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Tap notification bar to scroll to top in any app

Ever since my switch over to Android a few years back from my iPhone 3G, I've always been waiting for such a feature in Android that will give me the ability to tap the notification bar and instantly scroll back to the top in any app that requires scrolling. I've never once asked for this feature once until now. I've Googled it and it seems to be a rare topic. Do Android users know if this such feature? Because it seems like an easy concept and assuming wouldn't be difficult to incorporate a mod into Android... or would it?
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dEris said:
Ever since my switch over to Android a few years back from my iPhone 3G, I've always been waiting for such a feature in Android that will give me the ability to tap the notification bar and instantly scroll back to the top in any app that requires scrolling. I've never once asked for this feature once until now. I've Googled it and it seems to be a rare topic. Do Android users know if this such feature? Because it seems like an easy concept and assuming wouldn't be difficult to incorporate a mod into Android... or would it?
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Used to like that feature on the iphone a year back. But don't you think that it is also possible to just flung one time and the whole page goes up? In iOS the flings are not continuous. To me at least. I would love to have this though.
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I agree, that's one feature that android is sorely lacking.

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Used to like that feature on the iphone a year back. But don't you think that it is also possible to just flung one time and the whole page goes up? In iOS the flings are not continuous. To me at least. I would love to have this though.
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Yes, that is what I have to do now. But when I'm reading a long article, flinging up on the page 20 times gets old.

I think Apple would sue Google if that feature was intriduced to Android

I think the new Samsung Galaxy S 3 has an gesture with scrolls in any list to the top. You just tap the top of the phone twice.

It's weird that just few people care of this feature, which is very cool, I miss it so much

benxiro said:
It's weird that just few people care of this feature, which is very cool, I miss it so much
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Yea, I would love for this feature to be implemented.
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nope. i'd never use this if it were rolled into android. it seems very un-natural to tap the notification bar to go to the top. let iOS have this one....we don't want it anyway.

Well, some of us do. Seems like it would be something fairly easy to do with some dev knowledge.

hp420 said:
nope. i'd never use this if it were rolled into android. it seems very un-natural to tap the notification bar to go to the top. let iOS have this one....we don't want it anyway.
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So you would rather swipe over and over to reach the top of a loooonnng list rather than tapping the status bar once? Oooooooook.
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hp420 said:
nope. i'd never use this if it were rolled into android. it seems very un-natural to tap the notification bar to go to the top. let iOS have this one....we don't want it anyway.
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you better try to experience this feature, then decide it's natural or un-natural.
in general, 1 side: users have to swipe many many times to come to the top of the page; another side: just a tap then done(just like the home key on PC) - smooth and easy. Think and compare

you can use dolphin browser and gesture control, it works well

migueldbr said:
you can use dolphin browser and gesture control, it works well
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I think it would be cool if it could be implemented to a long press menu button, when I tap the top it tries to change brightness..

Setting.Out said:
I think it would be cool if it could be implemented to a long press menu button, when I tap the top it tries to change brightness..
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my case also, i love to use the status bar to control brightness=p

My opinion of the Nexus 7's UI

I think most would agree that the expanded phone UI is ideal for the Nexus... in portrait mode. After playing with the full tablet UI on my Nexus, you see how much you're missing out on with the default UI in landscape. Especially in apps that hide the notification bar in landscape like Dead Trigger and most other games leave you guessing at what's going on with your battery, Wi-Fi, and notifications until you exit the app. This is by far my biggest problem with the N7.
So what do I want? I want the Nexus 7 to have expanded phone UI in portrait, and tablet UI in landscape. I'm not talking fiddling with DPI per app and ****, I just want the notification/navigation bars to change based on orientation, plain and simple. Would that ever be possible?
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I think the optimal solution would be some sort of system wide gesture or a soft button in the nav bar to bring the status bar down over whatever is is currently displayed.
As to what you want, check out Paranoid Android.

