Two Questions - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm on the fence with this device, I have a couple of questions about this one so if I could please get some help.
-Is there any ROMS out there that lets you either hide the nav bar, or change the size of it to get back some more screen size?
-With the 4.2.2 OTA update, supposedtly the LTE for T-Mobile is disbled but there is a work around for this to come back?
I appreciate the help. I'm coming from a Galaxy S2 by the way, so has anyone made this transition?

Yes to both questions...

Paranoid Rom! Or PACman both have options to hide the nav bar and use pre controls!
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I never did take the 4.2.2 OTA so can't help you there. But check out Paranoid Android who are the pioneers of Pie, which expands the desktop to hide the navbar completely. There are other popular ROMs (CM from what I hear) that have adopted this. As far as shrinking or resizing the navbar, any AOKP-derivative ROM or AOKP itself have that feature.
Just take a look around the dev forums, I'm sure you know most ROMs have their features listed on the 1st page. Welcome & have fun!
EDIT: "Pioneers Of Pie", haha

Thanks for the feedback.
I'm pretty sure the newer Nexus 4's come with 4.2.2 out of the box, so the work around for LTE will have to be done. I'll check out the ROMs to see the nav bar functions.

stevew84 said:
Thanks for the feedback.
I'm pretty sure the newer Nexus 4's come with 4.2.2 out of the box, so the work around for LTE will have to be done. I'll check out the ROMs to see the nav bar functions.
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I received mine aprox. 2 weeks ago, and it wasnt on 4.2.2 out of the box!
However it isnt this updated version (with the nipples) people speak about!

Swanseatom said:
I received mine aprox. 2 weeks ago, and it wasnt on 4.2.2 out of the box!
However it isnt this updated version (with the nipples) people speak about!
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I want the one with the little bumps! I hardly ever put my GS2 on a hard surface directly, at work I always put my phone on a sticky note. So yea, if there is an "auto hide" function for the Nav bar, similar to hiding the Start menu in windows, I'm in.

stevew84 said:
I want the one with the little bumps! I hardly ever put my GS2 on a hard surface directly, at work I always put my phone on a sticky note. So yea, if there is an "auto hide" function for the Nav bar, similar to hiding the Start menu in windows, I'm in.
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A lot of roms, if not all have the navbar auto hide, and if you don't want the navbar there at all they have pie controls so you're covered there

If you can completely get rid of the nav bar (not auto hide), how do you go back or home? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

stevew84 said:
So yea, if there is an "auto hide" function for the Nav bar, similar to hiding the Start menu in windows, I'm in.
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Well then forget navbar resizing and go straight for any ROM boasting Pie Controls. You get rid of the navbar and get a much slicker alternative--while I've personally been there done that & reverted to standard navbar, a lot of folks have tried Pie and never gone back
EDIT: Here's a nice huge example pic. Very aesthetically pleasing buttons that fade in with a simple thumb gesture & fade out.

sspyed said:
Well then forget navbar resizing and go straight for any ROM boasting Pie Controls. You get rid of the navbar and get a much slicker alternative--while I've personally been there done that & reverted to standard navbar, a lot of folks have tried Pie and never gone back
EDIT: Here's a nice huge example pic
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Heck yea, that's what I'm talking about. I'm assuming thats a side swipe type deal?

stevew84 said:
I'm on the fence with this device, I have a couple of questions about this one so if I could please get some help.
-Is there any ROMS out there that lets you either hide the nav bar, or change the size of it to get back some more screen size?
-With the 4.2.2 OTA update, supposedtly the LTE for T-Mobile is disbled but there is a work around for this to come back?
I appreciate the help. I'm coming from a Galaxy S2 by the way, so has anyone made this transition?
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Not trying to be a d**k, but both of these questions could've been answered with a simple search. Kind of a waste of a thread.
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lowrider262 said:
Not trying to be a d**k, but both of these questions could've been answered with a simple search. Kind of a waste of a thread.
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Eh, have the mods close it.

