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[Q] Possible to move soft keys yet?

I have seen several posts with this question, but none with answers. Has anyone found a way to move the soft keys to one side or another? I keep hitting them when I type (did it while typing this ironically). Never did make sense to me to have a touch sensitive home button right underneath one of the most often used buttons on the typing board. In any case, I have scoured the net looking for an answer and can't find one. Any know if I missed it somewhere? Thanks in advance.

Try a tablet mod ROM, it has the navigation keys bunched up in the bottom left corner. Hope this helps.

Where?
Appreciate the info. Where do I find that one? I have seen a lot of different ROMs for N7, but nothing denoted as "tablet ROM" and none that have mentioned moving the soft keys as a feature.

sikagoon7 said:
You can also. Change the DPI to 160 and achieve the same effect. Tablet UI on Nexus 7
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Sorry for the n00b questions, but this is my first tablet...where do I change that? I have looked though the settings and have not seen a place to do that. I am running a rooted but (almost) stock ROM. (Manually loaded 4.1.2) And will that change the rest of the viewing area?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788518 remember to select tab mode during the installation

Lazarus there is alternatives as well. Team EOS rom allows you to completely hide the softkey interface. I eventually went with gmd gesture control which allows you to hide/show the keys at the flick of your hand, as well as much, much more.
Try the lite version here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontroldemo
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toidimaet said:
Lazarus there is alternatives as well. Team EOS rom allows you to completely hide the softkey interface. I eventually went with gmd gesture control which allows you to hide/show the keys at the flick of your hand, as well as much, much more.
Try the lite version here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontroldemo/QUOTE]
This looks like an awesome little app. But I don't see where to hide the nav bar. Is that one of the Pro features? (It is a sweet little app either way.)
Billchen0014 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788518 remember to select tab mode during the installation
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This sends me back to JB 4.1.1 though doesn't it? I have already upgraded to 4.1.2 (Though at this point I could not tell you what the difference is other than home screen rotation.) I didn't know 4.1.1 well enough to know it. Only had the tablet a few days.
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Might be, it definitely is available in the pro version though.
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[Q] Nexus 4 Virtual Buttons

First I tried to find some thing like this but I didn't manage to find any posts similar .. the only thing I found is to make your nexus 4 Full Screen.
# What I need is disable virtual buttons ONLY from Home Screen as it have no point in my viewpoint .. make Lock Screen full screen with no black blank space .. and keep the virtual button everywhere else*
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# Is it possible to make virtual button background transparent as in Motorola*
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* sorry that I can't post image due to xda restrictions for new users under 10 posts :/

As of now, I don't think it is possible. I would just wait for ROMs to start coming out and hopefully one of the devs will be able to implement such a feature.

full screen toggle apk + LMT 1.5 seems to be working for me.. you have to be rooted to utilize these features

konfuzed said:
full screen toggle apk + LMT 1.5 seems to be working for me.. you have to be rooted to utilize these features
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Nice ass

mulletcutter said:
Nice ass
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lol I agree

Neither of those apps are working for my phone, at least not gestures. When I hit disable navbar, nothing happens, though it did request root.
What input did you select in LMT?
Edit: Never used these apps before, but I'm assuming the nav removal works as I didn't try rebooting. I did reboot after setting up LMT though, and it still never worked.

I use lmt and full screen and its fine.... but can anyone solve this? its really strange.. touch is fine... but once you put navigations buttons back... they simple dont work.. anyone have a final solution? thanks.

[Q] Rom or theme suggestion for a broken digitizer?

I screwed up and broke the very top of my digitizer. When orientated in portait mode, I cannot interact with either the notification bar, or (when flipped over) the home screen buttons. Its just a narrow band of badness, no deeper than the home icon. The LCD is undamaged.
My question for you awesome people is.. do you have any suggestions as to a theme or a rom or remapping of buttons that might help me and others like me out? For instance, it would be rad to have the notification bar and home buttons on the same side of the screen. Or maybe I could make the power button go to the home screen?
Thanks guys! And be careful with your stuff.