Shamushand said:
I think most would agree that the expanded phone UI is ideal for the Nexus... in portrait mode. After playing with the full tablet UI on my Nexus, you see how much you're missing out on with the default UI in landscape. Especially in apps that hide the notification bar in landscape like Dead Trigger and most other games leave you guessing at what's going on with your battery, Wi-Fi, and notifications until you exit the app. This is by far my biggest problem with the N7.
So what do I want? I want the Nexus 7 to have expanded phone UI in portrait, and tablet UI in landscape. I'm not talking fiddling with DPI per app and ****, I just want the notification/navigation bars to change based on orientation, plain and simple. Would that ever be possible?
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Haven't seen that yet. My guess is that it would require a app restart upon orientation change which would suck.
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I've been using the Parandroid Rom on my Galaxy Nexus and love it. Also running the patch over in Development that allows the N7 to run in Tablet without changing the DPI settings.

I can't stand the phone style UI myself. I need the tablet UI. It works on a phone because the screen is smaller but there's no reason for it on a bigger screen. I had the Nook Color and that was my first tablet, back before Honeycomb and the tablet UI became integrated into the OS. The mods that were done on CM7 on that thing sort of laid the groundwork and showed that a modified, combined status bar and navigation bar were needed if you didn't have physical buttons.
The UI on there combined soft keys onto the notification bar and it just made sense. The same could work on the Nexus 7, if you had a combined portrait notification bar, it could be at the top of the screen like normal but have soft keys on the left side. I think on the Nook Color, they put the notification bar at the bottom, so it really did set us up for the HC/ICS/JB UI...
There's probably an app that does this, sort of like Button Savior or something...
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I'm running the EOS rom with its stock DPI Tablet mode and I love it. Its not super small like when lowering the DPI and everything works like the market and looks very nice.
I'm waiting for other devs to pick up the feature... however they do it.
Tablet UI all the way. Portrait and Landscape... its much better equipped for anything over 5". Plus that notification pull down is atrocious. Why isn't it full screen?!
Here's mine on EOS rom:
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There is an app in the market that let's you show the notification bar in full screen apps by long pressing / dragging down from the top. Very useful when you get a text while in netflix or something. I think this sounds like it would mostly solve your issue.
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Questions go in the Q&A section

Tried tablet UI, couldn't stand it. I favor my right hand, and the tablet UI places the back button on the far, far left. Unacceptable waste of movement.
The only viable option, to me, is something along the lines of rob43's Salad Bar II. I think it also satisfies the OP's requirements. But, I think he's too poor to afford a N7 right now, so who knows when it'll be ported LOL.

change brightness

is there anyway to change brightness without minimizing application or going to setting menu or use widgets. Tab 2 has this cool notification bar from where you can do lots of things like changing turning off/on gps,wi-fi,sync, change volume and brightness (manually) or set auto. And it does it without interruption.. very useful! On Nexus 7 it's a whole different thing.. i use power toggles from playstore and it has that option to put the toggles in the notification bar.. it works but not the way i would like it to.. Like for example i'm watching youtube and i want to bump up the brightness i pull down notification bar select brightness slider and youtube stops the video.. now after i adjusted the brightness i have to click on play icon sometimes the video resumes sometimes it reloads or rebuffers.
You get the point.. Thanks!

Try Widgetsoid.
It might work better for you than power toggles
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Manatee Burger said:
Try Widgetsoid.
It might work better for you than power toggles
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no it does the same thing .. ohh well!
quad core should handle simple things like that.. i'll write to painless death see what they gonna tell

Maybe this?

nope the same thing.. i guess it's JB itself! No matter what i try it does the same thing stops(pauses) youtube. I wish youtube had those gesture controls like in MX player or BS player or basically any other third party video players!

Notification Toggle. You can have access to all the settings like WiFi, GPS, brightness, sound etc. all in the notification drawer.

veeman said:
Notification Toggle. You can have access to all the settings like WiFi, GPS, brightness, sound etc. all in the notification drawer.
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yeah i've tried it not exactly what i'm looking for.. I want application that would do it seamlessly without any interruption. Just like volume.. when press volume rocker the volume control pops out over playing video you can still use the rocker or you can slide the volume on screen while your video plays I want the same thing with the brightness ..

