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[Q] navigation bar

Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?

deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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This may be possible if you are rooted with xposed installed, otherwise wait till roms come out or use a overlay launcher

deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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I'm only 5'10 and my hands can easily reach the home button... I'm not sure I understand the issue.
But as far as I know, you'd need to be rooted in order to add in things like a navigation bar, at least a fully working one. Check the app store and see if theres any options maybe?

QUOTE=nirurin;48393239]I'm only 5'10 and my hands can easily reach the home button... I'm not sure I understand the issue.
But as far as I know, you'd need to be rooted in order to add in things like a navigation bar, at least a fully working one. Check the app store and see if theres any options maybe?[/QUOTE]
well the thing is I'm coming for my original 10.1Wifi and have had custom ROM since day one and being able to do the navigation bar for orientation it's always there, not sure I can get used to the situation of having it strictly on one side. Of course it is rooted all 5 of our Samsung phones are rooted and running custom Roms. Before my note3 usually hadn't bought then till the roms where already established. Haven't used Xposed but guess time to learn.

Root and download gmd gesture control,. It gives you simple gestures To back or home
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deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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try gravit box app

deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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Handy Soft Keys from the play store gives you pop up home/back/recent apps buttons on one edge of the screen. Moveable so you can put it where your thumb naturally sits. No need for root. Not perfect but works well for me given the silly place Samsung put the home button

I use Button Savior Non Root (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey.nonroot)
You can set location, theme and which buttons to show - you can even set custom actions.
The only issue is - if you are not rooted, you can't get menu button.

deagleonvalium said:
Can somebody please tell me how I can get a navigation bar these buttons are set up horribly? seriously I'm 6 foot 5 my hands are huge I just can't deal with where the home button is it always having to reach up in portrait mode?
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Did tried this it works good on my p600
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982000

funfun99999 said:
Did tried this it works good on my p600
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982000
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Thanks for all the replies I will do this when I get back from my trip.

deagleonvalium said:
Thanks for all the replies I will do this when I get back from my trip.
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I second Button Savior with Root. After I switched to that, I went from wanting to break this tablet in half because of the button placement to now I love using it.

Stocklone said:
I second Button Savior with Root. After I switched to that, I went from wanting to break this tablet in half because of the button placement to now I love using it.
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tried it gotta say it makes it so much better, the biggest issue is most of my local news apps are only a available in portrait its not that I couldn't do the stock button locations just is freaking totally annoying.

deagleonvalium said:
tried it gotta say it makes it so much better, the biggest issue is most of my local news apps are only a available in portrait its not that I couldn't do the stock button locations just is freaking totally annoying.
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I killed the long press on the menu because I kept hitting it and switching over to S Finder with portrait apps. That is seriously confusing the first time it happens. My wife couldn't figure out at all what was going on the one time I handed my tablet to her in portrait and it happened to her. Then I made the long press home Google Now using Xposed so I could use the search app I really wanted in the first place.

reubenskelly1992 said:
Root and download gmd gesture control,. It gives you simple gestures To back or home
Sent from my SM-P600 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Precisely I cannot live without this app

Annoying bug: G4 Notification bar can only be swiped up

Sorry if it has been mentioned before (I searched but didn't see).
I found when the notification bar is pulled down on G4 (see attached screen shot), you can only pull it up by swipe up, or tap on the red "clear".
On all other phones, if you simply tap any where else on the screen (out side notifications areas), the screen will pull up as well, not so on G4.
I found this very annoying, because after you dismissed a notification, you just want simple tap to let the notification bar go away, instead try to swipe it up again or accurately tap the clear button.
Does everyone experience the same? my configuration is H812 10C (Rogers). If it is so, why LG not fix such rudimentary bug? Any work around to make it the way how lollipop works on all other phones?
If it's my problem, how can I fix it?
Thanks

To add on my post above, I tested the galaxy S6 today with same 5.1.1 and it is no problem to tap on screen to auto pull up the notification bar. I don't understand why LG remove it on G4

Yeah i dislike their whole notification setup. I dont get why you would change something like that to be counter intuitive
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yes, this is truly annoying and stupid
jaymelz324 said:
Yeah i dislike their whole notification setup. I dont get why you would change something like that to be counter intuitive
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Why don't you just hit the "Notification" button you already have on the soft key 'home' buttons? Just press the up arrow with the line under it to hide your notification bar when you're done. One tap and it's gone, just like you wanted, yes?

