Hi!
Is It possible to hide the button bar during watching a video ?
Thanks in advice!
*Excuse me for my english...
This is what I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontrol
Along with: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey
rendler said:
This is what I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontrol
Along with: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart.swkey
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ok
i will try (but I don't want root my device! )
I try the second... but I can't understand how I can hide the button bar!!
The second app (Button Savior) is to toggle show/hide a set of unofficial soft keys, it's used after you've hidden the bar already with the first app (GestureControl).
What you wanted was to hide the bar, which is done with GestureControl and requires root. I suggested the second because it makes things a lot more fluid to use than the unhiding, pressing the needed button, re-hiding cycle.
rendler said:
The second app (Button Savior) is to toggle show/hide a set of unofficial soft keys, it's used after you've hidden the bar already with the first app (GestureControl).
What you wanted was to hide the bar, which is done with GestureControl and requires root. I suggested the second because it makes things a lot more fluid to use than the unhiding, pressing the needed button, re-hiding cycle.
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Thanks!
So... i need to wait for ICS ?
If you aren't going to root and use rendler's GestureControl/Button Savoir method or install Honeybar (it's great for hiding the bottom bar for movies, books, comics) you can hold your breathe for ICS, but who knows when that will drop. Rooting isn't the end of the world if you don't start installing a bunch of stuff you don't need or editing files you don't understand (that end up causing system instablility/boot loops). Just my 2 cents though.
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If you aren't going to root and use rendler's GestureControl/Button Savoir method or install Honeybar (it's great for hiding the bottom bar for movies, books, comics) you can hold your breathe for ICS, but who knows when that will drop. Rooting isn't the end of the world if you don't start installing a bunch of stuff you don't need or editing files you don't understand (that end up causing system instablility/boot loops). Just my 2 cents though.
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thanks,
But I wait ICS (official=> *cry*)
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If you aren't going to root and use rendler's GestureControl/Button Savoir method or install Honeybar (it's great for hiding the bottom bar for movies, books, comics) you can hold your breathe for ICS, but who knows when that will drop. Rooting isn't the end of the world if you don't start installing a bunch of stuff you don't need or editing files you don't understand (that end up causing system instablility/boot loops). Just my 2 cents though.
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Honeybar is totally worth the 99 cents! Thanks bud!
Vivified said:
Honeybar is totally worth the 99 cents! Thanks bud!
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The problem is "root" ... and not the 99cent!!
If you aren't comfortable with rooting your device, you may well never get rid of the bottom bar, even with ICS. It seems that only certain custom ROMs/firmwares have the ability to hide the bar in ICS (the framework changed from HC to ICS where Honeybar or Hidebar do not work, rooted or not).
So, good luck with finding a better solution than the ones already mentioned.
I would suggest just making the jump and root the darn thing. I edited my gps.conf with the standard server upgrades plus a few other tweaks, totally worth it. Even if you don't delve that far into the guts, it's totally worth being able to make proper backups however you'd like.
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I would suggest just making the jump and root the darn thing. I edited my gps.conf with the standard server upgrades plus a few other tweaks, totally worth it. Even if you don't delve that far into the guts, it's totally worth being able to make proper backups however you'd like.
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Thanks.... but I prefer not to Root (now ) my device... So I will wait ICS and, after that, I will root my gtab!
I don't understand people and their ultra-paranoia sometimes. Are they afraid once they root their device, an alarm will sound off in Samsung HQ in Korea, and a massive Samsung satellite will fire a laser beam to vaporise their Android tablet, or what?
Please, enlighten me.
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I don't understand people and their ultra-paranoia sometimes. Are they afraid once they root their device, an alarm will sound off in Samsung HQ in Korea, and a massive Samsung satellite will fire a laser beam to vaporise their Android tablet, or what?
Please, enlighten me.
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I prefer to wait ICS with the "stock" firm & no root device... It's simple
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I don't understand people and their ultra-paranoia sometimes. Are they afraid once they root their device, an alarm will sound off in Samsung HQ in Korea, and a massive Samsung satellite will fire a laser beam to vaporise their Android tablet, or what?
Please, enlighten me.
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Rooting for Voodoo and Honeybar make it totally worth it.
bar wont come back
I tried gesture control and honey bar. I can hide my taskbar w no issues but it won't come back any suggestions rooted galaxy rom HD. 6210
You can go back to stock android 3.2 unrooted at any time when ICS gets out
thanks!!
