbuttons (menu, home, back, search) outside the display area [no physical clicky Home button], and can't for the life of me, or with bad google-fu, figure out how to make the Home button take me right back to the home screen (launcher). When I press it once I just get a haptic 'bzz', and nothing at all happens. When I double-click it, as I have set in the settings, it goes to Task Switcher, from where I then can reach the home screen by tapping outside the miniaturized windows of running apps.
But, how to I make a single click go directly to the home screen?
Ideally I'd like to have the four buttons be menu=menu, home=homescreen, back=back, search=taskswitcher. Installing a specific app for it (that preferably won't eat up screen real estate with on-display softkeys), another launcher, another Settings app etc, is all okay by me as long as it fixes this major nag.
I don't get to choose other than a preset list in Settings, though. :/
System info is SAMSUNG-SGH-T989, CyanogenMod 11-20140506-NIGHTLY-hercules, Kernel 3.0.101-DIABLO-3.3, launcher Trebuchet 1.0.
(As a little gripe and boo, CM-11 on the Kindle Fire worked wonderfully, where the three on-display softkeys for taskswitch/home/back did just what I wanted them to. I can't see any reason why a JB'd phone would be unable to remap the keys to a select very few options just because they happen to be outside the actual display area. Especially as Home doesn't lead to the Home Screen. :/ )
Tons of grapefruitgrateful for any help here!
-Henrik
Problem solved, good enough for me - installing Hellybean and getting rid of all KitKat related junk.
Suddenly the phone works like it's supposed to, whee!
SII T989 home keys not working
Snoutfoo said:
Problem solved, good enough for me - installing Hellybean and getting rid of all KitKat related junk.
Suddenly the phone works like it's supposed to, whee!
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SGH-T989 Galaxy S II. Home keys aren't working. Sent phone in for charging port repairs. Sent phone back to replace touch keypad flex cable. Buttons have worked intermittently since. They also light up intermittently. I was hoping this was software related. Kies says the firmware is the latest. Any suggestions? The phone is for my 10yr old. Don't really want to invest in something new for her right now, just for games!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S II (SGH-T989 T-Mobile), that has four 'hard softkeys', that is, touchbuttons (menu, home, back, search) outside the display area....and they are all not working now...the moment i on the phone sync not allowed pop...........please help me out
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hi guys i I have a Samsung Galaxy S II (SGH-T989 T-Mobile), that has four 'hard softkeys', that is, touchbuttons (menu, home, back, search) outside the display area....and they are all not working now...i cnt hve it repaired coz the accessories of this model re scarce in our nation bt i hve found an app whch cn help m with the home and back button now i want the menu button so that i can b able to add APN on mi fo to use internet
Hi there -
Just got an LG G3 a few days ago and am enjoying the process of getting acquainted with it. One of the features that I really like is the ability to quickly launch the camera or the quick memo when the phone is off by long pressing the volume down or volume up buttons. The camera one is handy, but I'd love to change the other one to something other than the quick memo.
Was wondering if by chance someone might have developed a fix that would allow you to change the app that launches when long pressing the volume up and/or down. I'm guessing that I can't be the only person who's had this thought -- hopefully someone's thought of this who actually knows enough to make it happen.
Thanks!
cloudcover said:
Hi there -
Just got an LG G3 a few days ago and am enjoying the process of getting acquainted with it. One of the features that I really like is the ability to quickly launch the camera or the quick memo when the phone is off by long pressing the volume down or volume up buttons. The camera one is handy, but I'd love to change the other one to something other than the quick memo.
Was wondering if by chance someone might have developed a fix that would allow you to change the app that launches when long pressing the volume up and/or down. I'm guessing that I can't be the only person who's had this thought -- hopefully someone's thought of this who actually knows enough to make it happen.
Thanks!
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I use G3 Tweakbox (in the Play Store). It lets you customize just about anything on the phone. You have to be rooted for it to work.
I recently went from Note 3 to Note 4, and then quickly took the Lollipop upgrade, so I don't know if this happened between models or between systems. But I now do not have access to the settings menus on some apps. The menu was previously brought up by the "button" to the left of the home button, but that now brings up recently opened apps. I don't see any way to get to app settings and there are no updates available - Palmary Weather Pro and Tecarta NIV Bible. They both worked fine on Note 3, but only access settings through that lower button, which is now used for something else. I'm hoping there's a solution, but I'm afraid it's collateral damage of new OS. Thanks for any ideas.