No matter which way you slice it, stock android is a much better simpler presentation of the notification panel
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My g2 d802 with cloudy 3.3 rom 5.02 lollipop is the same. This should be lg specific. Otherwise the pull up down softkey in the navigation bar is freakin' awesome feature.

Or just press the back button

Never had a problem with that. Configure a "down notification bar" button. As soon as the notification bar is down the down arrow turns into a up arrow. Just tap it to bring notification bar up.
Send from outer space using telepathy

Yes. I had the down notification soft key there as a work around, but still find it is counter intuitive and un nature to tap at the bottom of the screen for things to change at top of screen, so it's not a good fix.
Thanks @lgnd for confirming even G2 is the same, then it's LG's problem, I don't know what's in their mind to do this!

I think the issue needing a fix should be how LG programmed the notification bar to work. One pull brings down notifications and quick settings? Because of this, notifications cannot be expended unless you then swipe up just the quick settings and try again. IMO, LG is also bad at coding stock android.

Not to sound like a prick, but is it that bad? You have to spend a millisecond longer to swipe your thumb as opposed to tapping.

Its not that bad. But it makes u wonder why they would think to change it with no benefit whatsoever.
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completely agree, bad UI is bad UI, there is no excuse for not to do something well (especially everyone one else does it well) just because there is a workaround
Wondering what is the official bug report for LG developers ?
I am happy to follow up with them on this as well as the WiFi no autoconnect issue.
jaymelz324 said:
Its not that bad. But it makes u wonder why they would think to change it with no benefit whatsoever.
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Learning from the other post buy modify UI.apk, wondering if we can fix it ourselves if LG is incompetent to fix such simple problem

Is there a way to edit notification panel?

Is there anything out there that does this? I've looked and haven't seen anything. I'd like to resize them (quick settings and the time) as I think they take up too much room or can I get rid of the quick settings completely?
I am rooted and have xposed. I have Nova prime, but the swipe gestures aren't working (even updated to beta). I even tried unselecting everything and all I'm left with is this bull
Thanks

Since you have Xposed, try G4 Tweaksbox. It'll let you prevent the quick settings and volume panels from showing at first, you'll have to swipe down another time to show them. I was of the same opinion, that it's a little ridiculous for those to take up half the screen, but Tweaksbox works really well for me.

Zorque said:
Since you have Xposed, try G4 Tweaksbox. It'll let you prevent the quick settings and volume panels from showing at first, you'll have to swipe down another time to show them. I was of the same opinion, that it's a little ridiculous for those to take up half the screen, but Tweaksbox works really well for me.
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Thanks, for some reason it isn't in the xposed directory when you search which is why i never found it...though not sure why it didn't show up when I googled some things like lg g4 and xposed

ACardAttack said:
Thanks, for some reason it isn't in the xposed directory when you search which is why i never found it...though not sure why it didn't show up when I googled some things like lg g4 and xposed
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Its paid, that's why
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How The Heck Can I Disable The On Screen Buttons?

I never thought that it would be this much of a pain to disable the sodding on screen buttons on the Pixel. This thing alone is making the otherwise excellent experience of it rather moot. I can't stand this thing.
I have tried the GMD Auto Hide soft keys app, but it doesn't work on 7.1.1. Then I tried the All In One Gesture app, it did hide the on screen buttons under some immersive modes but then there is no proper Pie like control in that app, making the point moot for me. Then I found LMT, which gives back Pie but no way to hide the on screen buttons. I have given up at this point.
So is there a way? Or do I have to wait until Xposed is released for 7.1.1 and then use the Gravity Box's Pie Control?

WETA ROM. You can choose no nav bar during install, and then use LMT.

^^^
Weta ROM, DU ROM.
GMD does work on 7.1.1. However, many GMD users like me abandoned it for one reason or another. One, the keyboard has to regain focus. Two, it doesn't work in some apps. Three, in some apps, it simply hides the nav buttons, but the bottom row blank, still wasting a row of space.

Thanks guys but I really want to stay with the stock ROM. I guess waiting is the only option now.

ithehappy said:
Thanks guys but I really want to stay with the stock ROM. I guess waiting is the only option now.
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Doubt you will ever see that being adjustable in stock android

xxfwmxx said:
Doubt you will ever see that being adjustable in stock android
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I'm in the same boat I want to get rid of the hideous soft keys. The build.prop suggestion from the Nexus line did not work ? some developer please help us!