stevew84 said:
Heck yea, that's what I'm talking about. I'm assuming thats a side swipe type deal?
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Absolutely--what's even better is you can change their color & highlights to whatever you want. They're black by default & look good w whatever background you got
lowrider262 said:
Not trying to be a d**k, but both of these questions could've been answered with a simple search. Kind of a waste of a thread.
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The search before you post ship has sailed a long time ago if you ask me, haha. How many threads titled My N4 just arrived let's all talk about it or What's the best ROM + Kernel combo get posted in a day on average? 4?
Might as well play nice. Mods' discretion etc

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pie controls

i am searching for a link for pie controls with the expanded desktop option.ive been googling and found nothing too useful.paranoid android has a nice one but i dont want the rom i just want a flashable zip for my stock set up.
You can get pie from the market. It is called LMT Launcher. As far as expanded desktop. I am not sure...
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If you can't find it in the market, search it here on XDA.
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I've tried pie from the market and didn't really like it and I have lmt but I can't figure out how to remove the navbar.I will try lmt again
I added this in /system/buildprop. qemu.hw.mainkeys=1
Did a reboot and navbar was gone.
podagee said:
I've tried pie from the market and didn't really like it and I have lmt but I can't figure out how to remove the navbar.I will try lmt again
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GMD gesture control (play store) can remove your navbar.
Also disables your wallpaper though.
Conclusion: Man up, and install a custom ROM.
Maybe because I don't like custom roms I like to keep it stock
podagee said:
Maybe because I don't like custom roms I like to keep it stock
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If you like stock then you wouldn't like PIE controls. If you want custom stuff then you use a custom rom.
It really kills me when people say they want to stay stock but with customizations. These are nexus devices. All custom ROMs are just stock with built in options. Where do you think the source code comes from... *hint* it's stock source from Google.
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I love how people intrude with their sarcasm.....no sh%$ its built off source code its also built off a persons own customizations on how they want things right? I want my nexus to be the way I want it to be not the way everyone else is getting it.if you are a recognized developer you would know such things,correct?you do what you want with your tab and I do what I want with mine.any questions,please pursue me at 807 kolani drive wailuku,hi 96793
I love how people post their address on an open forum saying "come fight me bro! #swag #YOLO #blahblahblahnoonereallycares."
You were given options. Take them or leave them. But for the love of the flying spaghetti monster in the sky, don't whine, complain or try to act like an Internet bada$$ when you get butt hurt from someone's response. It is childish and moronic. Either take the advice you ask for or not. But you can gtfo and do it yourself if you got a problem with people's responses.
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Ugh... this is getting ugly.
podagee... you can't have it both ways... either pure stock or custom... take your pick.
My own ROM of choice has PIE/Expanded desktop options, but is reasonably close to stock in all other regards.
If you want these features, then custom is the way to go.
Rgrds,
Ged.
There is absolutely no need to install a custom rom to enjoy pie and expanded desktop.
-> First install the most recent version of LMT Launcher http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150 . Set it up any way you like and set it to autostart on boot. (Tip: make sure there is a menu button in your pie.)
-> Second edit your build prop. You can use a build prop editor, or droid edit, or es file explorer or any other text editor that can handle root files. You can find your build prop in /system/build.prop . At the end of the file insert the line qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 .
-> Reboot and it's done. This is how I used pie when I was on stock.
Now I switched to cyanogenmod, which has build in expanded desktop, so editing the build prop isn't necessary anymore. I still prefere LMT over cyanogenmod's pie though.
Nobody said anything about fighting.and BTW I asked about pie controls not Roms get it?a simple question and you guys give a stupid answer **** it close this thread,cause what I wanted was help and instead some know it all asshole jumps in with idiotic remarks.
Gedblake and westervoort thanks.simple like that is how its supposed to be not nitpick at bs.I however managed to add pie controls almost exactly like paranoid android,almost.it turned out really nice so it is possible.I don't like custom cause I've been running into issues with battery and freezes. So I am just going to remain stock,but,remember it is possible to do whatever you want,even if stock.thanks guys.
podagee said:
Gedblake and westervoort thanks.simple like that is how its supposed to be not nitpick at bs.I however managed to add pie controls almost exactly like paranoid android,almost.it turned out really nice so it is possible.I don't like custom cause I've been running into issues with battery and freezes. So I am just going to remain stock,but,remember it is possible to do whatever you want,even if stock.thanks guys.
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Hi, podagee...
Yeah... sorry for for the slightly irascible post. Guess it's all about relative perspective's - from my point of view, the easiest way of accomplishing your desired goal was to flash a ROM... but Westervoort knew of a way that obviated that need, which I didn't know about.
As I have said elsewhere, 'not everybody can know everything'.
Anyway, glad you found a solution (whatever that might be) that you're happy with.
Good luck...
Rgrds,
Ged.
If everyone who started posted remarks before reading everything,please be sure to read all posts before adding in your 2 pennies.as I've stated in the beginning of this thread I've already found a way for pie and a way to hide the navbar.thanks