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I recently went from Note 3 to Note 4, and then quickly took the Lollipop upgrade, so I don't know if this happened between models or between systems. But I now do not have access to the settings menus on some apps. The menu was previously brought up by the "button" to the left of the home button, but that now brings up recently opened apps. I don't see any way to get to app settings and there are no updates available - Palmary Weather Pro and Tecarta NIV Bible. They both worked fine on Note 3, but only access settings through that lower button, which is now used for something else. I'm hoping there's a solution, but I'm afraid it's collateral damage of new OS. Thanks for any ideas.
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That button is now the Recent Apps button. Long press that button brings up menu usually and a lot of apps have three little dots in the upper right corner. That's the menu button for the app. This is a Note 4 thing. I know I'm having a terrible time breaking the habit of tapping that lower left corner button. I'll get used to it though.
Thanks very much! I had tried the 3 little dot thing, but did not know about the long press on the recent apps button. That brought up what I was looking for!
I've been using Android for a long time, but most of what I've learned is from xda, other forums, or youtube (in that order), and not from what I would have actually figured out for myself. Thanks again.
Hi, i just updated my phone to Nougat, and i miss the feature of long pressing the recent apps button that gives me a menu button (MM feature?). Is it possible to activate that again? It seems to be replaced with split window feature. In addition, in the display settings, in the buttons section enables the menu button. Does that only show the menu (three dots) button on apps only? (has nothing to do with the capacitive buttons on the phone?)
Thank you for reading this, look forward to a reply
Before Nougat:
Choose from the options: Always open recent apps. Press for menu, press and hold for recent apps. Press for recent apps, press and hold for menu.
After Update:
Display options - buttons- menu button
holding the button on the right to open up split screen is a feature of nougat.
I knew of the feature to hold the button down to bring up a menu, but im guessing it wasnt widely utilised, hence its removal.
There may be a way, using root, to change what the button does, but I wouldnt know how. Someone else probably does though.
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holding the button on the right to open up split screen is a feature of nougat.
I knew of the feature to hold the button down to bring up a menu, but im guessing it wasnt widely utilised, hence its removal.
There may be a way, using root, to change what the button does, but I wouldnt know how. Someone else probably does though.
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Hey thats a bummer, i loved that feature! i not really fond of the split screen feature, its not really that useful to me.
Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully, ill flash a custom rom on this phone soon.
This is bull****! They could at least give us a choice of choosing what does the button do. Now I will have to install a custom rom to get back that menu button
Can someone who has a Twitter account describe this menu button issue to Graham Wheeler or Mo Versi ?
We`ll get a better chance of them fixing it then.
I just got a HTC10 to upgrade from the M9 I had, and so far, I'm liking it, even with the stock ROM (but rooted with Sprint bloatware frozen), but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is the home/fingerprint button behavior. If I'm at the home screen and I press it, I don't have a huge issue with it bringing up all the screens for me to pick which one I want (but long press for it would be better), but I find it annoying that when I am in an app and press it, it takes be to the screen where I have to select which page I want, rather than to the last one I was on. Is there a way that I am overlooking to change this behavior?
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I just got a HTC10 to upgrade from the M9 I had, and so far, I'm liking it, even with the stock ROM (but rooted with Sprint bloatware frozen), but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is the home/fingerprint button behavior. If I'm at the home screen and I press it, I don't have a huge issue with it bringing up all the screens for me to pick which one I want (but long press for it would be better), but I find it annoying that when I am in an app and press it, it takes be to the screen where I have to select which page I want, rather than to the last one I was on. Is there a way that I am overlooking to change this behavior?
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I think you mean the multitask button rather than the home button, and if you double press it it switches back to the previous app.
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I think you mean the multitask button rather than the home button, and if you double press it it switches back to the previous app.
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I think you are correct... but why why should I have to press the button once to get where I need a few more presses to get where I want or press it once plus still need few more presses to get where I want? Is there any way to change this misbehavior?
I guess you could say my annoyance with this (mis)behavior is related to muscle memory... Every other Android phone I've had would take you to your last 'home' page when you pressed the similar button.. This one is (mis)behaving differently from every other phone I've had... It woudl be really nice to change it.
FWIW, I was finally able to change the behavior of the home/multi-function/fingerprint button - by ditching the HTC ROM for LinageOS 14.1. Better battery life, no sprint junk, seems to run better overall and I can actually assign different ringtones or sounds to different contacts. For whatever reason, that option seemed to be absent on the HTC ROM.
I still don't get what behavior you mean? Or do you mean that when you press the home button you are taken to the standard home screen, instead of for example the app drawer or another home screen page? Quite confusing what you mean
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