But I will remain with no-root device (and I hope that ICS will came before september!!!)
I do recommend that to you too. If you can live without root, don't do it.
But if you are curious, root will do you any harm by itself. It only put a binary called su on your system and set permissions.Almost every linux box already has it and its purpose is to change the current user to another, for example, the root AKA administrator. Normally it asks for a password, but the one we use, does not, for simplicity.
So actually, when you do "the root", you are only putting one tool of linux, that was ripped from us, back. That tool does no hacking or modify your system, it only allows you to be the user root that already exists on your system.
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Thanks !
I know what is root, but I read also that can give me problem with the next os update !!
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Hey all,
Does anyone know of an app that achieves the display of recently used apps in the notification dropdown area?
Essentially, performing the same function that a long press on the home button does, but obviously eliminating the need to press a button.
I've been looking for something like this for a good while, and was pleasantly surprised to see HTC had included this very function in their latest version of Sense.... when I went to the HTC London meet last week .
Unfortunately, the HTC guys demoing informed me there is currently no way to obtain this feature for current handsets.
To see what I am referring to, see the video below...
46sec <---> 51 sec
Is there an app that exists for this?
Thanks in advance,
c_man
I'm more impressed with the extremely quick startup.
FuryriderX said:
I'm more impressed with the extremely quick startup.
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I think that's discussed in another thread - I remember reading its not a 'proper' power down, that allows for such a quick start up.
Anyway, back on topic...
Actually I have been looking for something similar... My wife has a mytouch slide... And when you pull down notification tray it has recent 4 now I haven't tried scrolling sideways like that guy did... But that shows that it is possible cause the slide shows 4 recent...
Just have to find someone to port that I guess
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Rather than a port, which sounds like more effort, I thought an app to enable this functionality may exist.
It seems not?
its going to need a port i think, i would hope for a slightly modified version that would allow us to pin apps to it or even widgets a la galaxy s.
If you hold down the home button for a couple seconds you'll get a list of the eight last used apps.
smart bar does this an more. recent apps in drop down and/or favs and/or you can choose a certain app and/or many many more options, i cant remember. you have option to enable all or only recent apps via settings and checking off the check boxs.
i use on my a81e tablet and it works well. my long press of home button is buggy due to fw so this come in handy very much
here
Does smartbar have a big footprint?
Would really love an app that does 'just' this.
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Does smartbar have a big footprint?
Would really love an app that does 'just' this.
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I don't really know, I still just starting out on android so I'm in learning process
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kjhadfield said:
I don't really know, I still just starting out on android so I'm in learning process
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No worries
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A ridiculously stupid question but one that is annoying me none the less. Can anyone tell me why when in this video the guy adds a widget only the widget itself comes up with a 2ndary screen for the options & not all options? ie. You have to press Desktop Visualizer to get all available options. Mine (Legend w/ Stock 2.2) just shows all options which makes it very cluttered. Any help appreciated.
Is this what you're looking for? I saw your post on UltraLinx.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780828
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Is this what you're looking for? I saw your post on UltraLinx.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780828
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GENIUS!!!!!!!!! Thanks man
Yeah, no problem.
FYI - while this installed no problem and did exactly what it was meant to it keeps Force Closing all the time. It turns out from reading the thread for the App that you have to move the app to /system/apps rather than install. To do this you obviously need Root access (which I don't have). I'm assuming this is the issue. Thanks anyway!
Yes, you have to place it in /system/app. I assumed you were rooted. It doesn't force close at all once it's moved to the proper location and everything. Have you considered rooting? I've been rooted for a quite a while and it opens up a whole new world for you.
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Yes, you have to place it in /system/app. I assumed you were rooted. It doesn't force close at all once it's moved to the proper location and everything. Have you considered rooting? I've been rooted for a quite a while and it opens up a whole new world for you.
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Since I've started customizing I've certainly being 'tied down' by the fact that I'm not rooted but rooting for the Legend with 2.2 is not easy as you have to downgrade the ROM. To be honest other than having it for this & WidgetLocker customizing I'm not really that anxious to do it. Plus I haven't a fricking clue either!