I just use Jkay's deluxe settings. It integrates the settings in the notifications panel
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What you want is display brightness ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.DisplayBrightness&hl=en ). It makes swiping your notification bar adjust brightness. Go through the settings to get it like you want. Hope that helps.
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You need Power Toogles... search for it on the market.
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FromiOSToAndroid said:
I just use Jkay's deluxe settings. It integrates the settings in the notifications panel
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Looking for this in Play Store. Can you link?
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FromiOSToAndroid said:
I just use Jkay's deluxe settings. It integrates the settings in the notifications panel
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Yes thats what i want! Do i have to root or something in order to get it?

try Screen Filter ， absolutely awesome application.
love life love my N7

Never mind i found it too bad its not compatible with nexus 7! Ill try it with nexus phone because nexus also missing that feature

Hmmm... Not compatible with galaxy nexus

DKM119 said:
You need Power Toogles... search for it on the market.
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Yeah im already using it.. I even wrote to developer a few a hours ago. Haven't reply yet.

skyrocket727 said:
yeah i've tried it not exactly what i'm looking for.. I want application that would do it seamlessly without any interruption. Just like volume.. when press volume rocker the volume control pops out over playing video you can still use the rocker or you can slide the volume on screen while your video plays I want the same thing with the brightness ..
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You could try the SGT7 CM10 ROM. That has the toggles in the notification drawer. It might work for you.
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Biggzz said:
Looking for this in Play Store. Can you link?
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This actually is a feature inside deluxe settings.

adding soft buttons/disable hard buttons?

does anyone know how to enable the on screen soft keys and disable the hard keys

This.
I have been wondering this since I picked up my note 3. Coming from a galaxy nexus, I'm missing my on screen button navigation. I really hate clicking a button to go home.
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chadrehmet said:
This.
I have been wondering this since I picked up my note 3. Coming from a galaxy nexus, I'm missing my on screen button navigation. I really hate clicking a button to go home.
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same here i had the nexus then got so used to it so I added them to the Note 2. But unfortunately I tried the same method by editing the build.prop on the note 2 to get the soft buttons to work on the note 3 but it crashes the system ui. Hopefully someone know a way.

If you are rooted, you can add LMT / Pie Control but not sure on disabling the hard buttons.
If you are not rooted, I was thinking there was an app similar to Pie in the market but I did not find it with a quick search.

same here.
And change the build prop because it will give you a bunch of force closures.
Closes I came to a navigation was floating soft keys in the market.

why would you? you lose screen space and they are already built in so you lose more then you gain

I would recommend to use Ultimate Navbar for softkeys
And Xposed Additions to disable/remap hardware keys

I use LMT an have the activation point just above the home button. I've been using it since the day I rooted and like it a lot.
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lmike6453 said:
I would recommend to use Ultimate Navbar for softkeys
And Xposed Additions to disable/remap hardware keys
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Which module disables the hardware keys?

i heard that the same way as the note 2 in which you edit the build.prop works but there is an addtional step needing requring editing framework. If anyone is familiar please share. thanks

airmaxx23 said:
I use LMT an have the activation point just above the home button. I've been using it since the day I rooted and like it a lot.
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Which module disables the hardware keys?
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Xposed Additions here

lmike6453 said:
Xposed Additions here
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Once installed the only additional button settings I found in the ROM settings was which buttons to use to turn the screen on.

oneandroidnut said:
why would you? you lose screen space and they are already built in so you lose more then you gain
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airmaxx23 said:
Once installed the only additional button settings I found in the ROM settings was which buttons to use to turn the screen on.
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Be sure to install version 2.2 and not the attached .apk in the OP which is only 1.x for some reason. 1.x version .apk doesn't even have an interface lol, he just updated it the other day.

ManOfBusiness said:
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You don't lose any screen area with pie control. There is nothing on the screen for buttons until you touch the area you've set as the activation area in the settings. The activation area is not visible at all.

Wow, I can't imagine taking up a tenth of my screen over nav bar. That's just me, it's just weird when the keys are right under. Its just awkward imo. I love the nav bar on nexus devices, or any devices that don't have soft keys and a physical home button.
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Brandonrz said:
Wow, I can't imagine taking up a tenth of my screen over nav bar. That's just me, it's just weird when the keys are right under. Its just awkward imo. I love the nav bar on nexus devices, or any devices that don't have soft keys and a physical home button.
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what i did for the note 2 was buy a skin that would cover the home button and the whole bottom bezel. it was a beauty. i hate the hardware buttons.