Swop the soft keys?

I've searched but can't find any threads on this...
Can I swop the soft keys on my Nexus 4? It's not rooted at present, but rooting it is not a problem.
Thanks.
*swap
Im guessing by swap you mean that you want to be able to change the order of the keys on the navigation bar?
If so, you will need a custom rom. Most roms will allow you to edit the navigation bar to remove/add/rearrange the softkeys, such as cyanogenmod, carbon, aokp, etc.
Chromium_ said:
*swap
Im guessing by swap you mean that you want to be able to change the order of the keys on the navigation bar?
If so, you will need a custom rom. Most roms will allow you to edit the navigation bar to remove/add/rearrange the softkeys, such as cyanogenmod, carbon, aokp, etc.
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*Swop.
I mean I'd like to swop over the two keys that reside either side of the home button. That is, the recent apps key on the left and the back button on the right. I'm left handed (and British, hence *swop) and it's more convenient with the soft keys this way round.
stevebrc said:
*Swop.
I mean I'd like to swop over the two keys that reside either side of the home button. That is, the recent apps key on the left and the back button on the right. I'm left handed (and British, hence *swop) and it's more convenient with the soft keys this way round.
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Oops my bad, I had no idea that how you guys spelled that...seems so wrong. Sorry for being so ignorant.
Anyways, you still need to use a custom rom to be able to achieve what you're looking for.
Chromium_ said:
Oops my bad, I had no idea that how you guys spelled that...seems so wrong
Anyways, you still need to use a custom rom to be able to achieve what you're looking for.
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And until I started messing around with Linux I had no idea you lot spelt it wrong either
I spent hours trying to setup a swop file, and kept failing, then I realised it's a swap file!
In fairness, both are used in the British version of English, and in some regions swap is more common, but I'm a child of the 70's, and we had The Multicoloured Swop Shop TV show on a Saturday morning, so it's how i've always spelt it.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable on my Samsung Note 2, I can't see anyway to swop the keys, would this facility feature only on CM on the Nexus? or does it not offer it at all?
stevebrc said:
And until I started messing around with Linux I had no idea you lot spelt it wrong either
I spent hours trying to setup a swop file, and kept failing, then I realised it's a swap file!
In fairness, both are used in the British version of English, and in some regions swap is more common, but I'm a child of the 70's, and we had The Multicoloured Swop Shop TV show on a Saturday morning, so it's how i've always spelt it.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable on my Samsung Note 2, I can't see anyway to swop the keys, would this facility feature only on CM on the Nexus? or does it not offer it at all?
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Haha interesting. As a Canadian, we usually adopt the British spelling of most words rather than the American, but apparently not in this case. Ive honestly never heard of "swop" being used.
The reason you dont have the navigation bar options on your note 2 is because the phone lacks a software navigation bar. Technically the options are there, but cm hides them on devices with hardware buttons. You would actually be able to unmask these options on your note 2 by adding a line in your build.prop: "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0". Doing that will give you all of the navbar features, as well as pie controls.
On nexus devices (or other devices with a navigation bar) these options are shown by default.
Every version of CM 10.x that I have used, on the nexus 4, has the ability to customize the navigation bar. I don't know about other devices. I also always switch the back button and recent apps button.
Go to: Settings>System>Buttons and Layout (under the Navigation Bar sub-heading)
The instructions for changing them are built-in.
That's brill, thanks both of you.
I was pondering putting CM on the Nexus, that's the decision made.
Now off to find a "how to".
Regards.
stevebrc said:
That's brill, thanks both of you.
I was pondering putting CM on the Nexus, that's the decision made.
Now off to find a "how to".
Regards.
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1. Unlock the bootloader and install a custom recovery (twrp)
2. Download cm and copy to your phone
3. Boot into twrp. Wipe > Swipe to factory reset. Install > browse to cm zip, select it, and swipe to flash
TVM.
I'm English and I've never used the word swop. Maybe it's a regional thing? Slightly off topic, I know.
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If you guys are gonna go ot then I'm sure there's other things than the English dictionary and the word swap/swop. Its like arguing with americans about aluminium, not aloomium as they pronounce it, its just pointless
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22sl22 said:
If you guys are gonna go ot then I'm sure there's other things than the English dictionary and the word swap/swop. Its like arguing with americans about aluminium, not aloomium as they pronounce it, its just pointless
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Nobody's arguing it's just a simple debate.
I've seen and used it both ways i tend to use swap more often now. I'm from northeastern England. Come to think of it Google keyboard knows it as both swap and swop
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Love how some try to turn all internet chat into arguments whilst taking the whole "I'm above this" approach!
I'm originally a southerner, Londoner to be precise, but have lived in Ireland for many years now. From a speech perspective swap would be more common here.
Perhaps swop is a southern thing? After all, we do speak proper, not like you northerners
Sorted, just! Took hours to get the drivers working on Windows, once that was finally sorted the rest was a breeze
Soft keys now suitable for a leftie
it was swap shop
swap shop.....:laugh: never has been swop
Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
stevebrc said:
Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Haha, well according to this both swap and swop are correct.
stevebrc said:
Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Ha must be strange to question your childhood.
Wrong about it being "swop shop" yeah but who cares at the end of the day it's just different regions and accents.
You'd have to be the type of douchebag who loves to be right all the time. Running around saying "it's not proper English unless it's standard English." Nobody speaks standard English you write standard English that's why you have formal and informal writing.
Yes douchebag is slang.
Now how did we get on to this? Almost all nexus 4 ROMs will let you customize the navigation bar.
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My Nexus is now sporting CM10.1 stable. It's a shame that I had to use a custom rom just to achieve something so basic, you'd really think the facility to swop, sorry swap the keys would be there in vanilla Android, but I guess not.
There again, vanilla also forgot to add in a battery percentage icon so it's missing some pretty obvious features, I mean, even IOS had had a battery percentage since around version 3!
Oh well, happy with CM so all good with the world once more.
Thanks for the help.

