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CM7 question, what is this icon in the task bar

Ok I hate calling it the taskbar because it probably has a certain name in Android, but what is this icon with two down arrows stacked on top of each other? When I tap on it nothing happens, I can't figure it out.

I think you're referring to fullscreen. Seems sometimes those double arrows appear when they don't do anything. Try restarting, and they should disappear.
Also, open up a pdf file or something you know where the program goes full screen, then try clicking the arrow. It should toggle the status bar and make it hide.

It's definitely quirky whether it works or not, but when in apps, it is supposed to hide the task bar. I've had limited success.

yes, that is what its for, to hide the status bar when fullscreen is apply. also make sure to assign a button to make the bar reappear. for me, i have map the home button to bring back the bar.

boxcar8028 said:
yes, that is what its for, to hide the status bar when fullscreen is apply. also make sure to assign a button to make the bar reappear. for me, i have map the home button to bring back the bar.
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I've mapped the home button to bring back the bar too, works well.

Is there anyway to "Minimize" Navbar?

Is there anyway to "minimize" Nav bar?
Meaning, sometimes in a full screen apps the navbar "minimizes" so its only represented by 3 dots? upon touching them, the back, home and recent soft buttons return. and touching them again will trigger their action
Sorry for the terrible phrasing, dunno exactly what to call it...
Thanks,

They still function like normal even when they are the dots, they are just made a little less distracting. To answer the question, there's no mod to do that on command
Or do you mean when they are overlapping the screen as dots, not on their normal black space? Still no way
Some custom roms can hide them entirely when the power button's held though

ugotproblemz said:
Is there anyway to "minimize" Nav bar?
Meaning, sometimes in a full screen apps the navbar "minimizes" so its only represented by 3 dots? upon touching them, the back, home and recent soft buttons return. and touching them again will trigger their action
Sorry for the terrible phrasing, dunno exactly what to call it...
Thanks,
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Yes. Some ROMs have expanded Desktop option (hide nav and status bars). Some let you hide the navbar entirely.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

Don't mean to thread jack, but going with OP's question, would it be possible to toggle it with some button combo like volume up+power, considering we already have screenshots as volume down+power?

ugotproblemz said:
Is there anyway to "minimize" Nav bar?
Meaning, sometimes in a full screen apps the navbar "minimizes" so its only represented by 3 dots? upon touching them, the back, home and recent soft buttons return. and touching them again will trigger their action
Sorry for the terrible phrasing, dunno exactly what to call it...
Thanks,
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Paranoid Android rom.
Transmission sent from my badass Nexus 4.

[REQ] Custom Screen Gestures

Custom Gestures like these jailbreak tweak on iPhone that I can do whatever I want. For example I can go to home screen by swiping using 2 fingers from the right to left but also if possible it also have an option to hide the navbar or swiping from the bottom to up to show navbar and single tap on the screen to hide it again. I think it would be useful for someone who wants to hide navbar and play games and use applications in fullscreen mode.
examples:
*double/tripple tapping in status bar to toggle on/off the torch
*swiping gestures to open an app immediately anywhere on your screen
*gestures on the status bar to open power buttons(for people who doesn't want to press the button from behind)
I don't know if there was/were an application/mod/rom that have this tweak, but if it is available now, can someone link me to that tweak thread?
Thanks

[SOFT MOD] GMD softkeys

Hello pals, wanted to share this
Its great for recovering some precious screen space. It works wonders for me
Its called GMD Auto Soft Keys, for me, its the best alternative to all the other soft button mods.
Hope you like it
Link is here

Tried it, horrible option if you like to play games.
Sent from my XT1032

xheon said:
Tried it, horrible option if you like to play games.
Sent from my XT1032
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How is it horrible when playing games?

Smart Statusbar is one solution. When in a full screen app / game, drag down from top of the screen as if checking a notification. You really only need to do this very slightly, just enough to make the status bar appear, and you will notice the GMD Auto Soft Keys indicator will reappear at the bottom also.

another option is button savior, but i prefer GMD,
GMD can hide the statusbar and the nav bar, without any build prop editing.
gaming is ok for me, just remember where your hotspot is and swipe there, y leave the hotspot in dead center so i can put it small and wouldn't interfere with games.

