The capacitive buttons are garbage in my opinion and I constantly accidentally hit them. Not to mention they are backwards. I would like to disable them completely and enable the soft buttons like on the Nexus 5. Is this possible?
I found something for the note 2 in another forum, you might give a try.
Original thread: http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-2/242120-disable-soft-capacitive-keys.html
Root your phone. Get a file explorer that can use the root to edit system files. Go to system, usr, keylayout, and open generic.kl with a text editor, find keys 158 and 139 and put a "#" sign in front of both. Save the file and reboot phone. Then go to settings and disable the light. They are now fully disabled.
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If you disable them, you can add software keys by simply editing your build.prop file. Add the following line to the end with root explorer and reboot. qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
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I would think if you want backwards left handed buttons (back button on the left) and you want to waste screen space then there are solutions but why would you want to do that unless you're a leftie or you like to use a small screen?
Personally it is the best solution on a mobile with zero wasted screen space and the back button should always be on the right close to my right handed thumb.
drummr8 said:
The capacitive buttons are garbage in my opinion and I constantly accidentally hit them. Not to mention they are backwards. I would like to disable them completely and enable the soft buttons like on the Nexus 5. Is this possible?
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What a waste of screen released that would be, why not try to adapt, after a few weeks you won't accidentally press them and you will be used to the position, which even is more logical and ergonomical.
Jonathan-H said:
I would think if you want backwards left handed buttons (back button on the left) and you want to waste screen space then there are solutions but why would you want to do that unless you're a leftie or you like to use a small screen?
Personally it is the best solution on a mobile with zero wasted screen space and the back button should always be on the right close to my right handed thumb.
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I feel that the back button on the right is backwards left handed. It is much easier and more natural for my right thumb to reach to the left side of the screen rather than scrunching my thumb up to try and reach the back button in the very bottom right corner of the phone. Adding virtual buttons does not magically make the screen small, which you'd know if you were speaking from experience. Also they disappear whenever they are not needed (like when watching video)
godutch said:
What a waste of screen released that would be, why not try to adapt, after a few weeks you won't accidentally press them and you will be used to the position, which even is more logical and ergonomical.
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I disagree. The buttons are very uncomfortable and a pita to use
drummr8 said:
I disagree. The buttons are very uncomfortable and a pita to use
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I came from the moto x 2014, it took me a few days of getting used to the position and handling the phone. Lower left is the easiest to reach position so back is a bit harder but multitasking is easier. And on screen buttons do waste space. Now if you had a device withoutcapacitive buttons than that would be fine but now you will have unused capacitive buttons just wasting space....
Probably possible if you root.
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There used to be two onscreen button (Answer and To_Voicemail) on incoming calls on the G1/Android. See image 8 at http://www.helloandroid.com/node/258 . I dont see them on my G1. Is there some setting to enable them, or did Google take them away in their infinite wisdom?
yep they're gone. the link of pictures you provided was from the v0.8(?) sdk
It was kinda redundant as the answer/decline hardware buttons are right below the screen
Still it would be nice to have it. Its there is all WIndows Phone does your Phone have Hardware Button or not. It fact Pressing on Screen is easy rather then Hitting then Button Beyond Body level in G1
The phone has tiny hardware buttons, it would be a lot more convenient to have those large on-screen touch buttons. It was retarded for them to take that away.
Report issue at Open Source Android Site, They will answer that
jayandro said:
The phone has tiny hardware buttons, it would be a lot more convenient to have those large on-screen touch buttons. It was retarded for them to take that away.
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make your fat ass fingers lose some cot damn weight, stop your cot damn complaining, it does not need those buttons on the screen.
We need that Large onscreen Buttons It very convenient to have Large Button to tap on screen Small Button like we have on G1 that to at surface level is hard to press from Left Hand while Driving
hetaldp said:
We need that Large onscreen Buttons It very convenient to have Large Button to tap on screen Small Button like we have on G1 that to at surface level is hard to press from Left Hand while Driving
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it is not hard to press, stop crying, on other HTC the answer and hangup button on the screen caused problems, trying to get the phoen out the holster and it touches one of those buttons, and maybe you didnt want to answer the phone for that person, i am glad the buttons are hard to press because i dont want to be answering the phone trying to get it off my hip to see who it is.
I appologize if its already on here somewhere but I didn't find much on it. what I think would make the G1 much nicer to use would be a back gesture rather then having to reach down to the back button all the time. u know slide your thumb from right to the left when ur in an app and it would be the same as streching your thumb all the way down to the back button. If someone could either tell me how to set gestures or make something quick and simple to do it I think it would be much nicer to use and I would appriciate it much.
This forum is great and helped me tons on my universal so naturally I'm turning here for help first. I have a feeling by the end of the year Android will be killin the iphone! Turns out its not the phone, its the OS... lol..
The G1 does that to a certain extent but what you are talking about would require a lot of codding in the OS, I don`t think it would be a simple task. But if you are a coder and want to do this, I`m sure other people can offer you some assitance, JF would be one of them for sure. Cheers!
svxdriver said:
u know slide your thumb from right to the left when ur in an app and it would be the same as streching your thumb all the way down to the back button.
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Possibly the only space the operating system reserves for its own input detection is the notification bar. I imagine it might be possible to add some kind of swipe detection to that. However considering how narrow that space is, I don't see how it would be any better than just clicking the back button.
As for the system detecting swipes on the whole lcd, that's probably a non-starter. It would break the touch user interface of many apps.