The moment Xposed is available I'm gonna install the GravityBox and then use that Pie Control, which will make the soft keys go away for good. But till then no option it seems, or probably with the help of 2 apps.

Yamalito said:
I'm in the same boat I want to get rid of the hideous soft keys. The build.prop suggestion from the Nexus line did not work some developer please help us!
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qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 in build.prop works fine for me. Using swipe navigation app, no issues

Bogega said:
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 in build.prop works fine for me. Using swipe navigation app, no issues
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Someone please confirm whether this works or not, read somewhere that it creates some force close issues or something, but if those are false reports would REALLY like to know.

ithehappy said:
Someone please confirm whether this works or not, read somewhere that it creates some force close issues or something, but if those are false reports would REALLY like to know.
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Not trying to be a wiseguy, but why don't you just try it out and see? If it doesn't work, change it back. No biggie.

spotmark said:
Not trying to be a wiseguy, but why don't you just try it out and see? If it doesn't work, change it back. No biggie.
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I can see someone's reluctance. Let's say it only works "half-way", the nav buttons are removed, and he gets errors in an app. Without nav buttons, he can't get back to the home screen to revert his changes. That may be the main reason I activated "OK Google" so I can still run apps by voice when I play around with the nav bar.

spotmark said:
Not trying to be a wiseguy, but why don't you just try it out and see? If it doesn't work, change it back. No biggie.
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I can't take the chance of having a bootlooping phone!

quangtran1 said:
I can see someone's reluctance. Let's say it only works "half-way", the nav buttons are removed, and he gets errors in an app. Without nav buttons, he can't get back to the home screen to revert his changes. That may be the main reason I activated "OK Google" so I can still run apps by voice when I play around with the nav bar.
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I can't take the chance of having a bootlooping phone!
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That's what backups are for.

quangtran1 said:
I can see someone's reluctance. Let's say it only works "half-way", the nav buttons are removed, and he gets errors in an app. Without nav buttons, he can't get back to the home screen to revert his changes. That may be the main reason I activated "OK Google" so I can still run apps by voice when I play around with the nav bar.
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Those error will remain after I install a Pie control app like LMT or something?

Just did the build.prop edit, it did the job fine of making the on screen keys disappear, LMT worked fine too, but there are just too many system FC messages! Not possible to use as it is.

ithehappy said:
Just did the build.prop edit, it did the job fine of making the on screen keys disappear, LMT worked fine too, but there are just too many system FC messages! Not possible to use as it is.
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Are the FC messages from disabling the nav bar or from the LMT. Sorry if I misunderstood you, I'm just trying to get clarity.

Yamalito said:
Are the FC messages from disabling the nav bar or from the LMT. Sorry if I misunderstood you, I'm just trying to get clarity.
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Have to be from the missing nav bar because apps look for interactions from those buttons. There has to be a graceful error trapping logic to handle the disappeared buttons. In other words, you can't simply yank them.

Yamalito said:
Are the FC messages from disabling the nav bar or from the LMT. Sorry if I misunderstood you, I'm just trying to get clarity.
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Nah for that missing nav bar or whatever the hell its called. Adding that line is the reason, not LMT I am sure. But you could try that and see whether the same is happening to as well or not.
I can't wait for Xposed to release for 7.1.1. I don't know whether burn in already happened or not, but mental burn in for me definitely happened in these short three days of usage, other than the fact its an incredibly stupid thing to have on a phone.

ithehappy said:
Nah for that missing nav bar or whatever the hell its called. Adding that line is the reason, not LMT I am sure. But you could try that and see whether the same is happening to as well or not.
I can't wait for Xposed to release for 7.1.1. I don't know whether burn in already happened or not, but mental burn in for me definitely happened in these short three days of usage, other than the fact its an incredibly stupid thing to have on a phone.
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It's definitely not LMT. I've been using it for a couple weeks now with no problems.
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I can't take the chance of having a bootlooping phone!
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If you "can't take the chance of having a bootlooping phone", then you shouldn't be making ANY modifications to your phone. Even if you're using mods that are proven to work, what happens if you make a typo? You're taking the chance of having a bootlooping phone.

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It's definitely not LMT. I've been using it for a couple weeks now with no problems.
If you "can't take the chance of having a bootlooping phone", then you shouldn't be making ANY modifications to your phone. Even if you're using mods that are proven to work, what happens if you make a typo? You're taking the chance of having a bootlooping phone.
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Thanks for confirming it's not LMT.
Don't agree with you about the latter part. I have been modifying stuffs on all phones I use, simple stuffs, installing this and that Xposed module, testing them, never once I had to face any boot looping issue, ever. Never did edit anything build.prop though.
Thanks for your concern though.

