Thanks to Tytung and the wonderful NexusHD2 Jelly Bean ROM!!! I have no complaints or problems what so ever.
I know its not so much of an important question and this thread will probably get deleted lol But I just wanted to know if there was anyway of removing the bottom bar (3 buttons on the bottom)? Theres a back button, home button, and recent apps button all on the bottom that came with the ROM. I just find it a bit unnecessary since the phone already has 5 physical buttons and just simply wanted to know if there was something that could possibly remove it.
Im just going to assume you cant change it. . .
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Yeeeeaah so I ended up finding out how to remove the navbar lol should of searched harder in the first place
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That big search button on the bottom of the call log/contact list is useless on the Nexus S that has a dedicated search button.
I've seen everywhere how to remove the search bar on the home screen, but I couldn't find if there's a way to remove the button that appears on the Phone/Contacts app.
I don't mind rooting and replacing the apk, but I prefer not to flash a custom rom (I want to stick as closer to stock as I can).
Thanks!
Good one. I imagine the CM team will do this for nexus s since we clearly have an efin hardware search button. The reason why its there is because the Galaxy Nexus doesn't have one but I'm shocked why they simply didn't add one next to the onscreen buttons and had to take the entire bottom of the screen to put one there.
Here's the source where I found this, I'm pretty sure this would work on all AOSP type ROMs like CM7.1 and Verizon Stock, even though the site says 2.3.6. Not sure about the Sony Timescape. I'm not familiar enough with these steps to pull this off, maybe if someone could work this out and possibly even make a flashable zip?
http://androidandsandu.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-add-virtual-softkeys-navigation.html
I wasn't sure if this should be in the Development section or here because it's theme based, but it does involve compiling I believe. I placed here for the sake of Themes.
Why would you want less screen space?
Less screen space or not it is still a nice update/feature that can be useful on gingerbread. Granted it sounds like a whole lot of work, but there is already a thread where others have ported the "ICS swype to clear" notifications. If someone wants to try this I say good luck.
Ios suckkss.
We have hardware keys. Thus no point for softkeys unless you don't like screen space
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People might want soft keys because their hardware is starting to go. My Xperia's home button and back button are really soft to press. I too would like the ICS on-screen keys because, not only that, it's also more convenient.
Xepter Keedas said:
People might want soft keys because their hardware is starting to go. My Xperia's home button and back button are really soft to press. I too would like the ICS on-screen keys because, not only that, it's also more convenient.
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That's what I was thinking too, plus, you would have either equal or more screenspace if you lower your DPI, I have it on 210 instead of 240 and I have more than plenty of space. Plus the softkeys would be smaller.
just use button saviour available from the play store, you can hide and show it..plus it has themes, yes, ICS is there...
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Is is just me or does anyone else also feel that the majority of the apps take up screen estate with the lone lingering menu button at the bottom
I wanted to move away from sense launcher and thought of adopting the Go Lancher, but for this the home screen itself shows the menu bar below (ugghh!).
Thankfully apex/nova came to the rescue.
But many other appls like XDA, reddit ... show that wasting part of the screen.
So do we have to wait till developers update their apps for OneX? (i thought since galaxy nexus already is a 4.6 " screen this issue was already behind us)
carporsche said:
Hi guyz
Is is just me or does anyone else also feel that the majority of the apps take up screen estate with the lone lingering menu button at the bottom
I wanted to move away from sense launcher and thought of adopting the Go Lancher, but for this the home screen itself shows the menu bar below (ugghh!).
Thankfully apex/nova came to the rescue.
But many other appls like XDA, reddit ... show that wasting part of the screen.
So do we have to wait till developers update their apps for OneX? (i thought since galaxy nexus already is a 4.6 " screen this issue was already behind us)
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It's an ICS menu button issue. There's a great post on the Verge discussing it as well. http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/6/3003345/the-menu-button-an-insight
Because the HOX didn't use a menu button on the bottom of the phone (good) it does this instead (bad)
I'd personally like to see the menu key functionality replaced by a long press of home/recent apps. That way you can just bring it up when you need it, like older Android phones.
Should see something like this once we get that BL issue resolved.
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I'd personally like to see the menu key functionality replaced by a long press of home/recent apps. That way you can just bring it up when you need it, like older Android phones.
Should see something like this once we get that BL issue resolved.
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Or if developers followed the development guide the problem wouldn't exist at all since the overflow menu would be located on the top bar.
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As per the Verge post linked earlier:
The menu button. It's a button, that won't, just won't, go away. Google have already attempted to kill it by introducing the action overflow in Ice Cream Sandwich. They've removed it from the default roster of buttons on the Galaxy Nexus, and with good reason. But it refuses to die.
This mainly because app developers are not reading the guidelines and saying "Let's follow these." They're keeping with the archaic menu button. Worse still, the apps are not Holo themed, and in many cases, still made for Gingerbread. Take Google Currents. While a very nice app, it still has menu button support and is made for Gingerbread. This is an app BY GOOGLE, and it still has menu button support. This needs to - must - change.
