People... sometimes I miss all the 4.7 screen for games or reading. Then I thought about an easy way to turn the notification and status bar on and off at my will, not needing to reboot the phone or mess with the build.prop everytime.
My phone is the xt925 and I use ICS 4.0.4 Retail Brazil rooted.
All you need are two programs (they are paid and totally worth the money) + ROOT (rooting is very important for them to work). Of course you can try other programs. I´m not advertising. I´m just giving an idea.
Download 'GMD hide bar' to have control over the notification and status bar at your will. And also download 'Virtual Button Bar' to replace the notification bars.
When I want to read my ebooks or play some games I use these 2 programs and they always work pretty well.
Also, Virtual Button Bar has a really nice function that is: The button controls stay hidden on the position you want of the screen and then, if you just pass your finger in front of the light sensor (don´t even need to touch the screen), they appear.
Its really convenient and awesome!
Hope you enjoy!
=p
I tried GMD Hide Bar on my Maxx HD running JB (4.1.1) but every time it hid the Navigation Bar on the bottom it also hid the Status Bar on the top. I've found several apps that'll hide them both but no app that'd hide the bottom bar and NOT the top bar. I assume that the reason these apps are set up like this is that in tablets running JB the two sets of functions are BOTH in the bottom bar, not in two separate bars. Have you been able to get GMD Hide Bar to hide the Navigation Bar and not the Status Bar?
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As per the title, is it possible to hide the activity/notification bar from the bottom of the screen, particularly when viewing movies or playing games?
I would assume so, but it might have to be done by the app that you're using. It does so in the Youtube app, it makes the buttons disappear and replaces them with tiny dark dots so I would assume that as a dev, someone could do the same. But I dont recall there being an option to do it.
No?
I don't think so, however devs can move it, like in the game Spirit, they place it on the left so it's as though you're getting more screen space. However, I don't think you can fully remove it, as it's the main way of navigating the device. Hope this helps!
The dots are called lights out mode
you can use gesture control to hide the bottom bar
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontroldemo
hi,
anyone knows/can suggest what could replace our trusted "honeybar" for ICS? honeybar - of course - will not work since it's for honeycomb
I tried HideBar app, but it's a hit or miss App, sometimes it works most times you'll find it hard to bring the Status Bar up,compared to honeybar wherein it's so responsive.
any other suggestions aside from the paid GestureControl Full/Lite and Hide Bar?
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Have you tried a Launcher that supports hiding of the notification bar? Go Ex and HD, Adw, and etc. They can hide the status/noti bar with gestures or a click.
gesture control
Gesture control is awesome for ics will hide bar and bring it back with a three finger swipe. Plus you can use gestures to replace the soft keys you hide.
Hi there. Lovin the N5 so far. Definitely the fastest phone I have ever used (and I've used tons). Trying to move to more gesture based things and looking for a way to hide the status / nav bars so I can just use Pie and swipe down for status bar / notifications. I can use GMD Gesture Controls to hide both, but it reverts back to normal after I lock the screen. Plus the status bar doesn't swipe down easily if at all like that. Anyone else have any ideas or just have to wait till more devs get their N5s to build up the KitKat support for mods?
Hi
i did a search but cant seem to pin a how too
I want to be abled to always show even if status bar is transparent over top of a game playing so I can see what the wifi and battery is doing
I know can slide finger down. but it auto hides..
1) how can you change the time out of that
2) turn it auto hiding again..even if its finger swipe up
I search xposed modules but onyl found one that changes colour of clock and adds battery percentage
but nothing there to always show e.g. in full screen
if theres a module or app that edits build pro easily so can turn off and on would be great
cheers
I found a app.. but makes background solid its better then nothing
but thought xposed would have a option like this and choose transparent or own colours
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.jskt.togglestatusbar&hl=en
dont worry I found using the app below to turn it off and on when need and xposed module
Force Translucent KitKat and tick status but leave nav bar untick did the job!
does the trick.. now no black background but see through so it dont hide the
scores etc behind the status bar
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.jskt.togglestatusbar&hl=en
UPDATE--- found a better module for xposed but have to pay $3 for pro version
has a pop out you can enable to customise transparency and color for status bar
flat style colored bars
bonus is I can make the nav bar solid color like black with white font instead
of see through when swiping to bring up over top of a game
Just switched over to the H8. Took the Android 7 upgrade and did a boot loader unlock/TWRP/root.