mikerbot said:
I screwed up and broke the very top of my digitizer. When orientated in portait mode, I cannot interact with either the notification bar, or (when flipped over) the home screen buttons. Its just a narrow band of badness, no deeper than the home icon. The LCD is undamaged.
My question for you awesome people is.. do you have any suggestions as to a theme or a rom or remapping of buttons that might help me and others like me out? For instance, it would be rad to have the notification bar and home buttons on the same side of the screen. Or maybe I could make the power button go to the home screen?
Thanks guys! And be careful with your stuff.
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Try out Paranoid Android? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800268

You can use AOKP with tablet ui. I threw up a working build of it tonight. Google now nav ring is kind of off in left corner besides that its fine. Should solve what you're asking for, not to self promote or anything. I didn't make it, I just compiled it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36566779
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VonEsch said:
You can use AOKP with tablet ui. I threw up a working build of it tonight. Google now nav ring is kind of off in left corner besides that its fine. Should solve what you're asking for, not to self promote or anything. I didn't make it, I just compiled it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36566779
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Perfect! Works awesome so far, and is just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!

mikerbot said:
Perfect! Works awesome so far, and is just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!
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No problem, glad I could help!

[Feature Request] Add 2 buttons to nav bar- Reachability and Orientation Lock/Unlock

Not sure if this is where to post this, but coming from an iPhone I'd like to have the option to have a reachability button in the nav bar along with a orientation lock. The reachability button would make reaching the top a lot easier and an orientation lock in the nav bar would make it easier to quickly unlock orientation when watching a movie, etc.

darus214 said:
Not sure if this is where to post this, but coming from an iPhone I'd like to have the option to have a reachability button in the nav bar along with a orientation lock. The reachability button would make reaching the top a lot easier and an orientation lock in the nav bar would make it easier to quickly unlock orientation when watching a movie, etc.
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No it shouldn't be posted here i'm sure it will be moved to Q+A soon though
Mark.

mskip said:
No it shouldn't be posted here i'm sure it will be moved to Q+A soon though
Mark.
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Sorry, thanks for the reply

I've been wanting reachability as an option since I first got my nexus 6. I doubt its ever gonna happen. Also, having screen orientation lock as well would be nice too. Good thinking OP. But like I said, I doubt it will ever happen.
Nick

Welcome to Android. There are all sorts of features out there that can be built in. There is a reachability hack using Xposed, but that won't help on Marshmallow yet.
As for rotation lock, I think you should invest some money in Tasker. You can define which apps should have rotation on (like video players) so that it automatically takes care of it for you. It's a much more elegant solution than putting a rotation button in the navigation bar.

Rotation lock is also a feature commonly placed in the notification toggles.

This is making me insane - footer navigation (the software home and back button)

Love my G 4, Love Resurrection Remix, but the software home and back buttons are making me insane. They appear below the keyboard when I type and I very often hit them when typing. I searched and searched and cannot find any reference to this which leads me to believe there is a simple solution I am overlooking. Can someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction? Thank you.

DarkQuark said:
Love my G 4, Love Resurrection Remix, but the software home and back buttons are making me insane. They appear below the keyboard when I type and I very often hit them when typing. I searched and searched and cannot find any reference to this which leads me to believe there is a simple solution I am overlooking. Can someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction? Thank you.
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So in the RR rom I found where you can turn off the nav bar. But that kills it 100% so that is not feasible. I then found in customization settings for the RR Rom "expanded desktop". This allows you to turn off the nav bar in particular apps. While this works, as soon as the keyboard pops up so does the nav bar.
I might try killing the nav bar and turning on Pie controls (built into the Rom).

DarkQuark said:
So in the RR rom I found where you can turn off the nav bar. But that kills it 100% so that is not feasible. I then found in customization settings for the RR Rom "expanded desktop". This allows you to turn off the nav bar in particular apps. While this works, as soon as the keyboard pops up so does the nav bar.
I might try killing the nav bar and turning on Pie controls (built into the Rom).
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... navbar softkeys have always been normally enabled for the keyboard.

negusp said:
... navbar softkeys have always been normally enabled for the keyboard.
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Understood. It appears to be an issue for me because when hitting the space bar I often hit the nav bar closing my app or pulling up the task list.
As of now I have it disabled and am using the fingerprint scanner as a home button.