GEL (Google Experience Launcher) and 4.4

Where is it for Nexus 7 2013? Will it be in the factory build? Is it going to be available for download separately from the store?
I find it odd that with all of the push to eliminate fragmentation it's not included.
codahq said:
Where is it for Nexus 7 2013? Will it be in the factory build? Is it going to be available for download separately from the store?
I find it odd that with all of the push to eliminate fragmentation it's not included.
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Google Experience Launcher was intended to be Nexus 5 specific. It will not be included in official Nexus 7 images.
http://www.lmbtfy.com/?q=Google+experience+launcher+nexus+7
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Blah,blah url. The forum won't let me post links.
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Who cares what google search comes back with? Guessing/speculation/your mom talking about cats. The reason I posted here is because people who tend to know what they're doing come to xda for news/know-how.
Is the missing launcher really a bi-product of optimization and the always listening feature? Or is the GEL launcher going to be available on the store? Maybe you don't know but that doesn't mean that a developer or somebody else doesn't know.
codahq said:
Who cares what google search comes back with? Guessing/speculation/your mom talking about cats. The reason I posted here is because people who tend to know what they're doing come to xda for news/know-how.
Is the missing launcher really a bi-product of optimization and the always listening feature? Or is the GEL launcher going to be available on the store? Maybe you don't know but that doesn't mean that a developer or somebody else doesn't know.
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Yeah. God forbid you should do a little research on your own. That's why everyone comes here, to spoon feed you information so you don't have to look it up yourself.
BTW: It was bing search. I thought it was quite witty to use bing to search for information about Google. I guess I'm not as funny as I thought I was.
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Yeah. God forbid you should do a little research on your own. That's why everyone comes here, to spoon feed you information so you don't have to look it up yourself.
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Despite the reputation that xda has for people who know what they're talking about there's still you. Research would imply that there is information elsewhere that:
A. I care about.
B. exists.
4.4 for Nexus 7 2013 is a few hours old. I already said I don't care about speculation. Stop being an ass. The first thing I did was google this and when nothing was found I started a post. Did you do any research before you posted that link? Read the first four pages of results. Read the first 100 pages of results. There's no links to statements from google or any developer anywhere that has looked into anything. Instead there's a bunch of people who all regurgitate information, whether cited or not from The Verge, who also don't cite a source. They just say vaguely that Google told them. Right... because Google talks to The Verge and The Verge exclusively.
Let me change the question for you. Don't answer it. It's clear you're just a moron. This is for somebody else.
Is there really a hardware reason to exclude the Google Experience Launcher? Does anybody know if GEL really uses anything from the 800 or is Google just running a trial on the N5 users?
In addition, has anybody seen whether or not somebody has tried to take the apk from a Nexus 5 and run it on a Nexus 7?
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Despite the reputation that xda has for people who know what they're talking about there's still you. Research would imply that there is information elsewhere that:
A. I care about.
B. exists.
4.4 for Nexus 7 2013 is a few hours old. I already said I don't care about speculation. Stop being an ass. The first thing I did was google this and when nothing was found I started a post. Did you do any research before you posted that link? Read the first four pages of results. Read the first 100 pages of results. There's no links to statements from google or any developer anywhere that has looked into anything. Instead there's a bunch of people who all regurgitate information, whether cited or not from The Verge, who also don't cite a source. They just say vaguely that Google told them. Right... because Google talks to The Verge and The Verge exclusively.
Let me change the question for you. Don't answer it. It's clear you're just a moron. This is for somebody else.
Is there really a hardware reason to exclude the Google Experience Launcher? Does anybody know if GEL really uses anything from the 800 or is Google just running a trial on the N5 users?
In addition, has anybody seen whether or not somebody has tried to take the apk from a Nexus 5 and run it on a Nexus 7?
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Your Google Fu sucks. You obviously don't know how to use a search engine. I may be a moron but I'm smarter then you. So there's that.
Paten said:
Your Google Fu sucks. You obviously don't know how to use a search engine. I may be a moron but I'm smarter then you. So there's that.
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So you're a moron and a liar? There's no statement from Google about it or you would have posted it. There's no information about whether or not the speculated functionality of the snapdragon 800 is really required for GEL's always listening either. You didn't find anything in Google (or Bing. I thought you were just being stupid).
If you found anything... anything at all, post it. I will take even your information gladly.
codahq said:
Is there really a hardware reason to exclude the Google Experience Launcher? Does anybody know if GEL really uses anything from the 800 or is Google just running a trial on the N5 users?
In addition, has anybody seen whether or not somebody has tried to take the apk from a Nexus 5 and run it on a Nexus 7?