Yeah, I know what you mean. They haven't created a root for the Legend running 2.2? Haha yeah, I had no idea what rooting really even was when I did it, I just wanted it. Especially after 2.2, my phone got...so...slow. It was ridiculous. I didn't know there were two recoveries either.
(there are two for the Droid 1)
Anyone know if there is a shortcut to taking screenshots?
Without having to root and use drocap or shootme. (that's assuming they even work when rooted, which there's been one or two saying it doesn't.)
i'm rooted and neither dropcap or shootme work on my xoom.
Only one way to take screencaps...SDK, works both rooted and non but obviously takes a little knowledge/reading up on. But its not as hard as duplicating Grandma's gravy and biscuits so don't fear too much.
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Kinda sad it requires root or being plugged into a PC to take screen caps. Might be the wrong place to bring it up but I don't think I'm the only one thats kinda irked about this.
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Kinda sad it requires root or being plugged into a PC to take screen caps. Might be the wrong place to bring it up but I don't think I'm the only one thats kinda irked about this.
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I know I payed 800 dollars for my Xoom. **** should be better. Media player, well Gallery in general, and this, and more. But I think I'm going to give google till after their first Honeycomb update.
Lets just see what they think is worth fixing first.
This is me assuming screenshots would be built into the os.
I don't think it has to do with the Xoom hardware.
But I could be wrong.
So when has screen shots ever been built into the OS? Don't know what the big surprise is. Yes it would be nice, but eventually a root and simple software solution will present itself.
Now that we have a tablet OS which should be moving us closer to netbook replacement, it would be a nice feature to have without the need to root and have an external application. I take screenshots on my Windows machine every single day. We need to stop having a phone OS mentality and starting thinking tablet OS which is different. So yes, that would be a nice feature to have built in to Honeycomb.
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Now that we have a tablet OS which should be moving us closer to netbook replacement, it would be a nice feature to have without the need to root and have an external application. I take screenshots on my Windows machine every single day. We need to stop having a phone OS mentality and starting thinking tablet OS which is different. So yes, that would be a nice feature to have built in to Honeycomb.
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Given the limited amount of hardware toggles on the Xoom, how would you suggest ScreenCapping be implemented? I'm not being condescending, I'm curious as to your thoughts.
ShootMe takes your cap by shaking your device. This seems logical because it wouldn't regurie anything as far as a UI.
If we ever receive extension support for the browser it seems adding a button to the toolbar would work, however that would limit caps to the browser only.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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Given the limited amount of hardware toggles on the Xoom, how would you suggest ScreenCapping be implemented? I'm not being condescending, I'm curious as to your thoughts.
ShootMe takes your cap by shaking your device. This seems logical because it wouldn't regurie anything as far as a UI.
If we ever receive extension support for the browser it seems adding a button to the toolbar would work, however that would limit caps to the browser only.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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I am not a UI designer but there are probably many ways to do this. Long press screen, Print Screen in keyboard, add another system button to the taskbar on bottom, etc. In Windows, you just press the print screen button to copy to the clipboard. It can't be that difficult to implement something similar in Honeycomb. Once in the clipboard, you paste it to whatever application has focus. UI designers for Honeycomb can certainly figure out something this simple.
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So when has screen shots ever been built into the OS? Don't know what the big surprise is. Yes it would be nice, but eventually a root and simple software solution will present itself.
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Samsung added it in the Galaxy Tab (which surprised me when I found out). On the Galaxy tab if you hold the back button and press the power button you get a screenshot, no root needed.
HalfMoon said:
Samsung added it in the Galaxy Tab (which surprised me when I found out). On the Galaxy tab if you hold the back button and press the power button you get a screenshot, no root needed.
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Correct, it was a Samsung add-on, not in the base OS.
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be a great thing for google to just throw in there and obviously it is very doable, and I do not know why it is not just part of the OS already.
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So when has screen shots ever been built into the OS? Don't know what the big surprise is. Yes it would be nice, but eventually a root and simple software solution will present itself.
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Google has added it native in 2.3.3 so it wouldn't surprise me if it comes in a honeycomb update.
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The inability to take screenshots without root or the sdk is a known issue to Android users.
The ability was added in Gingerbread. (I'm not allowed to post links yet but go to phandroid.com and search for a post by Kevin Krause on March 1st, 2011 at 7:35 am for details.) Samsung is the only dev to make use of the option so far (afaik) and only on gingerbread devices.