Currently there are two ways to bring up the programs tab - dragging the tab up and a short press on the tab itself. It *may* be possible to change the function of the short press to 'back' but I think that may cause a lot of inadvertent 'back' presses...
boogie1077 said:
Currently there are two ways to bring up the programs tab - dragging the tab up and a short press on the tab itself. It *may* be possible to change the function of the short press to 'back' but I think that may cause a lot of inadvertent 'back' presses...
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I think what svxdriver wants is for a leftward swipe to be universally recognized as a backstep, meaning not just on the Launcher screen but in all applications.
Not sure how well that would work. The o/s would need to distinguish between a swipe and just scrolling across the screen. Easier, I think, to just use the back button.
BobbyHill said:
Not sure how well that would work. The o/s would need to distinguish between a swipe and just scrolling across the screen. Easier, I think, to just use the back button.
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well it doesn't have a hard time distinguishing between moving up on a page and when you drag from the top of the screen to pull the notification bar down. in windows mobile I had a program that I could assign different gestures to do different things.. I thought it the same kind of thing would be handy.. but I wouldn't want it to go back cause I swiped, onlyl if I swipe from the edge of th screen to signify I want to go back..
Hi people,
Question? Did someone managed the script for using onscreen buttons (back, home & show programs)? I knew the Galaxy s5 can be showed the buttons by editing a script.
Thanks in advance!
You can add this line to your build.prop
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Note that the soft keys will cover the close all button in recents (in portrait) , some parts of the camera, and cause s-voice settings to force close
piccit said:
You can add this line to your build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
Note that the soft keys will cover the close all button in recents (in portrait) , some parts of the camera, and cause s-voice settings to force close
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Plus it is pointless on a device that has hardware buttons. Just my two cents
Stevles said:
Plus it is pointless on a device that has hardware buttons. Just my two cents
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Well to each his own. I personally don't like having to physically press the home button. That being said, I turned off the softkeys b/c the little glitches were bugging me.
piccit said:
Well to each his own. I personally don't like having to physically press the home button. That being said, I turned off the softkeys b/c the little glitches were bugging me.
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I hate pressing the button as well, which is why I'm using SwipeHome (and now actually Pie Control which let's me do the same but with a smaller activation area) to just swipe up from above the button onto the screen. Works great!
Thanks guys, i like the onscreen buttons.
I hope in the future we can only put a single touch on the fingerprint/home button to go the home screen.
A little tip for the ones who hold the phone in their left hand and need to switch the .back button with the multitasking one. I am right handed but, as a long time user of Note series phones, I usually hold the phone in my left hand and the stylus with the right one...Now with the s7 edge I miss the stylus, but still the phone is in my left hand.
Root required..
With your favourite root browser navigate to /system/usr/keylayout and open Generic.kl as a text file.
Move to key 158 and replace BACK with APP_SWITCH, then look for APP_SWITCH , that is key 254, and replace APP_SWITCH with BACK.
Just save and reboot.
Obviously it is fully reversible.
Please note that this is not the same result you can get with all in one gestures app, both because it continuously runs in the background (while my tip remaps the keys once forever) and, once you switch the two keys with such app, you loose the screen you usually get when you long press the multitasking button. I mean the screen that displays the app you are using in the upper part of the screen and the choice for the other apps in the lower part.
Not to mention that this solution still is cleaner than installing xposed framework and any dedicated module.
Simple and useful
If your rom settings don't have the choice to remove keys backlight, look for galaxy button lights 2.
For lazy people.
Flash in recovery.
lucaoldb said:
A little tip for the ones who hold the phone in their left hand and need to switch the .back button with the multitasking one. I am right handed but, as a long time user of Note series phones, I usually hold the phone in my left hand and the stylus with the right one...Now with the s7 edge I miss the stylus, but still the phone is in my left hand.
Root required..
With your favourite root browser navigate to /system/usr/keylayout and open Generic.kl as a text file.
Move to key 158 and replace BACK with APP_SWITCH, then look for APP_SWITCH , that is key 254, and replace APP_SWITCH with BACK.
Just save and reboot.
Obviously it is fully reversible.
Please note that this is not the same result you can get with all in one gestures app, both because it continuously runs in the background (while my tip remaps the keys once forever) and, once you switch the two keys with such app, you loose the screen you usually get when you long press the multitasking button. I mean the screen that displays the app you are using in the upper part of the screen and the choice for the other apps in the lower part.
Not to mention that this solution still is cleaner than installing xposed framework and any dedicated module.
Simple and useful
If your rom settings don't have the choice to remove keys backlight, look for galaxy button lights 2.
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Thanks this working perfectly
I'm trying to use pixel 2 with one hand, and I often have issues with "back" button. I'm used to Samsung phone where it used to be on the right as opposed to it being on the left.
On Pixel 2, since it's on the left side, I often have issues pressing the button.
I know you can switch left and right, but I'm wondering if there's anyway to move the entire soft key to the right (or to the left). The beauty of soft key is that you can do whatever you want, so I'm hoping it's something I can do. thoughts?
Custom Navigation Bar has this option. Yes you can flip (thats why I use it). You can also move one button left or right, or all three. I don't remember if this is free or part of the in-app purchase. Its a good app regardless.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.paphonb.systemuituner
dbrohrer said:
Custom Navigation Bar has this option. Yes you can flip (thats why I use it). You can also move one button left or right, or all three. I don't remember if this is free or part of the in-app purchase. Its a good app regardless.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.paphonb.systemuituner
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thanks!! I'll check it out!