Why doesn't my drop down have these options? Is there a setting I'm missing?
The first one is a screenshot of a Web page, but they all seem to have it. The second is mine.
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What android version are you on?
Our version of lollipop doesn't have it. I'm personally glad. Wasted space.
Yeah I don't see that or options to enable it in Lollipop. I never used it so it doesn't bother me that it's gone.
If you want the buttons just swipe down, push the three squares with the arrows, push the pencil icon and drag quick connect and s finder to the top bar...
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I searched but didn't see anything on this.
There is a blue pull tab thing on the left hand side of my screen. I want it gone, but can't find out how to get rid of it.
Thanks!
There's a ton of threads already on this. ..
To show/hide hold the back key for a couple of seconds
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Thanks. Guess I didn't know what to call the damn thing to search for it correctly.
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Thanks. Guess I didn't know what to call the damn thing to search for it correctly.
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It allows you to access the multi-window feature of the NII, for accessing 2 apps at the same time.
To be fair its not a particularly well advertised feature and with little to no instruction a lot of people won't know what it is for.
But it is for split screen mode.
You can drag apps to the top of bottom part of the screen from that bar to run two apps side by side.
Why I'm asking this is because of screen burn in. I know the damage is already done, but I'd like to slow down the process if I can. I know of different ways to slow it down but it will always eventually happen. Maybe for an upcoming version of android, Google or whoever could come up with a theme that didn't always have static images when you're using the phone, thus helping with screen life. Another alternative could be that there's a black bar in the notification area and you have to pull it down to see the different stats that are there currently. Top edge slide down is where the time, signal, connection type, battery, GPS and any other stuff. Bottom edge slide up could be the self hiding app drawer. That's just some brainstorming ideas. I have a feeling that the top and bottom are hard baked into the os. There's different kinds of launchers that look different, why couldn't an auto hiding launcher be there instead of a conventional one?
they have the ability to hide launcher? second option from bottom in my pic
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What rom is that
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I saw that apex launcher can hide the top bar, but I didn't see a way to get at the information if you swiped down on the bar.
I think I found what I was looking for. Go launcher ex has settings that I set that the home screen is completely black. If you slide down gesture, the notification bar appears. If I slide up gesture, the dock appears. If you go the same direction twice, it hides the dock or notif bar. Kinda neat if someone picked up the phone, they wouldn't initially figure out how to operate the phone.
Something I just thought of; while I'm typing this in xda app, the not if bar is showing. I wonder if there's a way to surpress it while using and app. The burn in from the bar and keyboard isn't when the home screen is on, it's when I'm in an app typing or browsing. Hmm...
You could use paranoid android, if in tablet mode you can hold the power button and there will be a thing that hides the statusbar, effectively going into full screen mode
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What rom is that
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goodness with mashed up theme from the rom updater
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I am talking about the feature where if you swipe in from the top right corner, it can shrink the window or minimize it to a small dot on the screen. Does not seem to be working for me. Is it linked to a specific service or is it an options setting to turn on?
Thanks!
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I am talking about the feature where if you swipe in from the top right corner, it can shrink the window or minimize it to a small dot on the screen. Does not seem to be working for me. Is it linked to a specific service or is it an options setting to turn on?
Thanks!
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**EDIT - Looks like I just had to enable multi window, which was not on by default, in the settings section.
It's typical Samsung style - a half-assed gimmicky feature. I have the multi window enabled, but I almost always end up pulling the notification bar. Bad implementation of the feature.
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It's typical Samsung style - a half-assed gimmicky feature. I have the multi window enabled, but I almost always end up pulling the notification bar. Bad implementation of the feature.
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Mine has worked every single time and has never pulled down the notification shade.
Anyone have any idea?
I isn't possible stock or so I read. This is a bump for you though because I would like to reclaim that real estate myself. Ideally I would like to delete the text below the icons as well to get another 1/4 inch back along with losing the unused s finder and quick connect boxes.
Somehow those options disappeared from my phone and I really didn't noticed until recently, only things I can tell you is that i'm using Nova Launcher.
Hmm. I'm using nova launcher too, still have those buttons.
I really dislike touchwiz, with cyanogenmod I could save probably about 1 1/2 inches of space in the notifications window.
If my buttons go away I'll let you know.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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