If you want an app that takes screenshots without root or the SDK, the option is there for you to develop such an app if you don't want to wait for someone else to do it.
Oh, and be sure to post a link to your apk for us when you're done. Thanks.
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So when has screen shots ever been built into the OS? Don't know what the big surprise is. Yes it would be nice, but eventually a root and simple software solution will present itself.
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The Galaxy Tab has screen capture right out the box. Hold the back button and press the power button and it takes a screen capture and even puts it in the folder named screen capture. Just sayin.
That is one thing Apple did get right on the iPhone and iPad: press and hold the "Home" button at center bottom, then press and release the "power" button on top.
This made it really easy to create documentation at work... Android could have used a combination of one of the volume buttons and the power button. which would come in handy when either creating documentation on how to do something or for instructing users to send a screen shot of an error they are seeing...
my $0.02
Asus eee pad TF has had the screenshot function enabled out of the box. Is that an Asus add-on? I thought it was part of HC...
I use screenshot er & it places an icon at the bottom of the screen.Simply tap & voila!
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Arun01 said:
I use screenshot er & it places an icon at the bottom of the screen.Simply tap & voila!
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Are you rooted Arun?
And why isn't it available on the XOOM like on the asus TF?
Solved
BBalz said:
Anyone know if there is a shortcut to taking screenshots?
Without having to root and use drocap or shootme. (that's assuming they even work when rooted, which there's been one or two saying it doesn't.)
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I did it by holding the power button and then pressing the home button [HTC Explorer]
Xoom Wifi ICS
Screenshot / Power and Vol Down
Is there a way to hide the system bar?
maybe something like THIS?
+1
Love this idea
Try the link below for the apk........... i havent tried it on ics yet
was just going to post up as an attachment but its not frickin working on the ics browser
http://ppareit.github.com/HideBar/
it is not working for me
me either - sorry guys
From what I understand, Google pretty much locked it out completely, so it's impossible at the moment to hide the status bar. It's really annoying. :/
From the author of Honeybar: "*** Important note for ICS users: Honeybar is unsupported on ICS and will not hide the UI bar. I have examined the source for ActivityManagerService and it currently appears impossible to stop com.android.systemui"
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hanhuy.android.hsbm
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From what I understand, Google pretty much locked it out completely, so it's impossible at the moment to hide the status bar. It's really annoying. :/
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Damn that sucks. I hope Google changes their mind or someone finds a way around this problem. I find it extremely irritating to use video and reading apps with the system bar at the bottom.
I guess I will stick with Android 3.2 for now.
There's a tweak for the Galaxy Nexus that remove the bottom bar entirely, and the person who posted it says to use ButtonSavior (on the market) to replace the soft keys. The newest AOKP rom also includes a feature to remove the navigation bar which I assume is pretty much the same as the bar on tablets.
The mod is over on RootzWiki, not sure if I can post links to it, or if it will work for the TF or could be adapted for it.
See, it's things like this that make me wonder. Why in the world would google, or anyone, lock things down so much that nobody can change anything? Disabling the status bar in honeycomb didn't do any harm. I never heard a single complaint of a bricked tablet or software problem because of disabling the status bar.
Yes!!!
Team EOS has the option the hide the system bar in an easy to use manner.
Where?
unspecial said:
Yes!!!
Team EOS has the option the hide the system bar in an easy to use manner.
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Where? Searched for "status" "system" "bar" "hide" in varying combinations as well as individually. Could you point me in the right direction. TIA.
From looking around the framework-res etc what i have seen that ICS is based on a theme called holo. Now if we could modify the framework-res and strip the black and make it transparent it should be able to be done. Decompiling it has been no problem however I am too new at themeing to provide any definite answers to recompile framework-res as i have tried but it just will not register as a proper apk. There is one issue with that however, the holo theme is involved with almost everything to do with the system. Example backgrounds for the menu system and the onscreen keyboard and a pile of other stuff plus the assorted icons would still be present back button home apps button clock and wifi.
All the edits were because my cursor diappeared.
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Where? Searched for "status" "system" "bar" "hide" in varying combinations as well as individually. Could you point me in the right direction. TIA.
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It's part of the ROM. They don't appear to have a separate app to hide the system bar, so we have to use the full rom for now. It works the same way pre-ICS Revolver did.
Couldn't find anything on Team EOS tread about it.