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Those first builds of 4.4 that came around when the Nexus 5 was launched actually had the whole GEL. the only problem was the keyboard would pop up when you went back to the homescreen, but other than that, it was working fine, so the only reason I can see as to why they would have left it out of the tablet would be to give the Nexus 5 some more bullet points on its feature list than other products out there.
DaemonAshra said:
Those first builds of 4.4 that came around when the Nexus 5 was launched actually had the whole GEL. the only problem was the keyboard would pop up when you went back to the homescreen, but other than that, it was working fine, so the only reason I can see as to why they would have left it out of the tablet would be to give the Nexus 5 some more bullet points on its feature list than other products out there.
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Interesting. So... chances are we'll have a unofficial version floating around in no-time. Did you have any hands on with those first builds? Did the always on functionality seem to impact battery life adversely? Thanks in advance!
codahq said:
Where is it for Nexus 7 2013? Will it be in the factory build? Is it going to be available for download separately from the store?
I find it odd that with all of the push to eliminate fragmentation it's not included.
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I find it very troubling too. Especially when we didn't get the new look either. Nothing a little Nova Beta can't fix!
codahq said:
Interesting. So... chances are we'll have a unofficial version floating around in no-time. Did you have any hands on with those first builds? Did the always on functionality seem to impact battery life adversely? Thanks in advance!
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I didn't take any time to tear into the build and tinker with it, but if there was any battery impact, it was too small to notice. I was still getting days of use. Even though the keyboard thing wasn't fixed in that build, maybe now that official builds are out and about, it can be fixed and sideloaded. I mean, all it was was a install of Google Play Services, the Launcher and the latest Google Search. Hopefully it won't be too hard to package those up and have them working soon.
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I find it very troubling too. Especially when we didn't get the new look either. Nothing a little Nova Beta can't fix!
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HEY!!!
Are you saying those sexy greyish icons up top AREN'T enough?!
codahq said:
Interesting. So... chances are we'll have a unofficial version floating around in no-time. Did you have any hands on with those first builds? Did the always on functionality seem to impact battery life adversely? Thanks in advance!
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There's already unofficial builds running around. I'm running it on my N7 with 4.4 right now. Still has the keyboard bug though.
All I had to do was install the launcher APK from Android Police and boom, GEL.
DaemonAshra said:
I didn't take any time to tear into the build and tinker with it, but if there was any battery impact, it was too small to notice. I was still getting days of use. Even though the keyboard thing wasn't fixed in that build, maybe now that official builds are out and about, it can be fixed and sideloaded. I mean, all it was was a install of Google Play Services, the Launcher and the latest Google Search. Hopefully it won't be too hard to package those up and have them working soon.
HEY!!!
Are you saying those sexy greyish icons up top AREN'T enough?!
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Thank you for the information. Sounds like I should wait a few days and check back in.
DaemonAshra said:
I didn't take any time to tear into the build and tinker with it, but if there was any battery impact, it was too small to notice. I was still getting days of use. Even though the keyboard thing wasn't fixed in that build, maybe now that official builds are out and about, it can be fixed and sideloaded. I mean, all it was was a install of Google Play Services, the Launcher and the latest Google Search. Hopefully it won't be too hard to package those up and have them working soon.
HEY!!!
Are you saying those sexy greyish icons up top AREN'T enough?!
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As far as aesthetics go, no, changing the color of the notification bar text and icons wasn't enough. At all. Considering we didn't get the transparent notification bar or the new app drawer icon. I'm getting my fix of those two with Nova Beta though. Gets me all of those things, plus it's pretty stable.
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As far as aesthetics go, no, changing the color of the notification bar text and icons wasn't enough. At all. Considering we didn't get the transparent notification bar or the new app drawer icon. I'm getting my fix of those two with Nova Beta though. Gets me all of those things, plus it's pretty stable.
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Yeah I was more being sarcastic. Even though I was more looking forward to just having a bit more stability in everything I use the tablet for, I can't say I wasn't a little bit disappointed not having a very obvious "New Update Day!" feature to have fun with. And if Action Launcher wasn't the most overpowered launcher out there, I might use Nova. I just can't get over that Quick Panel. its too useful
Massive Google Search 3.1.8 Update Rolling Out, Brings Google Experience Launcher To All 4.1+ Devices, New Cards, Completely Fixes GEL On Tablets, And More [APK Download]
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Happy now?
Spyr0s said:
Happy now?
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I had a feeling thats what why they didnt include it...
Im using a 4.4 ROM on my nexus4 with gel and i tell you, dont havĂȘ battery issue, or fast drain...its quite normal in fact...
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[Q] WebOS Style Notification for Nexus 4