I also like GMD. It seems to be almost the same as ultimate dynamic nav bar xposed module but for me GMD is better because you can turn off the notification that stops a pull down on status bar going direct to my quick setting.

Here is another mod to free up some screen space.
Hidden but expandable Status Bar
If anyone makes this for Moto G, be sure to post it in 'Themes and Apps.'

lost101 said:
Here is another mod to free up some screen space.
Hidden but expandable Status Bar
If anyone makes this for Moto G, be sure to post it in 'Themes and Apps.'
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gmd can also hide status bar.

chrisdf said:
gmd can also hide status bar.
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I use GMD on other devices and only have praise for it

I purchased GMD last night and it was definitely worth it! My phone looks great now! I also have most apps set to fullscreen mode with Appsetting in Xposed so that hides the status bar. A quick swipe down from the top of the screen will reveal a semi-transparent status bar for a few seconds.
Some images for comparison (1st: Normal, 2nd: Swipe up from bottom, 3rd: Swipe down from top.):

GMD plus Pie Controls for me

Immersive mode?

Hey guys, so I've followed a guide to get immersive mode all the time, just wanna say first of all that is awesome and that I regret not taking a look at it sooner, finally the 6.2" are actually 6.2 (I just thought it would have worked like ****); I was wondering if it's possible to extend immersive mode to when the keyboard is open, it works perfectly everywhere BUT when the keyboard is open.
Thank you!

I don't even know what immersive mode is? haha Where is the setting for that and what does it do?

Blaalad12 said:
I don't even know what immersive mode is? haha Where is the setting for that and what does it do?
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That would be the ability to hide the status bar as well as the navbar so that you can get the full size of the screen with nothing wasted. What I really liked is that you can choose either navbar or status bar or both although I ended up choosing both but still it's good to have the choice

JohnPyn said:
That would be the ability to hide the status bar as well as the navbar so that you can get the full size of the screen with nothing wasted. What I really liked is that you can choose either navbar or status bar or both although I ended up choosing both but still it's good to have the choice
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Where can this be toggled on? and if the navbar is invisible then how do you go back the homescreen/ back to the previous page?

Blaalad12 said:
Where can this be toggled on? and if the navbar is invisible then how do you go back the homescreen/ back to the previous page?
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You can see it by swiping up from the bottom and you can see the status bar by swiping down from the top. This is the guide I followed
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how...re-screen-real-estate-no-root-needed-0177297/

JohnPyn said:
You can see it by swiping up from the bottom and you can see the status bar by swiping down from the top. This is the guide I followed
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how...re-screen-real-estate-no-root-needed-0177297/
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Not quite the same thing, but if you want more screen real estate and don't want to full-on hide the status and / or nav bars, you can come close to "immersive" (and increase viewing area) by tweaking dpi in Developer Options, changing font / zoom in Display, and working with keyboard sizing--some discussion here https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/view-content-screen-t3594320 .
I tried the adb - immersive, and it works fine. Issue I had was that a couple of apps that I regularly use have their own app-specific nav bars at the bottom of their window, and swiping up to get the system nav bar with my fat fingers invariably interacted with the app's nav bar. Now, I use the higher dpi setting which yields a nicely larger viewing screen with much smaller status and nav bars.

tbcpn said:
Issue I had has that a couple of apps that I regularly use have their own app-specific nav bars at the bottom of their window, and swiping up to get the system nav bar with my fat fingers invariably interacted with the app's nav bar. Now, I use the higher dpi setting which yields a nicely larger viewing screen with much smaller status and nav bars.
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I have (fortunately) none of these apps since I'm really loving this immersive mode, the dpi trick can work indeed, I had 560 ish set as min width, I still kept that even though I'm in immersive mode now but I'm really glad everything is working properly