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Couldn't find anything on Team EOS tread about it.
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It's built into the ROM
Its weird... My Novo7 Basic is hiding the statusbar automaticly on both HC and ICS, but the TF isnt :s
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Its weird... My Novo7 Basic is hiding the statusbar automaticly on both HC and ICS, but the TF isnt :s
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With EOS for TF101 you press the power button to get the menu option to hide the status bar. The menu is shown in baseballfanz's post.
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It's built into the ROM
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It's part of the ROM. They don't appear to have a separate app to hide the system bar, so we have to use the full rom for now. It works the same way pre-ICS Revolver did.
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Thank you for the clarification. Revolver 3 had the same thing and it was fantastic for movies.
Try this, it supposedly work to hide status bar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23374095&postcount=2
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Try this, it supposedly work to hide status bar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23374095&postcount=2
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This works perfect on my A500 running ICS 4.0.3 rooted using live wallpaper - no issues whatsoever, thanks for the tip! Also really liked the gestures part of the whole thing as I can make apps launch from anywhere and probably won't even use the status bar much at from now on.
I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
I have Fullscreen/Immersive Gesture Tweaks Magisk module installed and one of its options does exactly this.
AOSP mods
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I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
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What Pill?
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What Pill?
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Well it is hardly a pill, the thin horizontal line at the bottom of the home screens. Indicator when scrolling through home screens.
There is also a Substratum theme (FSIM) version of the Fullscreen/Immersive Gesture Tweaks Magisk module mentioned above (same developer) which I use to get rid of it.
+1 on @siavash79's thread [MOD][Xposed+Magisk][Pre-Release] AOSP Mods - System modifications for AOSP-based Android 12+.
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I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
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Not certain this works on android 13 but I used to use this to hide the navbar and enable gestures before it became the norm
Fluid Navigation Gestures - Apps on Google Play
Get the fluid navigation gestures of the future!
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Not certain this works on android 13 but I used to use this to hide the navbar and enable gestures before it became the norm
Fluid Navigation Gestures - Apps on Google Play
Get the fluid navigation gestures of the future!
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This used to be awesome, but hasn't been updated since 2019...
aosp mods with vivid navigation gestures
Thanks everyone. I will try the aforementioned and the ones linked above
Aosp mods with lsposed zygisk worked perfectly. I remember using this mod a while ago. Glad to see it's still being updated. Thanks y'all
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I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
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AOSP Mods can get rid of it
Google want to have a word with themselves, you shouldn't need a mod, you should just be able to turn it off.
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Google want to have a word with themselves, you shouldn't need a mod, you should just be able to turn it off.
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That's the ying and Yang of Google. BY default they offer little in customisation but then they also make it easy to root your phone and add custom mods. Samsung are the opposite, they offer loads of customisation but it's a pia to root
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I have Fullscreen/Immersive Gesture Tweaks Magisk module installed and one of its options does exactly this.
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Just an FYI, but it seems that if you use the systemless hosts module, then you cannot use that Fullscreen module by DanGLES3. This is because it prevents your apps that require root access from seeing that they have root access. Basically, it messes up your superuser permissions and screws with the Magisk pathways. I was trying to check what it did, however, I cannot explore any root directories due to my file explorer's superuser permissions now being ignored lol.
So, while this option works great and doesn't require LSposed, it prevents you from doing anything else with your root access =(.
The only way to resolve the problems is by wiping your phone, re-imaging and starting over =P.
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That's the ying and Yang of Google. BY default they offer little in customisation but then they also make it easy to root your phone and add custom mods. Samsung are the opposite, they offer loads of customisation but it's a pia to root
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Which is all very good i am sure but what purpose does the gesture line actually serve, why is it even there to start with is the question and not well it is easy to root your phone crack on and sort it yourself. Googles logic of it being there is baffling.
Lets be honest Google are now pushing the Pixel as a mainstream phone and it is probably bought mainly on the strength of its photographic capabilities, It isn't just the plaything of the inquisitive like the Nexus was. I bet the amount of Pixels that get rooted compared to sold is miniscule.
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I bet the amount of Pixels that get rooted compared to sold is miniscule.
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I would say that's true and has always been true of every phone. Otherwise, there would be millions and millions of XDA members. The Modding community is a microcosm of overall phone owners
But, why not have the pill? What is the argument against it?
Takes up space with something that useless for some.