I have just upgraded to a Motorola RAZR HD from a phone that had physical (capacitive) "back", "home" and "menu" buttons.
I find the fact that in some instances there is no "menu" button when one could be used irritating. ie, when on the home screen, pressing the "menu" button would bring up a menu with settings etc, but with the RAZR HD there in no "menu" button displayed in that instance.
Is there any way to replace the "recent apps" button, or better yet, add a persistent "menu" button to the onscreen button panel?
I'm aware that on the HTC One V, there was a half functional way of doing this, see
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26202073#post26202073
Is there a work around (or a menu setting) that would accomplish this?
If you switch to Cyanogenmod you can assign a long press of one of the buttons to work as a menu button.
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does anyone know how to remap keys, I would like to remap the green call button to list recntly used apps, the one that we get when we long press home key.
Really miss the alt-back key combination of blackberry.
i think a quick key to app switcher will make any device really faster
trincisor said:
Hi
does anyone know how to remap keys, I would like to remap the green call button to list recntly used apps, the one that we get when we long press home key.
Really miss the alt-back key combination of blackberry.
i think a quick key to app switcher will make any device really faster
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Press and hold the 'Home' button and it'll show you the list of the last 6 recently used apps.
thanks,
but i do know the long press home button, or press and hold home key.
I want to remap this function to the green call button instead.
so that i can get to the application switcher in one key stroke instead of pressing and holding
I made a MOD for the Galaxy S III which remaps the Menu key to the home button. The issue I'm having is that when I do this, it also enables the long press on the normal menu capacitive button even though a normal press is disabled.
Does anyone know how to disable the long press of a button?
I can not access the menu button (previously known as right click!). In my old phone (sony), there was a menu button (menu/home/back buttons) and some applications use that as right click menu. However, in the Galaxy A5, there is no such button.
Some websites say that you have to long press the "application list" button near the home key. In my A5, if I long press that button, a menu is opened for multi viewing the apps. So, I tried to disable the muultiwindow feature by downloading an app from the play store. Now the multiwindow feature is disabled, but still the long press of "application list" button doesn't bring up the menu button.
Any idea about that?
You have to long press the back button to bring up the menu.
Mapping hardware keys feature, like in many other ROMs, would be really useful feature. Who agrees, +1 pls!
Yes please,
e.g. the Find 7 has that old and never used "menu" button on the left.
Under Cyanogenmod/LineageOS I can modify this button, so it acts the "recent apps" button.
Although OmniROM allows to change the longpress of this button, the single press can't be changed and therefore still has the "menu" functionality. Quite annoying, because it's useless.
A manual workaround would be to edit the Generic.kl:
1. Open /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl in Text Editor.
2. Then scroll down to "key 139", this is the key for the hardware menu button. Right now it will say "MENU" next to it. Replace it with "APP_SWITCH" instead.
I know the power button can be assigned to pull down the notification panel via a swipe gesture. I was wondering if it were possible to remap that to do "BACK" or "HOME".
if what you want is not available you could use a power menu app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.visnkmr.powermenu&hl=en_US&gl=US). it's what i use