hello there community!
My name is Sady and i have a couple questions for you. We all know and love the WebOS platform and we also know that that's a dead story. So i'm trying to duplicate the notification on the bottom bar (where the home, back, etc. buttons are) i want it to be available from a swipe up from the bottom (swipe on the black part, not over the icons so Google now shortcut doesn't get messed up) i also want to incorporate the swipe to delete feature on the notifications. This is so that reaching notifications is a LOT easier to reach for people with smaller hands and also so that we can make more use of the wasted real estate of on-screen buttons.
Now that you know what my goal is, here's the problem... I'm only in high school and don't have the advance knowledge necessary to go on with the project. Here's where you, the community of developers, come in. i would really appreciate if you some of you could take on this project on your own and make it possible OR guide me in the right direction to work on it myself and learn a few things on the way.
In the end i would like this feature to be submitted to Cyanogenmod's source code so that all devices with on screen buttons can take advantage of this.
So thank you and have a good day (all pics were made with photoshop-like program)
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It's not bad. I would love to try it
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sosta1 said:
It's not bad. I would love to try it
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
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No one seems to be interested in developing it. If i knew how to i definitely would but i don't know how hard it would actually be to implement it. Thanks for the support though
I really don't know much about WebOS, only it was a HP thing implemented in LG Smart TVs, but you may try looking in it's SDK (if it's available) and extract some code/insiration stuff.
But I doubt it's feasibility, Android has a top notification bar, why create a new one and that too, hiding the navigation buttons?
Good Luck!
SayDfuse said:
No one seems to be interested in developing it. If i knew how to i definitely would but i don't know how hard it would actually be to implement it. Thanks for the support though
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Hiding the notification bar would be temporary. For only a second or two
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Someone on Reddit has Lollipop

