Since upgrading to a stock Jelly Bean firmware, I noticed that pressing the home button causes a short 1 second delay before it actually does anything. It's enough to be annoying since it slows down returning to the home screen or moving to the default home screen.
The reason for the delay appears to be that it's waiting to see if you're going to make it a double-click. A double click launches the dreaded Vlingo voice control app or Google search dial by voice.
You can remove the delay by installing Advanced Home Button from the play store, and following the "Galaxy S2 hack" instructions within that app.
Now, pressing home instantly takes you to the home screen without the one-second delay.
The downside to this solution is that you lose the double-click functionality on the home button, but most people probably see that as a benefit anyway.
I am not the author of that app, nor do I know how it works or how to reverse it.
Or you can delete both and no more 1sec delay
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I have perm rooted my myTouch 4G and have a novice amount of experience with roms (i.e. overclocking and mild customization). I am using the stock rom.
Has anyone created anything that allows for conditional button programming? What I want to do specifically is map the Home button to turn off the screen (currently performed by the Power button) when I am viewing my home page ONLY. When not viewing my home page (i.e. actively using an app) I would like it to still function normally, taking me back to the home page. The end result would be that if I want to close/reduce an app and turn off my screen, I would just press the Home button twice, instead of pressing the Home button then the Power button. Currently, when the Home button is pressed it zooms out to an all-screen view where I can select which of my seven screens to go to, rather than just scrolling...which I never use.
Any help? Thank you.
It's a change that has to be hard-coded into your launcher.
Or in other words: the probability for you to have it without making it yourself is very low, and if you're not into decompiling APKs and digging in smali code - you're out of luck...
Is anyone having issues with the home button? I will tap the home button to go to the home screen, but instead, it will take me to the recent apps menu about half the time. This is getting really annoying, and I'd like to get it fixed.
Does anyone else have this issue/know how to fix it? Is this a software or hardware issue?
lathamc said:
Is anyone having issues with the home button? I will tap the home button to go to the home screen, but instead, it will take me to the recent apps menu about half the time. This is getting really annoying, and I'd like to get it fixed.
Does anyone else have this issue/know how to fix it? Is this a software or hardware issue?
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Sounds like a mix of software / user issue to me.
I was doing the same thing so try this and see if it feels better.
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With default settings a quick tap will bring you home after about 1.5 seconds
holding it brings up your recent apps, it sounds like you're holding it for the 1.5 seconds as you're expecting a delay for it to go to the home screen and its causing it to open up recent apps.
To remove this 1.5 second delay double tap home quickly and open up S-Voice, when S-Voice opens hit your menu button and turn off the double tap home to open, then close the app.
Now when you hit home there will be no delay as the system doesn't pause to wait for a second tap to open up s-voice and it just goes home. it also means you won't feel the need to hold it until it goes home inadvertently causing you to open up multitasking instead.
I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this or not. In Home2 shortcut, If I play w/ the double click duration speed I can sometimes get the home/home and home/back but never home/menu. Even when I do get it to work it is extremely finicky and the timing has to be perfect (It works about 20% of the time). If nobody is having luck w/ home2 does anyone else have a solution or suggestion to map the home button and a sequence of home/back and home/menu to open apps? Even If I need to mess w/ programming somewhat. As I had it on 4.3 I would press home twice to open voice search, home/back to open Waze and home/menu to open Pandora. I have disabled the camera double center button press to ensure that wasn't conflicting also. I tried a few different launchers to see if it would make a difference and I've had zero lucky.
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Dave
Same here
Having exactly the same issue. I assume it's because the menu button is now the open tabs button. Surely there's a solution...?
perhaps remapping that key but i've gotten over it.
I have a stock Nexus 6P with Marshmallow's February update.
Is there any key that will allow me to exit an app that isn't working proprely? Previously I had an HTC One M8 with ViperOneM8 ROM. That allowed me to long press the back button to close an app.
I have a game that has gotten stuck after their update. This happened in the past. The game says Touch Screen, but it doesn't respond. If I hit the back button it gives me the open that No I don't want to quit or Yes I want to quit, but it's unresponsive.
If the Recent apps button isn't working maybe long-pressing the power button will have some impact.
I thought the square button was just a list of recent apps, not a list of apps currently running, so I never thought to use it. I just figured that button is to clear stuff out of history. I mean, because there's a ton of stuff in there and I know 100% not all that is running at one time.
The home button.
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The home button.
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The home button doesn't CLOSE the app, though, like a force close or whatever you want to call it. That just minimizes the app so you can see your home screen or open other apps, but the app is still running in the background. If you re-open the app you're still stick at the screen that didn't work in the first place.
What the previous person said works, though..
Well of you can hit the home button and then get into settings, just go to apps tap on the app and hit force close
Hit the recent apps button (square one lol) and just swipe the app away... It will close it.
I have a Black Shark 2 Pro and decided to replace the home launcher with Nova Prime but after I press the home button a few time with would sometimes asked me again to re-enable the accessibility of Nova.
Check Nova's permissions and Battery Optimization (should be off/not optimized).
It has been a known bug since day one and hasn't been fixed ever since. You can change the locking method of your Nova by making it as admin device. Take note that this will disable fingerprint security.
I hope we get a patch for this, my friend has CN Rom and it seems to be working fine.
Okay so, Im not sure yet but I hope I fixed it, can anyone confirm this
Go to apps, then to default apps, select assist and voice input press the google icon and select "none"
by removing the Home Button Long Press functionality for the assist app I think that removed the complications of the Home Button
For me accessibility resets whenever I press the home button successively in a row, but since I removed the assist app until now Ive been pressing the home button and..... it never asked for accessibility. I pressed it like 50 times now, fast press, slow press, nothing.
I guess I fixed it? Can anyone try and confirm?