I went on a quest to get the Nav Bar to hide. I tried a few things (apps out of the app store) none of which really worked. I also made a few changes to build.prop (I'll tell you about that in a second). At some point I realized the NAV bar was GONE. Sometimes I could get it to come back up and sometimes not.
Now I have it back but it has the "hide" button on the left which SHOULD be good except once you hide it, no amount of coaxing will reliably bring it back up. So either I don't know how to bring it up (just swipe up from the bottom, right?) or something is still broken. At this point, I'd be happy just to get rid of the hide button.
I did a few tries with (with both 0 and 1 values)
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1
ro.config.showNavigationBar=false
If you set mainkeys=1 the screen will go black after unlocking. The true/false seems to control the switch on the nav button menu, not the nav bar itself.
In addition in the global settings namespace there is:
navigationbar_is_min=0
policy_control=null*
If you hide the bar, is_min goes to 1 but changing it manually doesn't help. The policy control ought to hide bars if set right but seems to not have any effect.
Any ideas? What am I missing? Something is making it put that extra button on the nav bar.
Update:
Setting policy_control to "" brings the bar back but... it floats over the screen. It works but the app on the screen is "under" it, as though it were pulled up. So I suspect I need to google a different value of policy_control.
If someone has the same setup and could do from an adb shell:
settings get global policy_control
That would be interesting.
Update #2: Rebooting with the taskbar up seems to correct that, but there is still the hide button on the left hand side. Now if it works and I just don't know how to make it reappear that's exactly what I'm after. But as it is if you make a mistake and hide it, it is hard to recover (and yes I know about the floating dock).
Final Update (?)
Ok I think I got it, although I never got it back to stock. Instead of trying to get out of immersive mode I should have gone in for it. From ADB I did:
settings put global policy_control "immersive.full=*"
or
settings put global policy_control "immersive.navigation=*"
That seems to do what I want. The nav bar hides until you swipe up or bring the notifications down. If the keyboard or something else is under it you can use the hide button to push it away. Success! Well... maybe... it seems like I lost it again, but for awhile it was behaving exactly as you'd expect.... hmm..
I've tried to replace the navbar with gestures before, and the best I got was to completely hide the nav.
There are also some apps on the play store that let you do that, and work pretty well.
The problem is the modifications that Huawei made to the OS are so extensive, that messing with the navbar in ways that other devices work, may just break it completely.
It's a pain in the butt to do anything on this phone.
Well I had a few hours of success where the bar hid and would show. Sometimes a drag up would not work but bringing the status bar down would also bring the menu up and that's workable. But... this morning. it decided to hide all the time again. So I can eventually coax it back with settings changes, but that's really not handy at all.
Ok I think I have a better idea now. The build.prop has the
ro.config.showNavigationBar=false
This controls if the "Show navigation bar" shows up in settings (and that's all it controls). However... I had it turned ON and then removed that line from build prop. So having it on appears to control the hide button and that's all.
Meanwhile all the immersive mode stuff was just further confusing.
So the working config seems to be:
Set the nav bar to true in build prob.
the settings should have policy_control to null*
the settings should have navigationbar_is_min 0
then once rebooted, slide the Navigation Bar OFF on the Navigation Key setting (not sure where this is stored).
So it is confusing because Navigation Bar OFF must mean more "Navigation Bar hiding OFF"
Better idea is to leave the nav bar alone. However, if you had a 3rd party replacement (or you like using the floating dock which I don't) then setting the is_min setting to 1 might be just what you want. Just reboot and that sucker stays gone most of the time.
So once I had that sorted out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.immersive does what I wanted. What an adventure!
Hi,
I know this thread is kind of old, but I've also been trying to his the navy bar, only difference is I never want it to come back.
I've tried qemu.hw.mainkeys and got the black screen after locking, tried is_min setting but it hid the keys on the bar but lleft a bar at the bottom of the screen.
Any ideas on how I can make it vanish forever?
Thanks
Araytha said:
Hi,
I know this thread is kind of old, but I've also been trying to his the navy bar, only difference is I never want it to come back.
I've tried qemu.hw.mainkeys and got the black screen after locking, tried is_min setting but it hid the keys on the bar but lleft a bar at the bottom of the screen.
Any ideas on how I can make it vanish forever?
Thanks
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