Brandonrz said:
Wow, I can't imagine taking up a tenth of my screen over nav bar. That's just me, it's just weird when the keys are right under. Its just awkward imo. I love the nav bar on nexus devices, or any devices that don't have soft keys and a physical home button.
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Imagine disabling the status bar completely and being able to reduce the navbar size by about 25% while still being able to see notifications and expand the drawer
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qman66 said:
what i did for the note 2 was buy a skin that would cover the home button and the whole bottom bezel. it was a beauty. i hate the hardware buttons.
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That's such a good idea. But is the skin lifted from the home button.
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Brandonrz said:
That's such a good idea. But is the skin lifted from the home button.
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the skin would stick on the whole bottom of the phone including the button. you could see the outline of if you were to press on the area where the button is.

I just installed the Hyperdrive ROM and it has support for softkeys that do not cover up the bottom of most apps. Does anyone know of any other ROMs that have successfully implemented this?

Looking for a way to turn the screen off without hitting the power button

I am looking to add a button\widget to the homescreen that will shut the screen off. After looking for some apps I found some that will accomplish this but force a pin upon turning the screen on even if I used the fingerprint scanner. Is there such an app?
Thank you in advanced!

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worldsoutro said:
I am looking to add a button\widget to the homescreen that will shut the screen off. After looking for some apps I found some that will accomplish this but force a pin upon turning the screen on even if I used the fingerprint scanner. Is there such an app?
Thank you in advanced!
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this is a great kernel and the app is awesome. double tap to wake, sweep to sleep and wake :good::good::good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/orig-development/kernel-elementalx-n6p-t3240571

tigercranestyle said:
root and then nova launcher. teslacoil has double-tap baked into the launcher.
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I use two fingers swipe down instead of double tap. You can set any gesture you want.

Roms have double tap top screen to sleep.

Everyone he already given all info needed. This is one of many reasons why I love roms. I always have a custom tile for screen off and a softkey just for screen off that way I can access it either way and not hit a button. Nexus devices have always had crappy buttons and I don't wanna mess em up by hitting them 20,000 times so thats how I get around it. Lots of great 100% stable custom roms to choose from. Pure Nexus, Chroma, RR, AICP, Aokp, the list goes on.. Nexus is the best device for roms. Cheers.
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LMT Launcher supports this. Bind one of the items to key code 29 to do a screen off.

GMD GestureControl (play store) works fine (root)

Just download Nova and set a gesture, no root needed. I pinch the screen to turn it off.

Do you mean like this. Look at bottom right hand side in nav bar. No xposed. Pure stock rooted.
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You can also try this app. I have used it with no issues on several devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock
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The Best one I've ever seen is run resurrection remix with whatever kernel, elemental is good or Franco. Then simply add an extra nav bar button. So instead I having three at the bottom I have 4. You have the back, home, and recents +power button on the far right of nav bar. A single process turn off long press and you'll get the power menu with screenshot power off and reboot and reboot to recovery that's all you want.

toknitup420 said:
Do you mean like this. Look at bottom right hand side in nav bar. No xposed. Pure stock rooted.
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App or mod? Did you get it with google now launcher?

GKalle said:
App or mod? Did you get it with google now launcher?
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That's all diff mods I did to stock system.

Can you explain how you did it

GKalle said:
Can you explain how you did it
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It's within systemui.apk. Me and @Tigerstown will be releasing a nav bar mod pack.

If you can wait 7 seconds, you can use a Tasker shortcut to set the screen time out to 7 seconds, and then restore it after it goes off.

crazymook said:
Just download Nova and set a gesture, no root needed. I pinch the screen to turn it off.
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And you can unlock the phone with fingerprint? If I lock the screen with gesture in nova I can't unlock with only fingerprint, it also requires password. To get around that you need root.

Gryphie said:
And you can unlock the phone with fingerprint? If I lock the screen with gesture in nova I can't unlock with only fingerprint, it also requires password. To get around that you need root.
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Just link the double tap gesture in Nova to screen Lock pro. It will work without root and fingerprint will still work. Been using it for months.

Screen off app with nova launcher. Set the app to the double tap gesture in Nova.