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Hi Everyone,
My wife owns a HTC Desire HD (non-rooted, standard ROM, etc - much to my disgust!), and on it she is running Ginger Bread (Android 2.3). I notice when she pulls the "curtain" down that her recently opened Apps are stored at the top. This is a very handy feature, as when she closes an App she simply goes back to the curtain and starts from where she left off.
I on the other hand own a HTC Sensation, with Elegancia Sense 4 ROM installed (as per my signature below), and the only icon that I see at the top of my curtain is the settings button. I would really like to see recently used Apps in my curtain, as currently I need to go to the Apps menu, and then click on the App that way, or alternatively find the App on one of my "Desktops" and then click on it there. A simple slide and touch is better than constant tapping in my opinion.
If anybody knows how to add recently used Apps to the curtain whilst using Elegancia can you please let me know how?
Kind Regards,
Davo
Well I don't use elgancia but the reason you don't see that recent apps its because its set that way as default I assume. I don't know if that tom includes 'tweaks' but you can change that feature there
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Mr Davo said:
Hi Everyone,
My wife owns a HTC Desire HD (non-rooted, standard ROM, etc - much to my disgust!), and on it she is running Ginger Bread (Android 2.3). I notice when she pulls the "curtain" down that her recently opened Apps are stored at the top. This is a very handy feature, as when she closes an App she simply goes back to the curtain and starts from where she left off.
I on the other hand own a HTC Sensation, with Elegancia Sense 4 ROM installed (as per my signature below), and the only icon that I see at the top of my curtain is the settings button. I would really like to see recently used Apps in my curtain, as currently I need to go to the Apps menu, and then click on the App that way, or alternatively find the App on one of my "Desktops" and then click on it there. A simple slide and touch is better than constant tapping in my opinion.
If anybody knows how to add recently used Apps to the curtain whilst using Elegancia can you please let me know how?
Kind Regards,
Davo
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Do you specifically want this exact method of accessing recent apps?
There's a more convenient way too.
Long press the home button.
If you specifically want the apps to appear in the notifications pull down menu, I doubt you can. There probably aren't any tweaks that do it either.
The recent apps was a feature in Sense 3.x , so if it's really that important to you, flash a Sense 3.x ROM
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Do you specifically want this exact method of accessing recent apps?
There's a more convenient way too.
Long press the home button.
If you specifically want the apps to appear in the notifications pull down menu, I doubt you can. There probably aren't any tweaks that do it either.
The recent apps was a feature in Sense 3.x , so if it's really that important to you, flash a Sense 3.x ROM
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Aye, long press of the home button will do the trick.
You should then be able to swipe the apps that appear to the right to rid of them if you want.
Hello Friends:
After using the Galaxy S3 for 6 months or so I decided I couldn't stand not having a keyboard anymore and picked up a Relay from Amazon. It came with Jelly Bean preloaded out of the Box. I've already rooted it thanks to the fine people on this forum and though it's noticeably slower than my S3, I smile every time I get to use a keyboard again. (battery life seems pretty amazing too and I'm getting almost as much life as the genuine extended battery 3000mAh I bought for the S3)
However I'm having an issue with the keyboard. For most apps, like XDA, Messaging, Google Search Bar, etc.. the keyboard works fine. However if I am on the Internet, say for example the google home page and use the search bar on the actual page, I have to hold the alt key in to access the secondary characters instead of just pressing it once like you do normally. This becomes annoying when I want to us the @ symbol and have to hold the alt in on the left side and cross my right hand all the way to the left side of the keyboard to get that symbol. I also noticed this in the Netflix app so far.
After some searching, it appears that some Relay users experienced this problem post Jelly Bean update but my phone came with Jelly Bean preloaded so I don't have an ICS backup to go to.
Does anyone have a work around? (I can't use CM-10, if that is a solution because I depend on wifi calling all day at work)
Does anyone have the Stock ICS ROM? If that's a solution, I'll take it.
I also considered perhaps remapping the voice search key on the right side to have a second Alt key on that side of the keyboard, but I'd like to do that as a last resort.
Thanks in advance for any help or guidance.
EDIT: Sorry I didn't realize I put this in General instead of Q&A. Please feel free to move to the correct section.
RE: Alt key issue
Don't worry, CM10 is not the solution. Stock browser does same thing in it.
Check here for possible stock ROM, or I have restored my phone to ICS using Kies, not sure if that always works for newer versions of phone or not though.
What might be simpler though is use a different browser. I do not have the problem in Firefox on CM10. The ".com" alt shortcut still doesn't work, but I don't mind that much. Maybe Chrome/Opera/etc would also work?
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Don't worry, CM10 is not the solution. Stock browser does same thing in it.
Check here for possible stock ROM, or I have restored my phone to ICS using Kies, not sure if that always works for newer versions of phone or not though.
What might be simpler though is use a different browser. I do not have the problem in Firefox on CM10. The ".com" alt shortcut still doesn't work, but I don't mind that much. Maybe Chrome/Opera/etc would also work?
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I actually tried Chrome before to see if it would be a work around and it was not. You were right about using Firefox though, that did solve the problem! Thank you so much! Oddly enough though, the .com button does work in Firefox for me in a quick test on the Google home page.
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