Over on Reddit someone got ahold of US spec software for the Note 4 and is answering questions now.
http://www.reddit.com/r/galaxynote4/comments/2ujma1/lollipop_on_my_note_4_any_questions/
Did you notice the auto-brightness +5 to -5 slider that is in the shown in the notification panel? Looks like they added that feature in their software, or it was always there and we just needed Wanam to activate it. Either way, I'm glad it is included by default finally.
Damn that looks nice!! Especially the volume rocker is siiiickkk
Something not right about the signal bars.
Generic LTE signal bar, so not a T-Mo, VZW or AT&T variant.
rjohnstone said:
Something not right about the signal bars.
Generic LTE signal bar, so not a T-Mo, VZW or AT&T variant.
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He didnt mention a specific carrier, could be the unlocked Snapdragon variant.
AlkaliV2 said:
Did you notice the auto-brightness +5 to -5 slider that is in the shown in the notification panel? Looks like they added that feature in their software, or it was always there and we just needed Wanam to activate it. Either way, I'm glad it is included by default finally.
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I love that feature.
He could be using the unlocked developer version.
I want to know why everyone else is getting leaks and we just get crickets
this is a good sign! hopefully we'll all get it soon.
If it runs the way Im hoping it runs I will be back to touchwiz to take full advantage of my Note 4! I just cant stand the delay in the recent apps or the little bits here and there.
OptimusOBrien said:
If it runs the way Im hoping it runs I will be back to touchwiz to take full advantage of my Note 4! I just cant stand the delay in the recent apps or the little bits here and there.
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It sucks that Lollipop has the heads up notifications instead of the classic notification ticker. You either get a huge banner that covers part of your screen for 10 seconds, or you get a single icon in the status bar.
I wish Samsung had implemented an option to choose the classic (as it is in 4.4) or new Lollipop style (looks like iPhone banners).
Well I noticed that Favorites is spelled the European way "Favourites"
I suppose that may mean nothing but still doesn't look ready for us yet

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