Kill App option for Nav bar?

I have seen a few discussions about the topic of getting the Kill App option for the Nav bar. Holding the back button would be the ideal implementation for me. I find it much quicker than going to recent apps and flicking away the app that I want to kill.
I have not found an answer on how I might do this on the Pixel 3. Seems like Oreo had a Developer Option that was removed in Pie.
A Gesture app seems like one approach, but I would like to hear from others on how you do it?
Thoughts?

swieder711 said:
I have seen a few discussions about the topic of getting the Kill App option for the Nav bar. Holding the back button would be the ideal implementation for me. I find it much quicker than going to recent apps and flicking away the app that I want to kill.
I have not found an answer on how I might do this on the Pixel 3. Seems like Oreo had a Developer Option that was removed in Pie.
A Gesture app seems like one approach, but I would like to hear from others on how you do it?
Thoughts?
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Hey, do you mean that you want to kill all recents by long pressing the back button?
If so, I had a quick look and basically a third party app can't really do that because in java the REMOVE_TASKS option is a signature-level permission. This means the app needs to be signed by the same signing key as the device firmware. In short, a rom developer could implement this, but not a third party developer.
In short, maybe a request to your rom dev is the way to go!

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Hey, do you mean that you want to kill all recents by long pressing the back button?
If so, I had a quick look and basically a third party app can't really do that because in java the REMOVE_TASKS option is a signature-level permission. This means the app needs to be signed by the same signing key as the device firmware. In short, a rom developer could implement this, but not a third party developer.
In short, maybe a request to your rom dev is the way to go!
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If you're rooted you can setup Active Edge to kill the foreground app (I have it setup for a long squeeze to kill the app) or use One Plus Gestures and enable kill foreground app for one of the gestures.

StrangerWeather said:
Hey, do you mean that you want to kill all recents by long pressing the back button?
If so, I had a quick look and basically a third party app can't really do that because in java the REMOVE_TASKS option is a signature-level permission. This means the app needs to be signed by the same signing key as the device firmware. In short, a rom developer could implement this, but not a third party developer.
In short, maybe a request to your rom dev is the way to go!
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I just want holding the BACK button to kill the current app on the Screen.
It is a setting that GravityBox allows and comes in handy to quickly exit an active application. I hope we see this feature on the Pixel 3 XL custom ROM that will be coming out.

airmaxx23 said:
If you're rooted you can setup Active Edge to kill the foreground app (I have it setup for a long squeeze to kill the app) or use One Plus Gestures and enable kill foreground app for one of the gestures.
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Are you using Edge Sense Plus to set this up? Sounds like a good approach.

swieder711 said:
Are you using Edge Sense Plus to set this up? Sounds like a good approach.
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Yes I am and it works great.

airmaxx23 said:
Yes I am and it works great.
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Awesome. Are you using the Tulsa mods too? When I install the SystemUIedgebase.zip for the Tulsa mods, I lost all my other mods (center clock small ampm, small LTE, no GPS pin and 3Minit).
I would love to get the EdgeSense and the Status bar mods working at the same time. I have a similar question posted on the Tulsa Mod thread.
EDIT: I had to install the Magisk Mod for Edge Sense and now they both work! I dont see the Kill App as an Action in the Edge Sense app. Is it called something else?
EDIT2: I had to enable ROOT for the EdgeSense app, now I see Kill App. YEAH!

swieder711 said:
I have seen a few discussions about the topic of getting the Kill App option for the Nav bar. Holding the back button would be the ideal implementation for me. I find it much quicker than going to recent apps and flicking away the app that I want to kill.
I have not found an answer on how I might do this on the Pixel 3. Seems like Oreo had a Developer Option that was removed in Pie.
A Gesture app seems like one approach, but I would like to hear from others on how you do it?
Thoughts?
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Another suggestion - All In One Gestures! It has a long-press back to kill app option, though I should note I'm using it having both rooted and reverted to the old, 3 button nav bar as per Mishaal's guide. Plus, doesn't work quite as perfectly as it did on my old galaxy phones with capacitive keys, but it does the job most of the time...

