[Q] Help with SoftKeyz removal - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a rooted stock N5. I've been using Softkeyz to spice up my navigation bar but started having a problem. Whenever i'm on a phone call the navigation bar vibrates back and forth really fast. But then stops when the call is over. I decided to try uninstalling and reinstalling Softkeyz to see if that's the problem. After uninstalling it and rebooting the phone I discovered the Softkeyz navigation bar was still there even though the app was gone. And the nav. bar continues to vibrate on calls. How do I get back to the stock navigation bar so I can start over? Is a factory reset necessary? Thanks in advance.

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Status bar menu and icons turned grey?!

I was wondering if anyone has had this happen before? I was just on my Captivate checking a few apps out and then all of a sudden the screen froze for a few seconds and all the icons disappeared and only the wallpaper was left displayed. During that time I was tapping the screen and whatnot wondering what happened and it stayed frozen like this for maybe 30 seconds before it finally came back to life, but I then noticed that whatever icons were displayed on the left side of the status bar turned grey and also when I pull down the menu from the bar it is also grey in color now.
Also I've noticed that the settings menu seems greyer as well. Does anyone have a way to fix this and bring the color back as the grey looks pretty crappy. I'm using Darky's 9.2 rom right now.
Edit: now that I'm looking at it more, it seems like ALL of the menus in all my apps now are greyed. Where before it use to be in color now everything is a dull grey?!
Can anyone help please??
Master Reset. Something (maybe a messed up app?) screwed up the graphics of your phone so if just restarting (... you DID try turning it off and back on, right?) doesn't work then just back up and master reset.
I'm guessing that you have tried rebooting, but if not try that. If that doesn't work flash to stock using Odin and if it still isn't fixed then try to get a replacement.

[Q] Hidden statusbar

Hi, i have i9300 with SlimBean 3.1.
Everything was great until few days ago when i somehov loose my status bar on home screen. Status bar is only visible on lock screen. only way that i found to get it back is flashing again my phone. I did it, and status bar come back, but today gone again, have same problem, there's no status bar on home screen. Have you any idea?
Thx
U using any launchers? And in the settings of that launcher u might have enabled to hide status bar. Check if that's so.
life!
Did you delete some files from system or change rom settings?

[Q] status bar disappeared in x10 mini pro with minicm7 rom

Please help me out...
Status bar disappeared in my x10 mini pro.. this happened while I was uninstalling some applications. but when I pull it down, it gives the menu, but no time is displayed in that too... but time is set and in cyanogenmod settings, time is set to be visible.. there is no signal strength displayed.
mine runs with MiniCM7-2.2.1-mimmi and nAa-11.
I've tried to factory reset, but the apps remain installed and the same status bar problem persists.
I've tried re-installing the ROM, but the status bar problem still persists.
What should I do now?

[Q] The navigation bar has disappeared

I almost always use my phone in extended desktop mode, so the nav bar is hidden, but sometimes for some reason I needed the nav bar so I turned off the extended desktop mode and there never was any problem. But now I can even disable Gravitybox in Xposed and there's still not going to be a nav bar.
Is it happened to anyone else before? Can I fix it without a factory reset?
Pr3no said:
I almost always use my phone in extended desktop mode, so the nav bar is hidden, but sometimes for some reason I needed the nav bar so I turned off the extended desktop mode and there never was any problem. But now I can even disable Gravitybox in Xposed and there's still not going to be a nav bar.
Is it happened to anyone else before? Can I fix it without a factory reset?
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Are your Xposed & Gravitybox up to date?
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Are your Xposed & Gravitybox up to date?
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Yes, they are, but as I said before, I've tried disabling Gravitybox, so if that was causing the problems it should've been fine after rebooting.
Anyways, I'll do a factory reset and hope that'll solve my problems.

Broke the Nav Bar on Android 7

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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