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Another suggestion - All In One Gestures! It has a long-press back to kill app option, though I should note I'm using it having both rooted and reverted to the old, 3 button nav bar as per Mishaal's guide. Plus, doesn't work quite as perfectly as it did on my old galaxy phones with capacitive keys, but it does the job most of the time...
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On pixel 3 xl, you can get the old 3 button navigation with a long press of the back button giving you the kill app command? I want that!
I thought the ALL IN ONE gestures app only gave you a longer pill button. I didn't see the kill app as an option in the app description. Im rooted and really want that feature back.
Here is a list of the actions that I see listed
Actions
Free
Home
Back
Recent apps
Toggle split-screen (requires Android Nougat+)
Open previous app (requires Android Nougat+)
Open Assistant
Hide pill
Premium
Pull down the notification shade
Pull down quick setting tiles
Open power menu
Skip to previous media track*
Skip to next media track*
Play/pause current media track*
Switch keyboard dialog
Launch app**
Lock screen***
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Can you post a screen shot of your home screen?

swieder711 said:
On pixel 3 xl, you can get the old 3 button navigation with a long press of the back button giving you the kill app command? I want that!
I thought the ALL IN ONE gestures app only gave you a longer pill button. I didn't see the kill app as an option in the app description. Im rooted and really want that feature back.
Here is a list of the actions that I see listed
Actions
Free
Home
Back
Recent apps
Toggle split-screen (requires Android Nougat+)
Open previous app (requires Android Nougat+)
Open Assistant
Hide pill
Premium
Pull down the notification shade
Pull down quick setting tiles
Open power menu
Skip to previous media track*
Skip to next media track*
Play/pause current media track*
Switch keyboard dialog
Launch app**
Lock screen***
Screenshot****
Can you post a screen shot of your home screen?
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I'm not sure what All-In-One does when you've still got the gesture navigation pill installed, but these are the settings I've got enabled having reverted to the 3 button navigation (https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-android-pie-gestures-google-pixel-3/):
You of course have to give the app root access, but otherwise no special settings as far as I recall from setting it up. Hope this helps!

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I'm not sure what All-In-One does when you've still got the gesture navigation pill installed, but these are the settings I've got enabled having reverted to the 3 button navigation (https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-android-pie-gestures-google-pixel-3/):
You of course have to give the app root access, but otherwise no special settings as far as I recall from setting it up. Hope this helps!
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That is great info. I will follow the guide once I update to the December release.
Thanks!

Is "All in One Gestures" the same as "XDA Navigation Gestures" When I search the play store for all in one than the XDA Apo comes up.
Edit: I see that they are different apps. I found All in One on the apk mirror site. Any idea what it is no longer in the play store?

swieder711 said:
Is "All in One Gestures" the same as "XDA Navigation Gestures" When I search the play store for all in one than the XDA Apo comes up.
Edit: I see that they are different apps. I found All in One on the apk mirror site. Any idea what it is no longer in the play store?
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My pleasure! It is a different app. I'm coming to the Pixel from a 3.5 year old Galaxy S6(!), and I just restored the app from a titanium backup. I think it was designed for phones with capacitive buttons, which might explain why it's no longer officially available. For this reason, it doesn't work quite as perfectly on the Pixel as it did on the S6 (the kill app function doesn't seem to click with a few apps). But it does do the trick in most cases. For me, I'm so used to the long-press gesture that it was worth going back to 3 button navigation for this alone, and worth sticking with it despite some imperfections in All-In-One when it comes to the Pixel. I suppose if you're still on the gesture system, you'll have to weigh up whether its worth removing the pretty new interface (and the Pixel launcher along the way, as Mishaal explains) for a functional yet slightly deficient alternative...

Here is another explanation
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re.../what_happened_to_the_all_in_one_gesture_app/

I upgraded to the December release and than followed the guide to bring back the old 3 button set up. Long press of the back button kills the current app! I even added the menu key to the left side of the screen My new Pixel 3 XL looks like my old Moto X Pure.
Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: Check out my retro Nav bar.

swieder711 said:
I upgraded to the December release and than followed the guide to bring back the old 3 button set up. Long press of the back button kills the current app! I even added the menu key to the left side of the screen My new Pixel 3 XL looks like my old Moto X Pure.
Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: Check out my retro Nav bar.
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So glad it worked for you! Now my turn for the Dec update...

swieder711 said:
I upgraded to the December release and than followed the guide to bring back the old 3 button set up. Long press of the back button kills the current app! I even added the menu key to the left side of the screen My new Pixel 3 XL looks like my old Moto X Pure.
Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: Check out my retro Nav bar.
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What did you do to get this? I don't quite understand.